Sample Proposals
Cristina Bratu (’11), “Determinants of Subjective Well-Being A Romanian Case Study”
Ginny Hodges (’11), “’Don’t Worry… I’ll Divorce You If I Get Sick!’ A Study on the Effect of Medicaid LTC Eligibility Rules on Divorce”
Ginny Spilman (’11), “Time is of the Essence: The Effect of Birth Spacing on Children’s Educational Attainment”
Sample Review Sheets
Le Masters on Currie and Yelowitz
Le Masters on Verman
| Reading and Review Sheet Assignments | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Title | URL | Presenter | Review Sheet # |
| Thurs, Sept 8 | Slemrod and Bakija, Taxing Ourselves, Chapter 1 | MIT Press | Guse | |
| Greenlaw, Chapters 1-6 | ||||
| Tax Policy | ||||
| Tues, Sept 13 | Goolsbee, Austan, (2000) “What Happens When You Tax the Rich? Evidence from Executive Compensation”, JPE, 108, 352-378 | JStor | Guse | (1) |
| Tues, Sept 13 | Goolsbee, Austan, (2000) “What Happens When You Tax the Rich? Evidence from Executive Compensation”, JPE, 108, 352-378 | JStor | Guse | (1) |
| Gruber, Chapter 21, “Taxes on Labor Supply” | ||||
| Slemrod and Bakija, Taxing Ourselves, Chapter 2 | ||||
| Thur, Sept 15 | Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, 1990, “Do Taxes Affect Corporate Financing Decisions?”The Journal of Finance, 45(5), 1471-1493. | JStor | Jack | (2) |
| Slemrod and Bakija, Taxing Ourselves, Chapter 4 | ||||
| Gruber, Chapter 24, “Corporate Taxation” | ||||
| NPR Staff, 2011, “Corporate Taxes: How Low Can You Go?” | npr.org | |||
| Tues, Sept 20 | Eissa, N. and H. Hoynes (2004) “Taxes and the labor market participation of married couples: the earned income tax credit”,Journal of Public Economics, 88: 1931-1958. | Daniel | (3) | |
| Thurs, Sept 22 | Probit Lab | mroz.dta | Guse | |
| Tues, Sept 27 | Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez (2013) “Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5(1): 1–31 | Will | (4) | |
| Health | ||||
| Tues, Oct 4 | Jason Fletcher and Norma Padron (2016) “Teenage Childbearing and its Effects on Later Life Soft Skills Outcomes.” Journal of Population Economics, 29(3), 883-910 | J Pop Econ | Andrew | (5) |
| Thurs, Oct 6 | Two Stage Least Squares Lab | Slides | Guse | |
| Tues, Oct 11 | Individual Meetings | |||
| Tues, Oct 18 | Amy Finkelstein, Matthew Gentzkow and Heidi Williams (2016) “Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care: Evidence from Patient Migration” Quarterly Journal of Economics. | QJE | Matt | (6) |
| Thurs, Oct 20 | Alice Chen, Emily Oster, and Heidi Williams (2016) “Why Is Infant Mortality Higher in the United States than in Europe?” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 8(2): 89–124 | Hannah | (7) | |
| Tues, Oct 25 | Does Television Cause Autism? Michael Waldman, Sean Nicholson, Nodir Adilov NBER Working Paper No. 12632 Issued in October 2006 | NBER | Guse | (8) |
| Education | ||||
| Thurs, Oct 27 | Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer, “The Medium-Term Impacts of High-Achieving Charter Schools” Journal of Political Economy.123(5):985-1037. | harvard | Powell | (9) |
| Tues, Nov 1 | Midterm Presentations | |||
| Thurs, Nov 3 | Lab 3 | |||
| Tues, Nov 8 | Donna Feir (2015) “The Intergenerational Effect of Forcible Assimilation Policy on Education” | uvic | Rainsford | (10) |
| Thurs, Nov 10 | Henrekson, Magnus, 2005, “Entrepreneurship: A Weak Link in the Welfare State?” Industrial and Corporate Change, 14(3):437-67. | Econ Lit | Michael | (11) |
| Tues, Nov 15 | Krueger and Whitmore, 2001, “The Effect of Attending a Small Class in the Early Grades …” Economic Journal | wiley | Courtney | (12) |
| Crime | ||||
| Thurs, Nov 29 | Jeffrey Grogger and Greg Ridgeway (2006) “Testing for Racial Profiling in Traffic Stops from behind a Veil of Darkness” Journal of the American Statistical AssociationVol. 101, No. 475, pp. 878-887 | jstor | Gabby | (13) |
| Thurs, Dec 1 | David Card, Gordon Dahl (2011) “Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior” QJE | QJE NBER |
Ali | (15) |