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The course description should be “Using Data to Understand Good Governance will look into what kinds of factors and policies can bring about good governance, understood as features of the politico-institutional environment – accountability, responsiveness, low corruption, effective management – that help us achieve outcomes we care about – health, education, economic growth. There are many different perspectives on this issue, of course, but ours will be one based on data: how can we look at evidence to provide answers to our key question? The aim is that, by the end of the course, students will be capable of consuming, in an informed and critical way, the evidence provided by policy-relevant social science studies, as well as judging, as policy makers, what kinds of evidence are required to properly inform decisions. Prerequisites: Econometrics <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>