KAFP 6355 - Policy Analysis and Policy Evaluation - Beginner

This class will introduce students to public policy evaluation and analysis. We will first introduce the main concepts and objectives of public policy analysis and then we will present the basic tools of policy evaluation. Our focus will be on the assessment of the effects of policies. The class is designed for students that do not have a strong background in economics and statistics.

Roberto Galbiati is a CNRS Professor (DR). He is also a CEPR Research Fellow (Public Economics program) and he serves as Associate Editor for the International Review of Law and Economics. His primary research interests are law and economics, political economy and applied microeconomics. He has studied extensively how laws and individual motivations affect cooperative behavior and compliance, the effects of law enforcement on illegal behavior and the emergence and stability of legal and political institutions.

• A midterm test ("galop") accounting for 40% of the final grade. -
• A group project to be submitted by early December accounting for 40% of the final grade (including 10% for oral presentation)

-MCQ with few short open answer questions after lecture 12 (20% of the final grade).