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

 

Syllabus

I_Introduction

II_a Asymmetric Information: Theory

II_bc Asymmetric Information: Testing and Welfare

II_d Asymmetric Information: Welfare Analysis without revealed preference

II_e Asymmetric Information: Welfare analysis when there is no market

III_a Optimal Level of Social Insurance Benefits: Theory

III_b Optimal Level of Social Insurance Benefits: Empirics

III_c Optimal Level of Social Insurance Benefits: More on 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 Adults 

 

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