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SUMMARY:Green Technological Diversification: The Role of International Linkages in Leader and Follower Countries
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: Andrea Morrison\, Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Political and Social Sciences\, University of Pavia	 			Abstract: To achieve a more environmentally sustainable economy\, countries must diversify their innovation efforts towards green technologies. Technological diversification is understood as a path-dependent process constrained by endogenous (local) capabilities. In this context\, the increasing global connectivity and the internationalization of innovative activity makes the role of external knowledge linkages more and more relevant.  This paper investigates the process of green technological diversification in 49 countries over a 40-year time span\, aiming at unveiling the role of external linkages\, as proxied by co-inventor collaborations. Results show that international co-inventor linkages among countries with complementary capabilities support green diversification. On the other hand\, the existence of linkages per se facilitates does not affect diversification.				 				This seminar will take place via Zoom. Please register in advance.				 				About the speaker: Andrea Morrison is currently Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Political and Social Sciences\, University of Pavia and Adjunct Professor of Innovation and Sustainability at the Department of Management and Technology\, Bocconi University. He is also research fellow at ICRIOS Bocconi University. He holds a M.A in Development Economics from the University of Sussex and a Ph.D. in Economic Development\, Institutions and Sustainability from the University of Roma Tre. His research interests lie in the areas of evolutionary economics\, innovation studies and economic geography. He has investigated extensively topics like system of innovation\, industrial clusters and knowledge networks\, global value chain\, green innovation\, high skilled migration.		 	 	 	 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/green-technological-diversification-the-role-of-international-linkages-in-leader-and-follower-countries/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Export Diversification Strategy: The Case of Knowledge-Intensive Services in Costa Rica
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. 	Speaker: Andres Valenciano\, John F. Kennedy Fellow\, HKS MC/MPA ’23 	Moderator: Alejandro Rueda-Sanz\, Research Fellow\, Growth Lab 	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. 	Lunch will be provided. Please arrive at 11:45 am to allow for lunch\, seating\, and a prompt start at 12 pm. 	About the speaker: 	Andres is currently a John F. Kennedy Fellow at the MC/MPA program at Harvard Kennedy School. Previously he was the Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica\, responsible for Costa Rican foreign trade policies\, export promotion\, and attraction of foreign investment\, as well as the official representation before several multilateral organizations\, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). During his tenure\, he was responsible for leading the final stage of the accession process for Costa Rica to become the 38th member of the OECD. In this period\, Costa Rica became the number one country in the world in greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction.  	Before becoming Minister\, Andres was the Executive President of the Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje\, where he oversaw technical and vocational education in Costa Rica and led the most important and far-reaching transformation the organization has undergone since its foundation in 1965. Previously\, he was Executive Director of local and international NGOs\, and worked in education\, health\, social housing\, and economic development projects in over 12 countries in 3 continents\, in partnership with IADB\, UNDP\, PAHO\, ILO\, among others. 	Andres is an Industrial Engineer from the University of Costa Rica\, with a Master’s degree in International Business from The Fletcher School – Tufts University\, and a Lee Kuan Yew School Senior Fellow from the National University of Singapore.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/export-diversification-strategy-the-case-of-knowledge-intensive-services-in-costa-rica/
LOCATION:Wexner 434 AB\, Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221128T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221128T123000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Electoral Turnovers
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: Vincent Pons\, Associate Professor\, Harvard Business School 	Abstract: In most national elections\, voters face a key choice between continuity and change. Electoral turnovers occur when the incumbent candidate or party fails to win reelection. To understand how turnovers affect national outcomes\, we study the universe of residential and parliamentary elections held since 1945. We document the prevalence of turnovers over time and estimate their effects on economic performance\, trade\, human development\, conflict\, and democracy. Using a close-elections regression discontinuity design (RDD) across countries\, we show that turnovers improve country performance. These effects are not driven by differences in the characteristics of challengers\, or by the fact that challengers systematically increase the level of government intervention in the economy. Electing new leaders leads to more policy change\, it improves governance\, and it reduces perceived corruption\, consistent with the expectation that recently elected leaders exert more effort due to stronger reputation concerns. 	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. \nAbout the speaker: 	Vincent Pons is an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School\, and affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)\, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)\, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). ​ 	Across the world\, dissatisfaction with elected governments is at all-time highs. His research aims to understand why representative democracies can fail to deliver leaders\, policies and outcomes aligned with people’s preferences. His work has appeared in journals such as Econometrica\, the American Economic Review\, the Quarterly Journal of Economics\, and the American Political Science Review. It has been covered by The New York Times\, The Economist\, PRI’s The World\, the Huffington Post\, le Monde\, and BFM Business among others.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-electoral-turnovers/
LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Why Follow the Fed? Monetary Policy in Times of US Tightening
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: Gonzalo Huertas\, Economist\, International Monetary Fund 	Abstract: I conduct interviews with 32 Central Bankers from Emerging Markets and present five unifying themes that explain their behavior when reacting to a U.S. monetary tightening. I then estimate the impulse response functions of their two main monetary tools\, the policy rate and foreign exchange interventions\, to an increase in the U.S. rate\, using the answers from the interviews as a guide for the best econometric specification. I find that most Central Banks react to a U.S. tightening by raising domestic rates\, regardless of the exchange rate regime\, but their reasons for doing so vary — from controlling inflation to preventing capital outflows. 	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. \nAbout the speaker: 	Gonzalo Huertas is an economist at the International Monetary Fund. He specializes in international macroeconomics\, with a focus on monetary policy\, capital flows\, and debt sustainability. Previously\, he conducted research at the Peterson Institute for International Economics\, and has worked in policy at the Ministry of Finance of Mexico and the National Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/why-follow-the-fed-monetary-policy-in-times-of-us-tightening/
LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221114T111500
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SUMMARY:Heterogeneous Trade Agreements: Evidence from Apparel Trade
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: Dr. Raymond Robertson\, Director of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade\, Economics\, and Public Policy\, Professor\, and Helen and Roy Ryu Chair in Economics and Government\, the Bush School of Government and Public Service\, Texas A&M 	Abstract: In this paper\, we revisit and assess the heterogeneous effects of RTAs on trade flows. Using the Poisson Pseudo maximum likelihood (PPML) estimator with high-dimensional fixed effects\, we account for multiple characteristics of the trading partners\, including their membership in other RTAs\, and the problem of incidental parameters. Our main focus is on apparel trade\, which is politically sensitive and tends to have heterogeneous Rules of Origin (ROOs) within RTAs. Studies show that ROOs can restrict trade if they are either complicated or narrowly specified (Cadot and de Melo 2007\, Angeli et al. 2020) and we show that the variance of the estimated effect of RTAs on apparel trade is significantly higher than the variance for total trade. In addition to contributing to trade agreement heterogeneity\, apparel also plays a pivotal role in economic development and reducing emigration by drawing workers from agriculture and informality because apparel production has lower start-up costs and pays higher wages than other domestic alternatives for similar workers (Robertson et al. 2020 and 2022). Together our results suggest that understanding trade agreement heterogeneity\, especially in the apparel sector\, can have significant policy implications. Focusing on the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR)\, for example\, suggests that updating ROOs could significantly reduce migration from Central America. 	Please register in advance.  	About the speaker: 	Dr. Raymond Robertson is Professor and holder of the Helen and Roy Ryu Chair in Economics and Government in the Departments of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service and the Director of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade\, Economics\, and Public Policy. He is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn\, Germany\, and a senior research fellow at the Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center. He was named a 2018 Presidential Impact Fellow by Texas A&M University. Robertson earned a BA in political science and economics from Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas\, and an MS and PhD in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at the Graduate School of Administration\, Monterrey Institute of Technology’s Mexico City campus. Widely published in the field of labor economics and international economics\, Robertson previously chaired the US Department of Labor’s National Advisory Committee for Labor Provisions of the US Free Trade Agreements and served on both the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and the Center for Global Development’s advisory board.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/heterogeneous-trade-agreements-evidence-from-apparel-trade/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T140000
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SUMMARY:Development Talk: Culture\, Psychology and Economic Development
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. 	Speaker: Joseph Henrich\, Ruth Moore Professor\, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology\, Harvard University 	Moderator: Eliana La Ferrara\, Professor of Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School 	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. 	Lunch will be provided. Please arrive at 11:45 am to allow for lunch\, seating\, and a prompt start at 12 pm. 	About the speaker: 	Dr. Henrich is currently the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Before moving to Harvard\, he was a professor of both Economics and Psychology at the University of British Columbia for nearly a decade\, where he held the Canada Research Chair in Culture\, Cognition and Coevolution. His research deploys evolutionary theory to understand how human psychology gives rise to cultural evolution and how this has shaped our species’ genetic evolution. Using insights generated from this approach\, Professor Henrich has explored a variety of topics\, including economic decision-making\, social norms\, fairness\, religion\, marriage\, prestige\, cooperation and innovation. In 2016\, he published The Secret of Our Success (Princeton) and in 2020\, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous (FSG).
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-culture-psychology-and-economic-development/
LOCATION:Rubenstein 414 AB / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221107T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221107T123000
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SUMMARY:Reversing Fortunes of German Regions\, 1926–2019: Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?
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: Sebastian Braun\, Professor of Economics\, University of Bayreuth 	Abstract: This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany’s economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany\, we establish that nearly half of them experienced a reversal of fortune between 1926 and 2019\, i.e.\, they moved from the lower to the upper median of the income distribution or vice versa. Economic decline is concentrated in North Germany\, economic ascent in the South. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in access to coal\, we show that early industrialization turned from an advantage for economic development to a burden after World War II. The dominant position of heavy industry\, supported by the local political-administrative system\, limited regional adaptability when the old industries fell into crisis. Today\, the early industrialized regions suffer from low innovation and deindustrialization. The (time-varying) effect of industrialization explains most of the decline in regional inequality observed in the 1960s and 1970s and about half of the current north-south gap in economic 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. 	About the speaker: 	Sebastian Braun is Professor of Economics at the University of Bayreuth where he holds the chair for Quantitative Economic History. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Before joining the University of Bayreuth\, he was an Associate Professor at the University of St Andrews and a Senior Researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Sebastian works at the intersection of international and regional economics\, labor economics\, and quantitative economic history. His main current research is on the economic effects of immigration and the causes of regional differences in economic development\, with a focus on Germany in the 19th and 20th century. His current work on the long-term effects of industrialization on regional economic development in Germany is supported by a grant of the German Science Foundation.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/reversing-fortunes-of-german-regions-1926-2019-boon-and-bane-of-early-industrialization/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T120000
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SUMMARY:Development Talk: Political Favoritism and Regime Stability - Why Bad Policy is Almost Always Good Politics
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.  	Speakers:Bruce Bueno de Mesquita\, Silver Professor; Professor of Politics\, New York UniversityAlastair Smith\, Bernhardt Denmark Professor of International Relations\, New York University 	Moderator: José Morales-Arilla\, Research Fellow\, Growth Lab; Postdoctoral Fellow\, Department of Politics\, Princeton University 	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. 	Lunch will be provided. Please arrive at 11:45am to allow for lunch\, seating\, and a prompt start at 12pm. 	About the speakers \nBruce Bueno de Mesquita is an emeritus senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Silver Professor of Politics at New York University (NYU). An expert on foreign policy and nation building\, his current research focuses on political institutions\, economic growth\, and political change. He is also known for his research on policy forecasting for national security and for business concerns. 	  \nAlastair Smith is the Bernhardt Denmark Chair of International Relations at New York University and a professor of political science in the Wilf Family Department of Politics. He has a PhD in political science from the University of Rochester and a BA in Chemistry from the University of Oxford.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-political-favoritism-and-regime-stability-why-bad-policy-is-almost-always-good-politics/
LOCATION:T-520 Allison Dining Room\, Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221031T130000
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SUMMARY:Development Talk: The Role of Business in South Africa's Future
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. This event is co-sponsored by Harvard’s Center for African Studies.  	Speaker: Ann Bernstein\, Executive Director\, Centre for Development and Enterprise\, South Africa 	Moderator: Soraya Mohideen\, Harvard South Africa Fellow\, HKS Mid-Career MPA ’23 	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. 	Lunch will be provided. Please arrive at 11:45am to allow for lunch\, seating\, and a prompt start at 12pm. \nAbout the speaker: 	Ann Bernstein heads the Centre for Development and Enterprise\, South Africa. An independent think tank CDE is South Africa’s leading development policy centre\, with a special focus on growth\, jobs\, education\, cities and the role of business. Member of the Transition Team\, then the Board of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (1994 – 2001). Fellow\, National Endowment for Democracy\, Washington DC (2005). Public Policy Scholar\, Woodrow Wilson Center\, Washington DC\, 2013. Board member Brenthurst Foundation 2007-2017. In 2008 and 2009 invited African faculty member\, World Economic Forum\, Davos. Invited Fellow Bellagio Center\, Rockefeller Foundation 2016. Her book\, The Case for Business in Developing Economies (Penguin 2010) received favourable reviews in South African media\, the Economist\, Financial Times\, Forbes and elsewhere. The book won the Sir Anthony Fisher Award 2012\, Atlas Research Foundation\, Washington DC.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-the-role-of-business-in-south-africas-future/
LOCATION:Wexner 434 AB\, Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221031T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221031T113000
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SUMMARY:The Impact of Automation and the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Labor Market and the Causes of the Great Resignation
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: R. Maria del Rio Chanona\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Complexity Science Hub Vienna 	Abstract: In the first part of this talk\, we present a non-equilibrium and data-driven network model for understanding how workers adapt to changes in labor demand. In this model\, workers move through an empirically derived occupational mobility network in response to automation scenarios. We find that the network structure is essential in determining unemployment levels\, with occupations in particular areas of the network having few job transition opportunities. In the second part\, we discuss how the Covid-19 pandemic affected the economy and how it led to the Great Resignation (i.e.\, the U.S. record high quit rates reached 2021) in the longer term. We use Reddit data and text analysis to show that mental health concerns have increased among the job quitting discourse since the start of the pandemic\, likely contributing to the rise in quits. 	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.  \nAbout the speaker: 	Maria del Rio-Chanona has been a JSMF (James S. McDonnell Foundation) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna since June 2021 and affiliate at the Growth Lab at Harvard University’s Center for International Development (CID) for the Fall semester 2022. Maria has a PhD in mathematics from Oxford University\, where she was part of the complexity economics group of the Institute for New Economic Thinking\, Oxford Martin School. She has worked alongside international policy organizations\, including the International Monetary Fund and the International Labour Organisation. Maria did her undergraduate studies in physics at UNAM\, Mexico. Maria’s research draws from network science\, natural language processing\, and agent-based modeling and focuses on the future of work\, green transition\, Great Resignation\, and the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/the-impact-of-automation-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-the-labor-market-and-the-causes-of-the-great-resignation/
LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T113000
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SUMMARY:Hyperspecialization and Hyperscaling: A Resource-based Theory of the Digital 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. 	Speaker: Gianluigi Giustiziero\, Assistant Professor of Strategy\, IE Business School 	Abstract: Digital firms tend to be both narrow in their vertical scope and large in their scale. We explain this phenomenon through a theory about how attributes of firms’ resource bundles impact their scale and specialization. We posit that highly scalable resource bundles entail significant opportunity costs of integration (versus outsourcing)\, which simultaneously drive “hyperspecialization” and “hyperscaling” in digital firms. Using descriptive theory and a formal model\, we develop several propositions that align with observed features of digital businesses. We offer a parsimonious modeling framework for resource-based theorizing about highly scalable digital firms\, shed light on the phenomenon of digital scaling\, and provide insights into the far-reaching ways that technology-enabled resources are reshaping firms in the digital economy. 	Please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. \nAbout the speaker:  	Gianluigi Giustiziero is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at IE Business School. He received his PhD in Strategy from the University of Michigan. Inspired by the classical work of Adam Smith and George Stigler\, Gianluigi studies the impact of resource attributes and demand characteristics on the division of labor. At the time of their writing Adam Smith drew insights from butchers\, bakers and brewers in the Highlands of Scotland in 1776\, and George Stigler from the Lancashire textile industry in 1951; nowadays the productive system in developed economies is mainly devoted to the tertiary and quaternary sectors. Moving with the times\, Gianluigi applies and extends the classic theories to service and high-tech industries.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/hyperspecialization-and-hyperscaling-a-resource-based-theory-of-the-digital-firm/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221019T130000
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SUMMARY:Development Talk: Gambling on Development / The Role of Local Elites in a Growth-based Future
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.Speaker: Stefan Dercon\, Professor of Economic Policy\, Oxford’s Blavatnik School of GovernmentModerator: Clement Brenot\, Research Manager\, Growth Lab 	Prof. Dercon’s latest book\, Gambling on Development: Why some countries win and others lose  draws on his academic research as well as his policy experience across three decades and 40-odd countries\, exploring why some countries have managed to settle on elite bargains favoring growth and development\, and others did not. 	Please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. \nAbout the speaker: 	Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department\, and a Fellow of Jesus College. He is also Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. 	He combines his academic career with work as a policy advisor\, providing strategic economic and development advice\, and promoting the use of evidence in decision making. Between 2011 and 2017\, he was Chief Economist of the Department of International Development (DFID)\, the government department in charge with the UK’s aid policy and spending. Between 2020-2022\, he was the Development Policy Advisor to successive Foreign Secretaries at the UK’s Foreign\, Commonwealth and Development Office.  	His research interests concern what keeps some people and countries poor: the failures of markets\, governments and politics\, mainly in Africa\, and how to achieve change.  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-gambling-on-development-the-role-of-local-elites-in-a-growth-based-future/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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SUMMARY:The Value of Skills: New Evidence From Apprenticeship Plans
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 seminar is co-sponsored by the Project on Workforce at Harvard University. 	Speaker: Christina Langer\, PhD candidate at KU Eichstaett-Ingolstadt\, Visiting Research Fellow at HKS\, Associate at the Growth Lab 	Abstract: We construct novel measures of worker skills that are directly relevant on the labor market\, objective\, and highly detailed. To do so\, we exploit the unique setting of the German apprenticeship system\, which mandates that the same skills are developed in a particular apprenticeship regardless of the training location. Skill requirements of apprenticeships are codified in state-approved\, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans not only provide information on the skill content of apprenticeships\, containing almost 20\,000 different skills\, but also on the exact duration a specific skill is learnt. We link the skill measures to administrative labor market data covering more than 40 years. Following apprenticed workers over their careers\, we find that workers who completed an apprenticeship that provides higher cognitive\, social\, or digital skills earn higher wages over long-run horizons. The returns to an additional month of learning these skills amounts to one-tenth to one-fifth of the return to a full year of schooling. Exploiting the long time coverage of our administrative data\, we document that particularly returns to digital skills have soared since the 1990s. Returns to social skills have also increased strongly over time\, while the increase in returns to cognitive skills is more muted. 	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. 	Contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/the-value-of-skills-new-evidence-from-apprenticeship-plans/
LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220926T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220926T160000
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SUMMARY:Betting on Green: Namibia's Green Hydrogen Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: James Mnyupe\, Economic Advisor to the President\, Republic of Namibia \n	Moderator: Daniel Schrag\, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University\, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering\, and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment \n	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. \n	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. \n\nAbout the speaker: \n	Mr. Mnyupe is a multidisciplinary financial professional with a background in accounting\, asset management and wealth management. A graduate of UNAM and Rhodes University\, Mr. Mnyupe plied his trade in the private sector for over a decade auditing a wide variety of companies in all 3 sectors of the Namibian economy and undertook extensive research on listed securities on the local stock exchange. He led one of Namibia’s prominent asset management firms for 5 years\, was the Founding Chair of the Namibia Savings and Investment Association\, was appointed to the High Level Panel on the Namibian Economy in 2019 by His excellency Hage Geingob and holds the CA\, CFA and CFP designations.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/betting-on-green-namibias-green-hydrogen-agenda/
LOCATION:R-414 AB / Democracy Lab & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T130000
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SUMMARY:Development Talk: In Search of the Promised Land - Mobility and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.  	Speaker: Leah Boustan\, Professor of Economics\, Princeton University 	Moderator: Nikita Taniparti\, Research Manager\, Growth Lab 	Prof. Leah Boustan will discuss her work\, including her new book Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success\, on the mass migration from Europe to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The discussion will address the prevailing narratives about the effects of migration and what that might suggest for policy design and debate.​​ 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. Non-Harvard attendees should review the HKS Visitor’s Policy.  \nAbout the speaker:  	Leah Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University\, where she also serves as the Director of the Industrial Relations Section. Her research lies at the intersection between economic history and labor economics. Her first book\, Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press\, 2016) examines the effect of the Great Black Migration from the rural south during and after World War II. Her recent work\, including her new book Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success (PublicAffairs 2022)\, is on the mass migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  	Professor Boustan is co-director of the Development of the American Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She also serves as co-editor at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Professor Boustan was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2012 and won the IZA Young Labor Economists Award in 2019.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-in-search-of-the-promised-land-mobility-and-economic-outcomes-in-the-age-of-mass-migration/
LOCATION:T-520 NYE A & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T180000
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SUMMARY:Get to Know the Growth Lab: Research and Student Engagement Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the Growth Lab’s mission and approach\, our academic research and policy engagements\, and student opportunities. You’ll hear directly from the Growth Lab’s senior leadership\, fellows\, and staff. 	Speakers include:Ricardo Hausmann – Director\, Growth Lab; Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy\, HKS 	RSVP is required. Contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. 	Refreshments will be served. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/get-to-know-the-growth-lab-research-and-student-engagement-showcase/
LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse / Littauer Building
CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T160000
DTSTAMP:20260415T111709
CREATED:20220907T180300Z
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SUMMARY:Development Talks: Charting the Future of MENA - Q&A with UAE's Minister of Economy
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. 	Speaker: HE Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri\, Cabinet Member & UAE Minister of Economy 	Moderator: Ricardo Hausmann\, Director\, Growth Lab; Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy\, HKS 	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. Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. \nAbout the speaker: 	H.E. Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri was appointed Minister of Economy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) under the new government structure approved in July 2020. He is chairman of the General Civil Aviation Authority\, UAE International Investors Council\, and CSR UAE Fund’s Board of Trustees. 	Prior to his appointment\, H.E. Al Marri held important positions in the government as a senior\, top-ranking official. He was the Secretary General of the UAE Cabinet since 2017\, during which he was instrumental in strengthening the interdependence between the federal and local governments. In this role\, he also spearheaded many initiatives to get the pulse of the people and know their sentiments\, as well as build the UAE’s long-lasting relations with international organizations such as the World Economic Forum.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talks-charting-the-future-of-mena-qa-with-uaes-minister-of-economy/
LOCATION:Land Hall (B-400) / Belfer Building & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220728T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220728T110000
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SUMMARY:Development Talks: Why We Fight  - The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.  	Speaker: Chris Blattman\, Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute and Harris School of Public Policy 	Chris will discuss his new book\, Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace. The book draws on decades of economics\, political science\, psychology\, and real-world interventions to lay out the root causes and remedies for war\, showing that violence is not the norm; that there are only five reasons why conflict wins over compromise; and how peacemakers turn the tides through tinkering\, not transformation. 	Moderator: José Morales-Arilla\, Research Fellow\, Growth Lab; Postdoctoral Fellow\, Department of Politics\, Princeton University 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community.  \nAbout the speaker: 	Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute and Harris School of Public Policy\, he coleads the Development Economics Center and directs the Obama Foundation Scholars program. His work on violence\, crime\, and poverty has been widely covered by The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, Forbes\, Slate\, Vox\, and NPR. He is an economist and political scientist who studies violence\, crime\, and underdevelopment. His most recent book is Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talks-why-we-fight-the-roots-of-war-and-the-paths-to-peace/
LOCATION:T-520 NYE A & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220607T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220607T113000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Land Quality
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: David N. Weil\, James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics at Brown University 	Abstract: We develop a new measure of land quality by estimating weights in a Poisson regression of population in grid cells on a vector of geographic characteristics and country fixed effects. Aggregating to the level of countries\, we construct average land quality (ALQ) and quality-adjusted population density (QAPD). We establish several novel facts. First\, current income per capita is positively correlated with ALQ. Second\, while income today is unrelated to conventional population density\, it is strongly negatively related to QAPD. Third\, this negative relationship was not present in 1820 and emerged because today’s lower income countries have experienced faster population growth since then. Fourth\, countries with higher average land quality began sustained modern economic growth earlier\, and this earlier takeoff largely explains the ALQ-modern income relationship. We posit a framework in which higher land quality led to denser populations in Malthusian equilibrium and\, via agglomeration effects\, an earlier takeoff from that equilibrium. Less dense countries that took off later experienced larger multiplications of their populations over the course of the demographic transition due to the import of health technologies from countries that took off first. 	Paper co-authored with J. Vernon Henderson and Adam Storeygard 	Whether attending in-person or over Zoom\, please register in advance. Room attendance in R-304 is limited to the Harvard community only. Contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. 	About the speaker: 	David N. Weil is James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics at Brown University\, director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Wealth and Income Inequality Project at Brown\, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Weil has written widely on various aspects of economic growth\, including the empirical determinants of income variation among countries\, the contribution of health improvements to growth\, the geographic determinants of development\, the measurement of income inequality\, the accumulation of physical capital\, international technology transfer\, population growth\, and the use of satellite observation as a measurement tool. His textbook on growth has been translated into six languages. He has also written on assorted topics in demographic and health economics including the economic impacts of malaria and salt iodization\, population aging\, Social Security\, the gender wage gap\, retirement\, and the relationship between demographics and house prices. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1990.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-land-quality/
LOCATION:R-304 & Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Detection of Artisanal and Small-scale Mines
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: Mathieu Couttenier\, Professor\, University of Lyon and Ecole Normale Superieur 	Abstract: Artisanal and small-scale mines (ASM) are on the rise. They represent a crucial source of wealth for numerous communities but are rarely monitored or regulated. The main reason being the unavailability of reliable information on the precise location of the ASM which are mostly operated informally or illegally. We address this issue by developing a strategy to map the ASM locations using a convolutional neural network for image segmentation\, aiming to detect surface mining with satellite data. Our novel dataset is the first comprehensive measure of ASM activity over a vast area: we cover 1.75 million km² across 13 countries in Sub-Tropical West Africa. Our procedure is remarkably robust\, which makes us confident that our method can be applied to other parts of Africa or the World\, thus facilitating research and policy opportunities on this sector. 	Whether attending in-person or over Zoom\, please register in advance. Room attendance in WEX-434 is limited to the Harvard community only. Contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. 	About the speaker:  	Mathieu Couttenier obtained his PhD in Economics in 2011 at the University Paris 1 Sorbonne\, Paris School of Economics. Before joining the University of Lyon and Ecole Normale Superieur (September 2018)\, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva. He was also post-doc at the University of Lausanne\, visiting researcher at the department of political sciences at Stanford and at the economic department at Sciences Po Paris. His research is filled with interactions between economics and political sciences but also cultural\, institutional and geographical issues. He focuses on microeconomic questions\, in particular in the field of applied political economy. His main research interests are in the understanding of violence and civil wars. He has published many academic papers on the role played by income shocks\, natural resources or climate on the diffusion of conflicts over space and time. Some of his present research agenda also studies the political economy aspects of media coverage or of international economics. He has published in many leading peer-refereed journals\, such as the American Economic Review\, Economic Journal\, Review of Economics and Statistics\, Journal of the European Economic Association\, Journal of Development Economics and the Journal of Comparative Economics. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-detection-of-artisanal-and-small-scale-mines/
LOCATION:WEX-434 & Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220523T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220523T113000
DTSTAMP:20260415T111709
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Closing Regional Economic Divides
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: Gordon Hanson\, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy\, HKS 	Abstract: How to help lagging regions create better jobs for disadvantaged workers? Traditional industrial regions have fallen behind economically across high-income countries due to globalization\, new technology\, and now the energy transition. We need new approaches to diagnose the causes of persistent regional economic distress and the effectiveness of alternative policies in relieving this distress. 	Whether attending in-person or over Zoom\, please register in advance. Room attendance in Weil Town Hall is limited to the Harvard community only. Contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. 	About the speaker: 	Gordon Hanson is the Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Hanson received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1992 and his B.A. in economics from Occidental College in 1986. Prior to joining Harvard in 2020\, he held the Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations at UC San Diego\, where he was founding director of the Center on Global Transformation. Hanson previously served on the economics faculties of the University of Michigan and the University of Texas. In his scholarship\, Hanson specializes in international trade\, international migration and economic geography. He has published extensively in top economics journals\, is widely cited for his research by scholars from across the social sciences and is frequently quoted in major media outlets. Hanson’s current research addresses how globalization in the form of immigration and expanded trade with China have affected U.S. local labor markets. In a new endeavor\, he is working with a multidisciplinary team of scholars to use satellite imagery to assess the impacts of expanding transportation networks\, exposure to extreme weather\, and related events on urban economic activity
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-closing-regional-economic-divides/
LOCATION:Belfer Weil Town Hall / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220516T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220516T113000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Geographic spillovers and firm exports | Evidence from China
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: Lin Tian\, Assistant Professor of Economics at INSEAD 	Abstract: This paper empirically investigates geographic spillovers in the export market. We first embed a knowledge diffusion model into an open-economy heterogeneous firm framework\, to provide a microfounded theory on how access to other exporters affects a firm’s export performance. Motivated by the model\, we leverage the expansion of China’s high-speed rail (HSR) as a quasi-experiment to provide plausibly exogenous variation in the access to other exporters (and their insights) for Chinese firms. We find that with the HSR opening\, the geographical spillovers from connected cities improve firms’ export performance both intensively and extensively. Additionally\, we demonstrate that – consistent with the theory – the geographic spillover effects are heterogeneous along dimensions such as firm size\, product complexity\, and firm location. 	Please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. The seminar will be hybrid\, with Lin presenting in-person for the Harvard community only in Wexner 434A. 	About the speaker: 	Lin Tian is an Assistant Professor of Economics at INSEAD and a CEPR research affiliate. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University\, and earned her PhD in Economics at Columbia University. Lin’s research aims at uncovering factors that contribute to the variation of economic activities across space and highlighting the socio-economic impacts of these spatial disparities.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-geographic-spillovers-and-firm-exports-evidence-from-china/
LOCATION:Wexner 434A\, Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220511T131500
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SUMMARY:Development Talks - A Journey of Impact in Namibia: From the Private Sector to Policymaking
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.  	Speaker: Nangula Uaandja\, CEO\, Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board 	Moderator: Nikita Taniparti\, Research Manager\, Growth Lab 	Please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. \nAbout the speaker: 	Nangula Uaandja is a chartered accountant by profession and is currently the CEO of the newly established Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board. The Board\, a public entity in the Presidency in Namibia\, is tasked with the mandate of promoting and facilitating foreign and domestic investments as well as the development of SMEs. Until December 2020\, Nangula served as Partner at PwC Namibia with more than 20 years experience in auditing\, and she has also been involved in non-audit work such as consulting\, fraud investigation\, budgetary processes\, etc. Nangula was named Namibia’s Businesswoman of the year in 2011. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talks-a-journey-of-impact-in-namibia-from-the-private-sector-to-policymaking/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220509T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220509T113000
DTSTAMP:20260415T111709
CREATED:20220504T183900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003926Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Migration and Cultural 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. 	Speaker: Hillel Rapoport\, Professor of Economics (and Director of International Relations) at the Paris School of Economics 	Abstract: We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking both theoretically and empirically – and from a global viewpoint – whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries. Our theoretical model derives distinctive testable predictions as to the sign and direction of convergence for various compositional and cultural diffusion mechanisms. We use the World Value Survey for 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of cultural similarity for a large number of country pairs and exploit within country-pair variation over time. Our results support migration-based cultural convergence\, with cultural remittances as its main driver. In other words and in contrast to the populist narrative\, we find that while immigrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion\, this is mostly to export the host country culture back home.  	Please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. The seminar will be hybrid\, with Hillel presenting in-person for the Harvard community only in Weil Town Hall. 	About the speaker:  	Hillel Rapoport is Professor of Economics (and Director of International Relations) at the Paris School of Economics\, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne\, and Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) since 2021. He is also a research fellow at CEPII\, IZA\, CESifo\, Harvard CID\, Kiel Institute for the World Economy\, LISER\, and European Development Network (EUDN). He was a member of Bar-Ilan University until 2013 and held visiting positions at Stanford University (in 2001-03) and at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (in 2009-11). Since 2008 he is the scientific coordinator of the “Migration and Development” annual conferences jointly organized by the World Bank and the French Development Agency. His research focuses on the growth and developmental impact of migration and on the economics of immigration\, diversity\, and refugees’ integration. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-migration-and-cultural-change/
LOCATION:Weil Town Hall – Belfer/Zoom (registration info below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T130000
DTSTAMP:20260415T111709
CREATED:20220329T212100Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Colonialism and Development
DESCRIPTION:This seminar is the fourth in our Diversity in Development series. This panel will investigate connections between the world history of colonialism and related racism within the international development sector. Further\, the panelists\, both female scholars of color\, will discuss their visions of decolonizing the development sector. 	Panelists:Zophia Edwards\, Associate Professor\, Providence CollegeOlivia Rutazibwa\, Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics\, LSE 	Moderator: Syeda Masood\, HKS MPA/ID 2008 	Please register in advance and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions.  	This series is hosted in coordination with the MPA/ID Program and the MPA/ID alumni community.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/seminar-colonialism-and-development/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T131500
DTSTAMP:20260415T111709
CREATED:20220330T014100Z
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SUMMARY:Development Talks: Community Engagement as a Frontline to National Development
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.  	Topic: Community Engagement as a Frontline to National Development: The Peace Corps Experience 	Speaker: Dr. Josephine (Jody) K. Olsen\, Executive Director of U.S. Peace Corps (2017-2021) 	Moderator: Tim Freeman\, Research Fellow\, Growth Lab 	Whether attending in-person or watching over Zoom\, please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. 	About the speaker:Dr. Josephine (Jody) Olsen\, PhD\, served as the 20th Director of the Peace Corps from March 2018 to January 2021.  In March 2020\, at the beginning of the global COVID-19 pandemic\, she led the nine-day evacuation back to the United States of all 7\,000 Peace Corps Volunteers from 61 countries. During her tenure\, she opened a new Peace Corps program in Viet Nam\, championed global women’s economic empowerment\, and led Peace Corps HIV/AIDS mitigation efforts in Africa. Read more
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talks-community-engagement-as-a-frontline-to-national-development/
LOCATION:Democracy Lab\, Rubenstein 414 AB/Zoom
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Mechanisms of Hardware and Soft Technology Evolution and the Implications for Low-Carbon Energy Costs
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: Magdalena Klemun\, Assistant Professor\, Division of Public Policy\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s Interdisciplinary Program Office; Research Affiliate\, Institute for Data\, Systems\, and Society (IDSS) at MIT. 	Abstract: Technologies typically contain both physical (‘hardware’) and non-physical (‘soft technology’) features\, such as the duration of installation tasks and other services needed to deploy hardware. Both types of features contribute significantly to technology costs and performance\, yet soft technology has been researched less than hardware. 	In this talk\, she will discuss fundamental differences between hardware and soft technology features in how these features contribute to the evolution of hardware and non-hardware (‘soft’) costs\, using examples from the cost evolution of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and nuclear fission plants. Despite divergent overall cost trajectories\, the relative share of soft costs has risen in both technologies\, suggesting a greater role for non-hardware innovation in future cost trends. However\, past changes in soft costs were driven to a large degree by the evolution of hardware rather than soft technology features\, and rising shares of soft costs do not necessarily correspond to a greater cost influence of soft technology features today. These results reveal new insight into how technology costs might be driven down in the future\, through more deliberate\, model-informed approaches to improving soft technology and a continued emphasis on innovation in hardware. 	Please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. Brief Bio: Magdalena M. Klemun is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Public Policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s Interdisciplinary Program Office and a Research Affiliate at the Institute for Data\, Systems\, and Society (IDSS) at MIT. She is also affiliated with the HKUST Energy Institute. Her research examines the dynamics of low-carbon energy innovation\, with a focus on how hardware and non-hardware factors interact and shape performance evolution at the technology- and systems-level. She holds a PhD in Engineering Systems from MIT\, an MS in Earth Resources Engineering from Columbia University\, and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Vienna University of Technology. Prior to joining HKUST\, she was a postdoc at IDSS.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-mechanisms-of-hardware-and-soft-technology-evolution-and-the-implications-for-low-carbon-energy-costs/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Creative Construction: Knowledge Sharing in Production Networks
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: Evgenii Fadeev\, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics\, Harvard 	Paper: Creative Construction: Knowledge Sharing in Production Networks 	Abstract: Knowledge flows between firms are often measured using patent citations. I show that even the most cited patents on average receive the majority of citations from one firm only\, and this concentration has significantly increased since 2000. Using the movement of inventors across companies\, I show that the concentration is primarily driven by firms rather than inventors. I develop a theory of knowledge sharing between firms that accounts for these citation patterns. Citations are correlated with the sharing of trade secrets that are complementary to patented technologies. They are concentrated because only a limited set of firms gets access to private knowledge of a patent owner. Firms have incentives to share their secrets with producers of complementary products such as suppliers and customers but to conceal them from competitors. In turn\, competitors can obtain private knowledge from each other through their common suppliers and customers if the latter did not sign confidentiality agreements. The model predicts contractual arrangements and patterns of knowledge sharing (citations) in a production network based on the degree of industry competition and firms’ bargaining positions vis-a-vis their suppliers/customers. Using the network data for the U.S. publicly traded firms and the variation across industries in the exposure to import competition from China\, I provide empirical evidence supporting the predictions of the theory. 	Please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-creative-construction-knowledge-sharing-in-production-networks/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Organizational Frictions to Automation\, and Its Effects on Firms\, Workers\, and Labor Markets
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel P. Gross\, Assistant Professor\, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business 	Abstract: AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its workforce\, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call switching—a technology first invented in the 1880s. This talk will cover results from two papers. In one\, we study what drove AT&T to do so\, and why it took one firm nearly a century to automate this one function. In the second\, we study how automation affected the labor market for young women. 	On the firm side\, we find that interdependencies between call switching and nearly every other part of the business were obstacles: the manual switchboard was the fulcrum of a complex production system which had developed around it\, and automation only began after the firm and automatic technology were adapted to work together. Even then\, automatic switching was only profitable for AT&T in larger markets—hence diffusion expanded as costs declined and service areas grew. Automation supported AT&T’s continued growth\, generating a positive feedback loop between scale and automation that reinforced AT&T’s high market share in local markets.On the worker side\, we find that although automation eliminated one of the most common jobs for young American women of this era\, it did not affect future cohorts’ overall employment: the decline in operators was counteracted by reinstating demand in middle-skill clerical jobs and lower-skill service jobs. Incumbent (already-employed) telephone operators were most impacted by automation\, and a decade later were more likely to be in lower-paying occupations or have left the labor force entirely. 	Bio: Daniel P. Gross is an assistant professor at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business\, which he joined in 2020 after several years on the faculty at Harvard Business School. His research has two primary branches: (1) crisis innovation policy and strategy\, including the effects of crisis R&D efforts on post-crisis innovation\, entrepreneurship\, industry dynamics\, and regional economies; and (2) the effects of automation on workers\, firms\, and labor markets. He previously also studied the use of incentives and other tools in managing creative workers within organizations. Professor Gross’ research frequently uses historical examples of industries and eras undergoing significant technological change as a lens into the present and future. 	Please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. The seminar will be hybrid\, with Daniel presenting in-person for the Harvard community only in WEXNER W-G02.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-organizational-frictions-to-automation-and-its-effects-on-firms-workers-and-labor-markets/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Knowledge Diffusion as a Cornerstone of Economic Recovery in the Post-COVID World
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab has recently collaborated with the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics to launch the Growth Co-Lab at LSE. The strategic goal is to bring together the capacities\, expertise\, and reach of two top academic institutions to expand the activities of the Growth Lab globally. 	In this public event marking the launch of the collaboration\, a panel of high-level government officials and academic experts will discuss Knowledge Diffusion as a Cornerstone of Economic Recovery and Growth in the Post-COVID World. 	Speakers/Moderators: 	Arben Ahmetaj\, Deputy Prime Minister of Albania.Omar Al-Razzaz\, former Prime Minister of Jordan.Ann Bernstein\, Executive Director of the Center for Development and Enterprise\, South Africa.Ricardo Hausmann\, Director of the Growth Lab.Isabel de Saint Malo\, former Vice-President of Panama.Miguel Angel Santos\, Director of Applied Research at the Growth Co-Lab at LSE.Andrés Velasco\, Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy at LSE. 	Please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. 	Twitter Hasthag for this event: #LSEPostCOVID
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/knowledge-diffusion-as-a-cornerstone-of-economic-recovery-in-the-post-covid-world/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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