Economics 260 On-Line Readings

I. Comparative Public Finance

Gruber, Jonathan and David A. Wise. Chapter 1 of Social Security and Retirement around the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. (amazon shows Chapter 1 for free)
Mulligan, Casey B. “The Effects of Redistribution Policies on Growth and Employment.” Presentation, Conference on Inequality in Memory of Gary Becker, September 2014.
Mulligan, Casey B. and Xavier Sala-i-Martin “Internationally Common Features of Public Old-Age Pensions.” Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy. 4(1), 2004: Article 4.
Mulligan, Casey B., Ricard Gil, and Xavier Sala-i-Martin. “Do Democracies have Different Public Policies than Nondemocracies?” 18(1), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004: 51-74.
United States Congress, House Committee on Ways and Means. Overview of Entitlement Programs, 2014 Green Book. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2014.
United States Congress, Joint Committee on Taxation. Background Information On Tax Expenditure Analysis And Historical Survey Of Tax Expenditure Estimates
United States Office of Management and Budget. "Historical Tables." Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2017. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2016.

Autor, David H. “The Unsustainable Rise of the Disability Rolls in the United States: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options.” NBER working paper no. 17697, December 2011.
Becker, Gary S., Kevin M. Murphy, and Michael Grossman. “The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods.” NBER working paper no. 10976, December 2004.
Feldstein, Martin and Andrew Samwick. “Social Security Rules and Marginal Tax Rates.” National Tax Journal. 45(1), March 1992: 1-22.
Keynes, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.
Mulligan, Casey B. “Supply and Demand: Labor Market Consequences of Safety Net Expansions.” in The Redistribution Recession. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. (This chapter is available for free)
Mulligan, Casey B. Side Effects: The Economic Consequences of the Health Reform. 2014. Chapters 6 and 8.
Rockoff, Hugh. “Price Controls." in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. 2008.

Baker, Jonathan B. “Private Information and the Deterrent Effect of Antitrust Damage Remedies.” Journal of Law, Economics & Organization. 4(2), Autumn 1988: 385-408.
Mulligan, Casey B. and Tomas J. Philipson. "Merit Motives and Government Intervention: Public Finance in Reverse." NBER working paper no. 7698, May 2000.
Rettenmaier, Andrew J. "The Distribution of Lifetime Medicare Benefits, Taxes and Premiums: Evidence from Individual Level Data." Journal of Public Economics. October 2012: 760-72.
Summers, Lawrence H. "Some Simple Economics of Mandated Benefits." American Economic Review. May 1989: 177-83.

Nichols, Albert L. and Richard J. Zeckhauser. “Targeting Transfers through Restrictions on Recipients.” American Economic Review. 72(2), May 1982: 372-77.
Shoot, Shovel, and Shut up.

Mulligan, Casey B. “Uncertainty, Redistribution, and the Labor Market since 2007.” Journal of Labor Policy. 3, April 2014.
Hines, James R., Jr. and Richard H. Thaler. “The Flypaper Effect.” Journal of Economic Perspectives. 9(4), Fall 1995: 217-26.
Mulligan, Casey B. and Charles G. Hunter. "The Empirical Frequency of a Pivotal Vote." Public Choice. 116(1), July 2003: 31-54.
Mulligan, Casey B. and Kevin Ka Kin Tsui. "Political Entry, Public Policy, and the Economy." NBER working paper no. 13830, March 2008.
Wittman, Donald. “Why Democracies Produce Efficient Results.” Journal of Political Economy. 97(6), December 1989: 1395-1424.

Becker, Gary S. and Casey B. Mulligan. “Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government.” Journal of Law and Economics. 46(2), October 2003: 293-340.
Mulligan, Casey B. and Xavier Sala-i-Martin “Political and Economic Forces Sustaining Social Security.” Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy. 4(1), 2004: Article 5.
Mulligan, Casey B., Ricard Gil, and Xavier Sala-i-Martin. “Do Democracies have Different Public Policies than Nondemocracies?” 18(1), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004: 51-74.

Some on-line readings are from JSTOR or NBER and can only be accessed from a University computer. Others can be accessed from any computer.
Only journal articles and working papers are on-line. See the Course Reading List for a complete listing of the readings