Monday

• EcoMod Introductory session (all groups)
• General introduction to microsimulation methods: definition, objectives and application context.
• Monetary poverty measures: definition and decomposition
• General introduction to STATA
• Application with DASP package – Poverty

Tuesday

• Inequality measures: axiomatic definition and properties
• Foundations of distributional analysis: Theory and practice
  • Density analysis
  • Stochastic dominance in poverty
• Application with DASP package
  • Inequality
  • Density and stochastic dominance
• Team-building and problem-oriented discussions for participants application

Wednesday

• Foundations of distributional analysis: Theory and practice - Continued
  • Pro-poor analysis methods (Elasticities, policies incidence curves, …)
  • Application with DASP package - Pro-poor analysis
• Microsimulation analysis of tax reforms (taxation - subsidies, etc.)
  • Theoretical framework
  • Shapley decomposition
  • Article presentation and technical discussion:  Abdelkhalek, T., & Boccanfuso, D. (2023). Is the Moroccan Fiscal System Progressive?: A Shapley Decomposition. CIRANO.
• On-machine teams case studies by participants on their own data

Thursday

• Microsimulation, social protection and benefit analysis
  • Theory and distributional analysis
• Practical: Introduction to SUBSIM and ADePT packages under STATA
  • Article presentation and technical discussion:  Abdelkhalek, T., & Boccanfuso, D. (2025). Generalization of family allowances and impact on monetary child poverty and vulnerability in the post-covid period in Morocco. Applied Economics, 57(21), 2711-2725.
• On-machine teams case studies by participants on their own data

Friday

• Clinical session and Q&A on the teams case studies
• Presentation and discussion of project by the Teams
• Discussion and roadmap for future use of microsimulation methods by the participants