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Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #2: Closing the Digital Gender Gap

… India, participants were offered short-term digital data entry jobs with flexible work arrangements. The paper … state of Chhattisgarh, which provided smartphones and free data to over 2 million low-income women. In addition to … households in West Bengal, the authors offer short-term data entry jobs with flexible work arrangements that meet …

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Understanding Barriers to Women’s Mobile Use in Low-Income Settings

… to over 2 million women, along with 1 GB of free data for the first 6 months, through a program called …

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Quantifying Problems in Ancient History: Working with Numbers from the Distant Past

… – Time-capsules and bar graphs: working with shipwreck data for the Roman maritime Economy 2:00pm: KYLE HARPER …

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Transparent policy-making makes people less cynical of their government

… Authority, which ranges from collecting a lot of data, use of data for evidence and how such evidence helps improve the …

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Pratik Rayamajhi, Republica
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How services can drive the growth of emerging economies

… in India, Fan, Peters, and Zilibotti (2021) gather micro data on employment, wages, and human capital since the late … a new methodology to infer productivity growth from these data for roughly 400 Indian districts. To distinguish between …

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Watch: Rohini Pande Delivers the 3rd Annual Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture

… and so on, that are using large amounts of energy in their data centres and face a lot of pressure from stakeholders. …

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Ideas 4 India
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Assessing the Performance of Nepal's Local Governments in 2019

… gaps in their capacities. We also use the 2017 election data from the Nepal Election Commission. These data include information on individual candidates, their age, …

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Peters et al.: "Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries"

… can take place. We calibrate the model to plant-level data from the United States and India. We identify the key …

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The role of technology and trade in Costa Rica’s economic transformation

… 15% of Costa Rica’s GDP. The central bank has detailed data on adoption of the app, so we’ve been studying those … my work with Diana), and doing policy work. Since the data we are using is confidential, one of the requirements … match very disaggregated referendum results to employment data. That allows us to analyze how different firms are …

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Antonella Bancalari on when infrastructure projects cause more harm than good

… not guaranteed. Using novel administrative and spatial data from her native country of Peru, Bancalari exploited … these sewerage projects, Bancalari combined administrative data on when and where projects were implemented with data on mortality rates across Peru’s districts over 11 …

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Antonella Bancalari
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EGC Quarterly Newsletter: February 2021

… other summer work opportunities, putting them to work on data analysis for Covid-related projects in South Asia. In …

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Event Recap: Experimental Economics Workshop on Discrimination and Prejudice

… in STEM, business, and economics. Using transcript data from a large U.S. university and a novel survey of …

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Jackson Martin
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Did Colombia’s nationwide preschool expansion benefit students?

… on child development, the authors first gathered baseline data using eight different assessments given to the … preschoolers. After the study period, they compared these data with a new set of child development tests. The authors …

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Ryungha Oh examines the mechanisms of spatial inequality

… the wage differences across cities we observe in data through one of the many mechanisms driving spatial … sorting amplifies spatial inequality. Using administrative data, they quantified the role of firm sorting for wage …

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Pande, Schaner & Troyer Moore in The Indian Express: April wasn’t January

… external factors and then examines policy impacts. We used data only from government monitors in Delhi, Faridabad and …

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C R Sasikumar