Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker: Amit Kapoor, CEO of Institute for Competitiveness, India About the Event: The Government of India though the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and the Institute for Competitiveness (IFC) is embarking on a 5-year research initiative implementing the Growth Lab’s groundbreaking methodologies – economic complexity and growth diagnostics. Join Amit Kapoor, CEO of IFC, […]
Speakers: Marianne Kuttennen, IEEP BrusselsShunta Yamaguchi, OECD Paris About the Seminar: Policies from developed countries aimed at promoting sustainability often carry consequences for developing countries, and one of the major channels for that is international trade. In 2019 the European Union launched a “green new deal” policy package to align actions on trade, climate and SDGs. Components […]
Speaker: Ljubica Nedelkoska, Postdoctoral Fellow, Growth Lab About the Talk: We study the factors behind the public sector premium in Albania and Sri Lanka, the group heterogeneity in the premium, the sources of public sector wage compression, and the impact of this compression on the way individuals self-select between the public and the private sector. Similar to other […]
Speaker: Gordon Hanson, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.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. […]
Speaker: David Deming, Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, HKS; Professor of Public Policy, HKS; Professor of Education and Economics, HGSE. About the Speaker: David Deming is a Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Faculty Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social […]
The Growth Lab is thrilled to announce the launch of our Viz Hub, a portfolio of award-winning, interactive visualizations powered by our research and discoveries. Join us on Tuesday, September 15th at 12PM EST for the official launch of the Viz Hub featuring Growth Lab Director Ricardo Hausmann, Senior Software Product Manager Annie White, and […]
Join us on Tuesday, October 6, 2020, for the “The Growth Lab’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery” event as a part of Harvard’s WorldWideWeek. The event will feature a discussion with Growth Lab Faculty Director Ricardo Hausmann and COVID-19 Task Force members about the research we conducted around the epidemic and its potential impacts. We will also […]
On Tuesday, Nov. 10th at 12pm EDT, Harvard's Growth Lab invites members of the Harvard community to attend "Joining the Growth Lab: A Behind the Scenes Look." Learn more about what it's like to be a Growth Lab Research Fellow with short presentations by Nikita Taniparti, Tim O'Brien, Semiray Kasoolu, and Frank Muci. They will describe their experience in this […]
Speakers: Simona Iammarino, Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Ecnoomics and Political SciencePhilip McCann, Chair in Urban and Regional Economics, Sheffield University Management SchoolFrank Neffke, Research Director, Growth Lab Please register in advance for this event. The long-term development paths of countries and regions are shaped by a never-ending process of restructuring, with some countries […]
On Thursday, Nov. 19th at 8:30 am EDT, Harvard's Growth Lab invites you to attend "Joining the Growth Lab: A Behind the Scenes Look." Learn more about what it's like to be a Growth Lab Research Fellow with short presentations by Nikita Taniparti, Tim O'Brien, Semiray Kasoolu, and Frank Muci. They will describe their experience in this role where they contribute to the core research agenda of the […]
Speakers: Frank Neffke, Research Director, Growth LabGary Gereffi, Emeritus Professor of Sociology; Director, Global Value Chains Center, Duke UniversityDavid Rigby, Professor, University of California-Los Angeles Please register in advance for this event. The long-term development paths of countries and regions are shaped by a never-ending process of restructuring, with some countries and regions achieving fast growth […]
On January 12th, 2021 at 9:00 am EDT, Harvard's Growth Lab invites you to attend "Joining the Growth Lab as a Research Assistant: A Behind the Scenes Look." Learn more about what it's like to be a Growth Lab Research Assistant with a panel of current RA's Ana Grisanti and Jessie Lu. They will describe their experience in this role where they contribute to the […]