Lecture with Doug Gollin

The “New Frontiers in Economic Development” series brings five leading development economists to Notre Dame during spring 2017. Each will deliver a public lecture at the Kellogg Institute, interact with economics faculty, graduate students, and others working on international development, and take part in intensive seminars as part of a graduate course on advanced topics in economic development.

Originally launched by Faculty Fellow Joseph Kaboski, this year’s series—the third of its kind—is organized by Faculty Fellow Kevin Donovan. It is a joint collaboration of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Notre Dame’s Department of Economics.

Doug Gollin is professor of development economics at Oxford University. His research focuses on economic development, with a particular interest in agriculture and structural transformation. His work brings a general equilibrium perspective to issues such as sectoral differences in productivity; the impacts of agricultural technologies; the role of transport costs in shaping spatial patterns of development; the importance of small firms and self employment in poor countries; and the macroeconomic effects of disease. He chairs the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR, a consortium of international agricultural research organizations, and is the colead academic for the International Growth Centre's Ethiopia program. He is currently a managing editor of the Journal of African Economies and associate editor for the Journal of Development Economics and Oxford Development Studies.