For the 2027 Lois and Robert Resek Conference, the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host a one-day workshop on April 2, 2027 focused on social protection and cash transfer programs in high- and low-income countries. The goal is to bring together researchers working across these contexts and encourage discussion about similarities and differences in the questions asked, methodological approaches, and results in these different settings in the hope of informing future research and policymaking.
The following senior colleagues will present research papers and participate in a panel discussion on how research in high- and low-income countries can better speak to one another:
Greg Duncan (UC, Irvine) Rema Hanna (Harvard) Dean Karlan (Northwestern) Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA)