Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker: Semiray Kasoolu, Research Fellow, Growth Lab About the Talk: Women in Jordan are excluded from labor market opportunities at among the highest rates in the world. Previous efforts to explain this outcome have focused on specific, isolated aspects of the problem and have not explained its persistence. After a careful review of the available literature […]
Speakers: Ricardo Hausmann, Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy; Director, Growth LabErmal Frasheri, Senior Research Fellow, Growth Lab Moderator: Ljubica Nedelkoska, Postdoctoral Fellow, Growth Lab About the Talk: Since 2013, the Growth Lab has worked with the Government of Albania to identify policies that target country-specific binding constraints in order to promote […]
Presenter: Arianna Mazzeo, Visiting Professor, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences About the Workshop: Policymakers and citizens are struggling with big structural and complex problems such as climate change, cultural, economic and social inequality and the education gap between represented and underrepresented communities. In this workshop you will learn how to identify systemic challenges starting with […]
Speaker: Annette Idler, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University About the Talk: Drawing on her book Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia’s War (Oxford University Press, 2019) and her latest research findings, Annette Idler reveals why the Colombian-Venezuelan borderlands are enabling crucial but largely unacknowledged interactions between Venezuela’s devastating […]
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 […]