Translating Evidence into Economic Policy

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The objective of this course is, precisely, to offer those insights to students interested in a career in policymaking by providing case studies of the most important and challenging policy questions of our lifetimes. By the end of the course students will have deepened their understanding of the most important policy challenges from an array of different contexts and the evidence around them, with a special focus on quantitative methods useful to analyze those questions. This class is particularly designed for students that have already studied some of the basic econometric methods, but feel they could get a better understanding of them when looking at them in the context of actual, real-life, policy challenges.