Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
This annual event honors Simon Kuznets, the famous Belarusian-American economist who helped establish the Yale Economic Growth Center in 1961.
Oriana Bandiera (LSE) will deliver the 34th Simon Kuznets Memorial Lecture, “Development and the Organization of Labor.”
As with recent Kuznets events, the lecture will be followed by a mini-conference featuring research on related topics.
The event will be held at Yale in Kline Tower, 219 Prospect Street, 14th floor. Seating is limited to 115 and will be first come, first serve. Register for the live simulcast below:
2025 Kuznets Mini-Conference
Co-organized by Erika Deserranno (Bocconi University) and Ameet Morjaria (Northwestern University), this mini-conference will showcase the work of early- and mid-career researchers on topics related to the 34th Simon Kuznets Memorial Lecture.
Oriana Bandiera
Oriana Bandiera is the Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and an honorary foreign member of the American Economic Association, a fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, CEPR, BREAD, and IZA. She is co-editor of Econometrica, director of the Hub for Equal Representation at the LSE and of the Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries (G²LM|LIC) programme at IZA. Her research focuses on organizations and labor markets, how they affect the process of development, and how they are affected by it.