Course of Panel Data Econometrics - Class 2019
The course in Panel Data Econometrics took place at the Institute of Economic (UNICAMP) in the first week of July 2019. This year, 31 post-graduation students and researchers participated in the course.
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The seminar Public Budget, Inequality and Human Rights took place at the University of Campinas on April 24th. The session presented by Fernando Gaiger (IPEA), Rodolfo Hoffmann (USP-Esalq) and Alexandre Gori (UNICAMP), coordination of Luana Passos (IPEA), discussed how the Consumer Expenditure Survey can be used to evaluate the impacts of public policies in Brazil.
The 2019 PAA (Population Association of America) Annual Meeting took place in Austin, between April 10 and 13th. Excellent papers discussed how climate change may affect population dynamics in the world. Among them, Alexandre Gori Maia (UNICAMP) and Stella Schons (Virginia Tech) stressed how deforestation and rising average temperature have estimulated migrants to leave the tropical Amazon region in Brazil.
Between March 25th and April 1st, Prof Alexandre Gori offered the course Applied Econometrics at Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina. La Molina is the most prestigious agrarian university in Peru, hosted in the pleaseant Lima. The course targeted the evaluation of impacts in the area of Environmental Economics.
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