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Reflecting on the 2023 Firms, Trade, and Development Conference

… for this year’s conference. He presented new descriptive evidence linking economic growth to the variety of jobs … firm. Majerovitz estimates this variance using data from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that gave capital grants to … further by asking whether misallocation is a concern in informal sectors, an understudied sector in the allocation …

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Faculty Research Support

… Espín Sánchez See more “The Second Sons: The first wave of migration to the Americas" Many scholars devote their whole … insights into how small businesses have been impacted and evidence about the role of information frictions in their … Dominican Republic. Second, the project is conducting a randomized experiment in each of the Latin American countries …

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Understanding Barriers to Women’s Mobile Use in Low-Income Settings

… for further research into how to reduce them. BARBONI ET AL. 2018 Accelerating Indian Women’s Use of Mobile Phones … the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard Kennedy School …

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To use financial incentives or not? Insights from experiments in encouraging sanitation investments in four countries

… Gautam … Michael Gechter … Raymond P. Guiteras … Mushfiq Mobarak … To use financial incentives or not? Insights from …

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New Perspectives in South Asian Economic History Conference

… Religious Identity and the Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the Indian Princely States 3:00-3:30pm Coffee … CASSAN (Namur) Partial Democratization and Development: Evidence from Colonial India Saturday, November 8 … Conference Participants CHINMAY TUMBE The Great Indian Migration Wave, 1870-2010: Persistence and Consequences … …

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Yale News: Yale scholars help test mechanism to reduce India’s deadly air pollution

Yale scholars help test mechanism to reduce India’s deadly air pollution By Vestal McIntyre August 9, 2021 Indian states are deploying a new policy tool that shows potential to reduce their high air-pollution levels, which are estimated to have caused …

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Why are vaccination rates lower in low and middle income countries, and what can we do about it?

… income countries, and what can we do about it? … Mushfiq Mobarak … Hasan Mahmud Reza … Vaishnavi Agarwal … Farhana …

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Looking back on the Trade and Development conference

… of methods – from structural general-equilibrium models to randomized controlled trials – to make progress on policy-relevant …

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Rohini Pande and Charity Troyer Moore in Yale News: How Yale Economists are informing India's Covid-19 response

How Yale Economists are informing India's Covid-19 response By Greg Larson December 22, 2020 A Yale team’s research into the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on India’s most vulnerable populations, including urban laborers who lost their jobs and returned to …

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EGC Quarterly Newsletter, September 2020

… dimensions in developing economies – for instance, Mushfiq Mobarak’s work in Sierra Leone documents increased food … Director, Economic Growth Center Publications Donovan et al. on the effects of footbridge construction on market …

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Researchers convene a policy workshop on Gender and Growth Gaps in South Asia

… Event Page Gender and Growth Gaps Project Page Fan Et Al. 2022 Related publications Empowering women through direct …

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Your inflexible friend

… in. In 2015, after examining the results of randomised controlled trials in Bosnia, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Morocco … offers small farmers a bundle of seeds, fertiliser, crop insurance and training, all on credit. Its loans are …

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Cash transfers as a response to COVID-19: Experimental evidence from Kenya

… Cash transfers as a response to COVID-19: Experimental evidence from Kenya … Wyatt Brooks … Kevin Donovan … Terence … … Cash transfers as a response to COVID-19: Experimental evidence from Kenya …

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In Conversation: José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez and Mayara Felix on inequality in Latin America

… other non-core services. In advanced economies, there’s evidence that this domestic outsourcing is bad for the … José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez on using data to understand migration and human capital Related News Items News Looking …

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Looking back on the "Gender and Growth Gaps in South Asia" research and policy workshop

… research and policy in the region. Session 1: State of the Evidence and Policy Needs Presentation Aishwarya Lakshmi … women can be matched into appropriate work, and how the migration frictions that they differentially face can be … the spatial and temporal flexibility provided by informal work) is important in understanding the barriers …

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