主讲人简介：

Yilin Pan is a quantitative researcher specialized in impact evaluation, cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis, decision-making in resource allocation and Bayesian statistics. Yilin's research aims to facilitate the utilization of research evidence to better guide policymakers and practitioners' decision-making about resource allocation. Yilin earned a B.A. in English Literature and Linguistics and a M.A. in Higher Education at Tsinghua University, P. R. China, and a Ph.D. in Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, U.S.A. In 2017-2019, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher jointly hired by the Department of Educational Policy and Social Analysis and the Department of Organization Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, U.S.A.  She is going to join World Bank's education sector as an economist. 

讲座内容：

Given the importance of education and the growing public demand for improving education quality under tight budget constraints, there has been an emerging movement to call for evidence-based decision-making in educational resource allocation at the school- and district- level in the U.S., which leads to an abundance of rigorous studies on the effectiveness, cost, and their trade-off of educational interventions.

This lecture provides a brief introduction on impact evaluation and three types of economic evaluation (i.e., cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis and cost-utility analysis), and discusses how to apply these methods to inform decision-making on resource allocation in schools and districts with real empirical examples.