Public Economics

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course will cover the major topics in public economics—that is, public sector taxation and expenditures. It will encompass normative and positive theories of public economics and a broad range of empirical work. The course will use a well-known textbook in public economics. In addition, optional readings from the economics literature will be assigned every week. A series of problem sets using publicly available data and a major econometric software package will be assigned. A major empirical project will constitute a large portion of the grade.