The PhD Program in Applied Economics organizes a summer course in Policy Evaluation. The course is open to MAREB (option in Applied Economics) and PhD students.
Tools for policy evaluation (8h)
Prof.: Raquel Carrasco (UC3M)
Web: http://www.eco.uc3m.es/personal/rcarras/index_en.html
Dates: June 17 (11:30–14:00 and 16:00–17:30) and June 18 (10:30–13:00 and 15:00–16:30)
Course content: the course will focus on the econometric techniques to implement the most widespread tools for policy evaluation. The course will cover several topics, including difference-in-difference, propensity score matching and regression discontinuity among others.
The follow up assessment will take into account the attendance of the course.
