PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 781: SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY
This course is designed to provide an overview of U.S. social welfare policy, with some focus on other nations’ approaches to social welfare policy. The course covers a history of the US social safety net, with topics including welfare reform, tax policy, education, health care, and social security.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 722: Quantitative Analysis/Program Evaluation
Program evaluation is the field of study designed to estimate the efficacy of a program, policy, or some other intervention or “treatment.” This course aims to equip students with the statistical tools and reasoning necessary to produce solid empirical investigations of a variety of programs/policies as well as to read the evaluations of others critically. Topics covered include randomized trials and experiments, multiple regression, regression with binary outcomes, regression with panel data, fixed effects, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, and instrumental variables.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 721: Introduction in Statistics
Students are introduced to a variety of tools and techniques for analyzing data. Basic topics in descriptive statistics, probability theory and statistical inference are covered. Specific topics include; descriptive analysis of data; analysis of comparisons and associations; probability theory; sampling; point and interval estimation; and hypothesis testing. Lectures and assignments will be supported by the use of a statistical computer package.
Sample Syllabus for PAI 721 - Upper Level
POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT 3360: Evolving Families: Challenges to Family Policy, Cornell University.
This course examines the social institution of the family, challenges to the institution’s well-being and stability, and public policy attempts to address these transformations. Topics include family structure and responsibilities; marriage as a traditional building block of the family; challenges to marriage, including non-marital childbearing, cohabitation, and same-sex unions; challenges to family functions, such as sexuality education and paternal involvement; balancing work and family life; and poverty. The role of public policy in managing and shaping these developments will be discussed.
ECONOMICS 101: Introduction to Economics , Wesleyan University
A general introduction to the principles of economic analysis and their implications for public policy, covering concepts and issues in both microeconomics concerning the function and performance of individual markets, organizations, or institutions and macroeconomics concerning the function and performance of the economy as a whole.
This course is designed to provide an overview of U.S. social welfare policy, with some focus on other nations’ approaches to social welfare policy. The course covers a history of the US social safety net, with topics including welfare reform, tax policy, education, health care, and social security.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 722: Quantitative Analysis/Program Evaluation
Program evaluation is the field of study designed to estimate the efficacy of a program, policy, or some other intervention or “treatment.” This course aims to equip students with the statistical tools and reasoning necessary to produce solid empirical investigations of a variety of programs/policies as well as to read the evaluations of others critically. Topics covered include randomized trials and experiments, multiple regression, regression with binary outcomes, regression with panel data, fixed effects, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, and instrumental variables.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 721: Introduction in Statistics
Students are introduced to a variety of tools and techniques for analyzing data. Basic topics in descriptive statistics, probability theory and statistical inference are covered. Specific topics include; descriptive analysis of data; analysis of comparisons and associations; probability theory; sampling; point and interval estimation; and hypothesis testing. Lectures and assignments will be supported by the use of a statistical computer package.
Sample Syllabus for PAI 721 - Upper Level
POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT 3360: Evolving Families: Challenges to Family Policy, Cornell University.
This course examines the social institution of the family, challenges to the institution’s well-being and stability, and public policy attempts to address these transformations. Topics include family structure and responsibilities; marriage as a traditional building block of the family; challenges to marriage, including non-marital childbearing, cohabitation, and same-sex unions; challenges to family functions, such as sexuality education and paternal involvement; balancing work and family life; and poverty. The role of public policy in managing and shaping these developments will be discussed.
ECONOMICS 101: Introduction to Economics , Wesleyan University
A general introduction to the principles of economic analysis and their implications for public policy, covering concepts and issues in both microeconomics concerning the function and performance of individual markets, organizations, or institutions and macroeconomics concerning the function and performance of the economy as a whole.
