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Amy Finkelstein

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14.472 Graduate Public Economics II: Government Expenditures (Social Insurance and Redistribution) Fall 2020

Syllabus

I_Introduction

II_a Asymmetric Information: Theory

II_b Asymmetric Information: Testing

II_c Adverse Selection: Empirical welfare analysis

II_d Adverse Selection : Welfare Analysis without Revealed Preference

II_e Adverse Selection: Welfare Analysis When there is No Market

III_a Optimal Level of Social Insurance Benefits: Theory

III_b Estimating Value of Social Insurance

III_c Estimating Cost of Social Insurance (Moral Hazard)

IV Choice of Instrument

VA Redistribution: Frameworks

VB: Redistributive Instruments: Theory

VC: Redistribution Application: Cash vs In Kind

VD: Redistribution Application: Take-up and Self-Targeting

VI Synthesis: Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low Income AdultsVB: Redistributive Instruments: Theory