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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

Arya Gaduh
University of Arkansas
03/25/2024-04/05/2024

Kanika Mahajan

Kanika Mahajan
Ashoka University
04/01/2024 – 04/12/2024

Charles Gottlieb

Charles Gottlieb
Aix-Marseille Université
04/02/2024 – 04/5/2024

Francis Annan

Francis Annan
University of California Berkeley
04/03/2024 – 04/10/2024

Farzana Afridi

Farzana Afridi
Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi)
04/08/2024 - 04/19/2024

Past Visitors

Fall 2023

Paula Bustos

Paula Bustos
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
09/11/2023 - 09/15/2023

Todd Schoellman

Todd Schoellman 
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
09/25/2023 - 09/29/2023

Marcela Eslava

Marcela Eslava
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
11/06/2023 - 11/10/2023

Santiago Levy

Santiago Levy 
Brookings Institution
11/07/2023 - 11/10/2023

Spring 2023

Esteban Méndez-Chacón

Esteban Méndez-Chacón
Central Bank of Costa Rica
02/20/2023 - 03/03/2023

Augustin Tapsoba

Augustin Tapsoba
Toulouse School of Economics
03/01/2023 - 03/07/2023

Ben Marx

Ben Marx
Boston University
04/17/2023 - 04/28/2023

Raquel Bernal

Raquel Bernal
Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
04/17/2023 - 04/21/2023

Fall 2022

Meredith Startz

Meredith Startz
Dartmouth
10/24/2022 - 11/02/2022

Graciela Teruel Belismelis

Graciela Teruel Belismelis
Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México
11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022

Christopher Udry

Chris Udry 
Northwestern University
11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022

Andre Nickow

Andre Nickow
Northwestern University
11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022

Samuel Ampaw

Samuel Ampaw
Northwestern University
11/04/2022 - 11/07/2022

Jie Bai

Jie Bai
Harvard Kennedy School
11/11/2022 - 11/18/2022