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    In Conversation: Costas Meghir and Amer Hasan on early childhood development
    … several ECD interventions – including an ongoing study in rural Kenya. Amer Hasan , Senior Economist with the World … governments? What are the key indicators for measuring ECD? Hasan: ECD is often shorthand for a set of … and improved health. But such follow-ups naturally take time, and we can't wait that long, particularly since some …
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    … Board (GPCB), researchers affiliated with the EGC (Rohini Pande and Nicholas Ryan) and J-PAL (Esther Duflo and Michael … homepage Access the data Read the working paper by Donovan et al. Access the data … We offer open access to several …
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    Can India answer the call? Addressing the gender gap in mobile phone access
    … and engagement. One might ask, in a world of limited time and resources, why should closing yet another gender gap … to wait for her husband to go to sleep so that she could use the phone, which her husband keeps with him during the … *Name changed to protect privacy Related publications Pande and Coauthors: Understanding Barriers to and Impacts of …
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    Mark Rosenzweig reappointed as Director of Economic Growth Center
    … long term. A lot of the western world has developed over time, so we should be able to learn something from that by … rounds. We’re talking about 8,000 households — urban and rural. It has no specific focus but is intended to get as … being done in the field. They can get field experience and use the data. The data is proprietary for two years, and then …
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    Altering social norms with Yale economist Rohini Pande
    … Whether Yale economist Rohini Pande is designing public policies aimed at reducing air … have an ongoing project in India to encourage women to use smartphones. What motivated the project? In absolute … into Yale’s policy-research landscape? I’ve arrived at a time when the center is very well set up to provide academic …
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    Empowering Women through Public Policy in Bihar, India
    … Authors Garg, Jorgensen, Troyer-Moore, Schaner, and Pande report on the experiences of “Bank Sakhis”, women … Bihar, India, who operate last-mile banking points. GARG ET AL. 2024 Enhancing Women’s Economic Empowerment Through …
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    India’s Safest Kitchens Continue Old Habits, Undermining New Clean-Burning Stoves
    … 2018.    A majority of surveyed households in Kerala still use multiple types of cookstoves, a phenomenon known as … smoke emitted and inhaled, and, ideally, less resources (time and/or money) spent cooking and procuring charcoal, … of Warwick, formerly Princeton University), and Rohini Pande (Yale University, formerly of Harvard Kennedy School).  …
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    Pande and Coauthors: Impersonal Government is Good
    … Pande and Coauthors: Impersonal Government is Good … December … Citizens also benefit indirectly as researchers begin to use this data for a range of purposes, including to evaluate … all the others. The “timely” aspect is key: The more real-time data we have, the earlier we can correct ourselves and …
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