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    Pande and Coauthors: The Mobile Phone Gender Gap: Why Does it Matter and What Can We Do?
    … Design , December 22, 2017. In India, only 33 percent of women use mobile phones as against 67 percent of men. This is … seem trivial, given the many other disadvantages Indian women suffer — India slipped 21 slots down this year’s Gender … Forum, primarily because of the economic disadvantages women suffer due to low access to employment. Research shows …
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    Indian women gathered in a circle using a mobile phone. EPoD Harvard Flickr
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    “Strength of Will”: How Cynthia Taft Morris’s career shattered ceilings
    … career shattered ceilings … September 21, 2020 | EGC History “Strength of Will”: How Cynthia Taft Morris’s career … determination, and independence.  In an era when few women pursued academia, Taft Morris earned a Ph.D. from Yale … interested in economics and, specifically, in economic history. Upon receiving her undergraduate degree in 1949, a …
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    Cynthia Taft Morris as a graduate of Vassar in 1949. Photo courtesy David Taft Morris
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    EGC Newsletter Archive
    … pollution Winter 2025 A focus on institutions Fall 2024 A history of providing refuge for independent-minded economists … the class of 2024 Spring 2024 EGC & Sub-Saharan Africa: A history of engagement Winter 2024 A focus on gender … in a time of shared crisis Fall 2020 Enabling Inclusion: Women in economics, and economics in women’s lives Summer …
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    Enhancing public preschools and women’s socioeconomic advancement in rural Kenya
    … Enhancing public preschools and women’s socioeconomic advancement in rural Kenya … Enhancing public preschools and women’s socioeconomic advancement in rural Kenya Globally, … childcare responsibilities fall disproportionately on women. In low-income settings, the lack of high-quality, …
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    Kids engaged in play-based activities in a preschool classroom in Kenya's Tharaka Nithi County.
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    Zeyna Malik
    … Jonathan Edwards College ’27, is a rising junior studying History and Economics. She has a keen interest in exploring … Urban Philanthropic Fund. At EGC, Zeyna supports the EGC History project. Zeyna Malik … Zeyna Malik Development … Jonathan Edwards College ’27, is a rising junior studying History and Economics. She has a keen interest in exploring …
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    Headshot of Zeyna Malik
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    Mary Reynolds' pioneering role at Yale EGC – and in literary studies
    … Yale EGC – and in literary studies … July 16, 2020 | EGC History Mary Reynolds' pioneering role at Yale EGC – and in … based on her gender. In 1961, she was one of three women, all with PhDs and all married to Yale economics … her PhD from Columbia in 1939, one of the first 100 women to earn a doctorate in political science. However, she …
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    In 1967, after she was asked to leave the EGC, Mary Reynolds completed a month-long trek to the Everest base camp in Nepal with her husband, Yale economics professor Lloyd Reynolds. Photo courtesy of Priscilla Roosevelt
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    Looking back on “The Columbian Shock: Explaining Long-Term Development of the Americas”
    … and migration in the Americas through the lens of economic history. Photograph by Vestal McIntyre Organizers of the … in the Western Hemisphere is inextricably linked to its history, from the legacy of colonialism to centuries of … using data to understand migration and human capital Did women have an impact on social mobility in pre-modern …
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    Arroyo Abad & Espin-Sanchez Photograph by Vestal McIntyre
    Organizers of the Columbian Shock conference, Leticia Arroyo Abad (center) and José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez (R), during a Q&A.
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    Matthew Jaremski
    … Jaremski is the F. Ross Peterson Professor of Economic History in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah … of Financial Intermediation, and Journal of Economic History. Prof. Jaremski is visiting the Department of Economics in the Economic History program for the Fall 2024 semester. Visiting …
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    Matthew Jaremski
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    Nancy Folbre: Why we should all care more about the care economy
    … care more about the care economy … October 5, 2023 | EGC History Nancy Folbre: Why we should all care more about the … is often unpaid or low-paid and predominantly performed by women. More broadly, Folbre’s research combines economic … for many low- and middle-income countries. “Doing economic history is a lot like doing economic development,” says …
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    Nancy Folbre at IAFFE conference 2018