… work – or even who have an older sister who works – marry later (Sivasankaran 2014). And later marriage, in turn, delays child-bearing, which is … decision-making power to change. That might come much later, and her economic empowerment might improve in the …

… Pande, Simone Schaner, and Charity Troyer Moore discuss food insecurity in India amidst the COVID pandemic, imploring … Moore In the early days of India’s lockdown, stories of food insecurity were rampant. As “Unlock 2.0” progresses, … Centre and state governments need to expand the ambit of food transfer programmes and bolster policies that target …

… preferences changing as a result of these shifts? The first session of the mini-conference began with studies … cutting (FGC) harms girls both at time of cutting and later in life. But because certain aspects of the ritual hold … children in Uganda a childcare subsidy or an equivalent cash grant. Their results show that childcare leads to a 44 …

… what happens in the early years — including the first thousand days after conception — is of key importance …

… whether employers are informed that women receive a $10 cash subsidy, an amount large enough to purchase safe … responsibilities. The authors find three sets of results. First, job flexibility more than triples take up, from 15% … more likely to accept outside-the-home work several months later. This gateway effect may be due to changes in attitudes …

… to government leaders because they believed that, as Islam later wrote in an autobiography, “in the non-descript … the streets. With the approach of the 1970 election – the first and ultimately only direct general election in united … arriving.  As a cabinet minister and head of Bangladesh’s first planning commission, Islam was charged with setting up …

… pressing need for talented development thinkers.    In our first two years at Yale, we observed widespread interest in … Affairs, spoke to SPF about his role at the UN World Food Programme. At the end of the 13 weeks, the fellows did … with uproarious anecdotes about Chang’s experiences with food around the world, was intimate yet accessible. In …

… to their homes in rural areas without jobs or access to food, shelter, and other basic needs. To understand how the …

… Jayachandran, Namrata Kala, and  Rohini Pande This article first appeared in  VoxDev  on March 28, 2023 Poor air quality … Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), which gives out cash transfers conditional on undertaking environmentally … practices. PES has two advantages over current approaches. First, these policies are more politically feasible than …

… up with their subjects, even as much as eight years later, the researchers found “really strong persistent …

… Orazio Attanasio and coauthor analyze how conditional cash transfer programs affect food prices, Penny Goldberg and coauthors use global learning …

… Rich Carey, ShutterStock by Rohini Pande This article first appeared in  Science  on January 11, 2024 The world’s … the wood for charcoal, and using the space to grow both food and cash crops. But the benefits of preservation accrue slowly to …