https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/UGST4213?type=COREThe course is an introduction to economics of education and child development, emphasizing applied microeconomics and the important empirical methods, as well as the link between research and public policy. Topics include: returns to education, the importance of early childhood investments, the importance of teachers and peers, and selected educational policies (such as universal daycare provision, regulations around school-starting age, class size, or school autonomy). The main goal of the course is to acquaint students with some core topics in the economics of education and child development together with some of the important empirical methods in the framework of causal analysis and potential outcomes (e.g., Linear Regressions and Difference-in-Differences Models), while building a set of tools that will allow students to be able to read and evaluate high-level contributions in the field. Finally, students will deepen their coding and empirical skills, by completing empirical assignments in STATA. Differences across students' countries in various educational policies will be discussed.