Teaching
Our goal is to advance research and teaching in population science at IFORD. We hope to expand the existing curriculum to respond to emerging population issues, new policy demands, and advances in research methods. IFORD has recognized this need and begun a strategic planning effort to expand the range and content of its course offerings. Cornell supports training at IFORD by (a) providing input into its curriculum reform, (b) offering summer instruction and short-term courses throughout the duration of this project, and (c) laying the groundwork to prepare the most promising IFORD trainees for successful graduate training.
Summer Course
Cornell@IFORD offers summer instruction utilizing PDP faculty and affiliates who expand the substantive or methodological training at IFORD in several areas. Possible methodological offerings include GIS, causal analysis, multilevel and fixed-effects modeling, schooling life table analysis and decomposition methods.
Given the applied orientation of much of their future work, IFORD students and faculty would particularly benefit from a good introduction to multilevel and fixed-effects modeling. These models are well suited to the analysis of the effects of community-level interventions on individual outcomes.