# EC1410 Public Economics: Designing Government Policy (KS SUP-125) Semester: Fall | Year offered: 2019 The class meets Mondays and Wednesdays 3-4:15 pm in Sever 308. The TA is Tanggang Yuan (). Professor Stantcheva holds office hours for this class for all weeks during which she is teaching from 5:45-6:45pm in Littauer 232. [Syllabus](/file_url/320) **Lecture Notes: (A lot of inspiration from Emmanuel Saez' undergraduate PF course notes)** [Lecture 1: Income Distribution, Poverty, Taxes and Transfers](/file_url/321) [Lecture 2: Theoretical Tools for Public Economics](/file_url/322) [Lecture 3: Tax Incidence](/file_url/323) [Lecture 4: Optimal Labor Income Taxation](/file_url/324) [Lecture 5: Taxes and Labor Supply](/file_url/325) [Lecture 6: Taxable income elasticities](/file_url/326) [Lecture 7: Externalities](/file_url/328) [Lecture 8: Public Goods](/file_url/329) [Lecture 9: Social Insurance: General Concepts](/file_url/332) [Lecture 10: Health Insurance ](/file_url/333) [Lecture 11: Unemployment and Disability Insurance and Workers' Compensation](/file_url/356) **Section Material:** (For my part of the course only) [Section 6: Tax Incidence](/file_url/212) [Section 7: Income Taxation](/file_url/213) [Section 8: Externalities and Public Goods](/file_url/214) [Section 9: Health Insurance](/file_url/215) **Problem Sets:** [Problem Set 1](/files/stantcheva/files/ps1.pdf)