Income Redistribution Course
Gain mastery in income redistribution through hands-on methods to quantify inequality and poverty, scrutinize tax and transfer systems, develop microsimulations in STATA or R, formulate feasible reform plans with cost assessments, and create persuasive policy documents featuring clear visualizations and data-backed insights for impactful economic policymaking.

4 to 360h flexible workload
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What will I learn?
This focused course equips you with essential tools to assess poverty and inequality, evaluate tax and transfer programs, and craft effective reform strategies. Gain proficiency in micro-simulation techniques, spreadsheet analysis, and open-source tools, while learning to analyze distributional impacts and produce compelling, evidence-based policy briefs using reliable national data for practical policy influence.
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Develop skills
- Calculate inequality and poverty metrics like Gini, Theil, and Atkinson using actual datasets.
- Evaluate tax and transfer systems to identify winners, losers, and magnitude of impacts.
- Develop rapid micro-simulations in STATA or R for testing tax-benefit reforms.
- Formulate practical redistribution policies including phase-ins, budgets, and offsets.
- Produce concise policy briefs on income distribution with effective charts and messages.
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