David Leblang will present for the Seminar Series.
About David Leblang
David Leblang is the Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Endowed Professor of Politics and Professor of Public Policy. He is the Randolph Compton Professor of Public Affairs at the University’s Miller Center of Public Affairs where he is Director of Policy Studies. Leblang is a scholar of political economy with research interests in global migration and in the politics of financial markets. His recent publications include The Ties That Bind: Immigration and the Global Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2023), “Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status” (International Studies Quarterly, 2022), and “Framing Unpopular Foreign Policies” (American Journal of Political Science, 2022). In 2015, Leblang was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Mentoring Award by the University of Virginia and in 2016 he received the Outstanding Mentoring Award from the Society of Women in International Political Economy of the International Studies Association. He is a devoted fan of Bruce Springsteen and the New York Mets, in that order.
About the presentation
Foreign Aid and Knowledge Diffusion
Dr. Leblang will discuss his most recent research on foreign aid and the diffusion of global health spillovers. Dr. Leblang and a colleague develop a networked health production model that examines how aid generates international public goods through trade- and migration-mediated knowledge diffusion. Their findings challenge traditional cost-benefit analyses and demonstrate that aid produces indirect impacts that benefit major economies.
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Organizer
La Follette School of Public Affairs,
Contact
Mindy Walker, mindy.walker@wisc.edu