Empirical Public and Household Finance

Undergraduate

This undergraduate seminar course explores recent empirical research in public and household finance on how households respond to tax policy and how households make financial decisions. The emphasis is on critically assessing research articles in terms of their internal validity (causality), external validity (applicability to other settings), how they may inform economic modelling (i.e., parameters used in macroeconomic models), and how and whether they may directly inform policy decisions. Intermediate microeconomics and econometrics, working knowledge of calculus, coding, and data analysis. SO M 1:30pm-3:25pm