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    Event recap: Last-Mile Innovations for Inclusive Governance: Research and Policy Symposium
    … for Inclusive Governance: Research and Policy Symposium In India, technological advancements within both the public … push to promote financial inclusion and invest in digital public infrastructure, like Aadhaar. In a discussion … For more details on these studies, check out the policy briefs attached to this page, and stay tuned for updates as …
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    A wide shot of attendees at the conference
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    IDE Director Mike Boozer reflects on the 70th anniversary of the program
    … the 70th anniversary of the IDE program. Twenty years ago, in 2005, I was about three years into my time directing the … in my time at Yale, become a serious student of his life’s work, as my colleagues can attest. Lloyd was an … I’ve had with lots of IDE students over the years about our role in this field. Look at the field of medicine. You …
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    A group of students poses with their mentor Anna Groesser
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    Why Aren’t India’s Women Working?
    … This article first appeared in the New York Times on August 23, 2015.   Why Aren’t … education are declining. It’s not that women don’t want to work. Our analysis of data from India’s latest labor survey shows …
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    Illustration of woman working in the kitchen wearing her graduation regalia. Assa Ariyoshi
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    Werner Stangl
    … From 2019 to 2021, he was part of the interdisciplinary Digital Tokugawa Lab at Yale University, mapping feudal … the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris within the TopUrbi project, creating a digital … University of Graz. To learn more about Werner Stangl's work, please visit  www.hgis-indias.net  and …
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    Werner Stangl
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    The Hindustan Times (India) covers Rohini Pande's research on women and work
    … a similar level of development with its low rate of women in the workforce – an obstacle to economic growth as well as … autonomy. The share of women working or looking for work fell from 32 percent in 2005 to 21 percent in 2019. The … Pande and coauthors: Empowering women through direct digital payments American Economic Review (Jun 2021) Related …
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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #8: Understanding Fertility Decline
    … they bring to the household, such as their ability to work on a family farm or their long term earning prospects in … The analysis is restricted to observations within our main bandwidth (70 km). The vertical dashed line marks … on gender inequality: EGC GENDER & GROWTH GAPS PROJECT IE GENDER PORTFOLIO … Towards Gender Equality Newsletter …
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    A map showing variation in recruitment intensity across Burkina Faso based on archival records.
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    Inclusion Economics research featured by BBC Storyworks: "Designing credit that works for women"
    … "Designing credit that works for women" … July 31, 2024 | In the News Inclusion Economics research featured by BBC … research on microfinance and how well-designed investments in women's economic power can create a ripple effect that … range of credit options, and can choose the best one for our investment or purchasing needs. Yet even in …
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    A cartoon still of a low-income woman imagining her son graduating from college
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    5 Key Lessons About Women And Work In India
    … 5 Key Lessons About Women And Work In India … March 7, 2016 | In the News 5 Key Lessons About … In the South Asian context, on International Women’s Day, our analysis of the state of women and work in India does not …
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    Advancing research in community: Postdoctoral scholars present their work
    … Advancing research in community: Postdoctoral scholars present their work … December 13, 2024 | News Advancing research in … International and Area Studies at Yale. To read more about our first retreat on October 4, click here .  Patrick Agte on …
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    A man in a white shirt points to a slide during a presentation to a classroom of economics researchers Megan Wright
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    Pande and Coauthors: The Mobile Phone Gender Gap: Why Does it Matter and What Can We Do?
    … by  Evidence for Policy Design , December 22, 2017. In India, only 33 percent of women use mobile phones as … Given the mobile gender gap, the technology may work the opposite way in India, making other gender gaps … filter the problem of gender gaps through that framework. Our team researching the problem through EPoD India at IFMR, …
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    Indian women gathered in a circle using a mobile phone. EPoD Harvard Flickr
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    Lisa Qian
    … Lisa Qian '20 participated in the EGC Communications Internship Program during the … writing EGC research summaries and contributing to policy briefs. Interning with the EGC was a really fantastic way to … writing, my favorite part of the internship was seeing my work really honor the women who paved the way for the rest of …
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    Lisa Qian
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    Lornah Wahome
    … across East Africa such as the Kenya Pre-School RCT study in Tharaka Nithi that aims to implement an innovative … as the M-Kopa study that seeks to improve women’s digital economic empowerment. She has over 7 years work experience working with researchers and managing …
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    Lornah Wahome
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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #4: Gendered Beliefs, Norms, and Work
    … Equality Newsletter Issue #4: Gendered Beliefs, Norms, and Work … September 18, 2024 | News Towards Gender Equality … reflects disagreements on facts but also differences in deep-seated beliefs about values, expectations, attitudes, … in each individual’s mind. As social beings, we absorb our cues on gender – on what is appropriate or not, on what …
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    A graph showing the percentage of women hired by transport information and subsidy assignment
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    A brief history of EGC
    … folks as well, but the old folks have a special place in my heart. First, a brief bit of history. Some of it may be … example. Individuals would do consulting, but we stayed to our basic purposes. We focused on the third world and, by … is now an individual activity—very decentralized. People work on technology, on labor markets, on migration, on income …
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    Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: "On the Economic Costs of Ending DEI"
    … Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: "On the Economic Costs of Ending DEI" … … white men. By 2010, the proportion was 60%.  Preliminary work from Chiplunkar and Kleineberg , using a similar … under-represented in the ML industry and preliminary work suggests they use 'generative AI' far less than men , …
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    Students walking down a campus quad Michael Marsland