Evaluating policies

Readings due before class on Thursday, November 21, 2019

Required

Important: The PDFs are posted on iCollege.

• Chapter 8 in Jonathan Gruber, Public Finance and Public PolicyJonathan Gruber, Public Finance and Public Policy, 1st ed. (New York: Worth Publishers, 2005).
  
  
• Stephen Colbert, “The Wørd—Priceless,”He’s kinda wrong here, btw.
  
  July 14, 2008
• David Evans, “What The Martian teaches us about the value of a statistical life”, People, Spaces, Deliberation, The World Bank, October 2, 2015
• Amy Gallo, “A Refresher on Net Present Value,” Harvard Business Review, November 19, 2014
• Planet Money, “Moving To Opportunity?,” episode 937
• Dina Pomeranz, “Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics”Dina Pomeranz, “Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics,” Public Finance Review 45, no. 1 (2017): 10–43, doi:10.1177/1091142115614392.
  
  
• Gordon C. S. Smith and Jill P. Pell, “Parachute Use to Prevent Death and Major Trauma Related to Gravitational Challenge: Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials”Gordon C. S. Smith and Jill P. Pell, “Parachute Use to Prevent Death and Major Trauma Related to Gravitational Challenge: Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials,” British Medical Journal 327, no. 7429 (2003): 1459–61.
  
  
• Yeh, Robert W., Linda R. Valsdottir, Michael W. Yeh, Changyu Shen, Daniel B. Kramer, Jordan B. Strom, Eric A. Secemsky, et al, “Parachute Use to Prevent Death and Major Trauma When Jumping From Aircraft: Randomized Controlled Trial”Robert W. Yeh et al., “Parachute Use to Prevent Death and Major Trauma When Jumping from Aircraft: Randomized Controlled Trial,” British Medical Journal 363, no. 8180 (2018): 1–6, doi:10.1136/bmj.k5094.