Curriculum Vitae pdf version		ECN230B: Graduate Public Finance; Taught Spring 2008 at UC Berkeley Syllabus Lecture Notes - Empirical Approaches in Public Finance (Jan 22) - Taxes and Labor Supply (Jan 29) - Labor Supply and the low income population (Feb 5) - Labor Supply and the High Income population (Feb 12) - Welfare, Labor Supply and Family Structure (Feb 26) - Welfare Reform (March 4) - Theory of Social Insurance (March 11) - Unemployment Compensation (March 11 & March 18) - Workers Compensation (April 1) - Disability Insurance (April 15) - Social Security - Overview and Justification (April 22) - Social Security & Retirement (April 22) - Social Security, Savings, Cons and Wealth (April 28) - Health and Medicaid (May 6) - Health and Medicare (May 6) Problem Sets - Empirical Problem Set #1 - Empirical Problem Set #1 (Stata Data set) - Empirical Problem Set #2 - Empirical Problem Set #3 - Empirical Problem Set #3 (Stata Data set)