Master 2024/2025

Quantitative Approaches to Policy Evaluation and Impact Assessment

Type: Elective course (Economics and Economic Policy)

Area of studies: Economics

Delivered by: Department of Applied Economics

Where: Faculty of Economic Sciences

When: 1 year, 3 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Elena Kotyrlo

Master’s programme: Economics and Economic policy

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course focuses on complexity of identifying the precise effects of a policy. It provides a comprehensive overview of methods and approaches in designing and evaluating programs and policies under uncertainty and confounding conditions. Several reform cases and their evaluation that will be presented in the course. The topics of the study are aimed to review various areas of economics, where policy evaluation can be implemented. The cases will be mostly based on Russian experience.