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    Naomi Lamoreaux on Her Wide-Ranging Career and What Economists Can Learn From Economic History
    … The Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale looks back on her illustrious career ahead of a … but it rhymes. In this sense, economic historians – who use quantitative techniques to explore how earlier … areas to which she has made significant contributions.    EGC recently spoke with Professor Lamoreaux to discuss her …
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    Naomi Lamoreaux in the National Portrait Gallery, London, 2018
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, December 2022
    … EGC Quarterly Newsletter, December 2022 … December 19, 2022 | … of researchers presented challenges, and since it was Yale’s  Lloyd Reynolds  who had lobbied for seed funding from the Ford Foundation, …
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    Emma Riley
    … Emma Riley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan. She is a  J-PAL ,  BREAD  and  Yale Inclusion Economics (YIE)  affiliated researcher. Her … and graduation programs, on household welfare and women’s empowerment. She also has studies looking at the …
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    Headshot of Emma Riley
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    Rohini Pande in The Kathmandu Post: Strengthening female representation
    … after the end of the Rana dynasty. Since then, Nepali women have only seen very modest gains in Nepali politics. In 1992, only one in 200 elected representatives were women. More significant gains came in 1997 when women won 21 percent of local seats. In 2017, in Nepal’s …
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    Women in Nepal
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    Looking back on the "Gender and Growth Gaps in South Asia" research and policy workshop
    … 3, 2023, in Bengaluru, India, to discuss steps to allow women greater access to the opportunities and benefits of … attainment; propensity to work in unpaid work (among those who are employed); total hours worked (excluding domestic and … refer to the full session recordings  here . NeoNiche EGC would like to acknowledge input from Akash Uppal, …
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    Scholars sit and discuss at workshop. Ritesh
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    Making Pay-As-You-Go Work for Women in Kenya
    … Making Pay-As-You-Go Work for Women in Kenya … Erik Jorgensen Making Pay-As-You-Go Work for … for lenders to extend credit to low income borrowers, who lack collateral and therefore pose a risk to default on … technology in Kenya. Researchers at Inclusion Economics at Yale are partnering with  M-KOPA  – an asset-financing …
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    M-KOPA Agent poster Erik Jorgensen
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    Clare Kemmerer
    … Clare Kemmerer served as an EGC Communications Intern 2021-22 as she pursued a Master of Arts in Religion (M.A.R.) in the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, concentrating in the study of … a PhD in the History of Art.  Clare didn't have extensive economics experience when she applied for the internship, but …
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    Clare Kemmerer
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    Economic Times covers Rohini Pande's address on India's carbon markets
    … covers Rohini Pande's address on India's carbon markets EGC affiliate Rohini Pande discusses how a vibrant carbon … to Rohini Pande, Director of Economic Growth Centre at Yale University. Introducing a bond system like the one …
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    Portrait of Rohini Pande Dan Renzetti
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    Creative destruction and catch-up growth in India
    … destruction and catch-up growth in India In this article, EGC affiliates Michael Peters and Fabrizio Zilibotti discuss … many firms in India are run by ‘subsistence entrepreneurs’ who opened businesses not to expand them in search of … in firm dynamics in India Unequal treatment of men and women by economic law: Global trends World Bank Policy …
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    Understanding FLFP
    … at low levels of economic development, poverty leads women and men alike to work low-wage jobs, particularly in … bring more money home. It could be that in such situations women favor staying at home over getting non-agricultural … quality of jobs they can successfully compete for. The U-shaped curve gives us a framework to spot cases where a …
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    Michael Barresi
    … Michael Barresi participated in the EGC Internship Program in the Summer of 2020. He went on to … at Jane Street Capital and is considering pursuing an Economics PhD. Economics research was one of the highlights of my four years at Yale. From methodical and thought-provoking theoretical work …
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    Michael Barresi
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    EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 5: Kevin Donovan
    … EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 5: Kevin Donovan … … for a New Era”, Episode 5 features Kevin Donovan of Yale University discussing his research on growth … in Development, Kevin Donovan , Assistant Professor of Economics and Global Affairs and EGC affiliate, discusses his …
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    Kevin Donovan
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    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
    … Koujianou Goldberg is the William Nordhaus Professor of Economics and Global Affairs and an Affiliate of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University.  She holds a joint appointment at the Yale … of labor market frictions; and discrimination against women in developing countries. PhD, Economics, Stanford …
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