This course will consider the evaluation of social and educational programs, such as job training programs for the disadvantaged, Teach for America or drug use prevention programs from an economic perspective. The first part of the course will consist of lectures that introduce the basic institutions and econometrics of program evaluation. The remainder of the course will consist of seminar style presentations and discussions of academic papers and government reports drawn from the literatures evaluating three types of programs. The program types are chosen based in part on student input and may include programs in developed and developing countries. Students will write a paper for the course. This paper may be either an analytic literature survey reviewing the evaluation literature on a specific program or an original research paper that evaluates a particular program or intervention.