Syllabus & Schedules

Syllabus in pdf / in html

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Student presentation schedule

Lectures

Lecture 1 Tax Incidence

Lecture 1 Mandate Incidence (Summers)

Lecture 1 Mandate Incidence (Gruber)

Lecture 1-2 Bridge

Lecture 2 Taxation and Labor Supply: Model and Econometrics

Lecture 3 The Earned Income Tax Credit

Lecture 4: Taxation, Labor Supply and Multiple Program Participation. Note file error -- follow hard copy.

Lecture 5: Social Experimentation and Program Evaluation

Lecture 5B: Treatment Effects & Regression Discontinuity; Application to Financial Aid Effects

Lecture 6: Dynamic Schooling Choices & Higher Education Finance

Lecture 7A: Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance

Lecture 7B: Retirement Saving Incentives I

Lecture 7C: Retirement Saving Incentives II

Lecture 8: Divorce Policy and Families

Lecture 8b: Divorce Policy and Families cont'd

Lecture 9: Intergenerational Transfers

Lecture 10: Bankruptcy empirics, Gropp, Scholz & White

Lecture 10b: Bankruptcy theory, Livshits, McGee & Tertilt

Problem Sets

Problem Set 1 (pdf) | data (ASCII) | GAUSS example program (txt) | Notes: please assume in your solution to #1 that family incomes (minus wife's income) are fixed from 1984 to 1988.

Problem Set 2 (pdf) | data (ASCII) | Notes: you'll need to drop several observations missing income or net worth.

Last Updated: 27 November 2007