Income Redistribution Course
This course equips you with essential tools to quantify inequality and poverty, scrutinise tax-benefit systems, develop microsimulations in STATA or R, design feasible redistribution policies, and communicate findings through impactful policy notes, empowering real-world economic reforms.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain practical skills to assess poverty and inequality, evaluate tax and transfer programs, and craft effective reform strategies. Master micro-simulation techniques using spreadsheets and open-source tools, analyse distributional impacts, and produce compelling, evidence-based policy briefs drawing on solid national data for tangible outcomes.
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Develop skills
- Calculate inequality and poverty metrics like Gini, Theil, and Atkinson using actual data.
- Evaluate tax and transfer impacts to identify winners, losers, and magnitudes.
- Construct fast microsimulations in STATA or R for testing reform scenarios.
- Develop practical redistribution policies including phase-ins, budgets, and offsets.
- Craft concise policy briefs on income distribution with visuals and core insights.
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