ECA Talk: Education and Innovation

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ECA Talk: Education and Innovation

January 18, 2023

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by Ufuk Akcigit, Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Chicago

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How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This talk discusses the various layers that connect R&D subsidies and higher education policy to productivity growth. We put the development of scarce talent and career choice at the center of a new endogenous growth framework with individual-level heterogeneity in talent, frictions, and preferences. Education and innovation policies not only alleviate different frictions, but also impact innovation at different time horizons.

Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Chicago
Ufuk Akcigit is the Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Chicago. His research is focused on Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Firm Dynamics, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. He has been teaching at the University of Chicago since 2015, following an appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, and receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2009.
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Adviser, Office of the Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia
Harry Anthony Patrinos is Adviser, Office of the Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia. He specializes in the economics of education, school-based management, demand-side financing and public-private partnerships. He has managed education teams in Europe and Central Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, and the Global Unit. He previously led lending operations and analytical work programs in Latin America. Harry received a doctorate from the University of Sussex.

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Date: January 18, 2023
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM EDT
Chair: Ivailo Izvorski, Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank
CONTACT: Suzette Samms-Lindsay
ssammslindsay@worldbank.org

Office of the Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia

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