Métodos de Ensino e Avaliações

The teaching approach will strive to integrate, whenever possible, the exposition of concepts and theories with methodological analysis based on real cases of implementation and evaluation of public policies. Lecture slides will be made available on the course page on FÉNIX. Attendance and active participation in the majority of classes are expected from students. To encourage participation in the assessment, the evaluation during the regular period will consist of: • Written final exam: 40% of the grade. In groups of 2-3 students, depending on class size, students’ evaluation will have 2 further components: • At the end of each class, there will be a presentation of a recently published research paper from a scientific journal (20min), followed by in-class discussion. The selected paper should have an on-line replication package, chosen a recently published paper in a top journal (examples of journals that typically include data and code: American Economic Review, AEJ journals, J Pub E, JIE, EER, etc.). Students will explain both the paper and the code that runs that paper to other students: 30%. • In-class presentation of a research project (20min), followed by discussion, in the last weeks of the term: 30%. This should include: (i) a relevant research question related to the evaluation of a real public policy, explaining why this policy is important and why it should be studied (including a brief review of the literature); (ii) an evaluation design, with an explanation of the data and method(s) (iii) (preliminary) results (iv) potential limitations of the proposed approach.