EC1410 Designing Public Policy
The class meets virtually Mondays and Wednesdays 3-4:15 pm. It is co-taught with Professor Stan Veuger (stan.veuger@aei.org). The TA is Antonio Coran (acoran@g.harvard.edu). Professor Stantcheva holds virtual office hours for this class virtually for all weeks during which she is teaching.
Lecture Notes from 2019 (will be updated)
Lecture 1: Income Distribution, Poverty, Taxes and Transfers
Lecture 2: Theoretical Tools for Public Economics
Lecture 3: Tax Incidence
Lecture 4: Optimal Labor Income Taxation
Lecture 5: Taxes and Labor Supply
Lecture 6: Taxable income elasticities
Lecture 7: Externalities
Lecture 8: Public Goods
Lecture 9: Social Insurance: General Concepts
Lecture 10: Health Insurance
Lecture 11: Unemployment and Disability Insurance and Workers' Compensation
Section Material from 2019 (will be updated)
(For my part of the course only)
Section 6: Tax Incidence
Section 7: Income Taxation
Section 8: Externalities and Public Goods
Section 9: Health Insurance