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Yale Welcomes Eliana La Ferrara for a Lecture on the Power of Social Factors in the Development Process

… we can't understand growth without recognizing the role of informal institutions – family groups, immigrant communities, … Learn more about this research La Ferrara's Website Corno et al. 2022 La Ferrara et al. 2012 Related Events Eliana La …

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Kayana Szymczak
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Looking back on the "Gender and Growth Gaps in India" research and policy dialogue

… increasing the gender budget by over one third, what evidence can we present to drive relevant policies to ensure … and economic empowerment. Related publications Goldberg et al., 2024: "The Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI)" …

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Real-Time Data and Market-Based Solutions to Reduce Air Pollution in India

… can be used to derive fine-grained pollution maps. Iyer et al. 2022 The Value of Regulatory Discretion: Estimates from … and Sudarshan draw lessons from a review of empirical evidence as well as data from Delhi’s program to ration …

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New findings on the interplay of insurance, agricultural inputs, and crop yields for poor farmers in India

… New findings on the interplay of insurance, agricultural inputs, and crop yields for poor … India … Kevin Donovan … New findings on the interplay of insurance, agricultural inputs, and crop yields for poor …

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Development Dialogues: The future of evidence-based policymaking and international development

… Development Dialogues: The future of evidence-based policymaking and international development … … 24, 2025 | Podcast Development Dialogues: The future of evidence-based policymaking and international development In … in evidence-based decision-making, creating space for informal and often corrupt decision-making structures. …

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The gendered employment effects of mobile internet access in developing countries

… Africa, and South America from 2000-2015, and provides evidence on the impact of 3G coverage on the employment … more on its impact on political mobilisation (Zhuravshkaya et al. 2020, Guriev et al. 2021). Recent studies assessing the …

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Mohit Agrawal

… works with Jason Abaluck, Joe Altonji, Steve Berry, Costas Meghir, Yusuke Narita, and Ebonya Washington at Yale. … works with Jason Abaluck, Joe Altonji, Steve Berry, Costas Meghir, Yusuke Narita, and Ebonya Washington at Yale. … Mohit … works with Jason Abaluck, Joe Altonji, Steve Berry, Costas Meghir, Yusuke Narita, and Ebonya Washington at Yale. … Mohit …

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Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India

… Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India … Michael Greenstone … Rohini Pande … … Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India …

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Who benefits? Experimental evidence on Saudi women’s take-up of unemployment assistance

… Who benefits? Experimental evidence on Saudi women’s take-up of unemployment assistance … Rohini Pande … Yazan Al-Karablieh … Rema Hanna … Who benefits? Experimental evidence on Saudi women’s take-up of unemployment assistance …

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Enhancing public preschools and women’s socioeconomic advancement in rural Kenya

… for women. In the intervention, drawing on a compelling evidence base , existing and supplementary teachers are … With three different age cohorts in the study sample, the randomized research design thus enables credibly capturing … Goldberg , Ayush Jain , Emma Lambert-Porter & Costas Meghir Read More About the Project Principal Investigators: …

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Falling Living Standards During the COVID-19 Crisis: Quantitative Evidence from Nine Developing Countries

… Living Standards During the COVID-19 Crisis: Quantitative Evidence from Nine Developing Countries … Mushfiq Mobarak … Falling Living Standards During the COVID-19 Crisis: Quantitative Evidence from Nine Developing Countries …

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Lauren Falcao Bergquist and coauthors in VoxEU: Quantifying the Effects of Local Agricultural Policy Interventions

Lauren Falcao Bergquist and coauthors in VoxEU: Quantifying the Effects of Local Agricultural Policy Interventions … Lauren Falcao Bergquist … Benjamin Faber … Thibault Fally … Matthias Hoelzlein … Edward Miguel … Andres Rodríguez-Clare … Lauren Falcao …

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EGC news archive

… to the People, Bring the People to the Jobs,” Mushfiq Mobarak for foreignpolicy.com, July 4, 2019 “Yale Researchers … 2019 “Can the Microcredit Model Be Improved? ” Mushfiq Mobarak for Yale Insights, April 26, 2019 “Do Job Training …

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Last-mile delivery increases vaccine uptake in Sierra Leone

… … Sellu Kallon … Junisa Nabieu … Sarah Cundy … Mushfiq Mobarak … Last-mile delivery increases vaccine uptake in …

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Resilience Through History

… Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration” Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University | William … 8 | “Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices: Evidence from the 1883 Pendleton Act” Diana …

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