Income Redistribution Course
This course equips you with essential tools to gauge inequality and poverty, scrutinise tax and transfer systems, develop micro-simulations in STATA or R, formulate feasible redistribution reforms, and craft persuasive policy notes with charts to drive economic policy decisions grounded in real evidence.

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 programmes, craft practical reform strategies. Master micro-simulation techniques, spreadsheets, open-source tools, analyse distributional impacts, and produce compelling data-backed policy briefs using solid national data and trusted sources for tangible policy outcomes.
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Develop skills
- Measure inequality and poverty using Gini, Theil, Atkinson on actual data.
- Evaluate tax and transfer systems to identify winners, losers, and impacts.
- Create fast micro-simulations in STATA or R for testing reform ideas.
- Develop practical redistribution reforms with phase-ins, costs, compensations.
- Produce concise policy notes on income distribution featuring charts and messages.
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