Income Redistribution Course
This course equips you with essential tools to quantify inequality and poverty, scrutinise tax and transfer mechanisms, develop micro-simulations in STATA or R, craft feasible reform packages with phase-in strategies and costings, and compose persuasive policy notes featuring clear visuals and focused insights to influence economic policy decisions effectively.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain practical skills to assess poverty and inequality, evaluate tax and transfer policies, create effective reform strategies, utilise micro-simulation tools, spreadsheets, and open-source software, analyse distributional impacts, and produce compelling data-backed policy briefs using reliable national data and trusted sources for tangible policy outcomes.
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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 beneficiaries, losers, and impact magnitudes.
- Develop rapid micro-simulations in STATA or R for testing tax-benefit reforms.
- Formulate practical redistribution policies including implementation phases, budgets, and offsets.
- Author concise policy briefs on income distribution with impactful charts and core messages.
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