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    Rohini Pande elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    … commending expertise, and working toward the common good is absolutely essential to realizing a better future.” … commending expertise, and working toward the common good is absolutely essential to realizing a better future.” … commending expertise, and working toward the common good is absolutely essential to realizing a better future.” …
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    How to pinpoint Delhi's air-pollution sources
    … the public has focused its attention on the issue and the government has responded with ever-stronger measures. Now the … We at  Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD)  are engaged with government ministries in formulating and testing those … what’s causing air pollution in Delhi. This study marks a good time for India’s regulators to implement a plan to …
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    Power lines seen through pollution. Anindito Mukherjee, Reuters
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    Lelan Hu
    Lelan is a senior studying Economics & Mathematics and an undergraduate intern at Yale Inclusion Economics, where she supports data analytics in the PayDash project. She was previously a Tobin RA at EGC working on gender and labor market outcomes for …
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    Satish Wasti
    … tremendous asset to the GFA team over the past year or so. Good luck as you start your PhD in Economics at UBC, Satish! … tremendous asset to the GFA team over the past year or so. Good luck as you start your PhD in Economics at UBC, Satish! … tremendous asset to the GFA team over the past year or so. Good luck as you start your PhD in Economics at UBC, Satish! …
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    How an Early Vision of Training Global Economists Led to Yale’s International and Development Economics (IDE) Master’s Program
    … started building a master’s program to equip staff in government offices and international organizations with the … Center for International Administration,” aimed to train government and international organization staff to analyze … and foreign field rather than toward domestic government agencies in Washington.” The center would draw on …
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    Naomi Lamoreaux on Her Wide-Ranging Career and What Economists Can Learn From Economic History
    … – how these large firms matter, and what stance the government or society should take. Should we worry about big … firms will behave badly. So you can't really “separate the good trusts from the bad trusts,” as Teddy Roosevelt said. … their direction. Because that sort of influence prevents government officials from being vigilant in the ways I think …
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    Naomi Lamoreaux in the National Portrait Gallery, London, 2018
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    Soledad Artiz Prillaman
    … Democracy and Development Lab . She received a Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University in 2017 and a B.A. in … Democracy and Development Lab . She received a Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University in 2017 and a B.A. in … Democracy and Development Lab . She received a Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University in 2017 and a B.A. in …
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    Are cryptocurrencies currencies? Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador
    … furthers financial efficiency and inclusion. “This is as good as it gets for an experiment” about the launch of a new … responses to their requests for information from the government, so they decided to take their questions to … numbers declined drastically. Despite incentives by the government—including a $30 Bitcoin bonus, a discount on gas …
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    Pande in Science Magazine: The climate crisis is a crisis of inequality
    … another example . Second, redistribution to enhance public good provision in higher-income countries itself would help … individuals and countries won't give up privileges without good reason. The poor will understandably always want … entire societies have  accepted rationing  for the common good. Perhaps, eventually, when the climate threat cannot be …
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    5 Insights from Day 1 of the Yale Climate, Environment & Economic Growth Conference
    … concluded that forecasts shift farmers’ beliefs and that good and bad news cause increases and decreases, … environmental policies and agendas can be at odds with government actions even when environmental and climate … which faces frequent and worsening flooding and where the government has proposed a sea wall. Hsiao described his …
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    Image showing Catherine Wolfram presenting her work during day 1 of the Yale Climate, Environment & Economic Growth Conference
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    Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: “Identity politics” is economic policy
    … of affirmative action to ensure equity of opportunity—is good economic policy. Opposition to identity politics is … to help. Yet the political right clearly believes there is good reason to invest time and resources in identity politics … where it allows more efficient use of talent, is also good economic policy. However, the right-wing strategy of …
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    Brussels, Belgium. 21st February 2019. High school and university students stage a protest against the climate policies of the Belgian government. Photo by Alexandros Michailidis Alexandros Michailidis, Shutterstock