Course overview
This course deepens the critical thinking and reasoning of the design and evaluation of economic and social policies. It integrates the theoretical tools needed to design such policies with the empirical tools needed to evaluate them. Students will apply these tools to write policy reports for the policy maker. Case studies and empirical examples will be discussed and will offer a model for the issues which students are required to research and write about.
Course learning outcomes
- Provide a balanced and coherent discussion of conceptual, methodological and ethical issues underlying the identification, selection, implementation and evaluation of a variety of micro and macro-economic policy proposals
- Apply what has been learned in the breadth of their undergraduate studies in economics to the description and evaluation of specific policies, relating to a variety of social and economic issues
- Construct effective reports aimed at briefing policy makers, both individually and in groups, of a professional standard, to communicate the results of their analysis to non-economists, including the general public
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