Lecture Notes

Lec # Topics lecture Notes
Public Goods
1 Voluntary Private Provision of Public Goods and Private Charity Public Goods - Private Equilibrium (PDF)
2 Efficient Public Goods Provision Optimal Public Goods Supply (PDF)
3 Income Tax Deduction of Charitable Donations Warm Glow Preferences(PDF)
Tax Treatment of Estates
4 Background

Individual Motivation

Annuities
Annuities (PDF)
5 Taxing Gifts to Individuals
6 Estate Taxes Atkinson-Stiglitz Model (PDF)

Optimal Estate Tax (PDF)

Taxing Savings (PDF)
Social Security
7 Social Insurance Theory Social Security - Facts (PDF)
8 Within Cohort Theoretical Models Social Security - Length of Career (PDF)

Social Security - Varying Life Expectancy (PDF)
9 Social Security, Saving, and Benefit Adequacy Issues
10 Social Security and Labor Supply
11 Social Security in OLG Growth Models Social Security - OLG Settings (PDF)
12 Social Security Reform: Overview and Political Economy
Unemployment Insurance
13 Unemployment Insurance - Theory Policy Application (PDF)
14 Unemployment Insurance and Worker Behavior
15 Unemployment Insurance and Firm Behavior
Workers' Compensation
16 Workers' Compensation Issues
Disability Insurance
17 Disability Insurance Issues
Government Redistributional Programs
18 Traditional Cash Welfare
19 Effects of Welfare Reform
Government Intervention in Health Insurance Markets
20 Health Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Adverse Selection
21 Medicaid, the Uninsured, and Long Term Care
22 Medicare and Provider Issues
23 Health Insurance and the Labor Market
24 Health Externalities - Smoking