Cost-Ben Cost-Effective Anal

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

Cost-Benefit & Cost-Effectiveness Analyses. This course is designed to provide the students with the analytic frameworks and tools for conducting cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, and cost-utility analyses. The course emphasizes the application of these methods to public policy with special focus on education. Students will learn how to evaluate the tradeoff between cost and gains in resource allocation for policy interventions (such as those aiming to improve student performance), covering both the methodology and the practical tools necessary to conduct these analyses. The course relies on a combination of theoretical and practical work, both in the U.S. and in the international development contexts, that will ensure the proper preparation for those students interested in education, evaluation, administration, and public policy.