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    A brief history of EGC
    … turns out that the Ford Foundation said that it can’t be among a number of universities—it had to have a base … unlike most universities, we had a demography interest. In fact, Mark Rosenzweig was hired during my directorship as a …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Spring 2023
    … outcomes like the extent of unpaid labor, often done by women, and the destruction of natural habitats essential to … March 9-10, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan exploring new research on women’s economic activity in the region, the factors that …
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    The cover of the EGC Annual Report, showing a teacher tutoring a student
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    Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: Fixing forest carbon credits
    … payments and blockchain verification to send funds to women in Afghanistan who were subject to hostile Taliban … found that even previously tech-illiterate, low-income women swiftly learned to use the payment system, and no …
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    Deforestation to rainforest in Borneo Rich Carey, ShutterStock
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    Reflecting on the 2023 Firms, Trade, and Development Conference
    … access, to how market-wide employment opportunities for women workers affect their bargaining power within firms, to … that the firms that provide benefits and amenities for women, such as maternity leave and flexibility in childcare, can pay women lower wages than men while retaining women employees. …
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    Attendees of the 2023 Firms, Trade, and Development Conference engaging with the presentation by one of the speakers Vestal McIntyre
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    Do voters hold politicians accountable for vote-buying?
    By  Rohini Pande , Jessica Leight, Dana Foarta, Laura Ralston This article first appeared in VoxDev  on October 10, 2021. Despite the prevalence of vote-buying across many developing countries, there is little empirical evidence around how buying votes …
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    Jessica Seddon
    … built and led the global air quality program among other positions at the World Resources Institute (WRI), … built and led the global air quality program among other positions at the World Resources Institute (WRI), … built and led the global air quality program among other positions at the World Resources Institute (WRI), …
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    Jessica Seddon