Events

  • Research Seminar: Achieving Power Sector Carbon Neutrality in a Low-cost Renewable Era

    Zoom (registration information below)
    • Academic Research Seminars

    Speaker: Gang He, Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology and Society at Stony Brook University Abstract: Clean power transition is at the center to achieve mid-century carbon neutrality goals. The cost of solar and wind has plummeted in the past decade, and solar and wind electricity has been achieving grid parity. Low-cost renewables offer new perspectives […]

    Research Seminar: Technology Within and Across Firms

    Wexner 434 AB, Zoom (registration information below)
    • Academic Research Seminars

    Speaker: Diego Comin, Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College Paper: Technology Within and Across Firms Abstract: This study collects data on the sophistication of technologies used at the business function level for a representative sample of firms in Vietnam, Senegal, and the Brazilian state of Ceara. The analysis finds a large variance in technology sophistication across […]

    Knowledge Diffusion as a Cornerstone of Economic Recovery in the Post-COVID World

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    • Growth Lab

    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 […]

    Research Seminar: Organizational Frictions to Automation, and Its Effects on Firms, Workers, and Labor Markets

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    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 […]

  • Research Seminar: Creative Construction: Knowledge Sharing in Production Networks

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    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 […]

    Research Seminar: Mechanisms of Hardware and Soft Technology Evolution and the Implications for Low-Carbon Energy Costs

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    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 […]

    Development Talks: Community Engagement as a Frontline to National Development

    Democracy Lab, Rubenstein 414 AB/Zoom
    • Development Talks

    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. […]

    Seminar: Colonialism and Development

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    • Growth Lab

    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 […]

  • Research Seminar: Migration and Cultural Change

    Weil Town Hall - Belfer/Zoom (registration info below)
    • Academic Research Seminars

    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 […]

    Development Talks – A Journey of Impact in Namibia: From the Private Sector to Policymaking

    Zoom (registration information below)
    • Development Talks

    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 […]

    Research Seminar: Geographic spillovers and firm exports | Evidence from China

    Wexner 434A, Zoom (registration information below)
    • Academic Research Seminars

    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 […]

    Research Seminar: Closing Regional Economic Divides

    Belfer Weil Town Hall / Zoom (registration information below)
    • Academic Research Seminars

    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 […]

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