Public Economics

The length of the term paper should be about 8-10 double-spaced pages. Use Times New Roman fontsize 12 and number your pages. Graphs, tables, and references are beyond these minimum pages of 8. In the paper, you will explore in more details specific government policy of your choice. You may choose a federal, state or local policy. You are required to cover the economic motivation and brief history of the policy; the political and economic factors in its design; the implementation, successes/ failures, and winners/losers; and any prescription for altering the policy in the future. You can add how your views about the policy issues have been affected in this course; explain your current position and how it was affected by what you learned in class.