Outline and schedule#
Broad outline#
Content-wise, there will be three blocks of roughly equal length:
Expectations and their formation
Preferences and discounting behaviour
How individuals respond to taxes and insurance
We will visit the various methods listed in the course objectives along the way.
Tentative schedule#
Date |
Topic |
|---|---|
14.4. |
Intro |
21.4. |
Beliefs lab / Correlation Neglect |
28.4. |
Methods to elicit beliefs |
5.5. |
Survey experiments |
12.5. |
Belief updating |
19.5. |
Preferences: Ambiguity / structural intro |
26.5. |
Discounting: Money vs. effort |
9.6. |
Discounting: Identification |
16.6. |
A Structural Approach to Welfare Take-Up |
23.6. |
Unemployment benefits: RD |
30.6. |
Unemployment benefits: Sufficient statistics |
7.7. |
Unemployment benefits: Structural |
14.7. |
Reasoning about taxes |