Economics 260 On-Line Readings
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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.
II. Taxes and Behavior - Theory
- 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.
III. Tax Incidence
IV. Optimal Taxes
V. Explaining Government Behavior -- Various Theoretical Approaches
- 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.
VI. Explaining Government Behavior -- Empirical Applications
NOTE:
- 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
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