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PubPol 567

PubPol 567: STATA for Public Policy

Alton Worthington
Monday, Wednesday
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Winter 2023
10:00-11:20 am EST

This course is an introduction to programming and working in STATA, a core statistical program in the social sciences. In a variety of fields, STATA remains the baseline program for analysis, data management, and visualization.

PubPol 577

PubPol 577: R for Public Policy

Alton Worthington
Monday, Wednesday
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Winter 2023
10:00-11:20 am EST

This course is an introduction to programming in the R statistical language. R is a flexible, open-source statistics platform which has gained broad adoption in a variety of fields.

PubPol 746

PubPol 746: Social Welfare Policy

Luke Shaefer
Tuesday, Thursday
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Winter 2023
1:00-2:20 pm EST

This course examines U.S. social welfare programs and policies targeting the nonelderly poor, emphasizing what we know from social science research about the strengths and weaknesses and the intended and unintended effects of these policies.

PubPol 750.002

PubPol 750.002: Topics: Politics of Healthcare Reform

Jonathan Cohn
Tuesday, Thursday
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Winter 2023
4:00-5:20 pm EST

This class will focus on answering the question of what it takes to pass a major piece of legislation -- and what that answer says about the structure of American government and nature of U.S. politics.

PubPol 750.003

PubPol 750.003: Comparative Law and Policy

Valenta Kabo
Tuesday, Thursday
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Winter 2023
10:00-11:20 am EST

Because law is one of the means through which policies are enacted, understanding the different structures of legal systems is a necessary for understanding policy promulgation in different country-contexts.

PubPol 744

PubPol 744: Economics of the Public Sector

Nirupama Rao
Tuesday, Thursday
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Winter 2023
4:30-5:50 pm EST

This is a course on how economists think about government revenue and government expenditures- how governments raise and spend public money. Public Finance is a subfield of microeconomics.