Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee

In this episode at Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee (#ezgc) we host Anna Stansbury, incoming Professor at MIT Sloan's Work and Organization Studies. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.  

Anna’s research is rigorous, timely and highly policy-relevant. Her research focuses on labor and macro economics, with particular focus on issues to do with labor market power, as an explanation for the slow growth or decline in wages for the average worker. 

 In this episode we discuss the basics about the divergence between productivity and pay,  worker unions, the pros and cons of unionization, as well as the type of regulation that can increase worker power.

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In this episode at Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee (#ezgc) we host Prof. Seema Jayachandran, a Professor of Economics at Northwestern University.  

Seema's research focuses on economic issues in developing countries, including environmental conservation, gender equality, labor markets, health, and education. She serves on the board of directors for the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, known as J-PAL, and is the chair of its gender sector. She is also the co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's program in Development Economics and co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Seema is also a columnist in the New York Times as a contributor to the Economic View column.  

Seema's research is not only pioneering scientifically speaking, but also contains enormously important policy implications, which are novel, effective, implementable and scalable.  

In this episode we focus our discussion on gender discrimination in developing countries, where she has been able to show us that this problem starts really early on, even prenatally. And that the way we think about progress when it comes to economic growth might make things even worse. But not everything is bad news, because her research also shows that there are ways to influence some of these trends, which we also discuss.

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In this episode, Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee (#ezgc) hosts Dr. Homi Kharas, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution.  Homi has published several articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces on global development policy, global trends influencing developing countries, the emergence of the middle class, the role of international organizations in development, and the G-20, among other topics.  

Homi has had also a very distinguished public policy career. He served as the executive secretary of the secretariat advising the Untied Nations Secretary General on the post-2015 development agenda, which gave birth to the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. He has served too in a number of different high-level panels advising international organizations and governments. Prior to joining Brookings, Dr. Kharas spent 26 years at the World Bank, serving for seven years as Chief Economist for the East Asia and Pacific region and Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, responsible for the Bank’s advice on structural and economic policies, fiscal issues, debt, trade, governance, and financial markets.   

As of today he also serves as the principal economic advisor to the World Data Lab (https://worlddata.io), a data enterprise that, among other functionalities, houses the World Poverty Clock (https://worlddata.io/portfolio/world-poverty-clock), a real time tracker of extreme poverty numbers around the globe.  

In this episode we talk the current state of poverty around the globe; the emergence of a global middle class; and about the sustainable development goals.

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Sam and Paul have shown their commitment to data sharing and open science. They’ve started together the Development Data Lab (http://www.devdatalab.org), a data sharing platform so that people who want to do research on any topic can complement their own datasets with that of others in the same region or country. In this episode we talk about many things, included what have they learned in their career when doing research with high-resolution data that they couldn’t have with more standard datasets. We also talk about their data sharing platforms, such as the SHRUG (http://www.devdatalab.org/shrug), and we were able to get in a laugh or two in between! 

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Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee  hosts Prof. Raffaella Sadun, one of the leading scholars understanding the importance of management practices in boosting productivity. With Raffaella we talk about the main findings of her studies on how management varies across firms and countries, and about the role of management in the response of hospitals, and the public health sector more generally, to the COVID19​ global pandemic.   

Raffaella Sadun is a Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Prof. Sadun's research focuses on the economics of productivity, management and organizational change. Her research documents the economic and cultural determinants of managerial choices, as well as their implications for organizational performance in both the private and public sector (including healthcare and education). She is among the founders of the World Management Survey (www.worldmanagementsurvey.org) and the Executive Time Use Study (www.executivetimeuse.org).

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Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee (#ezgc) hosts Prof. Ricardo Hausmann, a highly influential and respected figure both in academic and policy circles, to talk about his thoughts about the #globalrecession caused by #COVID19, about his very own research on the power of #knowhow as an engine of #economicgrowth and #economicdevelopment, and beyond.   Prof. Hausmann is the Rafik Hariri Professor Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard University and the Director of the Growth Lab at Harvard Center for International Development. In the early 1990s he was Minister of Planning of  his home country Venezuela. After that he became the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank.   

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