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SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Workers and the Green-Energy Transition: Evidence from 300 million Job Transitions
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. 	Speaker: Mark Curtis\, Ph.D.\, Reynolds Professor of Economics and Associate Professor at Wake Forest University 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 	Paper Abstract (Mark Curtis\, Layla O’Kane and Jisung Park): Using microdata representing more than 130 million online work profiles\, we explore transitions into and out of jobs most likely to be affected by a transition away from carbon-intensive production technologies. Exploiting detailed textual data on job title\, firm name\, occupation\, and industry to focus on workers employed in carbon-intensive (“dirty”) and non–carbon-intensive (“green”) jobs\, we find that the rate of transition from dirty to green jobs is rising rapidly\, increasing 10-fold over the period 2005–21\, including a significant uptick in electric vehicle–related jobs in recent years. Overall\, however\, less than 1% of all workers who leave a dirty job appear to make the transition to a green job. We find that the persistence of employment within dirty industries varies enormously across local labor markets; in some states\, more than half of all transitions out of dirty jobs are into other dirty jobs. Older workers and those without a college education appear less likely to make transitions to green jobs and more likely to other dirty jobs\, other jobs\, or nonemployment. When accounting for the fact that green jobs tend to have later start dates\, it appears that green and dirty jobs have roughly comparable job durations. 	About the Speaker: E. Mark Curtis is the Reynolds Professor of Economics and associate professor at Wake Forest University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Georgia State University\, his M.A. in economics from Duke University\, and his B.A. from Furman University. His primary fields of research are environmental\, public\, and labor economics with a particular focus on program evaluation\, taxes\, and environmental policy. His research has been widely published and seeks to understand the implications of public policies for firms and workers.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-workers-and-the-green-energy-transition-evidence-from-300-million-job-transitions/
LOCATION:HYBRID – Zoom / The Perkins Room\, Rubenstein 429 at HKS
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Using Trademarks to Measure Innovation and Capabilities: Opportunities and Challenges
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. 	Speaker: Carolina Castaldi\, Ph.D.\, Professor in Geography of Innovation at Utrecht University 	In this talk\, Prof. Castaldi will review an emerging strand of empirical research using trademarks as data to measure innovation and capabilities. After discussing the specific properties of trademark data\, she will show how they are both complementary and substitutes to patent data in their potential for measuring innovation and capabilities\, at different levels of analysis\, including firms\, regions and countries. 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-using-trademarks-to-measure-innovation-and-capabilities-opportunities-and-challenges/
LOCATION:Zoom / The Perkins Room\, Rubenstein 429 at HKS
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T103000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar - The Effects of Transport Infrastructure on Housing Supply: The Role of Land-Use Regulation
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. 	Speaker: Kenzo Asahi\, Assistant Professor\, School of Government Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 	Abstract: We study the impact of new transportation infrastructure on housing supply using historical and microdata from Santiago and exploiting instrumental variables. We find that subway and highway expansions increase residential floor space substantially\, but when we account for land-use regulation\, we see two contrasting dynamics in the city. In the wealthiest quintile\, the effect is negligible for more than 95% of the blocks due to their initial stringent regulation. However\, in blocks in the first four quintiles of wealth\, the impact on housing supply is substantial and homogeneous concerning the initial regulation. We provide evidence that the transport infrastructure triggers regulation to become more permissive everywhere but in the wealthiest neighborhoods. We quantify how land-use regulation limits housing supply\, thus restraining welfare gains from transport infrastructure improvements. 	Speaker Bio: Kenzo Asahi is an Assistant Professor at the School of Government. His research focus is on the intersection of urban economics and labor economics. His research explores the effect of physical and human space on the human and economic development of city dwellers. He holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)\, a Master in Research (MRes) in Economics from University College London\, a Master of Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard University\, a Master of Science in Engineering from UC\, and a civil engineer from UC.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-effects-of-transport-infrastructure-on-housing-supply-the-role-of-land-use-regulation/
LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Rubenstein 429 / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Beyond the Census: Understanding Urban Social Resilience Through Behavioral Mobility Data
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. 	Speaker: Esteban Moro\, Ph.D.\, Network Science Institute at Northeastern University 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 	Abstract: In urban studies\, traditional census data provides a static snapshot of cities\, often missing the dynamic\, real-time interactions that shape urban life and underpin the resilience of our communities. In this talk\, I will present our recent research on understanding the dynamics of our cities by analyzing massive behavioral mobility data from mobile phones\, credit cards\, or social media and its relationship with networked inequalities\, such as experienced segregation\, access to healthy food\, adaptation to the recent pandemic\, and public transportation interventions. I will also discuss the methodological challenges and opportunities of using these datasets for population-wide analysis\, from managing potential biases to designing better causal analysis. Finally\, I will comment on potential data-driven interventions to reinforce the social fabric in cities and mitigate the detrimental impacts of networked inequalities. 	Speaker Bio: Esteban Moro is a full professor and director of the Social Urban Networks (SUN) group at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University and affiliated faculty at the MIT Media Lab. He was previously a professor and researcher at the Department of Mathematics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid\, the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center at MIT\, and the University of Oxford. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics. Esteban’s work lies in the intersection of big data and computational social science\, with particular attention to human dynamics\, collective intelligence\, social networks\, and urban mobility in problems like viral marketing\, natural disaster management\, or economic segregation in cities. He has received numerous awards for his research\, and his work has appeared in major journals and is regularly covered by media outlets.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-beyond-the-census-understanding-urban-social-resilience-through-behavioral-mobility-data/
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CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Development Talk: Solving the Impossible Problem of Sovereign Debt Restructuring
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. \nSpeaker: Gregory Makoff\, M-RCBG Senior Fellow\, Author \nModerator: José Ignacio Hernandez\, Former Visiting Fellow\, Growth Lab \nAbout the Talk: Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Senior Fellow Gregory Makoff will talk about sovereign debt restructuring. Drawing lessons from Argentina’s 15-year battle with its creditors following its 2001 default on $100 billion on debt\, Dr. Makoff will discuss the two central challenges of sovereign debt: the “holdout creditor problem” and the problem of designing an effective resolution system while respecting the sovereignty of the country. He will also discuss his current research into whether the current informal system of sovereign debt restructuring is adequate or whether a formal international debt court will eventually be needed. \nWhether attending in person or online\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Buffet lunch will be served. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. \nAbout the Speaker: Gregory Makoff is the author of Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring. Prior to writing the book Gregory was an investment banker specializing in liability management and debt restructuring (1993-2014) and worked as a Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Treasury (2015-2016).  Currently\, he is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and\, since 2015\, has been a non-resident senior fellow writing about sovereign debt at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)\, a think tank based in Waterloo Canada. Gregory holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago (1993) and B.Sc. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in physics and political science (1986). Gregory is also a CFA® charter holder.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-solving-the-impossible-problem-of-sovereign-debt-restructuring/
LOCATION:HYBRID Democracy Lab R414AB / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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