Courses
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
