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    • Research Seminar – Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    Apollo's Arrow offers a broad account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020 and of how the pandemic will unfold, and ultimately end, in the coming years. Using up-to-the-moment information, and drawing on epidemiology, sociology, medicine, public health, history, virology, and other fields, it explores what it […]

    Research Seminar: The Cushioning Effect of Immigrant Mobility

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    Speaker: Cem Özgüzel, Economist, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Abstract: During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or leaving the country. Consequently, provinces lost 13.5% of their immigrants or -3% of the total labour supply, on average. Using municipal registers and longitudinal administrative data, […]

    • Development Talks: Confronting Post-COVID Macroeconomic Challenges in Namibia

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    • 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: Ipumbu W. Shiimi, Minister of Finance, Namibia Moderator: Miguel Angel Santos, Director of Applied Research, […]

    Research Seminar: Innovation Networks and Innovation Policy

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    Speaker: Ernest Liu, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Bendheim Center for Finance in Princeton's Department of Economics Paper: Innovation Networks and Innovation Policy Abstract: We study the optimal allocation of R&D resources in an endogenous growth model with an innovation network, through which one sector’s past innovations may benefit other sectors’ future innovations. First, we provide closed-form […]

    • Book Talk – Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters

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    • Growth Lab

    Reclaiming Populism contends that populist upheavals like Trump, Brexit, and the Gilets Jaunes happen when the system really is rigged. Citizens the world over are angry not due to immigration or income inequality, but economic unfairness: the sense of being held back from success because opportunity is not equal and reward is not according to […]

    Research Seminar: Colombia’s Structural Challenges for the Creation of New, Better and More Inclusive Jobs

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    Please register in advance and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions.  Speakers: Laura Pabón, Eliana Carranza, and Andreas Eberhard-Ruiz Abstract:In mid-2020, the Government of Colombia launched a labor reform consultation process (Misión de Empleo) in response to a deterioration in pre-Covid19 employment indicators and changing economic and labor market conditions. Based on a comprehensive review of Colombia’s labor market performance for […]

    Research Seminar: How Immigration Grease is Affected by Economic, Institutional, and Policy Contexts: Evidence from EU Labor Markets

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    Speaker: Martin Kahanec, Professor and Head of the Department of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. Abstract: (Paper)Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing skill shortages across countries, occupation groups and industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to […]

    Development Talks: A New Agenda for African Continental Integration

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    • 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: Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank (2005-2015) Moderator: Tim O'Brien, Senior Manager, Applied Research, […]

    Research Seminar: Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Hold-up Power

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    Speaker: Justin Bloesch, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Harvard University Paper: Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Hold-up Power Abstract: We argue that productive firms share rents with workers only in occupations where workers have individual hold-up power. We present a model of wage determination where firms produce using a novel generalization of […]

    • Alumni Panel: Experiencing & Undoing Discrimination in Development

    Hybrid: WEX W-G02, Zoom
    • Diversity in Development
    • Growth Lab

    The work of development is to improve quality of life and expand economic opportunity across diverse global communities, and graduate programs such as the MPA/ID program at HKS are enormously diverse in national origin, gender, and professional and lived experience. Yet, a 2020 survey of MPA/ID alumni revealed that roughly half of all respondents have […]

    Research Seminar: Vietnam’s role in the US-China trade war

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    Speaker: Karin Mayr-Dorn, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University of Linz Paper: Trade diversion and labor market adjustment: Vietnam and the US-China Trade War Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of the U.S.-China trade war on trade diversion and the labor market in a third country, Vietnam. We exploit variation in Vietnamese exports to the U.S. across industries […]

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

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    • 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 […]

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