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The Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute will host its 2023 research conference on October 5, 2023. This event will showcase the range of frontier-style research with which the Institute engages. Papers will discuss questions related to the Institute’s mission of supporting the Federal Reserve’s mandates through research into how to enhance economic opportunity and achieve inclusive growth.
The event’s keynote speaker will be Jed Kolko, Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs. Secretary Kolko coordinates economic analysis for the U.S. Department of Commerce and provides direction and oversight for the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Before joining the Commerce Department, Kolko served as chief economist at Indeed, a global jobs site, and Trulia, an online real estate firm.
The program and photos from last year’s conference can be found here. Last year’s event welcomed an in-person audience of more than 100 people and the event recording has reached more than 2,200 views.
The conference will be preceded by a dinner for presenters and discussants as well as the Institute’s advisory board members, economists, and leadership to engage in broad and deep conversation about research around opportunity and inclusive growth. The program committee for the conference is Robynn Cox, Niklas Engbom, Alessandra Fogli, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, John Bailey Jones, Amanda Michaud, Raven Molloy, and Simon Mongey.
The Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute will host its 2023 research conference on October 5, 2023. This event will showcase the range of frontier-style research with which the Institute engages. Papers will discuss questions related to the Institute’s mission of supporting the Federal Reserve’s mandates through research into how to enhance economic opportunity and achieve inclusive growth.
The event’s keynote speaker will be Jed Kolko, Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs. Secretary Kolko coordinates economic analysis for the U.S. Department of Commerce and provides direction and oversight for the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Before joining the Commerce Department, Kolko served as chief economist at Indeed, a global jobs site, and Trulia, an online real estate firm.
The program and photos from last year’s conference can be found here. Last year’s event welcomed an in-person audience of more than 100 people and the event recording has reached more than 2,200 views.
The conference will be preceded by a dinner for presenters and discussants as well as the Institute’s advisory board members, economists, and leadership to engage in broad and deep conversation about research around opportunity and inclusive growth. The program committee for the conference is Robynn Cox, Niklas Engbom, Alessandra Fogli, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, John Bailey Jones, Amanda Michaud, Raven Molloy, and Simon Mongey.
