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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Mandated Benefits<br />

We have focused until now on incidence of price interventions (taxes,<br />

subsidies)<br />

Similar incidence/shifting issues arise in analyzing quantity<br />

intervention (regulations)<br />

Leading case: mandated benefits — requirement that employers pay<br />

for health care, workers compensation benefits, child care, etc.<br />

Mandates are attractive to government because they are “off<br />

budget”; may reflect salience issues<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 2: Tax Incidence 125 / 142

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