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14 Feb 2021, 08:29

✅Introduction to R

#Course
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All You Need Is Just The PDF!

▫️this is a R course based on the open source software "swirl." The short, interactive course will allow you to learn R effectively as you get started!

🔹Course Overview:
1: Welcome
2: Basic Building Blocks
3: Workspace and Files
4: Sequences of Numbers
5: Vectors
6: Missing Values
7: Subsetting Vectors
8: Matrices and Data Frames
9: Looking at Data
10: Base Graphics
11: Manipulating Data with dplyr
12: Getting and Cleaning Data
13: Tidying Data with tidyr

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13 Feb 2021, 15:50

✅Welfare Economics and Economic Policy
#Webinar
The goal of this seminar series is to bring together economists interested in the relationship between welfare economics and economic policy.

Next seminars:
▫️2/22/2021 - Ben Lockwood - The Optimal Taxation of Lotteries
▫️3/8/2021 - Uzi Segal - All probabilities are equal, but some probabilities are more equal than others
▫️3/22/2021 - Kevin Kuruc - Optimal Animal Agriculture Under Climate and Population Externalities
▫️4/5/2021 - Pete Klenow - Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States
▫️4/19/2021 - Dean Spears - About population ethics
▫️5/3/2021 - Stefanie Stantcheva - TBA
▫️5/17/2021 - Matthias Doepke - A Soul's View of the Optimal Population Problem (with David de la Croix).

🔹Attendance to the seminars is open, but requires preliminary online registration.

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13 Feb 2021, 07:57

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✅LSE Festival; Shaping the Post-COVID World

#Event

▫️A week of virtual events free and open to all, taking place from 1 - 6 March 2021, about the direction the world could and should be taking after the COVID crisis and how social science research can shape it.

Live Festival: 18 webinars
Skills Festival: 5 webinars

👉🏼 More Information and Registering

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LSE Festival

LSE Festival 2021: a week of virtual events free and open to all about the direction the world could and should be taking after the COVID crisis.

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12 Feb 2021, 07:29

✅The Costs of Connection: how data is colonizing human life and appropriates it for capitalism
#Webinar
🔹Professor Nick Couldry and Dr Ulises Ali Mejias hosted by Dr Bingchun Meng (the Department of Media and Communications at LSE)

▫️Nick Couldry and Ulises Ali Mejias will discuss their new book, The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism. They argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of a new phase in human history that rivals in importance the emergence of historic colonialism.

Thursday 25 February 2021
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The Costs of Connection: how data is colonizing human life and appropriates it for capitalism

6pm Thurs 25 Feb | Nick Couldry, Ulises Ali Mejias | Registration Required | Free online public event at LSE

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11 Feb 2021, 18:50

✅Monopoly Capital In The Contemporary Global Economy

▫️In this #Webinar series, four books that focuses on big companies in contemporary capitalism will be presented.

11 February
Maurice E. Stucke (University of Tennessee) and Ariel Ezrachi (University of Oxford)
“Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants”

22 March
Cecilia Rikap (CONICET, Université de Paris and Université de Technologie de Compiègne)
“Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered”

5 April
John Thoburn (University of East Anglia) and Kaoru Natsuda (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
“Automotive Industrialisation: Industrial Policy and Development in Southeast Asia”

19 April
Cédric Durand (University of Geneva and Centre d'Économie Paris Nord)
“Techno-féodalisme: Critique de l'économie numérique”

Register: https://ysiproject.org/mono

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11 Feb 2021, 13:20

✅Gender Equity in the COVID Era: Women's Mentorship, Collaboration, and Economic Empowrement.
#Webinar

▫️Teatime with SHE featuring Nadereh Chamlou from Atlantic Council hosted by Dr. Navid Madani.

⏰Feb 17, 2021 19:30 in Tehran

Register: https://dfci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p9FxfGgkTXiv2JKsYigqJg

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10 Feb 2021, 16:04

✅Online Summer School in Modern Difference in Differences Design
#Event
🏫University of Milan

▫️Instructor:
John Poe (University of Michigan)
Teaching Assistant:
Silvia Vannutelli (Boston University)

▫️This course provides a comprehensive overview of modern Diff-in-Diff designs. The sessions will proceed step by step starting by the basic set-up and build up to the state-of-the-art applications. The course is structured to provide:
a broad overview of a problem and the associated methods and literature;
an in-depth look at a particularly important paper;
how to implement the methods in software.

💶The course is fully funded by the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM) at the University of Milan.

📜Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to request a certificate of participation

⏳Deadline:
February 28th, 2021 at 23:59:59 CET.

🌐 Visit Website: https://b2n.ir/753463

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Online Summer School in Modern Difference in Differences Design | CEEDS

12th of April 2021 – 23rd of April 2021 University of Milan Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM) Center of Excellence in Economics and Data Science (CEEDS) Instructor: John Poe (University of Michigan) Teaching Assistant: Silvia Vannutelli (Boston University) Sci...

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9 Feb 2021, 12:18

✅Robert Akerlef | How the Studying of Meaning Making Will Enrich Economic Analysis

#podcast

◻️Robert Akerlof, economics professor at the University of Warwick, discusses his research into issues of self-esteem and values and how such a focus can greatly improve efforts to make sense of economic activity.

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How the Study of Meaning-Making Will Enrich Economic Analysis

Robert Akerlof, economics professor at the University of Warwick, discusses his research into issues of self-esteem and values and how such a focus can greatly improve efforts to make sense of economic activity.

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9 Feb 2021, 07:29

✅Program Evaluation and Causal Inference
by Prof. Pietro Biroli
University of Zurich

▫️This technical #Course in applied econometrics provides an introduction to recent advances in the methods used for program and policy evaluation. The focus will be on the discussion of causal inference and estimation of treatment effects. These econometric methods will be illustrated using real-world examples in the field of health and labor economics.
syllabus
▫️Prerequisites
The course is targeted at students at the master level who want to become familiar with modern econometric methods for causal inference. Participants are expected to have basic knowledge of statistics and regression models at the level of Green (2012), Wooldridge (2013) or Stock (2012).

Class sessions
23 Feb 2021 — 01 Jun 2021
Tuesday, 08:15—09:45 ((GMT+01:00) Zurich)
Wednesday, 16:15—18:00 ((GMT+01:00) Zurich)
Access this course here:
https://remotestudentexchange.org/

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8 Feb 2021, 16:27

✅Principles of Economics
By Dr. Masoud Nili (Professor of economics at Sharif University)
#Course

▫️This course is free and open for everyone.

🔹From 14-Feb-2021, Sundays and Tuesdays 15-16:30 Tehran time

Join:
https://vc.sharif.edu/ch/13992-447141

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8 Feb 2021, 13:28

✅Joseph Stiglitz | Rethinking Globalization - post Covid and post Trump

#Webinar
by The Economist's Society, UCL

🔹Wed, 10 February 2021
21:30 – 22:30 Tehran time

Register:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joseph-stiglitz-rethinking-globalization-post-covid-and-post-trump-tickets-140502868863

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8 Feb 2021, 12:30

✅Pavlina Tcherneva: The Many Benefits of a Jobs Guarantee
#Podcasts
▫️Pavlina Tcherneva, Associate Professor of Economics at Bard College, discusses her new book, The Case for a Jobs Guarantee, outlining why society would benefit tremendously from such a program.

Download Podcast
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7 Feb 2021, 11:41

✅ MITx MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Development Policy
#Course
▫️دانشگاه MIT دوره‌ی آموزشی آنلاینی ایجاد کرده است که علاقه‌مندان می‌توانند با گذراندن 5 کورس آنلاین در edX، به یکی از شعب موسسه Pearson مراجعه کرده و در صورت موفقیت در امتحان حضوری، مدرک این دوره را دریافت کنند.

▫️شرکت کنندگان این امکان را دارند تا پس از اتمام دوره به دانشگاه MIT رفته و با گذراندن 61 واحد آموزشی به صورت حضوری، مدرک کارشناسی ارشد DEDP را کسب کنند. لازم به ذکر است که edX برای هر کورس به صورت جداگانه گواهینامه معتبر اعطا می‌کند.

🔹این دوره به کوشش J-PAL و دپارتمان اقتصاد MIT (آبهیجیت بانرجی، استر دوفلو، سارا فیشر الیسون، ریچل گلنرستر، جاناتان گروبر و بنجامین اولکن) طراحی و اجرا شده است.

Future Courses Dates
Spring 2021: starts Feb. 9, 2021
Summer 2021: starts June 1, 2021

More Information:
https://micromasters.mit.edu/dedp/

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6 Feb 2021, 22:52

✅In case you missed, the Globalisation Hub projects presented their final findings:
#Event
Chair: Stephen Kinsella (University of Limerick) and Angus Armstrong (Rebuilding Macroeconomics)

Henrietta Moore (UCL): Developing an Economy of Belonging: the role of public services in balancing a globalised economy

Pawel Bukowski/Stephen Machin(LSE): Globalisation and Rent Sharing

Daniela Gabor, Jo Michell (both University of the West of England) and Yannis Dafermos (SOAS):Managing supercycles: globalisation and institutional change

Claudius Gräbner (University of Duisberg-Essen): Country capabilities, product complexity, and finance in the EU: an AB-SFC multi country model for policy analysis

Isabella Weber (University of Massachusetts Amherst):What drives specialisation? A century of revealed comparative advantage

Watch here: https://youtu.be/VV6p45vUpqo

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Globalisation Hub Workshop

The Globalisation Hub projects presented their final findings: Chair: Stephen Kinsella (University of Limerick) and Angus Armstrong (Rebuilding Macroeconomics) Henrietta Moore (UCL): Developing an Economy of Belonging: the role of public services in balancing a globalised economy Pawel Bukow...

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5 Feb 2021, 19:35

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✅Money View Symposium
#Event

▫️5-7 February 17:30-23:00 Tehran time

Register to attend:
https://fs8.formsite.com/CNZLjX/blnrjes6ti/index.html?1612216185530

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4 Feb 2021, 13:23

✅Experimental and Behavioral Economics with Prof. Dorothea Kübler
WZB Berlin and Technical University Berlin
Master's level

#Course

▫️The course intends to introduce students to the experimental method in economics. The participants learn how to conduct an experiment and are introduced to the literature in experimental and behavioral economics. Students identify a research
question and design an experiment that addresses the research question. They write a term paper on the experimental design, or possibly the results from a small pilot.

12 Apr 2021 — 17 Jul 2021
Sign up: https://remotestudentexchange.org

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4 Feb 2021, 13:22

✅Economics of Child Well-being and Development with Prof. Guilherme Lichand at the University of Zurich!

#Course

▫️New course open for students from low- and middle-income countries on https://remotestudentexchange.org

Syllabus
🗓22 Feb 2021 - 08 Apr 2021

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3 Feb 2021, 19:07

✅LSE Festival; Shaping the Post-COVID World

#Event

▫️A week of virtual events free and open to all, taking place from 1 - 6 March 2021, about the direction the world could and should be taking after the COVID crisis and how social science research can shape it.

Live Festival: 18 webinars
Skills Festival: 5 webinars

👉🏼 More Information and Registering

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LSE Festival

LSE Festival 2021: a week of virtual events free and open to all about the direction the world could and should be taking after the COVID crisis.

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2 Feb 2021, 11:05

✅JFK JR. FORUM: Cooperative Internationalism and Domestic Inclusivity: Making Them Work Together

Dani Rodrik HKS alumnus and Senior Minister of Singapore, Tharman Shanmugaratnam MPA 1989 will discuss how we can achieve a more effective interplay of cooperative internationalism and national strategies to secure a safer and more inclusive world.

📆 Friday, February 5th 2021
⏰ 12pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jwUFE0ewQq2s0OFZGecBhQ

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2 Feb 2021, 10:18

✅The Heterogeneous Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks:
Microeconometric Evidence
#Webinar

▫️Dr. Niklas Amber (Research Division of Monetary Policy Department at Sveriges Riksbank in Sweden) hosted by TeIAS.

8 Feb 2021
13:30 Tehran time

Register:
teias.institute/Amberg-talk202102/

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