Public Economics II

Calendar

Lec #	Topics
Public Goods
1	Voluntary Private Provision of Public Goods and Private Charity
2	Efficient Public Goods Provision
3	Income Tax Deduction of Charitable Donations
Tax Treatment of Estates
4	Background Individual Motivation Annuities
5	Taxing Gifts to Individuals
6	Estate Taxes
Social Security
7	Social Insurance Theory
8	Within Cohort Theoretical Models
9	Social Security, Saving, and Benefit Adequacy Issues
10	Social Security and Labor Supply
11	Social Security in OLG Growth Models
12	Social Security Reform: Overview and Political Economy
Unemployment Insurance
13	Unemployment Insurance - Theory
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