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Measuring time use in rural India: Design and validation of a low-cost survey module

… Measuring time use in rural India: Design and validation of a low-cost survey … Elena Stacy … Charity Troyer Moore … Measuring time use in rural India: Design and validation of a low-cost survey module …

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Understanding gender gaps in pandemic recoveries for displaced migrants in India

… workers during the Covid-19 pandemic and found that women face greater barriers to economic recovery. Research to … for over a year after the initial pandemic lockdown, with women faring worse. Women were less likely to remigrate or reenter the labor …

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Looking back on the 2022 Kuznets Mini-conference, “Political Distortions and Economic Development”

… borrow too much, spend on narrowly targeted transfers and default more often than those with tighter political … elites build patron-client relations with their rural tenants through transfers that function as …

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EGC Celebrates the Class of 2024, their achievements and future plans

… protection policy. The core challenge lies in the fact that safeguarding the environment requires costly policy … and international development. My tenure at EGC and IE was transformative. The experience was instrumental in …

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Rural Banks Can Reduce Poverty: Experimental Evidence from 870 Indian Villages - Household Data

… Rural Banks Can Reduce Poverty: Experimental Evidence from … female empowerment, subjective well-being, and to assess women’s physical health status through information on women’s weight, anemia, and blood pressure. In addition to these modules, we …

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Devina Aggarwal

… she worked to make the field of finance more accessible to women. Devina Aggarwal … Devina Aggarwal Tobin Undergraduate … she worked to make the field of finance more accessible to women. … Devina Aggarwal graduated from Yale College in 2025 … she worked to make the field of finance more accessible to women. … Devina Aggarwal …

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Pande and coauthors in the Hindustan Times: Will caste be the future of Indian politics?

By Abhijit Banerjee and Rohini Pande December 30, 2015 The Congress is in shock, and understandably so. It has just been told by two of its closest allies that its support isn’t worth a handful of seats in the two largest states in India. Worse still for …

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From Entry to Expansion: The Macroeconomic Impacts of Female Entrepreneurship

From Entry to Expansion: The Macroeconomic Impacts of Female Entrepreneurship … Gaurav Chiplunkar … Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg … From Entry to Expansion: The Macroeconomic Impacts of Female …

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Kaivan Munshi changes lanes to work at the intersection of economics and biology

Kaivan Munshi changes lanes to work at the intersection of economics and biology … Kaivan Munshi … Kaivan Munshi changes lanes to work at the intersection of economics and …

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The Power of Transparency in Urban Municipal Elections in India

… ineligible by quotas; there was no increase in spending among politicians who were located in low-slum areas nor among politicians whose performance was not publicly … Leaders Are Criminal or Corrupt? A Vignette Experiment in Rural India Using 2010 data from the Indian state of Uttar …

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Public Disclosure as a Political Incentive: Evidence from municipal elections in India

This article first appeared in VoxDev on February 24, 2021. Councilors who thought performance reports would be published before an election invested more in infrastructure, with positive impacts on re-election. Slum dwellers in Delhi have specific …

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Rural Banks Can Reduce Poverty: Experimental Evidence from 870 Indian Villages - Daily Consumption Survey

… Rural Banks Can Reduce Poverty: Experimental Evidence from 870 Indian Villages - Daily Consumption Survey … Rural Banks Can Reduce Poverty: Experimental Evidence from … the economic impact of expanding financial access in rural India. The purpose of the DCS was to capture in detail …

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How an Early Vision of Training Global Economists Led to Yale’s International and Development Economics (IDE) Master’s Program

… knowledge about economic growth. It goes deeper, to the fact that we do not have the information base on which a body …

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Rohini Pande appointed the Heinz Professor of Economics

… more accountable to its citizens, such as by strengthening women’s economic and political opportunities, ensuring that … American Economic Association for promoting the success of women in the economics profession. Pande earned her … more accountable to its citizens, such as by strengthening women’s economic and political opportunities, ensuring that …

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Gerard Padró i Miquel

… Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science among others. Professor of Economics and Political Science … Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science among others. Office Hours By Appointment Only Fields of … Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science among others. … Gerard Padró i Miquel …

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