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To Cut Delhi’s Air Pollution, Pinpoint The Source

… to craft smart policies that shut them down. We at Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) are researchers who assist … to craft smart policies that shut them down. We at Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) are researchers who assist … series. You can read the second part here . Related projects Farmer Payments to Reduce Crop Burning in India …

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Times of India covers Rohini Pande's research on women and banking

… on Times of India . Times of India covers Rohini Pande's research on women and banking … September 13, 2017 | In the News Times of India covers Rohini Pande's research on women and banking Rohini Pande's research found that women who received wages in their own …

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Getting India's Women into the Workforce: A Smart Approach

… social norms. by Rohini Pande Originally published by Evidence for Policy Design , March 10, 2018 Between 1990 and … in jobs once they are placed. Instead, a growing body of research suggests that an important part of the answer … reflect the greater autonomy enjoyed by working women. Research, for instance, finds that girls who have the option …

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Enhancing public preschools and women’s socioeconomic advancement in rural Kenya

… child learning alongside empowering mothers? A Policy-Research Partnership to Improve Child Development and … for women. In the intervention, drawing on a compelling evidence base , existing and supplementary teachers are … different age cohorts in the study sample, the randomized research design thus enables credibly capturing both the one- …

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How To Get India’s Women Working? First, Let Them Out Of The House

… to work but held back by lack of skills, social norms Our research at Evidence for Policy Design indicates that India’s women want … be fields where women can work close to home. Public works projects created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural …

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Austin Bodetti

… the role that computer programming and quantitative research can play in policymaking. He has a particular interest in projects that bridge private enterprise and the public … can play in policymaking. He has a particular interest in projects that bridge private enterprise and the public …

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Ananya Varshneya

… Economics Initiative on development economics and gender research, and with Dr. Maria Kogelnik on the Gender & Growth … Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include international development, market … Economics Initiative on development economics and gender research, and with Dr. Maria Kogelnik on the Gender & Growth …

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Werner Stangl

Werner Stangl is a spatial historian and historian of colonial Spanish America with a PhD and venia legendi at the University of Graz, Austria. From 2015-2019 he led the project “HGIS de las Indias”, reconstructing the historical geography of Bourbon …

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Innovations for Inclusive Banking in Rural Tamil Nadu

… poverty, entrepreneurship, and agricultural investments. Research to test a new model of banking for the rural poor … to offer credit, insurance, and savings products. The research team conducted a randomized controlled trial to … the economic impacts of rural banking: experimental evidence from southern India Improved access to formal …

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Pablo Valenzuela-Casasempere

… Economic History at the Yale Economic Growth Center. His research focus on the consequences of public projects for individuals and cities. Pablo received his PhD … Center. His research focus on the consequences of public projects for individuals and cities. Pablo received his PhD …

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Rohini Pande in myRepublica: We recommend a new funding model to address Covid-19 and floods

We recommend a new funding model to address COVID-19 and floods by Michael Callen, Rohini Pande , Trilochan Pokharel, and Deepak Singhania September 17, 2020 Nepal’s new federal institutions are up against a formidable set of disasters: the COVID-19 …

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Creative destruction and catch-up growth in India

… studies exploit aggregate cross-country data to provide evidence on various qualitative predictions of this narrative … analysis. EGC launches the new Gender and Growth Gaps research project An EGC news item from January 19, 2022, … Related publications Maria Kogelnik describes her research on gender differences in persisting at challenging …

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Rohini Pande Appointed Professor of Economics

… Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, and co-director of the Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) Initiative, will join the … Growth Center . Professor Pande is an economist whose research examines the economic costs and benefits of … and the role of public policy in affecting change. Her research focusses on gender, environmental regulation and …

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Christopher A. Neilson

… Christopher A. Neilson is an applied microeconomist whose research focuses on the study of education markets and … Latin America, to help them leverage their data, existing evidence, and technology, to design, evaluate, and implement … Christopher A. Neilson is an applied microeconomist whose research focuses on the study of education markets and …

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EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Fall 2023

… of women, and the impacts of climate breakdown and the transition to clean energy on developing economies. In … we conducted the Gender and Growth Gaps in South Asia – Research and Policy Workshop – collaborating with Inclusion … features Gerald Jaynes on his path as an economist and his research using mixed methods to study race-based economic …

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