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IDE Student Engagement with Yale Faculty, Visiting Researchers, and Policy Actors
IDE students frequently participate in special Q&A sessions with Yale faculty, visiting researchers, and policy actors, which channel a rich set of current insights to each IDE student cohort from the broader world of academia and policy making. We list a set of recent Q&A sessions below that showcase the range of speakers, regions, and topics covered in these discussions.

IDE alum Clare Balboni (Assistant Professor of Economics at LSE) discusses a career in research (Feb 27, 2025)

Yale faculty & EGC affiliate Mushfiq Mobarak discusses his paper “The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural–Urban Migration” with IDE students (Feb 20, 2025)

Q&A with Philip Schellekens, Chief Economist of UNDP for Asia and the Pacific (October 30, 2024)

Discussion with Joseph Kaboski, David F. and Erin M. Seng Foundation Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame and a Fellow of the Kellogg Institute, during his visit to EGC under the Kuznets Visitors Program (October 17, 2024)

IDE Students meet with Christopher Udry, Robert E. and Emily King Professor of Economics at Northwestern University and former Director of EGC at Yale, who delivered the 2024 Kuznets Memorial Lecture (April 3, 2024)

Q&A with Kyle Emerick, Associate Professor of Economics at Tufts University, during his visit to EGC (February 29, 2024)

IDE alum Susanna Berkouwer, Assistant Professor, Business Economics & Public Policy, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania discusses their journey in academia focusing on development and environmental economics (November 8, 2023)

Marcela Eslava, Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and visitor under the Kuznets Visitors Program at EGC, meets with IDE students and discusses research to inform policy making in the Latin America and Caribbean region, with collaborator Yale Economics faculty Orazio Attanasio (November 8, 2023)
