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Join us for the Presidential Address by Professor Imran Rasul, President of the European Economic Association (EEA) 

Students, PhD candidates, early career researchers, and members of the economics community are warmly invited to attend the Presidential Address of Professor Imran Rasul, President of the European Economic Association (EEA). 

Why attend? 

This Presidential Address offers a unique opportunity to hear from one of Europe’s leading economists as he reflects on issues shaping economic research, academic life, and our profession. 

Professor Rasul has made significant contributions to labor, development, and public economics. Combining field experiments with administrative records and long-term survey data, his research examines how economic opportunities are shaped by labor markets, families, organizations, and public institutions. His work includes influential studies of vocational training and young people’s search for better jobs in Uganda, women’s empowerment and support for adolescent girls, the long-term effects of anti-poverty programs, and the relationship between the management of public organizations and the quality of public-service delivery. 

Across these areas, his research seeks to understand not only whether an intervention works, but also why it works, how its effects develop over time, and what its findings imply for policy. 

For students and early career researchers, this is a valuable opportunity to hear from a scholar whose work demonstrates how rigorous economic research can address important real-world challenges while maintaining the highest academic standards. 

What will the lecture be about?

Labor is the key asset endowment of the world's poor. Therefore how labor markets function is key to determining individual well-being, as well as the productivity of labor, the firm size distribution, inequality, and aggregate growth. Yet labor markets in developing countries have many imperfections, including labor market entrants lacking the skills demanded by employers, entrants lacking information on how to search for meaningful employment, and firms lacking resources to find, screen and train workers. Labor markets are also characterized by aggregate uncertainty – where workers cannot signal the skills they might have or their labor market histories, firms face uncertain demand, and the economy as a whole can be hit frequently by various forms of aggregate shocks. This lecture presents evidence from a long-term field study in Uganda to understand these issues. Combining estimates from field experiments and structural models, it describes evidence on the returns to different forms of training on worker and firm outcomes, the design of training, and how demand uncertainty can lead to the underutilization of factors of production. Throughout, the lecture sets out agenda for future work to understand key frictions and imperfections in labor markets in low-income settings.

Who is Imran Rasul? 

Professor Imran Rasul is Professor of Economics at University College London, as well as President of the Royal Economic Society and Director of the ESRC Institute for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He also serves as Co-Director of the Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy, and Co-President of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. 

Professor Rasul has established an international reputation for his research in labor, development, and public economics, with work that combines innovative empirical methods and policy relevance to address critical social and economic challenges. 

You can explore his publications and learn more about his work on his website. 

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Don't miss this opportunity to hear from one of the leading figures in contemporary economics and the current President of the European Economic Association. Please register online to secure your place!