Policy evaluation methods - March 2012 - YORK (fully booked)
Date:
20/03/2012 - 23/03/2012
Organised by:
NCRM and PEPA
Presenter:
Barbara Sianesi
Level:
Intermediate (some prior knowledge)
Contact:
Description:
Places for this course are fully booked. If you would like to register your interest for future courses please email the PEPA enquiries email addressHow can one evaluate whether a government labour market programme such as the New Deal, or a subsidy to education such as the EMA is actually working? This course deals with the econometric and statistical tools that have been developed to estimate the causal impact on one or more outcomes of interest of any generic 'intervention' in the presence of selection decisions by agents - from government programmes, policies or reforms, to the returns to education, the impact of unionism on wages, or of migration on the labour market. After highlighting the 'evaluation problem' and the challenges it poses to the analyst, we focus on the empirical methods to solve it. For each of these approaches, we give the basic intuition, discuss the assumptions needed for its validity, highlight the question it answers, discuss its strengths and weaknesses drawing from example applications in the literature and implement it 'hands-on' in practical Stata sessions.
Cost:
Postgraduate students at UK institutions:£105 Academics at UK institutions: £210
Other delegates: £770
Region:
Yorkshire and Humberside
Keywords:
Evaluation Research
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