Computational Policy Analysis: Data, Decisions, and Evidence

Harvard HKS

This course introduces students to computational and empirical methods for public policy analysis in an AI-assisted world. More than ever, policy professionals must understand technical methods, apply them with sound judgment, and critically evaluate the credibility and limitations of analytical claims. Students will learn to characterize policy problems with data, build and assess predictive models, formulate allocation and optimization problems, evaluate systems, and reason about causal…