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AMID Summer School
June 15-18,
2009
Namur, Belgium
Call for
participation - Deadline May 1, 2009
First AMID Summer School 'An Introduction to Field Surveys in LDCs'. Organized by CRED, Department of Economics, University of Namur, Belgium with the support of the BREAD, CEPR and EUDN.
The school is intended for PhD students and junior faculty members. The aim is to provide young researchers with a detailed overview of the different techniques and tools available to launch a field survey. The emphasis is therefore on how to design an original data collection. The themes of the lectures involve: the design of household questionnaires; an introduction to sampling and stratification issues; the design of a natural experiment; the design of field experiments and games.
Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their own research projects and field surveys with leading researchers in a relaxed and open atmosphere.
Enrollment is limited to 20 Phd students, all of whom will be in residence.
All applications should be sent no later than May 1, 2009 to: psekeris@fundp.ac.be. Admissions decision will be announced by May 15, 2009. All applicants will be informed by email about the results.
For more information, please visit http://www.fundp.ac.be/eco/recherche/cred/SUMMERSCHOOL/index.html
BREAD/CEPR/University of Verona Summer School in Development Economics
June 30-July 4,
2008
Hosted by University of Verona, Alba Di Canazei, Italy
Call for
applications - Deadline April 30, 2008
BREAD, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and the University of Verona are organizing a week-long Summer School in Development Economics to be held in Italy in July, 2008.
The School will be held at the summer campus of the University of Verona in Alba Di Canazei in the spectacular Italian Dolomites from June 30 through July 4, 2008. It is intended for PhD students with a small number of spaces available for people who completed their PhDs within the last two years. The program will be taught by Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University), Nava Ashraf (Harvard), Erica Field (Harvard), Imran Rasul (University College, London), Eric Verhoogen (Columbia), and Dean Yang (Michigan).
The application deadline is April 30, 2008 and the cost is 500 Euros, including lodging.
For more information, please visit http://dse.univr.it/ssef
2005 Summer School in Development Economics
The Bureau for
Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), in
conjunction with the
Banff International Research Station, offered a summer school in development economics for Ph.D.
students, post-docs, and recent graduates. The summer school was
held June 25 - July 1, 2005 in Alberta, Canada and introduced students to the main concepts in analytical
development economics—methodological, theoretical, and
empirical—as well as to a variety of statistical and modeling
tools.
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