Income Distribution and Redistribution Course
Master income distribution and redistribution using practical tools to analyze inequality, taxation, and transfers. Gain skills in real-world data analysis, policy trade-off evaluation, and crafting evidence-based recommendations tailored for economists and policymakers in Canada.

4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
This intensive course equips you with practical tools to measure income and wealth distribution, interpret Gini and poverty metrics, and handle global databases confidently. You'll evaluate tax burdens and transfer benefits, design effective tax or transfer reforms, simulate poverty and inequality effects, and create compelling policy reports for senior decision-makers.
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Develop skills
- Mastery of inequality metrics: quickly interpret Gini, income shares, and poverty data.
- Fiscal incidence analysis: determine who pays taxes and benefits from transfers.
- Design of tax and transfer reforms: develop progressive, practical, high-impact policies.
- Policy brief writing: distill complex distributional analyses into concise reports.
- Data sourcing for equity analysis: retrieve and prepare key statistics from World Bank, IMF, and OECD.
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