Registration is open for the 2025 Kuznets Memorial Lecture

Oriana Bandiera will deliver the 2025 Kuznets lecture, “Development and the Organization of Labor,” on Thursday, February 27 from 4-5:30pm. Bandiera is the Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. 

The event will be held at Yale in Kline Tower, 219 Prospect Street, 14th floor.

IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE: Seating is limited to 115 and will be first come, first serve. No advance registration is required for in-person attendance. Please arrive 10-15 minutes in advance to take your seat.

SIMULCAST ON ZOOM: If you are unable to join us in person, please register for the live simulcast here.

The Simon Kuznets Memorial Lecture is an annual event hosted by the Yale Economic Growth Center since 1987 and features a prominent economist speaking on issues in economic development. This event honors Simon Kuznets, the famous Belarusian-American economist who helped establish the Yale Economic Growth Center in 1961. 

Since 2020, the Kuznets lecture has been combined with a mini-conference, typically the day after the lecture, that showcases cutting-edge research by early-career researchers on topics covered in the lecture. This year's mini-conference is co-organized by Erika Deserranno (Bocconi University) and Ameet Morjaria (Northwestern University). A full schedule and registration information is forthcoming.

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.