Syllabus & Schedules

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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 2 cont'd Taxation and Labor Supply: Application

Lecture 2 cont'd: Taxation, Labor Supply and Multiple Program Participation

Lecture 3: Socially Optimal and Private Contributions to the Public Good

Lecture 3 cont'd: Voluntary Contributions to the Public Good in a Large Economy

Lecture 4: Social Experimentation and Program Evaluation

Lecture 4B: Treatment Effects & Regression Discontinuity; Application to Financial Aid Effects

Lecture 5B: Dynamic Schooling Choices & Higher Education Finance

Lecture 6a: Intergenerational Transfers, Kotlikoff & Spivak

Lecture 6b: Intergenerational Transfers, Altonji, Hayashi, & Kotlikoff

Lecture 7 : Child Support, Child Support Enforcement, and Family Members' Welfare

Lecture 8: Externalities & Environmental Economics: The Environmental Kuznets Curve (hand written)

Lecture 9: Bankruptcy empirics, Gropp, Scholz & White

Lecture 9 (cont'd): 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: 20 April 2007