Quantitative
Economics Doctorate (Qed)
PUBLIC
ECONOMICS
Winter 2010
Iñigo
Iturbe-Ormaetxe
Slides
Problem
sets
· Anna Shaleva:
“Raising
Children to Work Hard: Altruism, Work Norms, and Social Insurance” by Lindbeck et al.
· María José Aragón:
“Green
Markets and Private Provision of Public Goods”, by Kotchen,
Journal of Political Economy, 2006
· Mariya Melnychuk:
“The Consumption Smoothing
Benefits of Unemployment Insurance” (1997) By J. Gruber
· Alberto Basso:
“Consumption
Smoothing and the Welfare Consequences of Social Insurance in Developing
Economies,” by Chetty R. and A. Looney, Journal
of Public Economics", 90: 2351-2356, 2006
· Nathan Carroll:
“An
Economic Rationale for Public Education: The Value of Commitment,” by M.
Gradstein, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2000
· Danilo Leiva
León: “The
Effect of Taxes on Labor Supply in the Underground Economy,” by T. Lemieux,
B. Fortin and P. Fréchette, The American Economic
Review, Vol. 84, No. 1, 231-254, 1994
· Xavier Del Pozo:
“A review of experiments in public goods,” based on The handbook of experimental
economics (Ch. 2)
· Victor Hugo De Oliveira Silva:
“Educational
Expansion and Educational Inequality on Income Distribution,” Economics of
Education Review 15, 1, 51-58, 1996
· Maosen Zhao: “Why a funded
system is useful and why it is not useful,” by H. W. Sinn, International
Tax and Public Finance 7, 389-410, 2000
· Serafima Chirkova:
“Do Government Grants to Private
Charities Crowd Out Giving or Fund-raising?” by J. Andreoni
and A. Payne, AER, June 2003