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Amy Finkelstein

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14.472 Graduate Public Economics II: Government Expenditures (Social Insurance and Redistribution) Fall 2019

14_1472_Fall_2019_Syllabus_August_2019.pdf

I Introduction

IIa Asymmetric Information: Theory Overview

IIb Testing for Asymmetric Information

IIc Adverse selection: Empirical Welfare Analysis

IId Adverse selection: Welfare Analysis Without Revealed Preference

Adverse Selection: Welfare Analysis When there is No Market

IIIa Optimal Level of Social Insurance Benefits: Theory

IIIb Empirics: Moral Hazard

IIIc Empirics: Value of Insurance

IV Choice of Instrument

Va Redistribution: Frameworks

Vb Redistribution: Cash vs. In-kind Transfers

Vc Redistirbution: Takeup and Self-Targeting

Vd Redistribution: Application to Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low Income Adults

MVPF_cliff_notes_November_2019.pdf