Kuznets Visitors
Launched in Fall 2022, the program brings nominated short-term visitors to contribute to the development economics community at Yale.
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.
Spring 2024
Arya Gaduh
University of Arkansas
03/25/2024-04/05/2024
Kanika Mahajan
Ashoka University
04/01/2024 – 04/12/2024
Charles Gottlieb
Aix-Marseille Université
04/02/2024 – 04/5/2024
Francis Annan
University of California Berkeley
04/03/2024 – 04/10/2024
Past Visitors
Fall 2023
Paula Bustos
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
09/11/2023 - 09/15/2023
Todd Schoellman
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
09/25/2023 - 09/29/2023
Marcela Eslava
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
11/06/2023 - 11/10/2023
Santiago Levy
Brookings Institution
11/07/2023 - 11/10/2023
Spring 2023
Esteban Méndez-Chacón
Central Bank of Costa Rica
02/20/2023 - 03/03/2023
Augustin Tapsoba
Toulouse School of Economics
03/01/2023 - 03/07/2023
Ben Marx
Boston University
04/17/2023 - 04/28/2023
Raquel Bernal
Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
04/17/2023 - 04/21/2023
Fall 2022
Meredith Startz
Dartmouth
10/24/2022 - 11/02/2022
Graciela Teruel Belismelis
Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México
11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022
Chris Udry
Northwestern University
11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022
Andre Nickow
Northwestern University
11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022
Samuel Ampaw
Northwestern University
11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022
Jie Bai
Harvard Kennedy School
11/11/2022 - 11/18/2022