A program to foster cross-university collaboration

Under the aegis of the Simon Kuznets Memorial Lecture program, the Economic Growth Center hosts short-term visiting economists for periods of 1-2 weeks starting in Fall 2022. Visitors contribute to the Yale development economics community during their stay by meeting with coauthors and student groups, delivering seminars, and collaborating with centers and groups across the University. EGC encourages nominations of under-represented groups in the economics profession and nomination of scholars based in universities in low- and lower-middle income countries. Those interested in visiting EGC under the Kuznets Visitors program can send a letter of interest to egc@yale.edu.

The larger program honors Simon Kuznets. Born in 1901 in what is today Belarus, Kuznets had helped launch the US national income statistics series in 1934. The motivation was to use data for policy – the statistics series was issued to meet the need to describe consistently and in detail the economic toll taken by the Great Depression. Post World War II, Kuznets saw a need for a center to do what his home institutions weren’t able to do – to use data to understand development. He believed Yale was the ideal home for such a venture and he worked with the chair of Yale’s economics department and Ford Foundation to set up EGC in 1961. Kuznets went on to receive the Nobel Prize in 1971 for theoretical and empirical contributions to the measurement of economic growth, and remained a senior consultant for EGC until his death in 1985. 

Upcoming Visitors

Fall 2024

Joseph Kaboski – University of Notre Dame

10/14/2024-10/18/2024

Marlène Koffi – University of Toronto

10/24/2024 – 11/05/2024

Rohini Somanathan - Delhi School of Economics

11/11/2024 - 11/20/2024

Spring 2025

Suhani Jalota - Hoover Institution, Stanford University

02/24/2025 - 03/07/2025

Niccolò Meriggi - IGC Sierra Leone and University of Oxford

04/15/2025 - 04/27/2025 

Jorge Florez-Acosta - Central Bank of Colombia

04/07/2025 - 04/18/2025

Francesco Amodio – McGill University

04/14/2025 – 04/25/2025

Past Visitors

Spring 2024

Arya Gaduh – University of Arkansas

03/25/2024-04/05/2024

Kanika Mahajan – Ashoka University

04/01/2024 – 04/12/2024

Charles Gottlieb - Aix-Marseille Université

04/02/2024 – 04/5/2024

Francis Annan – University of California Berkeley

04/03/2024 – 04/10/2024

Farzana Afridi – Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi)

04/08/2024 - 04/12/2024

Fall 2023

Paula Bustos – Universitat Pompeu Fabra

09/11/2023 - 09/15/2023

Todd Schoellman – Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

09/25/2023 - 09/29/2023

Marcela Eslava – Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

11/06/2023 - 11/10/2023

Santiago Levy – Brookings Institution

11/07/2023 - 11/10/2023

Spring 2023

Esteban Méndez-Chacón – Central Bank of Costa Rica

02/20/2023 - 03/03/2023

Augustin Tapsoba – Toulouse School of Economics

03/01/2023 - 03/07/2023

Benjamin Marx | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

Ben Marx – Boston University

04/17/2023 - 04/28/2023

Raquel Bernal – Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

04/17/2023 - 04/21/2023

Fall 2022

Meredith Startz – Dartmouth

10/24/2022 - 11/02/2022

Graciela Teruel Belismelis - Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México

11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022

Christopher Udry | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

Chris Udry – Northwestern University

11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022

Andre Nickow – Northwestern University

11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022

Samuel Ampaw – Northwestern University

11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022

Headshot of Jie Bai

Jie Bai – Harvard Kennedy School

11/11/2022 - 11/18/2022