Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy
offered by MIT University

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Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy
at
MIT University
Overview

Gain a comprehensive overview of Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy

Duration	14 weeks
Total fee	₹20,703
Mode of learning	Online
Course Level	UG Certificate

Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy
at
MIT University
Highlights

Earn a certificate after completion

Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy
at
MIT University
Course details

What are the course deliverables?

A range of microeconomic theories along with the empirical strategies that have been used to test them
How to understand and interpret the methodologies and key findings of current microeconomic research
How to apply microeconomic theory to real-world policy problems facing the US and other advanced economies

More about this course

This course is an ADVANCED elective course under the Public Policy Track of the MITx MicroMasters program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP), which provides a path toward the Master?s in DEDP at MIT
Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy is an advanced course in microeconomic theory that draws primarily on examples derived from the US and other advanced economies. Specifically, this course applies microeconomic theory to analysis of public policy
It builds from the microeconomic model of consumer behavior and extends to the operation of single and multiple markets and analysis of why markets sometimes fail

Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy
at
MIT University
Curriculum

Economic theory

Causality

Empirical applications

Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy
at
MIT University
Faculty details

David Autor

David Autor is Ford Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, co-director of the NBER Labor Studies Program, and co-leader of both the MIT Work of the Future Task Force and the JPAL Work of the Future experimental initiative. His scholarship explores the labor-market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earnings levels and inequality, and electoral outcomes. Autor has received numerous awards for both his scholarship—the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of Labor Economics, and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2019—and for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. Most recently, Autor received the Heinz 25th Special Recognition Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his work “transforming our understanding of how globalization and technological change are impacting jobs and earning prospects for American workers”.