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Seminar in the Economics of Science & Engineering |
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| Term: F+S | 2023-2024 | |
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LOCATION: Via Zoom (Link is sent to E-list) |
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Description: Focus on work force and career issues. Topics include: Effects of globalization on work force and innovation, growth of networks in work; impact of career incentives on productivity; university policies; mobility between academe and industry; link between ideas and outputs, and affects of the Covid19 pandemic on the economics of science. |
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ZOOM LINKS: contact Jennifer w/ your affiliation, etc: <amadeoholl@gmail.com> |
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PAST SEMINAR SCHEDULES: Seminar in the Econ of S&E |
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| Spring 2024 | ||
| Fri: Feb 2 @ 9am | Da Gong (UC Riverside) |
"Formation and Evolution of Beliefs: Famine Experience and Trust in Neighbors" (paper joint with Zhian Hu and Chuanchuan Zhang) ABSTRACT + BIO VIDEO RECORDING |
| Fri: Feb 9 @ 9am | Martina Viarengo (Geneva Graduate Institute) |
"Labor Market Integration, Local Conditions and Inequalities: Evidence from Refugees in Switzerland" (paper joint with Tobias Muller (UNIGE) and Pia Pannatier (UNIGE) ABSTRACT + BIO: VIDEO RECORDING: |
| Fri: Feb 16 @ 9am | Zhenyu Gong (Brandeis U, Intl Business School) |
"Revisiting Causes and Rates of Patent Depreciation" ABSTRACT + BIO: VIDEO RECORDING: |
| Fri: Feb 23 @ 9am | David Kaiser (MIT) |
"Secret Clocks: The U.S. Military, Einstein's Relativity, and the Global Positioning System" ABSTRACT + BIO VIDEO RECORDING |
| Fri: Mar 1 @ 9am | Ashish Arora (Duke Univ, Fuqua School of Business) |
"The Effect of Public Science on Corporate R&D" ABSTRACT + BIO: VIDEO RECORDING: |
| Fri: Mar 8 @ 9am | Ana Lucia Kassouf (Univ of Sao Paulo) |
"Overcoming Obstacles: Addressing the Underrepresentation of Researchers from Developing countries in Development Research" Presentation based on 2 papers: 1. Underrepresentation of developing country researchers in development research 2. Demand Side Obstacles to Publishing Economics Research: A View from the South ABSTRACT + BIO : VIDEO RECORDING: |
| Fri: Mar 16 | Spring Break | |
| Fri: March 22 | Ashley Nunes (Harvard Law School and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) |
"Climate Impacts of Critical Mineral Supply Bottlenecks for Electric Vehicle Deployment" Background Paper Preprint: "Enumerating the climate impact of disequilibrium in critical mineral supply" (with Lucas Woodley, Chung Yi See, Peter Cook, Megan Yeo, Daniel S. Palmer, Laurena Huh, Seaver Wang, Ashley Nunes) ABSTRACT + BIO: VIDEO RECORDING |
| Fri: March 29 | Lianyi Hu (Shanhai Jiao Tong Univ) |
"Robots, Routine Jobs, and Rural Workers" ABSTRACT + BIO: VIDEO RECORDING: |
| Fri: April 5 @ 9am | Maya Durvasula (Stanford Dept of Econ + Law School) |
"Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials" ABSTRACT + BIO: VIDEO RECORDING: |
| Fri: April 12 @ 9am | James Nuzzo (Tachi-Aoi Foundation) |
“Tachi-Aoi and the Transformation of Womenomics from Rhetoric to Action in Contemporary Japan" ABSTRACT + BIO: VIDEO RECORDING: |
| Fri: April 19 @ 9am | Hanzhang Zhou (Harvard College and Tsinghua University) |
"High and Increasing Institutional Concentration of Award-Winning Economists" (with Richard B. Freeman, Danxia Xie, Hanzhe Zhang) ABSTRACT + BIO: VIDEO RECORDING: |
| Fall 2023 | ||
| Fri: Oct 6 @ 9am | Joint with China Economy Seminar | Pierre Azoulay (MIT and NBER) |
"Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from Chemistry." (paper joint with Shumin Qiu and Claudia Steinwender) ABSTRACT + BIO VIDEO - recording |
| Fri: Oct 13 @ 9am | Diego Kozlowski *Universite de Montreal) |
"The Howard Effect: Institutional Reproduction of Intersectional Inequalities in Science" ABSTRACT + BIO VIDEO - recording |
| Fri: Oct 20 @ 9am | Dariusz Jemielniak (Kozminski Univ + Harvard) and Maciej Wilamowski (Univ of Warsaw) |
"Academic Publishing Gender Gap in Bibliometric Data -- Unobvious Conclusions" ABSTRACT + BIO VIDEO - recording |
| Fri: Oct 27 @ 9am | Christian Chacua (Growth Lab, Center for Intl Development, Harvard Kennedy School) |
"Migration and Changes in Research Interest" ABSTRACT + BIO VIDEO - recording |
| Wed: Nov 1 @ 10am |
Participants are invited to join the HKS Growth Lab Research Seminar Series |
William Boone Bonvillian (MIT), "New U.S. Industrial Innovation Policies." ABSTRACT READ AHEAD DOCUMENT |
| Fri: Nov 3 | No Seminar |
Participants are invited to join HKS GL Seminar Series on Wed Nov 1 @ 10am | See above for Seminar details |
| Fri: Nov 10 | Holiday: Veterans Day (Sat Nov 11) | |
Fri: Nov 17 |
rescheduled due to Zoom failure | |
| Fri: Nov 24 | Holiday: Thanksgiving | |
| Fri: Dec 1 | Joey Ravenna (Harvard Law School) and Richard Freeman (Harvard) |
"Misconduct in Scientific Research: Evidence from Retractions" ABSTRACT + BIO PPT slides VIDEO - recording of 2023.12.01 seminar |
| Fri: Dec 8 | Meijun Liu (Fudan Univ) |
"Effects of Same-Race Mentorship Preferences on Academic Performance and Survival" ABSTRACT + BIO VIDEO - recording of 2023.12.08 seminar |
| FALL 2022 | ||
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Wed: Oct 5 @ 10am |
Qingnan Xie (Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School) |
‘’Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers Create and Connect US & China Science" |
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Oct 12 |
no seminar |
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Wed: Oct 19 @ 10am, Via ZOOM |
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Wed: Oct 26 @ 10am via ZOOM
JOINT WITH: |
Xiaoying Li (Sun Yat-sen University) |
“Robot Adoption and Labor Share: Firm-level Evidence from China” (paper joint with Yin Tan (Guangdong Univ of Finance, China) and Richard B. Freeman (Harvard and NBER) |
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Wed: Nov 2 @ 10am via ZOOM
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Shule Yu (Fudan Univ, School of Econonomics) |
“How Robots Impact Labor Relations? Evidence from China” |
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Wed: Nov |
Wei Huang (National School of Development, Peking University)
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"The Tenure-Track System and Academic Research Productivity: Evidence from Reforms in Chinese Universities" (paper joint w/ Qingfeng Liu (Tsinghua U), Jianwei Xing (Peking U) + Shilin Zheng (CASS) |
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Wed: Nov 16 @ 9am: ZOOM |
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Wed Dec 7 @ 9am: |
David Yang (Harvard) |
TITLE: “Power and the Direction of Research: Evidence from China’s Academia” |
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Dec 21 |
End of Semester | Seminars resume Wed Jan 25 |
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PREVIOUS Seminars - of note |
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Friday Oct 1, 2021 @ 10:30am |
SPECIAL SEMINAR: |
TITLE: "Occupational Projections, Automation, and the Future of Work" |