Past Events

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The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States, joint with Marco Tabellini (HBS)

Tuesday, 2/23/2021, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Paper: The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States, joint with Marco Tabellini (HBS)........

Language Training and Refugees’ Integration

Tuesday, 2/16/2021, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

The Trade & Development Seminar series highlights theoretical and/or empirical research on international and domestic trade, as well as the economic aspects of

Analysing Individual Deprivations alongside Household Poverty: Possibilities for Gendered, Intrahousehold, and Multidimensional Analyses

Monday, 2/8/2021, 10:00am - 11:15am

Most poverty measures identify a household as poor or non-poor based on the achievements of all its members. Using the household as the unit of identification..

Multidimensional Poverty Indices and Children. Four Measurement Strategies

Monday, 2/8/2021, 10:00am - 11:30am

In order to break intergenerational cycles of poverty and sustainably alleviate deprivations, explicit focus on, and prioritisation of, disadvantaged children i

How the Pandemic Exposed the Incomplete Gender Revolution: Work, Family, and Public Policy

Wednesday, 2/3/2021, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Over the past 70 years gender roles in the home and the workplace changed. Women have become more equal contributors in the labor market and men more equal cont

3rd Annual Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium (WALES)

Wednesday, 2/3/2021, 8:45am - 3:45pm

Friday, February 19, 2021 8:45am – 3:45pm Zoom..........

Moderate internationally comparable MPI

Monday, 2/1/2021, 10:00am - 11:30am

Many of the current poverty measures used to track progress towards the Agenda 2030 fall short of its ambition to “end poverty in all its forms, everywhere”....

Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Run Effects of Bank Failures

Monday, 2/1/2021, 2:30am - 3:30am

We were pleased to invite you to the second virtual event of the Macro-International Seminar of Spring 2021. The Macro-International seminar hosts speakers from

Taking Stock of Climate Change: Earth, Air, Fire and Water

Wednesday, 1/27/2021, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

The climate of planet Earth depends on the energy balance between incoming radiation from the Sun and re-radiation from the planet. Greenhouse gases (GHGs).....

Diagnosing and Addressing India’s Post-2011 Growth Slowdown

Friday, 1/22/2021, 8:30am - 10:00am

This was the fifth webinar in the “Envisioning India” series, co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Institute for International Economic Po

Sensitivity Analyses in Poverty Measurement: The Case of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index

Monday, 1/18/2021, 10:00am - 11:15am

This paper provides an extensive sensitivity analyses of the global multidimensional poverty index (MPI), a counting-based measure of acute poverty covering ove

Changes over Time in the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index and Other Measures: Towards National Poverty Reports

Friday, 1/15/2021, 10:00am - 11:30am

This paper provides a highly visual, intuitive yet systematic assessment of trends in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) over time across 80....

The Biden Administration Turns to a Deteriorating US-China Relationship

Friday, 1/15/2021, 9:30am - 11:00am

The Institute for International Economic Policy is pleased to invite you to the 13th annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic R

Multidimensional Poverty in the U.S.

Friday, 12/11/2020, 11:00am - 12:30pm

This event was the tenth webinar of the “Facing Inequality” series, hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy. This virtual series focuses on cu

“Saving Indian Capitalism from its Capitalists” featuring Pranab Bardhan

Wednesday, 12/9/2020, 11:00am - 12:30pm

This was the fourth webinar in the “Envisioning India” series, co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Institute for International Economic P

Recovering from Pandemic Recessions

Monday, 11/30/2020, 11:00am - 12:00pm

The Institute for International Economic Policy is pleased to invite you to the 13th annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic R

Experts Weigh In: The future of U.S.-Latin America relations under a Biden administration

Monday, 11/23/2020, 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

According to Shakespeare, “Every Cloud Engenders Not a Storm”

Monday, 11/23/2020, 10:30am - 12:00pm

Users were first introduced to the idea that their data was stored somewhere in the ether, aka “the cloud” around 2010. But that vague notion of the cloud was..

The Measurement of Human Development in Theory and in Practice

Sunday, 11/22/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Tuesday, November 22, 12:30-2, Monroe 321 Eduardo Zambrano, California Polytechnic State University and Cornell University, “The measurement of human developmen

Who Smooths What? Asset Smoothing versus Consumption Smoothing in Burkina Faso

Sunday, 11/15/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Tuesday, November 15, 12:30-2, Monroe 321 Travis J. Lybbert, University of California, Davis (joint with Michael Carter, UC Davis): “Who Smooths What? Asset Smo