… future.  Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan EGC Deputy Director   Research Highlight Can Female Directors Shrink the Gender … large informal sector and wide initial gender disparities. Her recent contribution with Francois-Xavier Ladant, “ Can … impact, introduces new members of the EGC community, and describes the research our faculty affiliates published …

… Kenneth Gillingham and Nick Ryan, the workshop showcased research projects tackling questions that matter for both academic research and real-world policy challenges in energy and environment.  The workshop began with Stefano Giglio's research on biodiversity economics, showing how species …

… Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #6: Gender and Structural … of intra-household, institutional, and political economy research. I hope some of these insights below encourage … She holds a PhD in Economics from Yale (2019), and her research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics, …

… the event co-organized by Eliana La Ferrara – following her delivery of the 32nd Annual Kuznets lecture – and Carlana … on March 3, 2023, the Kuznets Mini-conference featured new research by early-career researchers on the determinants of … Garcia-Ramos, Selim Gulesci, Sarita Ore, Alejandra Ramos, Maria Micaela Sviatschi Speaker:  Selim Gulesci  (Trinity …

… Inclusion Economics team secures funding to expand research-policy work for more inclusive digital … | News Inclusion Economics team secures funding to expand research-policy work for more inclusive digital … economic opportunity and government services. Yet, large gender gaps in device access and internet use persist across …

… Birdsall’s time at Yale Economic Growth Center helped her rethink global development … November 17, 2021 | EGC … Driven by a commitment to independent, policy-based research, she would go on to change how rich countries and … Despite this, she remembers being comfortable in what she describes as a good environment for women. “I had gone to …

… Bank for Reconstruction and Development looks back on her childhood in socialist Poland and a path-breaking career of research and policy efforts to support countries’ transition …

… women suffer — India slipped 21 slots down this year’s Gender Equality Index published by World Economic Forum, … women suffer due to low access to employment. Research shows that mobile technology has the potential to … the benefits phones can give to a girl. A phone may expose her to harassment by strangers, but it also might offer her …

… Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #5: Gender and … and female capital shock recipients.” There are a host of research projects currently examining the black box of … York University Abu Dhabi and a JPAL and BREAD affiliate. Her research has a topical focus on firms and labor markets …

… from around the world conducting cutting-edge development research … May 20, 2024 | News EGC hosts economists from … to Yale was a welcome opportunity to take a break from her administrative responsibilities as Dean of Economics at … to Yale undergraduates, to discuss important work on gender, labor, and firms in India. She was impressed by the …

… professor emerita and former EGC postdoc looks back on her Texas roots and her pioneering career focused on gender, inequality, and care work. by Greg Larson For much of … Center (EGC) from 1979 to 1980 – has conducted pioneering research on the value of “care work,” or the parts of an …

… Growth Center . Professor Pande is an economist whose research examines the economic costs and benefits of  … world and the role of public policy in affecting change. Her research focusses on gender, environmental regulation and state capacity and …

… the workforce: Farzana Afridi and Kanika Mahajan on their research on gender and labor markets … May 20, 2024 | Podcast Why women … Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn. Her research focuses on the intersection of development and …

… unpaid care work – also increase educational inequality . Gender-based violence is on the rise. And as schools reopen … forward-thinking governance and as Kevin Donovan’s research and John Eric Humphries’ EGC supported surveys … economies rebound. In a recent op-ed, Mushfiq Mobarak describes how poor countries that acted on evidence from past …