Public Economics II

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