Courses on meta-analysis in economics, with everything that was taught. The slides and their LaTeX sources, the Stata and R code, the data, and recordings where available, all free to reuse. Taught by Tomas Havranek, Charles University, Prague.

Osaka, March 2026

Meta-Analysis in Economics: Practical Tools for Synthesizing Research. A three-hour course at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), the University of Osaka, on 16 March 2026, on site and online: four lectures on the workflow, selective reporting, heterogeneity, and interpretation. Slides, code and data, and the recordings.

Stockholm, August 2025

Meta-Analysis for Policy Economists: Practical Tools for Synthesizing Research. Two days for the policy economists of Tillväxtanalys, the Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis, on 28 and 29 August 2025, hands-on in Stata and R. Slides, code and data, and the programme.

Christchurch, February and March 2025

Research Synthesis in Economics and Finance. A university course (ECON670) at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand: ten two-hour lectures, from literature search and data collection to publication bias, p-hacking, heterogeneity and the limits of meta-analysis, with student projects. The lecture slides with their LaTeX sources.

Chemnitz, September 2026 (upcoming)

MAER-Net 2026 PhD workshop, Chemnitz, 23 September 2026: a session on MAIVE, EasyMeta and AI in meta-analysis. Draft demo data and prompts, not yet reviewed; the final materials follow after the workshop.

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