The YSI Webinar series on the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America has already discussed the economic, political and social dimensions of this crisis. In the next episode, we turn to the environmental crisis in the context of the pandemic in Latin America. The current development model in Latin America has led to …
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The YSI Africa working group once again will partner the African Economic History Network at their 2020 conference at the Universityof the Free State. The AEHN has held annual meetings since 2005, and participation has grown exponentially. The 2020 meeting willbe in Bloemfontein, South Africa. One of the main goals of our proposed YSI workshop …
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The proposed panel seeks address the following topical questions: Is there an African economic thought? Who are the thinkers from the African continent from the remote past to the present who formulated economic ideas? And what are these ideas? We underscore that most historians of economic thought, let alone economists not specialised in the history …
What's at Stake?22 September, 12pm ETMike Spence, James Manyika, Steve Clemson Discussant in follow-up session: Lara Merling (International Trade Union Confederation) Session detailsAdvancements in automation and artificial intelligence are quickly reaching tipping points, yet our policies, institutions and mindsets are woefully outdated. What will work look like in the future, and how do we secure …
Session 1: DAGs and the Structural Causal Model: Introduction Reading: Cunningham 2020 (Ch. 4 “Directed acyclical graphs”)Available at: https://www.scunning.com/mixtape.htmlComplementary reading: Pearl et al. 2016 "Causal inference in statistics: a primer", sections 1.4 and 1.5 (pages 24-32)
23/Sep - Emanuele Citera: The network origins of aggregate fluctuations: a demand-side approach13/Oct - Gustavo Pereira Serra: Household borrowing for Consumption and Investment in Human Capital: a neo-Kaleckian approach4/Nov - Vinicius Curti Cícero: Three essays on FDI and uneven development25/Nov - Guilherme Spinato Morlin: Inflation and conflicting claims in the open economy15/Dec - Yin Stan …
Michele Alacevich (Associate Professor of History, Department of Political and Social Science, University of Bologna) will discuss the history of development economics looking for analytical insights that can inform policy-making in the development field today. The focus will be on the political economy of development, and on how theoretical debates and the practice of development …
Ezra Karger, PhD Candidate at The University of Chicago will present his work: The Long-Run Effect of Public Libraries on Children: Evidence from the Early 1900s. Abstract:Between 1890 and 1921, Andrew Carnegie funded the construction of 1,618 public libraries in cities and towns across the United States. I link these library construction grants to census …
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What is Technology? Accelerator, Enabler, or Displacer?29 September, 11am ETLong Chen, Anton Korinek and John Van Reenen Discussants in follow-up session: Cecilia Rikap (CONICET, Argentina & Université de Paris and Université de Technologie de Compiègne,France), Veronica Robert (CONICET-UNSAM) Session detailsHuman societies have always coevolved with technology, but how can we think of technology? Is it …
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Session 2: Potential outcomes: introduction Reading: Cunningham 2020 (Ch. 5 “Potential outcomes causal model”)Available at: https://www.scunning.com/mixtape.html
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