Introduction
The course draws on many areas of Public Economics with possible topics on Public Goods, Externalities, Economics of Education, Poverty and Income Redistribution, and Income Tax and Behaviour, Political Selection and Local Public Finance among others. In most cases, both theoretical discussions of the economic problem and empirical evaluations will be considered. The econometric methods used build on a regression framework and focus on the challenges of estimating the causal effect of a policy in non-experimental settings.
Logistics
Dr Maria Ventura and I co-teach this course.
Syllabus
Please refer to the DRPS of the course.