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    Pande and coauthors: Using technology to save lives during India's monsoon season
    … to save lives during India's monsoon season … July 2, 2020 | Perspectives Pande and coauthors: Using technology to … responses to monsoonal riverine floods. Specifically, our research in Bihar found that villagers rely on flood alerts … months to create new and effective information channels?  Research Findings We are researchers working through the Yale …
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    Rescue operation of people udring the Kosi Floods in Bihar, 20 August 2008. Kumarrakajee, Wikimedia Commons
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    Strengthening Female Representation in Nepal’s Local Governments
    … "The Kathmandu Post", Rohini Pande and coauthors explain research showing women’s underrepresentation in leadership … Analysts, and the Asia Foundation in 2018 and 2020 suggest that female local representatives have earned … 13, 2022,  here . View the original article Related publications Empowering women through direct digital payments …
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    Villagers in Nepal (Vestal)
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    Austin Bodetti
    … the role that computer programming and quantitative research can play in policymaking. He has a particular … Austin Bodetti … Austin Bodetti Inclusion Economics Summer Research Intern Email austin.bodetti@yale.edu Austin Bodetti, … the role that computer programming and quantitative research can play in policymaking. He has a particular …
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    The Public Sector and Resource Allocation, Friday, October 29, 2021
    … facto fairness of de jure impartial institutions? Recent research provides insight into these questions, as well as … race itself is conceptualized in empirical discrimination research. Morning Session Date and Time: Friday October 29, … required in advance The afternoon session includes research examining how citizens’ experiences with the …
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    Enhancing public preschools and women’s socioeconomic advancement in rural Kenya
    … child learning alongside empowering mothers? A Policy-Research Partnership to Improve Child Development and … different age cohorts in the study sample, the randomized research design thus enables credibly capturing both the one- … for continuation and scaling, contingent upon the rigorous research evaluation providing compelling evidence of a …
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    Kids engaged in play-based activities in a preschool classroom in Kenya's Tharaka Nithi County.
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    Star Rating Program Engages Indian Citizens in the Movement for Cleaner Air
    Star Rating Program Engages Indian Citizens in the Movement for Cleaner Air … October 17, 2018 | In the News Star Rating Program Engages Indian Citizens in the Movement for Cleaner Air A new program can reduce pollution by leveraging information and …
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    Bridging the Digital Gender Divide in Chhattisgarh
    … women close these persistent digital gender gaps? Research to increase women’s economic engagement Smartphones … Addressing the gender gap in mobile phone access Related Publications Hold the Phone: The Short- and Long-Run Impacts … of these barriers, and determine directions for further research into how to reduce them. BARBONI ET AL. 2018 About …
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    Four women sitting in front of a doorway. Two are using smartphones. Photo by Ishan Tankha
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    Looking back on “Gender-Sensitive Economic Recovery and Resilience in Asia”
    … and constrain women’s economic activity in Asia, and how research can inform pandemic recovery policies and … Economics at Yale University How do we translate economic research into systemic change that transforms women’s … Institute Inclusion Economics at Yale University Related publications In India's "invisible workforce" women face a …
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    The gendered employment effects of mobile internet access in developing countries
    … market.   EGC launches the new Gender and Growth Gaps research project An EGC news item from January 19, 2022, … its impact on political mobilisation (Zhuravshkaya et al. 2020, Guriev et al. 2021). Recent studies assessing the … Journal of Development Studies, 58(3): 436-453. Related publications The Employment Effects of Mobile Internet in …
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    Pande and coauthors in Indian Express: Food first, cash later
    … in Indian Express: Food first, cash later … May 11, 2020 | Perspectives Pande and coauthors in Indian Express: … and director of EGC, Schaner is assistant professor (Research) of economics at University of Southern California, and Moore is director for South Asia Economics Research at Yale MacMillan Center. Read the research Data …
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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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    Improving Microfinance for the Poor: Investigating Repayment Flexibility
    … for the Poor: Investigating Repayment Flexibility Research suggests microfinance is not as transformative as … can be refined to increase benefits to borrowers. Research to update the classic microfinance contract Since … Men? Perspectives Read Story EPoD Harvard Flickr Related Publications The economic returns to social interaction: …
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    Farmer Payments to Reduce Crop Burning in India
    … Indian Express: April wasn’t January C R Sasikumar Related Publications Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem … Princeton University See more Namrata Kala, MIT See more Research Partners: Inclusion Economics India Centre at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR)   Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab - …
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    EGC launches a new program bringing economists to Yale for short-term visits
    … During their time on campus the visitors collaborated on research and met with students. The Kuznets Visitors Program … to bring to campus short-term visitors who can advance research priorities and provide diverse perspectives to the … Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College whose research focuses on how information problems shape …
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    Meredith Startz is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College whose research focuses on how information problems shape transactions and firms in developing countries
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    Research to guide policy
    … Research to guide policy … Research to guide policy … Research to guide policy …
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