Income Redistribution Course
This course equips you with hands-on methods to quantify inequality and poverty, scrutinize tax-benefit systems, develop microsimulations in STATA or R, propose feasible redistribution policies, and communicate findings through concise, chart-rich policy documents to drive informed economic choices in real settings.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain essential 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, analyze distributional impacts, and produce compelling, evidence-based policy briefs drawing from reliable national data for practical policy influence.
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Develop skills
- Calculate inequality and poverty metrics like Gini, Theil, and Atkinson on actual data.
- Evaluate tax and transfer impacts to identify winners, losers, and magnitudes.
- Construct fast microsimulations in STATA or R for testing reform scenarios.
- Formulate practical redistribution policies including phase-ins, budgets, and offsets.
- Draft focused policy briefs on income distribution featuring visuals and core insights.
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