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:20230213T231500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230214T003000 DTSTAMP:20260426T064600 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T140000 DTSTAMP:20260426T064600 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:20230227T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T123000 DTSTAMP:20260426T064600 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 END:VCALENDAR