Environmental Policy Evaluation

Catalog description

This course presents state of the art program evaluation techniques necessary to evaluate the impact of environmental policies. The program evaluation methods presented aim at identifying and measuring the causal effect of policies, regulations, and interventions on environmental outcomes of interest. Students learn the research designs and methods for estimating causal effects with experimental and non-experimental data. This will prepare students for interpreting and conducting high-quality empirical research, with applications in cross-sectional data and panel data settings.