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\n\t\t\n\t\tOnline Course: “Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems”\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h1>\n

\n\t\t\n\t\tTaught by Raj Chetty, offered by Opportunity Insights and Harvard\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

This online course offered by Raj Chetty is targeted at an undergraduate in the United States without an economics or statistics background.<\/p>\n

Some of the lectures are thus more US-focused, but the methodology and insights might be relevant for a more general perspective. The lectures cover opportunity, social mobility, innovation, economic growth, higher education, the causal effect of colleges, primary education, teachers and charter schools, racial disparities in economic opportunity, improving health outcomes, the economics of health care and insurance, improving judicial decisions, the effects of air and water pollution, policies to mitigate climate change, income taxation, behavioral public economics, and institutions and economic development.<\/p>\n\t

Course description from the Opportunity Insights page:<\/a><\/h3>\n

This course provides an introduction to modern applied economics in a manner that does not require any prior background in economics or statistics<\/strong>. It is intended to complement traditional Principles of Economics (Econ 101) courses. Topics include equality of opportunity, education, health, the environment, and criminal justice. In the context of these topics, the course provides an introduction to basic statistical methods and data analysis techniques, including regression analysis, causal inference, quasi-experimental methods, and machine learning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tView the course materials\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGo to the list of online course topics\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGo to the resources page\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This online course, taught by Raj Chetty, discusses using big data to solve economic problems. It’s targeted at someone without a background in economics or statistics, and is offered through Opportunity Insights in collaboration with Harvard University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":4566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[493,494,495,496,497,412,498,413,499,414,500,415,501,416,502,417,503,418,504,419,60,353,456,52,457,48,459,460,57,465,58,492,46,351,402,63],"tags":[311,185,709,427,528,710],"class_list":["post-4617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-01-session-in-january-2020","category-02-session-in-february-2020","category-03-session-in-march-2020","category-04-session-in-april-2020","category-05-session-in-may-2020","category-05-session-in-may-2020-online","category-06-session-in-june-2020","category-06-session-in-june-2020-online","category-07-session-in-july-2020","category-07-session-in-july-2020-online","category-08-session-in-august-2020","category-08-session-in-august-2020-online","category-09-session-in-september-2020","category-09-session-in-september-2020-online","category-10-session-in-october-2020","category-10-session-in-october-2020-online","category-11-session-in-november-2020","category-11-session-in-november-2020-online","category-12-session-in-december-2020","category-12-session-in-december-2020-online","category-content-type","category-e-learning","category-education-and-e-learning","category-education-training","category-energy-and-environment-and-e-learning","category-energy-and-the-environment-training","category-governance-institutions-and-political-economy-and-e-learning","category-health-and-e-learning","category-methods-and-measurement","category-public-economics-and-e-learning","category-public-economics-and-taxation-training","category-training-all-types-session-dates","category-browse-by-training","category-training-format-and-topics","category-training-online-session-dates","category-video","tag-big-data","tag-education","tag-elearning","tag-methods-and-measurement","tag-online-course","tag-opportunity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4619,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions\/4619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}