Curriculum Vitae pdf version		ECN230C: Graduate Public Finance (Spring 2008) Syllabus (revised 4-30-08) Lecture Notes - Empirical Approaches in Public Finance - Taxes and Labor Supply (April 2) - Labor Supply and the low income population (April 14) - Labor Supply and the High Income population (April 16) - Tax Salience(April 21) - Welfare, Labor Supply and Family Structure (April 23, 28) - Welfare Reform (April 28) - Food Stamps (May 5) - Theory of Social Insurance (May 7) - Unemployment Compensation (May 7 & May 12) - Workers Compensation (May 14) - Disability Insurance (May 19) - Social Security - Overview and Justification (May 21) - Social Security & Retirement (May 21) - Social Security, Savings, Cons and Wealth (May 28) - Health and Medicaid (June 2) - Health and Medicare (June 2) - Health and Labor Markets (June 4) Problem Sets - Empirical Problem Set #1 - Empirical Problem Set #1 (Stata Data set) - Solutions to Empirical Problem Set #1 - Empirical Problem Set #2 - Solutions to Empirical Problem Set #2 - Problem Set #3 - Problem Set #3 (Stata Data set) - Solutions to Empirical Problem Set #3