1st World Bank-GWU-UVA Research Conference on “The Economics of Sustainable Development”
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
8:00 AM – 7:30 PM
Hybrid
The Future of Global Poverty Alleviation Through Social Business
Friday, March 24th, 2023
9:30-10:30 p.m EDT
In-Person
Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus on The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
Thursday, October 27th, 2022
9:00 a.m. – 10 a.m. ET
Lindner Family Commons and via Zoom
IMF Africa REO
Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
via Zoom and In-Person
Two Generations of Trailblazing Chinese American Women At The Asian Development Bank
Monday, April 25th, 2022
5:00-6:00pm EST
Linder Family Commons
Are China and India Likely to Miss the Convergence?
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. EDT / 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. IST
via Zoom
Black Politicians During Reconstruction: Impacts and Backlashes
Monday, February 28th, 2022
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. ET
via Zoom
India at 75: Systemic Challenges and the Path Ahead
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET
via Zoom
Profiling Gendered Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Monday, February 21st, 2022
11:00 – 12:15 p.m. ET
via Zoom
Extending Multidimensional Poverty Identification: From Additive Weights to Minimal Bundles
Monday, February 14th, 2022
11:00 – 12:15 p.m. ET
via Zoom
The Distribution of Wealth in Germany 1895-2018
Monday, February 7th, 2022
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. ET
via Zoom
William White on Negative Economic Shocks: Can Our Fragile Democracies Take the Hit?
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. EDT
via Zoom
Unshackling India: Hard Truths and Clear Choices for Economic Revival
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. ET
via Zoom
The U.S. Federal Reserve and Economic Inequality
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. EDT
via Zoom
The Challenges of Technology & Economic Catch-Up in Emerging Economies
Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EST
Hybrid
Distributional Impacts of Cash Transfers on the Multidimensional Poverty of Refugees: The ESSN program in Turkey
Monday, November 29th, 2021
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. EST
via Zoom
On Track or Not? Projecting the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
Monday, November 15th, 2021
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. EST
via Zoom
Linkages with Multinationals: The Effects on Domestic Firms’ Exports
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
12.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.
via Zoom
Taking on China – the Imperative and agenda for India
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
8:30 – 10:00 am EDT / 7:00 – 8:30 pm IST
Latin America: The Pandemic, Poverty, and Policy
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. EST
via Zoom
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021 Unmasking Disparities: Ethnicity, Race, and Gender
Monday, October 11th, 2021
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. EDT
via Zoom
The Diffusion of Female Empowerment: Evidence from Social Networks in India
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
via Zoom
India’s Economy in a Post-Pandemic World
Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
Inequality and the Centrifugal Nature of the Labor Market
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. EDT
Getting India to the Green Frontier
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. EDT / 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. IST
Poverty, Climate, and Unemployment: Towards a World of Three Zeros
Thursday, September 16, 2021
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. EDT
via Zoom
Social Protection and Multidimensional Poverty
Monday, November 8th, 2021
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. EDT
via Zoom
The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EDT
via Zoom
Food Systems at a Crossroads: How to fix them and help people, economies, and the planet
Thursday, June 24, 2021
12 p.m. EDT
via Zoom
The Use of Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability Indices in the Context of Health Emergencies
Monday, May 24, 2021
10 a.m. – 11:15 p.m. EDT
via Zoom
8th Annual Conference Washington Area Development Economics Symposium (WADES)
Thursday, May 13, 2021 – Friday, May 14, 2021
A Multi-Country Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Contexts of Forced Displacement
Monday, May 10, 2021
10:00 a.m. EDT
via Zoom
The Policy and Advocacy Use of Multidimensional Poverty Measures
Monday, April 26, 2021
10:00am EDT
via Zoom
Peace in the Age of Chaos
Thursday, April 22, 2021
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT
via Zoom
Quality-adjusted Population Density
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
12:30pm – 2:00pm
via Zoom
Africa after COVID-19: Charting a New Course for Economic Growth and Development
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
10:00am – 11:30am
via Zoom
Growth Elasticity of Multidimensional Poverty in India Between 2005/06 and 2015/16
Monday, March 8, 2021
10:00am – 11:15am
via WebEx
India’s Farm Laws
Friday, February 26, 2021
9:00am-10:30am
via WebEx
Analysing Individual Deprivations alongside Household Poverty: Possibilities for Gendered, Intrahousehold, and Multidimensional Analyses
Monday February 22nd, 2021
10:00AM-11:15AM EST
Language Training and Refugees’ Integration
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
via WebEx
How the Pandemic Exposed the Incomplete Gender Revolution: Work, Family, and Public Policy
Monday, February 15th 2021
2:00pm-3:30pm
WebEx
Test Format and Calculator Use in the Testing of Basic Math Skills for Principles of Economics: Experimental Evidence
October 2020. Irene R. Foster and Melanie Allwine Fennell. IIEP working paper 2020-20
Multidimensional Poverty Indices and Children. Four Measurement Strategies
Monday February 8th, 2021
10:00 AM-11:30AM EST
via WebEx
Valuing Nature: Whales, Elephants, and the Global Economy
Thursday, November 19th, 2020
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm EST
via WebEx
Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work After Childbirth
June 2020. Elira Kuka and Na’ama Shenhav. IIEP working paper 2020-10
Medieval Cities Through the Lens of Urban Economic Theories
May 2020. Remi Jedwab, Noel D. Johnson, and Mark Koyama. IIEP working paper 2020-9
Human Capital Accumulation at Work: Estimates for the World and Implications for Development
February 2020. Remi Jedwab, Asif Islam, Paul Romer, and Robert Samaniego. IIEP working paper 2020-3
Cities of Workers, Children or Seniors? Age Structure and Economic Growth in a Global Cross-Section of Cities
August 2019. Remi Jedwab, Daniel Pereira, and Mark Roberts. IIEP working paper 2019-13
Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S
August 2019. Barry Chiswick and Christina Houseworth. IIEP working paper 2019-12
Economic Diversification in the Post-Oil Era
State room, Elliott School of International Affairs
Friday, April 12, 2019
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Hosting Kuwait’s Minister of Finance
Drug Money and Bank Lending: The Unintended Consequences of Anti-Money Laundering
March 2019. Tomas Williams, Pablo Slutzky, and Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas. IIEP Working Paper 2019-5.
Agricultural extension, intra-household allocation and malaria
March 2019. Yao Pan and Saurabh Singhal. IIEP Working Paper 2019-4.
Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany
February 2019. Stephen C. Smith, Uwe Jirjahn and Jens Mohrenweiser. IIEP Working Paper 2019-1.
A mHealth Voice Messaging Intervention to Improve Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Senegal
February 2019. Shauna Downs, Jessica Fanzo, Jozefina Kalaj, Joachim Sackey, and Stephen C. Smith. IIEP Working Paper 2019-6.
Pandemics, Places, and Populations: Evidence from the Black Death
February 2019. Remi Jedwab, Noel D. Johnson, and Mark Koyama. IIEP Working Paper 2019-3.
Should Leaders Focus on Poverty or Inequality? Ethical and Policy Perspectives
Lindner Commons, Elliott School of International Affairs
Monday, February 25, 2019
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Co-sponsored with the Leadership, Ethics, and Practice Initiative and the Institute for International Economic Policy
Is There a Kuznets Curve for Intra-City Earnings Inequality?
November 2018. Haixiao Wu. IIEP Working Paper 2018-9.
Private Sector Policymaking
October 2018. David Szakonyi. IIEP Working Paper 2018-8.
Development Economics Meets the Challenges of Lagging U.S. Areas Applications to Education, Health and Nutrition, Behavior, and Infrastructure
September 2018. Stephen C. Smith. IIEP Working Paper 2018-7.
An Examination of the Link between Urban Planning Policies and the High Cost of Housing and Labor
September 2018. Anthony Yezer, William Larson, Weihua Zhao. IIEP Working Paper 2018-6.
Modelling Economic Development: The Lewis Model Updated
September 2018. Carmel Chiswick . IIEP Working Paper 2018-5.
Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils
October 2017 by Stephen Smith (George Washington University) & Uwe Jirjahn (University of Trier) IIEP Working Paper 2017-22
Bolder Divestment Not Better Performance Contracts are the Solution for India’s Public Sector
September 2017 by Ajay Chhibber (George Washington University) & Swati Gupta (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) IIEP Working Paper 2017-19...
Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda
July 2017 by Yao Pan, Stephen C. Smith, and Munshi Sulaiman IIEP Working Paper 2015-11
Public Sector Undertakings: Bharat’s other Ratnas
March 2017 by Ajay Chhibber (George Washington University) & Swati Gupta (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi) IIEP Working Paper...
Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions: Evidence from the Black Death
March 2017 by Remi Jedwab (George Washington University), Mark Koyama (George Mason University) & Noel Johnson (George Mason University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-4 The authors of this paper examine the Black Death persecutions committed against the Jewish people to...
Economic and Political Factors in Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Railroads and Roads in Africa 1960–2015
February 2017 by Remi Jedwab (George Washington University) & Adam Storeygard (Tufts University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-3
How Sustainable Are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomised Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda
January 2017 by Stephen C. Smith (George Washington University), Vida Bobić (George Washington University), Ram Fishman (Tel Aviv University), & Munshi Sulaiman (Save the Children) IIEP Working Paper...
Disruptive Technologies and their Implications for Economic Policy: Some Preliminary Observations
June 2016 by Danny Leipziger & Victoria Dodev (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-13
Costly Screening, Self-Selection, Fraud, and the Organization of Credit Markets
March 2016 by Anthony Yezer (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-4
Climate Preferences, Obesity, and Unobserved Heretogeneity in Cities
February 2016 by Anthony Yezer (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-3
Long-Term Impacts of High Temperatures on Economic Productivity
October 2015 by Ram Fishman, Jason Russ, and Paul Carrillo (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-18
Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty
August 2015 by Tony Castleman, James Foster, and Stephen C. Smith (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-10
The Energy Implications of City Size and Density
June 2015 by Anthony Yezer (George Washington University) and William Larson (Federal Housing Finance Agency) IIEP Working Paper 2015-15
Amenity, Diversity and Obesity: Unobserved Heretogeneity in Cities
June 2015 by Stephen Popick (George Washington University) and Anthony Yezer (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-12
Inaugural Conference on India’s Economy
Monday, April 13, 2015 8:15am to 5:00pm Elliott School of International Affairs Lindner Commons, 6th floor 1957 E Street NW Washington, DC 20052 The Indian economy is showing signs of revival after several years of slowdown. A new growth oriented government has just...
Urbanization without Growth in Historical Perspective
March 2015 by Remi Jedwab (The George Washington University) and Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston) IIEP Working Paper 2015-7
The Mortality Transition, Malthusian Dynamics, and the Rise of Poor Mega-Cities
January 2015 by Remi Jedwab (The George Washington University) and Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston) IIEP Working Paper 2015-6
When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming
October 2014 by Sarah Baird (George Washington University), Joan Hamory Hicks (UC-Berkeley, CEGA), Michael Kremer (Harvard University, NBER), Edward Miguel (UC-Berkeley, NBER), Amrita Ahuja, and Shawn Powers IIEP Working Paper...
Why Does Skill Intensity Vary Across Cities? Housing Cost and True Human Capital
August 2014 by Daniel A. Broxterman (George Washinton University) and Anthony M. Yezer (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-15
The Energy Implications of City Size and Density
July 2014 by William Larson (Bureau of Economic Analysis), and Anthony M. Yezer (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-16
The Cost of Greening Stimulus: A Dynamic Discrete Choice Analysis of Vehicle Scrappage Programs
April 2014 byChao Wei (The George Washington University) and Shanjun Lei (Cornell University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-12
Designing Experiments to Measure Spillover Effects
February 2014 by Sarah Baird (George Washington University), J. Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania), Craig McIntosh (University of California, San Diego) and Berk Ozler (World Bank and University of Otago) IIEP Working Paper...
Rural Push, Urban Pull and… Urban Push? New Historical Evidence from Developing Countries
January 2014 by Rémi Jedwab (George Washington University), Luc Christiaensen(Development Research Group, The World Bank), and Marina Gindelsky(George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper...
Transportation Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of Colonial Railroads on City Growth in Africa
January 2014 by Rémi Jedwab (George Washington University) and Alexander Moradi(University of Sussex) IIEP Working Paper 2014-3
History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya
January 2014 by Rémi Jedwab (George Washington University), Edward Kerby(London School of Economics and Political Science), and Alexander Moradi(University of Sussex) IIEP Working Paper...
The Cognitive Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 The George Washington University Washington,...
Routes, Exports, and Employment in Developing Countries: Following the Trace of the Inca Road
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 The George Washington University Washington,...
Water, U.S. Foreign Policy and American Leadership
October 2013 by Marcus DuBois King, Ph.D (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-11
Urbanization with and without Industrialization
October 2013 Rémi Jedwab (George Washington University), Douglas Gollin(University of Oxford) and Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston) IIEP Working Paper...
Quantifying Upstreamness in East Asia: Insights from a Coasian model of Production Staging
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 The George Washington University Washington,...
Policy Forum: Assessing India’s Inclusive Development for Better Outcomes
Monday, October 14, 2013 The George Washington University Washington,...
Cash or Coupons? Testing the Impacts of Cash versus Vouchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 The George Washington University Washington,...
Cooperatives in a Global Economy: Key Economic Issues, Recent Trends, and Potential for Development
September 2013 by Stephen C. Smith (co-author Jonathon Rothbaum) IIEP Working Paper 2013-06
Are Sunday Babies Doomed for Life? Measuring the Sunday-Born Achievement Gap in Ecuador
March 2013 by Gabriela Aparicio (co-author Paul E. Carrillo (GWU) and M. Shahe Emran (IPD, Columbia University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-02
Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
January 2013 by Stephen C. Smith (George Washington University), Verena Dill (Universität Trier), and Uwe Jirjahn (Universität Trier) IIEP Working Paper 2013-15
Structural Change in Ghana 1960-2010
September 2012 by Remi Jedwab (GWU and LSE) and Robert Darko Osei (ISSER) IIEP Working Paper 2012-12
Adaptation to Climate Change in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Current Research and Needs from Future Research
June 2012 by Stephen C. Smith (co-author Arun S. Malik, IIEP and GWU) IIEP Working Paper 2012-8
Assessing the Frontiers of Ultra-Poverty Reduction: Evidence from CFPR/TUP, an Innovative Program in Bangladesh
June 2012 by Stephen Smith & Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2009-6
The Scope of NGOs and Development Program Design: Application to Problems of Multidimensional Poverty
June 2012 by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2012-7
Awareness as an Adaptation Strategy for Reducing Mortality from Heat Waves: Evidence from a Disaster Risk Management Program in India
May 2012 by Stephen C. Smith (co-author Saudamini Das, University of Delhi) IIEP Working Paper 2012-6
“Drill, Baby, Drill!” The Correlates of “Energy Independence” Policy in the United States
March 2012 by Llewelyn Hughes (co-author: Francisco Flores-Macias, LCM Commodities) IIEP Working Paper 2012-4
Human Recognition among HIV-Infected Adults: Empirical Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya
November 2011 by Tony Castleman IIEP Working Paper 2011-11
The Regressive Demands of Demand-Driven Development
November 2011 by Sarah Baird IIEP Working Paper 2011-21
Measurement of Human Recognition: A Methodology with Empirical Applications in India and Kenya
September 2011 by Tony Castleman IIEP Working Paper 2011-10
Human Recognition and its Role in Economic Development: A Descriptive Review
September 2011 by Tony Castleman IIEP Working Paper 2011-8
Human Recognition in Economic Development: A Theoretical Model
by Tony Castleman IIEP Working Paper 2011-9 Updated 2012
Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association and Redundancy
April 2011 by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2011-19
“How empowering Ghanaians can help Ghana avoid an oily mess”
March 2011 by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2011-32
Freedom, Opportunity and Wellbeing
April 2010 by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2010-15
Regional Agricultural Endowments and Shifts of Poverty Trap Equilibria: Evidence from Ethiopian Panel Data
by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2011-1 Updated 2011
Do Cheaters Bunch Together? Profit Taxes, Withholding Rates and Tax Evasion
by Paul Carrillo IIEP Working Paper 2011-3 Updated 2011
Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam
November 2009 by Stephen Smith & Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2009-15
The Short-Term Impacts of a Schooling Conditional Cash Transfer Program on the Sexual Behavior of Young Women
by Sarah Baird IIEP Working Paper 2010-10 Updated 2010
Aggregate Income Shocks and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
by Sarah Baird IIEP Working Paper 2010-7 Updated 2010
Public Information and Household Expectations in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
April 2009 by Paul Carrillo & Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2009-8
Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World
February 2009 by Nora Lustig IIEP Working Paper 2009-4
Financial Liberalization, Financial Restraint and Entrepreneurial Development
January 2009 by Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2009-2
Fiscal and Political Instability and the Growth Nexus in Developing Countries: An Application to Nigeria
by Fred Joutz IIEP Working Paper 2009-11
Cultural Inheritance, Gender, and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: Evidence from a Developing Economy
December 2008 by Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2008-12
The Extent of the Market and Stages of Agricultural Specialization
December 2008 by Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2008-11
Investing in Health: The Long-Term Impact of Head Start on Smoking
by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2010-25 April 2008
Long-run Causes of Comparative Development: An Interpretation of the Recent Evidence
September 2007 by Stephen Smith IIEP Working Paper 2008-13
Efficient Deliveries of Cash Transfers to the Poor: Improving the Design of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Ecuador
April 2007 by Paul Carrillo IIEP Working Paper 2008-8
