Training Program in Politics, Economics, and Psychology

加州大学伯克利分校的政治、经济和心理学IGERT项目通过整合和推进社会科学，赋予学生社会科学的创新技能，以解决与关键公共政策问题相关的问题。该项目包括20名来自经济学、政治学、心理学和公共政策的教师，他们在学科上享有很高的声誉，对政策有浓厚的兴趣，并通过与协调该项目的伯克利高盛公共政策学院的联系，对跨学科和公共政策研究做出了重大承诺。这个IGERT项目是围绕研究生教育和研究三个交叉的社会科学和公共政策问题来组织的：(1)鼓励经济、政治体系、公共项目和志愿组织的最佳参与水平，(2)评估政策的效果、成本和收益，(3)实施符合最初立法意图的立法。该计划的智力价值包括开发综合跨学科课程，并为学员提供新的研究机会(1)通过结合经济学，心理学和政治学的观点来理解和建模人类行为，(2)使用跨社会科学的定量和定性评估方法确定因果影响，以及(3)组织设计和政治采用所有社会科学的方法。受训人员的研究将通过考虑重要的公共政策问题和进行严格的建模和统计检验来促进社会科学。受训者将通过具体的课程、每周一次的研讨会、家庭纪律培训以及进入伯克利校园的创新实验室、数据中心和数据收集组织来获得支持。该项目的更广泛影响包括寻找方法增加公民对国家生活各个方面的参与，以及改善公共政策制定的基础。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。

The IGERT program in Politics, Economics, and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley endows students with innovative skills from the social sciences for tackling issues relating key public policy problems, by integrating and thus advancing the social sciences,. The program includes twenty faculty members from economics, political science, psychology, and public policy with strong disciplinary reputations, substantial policy interests, and significant commitments to interdisciplinary and public policy research through their connections with Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy which is coordinating the program. This IGERT program is organized around graduate student education and research on three cross-cutting social science and public policy problems: (1) Encouraging the optimal level of participation in the economy, political system, public programs, and voluntary organizations, (2) Evaluating the effects, costs, and benefits of policies, and (3) Implementing legislation consistent with original legislative intent. The intellectual merit of the program consists of developing integrative interdisciplinary courses and providing trainees opportunities for new research on (1) Understanding and modeling human behavior by combining perspectives from economics, psychology, and political science, (2) Determining causal impacts using quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods from across the social sciences, and (3) Organizational design and politics employing approaches from all the social sciences. Trainee research will be designed to advance the social sciences by considering important public policy problems and by engaging in rigorous modeling and statistical testing. Trainees will be supported through specific coursework, a weekly workshop, home discipline training, and access to innovative laboratories, data centers, and data collection organizations on the Berkeley campus. Broader impacts of this project include finding ways to increase citizens' participation in all aspects of the nation's life as well as improving the basis upon which public policy is made. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.