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    Development Dialogues: What does the future hold for small farms in Africa?
    … mechanization are enormous, so they're unexploited, so we have slack resources and unexploited scale economies from … can reach up to 10,000%, compared to just 200% in the US Midwest. “This variation across farms in Africa means that … Economics: Chris Udry, Francis Annan, and Rohini Pande share insights from Ghana and Beyond Related people …
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    A wide shot of livestock on a farm
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    Why women in India are dropping out of the workforce: Farzana Afridi and Kanika Mahajan on their research on gender and labor markets
    … ways that income determines household decision making. "You want to look at the black box of what is happening within … that digital labor platforms can replicate inequalities if not approached thoughtfully. As Afridi points out, … platforms end up replicating the kind of gender gaps that we see in traditional markets. So technology will not be a …
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    Kanika Mahajan and Farzana Afridi
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    Building In-Country Partnerships in Development Economics: Chris Udry, Francis Annan, and Rohini Pande share insights from Ghana and Beyond
    … Economics: Chris Udry, Francis Annan, and Rohini Pande share insights from Ghana and Beyond … April 12, 2024 | … husbands. "They weren't able to fallow their land because if they fallowed it, they were likely to lose it," Udry said. … and now doing research in Africa. “It changes the way we think about our work,” he says. This episode also featured …
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    Christopher Udry, Robert E. and Emily King Professor of Economics at Northwestern University and Co-Director of the Global Poverty Research Lab, and Francis Annan, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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    How India can use better data and regulations to stop industries from choking its cities
    … possible solution? AP Photo by Michael Greenstone , Rohini Pande , Nicholas Ryan & Anant Sudarshan This article first … act on the ground. Indeed, our research suggests that if India met its own air pollution standards, life expectancy … if punishments for violations are rare. Why pay when you won’t get caught? This attitude, in turn, may be an …
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    A family arrives at a protest against air pollution in New Delhi, India AP Photo
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    Akash Uppal
    … a Postgraduate Associate and worked with Professor Rohini Pande at the Yale Economic Growth Center (EGC). He supported … a Postgraduate Associate and worked with Professor Rohini Pande at the Yale Economic Growth Center (EGC). He supported … a Postgraduate Associate and worked with Professor Rohini Pande at the Yale Economic Growth Center (EGC). He supported …
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    Akash Uppal
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    Registration is open for the 2024 Kuznets Memorial Lecture by Christopher Udry
    … Registration is open for the 2024 Kuznets Memorial Lecture by Christopher Udry … February 22, 2024 | … Registration is open for the 2024 Kuznets Memorial Lecture by Christopher Udry The Robert E. and Emily King … at Northwestern University will deliver the 33rd Kuznets Lecture, "Structural change and declining agricultural …
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    Christopher Udry
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    EGC’s Rockefeller fellowship helped launch the careers of development economists from lower-income countries
    … the fellowship was it really was not rigid,” he said. “You were not limited to your [initial] area of research. It … recognized,” Quisumbing said. “It broadened one’s network if you were coming from a developing country with a more … sat in on classes taught by EGC faculty including Rohini Pande, who first taught at Yale in 2003 and is now the …
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    A man and a woman stand in front of a chalkboard (black and white)
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    Pande and coauthors: Using technology to save lives during India's monsoon season
    … Pande and coauthors: Using technology to save lives during … India's monsoon season … July 2, 2020 | Perspectives Pande and coauthors: Using technology to save lives during … threatens to slow these vital information channels. Can we swiftly leverage technology in the next few months to …
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    Rescue operation of people udring the Kosi Floods in Bihar, 20 August 2008. Kumarrakajee, Wikimedia Commons
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    A roundup of all the research from the NEUDC 2022 development economics conference
    … new findings. The studies come from all over the world, as you can see in Figure 1 below. Just like last year , the … and not ready for formal citation (you can see which if you follow the paper links). Fourth, we largely take the … share information about jobs if they knew they'd have to compete for them, and the men in particular tended not to …
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    Pande and coauthors in Indian Express: Food first, cash later
    … Pande and coauthors in Indian Express: Food first, cash later … tranches of cash transfers. But what does the data tell us about how these efforts are covering India’s poor? Cash is … , asked respondents whether they have a bank account and, if yes, whether it is a PMJDY account. Roughly 80% of female …
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    Given the implications of the lockdown for those living hand-to-mouth, there is simply no time to screen and document poor, uncovered households. C R Sasikumar/File
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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #6: Gender and Structural Transformation
    … The red line titled “DEVO 1” illustrates the LFP trend if a parameter for labor market discrimination declines, and … employment. The authors extend a general equilibrium Roy model to incorporate the joint labor supply decisions of … at Yale In Conversation: Penny Goldberg & Rohini Pande on Gender & Economic Growth [ EGC Article, November 19, …
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    A graph showing urban vs rural metrics
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    Rohini Pande wins the 2022 Infosys Prize for Social Sciences
    … Rohini Pande recognized by the Infosys Science Foundation for … value to all emerging economies" January 10, 2023 ​Rohini Pande has been awarded the 2022 Infosys Prize for Social … award ceremony was held in Bangalore on January 7, 2023 Pande is Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics, Director …
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    Rohini Pande
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    BCURE Case: Skills training programs in South Asia
    … for the economy. A 2015  McKinsey report  calculated that if by 2025 women participate equally in the world economy, it … placed. No person-level data, nothing that could give you any understanding of success stories.” To begin to … after another that successful development happens. As Pande said in  Harvard Magazine , A foundational idea in …
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    Empty classroom with computers. EPoD Harvard Flickr