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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Migration and Cultural 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. 	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 both theoretically and empirically – and from a global viewpoint – whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries. Our theoretical model derives distinctive testable predictions as to the sign and direction of convergence for various compositional and cultural diffusion mechanisms. We use the World Value Survey for 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of cultural similarity for a large number of country pairs and exploit within country-pair variation over time. Our results support migration-based cultural convergence\, with cultural remittances as its main driver. In other words and in contrast to the populist narrative\, we find that while immigrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion\, this is mostly to export the host country culture back home.  	Please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. The seminar will be hybrid\, with Hillel presenting in-person for the Harvard community only in Weil Town Hall. 	About the speaker:  	Hillel Rapoport is Professor of Economics (and Director of International Relations) at the Paris School of Economics\, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne\, and Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) since 2021. He is also a research fellow at CEPII\, IZA\, CESifo\, Harvard CID\, Kiel Institute for the World Economy\, LISER\, and European Development Network (EUDN). He was a member of Bar-Ilan University until 2013 and held visiting positions at Stanford University (in 2001-03) and at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (in 2009-11). Since 2008 he is the scientific coordinator of the “Migration and Development” annual conferences jointly organized by the World Bank and the French Development Agency. His research focuses on the growth and developmental impact of migration and on the economics of immigration\, diversity\, and refugees’ integration. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-migration-and-cultural-change/
LOCATION:Weil Town Hall – Belfer/Zoom (registration info below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Development Talks - A Journey of Impact in Namibia: From the Private Sector to Policymaking
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: Nangula Uaandja\, CEO\, Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board 	Moderator: Nikita Taniparti\, Research Manager\, Growth Lab 	Please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. \nAbout the speaker: 	Nangula Uaandja is a chartered accountant by profession and is currently the CEO of the newly established Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board. The Board\, a public entity in the Presidency in Namibia\, is tasked with the mandate of promoting and facilitating foreign and domestic investments as well as the development of SMEs. Until December 2020\, Nangula served as Partner at PwC Namibia with more than 20 years experience in auditing\, and she has also been involved in non-audit work such as consulting\, fraud investigation\, budgetary processes\, etc. Nangula was named Namibia’s Businesswoman of the year in 2011. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talks-a-journey-of-impact-in-namibia-from-the-private-sector-to-policymaking/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Geographic spillovers and firm exports | Evidence from China
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: 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 heterogeneous firm framework\, to provide a microfounded theory on how access to other exporters affects a firm’s export performance. Motivated by the model\, we leverage the expansion of China’s high-speed rail (HSR) as a quasi-experiment to provide plausibly exogenous variation in the access to other exporters (and their insights) for Chinese firms. We find that with the HSR opening\, the geographical spillovers from connected cities improve firms’ export performance both intensively and extensively. Additionally\, we demonstrate that – consistent with the theory – the geographic spillover effects are heterogeneous along dimensions such as firm size\, product complexity\, and firm location. 	Please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. The seminar will be hybrid\, with Lin presenting in-person for the Harvard community only in Wexner 434A. 	About the speaker: 	Lin Tian is an Assistant Professor of Economics at INSEAD and a CEPR research affiliate. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University\, and earned her PhD in Economics at Columbia University. Lin’s research aims at uncovering factors that contribute to the variation of economic activities across space and highlighting the socio-economic impacts of these spatial disparities.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-geographic-spillovers-and-firm-exports-evidence-from-china/
LOCATION:Wexner 434A\, Zoom (registration information below)
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Closing Regional Economic Divides
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: 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 high-income countries due to globalization\, new technology\, and now the energy transition. We need new approaches to diagnose the causes of persistent regional economic distress and the effectiveness of alternative policies in relieving this distress. 	Whether attending in-person or over Zoom\, please register in advance. Room attendance in Weil Town Hall is limited to the Harvard community only. Contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. 	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. Hanson received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1992 and his B.A. in economics from Occidental College in 1986. Prior to joining Harvard in 2020\, he held the Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations at UC San Diego\, where he was founding director of the Center on Global Transformation. Hanson previously served on the economics faculties of the University of Michigan and the University of Texas. In his scholarship\, Hanson specializes in international trade\, international migration and economic geography. He has published extensively in top economics journals\, is widely cited for his research by scholars from across the social sciences and is frequently quoted in major media outlets. Hanson’s current research addresses how globalization in the form of immigration and expanded trade with China have affected U.S. local labor markets. In a new endeavor\, he is working with a multidisciplinary team of scholars to use satellite imagery to assess the impacts of expanding transportation networks\, exposure to extreme weather\, and related events on urban economic activity
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-closing-regional-economic-divides/
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