COST-EFFECTIVENESS & BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS IN EDUCATION

ISYE/POPHLTH 875

Basic ideas and tools of cost effectiveness analysis as applied in evaluating medical technologies. Addresses special problems and methods in assessing diagnostic technologies, including ROC analysis, and in measuring health for technology assessment. Uses "classical" and current journal literature.

EDPOL 745

Seeks to provide an introduction to political economy in the field of education from a theoretical, historical, and comparative perspective.

EDPOL 603

Examines applied research and evaluation design. Explains the basic components of the research process: conceptualization and measurement, sample selection, and techniques for data generation. Explores and practices research techniques, including survey, focus groups, interviews, etc. Entails a developmental sequence of assignments culminating in a research proposal.

AAE/ENVIRST/POPHLTH/PUBAFFR 881

Presents the welfare economics underpinnings for evaluating the social benefits and costs of government activities. Issues such as uncertainty, the social discount rate, and welfare weights will be discussed; case studies from the environmental, social policy, and agricultural areas will be studied.

EDPOL 345

Engages with contemporary issues in the economics of education across the K-12 and postsecondary policy arenas in the US and beyond. With foundations in human capital and the education production function, covers a wide variety of topics, including teacher labor markets and teacher quality, school choice, K-12 and higher education finance, and the individual and collective returns to education. Discuss, present, and critique education policy issues through the lens of economics and apply course content to current issues in education policy, including creation and dissemination of recommendations for education policy and practice.