Reading List
Public Policy 1700
Economics and Public Policy
0. January 22: Introduction (statistics
review)
1. January 29: Education Finance
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
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Rouse,
Cecilia |
“Private
School Vouchers and Student Achievement: An Evaluation of the |
Quarterly
Journal of Economics, May 1998. |
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Hoxby, Caroline |
“Does
Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers” |
American Economic Review, 2000. |
2. February 5:
Education Finance
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
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Card, David and Abigail
Payne |
“School Finance Reform, the
Distribution of School Spending, and the Distribution of Test Scores” (Himmat Randhawa) |
Journal of Public
Economics, 2002 |
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Gordon,
Nora |
“Do
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Journal
of Public Economics, 2004 |
3. February 12: Welfare and Welfare Reform
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
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Blank, Rebecca |
background reading: “Policy Watch: The 1996 Welfare Reform Act” |
Journal of Economic
Perspectives, 11(1), 169-77, Winter 1997 |
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Gelbach, Jonah |
“Migration,
the Lifecycle, and State Benefits” (Kate
Kolbert-Hyle) |
Journal of Political
Economy, October 2004. |
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Figlio, David and Van Koplin
and William Reid |
“Do
States Play Welfare Games?” (Sara
Mansur) |
Journal of Urban Economics, 46, 437-454, 1999. |
4. February 19: Welfare and Welfare Reform
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
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Grogger, Jeff and Charles Michalopoulos |
“Welfare Dynamics Under
Time Limits” (Jason Carr) |
Journal of Political
Economy, forthcoming |
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Ziliak, James, David Figlio,
Elizabeth Davis, and Laura Connolly |
“Accounting
for the Decline in AFDC Caseloads: Welfare Reform or the Economy?” (David Deull) |
Journal
of Human Resources, 35(3), 570-586, Summer 2000 |
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
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Currie
and Gruber |
“Saving
Babies” (Divya Samuel) |
Journal of Political
Economy, 104, 1263-96 |
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Cutler, David and Jonathan
Gruber |
“Does Public Insurance
Crowd Out Private Insurance?” (Lara
Wilson) |
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(2), 1996,
391-430. |
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
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Baicker, Katherine |
“Government
Decision-making and the Incidence of Federal Mandates” (Samuel Byker) |
Journal of Public
Economics, 2001, 82, 147-194. |
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Baicker,
Katherine and Douglas Staiger |
“Fiscal
Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds, and Patient Mortality” (Hannah Brennan) |
NBER working paper 10440 |
7. March 12: Earned Income Tax Credit
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
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Eissa, N. and J. Leibman |
“Labor Supply Responses to
the Earned Income Tax Credit” (Janice
Kim) |
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(2), 1996,
391-430. |
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Meyer, Bruce and Dan
Rosenbaum |
“Welfare, the Earned Income
Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers” (Bentley Rubinstein) |
The Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 2001, 1063-1114. |
8. March 19: Economics of Discrimination
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
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Arrow, Kenneth |
Background Reading “What Has Economics to Say About
Racial Discrimination?” |
The Journal of Economic
Perspectives, Vol. 12, No. 2. (Spring, 1998), pp. 91-100 |
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Neal,
Derek and W. Johnson, |
“The
Role of Premarket Factors in Black-White Wage Differences?”
(Chongsi Bi) |
Journal of Political
Economy, Vol. 104, No. 5. (Oct., 1996), pp. 869-895. |
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Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan |
“Are Emily and Greg More Employable
than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor
Market Discrimination” (Zindzi McCormick) |
NBER working paper 7363 |
9. April 2:
Economics of Discrimination
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
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Price,
Joseph and Wolfers, Justin |
“Racial Discrimination Among NBA referees” (Michael MacCombie) |
NBER working paper 13206. |
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Antonovics, Kate and
Knight, Brian |
“A New Look at Racial
Profiling” (Prof. Knight) |
NBER working paper 10634. |
10.
April 9: No Seminar
(independent work on papers)
11.
April 16: Student Paper Presentations