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2024 Apr 10

Growth Lab Research Seminar: Labor Markets & Green Industrial Policy

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

HYBRID WEXNER W-434 AB, HKS / Zoom

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: Christophe Combemale, Assistant Research Professor, Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University

Location: WEXNER W-434 A.B. (Harvard Community) / Zoom

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A journey through time: the story behind ‘eight decades of changes in occupational tasks, computerization and the gender pay gap’
2024. A journey through time: the story behind ‘eight decades of changes in occupational tasks, computerization and the gender pay gap’. Industry and Innovation , 31 (4). Publisher's VersionAbstract

In this interview article, we embark on a fascinating journey through time alongside the winners of the 2023 DRUID Best Paper Award. DRUID, an annual research conference renowned as the hub of cutting-edge research on innovation and the dynamics of structural, institutional, and geographic change, bestows this award on the most innovative and exceptional conference submission. As longstanding allies of DRUID, Industry and Innovation offers an exclusive peek behind the curtains, unveiling the untold stories that underlie award-winning research.

In 2023, this coveted DRUID prize was awarded to a paper by Ljubica Nedelkoska, Shreyas Gadgin Matha, James McNerney, Andre Assumpcao, Dario Diodato, and Frank Neffke. Their work stands out through an impressive data collection effort and the exploration of a compelling and urgent research question – how technological change has impacted the gender pay gap. Throughout this interview, the author team takes us down memory lane, retelling the story behind their research project. On this journey through time, we trace the genesis of the authors’ innovative ideas and the intricate pathways they navigated in their quest to understand the past as a means of unravelling the future of work and its implications for gender inequality in the labour market. This journey not only takes us back in time but also points to potential avenues for future research and open questions that lie ahead.

Martin, D.A., 2024. Women Seeking Jobs with Limited Information: Evidence from Iraq.Abstract
2024-02-cid-rfwp-157-women-seeking-jobs-iraq.pdf

Do women apply more for jobs when they know the hiring probability of female job seekers directly from employers? I implemented a randomized control trial and a double-incentivized resume rating to elicit the preferences of employers and job seekers for candidates and vacancies in Iraq. The treatment reveals the job offer rate for women, calculated using the employers’ selection of women divided by the total number of female candidates. After revealing the treatment, the women applied for jobs by three more percentage points than the men in the control group. This paper highlights the value of revealing employers’ preferences to improve the match between female candidates and employers when women underestimate the chances of finding a job. 

2024 Feb 29

Research Seminar: Economic Complexity, Regional Development, and Smart Diversification: Evidence from Brazil

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

HYBRID WEXNER W-102, HKS / Zoom
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.

Speakers: João Romero and Gustavo Britto, Professors at the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
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On the Design of Effective Sanctions: The Case of Bans on Exports to Russia
Hausmann, R., Schetter, U. & Yildirim, M.A., 2024. On the Design of Effective Sanctions: The Case of Bans on Exports to Russia. Economic Policy , 39 (117) , pp. 109-153. Publisher's VersionAbstract
We build on Baqaee and Farhi (2019, 2021) and derive a theoretically-grounded criterion that allows targeting bans on exports to a sanctioned country at the level of ∼5000 6-digit HS products. The criterion implies that the costs to the sanctioned country are highly convex in the market share of the sanctioning parties. Hence, there are large benefits from coordinating export bans among a broad coalition of countries. Applying our results to Russia reveals that sanctions imposed by the EU and the US in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are not systematically related to our arguments once we condition on Russia’s total imports of a product from participating countries. We discuss drivers of these differences, and then provide a quantitative evaluation of the export bans to show that (i) they are very effective with the welfare loss typically ∼100 times larger for Russia than for the sanctioners; (ii) improved coordination of the sanctions and targeting sanctions based on our criterion allows to increase the costs to Russia by about 80% with little to no extra cost to the sanctioners; and (iii) there is scope for increasing the cost to Russia further by expanding the set of sanctioned products.
2024 Apr 03

Research Seminar: The Economic Impact of Transport Infrastructure: A Review of Project-level vs. Aggregate-level Meta-Evidence

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

WEXNER W-434 A.B. / Zoom (registration information below)

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: Timo Välilä, Honorary Professor, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, UCL

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2024 Feb 21

Research Seminar: Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital and the Developing World

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

HYBRID WEXNER W-434 AB, HKS / Zoom

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: Jacob Moscona, Harvard University

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2024 Feb 07

Research Seminar: Green Growth Models and National Decarbonization Capacity

10:00am to 11:15am

Location: 

Location: HYBRID Wexner G-02 at HKS / Zoom

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.

Location: HYBRID Wexner G-02 at HKS / Zoom

Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZtdpZP56QyOg8fOS1J0gHg

Speaker: Daniel Driscoll (Brown University)

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di Giovanni, J., et al., 2023. Pandemic-era Inflation Drivers and Global Spillovers.Abstract
2023-11-cidwp-440-pandemic-inflation-drivers.pdf
We estimate a multi-country multi-sector New Keynesian model to quantify the drivers of domestic inflation during 2020–2023 in several countries, including the United States. The model matches observed inflation together with sector-level prices and wages. We further measure the relative importance of different types of shocks on inflation across countries over time. The key mechanism, the international transmission of demand, supply and energy shocks through global linkages helps us to match the behavior of the USD/Euro exchange rate. The quantification exercise yields four key findings. First, negative supply shocks to factors of production, labor and intermediate inputs, initially sparked inflation in 2020–2021. Global supply chains and complementarities in production played an amplification role in this initial phase. Second, positive aggregate demand shocks, due to stimulative policies, widened demand-supply imbalances, amplifying inflation further during 2021–2022. Third, the reallocation of consumption between goods and service sectors, a relative sector-level demand shock, played a role in transmitting these imbalances across countries through the global trade and production network. Fourth, global energy shocks have differential impacts on the US relative to other countries’ inflation rates. Further, complementarities between energy and other inputs to production play a particularly important role in the quantitative impact of these shocks on inflation.
2023 Nov 29

Research Seminar: Anticipating Climate Change Across the United States, with E. Rossi-Hansberg

10:00am to 11:15am

Location: 

HYBRID Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom

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: Adrien Bilal - Harvard University

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2023 Nov 06

Research Seminar: The Growing Use of Economic Complexity in EU Policy

10:00am to 11:15am

Location: 

HYBRID W434 A.B., HKS / Zoom

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: Pierre-Alexandre Balland (Utrecht University & AI Toulouse Institute)

In this hybrid seminar, Pierre-Alexandre Balland will review the growing use of economic complexity within different sections of the European Commission, EU member states, and EU regions. He will then highlight existing limitations and blindspots that the field seriously needs to...

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COVID-19 and emerging markets: A SIR model, demand shocks and capital flows
Çakmaklı, C., et al., 2023. COVID-19 and emerging markets: A SIR model, demand shocks and capital flows. Journal of International Economics , 145. Publisher's VersionAbstract
We quantify the macroeconomic effects of COVID-19 for a small open economy. We use a two-country framework combined with a sectoral SIR model to estimate the effects of collapses in foreign demand and supply. The small open economy (country one) suffers from domestic demand and supply shocks due to its own pandemic. In addition, there are external shocks coming from the rest of the world (country two). Aggregate exports of the small open economy decline when foreign demand goes down, and aggregate imports suffer from lockdowns in the rest of the world. We calibrate the model to Turkey. Our results show that the optimal policy, which yields the lowest output loss and saves the maximum number of lives, for the small open economy, is an early and globally coordinated full lockdown of 39 days.

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