… 22, 2018.   The Benefits of Financial Autonomy for India's Rural Women … March 22, 2018 | News The Benefits of Financial … of access to basic financial services that help the poor use what money they do have. So the development community has … would help them transgress these norms. And perhaps, over time, even start to change them.  Melinda:  How did you test …

… increase women’s access to health care and employment in India — and economics as an agent of social justice. … have an ongoing project in India to encourage women to use smartphones. What motivated the project? In absolute … into Yale’s policy-research landscape? I’ve arrived at a time when the center is very well set up to provide academic …

… Ratan EGC Deputy Director   Research Highlight From Rural Fields to Urban Kitchens: Structural Change and the … growth, structural change, and FLFP, Peters et al. analyze time use data to uncover patterns underlying the urban-rural FLFP …

… challenges,  ranging from limited job opportunities in rural areas to low bank account ownership and financial … 2  Virtually every woman has a digital identity, and many use their own phone – but the use of higher-value functions … ensured that we follow our study populations over longer time periods to track how program impacts influence, and are …

… upfront; and the second, 800 rupees per acre, 400 upfront. Measuring impact of PES on crop burning We measured how PES … the fact that the initial advance was not offered at the time of the contract offer (it was disbursed in two to three … has been processed). Reduction in crop burning and use of alternatives:  Offering part of the PES transfer in …

… would benefit from taxing those imports, but there is a cost.” Read more on the New York Times website . Related …

… Rohini Pande quoted in The New York Times: "Women in India Face a Jobs Crisis. Are Factories the Solution?" … July … News Rohini Pande quoted in The New York Times: "Women in India Face a Jobs Crisis. Are Factories the Solution?" Rohini Pande describes her survey work in conjunction with Inclusion Economics network …

… Nandi Originally published by  Evidence for Policy Design , February 26, 2018.   Data From Your Doorstep to Help … The team is based at Harvard Kennedy School and hosted in India by the Institute for Financial Management and … at New York University are developing a “fine-grained real-time air quality monitoring network” to make what they call …

… appeared in The Indian Express on April 13, 2018.   How India can use better data and regulations to stop industries from … of several years exceeded emission limits over half of the time. Similarly, a study by the Central Pollution Control …

… countries. In their preliminary study, Goldberg et al. use a similar methodology to Hsieh at al. to show that the … find that removing barriers to female entrepreneurship in India would result in higher female labor force employment, … in the ML industry and preliminary work suggests they use 'generative AI' far less than men , even when practical …

… to face.”  Kumari lives in the state of Bihar in eastern India where she is a member of the local women’s self-help … bad as in previous years: “The water wasn’t very deep this time…It [only] reached above my waist.”  Her reflection … transmission of water-borne diseases and disrupting rural residents’ mobility for months due to washed-out lanes. …

… children's survival prospects . They pay attention to the time and costs of raising children , as well as the benefits … of colonial population policies” and their effect on the use of modern contraceptive methods. See Mabeu’s website for … conducted a randomized trial among 14,545 households in rural Burkina Faso to test the oft-cited hypothesis that …