ERF is pleased to announce the opportunity for some 15 participants from the MENA region to participate in a training workshop on analyzing opinion poll data to test theories related to attitudes to gender equality, civic action, democracy and human security and economic policies preferences in the Middle East and North African countries. Deadline for Application: June 26, 2016.
The purpose is to link norm changes to underlying circumstances, at the individual level, such as family background, ethnicity, gender, generation and place of origin, as well as at the national level, such as GDP per capita, economic structure, political variables, etc.
Under the direction of instructors Ishac Diwan, Irina Vartanova and Eduard Ponarin, the two-days workshop will cover the following themes:
- Introduction to multilevel modelling. Random intercept and random slope models. Model specification and group level predicators.
- Model diagnostics and selection.
- Random effects visualization.
- Multilevel logistic regression.
Eligibility
Applicants should be:- Researchers from the MENA region.
- With Masters or Ph.D in economics or related fields or those in the process of completing their Ph.D. Good command of econometrics, and experience in using econometrics as reflected in at least one article.