This reading course aims to familiarize the student with some recent literature on the econometrics of program evaluation and provide some context for the...

Researchers have found that a person?s IQ and classroom performance is at best a moderate predictor of long term...

The main idea that we want to get across is implicit in the title: Systematic thinking - largely from the social sciences, but with the application of scientific methods and knowledge more generally - can make a significant difference in the way...

This course is intended to serve as an introduction to the major issues of health and health care in the United States – what they are, what determines them, and how they can be altered. In so doing, the course surveys the field of public...

The goal of this course is to provide a framework for interpreting public discourse on energy...

This course prepares students to understand the political and institutional environmental within which public policy is formulated and...

This course develops students' abilities to use microeconomic analysis to further our understanding of public...

Is Congress too partisan? Can Congress fulfill its legislative and oversight functions? Do the executive and judicial branches effectively control public policy formulation? Have the State Legislatures become the true "laboratories of...

The goal of this course is to enhance the students' ability to bring about the individual and organizational changes they want to...

In this course, and largely borrowing on the experience of the professor as Trade Minister in a small, middle-income country, we will discuss the practical links between trade policy and the variety of issues that challenge poor societies in...