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Rohini Pande and coauthors in VoxDev: Evidence from payments to reduce crop burning in India

… preventable cause of death and illness (Fuller et al. 2022). In particular, air pollution reduces the life … research, and women's access to opportunities May 5, 2022: As part of the YaleCampus video series on the Faculty … and mitigation alternatives." Nature Communications 13(1): 6537. Lee, K and M Greenstone (2021), “Air Quality Life …

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EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Spring 2023

… the long term,” he added in 1962. The EGC Annual Report 2022 contains many examples of how our affiliates are … political and redistributive institutions, and asking how public policy can best support economic and political …

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Foreign Policy covers Rohini Pande's Research on women and work

… Rohini Pande's Research on women and work … January 25, 2022 | In the News Foreign Policy covers Rohini Pande's …

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Gujarat’s Pollution Control Authority Adopts Environmental Audit Reforms

Gujarat’s Pollution Control Authority Adopts Environmental Audit Reforms … March 21, 2015 | News Gujarat’s Pollution Control Authority Adopts Environmental Audit Reforms Gujarat’s Pollution Control authority approved the reforms after collaborating with …

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Development Dialogues: The future of evidence-based policymaking and international development

… institutions as “elitist” or “out of touch” can undermine public confidence in evidence-based decision-making, creating …

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Understanding the backlash to globalization: Prof. Penny Goldberg on the complicated relationship between international trade, poverty reduction, and inequality

… trade, poverty reduction, and inequality … October 5, 2022 | Podcast Understanding the backlash to globalization: …

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Looking back on the Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Economic Justice Virtual Symposium

… the sessions and link to this vital new research. The Public Sector and Resource Allocation, October 29 In what … find that local government boundaries explain an important share of racial stratification patterns in metropolitan … by how well their identities align with those of public-facing officials who possess discretionary …

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Star Power: Maharashtra Starts Rating Industries By Emissions

… results are not very comprehensible to the general public, MPCB is turning these pollution readings into an … receive only one star. Industry, government and the public can then log onto the MPCB website to access the … other heavy industries as Chandrapur, it is hard for the public to know the answer to this question. Ajay Verma, …

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How an EGC collaboration with South Asian economists in the 1960s yielded era-defining research

… degrees in several economics-related fields, including Public Policy and Development Studies, as well as PhDs in …

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EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 2: Penny Goldberg

… Podcast, Episode 2: Penny Goldberg … September 27, 2022 | Podcast EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 2: …

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Indian Women’s Education Rates Are Rising, Fertility Falling, But A Marriage Penalty Keeps Them From Working

by Kavitha Iyer Indian Women’s Education Rates Are Rising, Fertility Falling, But A Marriage Penalty Keeps Them From Working … February 8, 2023 | In the News Indian Women’s Education Rates Are Rising, Fertility Falling, But A Marriage Penalty Keeps Them …

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Student leaders look back on the inaugural year of an international development club

… most popular major at Yale for more than a decade: in Fall 2022, one in ten Yale undergraduates was majoring in Econ. … could do the same for development? During the summer of 2022, five current Yale College juniors – the two of us, … that we would run for the first time during the fall of 2022. Our year began with a booth at the fall …

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Indian Express covers Rohini Pande's research on migrant workers and COVID-19

Study: Migrants who returned earned five-fold of those who stayed back By Karishma Mehrotra April 28, 2021 MIGRANT WORKERS who returned to cities for work after the first Covid lockdown earned roughly five times as much as those who stayed back, and last …

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Gerald Jaynes

… African American Studies, 1990-1996. He has served in many public capacities such as Study Director of the Committee On … African American Studies, 1990-1996. He has served in many public capacities such as Study Director of the Committee On … of Interest Economic History Economics of Race Relations Public Economics … Gerald D. Jaynes is professor in the …

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A brief history of EGC

… kiss which was a $300,000 endowment to be matched 2:1 by Yale so it added up to $900,000 which I’m sure Mark will … as a support for macro or for policy. I’m sure that the NEUDC, which is meeting tomorrow and the day after, I’d be …

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