The Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies based in Trento in collaboration with TSM (Trentino School of Management) - organizes the second edition of the IRVAPP Spring School on Fundamentals and Methods for Impact Evaluation of Public Policies for a limited number of Ph.D. students and researchers (max. 20 participants). The course is designed to be of particular benefit to Ph.D students and researchers in the Social Sciences, Economics and Statistics, willing to know how to use microdata to inform policy making.

The course will run over 6 consecutive days of theoretical and practical sessions from March 1 to March 6, 2010.
The venue will be the Conference Centre Panorama, Sardagna, Trento, Italy.

The level of knowledge required are introductory courses in statistics and econometrics. At the very least a working knowledge of OLS regression and multivariate analysis is expected. Although the exercises will be guided, basic familiarity with the software Stata is recommended.

To enroll, interested candidates are invited to email a one page CV together with a one page summary of their Ph.D. programme, subject of their thesis and research interests, to dr. Rossella Bozzon bozzon@irvapp.it by February 1, 2010. Candidates might be admitted to the course depending on the degree of affinity between the contents of the course and their research interests. The final decision about the list of participants will be made by IRVAPP by February 5, 2010.

For further information about the course, see the flyer, the detailed programme or email dr. Rossella Bozzon bozzon@irvapp.it

NEW DEADLINE:
Enrollment queries: February 8th, 2010
Final list of participants: February 11th, 2010

FEES:
20% discount on flyer fees
30% discount for 2 or more Ph.D. students coming from the same institution