Special IEA-RES sessions
Royal Economic Society 2022 Annual Conference
COVID AND THE ECONOMY, April 12, 3:00-4:30 pm BST
Chair: Marta Reynal-Querol, ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE
Discussant: Sebastián F. Galiani, University of Maryland, Maria del Pilar López Uribe, Universidad de los Andes Colombia
FIRMS, TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT, April 13, 3:00-4:30 pm BST
Chair: Omar Licandro, University of Nottingham
Discussants: David Atkin, MIT and Dalia Marin, TUM School of Management, Munich
Forthcoming events: member associations
IEA Initiatives
Featured Economist
LAURA CARVALHO
Laura Carvalho is the Director of the Research Center on Macroeconomics of Inequality (Made) and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of São Paulo.
IEA Collaboration with Remote Student Exchange
We invite university instructors to open their courses to students from developing countries.
IEA COLLABORATION WITH GAIN
The IEA is pleased to announce its partnership with the Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) to support mentorship activities to increase the number of African students that apply to graduate programs in economics and to reduce the informational and financial costs in the application process.
GAIN is an international network that was founded in 2019 to support prospective African graduate students with applications to high-ranked programs, both at the Master and the PhD level, in economics and related fields. Since its inception, GAIN has grown from supporting five applicants in Kenya in 2019, to over 40 applicants across seven African countries…
CALL FOR PAPERS
2022 RIDGE May Forum
Virtual by Zoom
LACEA Inequality & Poverty, 16 May
LACEA BRAIN, 17-18 May
Public Economics, 19-20 May
LACEA Labor, 23-24 May
LACEA Impact Evaluation Network, 24-25 May
LACEA-EHN Workshop on Historical Development, 25 May
LACEA Political Economy, 26-27 May
LACEA’s Health Economics Network, 1-2 Jun
WELAC (LACEA) Gender Inequality, 3 Jun
Call for Papers
IEA-WIDER joint panels at the 2022 WIDER Development Conference
(in partnership with UNIANDES)
The deadline for paper submissions is February 15, 2022.
Call for Papers
WEBINAR: PATHWAYS TO GENDER EQUALITY IN CENTRAL BANKS
The International Economic Association (IEA), the Banco de la República de Colombia (Central Bank of Colombia), and the Banco de España are organizing a webinar, “Pathways to Gender Equality in Central Banks,” to be held in May 18 and 19, 2022. This Webinar aims to promote diversity and inclusion in the profession of economics, specifically in central banks. The conference will be held online.
course on African Economic History
Online open-access free course on African Economic History LBS’ Wheler Institute for Business and Development
February – April 2022
LBS’ Wheler Institute for Business and Development is launching an online open-access free course on African Economic History, running from February 1— 13 April 2022. [course website]
- This masterclass aims to familiarize students with insights into the recent, burgeoning literature on the impact of Africa’s history on contemporary development (JEL review). The online course will cover recent economic history contributions that use geospatial data from anthropological maps, colonial archives, secondary sources, and …
CURRICULUM INITIATIVE
Every year since the start of the CORE project we have tried an experiment in classrooms around the world. On the first day of their first class in economics we ask students: ‘What is the most pressing problem that economists should address?’ The resulting word clouds show the student’s responses.
