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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Structural Change in Export Activities: An Exploration Using Occupations Data
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Hagen Kruse\, PhD candidate and Research affiliate of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre @University of GroningenAbstract: Traditionally\, comparative advantage in exporting is measured at the level of products or industries. However\, with international production fragmentation\, countries specialize in activities along the production chain rather than in particular products. This paper therefore explores changes in the structure of exports at the level of activities for a set of 53 countries. Activities are measured using new internationally harmonized statistics on labour income of 13 detailed occupation classes of workers in 35 industries. Income shares from engineering\, management\, and support services increase as countries grow richer. New specializations have a strong proximity to the initial export basket\, especially for routine manual intensive activities in developing countries. Some countries appear to specialize more in new activities that are relatively unrelated to their initial specializations. This is found to be positively related to income growth. 	About the Speaker: Hagen Kruse is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen and research affiliate of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC). His research focuses on the role of international trade in shaping modern patterns of structural change in developing countries. His first chapter was recently published in the IMF Economic Review and featured in media outlets such as The Economist\, Project Syndicate\, or UNIDO’s Industrial Analytics Platform. Current projects of Hagen are financially supported by the World Bank Group and a CEPR STEG research grant.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-structural-change-in-export-activities-an-exploration-using-occupations-data/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T101500
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Deconstructing Human Capital to Construct Nestedness
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Hyejin Youn is an associate professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University\, and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)\, and an external faculty at Santa Fe Institute and serves as Associate Editor at PLOS One and Management Science.In this talk\, Hyejin Youn will explore the geographic and demographic disparities in wealth based on the distribution of skills acquired in school and in the workplace. Analyzing individuals’ career changes and demographic age of occupations reveals that “nested skills” are needed more as one moves up the career ladder. Historical changes in occupation skill requirements show that these branches have become more fragmented over the decade\, suggesting the increasing labor gap. 	Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yrXaEgr3TqyjZKU1EecoUAWhether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-deconstructing-human-capital-to-construct-nestedness/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T113000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Opportunities and Challenges in the Use of Alternative Data Sources to Study Migratory Phenomena
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Speaker: Stefano M. Iacus is the Director of Data Science and Product Research at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science\, Harvard University. He is working closely with the Dataverse (Managing Director of the Dataverse Project) and OpenDP (executive committee member) projects and well as with the Data Science Services at IQSS. 	Abstract: With the consolidation of the culture of evidence-based policymaking\, the availability of data has become central to policymakers especially in time of crisis. Focusing on migration studies\, this seminar will provide an overview of the current state of data innovation in the scientific literature and then point out at areas in which data innovation has the most concrete potential. 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-opportunities-and-challenges-in-the-use-of-alternative-data-sources-to-study-migratory-phenomena/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T113000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Tackling the UK’s Regional Economic Inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Location: Weil Town Hall\, Belfer\, HKS/ZoomWhether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public.About the Seminar: The UK is one of the most regionally unequal industrialized economies. In this seminar\, Ed Balls and Anna Stansbury will discuss the UK’s regional economic inequality from the perspective of productivity disparities between large regions\, focusing on the gap between London/South East vs the rest\, looking at four important economic inputs – education\, infrastructure\, innovation\, and access to finance – for each one building up a collage of evidence to gauge the extent to which it is a binding constraint on regions’ productivity growth. They emphasize that economic opportunity for those from outside London and the South East is curtailed by London’s overheating housing market\, which limits interregional mobility. 	About the Speakers: Ed Balls is a broadcaster\, writer and economist. He is Professor of Political Economy at King’s College\, London and a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Ed\, a former Member of Parliament\, was UK Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (2011-2015) and served in the UK Cabinet as Secretary of State for Children\, Schools and Families (2007-2010). He was the UK Minister for Financial Services (2006-2007) and the Chief Economic Adviser to the UK Treasury (1999-2004) during which time he was Chair of the IMFC Deputies and UK G20 Deputy. 	Anna Stansbury is an Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan School of Management. She is a labor and macroeconomist whose work focuses on inequality and productivity in industrialized economies. She has a PhD in Economics from Harvard\, an MPP from the Kennedy School\, and a BA in Economics from Cambridge – and was a former part-time Growth Lab RA before her PhD! 	Read the full Research Paper: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/publications/awp/awp198VoxEU summary link: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-tackle-uks-regional-economic-inequality-focus-stem-transport-and-innovation
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-tackling-the-uks-regional-economic-inequality-binding-constraints-and-avenues-for-policy-intervention/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T101500
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Robot Adoption\, Organizational Capital and the Productivity Paradox
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public.Speaker: Rodimiro Rodrigo\, Assistant Professor at George Washington University School of Business.Abstract: Major technological changes have come with an adjustment period of stagnant productivity before the economy operates at its full potential. The mechanism of this adoption process is still not well understood. In this seminar\, Rodimiro Rodrigo will present his research on how productivity increases with a five-year lag after adopting industrial robots in Brazilian local labor markets. Combining employer-employee matched data with a novel measure of robot adoption\, he provides evidence of establishment-level labor reorganization and organizational capital depreciation induced by the automation process. He examines a model that highlights the role of organizational costs accompanying the adoption of new technologies\, illustrating its usefulness by using it to characterize the implications of the “innovator’s dilemma.”
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-robot-adoption-organizational-capital-and-the-productivity-paradox/
LOCATION:Weil Town Hall\, Belfer\, HKS/Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T004020Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Regulation by Reputation? Intermediaries\, Labor Abuses & International Migration
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Please register in advance. 	Speaker: Nilesh Fernando\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame 	About the Seminar: Migrant workers and employers rely on intermediaries to facilitate labor market placements. If information frictions obscure their reputation\, however\, intermediaries may under-invest in placement quality. Using data on over 1.5 million Sri Lankan migrants to the Gulf region\, Nilesh Fernando will examine the effects of an intermediary rating program that publicly revealed ratings two years after it was announced. Prior to the ratings being revealed\, eligible under-performing agencies invest in the rating criteria and place migrants with less abusive employers who pay higher salaries. Results suggest that the threat of quality revelation induced agencies to prospectively screen employers. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-regulation-by-reputation-intermediaries-labor-abuses-international-migration/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T004037Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Self-Employment within the Firm
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Location: Online only/Zoom Please register in advance. 	Abstract: In this seminar\, Alessandra Peter\, Assistant Professor of Economics at NYU will share her research with Vittorio Bassi\, J. H. Lee\, Tommaso Porzio\, Ritwika Sen\, and Esau Tugume on the internal organization of firms in developing countries and how it affects their productivity and optimal size. They collected detailed time use data for 1\,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda and document limited within-firm labor specialization. Even in relatively large firms\, entrepreneurs and their employees work on similar tasks. As such\, firms resemble a collection of self-employed individuals who share a production location. To interpret the empirical evidence\, they develop an equilibrium model of task assignment\, firm size\, and occupational choice. They find that barriers to labor specialization generate decreasing returns to scale at the firm level\, which reduces the returns to entrepreneurial ability and keeps firms small in equilibrium. Given the internal organization of firms we document\, benefits from alleviating any other frictions that constrain firm growth are muted. 	About the speaker: Alessandra Peter is an assistant professor of Economics at NYU\, with a focus on Macroeconomics and Development. Her research analyzes constraints and barriers to firm growth in low-income countries as well as the effect of imperfect competition across firms on consumers in the United States.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-self-employment-within-the-firm/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230515T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230515T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T003728Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Exploration and Exploitation in US Technological Change
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Location: Zoom 	Please register in advance. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. 	About the Seminar: How do firms and inventors move through knowledge space as they develop their innovations? In this seminar\, Vasco M. Carvalho proposes a method for tracking patterns of exploration and exploitation in patenting behaviour in the US for the period since 1920. The exploration measure is constructed from the text of patents and involves the use of Bayesian Surprise to measure how different current patent-based innovations are from existing portfolios. Results indicate that there are distinct life-cycle patterns to firm and inventor exploration. Furthermore\, exploration activity is more geographically concentrated than general patenting\, but this concentration is centered outside the main hubs of patenting.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-exploration-and-exploitation-in-us-technological-change/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T111500
DTSTAMP:20250910T004210Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Role of Green & Non-Green Relatedness in the Development of New Green Specialization in Argentinean Provinces
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Register for the session. 	In this Research Seminar\, Andrea Belmartino will analyze the role of relatedness in developing new green specialisations for the Argentinean provinces between 2008-2019. Even though the global demand for green products creates development opportunities\, whether this applies to emerging economies is still under analysis. Therefore\, exploring how to leverage available capacities to facilitate the green transition is worthwhile. Her study draws on indices that capture knowledge bases to achieve this goal. Results show that developing a new green specialisation is positively related to productive capabilities\, proxied by relatedness density (green and non-green). In addition\, there the path dependent process benefits more wealthier provinces. 	About the Speaker: 	Andrea Belmartino is a PhD fellow in Urban Studies and Regional Science at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in L’Aquila (Italy). She holds a MA in Economics from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina). She was a research assistant at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina). Her current research interests are related to regional capabilities to foster the green transition. In addition\, she is especially interested in the sustainability challenges and opportunities for Latin American economies. Since 2023\, she is co-coordinating the Regional Studies Association’s Research Network “Knowledge\, Innovation and Regional Development in South America (KIRDSA)”
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-role-of-green-non-green-relatedness-in-the-development-of-new-green-specialization-in-argentinean-provinces/
LOCATION:Online Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T111500
DTSTAMP:20250910T001652Z
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SUMMARY:Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technological Progress During the British Industrial Revolution
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	This session is online only. Please register in advance.  	In this seminar\, Bruno Caprettini will discuss new data and present new evidence on the effects of labor scarcity on the adoption of labor-saving technology in industrializing England. Where the British armed forces recruited heavily\, more machines that economized on labor were adopted. For purposes of identification\, we focus on naval recruitment. Using warships’ ease of access to coastal locations as an instrument\, exogenous shocks to labor scarcity led to technology adoption. The same shocks are only weakly associated with the adoption of non-labor saving technologies. Importantly\, there is also a synergy between skill abundance and labor scarcity boosting technology adoption. Where labor shortages led to labor-saving machine adoption\, technology afterwards improved more rapidly. 	About the Speaker: Bruno Caprettini is Assistant Professor at the University of St Gallen\, where he is affiliated with the Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW). He holds a PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). He is interested in the determinants of long-term growth\, both economic and political. Some of his work appeared on AER\, QJE and AER-Insights. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/fighting-for-growth-labor-scarcity-and-technological-progress-during-the-british-industrial-revolution/
LOCATION:Online Only
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T001801Z
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SUMMARY:Global and Regional Green Steel Transition: From Resource Potential to Supply Chain Re-configuration
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speakers:Alli Devlin is a DPhil in Engineering Science Candidate at the University of Oxford.Aidong Yang is a Professor of Engineering Science and a Fellow of Green Templeton College\, Oxford.Today’s steel industry is one of the top industrial emitters\, responsible for ~8% of global carbon emissions. Decarbonising steelmaking is thus attracting significant attention of industrial players and policymakers\, with the green transition already gaining momentum in some countries (e.g.\, Sweden)\, although most steel production is still deeply reliant on fossil fuels. This transition will be a huge undertaking\, with great challenges in resource\, technology\, and economics to overcome. In this seminar\, the authors will focus on the physical aspects of green steelmaking\, sharing recent and ongoing mathematical modelling work on (1) understanding global resource potential for deploying green steel facilities\, particularly addressing the availability of renewable energy and suitable iron ore\, and (2) exploring potentially favourable supply chain (re-) configurations at the regional scale\, taking into account a wide range of technological options and their geographical allocation. The results highlight key opportunities and challenges from technical perspectives\, which will hopefully provide useful input to wider discussions about the green steel transition involving economics\, policies and development agendas. 	This seminar is online only. Please register in advance. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/global-and-regional-green-steel-transition-from-resource-potential-to-supply-chain-re-configuration/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T113000
DTSTAMP:20250916T175436Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Money\, Time\, and Grant Design
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Wei Yang Tham is a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and Harvard Business SchoolAbstract: The design of research grants might be a useful tool for incentivizing more socially valuable science. To better understand the value of grant design as a policy instrument\, we conduct two sets of thought experiments in a nationally representative survey of academic researchers. First\, we test whether grants with randomized attributes induce different research strategies. Longer grants increase researchers’ willingness to take risks\, but only amongst tenured professors\, suggesting that job security and grant duration are complementary incentives. Larger grants increase researchers’ willingness to expand ongoing projects\, while smaller grants increase researchers’ focus on starting new projects. In our second experiment\, we estimate researchers’ willingness to trade off grant size and duration. We find that researchers are relatively unwilling to trade off the amount of funding a grant provides in order to extend the duration of the grant — more money is much more valuable than more time. 	Whether attending in-person or online\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating is available on a first-come\, first-served basis. Zoom attendance is open to the public. \nAbout the speaker: 	Wei Yang Tham is a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and Harvard Business School. He completed his PhD in Economics at Ohio State University in 2019. Dr. Tham studies innovation and knowledge production in the context of science. His recent work includes eliciting researchers’ preferences and responses to grant design\, studying how funding delays affect the movement of human capital across sectors and borders\, and estimating the knowledge production function to better understand the optimal distribution of resources in research.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-money-time-and-grant-design/
LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T113000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar:  Dancing With the Stars -Innovations through Interactions
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	In this hybrid seminar\, Santiago Caicedo\, an Associate Professor at the Economics Department and Finance Group at Northeastern University will discuss his research on innovation\, which uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 	Paper Abstract: An inventor’s own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with and learning from others. This paper uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. We document key empirical facts on inventors’ productivity over the life cycle\, inventors’ research teams\, and interactions with other inventors. Among others\, most patents are the result of collaborative work. Inter- actions with better inventors are very strongly correlated with higher subsequent productivity. These facts motivate the main ingredients of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model\, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of inventors using inventor knowledge. The evolution of an inventor’s knowledge is explained through the lens of a diffusion model in which inventors can learn in two ways: By interacting with others at an endogenously chosen rate; and from an external\, age-dependent source that captures alternative learning channels\, such as learning-by-doing. 	About the Speaker: Santiago Caicedo is an Associate Professor at the Economics Department and Finance Group at Northeastern University. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. His research connects microdata with economic theory to study social interactions\, human capital formation\, economic growth\, and innovation.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-dancing-with-the-stars-innovations-through-interactions/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS (Harvard Community) & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T111500
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: New U.S. Industrial Innovation Policies
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Speaker: William B. Bonvillian\, Lecturer at MIT\, and Senior Director for special projects at MIT’s Office of Open Learning 	Despite longstanding opposition from mainstream economists and neoliberal perspectives to industrial policy\, the United States\, confronted by advanced technology competition from China\, climate change\, and a global pandemic\, adopted from 2020-2022 a series of major industrial policy programs. Although the U.S. Defense Department has long practiced industrial policy approaches\, and the U.S. has followed industrial economic policies in its agriculture\, transportation\, electric power and healthcare sectors\, the new programs focused on promoting technology innovation\, so can be labeled “industrial innovation policy.” The large scale of these efforts amounted to a new step for the U.S. in non-defense sectors. 	This talk will review six major examples of new U.S. industrial innovation policies. All involve federal government interventions into the post-research phases of innovation\, from development to prototyping\, testing\, demonstration\, and production.  	Summary Paper 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 			About the speaker:	 	William B. Bonvillian is a Lecturer at MIT\, and Senior Director for special projects at MIT’s Office of Open Learning\, leading research projects on workforce education and technology issues. From 2006 until 2017\, he was director of MIT’s Washington Office\, supporting MIT’s longstanding role in science policy at the national level. He served as an advisor to MIT’s major cross-campus national policy initiatives on advanced manufacturing\, energy technology\, life science convergence and online education. He was an MIT representative to President Obama’s industry-university Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) which formed U.S. manufacturing policies in the 2011-2016 period. He teaches courses on innovation systems and science and technology policy at MIT in the and Science Technology and Society and Political Science Departments. Previously\, he worked for over 15 years on science and innovation issues as a senior advisor in the U.S. Senate\, and earlier was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-new-u-s-industrial-innovation-policies/
LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231106T110000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Growing Use of Economic Complexity in EU Policy
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Speaker: Pierre-Alexandre Balland (Utrecht University & AI Toulouse Institute) 	In this hybrid seminar\, Pierre-Alexandre Balland will review the growing use of economic complexity within different sections of the European Commission\, EU member states\, and EU regions. He will then highlight existing limitations and blindspots that the field seriously needs to address. Finally\, Pierre-Alex will delve into new policy use cases that could benefit from a complexity angle in the near future. 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 	Paper Abstract: Economic complexity offers a powerful paradigm to understand key societal issues and challenges of our time. By focusing on the underlying structure of the economy and systemic interactions it offers new insights on growth\, technological change\, regional evolution\, or inequality. As a result\, policy makers around the world are increasingly using economic complexity heuristics and metrics to guide their decisions. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-growing-use-of-economic-complexity-in-eu-policy/
LOCATION:HYBRID W434 A.B.\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T110000
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SUMMARY:Firms in Product Space: Adoption\, Growth and Competition
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: John Morrow\, Reader in Economics at King’s Business School 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract: Which products are potentially produced together? Can any firm eventually supply any new demand? Using multi-product production patterns within and across firms\, we recover a continuous cost based distance between products and firms. Product distance implies a product adoption path\, with each rank of distance decreasing adoption frequency. When export demand for unproduced products induces domestic adoption\, closer firms supply them. Counterfactual production costs imply measures of Revenue Potential and Competitive Pressure. These predict firm sales growth\, scope growth and core focus. If all firms produced all products linked by co-production\, consumer welfare would increase by 20-30%. 	About the Speaker: John Morrow is a Reader in Economics at King’s Business School and is affiliated to the Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Economic Policy Research. His main research studies firm responses to economic changes such as trade or industrial policies and the consequences for productivity and efficiency\, especially in developing countries. John completed a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a recipient of the FIW Young Economist Award and ETSG Chair Jacquemin Prize. John has taught at Kent State University\, London School of Economics\, University of Essex and Birkbeck College. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/firms-in-product-space-adoption-growth-and-competition/
LOCATION:HYBRID Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T110000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Industrial Policy in Developing Countries: Is There a Way to Pick Winners
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. In this seminar\, Tristan Reed will discuss his new research on the product space. 	Speaker Tristan Reed\, Applied economist at the World Bank’s Development Research Group 	Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BqIFp594RUWa1H7dl0MJRQ
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-industrial-policy-in-developing-countries-is-there-a-way-to-pick-winners/
LOCATION:HYBRID zoom / WEXNER W-G02 (Harvard Community)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T121500
DTSTAMP:20250910T004731Z
CREATED:20240126T022600Z
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UID:15077-1706698800-1706703300@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:University-Industry Collaborations and the Burden of Knowledge: Evidence from the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Location: Online only Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UlEuxqQ5QTKINYHeR-xhhA 	Speaker: Federico Bignone (University of Warwick) 	Paper Abstract: (Coauthored with Russell Thomson) Research collaborations between universities and industry are an important channel of innovation. In this paper\, we provide a systematic overview of US university-industry collaborations\, drawing upon all US-based scientific publications from 1980 to 2013 in Web of Science\, matched to the relevant business characteristics in BvD Orbis. We find that university-industry collaborations increased from 2% to 6% of all indexed publications. A decrease in direct corporate involvement in scientific research accompanies this surge. Furthermore\, we show that this increase is influenced by factors related to the nature of science such as the burden of knowledge\, rather than companies’ commercial considerations. Specifically\, the likelihood of collaboration increases as the speed of scientific progress increases\, with differences by firm size. 	Bio: Federico Bignone is a postdoctoral researcher at Warwick Business School\, University of Warwick (UK). He recently earned his PhD in Economics from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) and the University of Bordeaux (France). His research primarily focuses on economics of innovation and science\, as well as corporate finance. Specifically\, his projects explore various aspects of the much-discussed decline in corporate science. He examines how the burden of knowledge may affect the likelihood of university-industry collaborations. Additionally\, he investigates whether corporate science has become increasingly more applied and whether initial public offerings (IPOs) positively impact companies’ scientific research. Recently\, he has been involved in a UK government-funded project on AI new ventures and interactions with the science base.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/university-industry-collaborations-and-the-burden-of-knowledge-evidence-from-the-u-s/
LOCATION:Online Only
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T110000
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DTSTAMP:20250910T003836Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Green Growth Models and National Decarbonization Capacity
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Location: HYBRID Wexner G-02 at HKS / Zoom 	Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZtdpZP56QyOg8fOS1J0gHgSpeaker: Daniel Driscoll (Brown University) 	Abstract: This talk brings the study of growth models and climate change together under the assumption that the policy priority of economic growth will remain central. The relevant research question from a Growth Model perspective thus becomes ‘to what extent can existing Growth Models switch from carbon-based growth to green growth?’ To answer this question\, the presentation explores growth models and national decarbonization capacity from a number of comparative and international political economy perspectives. It starts with national energy systems and balance sheets and ends with international monetary and commodity flows.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-green-growth-models-and-national-decarbonization-capacity/
LOCATION:Location: HYBRID Wexner G-02 at HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T123000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital and the Developing World
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Jacob Moscona\, Harvard University 	Location: HYBRID WEXNER W-434 AB\, HKS / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract: (Jacob Moscona\, Josh Lerner\, Junxi Liu & David Y. Yang) Global high-potential entrepreneurship was traditionally dominated by rich countries\, especially the US\, until the rise of China as a venture capital powerhouse. We explore the international ramifications of China’s rise\, using comprehensive data on global venture activities. We document three sets of findings. First\, as the Chinese venture industry rose in importance\, investment increased substantially in other emerging markets\, particularly in sectors dominated by Chinese companies. Using a broad set of country-level economic and social indicators\, we show that this effect was driven by country-sector pairs most similar to their counterparts in China. Second\, turning to mechanisms\, we show that the increase in venture investments in emerging economies was spurred by local investors and new firms whose business models more closely resembled those of their Chinese counterparts. The findings are not driven by Chinese investors\, by countries politically connected to China\, or by sectors prioritized by the Chinese government. Third\, we find that this growth in emerging-market investment had positive spillovers on sectors in which China was not a global leader and had positive city-level effects on both business formation and patenting. Taken together\, our findings suggest that developing countries benefited from the rise of Chinese entrepreneurship\, especially where Chinese businesses and technologies were most “appropriate” for local economic conditions. 	About the Speaker: Jacob Moscona is a Prize Fellow in Economics\, History\, and Politics at Harvard and a postdoctoral fellow at J-PAL at MIT. In 2024\, he will start as an Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT. Jacob’s research focuses on development economics\, environmental economics\, and the economics of innovation. He received his PhD from MIT in 2021 and AB from Harvard in 2016. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-appropriate-entrepreneurship-the-rise-of-chinese-venture-capital-and-the-developing-world/
LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-434 AB\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T110000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Embedding Scientific Migrations
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Dakota Murray\, Research Assistant Professor\, Northeastern University 	Location: HYBRID / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract:  	Human migration and mobility drives major societal phenomena including epidemics\, economies\, innovation\, and the diffusion of ideas. Although human mobility and migration have been heavily constrained by geographic distance throughout the history\, advances\, and globalization are making other factors such as language and culture increasingly more important. Advances in neural embedding models\, originally designed for natural language\, provide an opportunity to tame this complexity and open new avenues for the study of migration. Here\, we demonstrate the ability of the model word2vec to encode nuanced relationships between discrete locations from migration trajectories\, producing an accurate\, dense\, continuous\, and meaningful vector-space representation. The resulting representation provides a functional distance between locations\, as well as a “digital double” that can be distributed\, re-used\, and itself interrogated to understand the many dimensions of migration. We show that the unique power of word2vec to encode migration patterns stems from its mathematical equivalence with the gravity model of mobility. Focusing on the case of scientific migration\, we apply word2vec to a database of three million migration trajectories of scientists derived from the affiliations listed on their publication records. Using techniques that leverage its semantic structure\, we demonstrate that embeddings can learn the rich structure that underpins scientific migration\, such as cultural\, linguistic\, and prestige relationships at multiple levels of granularity. Our results provide a theoretical foundation and methodological framework for using neural embeddings to represent and understand migration both within and beyond science. 	About the Speaker:  	Dakota Murray is a research assistant professor at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern Univeristy. Previously\, he worked as a Data Scientist with Digital Science to develop tools and deliver analysis to support decision making in funding agencies. He was also a postdoctoral research associate working at the Center for Complex Network Research with Albert-László Barabási. He received a Ph.D in Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-embedding-scientific-migrations/
LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-102\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T123000
DTSTAMP:20250910T003701Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Economic Complexity\, Regional Development\, and Smart Diversification: Evidence from Brazil
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speakers: João Romero and Gustavo Britto\, Professors at the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)	  	Location: HYBRID L-324 FAINSOD\, HKS / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract.Following the increasing upsurge in the works that use economic complexity indicators (ECI) to devise smart diversification strategies\, this paper proposes a new method – Smart Diversification Score (SDS) – to be used by policymakers to rank promising activities for short\, medium and long-term diversification. After reporting the positive impact of regional complexity\, calculated using employment data\, on employment and GDP per capita growth for Brazilian regions\, the paper assesses the potential of SDS to increase ECI in the municipal level. Looking backwards (to data from 2007 and 2018)\, the paper finds that SDS can predict up to 39.4% of the diversification activities that happened in 1033 Brazilian cities that have increased their complexity. Looking forward\, the paper calculates the SDS for the city of Belo Horizonte\, suggesting a balanced portfolio of related and unrelated activities for diversification and estimates the potential gains to be obtained following different development paths. The main contribution of this paper is to conceive of a new method\, test its validity in the municipal level and exemplify its use for policy purposes. 	Gustavo Britto is a full-time professor at the Department of Economics\, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Awarded a PhD degree in Regional Growth\, Land Economy Department from the University of Cambridge in 2008. Vice-Director at the Center for Development and Regional Planning (Cedeplar-UFMG) (2018-2023)\, Editor of Nova Economia Journal (2018-2023)\, and a member of the board of Graduate Studies of the Postgraduate Programme in Economics at Cedeplar-UFMG (2014-2023). Researcher at the Center for Development and Regional Planning (Cedeplar). His main investigation theme is the multidimensional relationship between structural change and economic development over time and across the territory. Research results can be found in journals such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics\, Metroeconomica\, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics\, Scientometrics\, Journal of Cleaner Production\, Journal Post Keynesian Economics\, Journal of Political Economy\, PSL Quarterly Review\, and Cepal Review\, among others. General Coordinator of the DataViva project. Currently working as a visiting scholar at SOAS (University of London). 	João Romero is a full-time professor at the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Cambridge (2015)\, his PhD thesis was awarded the BRICS Economic Research Award in 2016\, promoted by the Exim Bank of India. He was also twice winner of the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry Award\, in 2009 and 2015. He was Assistant Editor of Nova Economia Journal between 2018 and 2023. He is currently the coordinator of the International Economic Relations undergraduate course at UFMG. He is a member of the Cambridge Center for Economic and Public Policy (CCEPP)\, coordinator of the Research Group on Public Policies and Development (GPPD)\, at the Center for Regional Development and Planning (Cedeplar)\, and Research Coordinator of the DataViva project. His research is focused on the areas of economic complexity\, regional development\, international trade\, and economic growth. He has published in journals such as World Development\, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics\, Cambridge Journal of Economics\, Metroeconomica\, Journal of Political Economy and Cepal Review\, among others.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-economic-complexity-regional-development-and-smart-diversification-evidence-from-brazil/
LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-102\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T123000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Modelling Technological Change in the Energy Transition
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Bessie Noll\, Doctoral Researcher at ETH Zürich 	In this seminar\, Bessie  will walk through the motivation\, methods\, and results of  her research as well expand on the question of why certain technologies learn faster than others using innovation and technology complexity theory as explanatory factors. The presentation will conclude with thoughts on how this work may impact or inform larger climate models.  	Location: HYBRID W-434 A.B. HKS (Harvard Community) / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 	About the Speaker: Bessie Noll is a Postdoctoral researcher with the Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG) at ETH Zürich. In September 2023\, she successfully defended her PhD\, presenting a dissertation that aims to enhance our comprehension of how public policy can accelerate transformative change in the road transport sector towards low-carbon technologies. In particular\, the thesis argues that policymakers need up-to-date\, quantitative\, approaches to evaluate and project dynamic technology competition and to assess prospective policy impacts on the transition. 	Her current research explores two distinct areas. The first focuses on improving the representation of technological innovation in Integrated Assessment Models\, looking specifically at technology complexity to understand why some technologies learn faster than others. The second focuses on the low-carbon transport transition in Africa\, assessing the role of battery electric versus synthetic fuel vehicles as options for decarbonizing passenger transport.  	Paper: The effects of local interventions on global technological change through spillovers: A modeling framework and application to the road- freight sector 	Abstract 	To address global sustainability challenges\, (public) policy interventions are needed to induce or accelerate technological change. While most policy interventions occur on the local level\, their innovation effects can spill over to other jurisdictions\, potentially having global impact. These spillovers can increase or reduce the incentive for interventions. Lacking to date are computational models that capture these spillover dynamics. In this study\, we devise a conceptual and methodological approach to quantify ex ante the effects of local demand-side interventions on global competition between incumbent and novel technologies. We apply these frameworks to the case of commercial road-freight\, assessing global spillover effects due to different demand-pull interventions and shocks.  	The presentation will walk through the motivation\, methods\, and results of this study\, and as well expand on the question of why certain technologies learn faster than others using innovation and technology complexity theory as explanatory factors. The presentation will conclude with thoughts on how this work may impact or inform larger climate models.  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-modelling-technological-change-in-the-energy-transition/
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T113000
DTSTAMP:20250916T175436Z
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UID:15003-1710928800-1710934200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Contracting Frictions\, Geography\, and Multinational Firms: Evidence from Mexico
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Luis M. Espinoza Bardales\, Ph.D. candidate in Economics from University of Michigan 	Location: Online only. Please register in advance.Abstract: This paper explores how contracting frictions and geography influence the trade costs faced by multinationals’ affiliates located in Mexico relative to domestic firms. Luis documents two key facts. First\, distance to firm’s home countries influences firms’ sourcing patterns. Second\, sectors with a larger presence of foreign affiliates are more intensive in relationship-specific inputs. He develops a small open economy model with multiple sectors\, imperfect contracting\, input relationship-specificity\, global sourcing and multinational production. Luis computes a set of counterfactual equilibria to gauge the relative importance of contracting frictions\, trade costs\, and productivity in the price advantage of multinationals over domestic firms. He finds small median differences between foreign and domestic firms regarding inward trade and contracting costs\, with high variability across industries and home countries. \nAbout the Speaker: Luis Espinoza is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics from University of Michigan. He is also a former Growth Lab Fellow (2014-2016) and holds a MPAID (2014) degree from HKS. He will be joining the International Affairs faculty at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M this Fall. Luis’ research interest lies at the intersection of trade and development. His research focuses on economic development from a sectorial/macro perspective\, with an eye on potential lessons for policy.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-contracting-frictions-geography-and-multinational-firms-evidence-from-mexico/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T004012Z
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UID:15029-1711533600-1711539000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Property Rights and Innovation Dynamism: The Role of Women Inventors
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Speaker: Ruveyda Gozen\, Ph.D. – London School of Economics. 	Location: Online only. Please register in advance. 	Paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K5C4dMtp1toJ7AKAHnORAEZYgX5q84I5/view 	Abstract: How do stronger property rights for disadvantaged groups affect innovation? Dr. Ruveyda Gozen investigates the impact of strengthened property rights for women on U.S. innovation by analyzing the Married Women’s Property Acts\, which granted equal property rights to women starting in 1845 in New York State. She examines the universe of granted patents from 1790 until 1901\, exploiting the staggered adoption of the laws over time across states. The strengthening of women’s property rights led to a 39% increase in patenting activity among women in the long run\, with effects peaking about a decade after the laws were introduced. Importantly\, women’s innovations were not of lower quality (as measured by a novelty index based on patent text analysis)\, without generating negative effects on innovations by men. Therefore\, these findings suggest that there does not appear to be an equity and efficiency trade-off. Finally\, she shows that the main mechanism was through innovation incentives\, and higher human capital accumulation among women inventors rather than an increase in participation in STEM fields\, labor force participation\, or relieving financial frictions. 	Speaker Bio: Dr. Ruveyda Gozen is a research economist at the London School of Economics (LSE) at the Programme of Innovation and Diffusion (POID) directed by John Van Reenen. She is an applied microeconomist with a focus on economics of innovation\, growth\, entrepreneurship\, institutions\, inequality\, and technological progress.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-property-rights-and-innovation-dynamism-the-role-of-women-inventors/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T004149Z
CREATED:20240208T020000Z
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UID:15038-1712138400-1712143800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Economic Impact of Transport Infrastructure: A Review of Project-level vs. Aggregate-level Meta-Evidence
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Speaker: Timo Välilä\, Honorary Professor\, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction\, UCL 	Location: HYBRID: WEXNER W-434 A.B. / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 	Abstract. This article undertakes a comparison of quantitative meta-studies at project level and at aggregate level to assess how well the economic impact of transport infrastructure is understood. Project-level analyses\, based on the so-called Flyvbjerg database\, have documented systematic cost overruns and\, less conclusively\, traffic demand shortfalls\, and they have interpreted these findings as being indicative of negative social welfare consequences of transport infrastructure investment projects. In contrast\, aggregate-level meta-analyses find consistently that there is a positive relationship between transport infrastructure and measured economic activity at the level of regions or countries\, especially in the long run and at higher levels of geographical aggregation. This seeming tension between the meta-results at different levels has been considered a paradox. However\, neither the project-level meta-results\, nor the available ex post evaluations of larger samples of transport infrastructure projects provide any conclusive evidence of their social welfare consequences\, and even if they did\, changes in social welfare and economic activity do not need to point in the same direction. There is therefore no paradox about the economic impact of transport infrastructure – we just do not understand its social welfare consequences at the meta-level as well as we understand its relationship with measured aggregate output.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-economic-impact-of-transport-infrastructure-a-review-of-project-level-vs-aggregate-level-meta-evidence/
LOCATION:WEXNER W-434 A.B. / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T003908Z
CREATED:20240405T233600Z
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UID:15020-1712743200-1712748600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Labor Markets & Green Industrial Policy
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Christophe Combemale\, Assistant Research Professor\, Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon UniversityLocation: WEXNER W-434 A.B. (Harvard Community) / Zoom 	Whether attending in person or online please register in advance.  	About the Speakers:  	Christophe Combemale’s research focuses on the implications of technology choices and process design for skill demand\, and on workforce supply chain levers to meet industry skill demand needs. He is interested in how regional and national labor supply may constrain economic productivity and innovation\, and solutions that enhance outcomes for workers and firms.   	He co-leads the Workforce Supply Chains Initiative at the Block Center for Technology and Society. Last year\, he was the workforce research lead for an NSF-funded pilot program seeking to develop a National Network for Critical Technology Assessment. The program developed assessment capabilities for critical technologies for U.S. competitiveness\, to offer insights to U.S. legislators and other policy stakeholders. 	Combemale is also the CEO of Valdos Consulting\, a firm specializing in techno-economic modeling to support market\, technology\, and workforce strategy. Combemale and team currently apply these domains on behalf of federal\, academic and private clients in health and human services\, technology services as well as advanced manufacturing including semiconductors\, robotics\, electric vehicles\, and defense industrial applications.  	  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-labor-markets-green-industrial-policy/
LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-434 AB\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T160000
DTSTAMP:20250910T003225Z
CREATED:20240422T143600Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Extraversion and Development: The Logic of Industrial Policy in Post-Liberation Africa
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Nicolas Lippolis\, Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia Climate SchoolLocation: R414-B / ZoomWhether attending in person or online please register in advance.Speaker Bio: Nicolas obtained his doctorate (DPhil) in Politics from the University of Oxford. Prior to the doctorate\, Nicolas earned an MSc in Economics for Development and a BA in Philosophy\, Politics and Economics\, both from Oxford University. He has taught at Oxford\, Sciences Po Paris\, and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has also consulted with the World Bank\, and previously worked in emerging markets macroeconomic research at Goldman Sachs in London. Nicolas is a native of Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-extraversion-and-development-the-logic-of-industrial-policy-in-post-liberation-africa/
LOCATION:R414-B / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Economic implications of the Inflation Reduction Act: A Dynamic Analysis
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Speakers:  	María C. Latorre\, Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense of MadridDavid Suárez-Cuesta\, Faculty Member at Universidad Complutense of MadridLocation: Wexner-102 / ZoomWhether attending in person or online please register in advance. 	Abstract: We expand a dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the economic impact of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This approach allows for a comprehensive economic analysis\, considering both macro and microeconomic implications. The IRA encompasses a range of policy measures\, both expansionary and contractionary\, implemented between 2022 and 2031. By employing a combination of tax incentives and reforms\, the IRA leads to a modest overall increase in U.S. GDP\, reaching its peak in the mid-decade. However\, these positive effects are tempered by inflationary pressures\, resulting in reduced export competitiveness\, except in sectors directly affected by the IRA\, such as Motor Vehicles and Electrical Equipment. Additionally\, the tax reforms aimed at financing the IRA primarily target corporations\, leading to a significant contractionary effect on the economy. This results in a slight reduction in employment demand but an increase in real wages. We extend beyond the initial estimations provided by the Congressional Budget Office\, which projected $393 billion in tax credits\, by simulating two additional scenarios: 1) accounting for the uncapped effect of tax credits\, considering that private investment announcements resulting from the IRA already exceed the $393 billion threshold in the first year of implementation; and 2) exploring an alternative funding approach through taxes on workers. 	About the Speakers: 	María C. Latorre is Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and Member of the Group of Experts in Trade of the European Commission. She is Co-chair of the research groups in Data Science and Global Governance both from Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) at Harvard University and Research Fellow from this institution. She leads the “Una Europa Global Governance Research Group.” 	David Suárez-Cuesta is a Faculty Member at Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and Project Operation Manager of the Global Governance Research Group and Member of the Study Group in Data Science from RCC at Harvard University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-economic-implications-of-the-inflation-reduction-act-a-dynamic-analysis/
LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER -102 / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Unveiling the Latent Structures within the Global Science System
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Speaker: Lili Miao\, Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University\, School of Informatics\, Computing\, and Engineering 	Location: W434-B / Zoom Whether attending in person or online please register in advance. 	Speaker Bio: Lili Miao is a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University\, School of Informatics\, Computing\, and Engineering. Her research focuses on applying computational methods to understand the interactions among science\, innovation\, and society. Besides publishing in renowned venues\, her research has served as an integral basis for formulating a pilot program—A National Network for Critical Technology Assessment—funded by the NSF and dedicated to informing U.S. national technology policy. She is a recipient of several awards including the Humane Studies Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies and the Best Poster Award at the 1st International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation. 	Paper Abstract: Science is crucial for innovation and economic prosperity. While numerous studies have investigated the factors influencing national scientific development\, it remains unclear whether universal structures and trajectories exist. Meanwhile\, science is increasingly a global activity\, characterized by the exchange of knowledge\, resources\, and people across national borders. Exchanges\, however\, can often be asymmetrical\, posing risks and costs to global science. Using bibliometric data\, this talk will delve into the underlying structures of national scientific development and examine the impact of global funding and collaboration on national scientific development. The talk will discuss the vicious cycles that hinder the scientific development of developing countries\, the benefits and risks of relying on foreign scientific funding\, and the threats to achieving an equitable global science system. It will conclude with a review of relevant global science policies and recommendations for leveraging large-scale data to formulate and evaluate national and international science policies.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-unveiling-the-latent-structures-within-the-global-science-system/
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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