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    Adam Walker
    … of economic and legal policy through rigorous legal research and effective journalistic writing.  Adam provided … on behalf of the Yale Economic Growth Center's Affiliates, Research Initiatives, and Programs. Adam Walker … Adam Walker … of economic and legal policy through rigorous legal research and effective journalistic writing.  Adam provided …
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    How an Early Vision of Training Global Economists Led to Yale’s International and Development Economics (IDE) Master’s Program
    … proposal to the Ford Foundation to create a foreign policy research and training program at Yale, with a special … organization staff to analyze economic data and produce research that would inform effective development programs and … As he asserted in a funding proposal to Ford: “Economic research and training, in our graduate schools, still remain …
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    Measuring local governance capacity in Nepal
    … long-standing political and economic inequities? The Research and Evidence for Nepal's Transition (RENT) program … to support political and economic inclusion? Since 2019, researchers at Inclusion Economics - in collaboration … Covid-19 and Floods Rohini Pande & Michael Callen Related Publications Case Study: Local Government Policy Priorities …
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    Rohini Pande and coauthors in VoxDev: Evidence from payments to reduce crop burning in India
    … Yale video features Rohini Pande on political economy research, and women's access to opportunities May 5, 2022: As … in 171 villages in the Indian state of Punjab during the 2019 rice-growing (kharif) season to compare the efficacy of … News Yale video features Rohini Pande on political economy research, and women's access to opportunities News Through …
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    Expanding the scope of India's Covid-19 relief measures
    … needs and stabilize food prices in private shops. Prior research has shown that the PDS helps insulate poor … are those that do not keep digital records. The research team worked with the government to feed this data … THE OP-ED IN INDIAN EXPRESS READ THE HINDI VERSION Related publications Chhattisgarh’s public distribution system is …
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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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    How the microcredit contract can allow borrowers to share risk
    … EGC affiliate Orazio Attanasio and coauthors explain their research in rural Mongolia on how joint-liability lending can … In recent work (Attanasio, Augsburg, and De Haas 2019), we focus on this aspect of risk sharing, as it can … Read the paper Read about the original experiment Related publications Cash transfers to poor rural villages – do they …
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    Mohit Agrawal
    … Mohit Agrawal is an applied microeconomist with research interests in education, health, and political … at University of Chicago’ Becker Friedman Institute. His research interests involve studies of peer effects, networks, … (joint with Altonji and Mansfield). Mohit has active research on information costs and school choice, medical …
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    Mark Rosenzweig
    … of International Economics at Yale University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously held faculty positions at Minnesota, … Review of Economic Studies (Jan 2021) See Selected Publications … Mark R. Rosenzweig is the Frank Altschul …
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    Including vulnerable communities in extreme weather early warning systems
    … Pande and Maulik Jagnani describe an Inclusion Economics research collaboration with Google.org to identify what works … flooding.  In surveys we conducted in the aftermath of the 2019 monsoon season in rural Bihar, 65% of the households … protection from climate-related losses.  Ultimately, this research may hold lessons for the global development …
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    Satish Wasti
    … August 2023.   My experience with development economics research at EGC has been beneficial in my growth as a researcher and in gaining clarity about my research interests. I am grateful to my colleagues, including … Class of 2023   Explore Satish Wasti's work See Selected Publications … Satish Wasti   served as a Postgraduate …
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    Greg Larson
    Greg Larson is a freelance writer, editor, and consultant based in Washington, DC who serves as a consultant editor and writer for the Yale Economic Growth Center and Inclusion Economics. Previously, he served as an economist and senior advisor at the US …
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