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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- Who were the top taxpayers in 1923?
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- The Effect of Pension Income on Elderly Earnings: Evidence from Social Security and Full Population Data
- Why Retire When You Can Work? Hours are way up for elderly workers
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- Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
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Tag Archives: Taxes
Business in the United States: Who Owns it and How Much Tax Do They Pay?
“Pass-through” businesses like partnerships and S-corporations now generate over half of U.S. business income and account for over half of the post-1980 rise in the top- 1% income share. We use administrative tax data from 2011 to identify pass-through business … Continue reading
Jason Furman on Business Tax Reform
See here for new slides on business tax reform from Jason Furman. The text of his speech is here.
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Tagged business tax reform, business taxes, Corporate Taxes, Taxes
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Is the EITC as Good as an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence
From Jesse Rothstein: The EITC is intended to encourage work. But EITC-induced increases in labor supply may drive wages down. I simulate the economic incidence of the EITC. In each scenario that I consider, a large portion of low-income single … Continue reading
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Tagged EITC, Incidence, inequality, Jesse Rothstein, NIT, Tax, Tax Incidence, Taxation, Taxes
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Optimal Wealth Taxation: Redistribution and Political Economy
Here are a few interesting links from Ivan Werning on capital taxation, Piketty, and political economy. 1. Optimal Wealth Taxation: Redistribution and Political Economy – slides from his plenary at SED 2014 2. A Reappraisal of Chamley-Judd Zero Capital Taxation … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital, Capital Taxation, Chamley-Judd, Emmanuel Farhi, Ivan Werning, Piketty, Redistribution, Taxes, Wealth
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The Behavioralist As Tax Collector: Using Natural Field Experiments to Enhance Tax Compliance
From Michael Hallsworth, John List, Robert Metcalfe, Ivo Vlaev: Tax collection problems date back to the earliest recorded history of mankind. This paper begins with a simple theoretical construct of paying (rather than declaring) taxes, which we argue has been an … Continue reading
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Tagged Ivo Vlaev, John List, Michael Hallsworth, Robert Metcalfe, Tax Compliance, Taxes
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Poverty and the Tax Code
Sorry for light posting – I have been on the road this week and will be done traveling mid- next week. Here’s a nice article from Jason Furman on poverty reduction and tax credits.
Weekend reading
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Tagged Capital, Capital Taxation, ineuqality, Middle Class, Taxes, Thomas Piketty, weath
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Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework
From Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten, Giovanni Violante: What shapes the optimal degree of progressivity of the tax and transfer system? On the one hand, a progressive tax system can counteract inequality in initial conditions and substitute for imperfect private insurance … Continue reading
America risks becoming a Downton Abbey Economy
From Larry Summers: Inequality has emerged as a major issue in the US and beyond. A generation ago it could reasonably have been asserted that the overall growth rate of the economy was the main influence on the growth in … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Growth, inequality, larry summers, Middle Class, Profits, Taxes
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