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. 

Speakers:
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Silver Professor; Professor of Politics, New York University
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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: R. Maria del Rio Chanona, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Abstract: In the first part of this talk, we present a non-equilibrium and data-driven network model for understanding how workers adapt to changes in labor demand. In this model, workers move through an empirically derived occupational mobility network in response to...

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: Stefan Dercon, Professor of Economic Policy, Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government

Moderator: Clement Brenot, Research Manager, Growth Lab

Prof. Dercon's latest book, Gambling on Development: Why some countries win and others lose  ...

Speaker: James Mnyupe, Economic Advisor to the President, Republic of Namibia

Moderator: Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment

Whether attending in-person or virtually, please register...