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Spring 2023 Syllabus 

Spring 2022 Reading List 

Topic 1: Empirical Welfare Analysis 

Topic 2: Redistributive Concerns 

Topic 3: Commodity Taxes and Public Goods with Redistributive Concerns 

Topic 4: Education 

Topic 5: Child and Family Policies 

Topic 6: Place-Based Policy

Topic 7: The EITC

Topic 8: Adverse Selection and Insurance Market Failures 

Topic 9: Optimal Social Insurance - UI

Topic 10: Welfare Analysis of Health Insurance 

Topic 11: Welfare Analysis of Public Health Insurance 

Topic 12: Disability Insurance 

Topic 13: Behavioral Biases 

Race, Kids, and Discrimination 

Tags, Place, and Intergenerational Mobility 

Bonus Topic: Place and Kids 

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