Checking date: 28/03/2022


Course: 2023/2024

Impact Evaluation in Sustainability
(19175)
Master in Global Sustainable Development and Global Governance (Plan: 473 - Estudio: 376)
EPC


Coordinating teacher: NICOLINI ALESSI, ESTEBAN ALBERTO

Department assigned to the subject: Social Sciences Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

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Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
Practical introduction and simulation of the design of experimental methods. Random selection of treatment and control groups. Application of targeting strategies. Difference between treatment-on-the-treated and intention-to-treat. Case study: relationship between education and intergenerational transmission of poverty. Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera Program. Practical application of a pseudo-experimental method: information requirements and strategies for building a counterfactual. Relevance and limitations of natural experiments.

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.