Training material – microeconomic analysis (PMMA program)

Note: In addition to the training material below, PEP also provides lists of recommended readings on various themes under “recommended readings”.
 

I – Non-experimental impact evaluations

General

Difference-in-difference

Instrumental variables

Microsimulations

Panel data models

Propensity Score Matching

Regime switching models

Regression discontinuity design
 

II - Poverty/distributive analysis

The links below provide training material on poverty/distributive analysis.

Poverty measure and monitoring

Growth and poverty dynamics

Poverty/distributive policy impact analysis

Multidimensional poverty analysis

Public spending, poverty and equity
 

III – Software

• STATA Guides   Stata Preliminary | Learning Stata | Resources for learning Stata
• SSCC: Stata for Researchers: Introduction
• DASP (Distributional Analysis Stata Package)
• DAD Software (Distributional Analysis/Analyse Distributive)
• UCLA “starting kit” on Stata
   

IV – Courses & Training

Note that PEP offers a series of online training courses on the following subjects:

• Policy Impact Analysis
• Computable General Equilibrium Modelling
• Measuring and Alleviating Poverty and Inequality

Gender Analysis in Economic Policy Research (forthcoming in January 2021)

Courses and training