… set out in my last Science article , there is substantial evidence that even seemingly meritocratic recruitment into … progress during the past few decades. According to Hsieh et al. , better job allocation accounted for up to 40% of the …

… a wide set of labor market indicators there is little evidence that economic growth in and of itself systematically … specific types or categories of work (unpaid or paid, informal or formal, agriculture or services) as economies … that evidence from interventions that are small-scale and controlled must be interpreted through the lens of local …

… Costas Meghir delivers the Fisher-Schultz Lecture at European … Association World Congress … August 25, 2022 | News Costas Meghir delivers the Fisher-Schultz Lecture at European … of trade liberalization in the presence of a large informal sector, which is a feature of many developing …

… Mobarak in Foreign Policy magazine: Saving lives saves livelihoods … March 21, 2021 | In the News Mobarak in Foreign Policy magazine: Saving lives saves … benefit by imposing lockdowns when warranted. by Mushfiq Mobarak In early January this year, in the midst of a global …

… 2019 ), barriers to entry and exit of firms ( Leone et al., 2021 ;  Majerovitz, 2023 ), missing insurance and credit markets ( Casaburi and Willis, 2018 ;  …

… livestreams online. EGC faculty affiliates Mushfiq Mobarak and Rohini Pande are among the presenters. EGC … opening celebration on Tuesday, September 24 4:30-7:30PM ET will be live-streamed on the  Yale Climate Week website … EGC Affiliate  Mushfiq Mobarak  will speak on "Developing Evidence-Based Scalable Adaptation Solutions in Early Climate …

… limiting investment in schooling. In our research (Agte et al. 2023), we evaluate how entrepreneur parents resolve these … and differences in credit constraints. We find little evidence of credit constraint differences among clients in …

… more than half of the labor force is employed in small, informal firms (International Labour Organization (ILO), … from access to grants or loans (see, for instance, de Mel et al. (2008), Fafchamps et al. (2014), and Fiala (2014)). …

… Climate, Energy and Growth initiative, provides compelling evidence that one of the world’s cornerstone carbon offset … “the ground zero of climate change,” EGC affiliate Mushfiq Mobarak and coauthor Islamul Haque found an urgent need for … Mobarak and coauthors explore how rising pollution and migration are connected: using multiple data sources and …

… (Jul 2024) Early Stimulation and Enhanced Preschool: A Randomized Trial Pediatrics (May 2023) Related News Items Podcast EGC … Podcast, Episode 6: Orazio Attanasio and Costas Meghir … Attanasio for NBER Reporter: "Understanding Early …