Reading List
Public Policy 1700
Economics and Public
Policy
0. January 28: Introduction (statistics
review)
1. February 4: 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
Milwaukee Parental Choice Program” (Prof. Knight) |
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1998. |
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|
Hoxby, Caroline |
“Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students
and Taxpayers” (Prof. Knight) |
American Economic Review, 2000. |
2.
February 11: Education Finance
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
|
Card, David
and Abigail Payne |
“School Finance
Reform, the Distribution of School Spending, and the Distribution of Test
Scores” (Britta Han) |
Journal of
Public Economics, 2002 |
|
|
Gordon, Nora |
“Do Federal Grants Boost School Spending? Evidence from Title I” (Scott
Cary) |
Journal of Public Economics, 2004 |
3. February 18: Welfare and Welfare
Reform
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
|
Blank,
Rebecca |
background reading: “Policy Watch: The 1996 Welfare
Reform Act” |
Journal of
Economic Perspectives, Winter 1997 |
|
|
Gelbach, Jonah |
“Migration, the Lifecycle, and State Benefits” (Richard Henderson) |
Journal of
Political Economy, 2004. |
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Figlio, David and Van Koplin
and William Reid |
“Do States Play Welfare Games?” (Anton Ziajka) |
Journal of Urban Economics, 1999. |
4. February 25: Welfare and Welfare
Reform
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
|
Grogger, Jeff and Charles Michalopoulos |
“Welfare
Dynamics Under Time Limits” (Kelly Wess) |
Journal of
Political Economy |
|
|
Ziliak, James, David Figlio,
Elizabeth Davis, and Laura Connolly |
“Accounting for the Decline in AFDC Caseloads: Welfare Reform or the
Economy?” (Taylor
Russell) |
Journal of Human Resources, 2000 |
5. March 4: Medicaid
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
|
Currie and Gruber |
“Saving Babies” (Jonathan Ma) |
Journal of Political
Economy, 104, 1263-96 |
|
|
Cutler,
David and Jonathan Gruber |
“Does
Public Insurance Crowd Out Private Insurance?” (Anita Sekar) |
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(2), 1996,
391-430. |
6.
March 11: Medicaid
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
|
Baicker,
Katherine |
“Government
Decision-making and the Incidence of Federal Mandates” (James Steinau) |
Journal of
Public Economics, 2001, 82, 147-194. |
|
|
Baicker, Katherine and Douglas Staiger |
“Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds,
and Patient Mortality” (Anisha Sekar) |
NBER
working paper 10440 |
7. March 18: Earned Income Tax Credit
|
Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
|
Eissa, N. and J. Leibman |
“Labor
Supply Responses to the Earned Income Tax Credit” (Nick Martel) |
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(2),
1996, 391-430. |
|
|
Meyer,
Bruce and Dan Rosenbaum |
“Welfare,
the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers” (Sanjay Bhatt) |
The
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001, 1063-1114. |
8. March 25: Earned Income Tax Credit
|
Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
|
Chetty, Raj and Emmanuel Saez |
“Teaching
the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients” (Benjamin Chagnon) |
NBER working paper 14836 |
|
|
Rothstein,
Jesse |
"The Unintended
Consequences of Encouraging Work: Tax Incidence and the EITC" (Britta Han) |
working
paper |
9. April
8: No seminar (independent work on papers)
10. April 15: State Lotteries
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Author |
Title |
Journal |
Paper |
|
Knight, Brian and Nathan Schiff |
Spatial Competitio
|
NBER
working paper 15713 |
|
|
Kearney, Melissa |
“State
lotteries and consumer behavior” (Prof.
Knight) |
Journal of Public Economics, 2004 |
11. April 22: Student Paper Presentations
12. April 29: Student Paper
Presentations