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
AY 2024-25 Kuznets visitors will be announced in Summer 2024
Past Visitors
Spring 2024
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Arya Gaduh – University of Arkansas 03/25/2024-04/05/2024 |
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Kanika Mahajan – Ashoka University 04/01/2024 – 04/12/2024 |
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Charles Gottlieb - Aix-Marseille Université 04/02/2024 – 04/5/2024 |
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Francis Annan – University of California Berkeley 04/03/2024 – 04/10/2024 |
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Farzana Afridi – Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi) 04/08/2024 - 04/12/2024 |
Fall 2023
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Paula Bustos – Universitat Pompeu Fabra 09/11/2023 - 09/15/2023 |
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Todd Schoellman – Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis 09/25/2023 - 09/29/2023 |
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Marcela Eslava – Universidad de los Andes, Colombia 11/06/2023 - 11/10/2023 |
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Santiago Levy – Brookings Institution 11/07/2023 - 11/10/2023 |
Spring 2023
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Esteban Méndez-Chacón – Central Bank of Costa Rica 02/20/2023 - 03/03/2023 |
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Augustin Tapsoba – Toulouse School of Economics 03/01/2023 - 03/07/2023 |
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Ben Marx – Boston University 04/17/2023 - 04/28/2023 |
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Raquel Bernal – Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia 04/17/2023 - 04/21/2023 |
Fall 2022
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Meredith Startz – Dartmouth 10/24/2022 - 11/02/2022 |
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Graciela Teruel Belismelis - Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México 11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022 |
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Chris Udry – Northwestern University 11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022 |
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Andre Nickow – Northwestern University 11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022 |
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Samuel Ampaw – Northwestern University 11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022 |
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Jie Bai – Harvard Kennedy School 11/11/2022 - 11/18/2022 |
