The Summer Institute offers two parallel sub-courses on policy evaluation for graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as practitioners such as government officials and professionals in non-governmental organizations. Applications are invited from those interested in methods of evaluation in international development, public policy, and social policy.
The initial syllabi include the following main topics:
Sub-course #1: Policy Evaluation for Civil Servants and NGO Executives
Two partially overlapping tracks: Public Policy Introduction (P) and Quantitative Methods of Ex Post Evaluation (E)
Timeline I
- Intro to Statistics (E)
- The Policy Cycle: Agenda Setting and Policy Design (P)
- Intro to Impact Evaluation: fundamentals (E)
- Random experiments (E)
- The Policy Cycle: Decision Making and Implementation (P)
- Discussion of own evaluation plans (E)
- Matching methods (E)
- Difference-in-differences (E)
- Instrumental Variables (E)
- Group work session on own evaluation plans (E)
- Regression Discontinuity (E)
- Distributional Effects (E)
- Equilibrium Effects (E)
- Evaluation plans: presentations (E)
- Summary: what have we learnt? (P, E)
Sub-course #2: Using Logic Models to Evaluate Social Programs: Before, During, and After Program Operations
Participants may opt to take the sub-course for
- Logic models and the counterfactual (with Doug Besharov, University of Maryland)
- Process evaluations (with Anu Rangarajan, Vice President and Managing Director, International Research Division, Mathematica Policy Research)
- Identifying the counterfactual: RCTs and other methodologies (with David Myers, President & CEO, American Institutes for Research)
- Performance measurement (with Doug Call, University of Maryland)
- Wrap-up and student reports (with Neil Gilbert, Professor, University of California, Berkeley)
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