… Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #3: Laws and Gender Equality … highlight a number of emerging insights on this theme for research and policy consideration.  Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan … a Postdoctoral Researcher at Berkeley Haas and completed her PhD in economics at Yale University in 2023. She studies …

… Carlos III of Madrid as an Assistant Professor. Alvaro's research focuses on the causal effect of education on … Guerrero has focused on household behavior, education, and gender inequality. After graduation, he will join Analysis … difficult to be right on that one because the clarity of her thinking was impossible to miss. Ryungha’s talent for …

… the widely covered release of the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index raised major concerns about life for women … the past year alone. Amidst these growing gender gaps, our research team has been examining yet another gap: that of … only able to own a phone when a male family member buys her one, or passes along an old model after he buys a newer …

… employment opportunities to women, but also mitigating gender inequalities in the labour market.   EGC launches the new Gender and Growth Gaps research project An EGC news item from January 19, 2022, … A Global Evidence’, SSRN 3811765. Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina, Maria Petrova and Ruben Enikolopov (2020), "Political Effects …

… Director With a strong record working the intersections of research and policy, Ratan will focus on strategic … and data infrastructure, among other responsibilities. Her first day at Yale will be March 28.  “It is brilliant to … recently, Aishwarya was a Senior Program Officer in the gender equality division of the Bill & Melinda Gates …

… Nicholas Ryan receives NSF CAREER grant for research on carbon abatement … February 24, … 2022 | News Nicholas Ryan receives NSF CAREER grant for research on carbon abatement The EGC affiliate will study how …

… 28, 2025, EGC hosted a mini-conference highlighting research from early- and mid-career scholars, building on … a series of sessions that explored topics ranging from gender attitudes within organizations to the digitization of … 1: State Capacity Julia Luckett Shan Aman-Rana presents her research on the effects of digitization of land records …

… Looking back on “Gender-Sensitive Economic Recovery and Resilience in Asia” … … and constrain women’s economic activity in Asia, and how research can inform pandemic recovery policies and … find that when a woman has one additional peer who works, her probability of working increases by approximately 10%. …

… to have been part of such a collaborative and supportive research community. –  Zara Contractor Zara’s dissertation … the world over remain remain underrepresented in politics. Gender quotas on party candidate lists have been a … the governance portfolio based in Nepal. Sarah will start her PhD in Public Policy at Berkeley Haas this fall. I’m …

… EGC affiliates present research at Rwanda policy dialogue featuring Yale President … the Economics Department and an EGC affiliate, presented her ongoing research collaboration with the Development Bank … of research on both food supply and distribution. She describes  her work as focusing on "how to get food from …

… of labor and development economics primarily in Africa. Her work aims to understand migration and location choices of … continue on November 8, when Patrick Agte, Nina Buchmann, Maria Kogelnik, and Meital Pereg Mizrachi will present on their …

… In 1981, at the age of 68, Mary Reynolds published her first book, “Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination,” … in academia after facing numerous setbacks based on her gender. In 1961, she was one of three women, all with PhDs … all married to Yale economics professors, hired to provide research and administrative support at the EGC. Six years …

… in VoxDev: Female representation on editorial boards and gender-related publications … November 1, 2024 | In the News … and there is an increased focus on gender-related research. The proportion of women earning economics PhDs at … very low base (Anukriti 2024, Funk et al. 2024) and recent research suggests that this was associated with a rise in the …

… Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #2: Closing the Digital … . In this issue we dive into an exciting portfolio of new research on closing digital gender gaps by EGC affiliates, … postdoctoral associate in Fall 2024. Below, we showcase her job market paper (jointly with Suhani Jalota and Anahita …