✅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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✅ 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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✅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
Listen online

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✅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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✅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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✅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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✅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.

Listen online

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✅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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✅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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✅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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✅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
Register here

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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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✅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 - Social Positions and Fairness Views
▫️5/17/2021 - Matthias Doepke - A Soul's View of the Optimal Population Problem (with David de la Croix).
▫️5/31/2021 - Maya Eden - Price-Independent Anonymity Implies the Ranking of Income Distributions
▫️6/14/2021 - David Pearce - Individual and Social Welfare

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


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✅Introduction to R

#Course
from MITx 14.310x

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

🔻دوره پیشرفته برنامه‌نویسی R:
https://www.tg-me.com/nudgeunit/161


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✅Illegal Drugs Effect on Public Corruption – with Introduction to the Synthetic Control Method
#Webinar

Dr. Babak Jahanshahi(University of Pavia, Italy) and Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes(University of Cambridge, UK) Hosted by IDER(Institute for Development & Economic Research)

link to the paper

Today, 14 Feb 2021
15:00-17:00 Tehran time
Platform: Adobe Connect

Join: http://vclas9.ut.ac.ir/ider/

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🔔 Update
#Course

🔴This course is going to livestream on:
https://www.aparat.com/econ_seminar_gsme/live

▫️Also the recorded sessions are accessible a day after the class:
http://ocw.sharif.edu/

▫️And the slides are available here: @Economics1400

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✅Virtual MD Seminar Series
#Event
▫️The Virtual Market Design Seminar is an open online and inter-institutional seminar. Although inspired by seminars cancelled due to the COVID-19, they intend to continue post-pandemic. Seminars cover all fields from market design. Talks take place bi-weekly on Monday at 4:00-5:00pm CET (Paris time) on Zoom.

🌐http://virtual-md-seminar.com/

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✅Upcoming Presentation:

Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern University): Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms
with Mohammad Akbarpour and Scott Kominers [slides]

Discussant: Daniel Garrett (Toulouse School of Economics)

🗓Monday, Feburary 15, 6:30pm (Tehran time).
#Webinar

▫️Fill the registration form to receive the Zoom link for each talk:
http://virtual-md-seminar.com/registration.html

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✅NIAS Individual Fellowship
#Fellowship

▫️NIAS offers individual fellowships to scholars who wish to carry out advanced research in the humanities and the social sciences. For five or ten months, scholars are offered the time and space to work on a topic of their own choice.

▫️The Fellowship call is open from 15 January until 15 March.

🌐https://nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/nias-individual-fellowship/

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✅NoBec Talks

#Webinar

▶️The NoBeC (Norms and Behavioral Change) Talks showcase interdisciplinary early career and senior researchers working on norms and behavioral change around the world.

📑Upcoming presentation: Gang Rule

🗣Chris Blattman (Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts, University of Chicago)

📝Gangs govern millions worldwide. Why do they rule, and how do they react to
states?

📆18th February 2021

👉🏼Register Here

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