CONWAY, Ark. (October 9, 2014) – Hendrix 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, 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.
“The Odyssey professorship allows me the opportunity to work
one on one with students to help them explore the research process in economics,”
said Leonard. “This is a passion of mine, and I am thrilled that we are able to
provide funded research positions to talented students.”
Meta-analysis is “the statistical analysis of previously
reported empirical research,” said Stanley, a former Senior Visiting Fellow at
the London School of Economics, who received a $40,000 grant from the United
Kingdom’s Department for International Development’s (DFID) to host the first
MAER-Net Colloquium at the University of Cambridge in 2011 and present a
meta-analysis workshop at the DFID’s London offices. Stanley recently received
another DFID 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.
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in
engaged liberal arts and sciences education. This year, Hendrix was named the
country’s #1 “Up and Coming” liberal arts college and #8 in the nation for
“Best Undergraduate Teaching” by U.S.
News and World Report. Hendrix is
featured in the 2015 Fiske Guide to Colleges, Forbes
magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, and the latest
edition of Colleges That Change
Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges.
Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For
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