BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Growth Lab - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Growth Lab X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Growth Lab REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T130000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20231016T230300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z UID:14962-1698148800-1698152400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Navigating Crisis and Leading Change in Moldova with Former Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working on economic growth and development in countries\, regions\, states and cities in the US and around the world. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both economic growth and development and analytical work centered on policy. Speaker: Natalia Gavrilita\, Former Prime Minister of Moldova Moderator: Karen Donfried\, Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs 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. Lunch will be provided. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. \nAbout the Speaker:  Natalia Gavrilița is a member of the Supervisory Board of the National Bank of Moldova\, as well as member of the ECFR Board. Natalia Gavrilița served as the 15th Prime Minister of Moldova between August 2021 and February 2023. She led the Government through multiple overlapping crises caused by the war in neighbouring Ukraine\, while also advancing ambitious anti-corruption\, economic\, and governance reforms. During her time in office\, Moldova received the largest influx of Ukrainian refugees of any European country\, managed to diversify its energy market away from Russian gas\, and became a candidate country to the European Union. Gavrilița has had a long history in economics and politics. She served as finance minister from June 2019 to November 2019 when President Maia Sandu was Prime Minister. Earlier in her career\, she was Managing Director at the London-based Global Innovation Fund\, a hybrid investment fund supporting social innovation in developing countries. She has also worked within the Ministry of Education\, Ministry of Economy and for Oxford Policy Management. Throughout her career\, she has worked in a number of countries across Africa\, Central and South Asia. Gavrilița graduated from Moldova State University with a bachelor’s degree in International Law and also earned a master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/navigating-crisis-and-leading-change-in-moldova-with-former-prime-minister-natalia-gavrilita/ LOCATION:HYBRID T520\, Allison Dining Room\, HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T190000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20231016T195900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z UID:15073-1698084000-1698087600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:The Wild\, Wild West: What Can We Learn From The Cowboy State? DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working on economic growth and development in countries\, regions\, states and cities in the US and around the world. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both economic growth and development and analytical work centered on policy. Speaker: Gov. Mark Gordon (R-Wyoming) Governor Gordon serves as the current chair of the Western Governors’ Association\, which includes 19 western states and three U.S. territories in the Pacific region\, working across a range of policy issues to advance western priorities in a bipartisan way. Governor Gordon’s initiative as WGA Chair is entitled “Decarbonizing the West\,” and this initiative follows in a tradition of initiatives focused on energy opportunities\, effective land and water management\, and reimagining the rural west. This discussion is co-sponsored by the Growth Lab and its Pathways to Prosperity research engagement with the State of Wyoming. The conversation is expected to touch upon numerous challenges and opportunities facing Wyoming and western states. Moderator: Jeff Liebman\, Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government Please register if you would like the possibility of attending the Forum in person. If a seat is unavailable or you will not be attending in person\, viewers can stream the event live via the IOP’s YouTube page. You do not need to register for virtual attendance. About the speaker: \nMark Gordon was elected Wyoming’s 33rd Governor in 2018 and is now serving in his second term. In 2022\, Governor Gordon received 79% of the vote\, the largest margin of victory of any gubernatorial candidate in Wyoming’s history and the largest vote margin among governors elected in that year. Having successfully led Wyoming through some historically difficult times including the COVID-19 pandemic\, Governor Gordon is spearheading efforts to diversify Wyoming’s economy and continue to set Wyoming on a sustainable fiscal path — which he helped to strengthen as Wyoming State Treasurer from October 2012 to January 2019. He and his wife\, Jennie\, are dedicated to making Wyoming the best place in the nation to raise a family. Having grown up on a family ranch in Kaycee\, Wyoming\, worked in the oil and gas industry\, and ran several businesses spanning ranching\, outdoor recreation\, and tourism\, Governor Gordon is acutely aware of the challenge of global climate change and has been outspoken about the “climate opportunity” in Wyoming and across the West. He promotes an all-of-the-above energy strategy\, as Wyoming is a leader in coal\, wind\, oil\, gas and uranium production. At a recent Conservative Climate Summit\, Governor Gordon was quoted as saying\,  “As a mountaineer\, I know that glaciers are disappearing. As a rancher\, I can see what’s happening to our farms. As someone who cares about the world for our future\, as a conservative\, I feel very strongly that this country needs to get off its butt and do so with honesty and a respect for what’s happening.” URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/the-wild-wild-west-what-can-we-learn-from-the-cowboy-state/ LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum / YouTube CATEGORIES:Development Talks,Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20231007T013200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003451Z UID:14994-1697018400-1697023800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Dancing With the Stars -Innovations through Interactions DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. In this hybrid seminar\, Santiago Caicedo\, an Associate Professor at the Economics Department and Finance Group at Northeastern University will discuss his research on innovation\, which uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Paper Abstract: An inventor’s own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with and learning from others. This paper uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. We document key empirical facts on inventors’ productivity over the life cycle\, inventors’ research teams\, and interactions with other inventors. Among others\, most patents are the result of collaborative work. Inter- actions with better inventors are very strongly correlated with higher subsequent productivity. These facts motivate the main ingredients of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model\, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of inventors using inventor knowledge. The evolution of an inventor’s knowledge is explained through the lens of a diffusion model in which inventors can learn in two ways: By interacting with others at an endogenously chosen rate; and from an external\, age-dependent source that captures alternative learning channels\, such as learning-by-doing. About the Speaker: Santiago Caicedo is an Associate Professor at the Economics Department and Finance Group at Northeastern University. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. His research connects microdata with economic theory to study social interactions\, human capital formation\, economic growth\, and innovation. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-dancing-with-the-stars-innovations-through-interactions/ LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS (Harvard Community) & Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230928T191800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z UID:15025-1696413600-1696419000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Money\, Time\, and Grant Design 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: Wei Yang Tham is a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and Harvard Business SchoolAbstract: The design of research grants might be a useful tool for incentivizing more socially valuable science. To better understand the value of grant design as a policy instrument\, we conduct two sets of thought experiments in a nationally representative survey of academic researchers. First\, we test whether grants with randomized attributes induce different research strategies. Longer grants increase researchers’ willingness to take risks\, but only amongst tenured professors\, suggesting that job security and grant duration are complementary incentives. Larger grants increase researchers’ willingness to expand ongoing projects\, while smaller grants increase researchers’ focus on starting new projects. In our second experiment\, we estimate researchers’ willingness to trade off grant size and duration. We find that researchers are relatively unwilling to trade off the amount of funding a grant provides in order to extend the duration of the grant — more money is much more valuable than more time. Whether attending in-person or online\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating is available on a first-come\, first-served basis. Zoom attendance is open to the public. \nAbout the speaker: Wei Yang Tham is a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and Harvard Business School. He completed his PhD in Economics at Ohio State University in 2019. Dr. Tham studies innovation and knowledge production in the context of science. His recent work includes eliciting researchers’ preferences and responses to grant design\, studying how funding delays affect the movement of human capital across sectors and borders\, and estimating the knowledge production function to better understand the optimal distribution of resources in research. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-money-time-and-grant-design/ LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230921T164900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001801Z UID:14913-1695808800-1695814200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Global and Regional Green Steel Transition: From Resource Potential to Supply Chain Re-configuration 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.Speakers:Alli Devlin is a DPhil in Engineering Science Candidate at the University of Oxford.Aidong Yang is a Professor of Engineering Science and a Fellow of Green Templeton College\, Oxford.Today’s steel industry is one of the top industrial emitters\, responsible for ~8% of global carbon emissions. Decarbonising steelmaking is thus attracting significant attention of industrial players and policymakers\, with the green transition already gaining momentum in some countries (e.g.\, Sweden)\, although most steel production is still deeply reliant on fossil fuels. This transition will be a huge undertaking\, with great challenges in resource\, technology\, and economics to overcome. In this seminar\, the authors will focus on the physical aspects of green steelmaking\, sharing recent and ongoing mathematical modelling work on (1) understanding global resource potential for deploying green steel facilities\, particularly addressing the availability of renewable energy and suitable iron ore\, and (2) exploring potentially favourable supply chain (re-) configurations at the regional scale\, taking into account a wide range of technological options and their geographical allocation. The results highlight key opportunities and challenges from technical perspectives\, which will hopefully provide useful input to wider discussions about the green steel transition involving economics\, policies and development agendas. This seminar is online only. Please register in advance.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/global-and-regional-green-steel-transition-from-resource-potential-to-supply-chain-re-configuration/ LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T180000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20240910T213100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001741Z UID:14911-1695312000-1695319200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu 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\, research fellows\, and staff. RSVP is required. Refreshments will be served.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/get-to-know-the-growth-lab-research-and-student-engagement-showcase-2/ LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse CATEGORIES:Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T111500 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230914T182800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001652Z UID:14907-1695204000-1695208500@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technological Progress During the British Industrial Revolution 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 session is online only. Please register in advance.  In this seminar\, Bruno Caprettini will discuss new data and present new evidence on the effects of labor scarcity on the adoption of labor-saving technology in industrializing England. Where the British armed forces recruited heavily\, more machines that economized on labor were adopted. For purposes of identification\, we focus on naval recruitment. Using warships’ ease of access to coastal locations as an instrument\, exogenous shocks to labor scarcity led to technology adoption. The same shocks are only weakly associated with the adoption of non-labor saving technologies. Importantly\, there is also a synergy between skill abundance and labor scarcity boosting technology adoption. Where labor shortages led to labor-saving machine adoption\, technology afterwards improved more rapidly. About the Speaker: Bruno Caprettini is Assistant Professor at the University of St Gallen\, where he is affiliated with the Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW). He holds a PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). He is interested in the determinants of long-term growth\, both economic and political. Some of his work appeared on AER\, QJE and AER-Insights.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/fighting-for-growth-labor-scarcity-and-technological-progress-during-the-british-industrial-revolution/ LOCATION:Online Only CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T111500 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230906T182500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004210Z UID:15041-1694599200-1694603700@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Role of Green & Non-Green Relatedness in the Development of New Green Specialization in Argentinean Provinces DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. Register for the session. In this Research Seminar\, Andrea Belmartino will analyze the role of relatedness in developing new green specialisations for the Argentinean provinces between 2008-2019. Even though the global demand for green products creates development opportunities\, whether this applies to emerging economies is still under analysis. Therefore\, exploring how to leverage available capacities to facilitate the green transition is worthwhile. Her study draws on indices that capture knowledge bases to achieve this goal. Results show that developing a new green specialisation is positively related to productive capabilities\, proxied by relatedness density (green and non-green). In addition\, there the path dependent process benefits more wealthier provinces. About the Speaker: Andrea Belmartino is a PhD fellow in Urban Studies and Regional Science at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in L’Aquila (Italy). She holds a MA in Economics from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina). She was a research assistant at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina). Her current research interests are related to regional capabilities to foster the green transition. In addition\, she is especially interested in the sustainability challenges and opportunities for Latin American economies. Since 2023\, she is co-coordinating the Regional Studies Association’s Research Network “Knowledge\, Innovation and Regional Development in South America (KIRDSA)” URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-role-of-green-non-green-relatedness-in-the-development-of-new-green-specialization-in-argentinean-provinces/ LOCATION:Online Only CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T131500 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230830T013600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175435Z UID:14866-1694174400-1694178900@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: A Conversation with Indermit Gill\, Chief Economist of the World Bank DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working on economic growth and development in countries\, regions\, states and cities in the US and around the world. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both economic growth and development and analytical work centered on policy. Speaker: Indermit Gill\, Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics Moderator: Dany Bahar\, Associate Professor\, Brown University’s Watson Institute; Senior 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. Lunch will be provided. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. \nAbout the speaker: Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. He brings to the role a broad combination of leadership\, expertise\, and practical experience working with governments on macroeconomic imbalances\, growth\, poverty\, institutions\, conflict\, and climate change. Before starting this position on September 1\, 2022\, Gill served as the World Bank’s Vice President for Equitable Growth\, Finance\, and Institutions\, where he played a key role in shaping the Bank’s response to the extraordinary series of shocks that have hit developing economies since 2020. Between 2016 and 2021\, he was a professor of public policy at Duke University and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development program. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-a-conversation-with-indermit-gill-chief-economist-of-the-world-bank/ LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse / Zoom (registration info below) CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230515T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230515T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230510T211600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003728Z UID:15013-1684146600-1684150200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Exploration and Exploitation in US Technological 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. Location: Zoom Please register in advance. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. About the Seminar: How do firms and inventors move through knowledge space as they develop their innovations? In this seminar\, Vasco M. Carvalho proposes a method for tracking patterns of exploration and exploitation in patenting behaviour in the US for the period since 1920. The exploration measure is constructed from the text of patents and involves the use of Bayesian Surprise to measure how different current patent-based innovations are from existing portfolios. Results indicate that there are distinct life-cycle patterns to firm and inventor exploration. Furthermore\, exploration activity is more geographically concentrated than general patenting\, but this concentration is centered outside the main hubs of patenting. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-exploration-and-exploitation-in-us-technological-change/ LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230426T214200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004037Z UID:15032-1682936100-1682940600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Self-Employment within the 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. Location: Online only/Zoom Please register in advance. Abstract: In this seminar\, Alessandra Peter\, Assistant Professor of Economics at NYU will share her research with Vittorio Bassi\, J. H. Lee\, Tommaso Porzio\, Ritwika Sen\, and Esau Tugume on the internal organization of firms in developing countries and how it affects their productivity and optimal size. They collected detailed time use data for 1\,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda and document limited within-firm labor specialization. Even in relatively large firms\, entrepreneurs and their employees work on similar tasks. As such\, firms resemble a collection of self-employed individuals who share a production location. To interpret the empirical evidence\, they develop an equilibrium model of task assignment\, firm size\, and occupational choice. They find that barriers to labor specialization generate decreasing returns to scale at the firm level\, which reduces the returns to entrepreneurial ability and keeps firms small in equilibrium. Given the internal organization of firms we document\, benefits from alleviating any other frictions that constrain firm growth are muted. About the speaker: Alessandra Peter is an assistant professor of Economics at NYU\, with a focus on Macroeconomics and Development. Her research analyzes constraints and barriers to firm growth in low-income countries as well as the effect of imperfect competition across firms on consumers in the United States. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-self-employment-within-the-firm/ LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230420T200600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004020Z UID:15030-1682331300-1682335800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Regulation by Reputation? Intermediaries\, Labor Abuses & International Migration 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. Please register in advance. Speaker: Nilesh Fernando\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame About the Seminar: Migrant workers and employers rely on intermediaries to facilitate labor market placements. If information frictions obscure their reputation\, however\, intermediaries may under-invest in placement quality. Using data on over 1.5 million Sri Lankan migrants to the Gulf region\, Nilesh Fernando will examine the effects of an intermediary rating program that publicly revealed ratings two years after it was announced. Prior to the ratings being revealed\, eligible under-performing agencies invest in the rating criteria and place migrants with less abusive employers who pay higher salaries. Results suggest that the threat of quality revelation induced agencies to prospectively screen employers.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-regulation-by-reputation-intermediaries-labor-abuses-international-migration/ LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T133000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230407T183300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001852Z UID:14915-1681992000-1681997400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Green Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Inter-American Development Bank's Vision DESCRIPTION:Decarbonization will transform global production and trade patterns so radically that new growth opportunities are bound to arise for Latin America and the Caribbean. The panel will discuss those opportunities considering the Inter-American Development Bank’s vision for the energy transition in the region. Speakers: Ricardo Hausmann\, Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy\, Director of the Harvard Growth Lab\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolLenin H. Balza\, Economist in the Infrastructure and Energy Sector of Inter-American Development BankAraceli Clavijo\, Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council | conicet · GEISA (Grupo de Estudios e Investigaciones Socio Ambientales)Moderated by: José Ignacio Hernandez\, Visiting Fellow\, Harvard Growth Lab\, Harvard Kennedy School This event is hybrid. To register for this in-person event\, click here. To register for the virtual session\, click here. Presented in collaboration with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies\, the Harvard University Center for the Environment\, and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/green-growth-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-the-inter-american-development-banks-vision/ LOCATION:S216 Room\, CGIS South / Zoom CATEGORIES:Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T170000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230407T213000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175435Z UID:14881-1681920000-1681923600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: The Political Economy of the Postwar Reconstruction of Ukraine DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in economic development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.Speaker: Vladyslav Rashkovan\, Alternate Executive Director\, International Monetary FundModerator: Konstantin Usov\, Acting Deputy Mayor of Kyiv\, HKS MC/MPA 2023 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: Vladyslav Rashkovan became a member of the International Monetary Fund Executive Board in February 2017. As an Alternate Executive Director\, Vladyslav represents Ukraine and 15 other European countries. Previously\, Vladyslav had a prominent banking career\, serving as a Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ukraine and being responsible for the banking sector reforms and central bank transformation. Before joining the NBU in 2014\, Vladyslav occupied the position of Chief Financial Officer of UniCredit Bank in Ukraine\, also being engaged in the leadership of the Group turnaround projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine\, Vladyslav stands at the center of many international projects to provide financial support to Ukraine and plan its post-war reconstruction and modernization. He also serves as a member of the International Advisory Panel for the National Recovery Council. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-the-political-economy-of-the-postwar-reconstruction-of-ukraine/ LOCATION:Nye A\, Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T130000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230406T235200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175435Z UID:14877-1681819200-1681822800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: Investment in the Energy Transition / Global and Domestic Dimensions DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in economic development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. Speaker: Suman Bery\, Vice Chairperson\, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog Moderator: Akshay Mathur\, Edward S. Mason Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School Opening remarks: Ricardo Hausmann\, Director\, Growth Lab\, and Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy\, HKS 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. Boxed lunch will be provided at the end of the seminar.  \nAbout the speaker: Mr. Suman Bery is currently Vice Chairperson\, NITI Aayog\, in the rank and status of a Cabinet Minister. An experienced policy economist and research administrator\, Mr. Bery took over as NITI Aayog Vice Chairperson on May 1\, 2022. At the time of his appointment\, Mr. Bery was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research\, New Delhi; a Global Fellow in the Asia Programme of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington D.C.; and a non-resident fellow at Bruegel\, an economic policy research institution in Brussels. He was also a member of the Board of the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation\, New Delhi.From early 2012 till mid-2016\, Mr. Bery was Royal Dutch Shell’s global Chief Economist based in The Hague. In this capacity\, he advised the board and management on global economic and political developments. He was also part of the senior leadership of Shell’s global scenarios group. During his time at Shell\, he led a collaborative project with Indian think tanks (later published) to apply scenario modeling to India’s energy sector. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-investment-in-the-energy-transition-global-and-domestic-dimensions/ LOCATION:L-230 Gundle Family Classroom / Zoom CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T131500 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230404T000600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175434Z UID:14872-1681732800-1681737300@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: Economic Policymaking in a World of Deep Disorder DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in economic development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.Speaker: Mamo Mihretu\, Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia\, HKS MPA 2009Moderator: Pablo Andrés Neumeyer\, Professor of Economics\, Universidad Torcuato Di TellaWhether 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. \nAbout the speaker: Mamo E. Mihretu is the 10th Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE). As the central bank\, the primary objective of NBE is to maintain price stability\, health and proper functioning of the financial services industry. Before he was appointed as the Governor of NBE\, Mr. Mihretu served as the founding CEO of the Ethiopian Investment Holdings\, the strategic investment arm of the Government of Ethiopia. EIH manages all key commercial companies of the Government of Ethiopia\, such as Ethiopian Airlines and Ethio Telecom. Mr. Mihretu is a member of Ethiopia’s Macroeconomic Council\, which is the body that steers economic policy and strategic decisions.  Mr. Mihretu obtained a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School. He also holds a post-graduate degree in Trade and Investment from the Universities of Pretoria and Amsterdam. He was a gold medalist when he graduated from Addis Ababa University\, School of Law. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-economic-policymaking-in-a-world-of-deep-disorder/ LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse / Zoom (registration info below) CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T130000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230330T183500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175434Z UID:14874-1681387200-1681390800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: Greening Economic Development / What Does It Take? DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in economic development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. Speaker: Amir Lebdioui\, Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of Development\, SOAS University of London Moderator: Ketan Ahuja\, Research Fellow\, Growth Lab What does it take to align economic development with ecological sustainability? Is industrial development still the optimal pathway to poverty reduction? What does a climate-smart industrial policy look like? Why are the factors of success in the implementing of green industrial policy for latecomers? What does an economic development agenda look like for biodiverse nations? Drawing on recent research and policy work\, this talk will address how governments can cope with the changing optimal pathways to economic development\, and explain the type of joined-up policy approach needed to use the decarbonization agenda as a lever to diversify economies\, leave the commodity dependence trap behind\, and increasing macroeconomic resilience. 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. \nAbout the speaker: Dr. Amir Lebdioui is an Algerian development economist and lecturer in the Political Economy of Development at SOAS\, University of London. Before joining SOAS\, Amir was based at the London School of Economics (LSE) where he led the Canning House Research Forum\, a research and policy engagement program on the Future of Trade in Latin America. His research has focused on the economic diversification of resource-dependent nations\, low carbon innovation\, biodiversity-based innovation\, and industrialization in the context of climate change. Amir also regularly advises governments and international institutions on industrial policy strategies. He serves on the advisory council of the Natural Resource Governance Institute\, as member of the African Climate Foundation (ACF) and as a non-resident fellow of the Africa Policy Research Institute. He holds an MPhil and PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-greening-economic-development-what-does-it-take/ LOCATION:Bell Hall (B-500) / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T233000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230405T203900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004029Z UID:15031-1681121700-1681169400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Robot Adoption\, Organizational Capital and the Productivity Paradox 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.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.Speaker: Rodimiro Rodrigo\, Assistant Professor at George Washington University School of Business.Abstract: Major technological changes have come with an adjustment period of stagnant productivity before the economy operates at its full potential. The mechanism of this adoption process is still not well understood. In this seminar\, Rodimiro Rodrigo will present his research on how productivity increases with a five-year lag after adopting industrial robots in Brazilian local labor markets. Combining employer-employee matched data with a novel measure of robot adoption\, he provides evidence of establishment-level labor reorganization and organizational capital depreciation induced by the automation process. He examines a model that highlights the role of organizational costs accompanying the adoption of new technologies\, illustrating its usefulness by using it to characterize the implications of the “innovator’s dilemma.” URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-robot-adoption-organizational-capital-and-the-productivity-paradox/ LOCATION:Weil Town Hall\, Belfer\, HKS/Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T120000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230331T171900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004745Z UID:15079-1680692400-1680696000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Webinar: Leading Green Growth DESCRIPTION:As the world transitions to a lower carbon economy\, new industries\, markets\, and paths to economic prosperity are emerging. Join Harvard faculty Ricardo Hausmann and Daniel Schrag for a 1-hour webinar on how the current energy transition is reshaping economic opportunity around the world—opening new doors for some and posing threats to others—and explore what this transition means for you.This is a free\, live webinar that will last approximately 1 hour\, and the recording will be distributed to all registrants. This presentation does not qualify for a certificate. REGISTER HKS Executive Education is offering a one-week on campus program\, Leading Green Growth: Economic Strategies for a Low-Carbon World\, in August 2023. Under the direction of faculty chairs Ricardo Hausmann and Daniel Schrag\, participants will gain a foundational understanding of decarbonization and its economic impact. Application deadline is June 26. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/webinar-leading-green-growth/ LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T130000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230323T005700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175434Z UID:14867-1680609600-1680613200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: Access to Power / Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in economic development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.Speaker: Ijlal Naqvi\, Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean (Curriculum and Teaching) at the School of Social Sciences of Singapore Management UniversityProf. Naqvi will discuss his new book “Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan\,” which explores state capacity in Pakistan by following the material infrastructure of electricity across the provinces and down into cities and homes.Moderator: Abdurrehman Naveed\, HKS MPP 2023Whether 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. This talk is co-sponsored by the HKS South Asia Caucus.  \nAbout the speaker: Ijlal Naqvi is Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean (Curriculum and Teaching) at the School of Social Sciences of Singapore Management University. He studies governance and development in the Global South\, using infrastructure as a lens on state-building and the citizen’s engagement with the state on an everyday basis. His book Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan was published by Oxford University Press (2022). Ijlal’s research has been published in Energy Research and Social Science\, Journal of Development Studies\, Urban Studies\, Journal of Democracy\, and Current Sociology. Ijlal earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-access-to-power-electricity-and-the-infrastructural-state-in-pakistan/ LOCATION:Nye C\, Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230403T182000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004128Z UID:15035-1680516900-1680521400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Tackling the UK’s Regional Economic Inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention 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.Location: Weil Town Hall\, Belfer\, HKS/ZoomWhether 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 Seminar: The UK is one of the most regionally unequal industrialized economies. In this seminar\, Ed Balls and Anna Stansbury will discuss the UK’s regional economic inequality from the perspective of productivity disparities between large regions\, focusing on the gap between London/South East vs the rest\, looking at four important economic inputs – education\, infrastructure\, innovation\, and access to finance – for each one building up a collage of evidence to gauge the extent to which it is a binding constraint on regions’ productivity growth. They emphasize that economic opportunity for those from outside London and the South East is curtailed by London’s overheating housing market\, which limits interregional mobility. About the Speakers: Ed Balls is a broadcaster\, writer and economist. He is Professor of Political Economy at King’s College\, London and a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Ed\, a former Member of Parliament\, was UK Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (2011-2015) and served in the UK Cabinet as Secretary of State for Children\, Schools and Families (2007-2010). He was the UK Minister for Financial Services (2006-2007) and the Chief Economic Adviser to the UK Treasury (1999-2004) during which time he was Chair of the IMFC Deputies and UK G20 Deputy. Anna Stansbury is an Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan School of Management. She is a labor and macroeconomist whose work focuses on inequality and productivity in industrialized economies. She has a PhD in Economics from Harvard\, an MPP from the Kennedy School\, and a BA in Economics from Cambridge – and was a former part-time Growth Lab RA before her PhD! Read the full Research Paper: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/publications/awp/awp198VoxEU summary link: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-tackle-uks-regional-economic-inequality-focus-stem-transport-and-innovation URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-tackling-the-uks-regional-economic-inequality-binding-constraints-and-avenues-for-policy-intervention/ LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230323T172500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003956Z UID:15027-1679912100-1679916600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Opportunities and Challenges in the Use of Alternative Data Sources to Study Migratory Phenomena 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: Stefano M. Iacus is the Director of Data Science and Product Research at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science\, Harvard University. He is working closely with the Dataverse (Managing Director of the Dataverse Project) and OpenDP (executive committee member) projects and well as with the Data Science Services at IQSS. Abstract: With the consolidation of the culture of evidence-based policymaking\, the availability of data has become central to policymakers especially in time of crisis. Focusing on migration studies\, this seminar will provide an overview of the current state of data innovation in the scientific literature and then point out at areas in which data innovation has the most concrete potential. 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   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-opportunities-and-challenges-in-the-use-of-alternative-data-sources-to-study-migratory-phenomena/ LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T131500 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230314T182100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T000758Z UID:14870-1679572800-1679577300@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: Easy to Say\, Hard to Do / Leading Economic Change in Wyoming DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in economic development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. Speaker: Josh Dorrell\, CEO\, Wyoming Business Council Moderator: Gordon Hanson\, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy\, HKS 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. As CEO of the Wyoming Business Council\, Josh Dorrell provides leadership and strategic direction in the state’s economic development strategy. In this talk\, Josh will discuss the growth challenges in Wyoming\, and how a research collaboration with the Growth Lab is helping them outline pathways to sustainable growth\, jobs\, and prosperity.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-easy-to-say-hard-to-do-leading-economic-change-in-wyoming/ LOCATION:Location: Democracy Lab (R-414) (Harvard Community) / Zoom CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T233000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230316T001700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003620Z UID:15005-1679307300-1679355000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Deconstructing Human Capital to Construct Nestedness 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: Hyejin Youn is an associate professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University\, and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)\, and an external faculty at Santa Fe Institute and serves as Associate Editor at PLOS One and Management Science.In this talk\, Hyejin Youn will explore the geographic and demographic disparities in wealth based on the distribution of skills acquired in school and in the workplace. Analyzing individuals’ career changes and demographic age of occupations reveals that “nested skills” are needed more as one moves up the career ladder. Historical changes in occupation skill requirements show that these branches have become more fragmented over the decade\, suggesting the increasing labor gap. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yrXaEgr3TqyjZKU1EecoUAWhether 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 URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-deconstructing-human-capital-to-construct-nestedness/ LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230316T002000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004045Z UID:15033-1678702500-1678707000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Structural Change in Export Activities: An Exploration Using Occupations Data 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: Hagen Kruse\, PhD candidate and Research affiliate of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre @University of GroningenAbstract: Traditionally\, comparative advantage in exporting is measured at the level of products or industries. However\, with international production fragmentation\, countries specialize in activities along the production chain rather than in particular products. This paper therefore explores changes in the structure of exports at the level of activities for a set of 53 countries. Activities are measured using new internationally harmonized statistics on labour income of 13 detailed occupation classes of workers in 35 industries. Income shares from engineering\, management\, and support services increase as countries grow richer. New specializations have a strong proximity to the initial export basket\, especially for routine manual intensive activities in developing countries. Some countries appear to specialize more in new activities that are relatively unrelated to their initial specializations. This is found to be positively related to income growth. About the Speaker: Hagen Kruse is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen and research affiliate of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC). His research focuses on the role of international trade in shaping modern patterns of structural change in developing countries. His first chapter was recently published in the IMF Economic Review and featured in media outlets such as The Economist\, Project Syndicate\, or UNIDO’s Industrial Analytics Platform. Current projects of Hagen are financially supported by the World Bank Group and a CEPR STEG research grant. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-structural-change-in-export-activities-an-exploration-using-occupations-data/ LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230306T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230306T123000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230228T220900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004224Z UID:15043-1678101300-1678105800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Uncovering Commercial Activity in Informal Cities 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: Neave O’Clery\, Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London Abstract: Knowledge of the spatial organization of economic activity within a city is a key to policy concerns. However\, in developing cities with high levels of informality\, this information is often unavailable. Recent progress in machine learning together with the availability of street imagery offers an affordable and easily automated solution. Here\, we propose an algorithm that can detect what we call visible establishments using street view imagery. By using Medellín\, Colombia as a case study\, we illustrate how this approach can be used to uncover previously unseen economic activity. By applying spatial analysis to our dataset\, we detect a polycentric structure with five distinct clusters located in both the established centre and peripheral areas. Comparing the density of visible establishments with that of registered firms\, we infer that informal activity concentrates in poor but densely populated areas. Our findings highlight the large gap between what is captured in official data and the reality on the ground. Please register in advance.  The Zoom webinar is open to the public. About the Speaker: Neave O’Clery is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London where she leads an inter-disciplinary research group focused on data-driven models for economic development and urban systems. She is also a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute\, as well as a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Mathematical Institute and an Oxford Martin Fellow. Her work spans a number of topics and fields including structural change and industrial development\, economic complexity and evolutionary economic geography\, the informal economy\, urban mobility and segregation\, and network science. She also works alongside a number of policy and government institutions ranging from city majors to global multi-laterals including the UK and Irish governments and the World Bank. Neave was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford\, and before this a Fulbright Scholar and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is founder and co-chair of the Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks\, an annual multi-disciplinary summer school since 2017. She holds a PhD (mathematics) from Imperial College.     URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-uncovering-commercial-activity-in-informal-cities/ LOCATION:Virtual/ Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230302T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230302T123000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20220201T011500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004738Z UID:15078-1677754800-1677760200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Venezuelan Migrants in Brazil: Children and Family Experiences with Education and Social Services DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gabrielle Oliveira\, Jorge Paulo Lemann Associate Professor of Education and of Brazil Studies\, Harvard Graduate School of Education Moderator: Sarah Dryden-Peterson\, Associate Professor of Education\, Harvard Graduate School of Education An unprecedented number of Venezuelans have left behind the worsening economic and social crisis at home to look for better future prospects. Brazil is hosting about 261\,000 Venezuelans as migrants\, asylum seekers\, or refugees\, which\, at 18 percent\, constitutes the largest share of Brazil’s 1.3 million refugees and migrants population (World Bank\, 2020). Many shelters in Brazilian cities are overcrowded\, meaning children and families often end up living on the streets and unable to access government services including education. This presentation has two goals: the first is to present background data on both the legal conditions that impact Venezuelan immigrants in Brazil and the education barriers that exist for immigrant and refugee children in Brazilian public schools. The second goal is to present preliminary qualitative data on how public schools (teachers\, administrators) are responding to the influx of Venezuelan children in elementary schools. This event will be hybrid. To register for the in-person session\, click here. To register for the virtual session\, click here. This event is co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/venezuelan-migrants-in-brazil-children-and-family-experiences-with-education-and-social-services/ LOCATION:S216\, CGIS South\, Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T123000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230222T221400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004535Z UID:15064-1677496500-1677501000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:The Fastest Route to Specialization? Evidence from the Expansion of the Italian Highway System 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: Sara Bagagli\, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics at Harvard University Abstract: I analyze the effects of a large public transportation infrastructure investment on the industrial structure of local economies in modern Italy. In 20 years\, between 1955 and 1975\, more than 5\,000 km of highways were laid down in the peninsula\, making the Italian highway network the third longest worldwide at the time. The network was however disproportionate relative to national income and consumption levels and came as a shock to many localized environments. I show that proximity to highways is associated with a sizable and persistent decrease in the degree of industrial specialization. The results hold similar when looking within traded and non-traded sectors separately. A decomposition exercise further shows that\, among non-traded sectors\, the decrease is mainly driven by a reallocation of employment shares between sectors\, rather than by an extensive margin effect through the creation of new sectors. For traded sectors instead\, I first observe a net increase in the number of sectors with non-zero employment in the earliest periods into treatment\, followed by a significant reallocation of employment shares between sectors of the local economies. As a next step\, I am further investigating the channels at work\, exploiting the rich heterogeneity that characterizes the local economies scattered across the Italian peninsula. 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: Since Fall 2022\, Sara Bagagli is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Her main research interests are Urban Economics and Economic Geography. One line of research studies the role of urban forms in shaping the distribution of people across space. Another line of research investigates the effects of changes in transportation costs on the structure of local economies. Sara finished her PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich in Summer 2022.   See also: Event\, Academic Research Seminars\, Academic Research URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/the-fastest-route-to-specialization-evidence-from-the-expansion-of-the-italian-highway-system/ LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T140000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230206T193500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175434Z UID:14878-1676984400-1676988000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: Order Without Design / Rethinking the Role of Government in City 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: Alain Bertaud\, Senior Fellow\, New York University’s Marron Institute of Urban Management; Distinguished Visiting Fellow\, Mercatus Center\, George Mason University.Moderator: Diane E. Davis\, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism\, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. 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. \nAbout the speaker: Alain Bertaud is a Senior Fellow at New York University’s Marron Institute of Urban Management and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. From 2014 to 2020\, he taught a graduate course at NYU in urban economic planning\, “Markets\, Design\, and the City.” In his book\, “Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities\,” published by MIT Press in November 2018\, he argues that a city’s chief attraction resides first in the people already living in it. People and firms\, through markets\, create a spontaneous order. The top-down design infrastructure that serves this spontaneous order\, not the other way around. Cities are primarily labor markets that form the substructure on which all the other social amenities are built. Bertaud previously held the position of principal urban planner at the World Bank\, where he worked on developing housing projects in India\, Pakistan\, and Bangladesh.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-order-without-design-rethinking-the-role-of-government-in-city-development/ LOCATION:Nye B&C (T-520) / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T231500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230214T003000 DTSTAMP:20260412T221904 CREATED:20230207T231700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004121Z UID:15034-1676330100-1676334600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Superstar Teams- The Micro Origins and Macro Implications of Coworker Complementarities 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: Lukas Freund\, PhD candidate in Economics and Gates scholar at the University of Cambridge Abstract: Modern production frequently involves teamwork among employees specialized in different tasks. I develop a model of teams in which firms assign tasks to workers who are heterogeneous in their overall quality and whose efficiency varies across different tasks. In addition to productivity gains\, the division of labor endogenously generates coworker complementarities: the marginal productivity of one employee’s quality is increasing in other team members’ quality. This interdependence is stronger when variation in worker-task specific efficiencies is high. In frictional labor markets\, coworker complementarities carry macroeconomic implications for both productivity and inequality. Coworker quality mismatch lowers team productivity\, leading employers to search for workers of similar quality. In equilibrium\, firms with “superstar teams” pull away in terms of productivity and pay. I validate the model’s key mechanisms using administrative micro data. Paralleling a shift in the nature of tasks\, a theory-informed measure of coworker complementarities has doubled since 1990. A structural estimation exercise suggests that this rise explains between one quarter and one half of the increase in the between-firm share of wage inequality in Germany (1990-2010).   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: Lukas Freund is a PhD candidate in Economics and Gates scholar at the University of Cambridge\, visiting Princeton University during the academic year 2022/2023. His research focuses on macro- and labor economics and has been published in the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Review of Economics Dynamics. In addition\, he is a consultant for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and has previously visited the Bank of England and Deutsche Bundesbank. Prior to the PhD\, he completed undergraduate and master degrees at the University of Oxford. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-superstar-teams-the-micro-origins-and-macro-implications-of-coworker-complementarities/ LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR