Public Economics and Fiscal Policy II

Harvard FAS

The course covers core applied topics related to the design of public policies. It is the second course offered in the Public Economics sequence, following Econ 2450A (although taking Econ 2450A is not required in advance of this class). The first half of the semester (taught by Raj Chetty) will cover partial equilibrium empirical methods to measure tax incidence and efficiency, behavioral welfare analysis, corporate taxation, and economic mobility. The second half of the semester…