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India's air pollution is so bad it's reducing life expectancy by 3.2 years

India's air pollution is so bad it's reducing life expectancy by 3.2 years … February 24, 2015 | News India's air pollution is so bad it's reducing life expectancy by 3.2 years "It is in India’s power to change this in cost effective ways that allow …

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Goldberg and coauthors in VoxEU: Estimating the learning losses due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The loss of human capital in Ukraine by Noam Angrist, Simeon Djankov, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg , and Simeon Djankov April 22, 2022 Studies on war or civil conflicts can be used to gauge the human capital losses from the Russian invasion in Ukraine. …

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How an Early Vision of Training Global Economists Led to Yale’s International and Development Economics (IDE) Master’s Program

… Ana Cecilia Fieler, who became IDE faculty codirector in 2023. “Many IDE alumni went on to hold influential leadership …

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Ilse Lindenlaub

Ilse Lindenlaub is an Associate Professor of Economics at Yale and an EGC affiliate. She is a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Lindenlaub …

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Migration Subsidies: Does encouraging relocation increase welfare and productivity?

Migration Subsidies: Does encouraging relocation increase welfare and productivity? … David Lagakos … Mushfiq Mobarak … Michael E. Waugh … Migration Subsidies: Does encouraging relocation increase welfare and …

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How the microcredit contract can allow borrowers to share risk

… for repayment. Group members are treated as being in default when at least one of them fails to repay, effectively … villages does not come at the expense of higher default rates. Apparently, excessive risk taking is prevented … loans are available. Policy implications Our findings confirm that product design can be a key determinant …

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Creating an intellectual safe haven for international economists

Creating an intellectual safe haven for international economists … Creating an intellectual safe haven for international economists …

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EGC Quarterly Newsletter, April 2021

… as an Assistant Professor in August Aletheia Donald (IDE ‘12) is an economist working at the Gender Innovation Lab, … Economics at Yale Upcoming seminars will include a career panel with Aletheia Donald (IDE '12) and Sreelakshmi Papineni (IDE '11), both of the World …

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Lessons from GST for Eliminating the Rs1 Trillion Lying Around as Float

… unpaid dues”. According to an Accountability Initiative report on the National Health Mission (NHM), in 2015-16, only …

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Pande in Science Magazine: Offsets, carbon markets, and climate and economic justice

… This article first appeared in Science on September 12, 2024 Today, 682 million people , or 8.5% of the world’s …

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Pande and Coauthors: Understanding Barriers to and Impacts of Women's Mobile Phone Adoption in India

Originally published by Evidence for Policy Design , October 31, 2018. Pande and Coauthors: Understanding Barriers to and Impacts of Women's Mobile Phone Adoption in India … Giorgia Barboni … Erica Field … Rohini Pande … Natalia Rigol … Simone Schaner … …

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Greg Larson

Greg Larson is a freelance writer, editor, and consultant based in Washington, DC who serves as a consultant editor and writer for the Yale Economic Growth Center and Inclusion Economics. Previously, he served as an economist and senior advisor at the US …

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To train 10 lakh Indians a week, the Skill India initiative needs a wider net

… 18-35-year-olds, youth who have studied till Class 11 or 12 are the least likely to be in the labor force (see graph … till Class 9 or 10, while only 27% have passed Class 11 or 12, skilling programs could significantly increase their … training focuses on youth who have at least passed Class 12 (and some trades require even higher education levels), …

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Michelle Neuman

… at the Federation of American Scientists. From October 2023 to February 2025, she was embedded in the U.S. Agency … at the Federation of American Scientists. From October 2023 to February 2025, she was embedded in the U.S. Agency … at the Federation of American Scientists. From October 2023 to February 2025, she was embedded in the U.S. Agency …

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Transparent policy-making makes people less cynical of their government

Transparent policy-making makes people less cynical of their government … March 25, 2017 | News Transparent policy-making makes people less cynical of their government Rohini Pande of EGC's and Michael Callen of EPoD at Harvard University discuss their …

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