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    EGC affiliates in USC's Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics: A Tough Call: How Can We Close the Gender Gap in Mobile Phone Use in India?
    … January 22, 2018 Emerging economies are in the midst of a mobile revolution: phones and associated add-on services … is 33 percentage points, and nearly half of women who report having access to a phone must borrow one to use one, … the gap would mean for women’s welfare. Read more here . EGC affiliates in USC's Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & …
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    Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: "On the Economic Costs of Ending DEI"
    … Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: "On the Economic Costs of Ending DEI" … May 15, 2025 | … Rohini Pande, Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and EGC director, delves into research on meritocratic … that is, when the person who would be most productive in a job gets that job. In practice, however, structural …
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    Yale researchers offer new economic perspectives on climate mitigation, adaptation & negotiations
    … coordination on this existential challenge. Recent awards: EGC affiliates to pursue interdisciplinary research on … drive meaningful progress outside the constraints of the annual COP negotiations. Responding to climate change How can … water reached their area; and also 57% more likely to report receiving highly accurate flood alerts. Studies like …
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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #2: Closing the Digital Gender Gap
    … of new research on closing digital gender gaps by EGC affiliates, their collaborators, and the broader research … In this newsletter we are also pleased to feature a Yale PhD alumnus and long-time collaborator with EGC … to the paper Upcoming launch of GSMA’s Mobile Gender Gap Report 2024 GSMA will launch the Mobile Gender Gap Report …
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    Building Community-level Flood Early Warning Systems for Vulnerable Households in India
    … with Google.org to increase the reach and effectiveness of a cutting-edge solution in India. Flood early warning systems … limited due to lack of infrastructure and scant evidence on how best to relay flood alerts at scale. In 2019, Google … Highlights Perspectives Closing gaps at the nexus of gender and climate vulnerability In the News Inclusion …
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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #3: Laws and Gender Equality
    … and policy consideration.  Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan EGC Deputy Director   Research Highlight Gendered Laws and … 2024 Women, Business and the Law (WBL) 2024 is the 10th annual edition of the World Bank series of studies that track … and also revises the existing indicators. Web site Report Related News Items News Towards Gender Equality …
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    Aintzane Aboitiz Braun
    … Aintzane Aboitiz Braun   graduated from Yale with a BS in Economics and Cognitive Science in December 2022, and worked for EGC during the Spring 2023 semester as a Research and Program Assistant. She …
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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #5: Gender and Entrepreneurship
    … insights as compelling as we have. Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan EGC Deputy Director   Research Highlight Aggregate … Asia Region. Data Source: World Bank Gender Data Portal, 2023.  Chiplunkar & Goldberg generate the well-known finding … August 12, 2024 ] On October 23 on the side of the 2024 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and …
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    Looking Back on the 2023 Kuznets Mini-Conference, “Norms, Gender, and Development”
    … Looking Back on the 2023 Kuznets Mini-Conference, “Norms, Gender, and … by Eliana La Ferrara – following her delivery of the 32nd Annual Kuznets lecture – and Carlana at Yale University. Held … intervention necessary for lasting change? These were a few of the questions raised by  Eliana La Ferrara’s lecture …
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    Development Dialogues: What does the future hold for small farms in Africa?
    …  |  Subscribe   In this episode of Development Dialogues , a panel of experts dissect one of Africa’s most persistent … Development Dialogues, a collaboration between EGC and  VoxDev , facilitates direct conversations … require impractical coordination. Instead, Udry proposes a focus on  enabling gradual transformation through improved …
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    Brochure
    … Initiative brings together Yale economists from a range of subfields to explore how the structure and …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Fall 2023
    … EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Fall 2023 … October 3, 2023 | News EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Fall … It is hard to think through these topics without having a concept of household, family, division of labor, etc., and …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Summer 2023
    … EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Summer 2023 … May 22, 2023 | News EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Summer … quarterly newsletter Celebrating Our Graduates Today, a diverse group of students in development economics are …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Spring 2025: Earth Day Edition
    … EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Spring 2025: Earth Day Edition … … Energy & Growth Initiative  offers fresh economic insights on the costs of climate change and pollution, market-based … Markets Can Reduce Emissions Rohit Raj, Unsplash In a study published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics on …
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