Quantitative Methods for Policy Evaluation

Harvard HSPH

This course introduces students to the analytic tools they need to evaluate policy interventions, social programs, and health initiatives. By the end of the course, students will be able to identify research questions amenable to experimental or quasi-experimental techniques and design thoughtful studies to help answer them. This will include assessing the adequacy of available data, implementing econometric analyses, interpreting results from quantitative studies, and identifying the policy…