For women workers in India, direct deposit is ‘digital empowerment’ By Mike Cummings July 1, 2021 Giving women in India’s Madhya Pradesh state greater digital control over their wages encouraged them to enter the labor force and liberalized their beliefs …

Does access liberalise gender norms around phone use for rural women? by Giorgia Barboni, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, and Natalie Theys October 13, 2021 Despite improved connectivity, deep-rooted gender norms continue to shape access to and use of …

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Assistant Professor of Economics and Global Affairs at Yale and an affiliate of the Economic Growth Center, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support her research on agricultural supply chains in …

In Conversation: Costas Meghir and Amer Hasan on early childhood development … June 2, 2025 | In Conversation In Conversation: Costas Meghir and Amer Hasan on early childhood development How can early childhood investments change the course of lives in …

Michael Peters quoted in Financial Times: "Is creative destruction on the decline?" … January 6, 2025 | In the News Michael Peters quoted in Financial Times: "Is creative destruction on the decline?" EGC affiliate Michael Peters is cited in a Financial …

Pande and coauthors: New data on India's migrant workers and Covid-19 … April 28, 2021 | Perspectives Pande and coauthors: New data on India's migrant workers and Covid-19 EGC and MacMillan researchers, along with collaborating researchers, have conducted …

… come out ahead? American Economic Review: Insights (Jun 2024) Related News Items In the News Amit Khandelwal featured …

… Registration is open for the 2024 Kuznets Memorial Lecture by Christopher Udry … February 22, 2024 | Announcement Registration is open for the 2024 Kuznets Memorial Lecture by Christopher Udry The Robert …

In Conversation: Ana Cecília Fieler and Guillermo Noguera on global trade & current tensions … April 28, 2025 | In Conversation In Conversation: Ana Cecília Fieler and Guillermo Noguera on global trade & current tensions The two EGC affiliates discuss …

Expanding the scope of India's Covid-19 relief measures … July 23, 2020 | News Expanding the scope of India's Covid-19 relief measures An April 2020 survey conducted by a team of researchers finds that India's food distribution system helps alleviate food …

… for Economic Growth Inaugural Growth Academy … July 18, 2024 | News Fabrizio Zilibotti to teach in the Global Center … about the key findings of the World Development Report 2024  Economic Growth in Middle Income Countries . Read more …

… 2019), input-output linkages (e.g., Baqaee and Farhi, WP 2024), or technology diffusion (Comin and Gertler, AER … her work moving forward. Congratulations to Vaishnavi!" - Lisa Ho, Postdoctoral Associate Jaimin Shah will join OC&C …

… by reducing the misallocation of talent (Hsieh et al. (2024), Econometrica). But how can today’s low- and middle- … labor market opportunities. In previous work (Agte et al. (2024)), researchers associated with the Gender and Growth … dialogue organized by EGC in New Delhi in August 2024, in partnership with the Institute of Economic Growth …