Income Redistribution Course
This course equips you with essential techniques to assess inequality and poverty using key metrics like Gini and Theil indices on actual data, evaluate tax and transfer programs to see winners and losers, develop simple micro-simulations in STATA or R for testing reforms, plan feasible redistribution strategies with budgets and safeguards, and create persuasive policy documents featuring charts and focused insights for influencing economic policies effectively.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain hands-on skills to gauge poverty and inequality levels, scrutinize tax and benefit setups, craft workable policy changes, employ micro-simulation tools, spreadsheets, and free software, decode impact outcomes, and produce compelling policy briefs backed by solid national data and trusted references for tangible results.
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Develop skills
- Measure poverty and inequality using Gini, Theil, and Atkinson on real data.
- Evaluate tax-benefit systems to identify gains, losses, and amounts.
- Create fast micro-simulations in STATA or R for reform testing.
- Develop practical redistribution plans with phasing, costs, and offsets.
- Draft concise policy briefs on distribution with charts and core points.
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