Public Economics F21 - PhD Course Materials

This repository contains educational materials from an advanced Public Economics PhD course (Fall 2021). The materials consist of:

• Paper Outlines: Structured summaries and critical analyses of seminal research papers in public economics
• Practice Referee Reports: Fictitious referee reports written as course exercises to develop academic peer review skills
• Bibliography: Comprehensive references for course readings

About the Materials

These documents were created as part of doctoral-level training in public economics. The referee reports are practice exercises written for pedagogical purposes and do not represent actual journal submissions or real peer review processes.

Course Materials

Paper Outlines

• Deshpande and Li (2019)
• Ganong and Noel (2019)
• Hendren and Sprung-Keyser (2020)
• Kaplan (2012)
• Lieber and Lockwood (2019)
• Low and Pistaferri (2015)
• Maestas et al (2013)
• Marone and Sabety (2021)
• Voena (2015)

Practice Referee Reports (Fictitious)

These are educational exercises in academic peer review:

• Deshpande and Lockwood (2021) - Practice referee report, and letter to editor
• Lachowska et al (2021) - Practice referee report

Format

All documents are in LaTeX format (.tex) with a shared bibliography file (references.bib).