Owen Zidar
Owen M. Zidar | |
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| Born | 1985 (age 39–40) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Economist and academic |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Dartmouth College University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Alan J. Auerbach Patrick Kline Emmanuel Saez |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Princeton University National Bureau of Economic Research |
| Notable ideas | Research on inequality and tax policy |
Owen M. Zidar (born 1985) is an American economist and academic. He is a professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Princeton University Department of Economics and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs as well as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Zidar's research focuses on inequality, the taxation of companies and high-income earners, local fiscal policies, and the generation and allocation of economic profits. He is the recipient of the 2018 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and he was named Nicholas J. Nicholas Jr. Fellow by the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton in 2020. Additionally, he was a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics from 2020 to 2023 and the volume Policy Responses to Tax Competition in 2024.