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    India's air pollution is so bad it's reducing life expectancy by 3.2 years
    … Plumer Originally published by  Vox , February 24, 2015 China's struggles with smog and air pollution have gotten a … And India's cities have much higher PM2.5 levels than China's. So how much harm is all this pollution causing? A new study in  Economic & Political Weekly —  a top journal in Mumbai — …
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    People riding on a motorbike in thick pollution.
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    T Paul Schultz
    …  in Economics at Yale University since 1975, Director of Economic Growth Center at Yale University 1983-1996, and … at the Rand Corporation, and economist with the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, and intern Council of Economic Advisors. President of the European Society for …
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    Pande and Coauthors: The Mobile Phone Gender Gap: Why Does it Matter and What Can We Do?
    … down this year’s Gender Equality Index published by World Economic Forum, primarily because of the economic … are good uses of mobile phones,” one male respondent told us, “then on the other hand, mobiles are also being used for … Pande and Coauthors: Understanding Barriers to and Impacts of Women's Mobile Phone Adoption in India …
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    Indian women gathered in a circle using a mobile phone. EPoD Harvard Flickr
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    Yuanhao You
    Yuanhao You is a master's student in Statistics and Data Science at Yale University. Prior to Yale, he completed his undergraduate studies at Georgia Tech, where he double majored in mathematics and minor in economics. Yuanhao has a deep interest about …
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    Headshot of Yuanhao You
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    Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: Fixing forest carbon credits
    … benefit from VCC payments in exchange for either ceasing economic activities that might damage the forest, engaging in … or activity; and last, the buyers who buy these VCCs to trade or to offset their own emissions. In January 2023,  it … carbon credits from these areas. At COP28 in Dubai, the US government, along with the Bezos Earth Fund and the …
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    Deforestation to rainforest in Borneo Rich Carey, ShutterStock
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    Why women in India are dropping out of the workforce: Farzana Afridi and Kanika Mahajan on their research on gender and labor markets
    … labor markets Voices in Development: A Podcast from Yale’s Economic Growth Center explores issues related to sustainable … with the outside world to determine, ultimately, the impacts of government policies." –  Farzana Afridi Mahajan’s … firms in India and its implications for labor, capital and trade. Listen to the podcast Amazon Music Apple Podcasts …
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    Kanika Mahajan and Farzana Afridi
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    Insights from 10 years of research on women's opportunities
    … affiliates have conducted a decade of research on women's economic lives in India. Here, the research leadership of … populations over longer time periods to track how program impacts influence, and are influenced by, local dynamics.  … in villages that met a population threshold allows us to evaluate the program’s causal impact. Using a …
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    Female agricultural workers at the study site in Madhya Pradesh. Ishan Tankha
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    EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 4: Rohit De, Barkha Dutt, and Rohini Pande
    … explores issues related to sustainable development and economic justice in low- and middle-income countries. Episode … the family? Legislation in the bedroom is like a bull in a China shop.” - Rohit De Barkha Dutt, one of India’s most … was, of course, a very misogynist statement, but it made us confront how complex the gender conversation is in India …
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    Flag of India Photo by Stuti
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    The Economic Growth Center's Annual Report
    … research, programming, and engagement with students. The Economic Growth Center's Annual Report … The Economic Growth Center's Annual Report EGC supports the … A Focus on Institutions Read and Download the Report Swift economic growth has lifted hundreds of millions of people in …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Spring 2024: EGC & Sub-Saharan Africa, A history of engagement
    … for the "Charting the Future of Economics, Governance, and Economic Development in the United States and Beyond" … to travel to Africa to research decolonization’s economic impacts. His daughter, Priscilla Roosevelt, called this trip … policies on growth and structural transformation in China in the 1953–1978 period; Mobarak et al. reporting …
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    Chris Udry presenting at the 33rd Kuznets Lecture.
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    Elena Stacy
    … a research agenda that focuses on how climate change impacts, especially extreme weather events, … a research agenda that focuses on how climate change impacts, especially extreme weather events, … a research agenda that focuses on how climate change impacts, especially extreme weather events, …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Summer 2023
    … and the Yale Economics PhD program in Development & Trade, lauds EGC Postgraduate Associates and undergraduate … in decades. Even as the pandemic recedes, the poor’s economic recovery is impeded by conflict, barriers to … and Sarah Danner Our graduating students, however, give us reason to be optimistic. I invite you to  meet our …
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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