This five-day program on evaluating social programs will provide a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one’s own evaluation. While the course focuses on randomized evaluations, many of the topics, such as measuring outcomes and dealing with threats to the validity of an evaluation, are relevant for other methodologies.
About the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
J-PAL’s goal is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is based on scientific evidence. Every day, evidence generated by J-PAL researchers is influencing policy and improving lives, sometimes very directly – for example through the scale-up of effective programs – but also in less direct but equally important ways.
To date, our evidence has helped improve the lives of at least 30 million people around the world through the scale-up of highly effective policies and programs. By 2013, J-PAL aims to have positively impacted 100 million lives.
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Instructor: Neha Narula, Tadge Dryja View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/MAS-S62S18 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... This course looks at the design of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and how they function in practice, focusing on cryptography, game theory, an…
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Learn basic data visualization principles and how to apply them using ggplot2.
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Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise?
Instructor: Prof. Jonathan Gruber * View newer version of the course: https://ocw.mit.edu/14-01F23 * This introductory undergraduate course covers the fundamentals of microeconomics. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu…
Our economic institutions, organizations, and skills have not kept up with rapid advances in AI. In this growing gap lie many of society’s greatest challenges and opportunities. This course will explore how AI can and will transform our economy and society in the coming years. Each week, we will le…
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This introduction to moral and political philosophy is one of the most popular courses taught at Harvard College.
