The course draws on many areas of Public Economics with possible topics on Public Goods, Externalities, Economics of Education, Poverty and Income Redistribution, and Income Tax and Behaviour, among others. In each case, we will begin with a theoretical discussion of the economic problem and consider empirical evaluations. Possible empirical applications include estimating the effectiveness of driving bans in urban areas to reduce pollution, determining the willingness to pay for school infrastructure investment, estimating the labour supply response to transfer programmes, and the response to class-size reduction policies in schools. The econometric methods used build on a regression framework and focus on the challenges of estimating the causal effect of a policy in non-experimental settings.