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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T101500
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T120000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T101500
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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
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