London School of Economics and Political Science
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GV225: Public Choice and Politics. For B.Sc., 2018/19 and 2019/20. Course convenors: Valentino Larcinese, Rafael Hortala-Vallve and Torun Dewan.
Course content. Positive political economy and institutional public choice, with topics including the aggregation of preferences; voting paradoxes and cycles; electoral competition and voting behaviour; the problems of and solutions to collective action; welfare state and redistribution; and the impact of information and mass media on voting behaviour and public policy.
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EC260: The Political Economy of Public Policy. LSE Summer School 2019. Course convenors: Torun Dewan and Valentino Larcinese.
Course content. Does democracy promote economic growth and welfare? What determines the size and evolution of the welfare state? Is regulation done in the interest of consumers? Is there a feasible third way between markets and governments in the delivering of public services?
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MY452: Applied Regression Analysis. For M.Sc., and Ph.D. 2019/20. Course convenor: Daniele Fanelli.
Course content. The course is concerned with deepening the understanding of the generalized linear model and its application to social science data. The main topics covered are linear regression modelling and binary, multinomial and ordinal logistic regression.
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MY464/451: Introduction to Quantitative Analysis. For M.Sc., and Ph.D. 2018/19 and 2019/20. Course convenors: Ben Lauderdale and Jonathan Jackson.
Course content. It covers the foundations of descriptive statistics and statistical estimation and inference. At the end of the course students should be able to carry out univariate and bivariate data analysis and have an appreciation of multiple linear regression.
King's College London
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Intermediate Microeconomics. For B.Sc. 2019/2020. Course convenor: Simona Grassi.
Course content. Microeconomic analysis, including the economics of the consumer, the firm, markets, and market failure, welfare economics, and the basic economics of risk and information.