Quantitative Methods and Program Evaluation

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to an applied, intermediate level of quantitative and econometric analysis. The first part of the course will focus on multiple regression analysis. The second part covers experimental and non-experimental methods that are often used in empirical research and evaluation. The course is intended to give students hands-on experience with real data and real analysis, helping students become sophisticated consumers of relatively advanced statistical techniques, as well as to provide students practical knowledge to conduct their own empirical analysis. Many applications will use data from developing countries.