Fall 2026

Discovering What Works in Health Policy

Introduces public program evaluation tools and the Rubin Causal Model to estimate causal effects for health policy solutions.

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Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Jason FletcherLauren Schmitz

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.80 GPA, 88.1% A/AB (n=42 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.82 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=60 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=44 letter grades).

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PUBAFFR 281

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Professors

Fall 2026

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.70 GPA, 87.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.65 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=30 letter grades).

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.87 GPA, 94.3% A/AB (n=35 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.86 GPA, 90.7% A/AB (n=43 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.80 GPA, 88.1% A/AB (n=42 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JASON FLETCHER is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

LAUREN SCHMITZ is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 002Classroom Instruction28 / 309
LEC 001Classroom Instruction30 / 309

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.80 GPA, 88.1% A/AB (n=42 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.82 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=60 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=44 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Potential Outcomes Framework / Rubin Causal Model
  • Causal inference methods
  • Health and disease policy forces

Skills

  • Public program evaluation tools
  • Counterfactual thinking for causation
  • Experimental and quasi-experimental methods

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About this comparison

1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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UW–Madison

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PUBAFFR 281 · Fall 2026

Discovering What Works in Health Policy

Recorded 2026-09-07
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance 
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