Syllabus API-102a Economic Analysis
COURSE SYLLABUS API-102A Economic Analysis of Public Policy Spring 2013 Instructor José Carlos Rodríguez Pueblita Email: jose_pueblita@hks.harvard.edu Webpage: http://hvrd.me/p63BYk Twitter: @jcpueblita Office R306 Assistant______ Mary Anne Baumgartner
Office hours: Th. 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Appointments: http://bit.ly/rD1vWv Class Time and Location: Tu.,Th. 8:40 a.m.-10:00 a.m.; L130 Teaching Fellow: Review Session:
Course Assistants:
Michael Law Michael_Law@hks.14.harvard.edu F. 8:40 a.m.-10:00 a.m.; L130 Pragya Lohani Manuel Victoria Pragya_Lohani@hks13.harvard.edu Manuel_Victoria_Gonzalez@hks13.harvard.edu
COURSE …show more content…
Stern, Nicolas, “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2007, Executive Summary, pp. i-xxvii.
Session 2: January 31st, 2012 • Boardman, Greenberg, Vining, and Weimer, Cost-benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practices. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996), Chapter 4, 119-158. [Course Packet]. Willard Manning, Emmett B. Keeler, et al., “The Taxes of Sin,” Journal of the American Medical Association, March 17, 1989, vol. 261, no. 11, 1604-1609. Dalton Conley, “The Cost of Slavery,” New York Times, February 15, 2003.
• •
Session 3: February 5th, 2012 • • Averill, “Arsenic in Drinking Water,” Kennedy School of Government Case Program. [Course Packet]. W. Kip Viscusi, John M. Vernon, and Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. “The Emergence of Health, Safety, and Environmental Regulation,” and “Valuing Life and Other Nonmonetary Benefits,” in Economics of Regulation and Antitrust (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000), chapters 19 and 20, 691-743. [Course Packet]. OPTIONAL READING: Edward Miguel and Michael Kremer, “Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities,” Econometrica, 74 (2004), …show more content…
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/procurement_gov_contracting/i ncreasing_competition_10272009.pdf Jeffrey Liebman, “Social Impact Bonds: A Promising New Financing Model to Accelerate Social Innovation and Improve Government Performance,” Center for American Progress, February 2011. Nicholas Timmings, “Bond Project Aims to Cut Rate of Reoffending,” Financial Times, September 9, 2010. OPTIONAL READING: Stephanie Klietz, Charles Borduin, and Cindy Schaeffer, “CostBenefit Analysis of Multisystemic Therapy With Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders” Journal of Family Psychology, 2010, 24:657-666. OPTIONAL READING: The Economist, “Social Impact Bonds, Being good pays”, August 18th,
Office hours: Th. 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Appointments: http://bit.ly/rD1vWv Class Time and Location: Tu.,Th. 8:40 a.m.-10:00 a.m.; L130 Teaching Fellow: Review Session:
Course Assistants:
Michael Law Michael_Law@hks.14.harvard.edu F. 8:40 a.m.-10:00 a.m.; L130 Pragya Lohani Manuel Victoria Pragya_Lohani@hks13.harvard.edu Manuel_Victoria_Gonzalez@hks13.harvard.edu
COURSE …show more content…
Stern, Nicolas, “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2007, Executive Summary, pp. i-xxvii.
Session 2: January 31st, 2012 • Boardman, Greenberg, Vining, and Weimer, Cost-benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practices. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996), Chapter 4, 119-158. [Course Packet]. Willard Manning, Emmett B. Keeler, et al., “The Taxes of Sin,” Journal of the American Medical Association, March 17, 1989, vol. 261, no. 11, 1604-1609. Dalton Conley, “The Cost of Slavery,” New York Times, February 15, 2003.
• •
Session 3: February 5th, 2012 • • Averill, “Arsenic in Drinking Water,” Kennedy School of Government Case Program. [Course Packet]. W. Kip Viscusi, John M. Vernon, and Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. “The Emergence of Health, Safety, and Environmental Regulation,” and “Valuing Life and Other Nonmonetary Benefits,” in Economics of Regulation and Antitrust (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000), chapters 19 and 20, 691-743. [Course Packet]. OPTIONAL READING: Edward Miguel and Michael Kremer, “Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities,” Econometrica, 74 (2004), …show more content…
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/procurement_gov_contracting/i ncreasing_competition_10272009.pdf Jeffrey Liebman, “Social Impact Bonds: A Promising New Financing Model to Accelerate Social Innovation and Improve Government Performance,” Center for American Progress, February 2011. Nicholas Timmings, “Bond Project Aims to Cut Rate of Reoffending,” Financial Times, September 9, 2010. OPTIONAL READING: Stephanie Klietz, Charles Borduin, and Cindy Schaeffer, “CostBenefit Analysis of Multisystemic Therapy With Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders” Journal of Family Psychology, 2010, 24:657-666. OPTIONAL READING: The Economist, “Social Impact Bonds, Being good pays”, August 18th,