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Multivariate Regression for Public Policy & Management
Second quarter of a two-quarter sequence aimed at helping students become informed users and critical consumers of research and statistical analysis. Combines material on research design and causal inference methods with tools for multivariate analysis. The multivariate analysis methods include…
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Program Evaluation
Introduction to the theory, practice, and politics of program and policy evaluation. Covers the major types of evaluation, including theory of change, implementation and process evaluation, and impact evaluation, as well as quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques, the ethics…
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Public Sector Financing
Covers financial management in public agencies, with the primary focus on state and local government.
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Economics for Policy Analysis and Management II
Serves to deepen student understanding of microeconomic theory with a focus on understanding the economic analysis of market failures and on developing policies to address them.
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Public Policy Analysis
Equips students to rigorously assess policy responses to public problems, through defining problems, devising alternative solutions, clarifying stakes in choices, predicting impacts of choices. Skills developed by working on specific policy problems. Assumes familiarity with statistics, microeconomic theory, and institutions…
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Environmental Policy
Examines the process of environmental decision making with exposure to various policy instruments.
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Principles of Finance
Provides foundation in financial principles, tools, and strategies needed by managers to make informed financial decisions.
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Decision Making, Behavior, and Policy Design
Provides a foundation in the application of decision theory and behavioral science to study public policy problems. Students learn how cognition, heuristics, biases, emotion, and social dynamics interact in decision-making, and how context and framing shape decisions. Students learn how…
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Economics for Public Policy
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Capstone
Meets the capstone project requirements as part of the Evans School MPA curriculum. Students work in a supportive seminar environment facilitated by peers and faculty to complete team-based capstone degree projects.