Income Redistribution Course
This course equips you with essential tools to quantify inequality and poverty, scrutinise tax-benefit systems, develop microsimulations in STATA or R, propose feasible redistribution reforms, and communicate findings through concise policy notes with impactful visuals for informed economic policy.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain practical skills to assess poverty and inequality, evaluate tax and transfer policies, and craft effective reform strategies. Master micro-simulation techniques using spreadsheets and open-source tools, analyse distributional impacts, and produce compelling, evidence-based policy briefs drawing on solid national data for tangible outcomes.
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Develop skills
- Measure inequality and poverty using Gini, Theil, and Atkinson indices on real data.
- Evaluate tax and transfer systems to identify winners, losers, and fiscal effects.
- Create fast microsimulations in STATA or R for testing reform scenarios.
- Develop practical redistribution reforms including phase-ins, costs, and offsets.
- Produce clear policy briefs on income distribution with charts and key insights.
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