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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #8: Understanding Fertility Decline
    … production away from subsistence farming, not by improving human capital. Insight 4: Structural transformation—not … migration patterns, with only modest gains in economic development. Yet, even without major improvements in capital … Mabeu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Toronto Metropolitan University and an invited …
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    A map showing variation in recruitment intensity across Burkina Faso based on archival records.
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    Yale Welcomes Eliana La Ferrara for a Lecture on the Power of Social Factors in the Development Process
    … for a Lecture on the Power of Social Factors in the Development Process … February 28, 2023 | News Yale Welcomes … simulcast online March 2. Kayana Szymczak by Greg Larson Economics has gone through a major shift in recent decades, … it so much that it gets misinterpreted. In theory, though, blending the message into entertainment media can increase …
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    Image showing Eliana La Ferrara teaching a seminar at Harvard Kennedy School. Kayana Szymczak
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    Sarah Guan
    … 2023) is an undergraduate student at Yale majoring in economics and mathematics. She joined the internship program … 2023) is an undergraduate student at Yale majoring in economics and mathematics. She joined the internship program … 2023) is an undergraduate student at Yale majoring in economics and mathematics. She joined the internship program …
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    Sarah Guan
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    Looking back on “The Columbian Shock: Explaining Long-Term Development of the Americas”
    … Looking back on “The Columbian Shock: Explaining Long-Term Development of the Americas” … January 11, 2023 | News … together scholars at the intersection of development economics and economic history, the event explored how … Espín-Sánchez on using data to understand migration and human capital Did women have an impact on social mobility in …
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    Arroyo Abad & Espin-Sanchez Photograph by Vestal McIntyre
    Organizers of the Columbian Shock conference, Leticia Arroyo Abad (center) and José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez (R), during a Q&A.
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    Rohini Pande
    … Rohini Pande is the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale … power, as well as how notions of economic justice and human rights can legitimize and enable such change. With … with Indian state governments on gender-inclusive rural development and digital policies and with Inclusion Economics …
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    Portrait of Rohini Pande Dan Renzetti
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    Michael Callen
    … Michael Callen is an Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. His recent work uses experiments to identify ways … sector. His primary interests are political economy, development economics, and experimental economics. Callen is …
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    Michael Callen
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    From 1960s political exile to EGC visiting scholar: development theorist Celso Furtado
    … From 1960s political exile to EGC visiting scholar: development theorist Celso Furtado … March 25, 2021 | EGC … Celso Furtado had just been stripped of his political rights when a  New York Times  correspondent  delivered an … The invitation the journalist delivered was from Yale’s economics department, proposing that Furtado come spend the …
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    Celso Furtado (left) and Clóvis Cavalcanti (right) in Recife, a city in the Northeast region of Brazil in 1977. Furtado founded SUDENE, a government development agency that sought to reduce poverty in the Northeast region. Clóvis Cavalcanti
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    Rohini Pande in the Hindustan Times: Making the right choice
    Making the right choice. By Abhijit V. Banerjee, Selvan Kumar, Rohini Pande , and Felix Su  April 21, 2009 Indians are used to seeing their filmstars sell products on TV but, probably for the first time, one of them is trying to sell informed judgement. …
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    North East Universities Gender Day 2025: Advancing Research on Gender Economics
    … Universities Gender Day 2025: Advancing Research on Gender Economics … May 6, 2025 | News North East Universities Gender … we launched the first North East Universities Gender and Development (NEUGD) Conference, bringing together … and Economic Agency These studies examine how formal rights and the structure of work opportunities can influence …
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    A woman in a green shirt presents at the front of a conference Jackson Martin
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    Kyle Emerick
    … Kyle Emerick is an Associate Professor of Economics at Tufts University, who visited the Economic … during the 2023-24 Academic Year. His research is in development economics with a particular focus on the … farmers in poor countries, the importance of property rights for rural-urban migration, and the efficacy of farmer …
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    Kyle Emerick
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    Development Dialogues: Who will pay for the global energy transition?
    … Development Dialogues: Who will pay for the global energy transition? … April 15, 2025 | Podcast Development Dialogues: Who will pay for the global energy … examine one of the most complex challenges in global development: how can the clean energy transition move forward …
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    The cover for Development Dialogue episode 5
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, October 2021
    … racial inequality as Mr. Floyd begged to be treated as a human being resonated with the desperate hopes of billions of … 60 years ago, scholars creating the emerging field of Development Economics argued over the scope and nature of research that …
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    Economic Justice Symposium - Overview Poster