16th International Conference on Migration and Development
The French Development Agency (AFD), World Bank Development Group (DECGR), Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center), BU Institute for Economic Development (IED) and BU Human Resources Policy Institute (HRPI) are pleased to jointly organize the 16th International Conference on Migration and Development from October 2-3, 2023 in Boston, MA, USA.
The conference is devoted to investigating ways in which international migration affects economic and social change in developing countries. Possible topics include the effects of migration on poverty, inequality and human capital formation; social networks and migration; migration and globalization; migration and institutional / technological / demographic / cultural change in sending countries, today and in the past.
A selection of papers from the conference will be considered for a special issue of Journal of Development Economics.
Keynote speakers:
- Natalie Bau (UCLA)
- Gordon Hanson (Harvard Kennedy School)
Organizing committee:
- Patricia Cortes (BU)
- Matthew Regan (BU)
- Dilip Mookherjee (BU)
- Anna Goodman (World Bank)
- Çağlar Özden (World Bank)
- Serge Rabier (AFD)
- Hillel Rapoport (PSE)
Scientific committee:
- Chair — Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics);
- Ran Abramitzky (Stanford)
- Catia Batista (Nova)
- Sam Bazzi (UC San Diego)
- Michel Beine (Luxembourg)
- Simone Bertoli (CERDI)
- Michael Clemens (CGD)
- Patricia Cortes (BU)
- Benjamin Marx (BU)
- Frédéric Docquier (LISER)
- Giovanni Facchini (Nottingham)
- Paola Giuliano (UCLA)
- William Kerr (Harvard Business School)
- Anna Maria Mayda (Georgetown)
- David McKenzie (World Bank)
- Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown)
- Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)
- Melanie Morten (Stanford)
- Çağlar Özden (World Bank)
- Dean Yang (University of Michigan)