Training Program in Politics, Economics, and Psychology

在政治学，经济学和心理学的IGERT计划在加州大学伯克利分校赋予学生从社会科学的创新技能，通过整合，从而推进社会科学，解决有关关键公共政策问题的问题。 该计划包括来自经济学，政治学，心理学和公共政策的20名教师，他们具有很强的学科声誉，实质性的政策利益，并通过与协调该计划的伯克利戈德曼公共政策学院的联系，对跨学科和公共政策研究作出重大承诺。 该IGERT计划围绕研究生教育和研究三个跨领域的社会科学和公共政策问题组织：（1）鼓励参与经济，政治制度，公共计划和志愿组织的最佳水平，（2）评估政策的效果，成本和效益，以及（3）实施符合原始立法意图的立法。该计划的智力价值包括开发综合性跨学科课程，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，（3）组织设计与政治学，运用所有社会科学的方法。 实习生研究将通过考虑重要的公共政策问题和从事严格的建模和统计测试来推进社会科学。 学员将通过具体的课程，每周一次的研讨会，家庭纪律培训，并获得创新实验室，数据中心和数据收集组织在伯克利分校的支持。 该项目的更广泛影响包括设法增加公民对国家生活各个方面的参与，以及改善公共政策的制定基础。 IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在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新模式，在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.