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New Course - Quantitative Policy Evaluation 8-12 July 2019 methods@manchester Summer School 2019 University of Manchester Limited PhD Bursaries Available methods@manchester is delighted to be holding its annual Summer School from 1-12 July 2019. The Summer School offers a range of specialised courses covering a variety of topics that are particularly relevant to postgraduate and ECR research in humanities. The selection includes software training as well as qualitative and quantitative analysis. The course content is based on approaches from across the various schools in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester. Each Summer School course will run for one week, delivering four days of content to a five-day timetable (Monday afternoon to Friday lunch-time), building on successful methods@manchester and CMIST short-courses given throughout the year. Quantitative Policy Evaluation 8-12 July 2019 Eduardo Fé methods@manchester are excited to announce a brand new course for this year’s summer school. Course Outline This is an introductory course aimed at researchers, policy-makers, students and anyone interested in estimating the effect of a policy, intervention or experiment (using data). The course will benefit researchers, practitioners and students interested in supporting policy, research and theories with solid empirical evidence. This will include people working in areas as diverse as Medicine, Economics, Criminology, Politics, Psychology, Social Policy, or Sociology to mention but a few. The course will emphasise concepts and implementation of methods, although pertinent theoretical results will be discussed. The applications discussed in the classes will come from all walks of Social Sciences, in order to reflect the wide-ranging reach of causal inference. Course Objectives * Endow students with an understanding of the challenges arising when estimating the effect of a policy, experiment or intervention on a particular outcome. * Be able to select the most appropriate estimator to unveil a particular causal effect. * Be able to understand the limiting scope of the assumptions underlying each of the estimators discussed. * Be able to implement a battery of techniques to estimate the effect of a policy, experiment or intervention in R. * Be able to search for (and identify) natural experiments. * Understand how to design an evaluation plan. Pricing Students - £600 University of Manchester Staff - £600 Other attendees - £900 For more information please click here<https://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/connect/events/summer-school-2019/courses/>, or to book a place on this course please visit our estore.<https://estore.manchester.ac.uk/short-courses/faculty-of-humanities/school-of-social-sciences/methodsmanchester/methodsmanchester-quantitative-policy-evaluation> Bursaries We have a small number of subsidised places for PhD students, reducing the cost of a course to £300*. To apply or for further details please email contact [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> for an application form confirming the course you are applying for. *with the exception of Introduction to Longitudinal Data Analysis using R which will be reduced to £375. Bursary applications may be made to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Full details about the methods@manchester Summer School are available at the methods@manchester website<https://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/connect/events/summer-school-2019/>. Click here to see the highlights of our 2018 Summer School event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NMRbnvW5Q8&feature=youtu.be Methods@Manchester https://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/ You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.