Income Redistribution Course
This course equips you with essential tools to quantify inequality and poverty, scrutinize tax and benefit systems, develop micro-simulations in STATA or R, formulate practical redistribution reforms including phase-ins, costs, and offsets, and create persuasive policy documents with 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 hands-on skills to assess poverty and inequality, evaluate tax and transfer programs, craft effective reform strategies, apply micro-simulation techniques with spreadsheets and free software, analyze impact results, and produce compelling policy briefs backed by solid national data and reliable references for tangible policy outcomes.
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Develop skills
- Measure poverty and inequality using Gini, Theil, and Atkinson indices on actual data.
- Evaluate tax and transfer systems to identify winners, losers, and impact magnitudes.
- Develop fast micro-simulations in STATA or R for testing reform scenarios.
- Create feasible redistribution reforms with implementation plans, budgets, and safeguards.
- Produce concise policy briefs on income distribution featuring charts and core messages.
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