Public Policy 495: 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 Policy 639: 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.
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 Policy 639: 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.
