Owen Zidar is a professor of economics and public affairs in the Princeton University Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School. Zidar is a public finance economist who studies the taxation of firms and top earners, local fiscal policy, and the creation and distribution of economic resources.
Before joining Princeton, Zidar worked as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and as a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers.
Zidar holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. His pre-doctoral studies were at Dartmouth College, where he earned a B.A., summa cum laude, in economics.
Funded Research
Declining labor shares and the relative price of investment: evidence from state investment tax credits
Authored by Owen Zidar
A modest tax reform proposal to roll back federal tax policy to 1997 (opens in a new tab)
Blog FEB 18, 2020
By: Owen Zidar, Eric Zwick
Owen Zidar’s Working Papers
Who profits from patents? Rent-sharing at innovative firms (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers DEC 18, 2018
By: Patrick Kline, Neviana Petkova, Heidi Williams, Owen Zidar
Tax cuts for whom? Heterogeneous effects of income tax changes on growth and employment (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers APR 11, 2017
By: Owen Zidar
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