PUBPOL 569

PUBPOL 569: Applied Regression Analysis

John Chamberlin
This course focuses on what a practitioner needs to know about multiple regression analysis, a key tool for policy analysis. It is an introduction to econometrics that is less mathematical and theoretical than PUBPOL...
PUBPOL 636

PUBPOL 636: Program Evaluation

Elisabeth Gerber
The central issues addressed by this course are whether and how one ought to try to establish the extent to which public programs are achieving their goals. Are the goals being attained? If not, why...
PUBPOL 692

PUBPOL 692: Thinking About Crime

David Thacher
As Chief of the New York City Police Department, William Bratton was fond of saying that the crime rate has the same meaning for a police department as profits have for a business--that the crime rate is the bottom line of...