Economic Analysis on Social Policy

 

                                                                                                  Spring 2012

                                                                                                  Masako Ii

 

Course schedule and reading list

 

              First half of this course offers an introduction to impact evaluation by presenting a detailed analysis of quantitative research underlying recent program evaluations and case studies. This course works extensively with Stata.

              Second half of this course discusses health systems reforms in the Asia-Pacific Region.

 

I. Impact evaluation

1. Introduction to impact evaluation

    Basic issues of evaluation

 

2. How to evaluate

1)        Randomized impact evaluation

2)        Propensity score matching

3)        Double difference (Difference-in-differences)

4)        Instrumental variable estimation

5)        Regression discontinuity design

6)        Measuring distributional program effects

 

3.  How to implement an impact evaluation       

1)        Choosing the sample

2)        Collecting data

 

II. Comparative analysis of health systems reforms in the Asia-Pacific region

 

 

 

Reading List

1. Handbook on impact evaluation: quantitative methods and practices, The World Bank, 2010

2. Impact Evaluation in Practice, The World Bank, 2011

3. Primary Health Care: Now more then ever, World Health Organization, 2008

4. The Economics of Public Health Care Reform in Advanced and Emerging Economies, International Monetary Fund, 2012

 

Evaluation

Based on class participation, homework assignment, and the term paper.

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