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    Researchers convene a policy workshop on Gender and Growth Gaps in South Asia
    … features and economic growth processes impacting women's participation in the workforce and their overall … Luckily, recent research has built on earlier analyses of women's participation in economic development, to yield … of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Govt of India), among others. The event is linked to a new cross-national …
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    Fabrizio Zilibotti
    … in 2016. He is the recipient of several grants and awards, among them, the Yrjö Jahnsson 2009 award (the European … He has published articles in many international journals, among them, American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal … in 2016. He is the recipient of several grants and awards, among them, the Yrjö Jahnsson 2009 award (the European …
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    Fabrizio Zilibotti
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    Agriculture and Development: Highlights from the 2024 Kuznets Mini-Conference
    … impact of these factors on farmer incomes, nutrition, and rural poverty.  As we head deeper into the 21st century, not … aimed at encouraging use of water-saving technologies among rice farmers in Bangladesh. The paper highlighted the … for only female labor as tasks traditionally performed by women, such as weeding, became less necessary with the …
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    Conference organizers (L-R) Sagar Saxena and Patrick Agte, both EGC Postdoctoral Associates at EGC; Christopher Udry, the Robert E. and Emily King Professor of Economics at Northwestern University; and Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Assistant Professor of Economics and Global Affairs and EGC affiliate.
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    The gendered employment effects of mobile internet access in developing countries
    … transformation that could affect the millions of women and girls who lag behind men in almost every indicator … on the impact of 3G coverage on the employment outcomes of women. The effects are nuanced. Undoubtedly, improvements in … and to get wage jobs in the service sector. However, women are increasingly filling unpaid agricultural jobs …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Winter 2024
    … the world's population will have national elections.  This fact is particularly salient for the roughly 1.2 billion women who will be eligible to vote. The past century has …
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    Pande and coauthors: Using technology to save lives during India's monsoon season
    … in most villages, over half of households received one. Among households that received a flood alert, roughly 70% got … water depth and flood timing in warnings. 3. Poor, rural communities generally rely on village networks and … the salience of smartphones as a public health tool among  rural officials . We intend to seize this moment. Over …
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    Rescue operation of people udring the Kosi Floods in Bihar, 20 August 2008. Kumarrakajee, Wikimedia Commons
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    Rohini Pande Appointed Professor of Economics
    Rohini Pande, currently the Rafik Hariri Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, and co-director of the  Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD)  Initiative, will join the department as Professor of Economics beginning in the fall 2019. C …
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    EGC Celebrates the Class of 2025, their achievements and future plans
    … the 1970s. She links this shift to the Quiet Revolution in women’s labor force participation—driven by changing norms, … he helped implement a series of novel field experiments in rural India. I will miss spending hours in front of the white … to seeing all that you will accomplish."  - Lucy Page, IE Postdoctoral Associate "It was such a pleasure to work …
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    … also administered to a sample of participants in Ghana’s rural north who had been classified as “extremely poor” … the data Calling for Health: Can Mobile Phones Improve Awareness and Takeup of Maternity Benefits? This data was … Researchers examined how repayment frequency affected default and late payment rates. VFS offered loans of Rs. 4000 …
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    Zahrah Abdulrauf
    … , and other events with the aim of communicating EGC and IE's research to policy, academic, and general audiences. In … , and other events with the aim of communicating EGC and IE's research to policy, academic, and general audiences. In … , and other events with the aim of communicating EGC and IE's research to policy, academic, and general audiences. In …
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    Zahrah Abdulrauf