By Emanne Khan In Spring 2022, the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) hosted two research seminars with visiting scholars who presented new findings and received feedback from fellow experts on study design and methodology. The mission of HCI is to advance interdisciplinary research on the role of human capital in human development to inform policy solutions […]
By Emanne Khan The mission of the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) is to advance interdisciplinary research on the role of human capital in human development to inform policy solutions to global challenges including poverty, women’s empowerment and sustainable economic growth through investments in education and health. In Fall 2021, HCI’s Core Faculty Members published a suite of […]
As part of the Human Capital Initiative Speaker Series for Spring 2021, Dr. Erez Yoeli, Research Scientist at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, will present on findings from research conducted in Kenya on promoting tuberculosis treatment completion. STARTS: 4:00 PM EDT on Wednesday, May 12, 2020 ENDS: 5:00 PM EDT on Wednesday, May 12, 2020 […]
As part of the Human Capital Initiative Speaker Series for Spring 2021, Dr. Francesco Amodio, Assistant Professor at McGill University, will present on the role of labor markets and freelancing in development. STARTS: 4:00 PM EST on Wednesday, April 28, 2020 ENDS: 5:00 PM EST on Wednesday, April 28, 2020 LOCATION: Via Zoom REGISTRATION: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrdOqpqzosH9dlcwfpGSRuxeQ_CxtnR5VE?_x_zm_rtaid=tEC2e49HQ1Gx_Z_8kV0MDA.1615575645064.390cd5f670e1df441f68dfccbfae77a0&_x_zm_rhtaid=280
As part of the Human Capital Initiative Speaker Series for Spring 2021, Dr. Adam Auerbach will present on local governance and urban politics in India. Dr. Auerbach is an Assistant Professor at American University. STARTS: 4:00 PM EST on Wednesday, March 24, 2020 ENDS: 5:00 PM EST on Wednesday, March 24, 2020 LOCATION: Via Zoom […]
By Maria Santarelli As part of the Human Capital Spring Speaker Series, Dr. Kathleen Park was invited to speak about her forthcoming paper on migration status, labor stratification, and labor relations in the Arabian Gulf Region on February 17, 2021. Dr. Park is an Assistant Professor of Administrative Sciences at Boston University and has conducted […]
By Maria Santarelli As part of the Human Capital Speaker Series, Dr. Alisha C. Holland spoke about her new book project “Creative Construction” on the politics of large-scale infrastructure in Latin America. Holland is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University and she has conducted extensive research on social and urban politics in Latin America. […]
Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the GDP Center and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently participated in the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) 8th African Population Conference in Kampala, Uganda. Karra gave a presentation on the Malawi Family […]
Last week, BU students Sarah Safi, Avantika Tandon, and Prachi Aneja gave a presentation at UROP on the Jaunpur Social Networks Study (JSNS). With the help of faculty supervisor Mahesh Karra, the students created posters of their findings and provided short presentations on their research methods, data collection, and analysis. The project, titled “Networks and Global […]
This morning, Thomas Gautier kicked off our 2019 HCI Speaker Series with a talk entitled “The Long-Run Impact of Losing Siblings During a Genocide.” In his research, Gautier explores the long-term impacts of violent conflict on human capital. He is particularly concerned with the effect of losing siblings during a genocide on long-term health and […]