FE431  Public Finance

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Basic information regarding the class:

Section 1001 - Time: MWF 1st period
Section 2001 - Time MWF 2nd period

Place: MI 222
Office:  Nimitz 061
Office number:  293-6888
Office Hours:  Tuesday 2nd and 3rd periods and Wednesday 5th and 6th periods and by appointment!

Required text:
1) Jonathan Gruber Public Finance and Public Policy, Worth Publishing; 2nd edition, Amazon.com, - YES you need the text.

• Syllabus
• Readings
• Reviews
• Presentation
• Presentations
• Homework and In Class Problems and Answers

Useful Web Links:

Government

• The White House
• IRS - The US Treasury
• Tax Statistics - IRS
• U.S. Department of Labor
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Department of Housing and Urban Development
• HHS - Welfare Reform Page
• CBO: Congressional Budget Office (deficit)

Journals

• Journal of Public Economics
• Public Choice

Data

• Economic Time Series Page
• Green Book: Overview of Entitlement Programs
• Health and Human Services data

Research Institutes, Working Papers

• Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
• Social Systems Research Institute (SSRI), UW
• Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
• Brookings Policy Briefs
• Urban Institute

NBER Research Papers (Choose Public Economics or perhaps Aging, Child Welfare, Health)