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Conference organized by James Hollifield, 2021-2022 Paris IAS Research Fellow, Director of the Tower Center at SMU, as part of the Owens Foundation, with the support of Sciences Po CERI, the Convergences Migrations Institute, and the Paris Institute for Advanced Study.

14-15 March 2022

Conveners :
Flore Gubert, IRD, FMSH
James F. Hollifield, Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy; Fellow, IEA, and Director, Tower Center, SMU
Pia Orrenius, Senior Economist and Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Thomas Osang, Associate Professor of Economics, SMU
Hélène Thiollet, Research Fellow, CNRS CERI Sciences Po

The annual Jno E. Owens Fund Conference, sponsored by the Tower Center at SMU and this year by the Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Paris, will examine the complex relationship between migration, and economic and human development, paying special attention to:

1. Migration, trade and international investment dynamics with an eye to explaining their impact on human development and global inequalities;

2. How migration and asylum-seeking affect inequalities in human capital and development, notably in skill levels, capital accumulation, health, and wealth generation (via financial and immaterial remittances) across sending and receiving countries and regions;

3. How migration and asylum-seeking affect and are affected by the environment-development nexus: understanding forced migration, human displacement, and migration-related inequalities across the natural and built-in environment;

4. How inequalities affect and are affected by migration and socio-political transformations (diaspora politics, state building, political and social remittances).

WELCOME 9:15 - 9:30
James F. Hollifield, Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy; Fellow, IEA, and Director, Tower Center, SMU
Simon Luck, Scientific Director of Paris IAS
Hélène Thiollet, Research Fellow, CNRS CERI Sciences Po

PANEL 1:  9:30 - 12:00
Migration, trade and international investment dynamics, including remittances: understanding development and global inequalities at various levels

Chair: Flore Gubert, IRD and MSH 

Discussant: Jason Gagnon, OECD

Hillel Rapoport, Paris School of Economics
Raymond Robertson, Texas A&M University
Claudia Masferrer, Colegio de México
Daniel Naujoks, Columbia University

PANEL 2:  14:30 - 17:00
Migration and global inequalities in human capital and development: skill levels, capital accumulation, health, and wealth generation across sending and receiving countries and regions

Chair: Annabel Degrés Du Loû, IRD/CEPED/ICM

Discussant: Pia Orrenius, Dallas Fed and SMU

Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College
Raúl Delgado Wise, Autonomous University of Zacatecas
Jackie Wahba, University of Southampton
Uwe Hunger, Universität Fulda
Pamela Surkan, Johns Hopkins and IEA, and Paul Emmelkampf, University of Amsterdam and IEA

 JOURNÉE DU 14 MARS