EVALUATION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROGRAMS AND POLICIES: METHODS AND CASES

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CONTENIDOS DE LA ASIGNATURA

The program is structured in four chapters with an introduction, a revision of the main methods and some particular cases applied to the EU Directives, health policies and, in general, the European Union welfare system.

1. INTRODUCTION TO EVALUATION METHODS

1.1. Structural models and treatment effects approaches

1.2. Descriptive analysis vs. causal inference

1.3. Potential outcomes and causality

1.4. A taxonomy of methods

1.5. The problem of selection

1.6. Policy framework and counterfactual evaluation

2. SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Experimental testing of welfare programs in the European Union

2.3. Methods for evaluation of unemployment programs

2.4. Methods for evaluation of environmental policies and programs

2.4. Applications to EU directives

3. METHODS BASED ON SELECTION ON OBSERVABLES

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Regression adjustment.

3.3. Matching.

3.4. Evaluation of health policies.

4. METHODS BASED ON SELECTION ON UNOBSERVABLES

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Selection models

4.3. Differences in differences

4.4. Instrumental variables

4.5. Evaluation of the European Union welfare system