CONWAY, Ark. (October 9, 2014) 鈥 黑料不打烊 economics and
business professors Dr. Tom Stanley and Dr. Megan Leonard recently returned
from the 2014 Meta-Analysis
of Economics Research Network (MAER-Net) Colloquium, an international economics
research colloquium,聽in Athens,
Greece.
View
the workshops and colloquia here.
With
the support of the Julia Mobley Odyssey Professorship, which they
jointly hold, Stanley
and Leonard have mentored students in undergraduate meta-analysis research projects
that examine policies and interventions that are thought to reduce
poverty, promote health, or accelerate economic development.听聽
鈥淭he Odyssey professorship allows me the opportunity to work
one on one with students to help them explore the research process in economics,鈥
said Leonard. 鈥淭his is a passion of mine, and I am thrilled that we are able to
provide funded research positions to talented students.鈥
Meta-analysis is 鈥渢he statistical analysis of previously
reported empirical research,鈥 said Stanley, a former Senior Visiting Fellow at
the London School of Economics, who received a $40,000 grant from the United
Kingdom鈥檚 Department for International Development鈥檚 (DFID) to host the first
MAER-Net Colloquium at the University of Cambridge in 2011 and present a
meta-analysis workshop at the DFID鈥檚 London offices. Stanley recently received
another DFID聽award to give technical assistance to research teams
conducting systematic reviews of the effects of income inequality and poverty
on growth in developing nations.
Meta-analytic techniques have been applied for decades in
health and medical research, and meta-analyses of economic policy have
increased exponentially over the past 20 years, Stanley said.
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