PED-330: The Design of Development Policy: From Research to Practice

Semester: Spring

Credit: 1.0

Faculty: Rohini Pande, Sendhil Mullainathan

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day 1/27
Meet Day W 4:10 PM - 6:00 PM T301
Review

Description

Development research is fascinating in part because it has a direct impact on public policy. Yet the pathways to impact are very different, from shaping how we evaluate public and non-profit programs to setting countrywide goals.  This course will take a micro-economic perspective and critically review the distinct ways in which research affects and is affected by public policy. General topics will include: the debate over randomized evaluations, the creation and diffusion of policy innovations, the tension between micro and macro policy approaches and the role of theory. Specific areas covered will include Finance, Education and Public Health and Governance.   Pre-requisites: The course will presume statistical knowledge at the level of an advanced statistics course. Prerequisites will be MPA/ID micro sequence and MPA/ID stats/econometrics course for MPA/ID students and equivalent micro and statistics courses for other students. Open to PhD and Kennedy School Masters students who satisfy prerequisites. Open to others with permission of instructors. Also offered by the Economics Department as Ec. 2393.