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    • Research Seminar: Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Hold-up Power

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    Speaker: Justin Bloesch, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Harvard University Paper: Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Hold-up Power Abstract: We argue that productive firms share rents with workers only in occupations where workers have individual hold-up power. We present a model of wage determination where firms produce using a novel generalization of […]

    • Alumni Panel: Experiencing & Undoing Discrimination in Development

    Hybrid: WEX W-G02, Zoom
    • Diversity in Development
    • Growth Lab

    The work of development is to improve quality of life and expand economic opportunity across diverse global communities, and graduate programs such as the MPA/ID program at HKS are enormously diverse in national origin, gender, and professional and lived experience. Yet, a 2020 survey of MPA/ID alumni revealed that roughly half of all respondents have […]

    Research Seminar: Vietnam’s role in the US-China trade war

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    Speaker: Karin Mayr-Dorn, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University of Linz Paper: Trade diversion and labor market adjustment: Vietnam and the US-China Trade War Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of the U.S.-China trade war on trade diversion and the labor market in a third country, Vietnam. We exploit variation in Vietnamese exports to the U.S. across industries […]

    Research Seminar: Achieving Power Sector Carbon Neutrality in a Low-cost Renewable Era

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    Speaker: Gang He, Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology and Society at Stony Brook University Abstract: Clean power transition is at the center to achieve mid-century carbon neutrality goals. The cost of solar and wind has plummeted in the past decade, and solar and wind electricity has been achieving grid parity. Low-cost renewables offer new perspectives […]

    Research Seminar: Technology Within and Across Firms

    Wexner 434 AB, Zoom (registration information below)
    • Academic Research Seminars

    Speaker: Diego Comin, Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College Paper: Technology Within and Across Firms Abstract: This study collects data on the sophistication of technologies used at the business function level for a representative sample of firms in Vietnam, Senegal, and the Brazilian state of Ceara. The analysis finds a large variance in technology sophistication across […]

    Knowledge Diffusion as a Cornerstone of Economic Recovery in the Post-COVID World

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    • Growth Lab

    The Growth Lab has recently collaborated with the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics to launch the Growth Co-Lab at LSE. The strategic goal is to bring together the capacities, expertise, and reach of two top academic institutions to expand the activities of the Growth Lab globally. In this public event marking the […]

    Research Seminar: Organizational Frictions to Automation, and Its Effects on Firms, Workers, and Labor Markets

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    Speaker: Daniel P. Gross, Assistant Professor, Duke's Fuqua School of Business Abstract: AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call switching---a technology first invented in the […]

    • Research Seminar: Creative Construction: Knowledge Sharing in Production Networks

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    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: Evgenii Fadeev, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Harvard Paper: Creative Construction: Knowledge Sharing in Production Networks Abstract: Knowledge flows between firms are often measured using patent citations. I show that even the […]

    Research Seminar: Mechanisms of Hardware and Soft Technology Evolution and the Implications for Low-Carbon Energy Costs

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    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: Magdalena Klemun, Assistant Professor, Division of Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s Interdisciplinary Program Office; Research Affiliate, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at MIT. Abstract: Technologies typically contain […]

    Development Talks: Community Engagement as a Frontline to National Development

    Democracy Lab, Rubenstein 414 AB/Zoom
    • Development Talks

    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.  Topic: Community Engagement as a Frontline to National Development: The Peace Corps Experience Speaker: Dr. Josephine (Jody) K. […]

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