PA 5312 is also offered in Spring 2023
PA 5312 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2022 | PA 5312 Section 001: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Program Evaluation (66648)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 2 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Grad or Masters or Law
- Times and Locations:
First Half of Term
Mon,
Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 184
- Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This class introduces students to cost-benefit analysis, the leading evidenced-based method for determining whether a government program or policy improves the well-being of society. Starting with the foundations of welfare economics, students learn how to monetize important benefits and costs associated with government activities. Topics include discounting future benefits and costs, the roles of standing and risk, ways of valuing human lives and other benefits that may be hard to value in dollar terms. Students will acquire skills needed to perform relevant calculations needed for the economic assessment of benefits relative to costs and the ability to critique the use of these methods regarding how they may advantage or disadvantage some members of society or particular types of policies. Policy areas include preventive interventions in social, health and education as well as applications in transportation and environmental policy. Prerequisite: PA 5021 or other prior course in microeconomics.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jtemple+PA5312+Spring2022
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66648/1223
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/jtemple_PA5312_Spring2023.pdf (Spring 2023)
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