Resources, Incentives, and Choices II: Analysis of Public Policy

Harvard HKS

This course builds on API-101 to develop microeconomic and macroeconomic tools of analysis for policy problems through various policy applications. The course is broadly focused on evaluating the rationale for government intervention in the economy and evaluating the efficiency, incentive, and distributional effects of government policies through US and international applications. Section A (Mark Shepard) Social Policy: The A section focuses on social policy (for example, health,…