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    Aiwen Desai
    … interested in natural resource economics and passionate about environmental justice. She hopes to make economic … interested in natural resource economics and passionate about environmental justice. She hopes to make economic … interested in natural resource economics and passionate about environmental justice. She hopes to make economic …
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    Alina Vaidya Mahadevan
    Alina Vaidya Mahadevan (Yale College, Morse ’27) is pursuing a double major in Economics and Global Affairs. As an Economic Research Intern at Inclusion Economics, she supports Dr. Rohini Pande's research. In addition, Alina is leading the Foreign Policy …
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    Mary Reynolds' pioneering role at Yale EGC – and in literary studies
    … were asked to leave their positions, amid new concerns about nepotism, despite the fact that all three were … but was shocked by the discrimination against female students, as Wisconsin had been co-ed. She transferred after … Around the same time, Mary also began to think differently about her lifelong love of literature. Tom Bergin, the then …
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    In 1967, after she was asked to leave the EGC, Mary Reynolds completed a month-long trek to the Everest base camp in Nepal with her husband, Yale economics professor Lloyd Reynolds. Photo courtesy of Priscilla Roosevelt
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    In Conversation: Costas Meghir and Amer Hasan on early childhood development
    … group model would cost at most $37 per child per year – about one-fourth the cost of home visiting. Our approach has … access to community-based preschools (“playgroups”) to about 3,000 villages. Villages received ECD orientation and block grants of about $18,000 over three years to establish centers for …
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    Image showing economists Costas Meghir (Yale) and Amer Hasan (World Bank) engaged in a discussion
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    Research by EGC affiliates offers perspectives on the effects of new tariffs
    … Bank Chief Economist, argues that if leaders are serious about introducing new tariffs, they will need to choose among … Pablo Fajgelbaum reviewed what economists had learned about the US-China trade war and its effects. “One thing that … Khandelwal said. In previous tariff incidences, only about half of tariff changes were passed through to …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Spring 2022
    … and postwar institutions: a program to train international students that continues today as the International and … recent PhDs to the field. Professors and International students on the steps of EGC in the 90s. In the 1970s and 80s … Emeritus – engaged with this collaboration. You can read about all of these programs in our 60th Anniversary Edition …
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    Professors and International students on the steps of EGC in the 90s.
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    Atl Castro Asmussen
    … an accessible and visually appealing way. He is passionate about journalism and legal research, leveraging writing as a … an accessible and visually appealing way. He is passionate about journalism and legal research, leveraging writing as a … an accessible and visually appealing way. He is passionate about journalism and legal research, leveraging writing as a …
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    Atl Castro Asmussen
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    Going the Last Mile (with Evidence)
    … They bunked in one village rest house or another, paying about $10 a night. It was an extra $10 if they wanted to run … vaccinations. The average village in the study had about 50 households and 100 residents. Of the villages in the … Meanwhile, billions in the global south got none. Only about one-fifth of Africans were vaccinated by mid 2022. Even …
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    A motorbike in Sierra Leone
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    EGC launches a new program bringing economists to Yale for short-term visits
    … campus the visitors collaborated on research and met with students. The Kuznets Visitors Program brings prominent … in the lecture will take place Friday March 3, 2023. Read about the program Startz added that the highlight of her … has been an integral part of EGC," Pande said. "It's all about allowing researchers to interact and exchange ideas, …
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    Meredith Startz is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College whose research focuses on how information problems shape transactions and firms in developing countries
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    Broken politics, economic growth, and institutional reform: a Q&A with Leonard Wantchekon
    … of the Kuznets Lecture, EGC recently spoke with Wantchekon about his research, his work in Africa, and how institutional … these distortions altogether? This requires us to think about the role of government from a different angle. The … than on investing in centers that can train and attract students of the highest academic caliber. In setting up the …
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    Princeton University professor Leonard Wantchekon