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Seminar in Economic Development
October 19, 2026
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3:00PM - 4:15PM EDT
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Supply Chain Segmentation and Local Product Access: Evidence from Corner Stores in Lima, Peru

Speaker: Diego Santa Maria, PhD Candidate in Economics, Harvard University.

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Seminar in International Economics
October 19, 2026
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4:30PM - 5:45PM EDT
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Industrial Policy, Location Choice, and Firm Performance in High-Tech Manufacturing

Speaker: Audrey Tiew, Assistant Professor of Economics, New York University.

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Canada Seminar
October 20, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Across the Detroit River: Why the American and Canadian White Working Class Votes Differently

Speaker: Lewis Krashinsky, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program; Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and...

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New Advisory Committee Members
The Weatherhead Center is pleased to announce four new members of our Advisory Committee, the external governance board that advises on strategic direction. David Battat, Paula J. Dobriansky, Juan Enriquez, and Saumitra Jha join a distinguished group of...

Press Release for "Imagine: Reflections on Peace"

Imagine: Reflections on Peace opens October 5 at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Cambridge, MA. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Imagine: Reflections on Peace, an exhibition of photographs and short films...
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