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    Deanna Ford
    … Adviser. Previously, she was the Executive Director of Evidence for Policy Design at Harvard Kennedy School, where … interests lie in building strong inroads for research and evidence to contribute to concrete policy improvements that … Adviser. Previously, she was the Executive Director of Evidence for Policy Design at Harvard Kennedy School, where …
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    Deanna Ford
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    What is new in the research on Firms, Trade, and Development?
    … Studying the taxi industry in Senegal, he finds that randomized access to a digital payment technology, which … a cash transfer, worker productivity increases. Suggestive evidence highlights that productivity improvements may … low levels of work. Similarly, providing access to insurance can help workers respond to negative events without …
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    Workers in a Bangladesh garment factory
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    Using Community-led Audits to Improve Social Protection in India
    … Audits: Preliminary Insights from Process Monitoring and a Randomized Controlled Trial.” October 19, 2021. (Please contact the PI … the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard Kennedy School …
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    A group of women attend a village assembly meeting. UN Women/Gaganjit Singh Chandok
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    EGC affiliates awarded new grants from Yale Planetary Solutions
    … Jackson School of Global Affairs The gap between climate evidence and climate action is striking. It is also not … and institutional designers to strengthen the flow of evidence into action. The identified methods for inspiring …
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    Satellite view of an Antarctic ice shelf fragmenting into icebergs. Trismegist san, Shutterstock
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    5 Key Lessons About Women And Work In India
    … women would be expected to enter the labor force, based on evidence from other developing nations. And this is no … current policies must take women into consideration. 5. Migration for employment remains an under-explored, less … young men--said they would consider migrating for a job. Migration is difficult, however, and women have particular …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Summer 2023
    … economic recovery is impeded by conflict, barriers to migration, rising food and energy prices, and natural … Episode 6 Episode 6 features Orazio Attanasio and Costas Meghir of Yale University discussing an economic perspective … Podcast, Episode 6: Orazio Attanasio and Costas Meghir Related people Kevin Donovan … EGC Quarterly …
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    EGC Postgraduate Associates (back row L-R) Hema Balarama, Viyaleta Farysheuskaya, Fikremariam Gedefaw, (front row) Diana K. Perez Lopez, Marie-Rose Tonguino, and Sarah Danner
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    Inclusion Economics team secures funding to expand research-policy work for more inclusive digital transformation
    … Gates Foundation in a new investment that will expand the evidence base on pathways to promote women as agents in the digital economy and encourage evidence-based programming. Confidence Marshall Nzewi, … a four-year project focused on rigorously generating new evidence on potential pathways to gender-inclusive digital …
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    India’s Safest Kitchens Continue Old Habits, Undermining New Clean-Burning Stoves
    … Giorgia Barboni , Sarah Armitage Originally published by  Evidence for Policy Design , April 13, 2018.    India’s … Giorgia Barboni , Sarah Armitage Originally published by  Evidence for Policy Design , April 13, 2018.    A majority of … stoves and reduce indoor air pollution. We, researchers at Evidence for Policy Design at the Harvard Kennedy School and …
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  • Project
    Skill India: Innovating for India's young women
    … drop out of the labor force, and suggest that post-migration support is a determinant of long-term job tenure. ARTIZ PRILLAMAN ET AL. 2017 About the Project Principal Investigators: Rohini …
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    Kaivan Munshi
    … research program examines the multifaceted role played by informal community institutions in the process of … this research was devoted to providing credible empirical evidence that social norms and community-based networks have … research program examines the multifaceted role played by informal community institutions in the process of …
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    Kaivan Munshi
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    … human capital such as education and occupation, and map migration networks from Spain and Africa to the Americas. …
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