Income Redistribution Course
This course equips you with essential tools to gauge inequality and poverty, scrutinise tax and transfer mechanisms, develop micro-simulations in STATA or R, formulate feasible redistribution reforms including phase-ins, costs, and offsets, and craft persuasive policy notes with impactful charts and messages 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 programmes, craft practical reform strategies, utilise micro-simulation tools, spreadsheets, and free software, analyse distributional impacts, and produce compelling, evidence-based policy briefs using solid national data and trusted references for tangible policy outcomes.
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Develop skills
- Calculate inequality and poverty metrics like Gini, Theil, and Atkinson on actual data sets.
- Evaluate tax and transfer systems to identify winners, losers, and exact impacts.
- Develop rapid micro-simulations using STATA or R for testing reform scenarios.
- Formulate practical redistribution policies with implementation plans, budgets, and safeguards.
- Produce concise policy briefs on income distribution featuring clear visuals and core insights.
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