The class meets Mondays and Wednesdays 3-4:15 pm in Sever 308. The TA is Tanggang Yuan (tanggangyuan@g.harvard.edu). Professor Stantcheva holds office hours for this class for all weeks during which she is teaching from 5:45-6:45pm in Littauer 232.

Syllabus

Lecture Notes: (A lot of inspiration from Emmanuel Saez' undergraduate PF course notes)

Lecture 1: Income Distribution, Poverty, Taxes and Transfers
Lecture 2: Theoretical Tools for Public Economics
Lecture 3: Tax Incidence 
Lecture 4: Optimal Labor Income Taxation
Lecture 5: Taxes and Labor Supply
Lecture 6: Taxable income elasticities
Lecture 7: Externalities
Lecture 8: Public Goods
Lecture 9: Social Insurance: General Concepts
Lecture 10: Health Insurance
Lecture 11: Unemployment and Disability Insurance and Workers' Compensation
Section Material: 
(For my part of the course only)

Section 6: Tax Incidence
Section 7: Income Taxation
Section 8: Externalities and Public Goods
Section 9: Health Insurance

Problem Sets:

Problem Set 1