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. 

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: Gianluigi Giustiziero, Assistant Professor of Strategy, IE Business School

Abstract: Digital firms tend to be both narrow in their vertical scope and large in their scale. We explain this phenomenon through a theory about how attributes of firms’ resource bundles impact their scale and specialization. We posit that highly...

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. This event is co-sponsored by Harvard's Center for African Studies. 

Speaker: Ann Bernstein, Executive Director, Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa

Moderator: Soraya Mohideen, Harvard South Africa Fellow, HKS Mid-Career MPA '23

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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. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Project on Workforce at Harvard University.

Speaker: Christina Langer, PhD candidate at KU...

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...

Speaker: Doyne Farmer, Director of Complexity Economics, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School; Baillie Gifford Professor, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

New research from Doyne Farmer and others shows that wind, solar, and other renewables would deliver energy security to the world and save $12 trillion...

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: HE Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri, Cabinet Member & UAE Minister of Economy

Moderator: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, Growth Lab; Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, HKS

Room attendance is limited...

Learn more about the Growth Lab's mission and approach, our academic research and policy engagements, and student opportunities. You'll hear directly from the Growth Lab's senior leadership, fellows, and staff.

Speakers include:
Ricardo Hausmann - Director, Growth Lab; Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, HKS
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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: Leah Boustan, Professor of Economics, Princeton University

Moderator: Nikita Taniparti, Research Manager, Growth Lab

Prof. Leah Boustan will discuss her work, including her new book Streets of Gold: America’...

**This event was originally scheduled for Oct. 25th**

Speakers: Annie White (Senior Product Manager), Steven Geofrey (Front-End Software Developer), Brendan Leonard (Back-End Developer and Data Specialist), and Nil Tuzcu (UX/UI & Data Visualization Designer) make up the Development & Design Team at the Growth Lab.

At this session of Programming + Pizza, Annie and her team will present on the design, development, data and product management that goes into Metroverse, ...

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: Chris Blattman, Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute and Harris School of Public Policy

Chris will discuss his new book, ...

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: Mathieu Couttenier, Professor, University of Lyon and Ecole Normale Superieur

Abstract: Artisanal and small-scale mines (ASM) are on the rise. They represent a...

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: David N. Weil, James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics at Brown University

Abstract: We develop a new measure of land quality by estimating weights in a Poisson regression of population in grid cells on a vector of geographic characteristics and country fixed effects. Aggregating to the level of countries, we construct average...