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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #5: Gender and Entrepreneurship
    … – to then evaluate how various policy interventions would impact women’s welfare as well as aggregate productivity and … of existing women-owned businesses have a far greater impact than those simply seeking to increase the number of … women on the editorial boards of top economics journals influence what gets published. They reveal that as female …
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    A graph showing the percent of firms with women among principal owners
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    EGC Incubation Fund
    … that improves citizen wellbeing. Opportunities for Impact The EGC Research–to–Policy Incubator Fund offers opportunities to advance evidence–based impact on some of the most pressing issues of the day, … research community and building direct channels to policy impact.  EGC Incubation Fund offers flexible pilot funding to …
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    IE team members during a field visit
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    A brief history of EGC
    … arrogance of the field, I guess. There was a lot of heavy influence on the statistical side—heavy influence on the international/national bureau type data … supposed to have a similar type of data base. The heavy influence on this was from Simon Kuznets, as you can imagine. …
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    Judy Chevalier
    Judith A. Chevalier is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics at the Yale School of Management. Professor Chevalier’s research is in the areas of both finance and industrial organization. Her research focuses on the impacts of new …
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    How the microcredit contract can allow borrowers to share risk
    … their repayment performance. We found a small positive impact on food and total consumption from access to … structure of the microcredit contracts also has an impact on the intensive margin? We find that this is the … on the evidence     While empirical evidence on the impact of microcredit has made significant progress in …
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    Covid-19 Survey Modules
    Covid-19 Survey Modules … Covid-19 Survey Modules As the Covid-19 crisis spreads across developing countries, organizations working to understand impacts on vulnerable populations have had to adapt their research and outreach strategies.   A research …
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    Amit Khandelwal featured on NPR: "Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions"
    Amit Khandelwal featured on NPR: "Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions" … January 17, 2025 | In the News Amit Khandelwal featured on NPR: "Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions" Amit Khandelwal joined NPR's Planet Money …
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    Amit Khandelwal presents on the results of the poll taken live among conference participants. Julia Luckett
    Amit Khandelwal presents the results of a live poll among mini-conference participants at Kuznets 2020.