Events

CGD is committed to building an organization that embraces diversity and fosters inclusivity. We value diversity across intersectional dimensions, including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, geographic location, and gender. As such, our public events aim to bring together relevant expertise and a balance of perspectives. Read our diversity commitments for public events here.

Events

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Oct

19

4:00—5:30 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

-Fifth Floor

Unity in Diversity? Ethnicity, Migration, and Nation Building in Indonesia

Can nation building be achieved by promoting social integration and a national identity among groups from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds? In his new paper, Professor Samuel Bazzi and his coauthors use a large resettlement program in Indo...

Sep

13

9:30—11:00 AM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

Shared Border, Shared Future: A Blueprint to Regulate US-Mexico Labor Mobility

Mexico and the United States have lacked a bilateral agreement to regulate cross-border labor mobility since 1965. Since that time, unlawful migration from Mexico to the U.S. has exploded. Almost half of the 11.7 million Mexican-born individuals livi...

Jul

11

2:30—4:00 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street

- Fifth Floor

Survival Migration: New Models to Address the Global Crisis of Migration and Displacement

The world was caught off-guard by recent mass movements of refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa. But this is not one brief storm to be weathered and forgotten. These mass movements will only continue in coming years as conflict, d...

Jun

27

12:30—2:00 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

Refugees Work: A Humanitarian Investment That Yields Economic Dividends

A groundbreaking new international study released by the Tent Foundation and Open Political Economy Network (OPEN) powerfully highlights how accepting refugees and empowering them to succeed in the workforce can lead to significant economic growth...

Feb

23

1:00—2:00 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

The Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers on Learning: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile

In this paper Patricia Navarro-Palau studies the effects of an increase in school choice by examining a 2008 reform that made the value of Chile's (previously flat, universal) school voucher a step function of student income. This polic...

Feb

16

2:00—3:00 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

Crowdsourcing Government Accountability: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

This event is cancelled. We develop and implement a novel, mobile phone-based information clearinghouse, and experimentally evaluate its ability to overcome information asymmetries and improve public service delivery to farmers in Punjab, Pakistan. ...

Feb

11

2:00—3:00 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

Large-scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India

The economic consequences of large-scale government investments in education depend on the general equilibrium (GE) effects in both the labor market and the education sector. I develop a novel general equilibrium model and derive sufficient statistic...

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