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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #4: Gendered Beliefs, Norms, and Work
    … on facts but also differences in deep-seated beliefs about values, expectations, attitudes, and norms.  Any study … gender pay gap. Result 1: When employers are not informed about safe worker transport home after a night-shift job, … Using a controlled experiment with US undergraduate students, Kogelnik finds that men are ten percentage points …
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    A graph showing the percentage of women hired by transport information and subsidy assignment
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    Economist Dudley Seers used time at Yale in the 1960s to reimagine international development
    … was Dudley Seers, a British economist whose insights about the development process were far ahead of their time. … and Training Institutes (EADI). Watch the video Learn more about EADI  Seers was a staunch structuralist, arguing that … in economics departments, the paper laments that economics students of the day were completely unprepared to study poor …
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    Dudley Seers Photo courtesy of Institute of Development Studies
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    Report cards for schools improve learning in Haiti’s private education market
    Report cards for schools improve learning in Haiti’s private education market … Michael Borger … Gregory Elacqua … Isabel Jacas … Christopher A. Neilson … Anne Sofie Westh Olsen … Report cards for schools improve learning in Haiti’s private education …
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    A teacher stands at the front of a classroom in Haiti Michelle D. Milliman, Shutterstock
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    “Strength of Will”: How Cynthia Taft Morris’s career shattered ceilings
    … Yale’s Ph.D. program, where she was one of the few woman students.  Though Reynolds made her a co-author of his book, … software so that she could continue to write and had students deliver papers to her.  She died in 2013. “Cynthia … of coeducation and the 150th anniversary of women students at the university, the university’s pioneering woman …
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    Cynthia Taft Morris as a graduate of Vassar in 1949. Photo courtesy David Taft Morris
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    Vidhi Bhartiya
    Vidhi Bhartiya (Yale College, Jonathan Edwards ’27) is pursuing a double major in Economics and Global Affairs. As an Economic Research Intern at Inclusion Economics, she supports the department’s research projects and her interests include studying how …
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    Headshot of Vidhi Bhartiya
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    Mansi Anil Kumar
    Mansi Anil Kumar (Yale College, Saybrook '27) is pursuing a major in economics. As an Economics Research Intern, she assists Dr. Rohini Pande's research. Her interests include understanding the role of government policy in poverty alleviation and …
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    Mansi Anil Kumar headshot
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    Munira Elbashir
    Munira Elbashir (Yale College, Davenport ’26) is pursuing a double major in Economics and Political Science. As a Research Intern at the Economic Growth Center, she supports Dr. Rohini Pande’s research on the economics of gender norms. Her interests …
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    A headshot of Munira Elbashir
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    Our History
    … the people who made up EGC — the founders, faculty, students, and visitors — to understand how their ideas helped … Timeline Articles on EGC History Pioneering Women Read about the history of EGC News EGC’s Rockefeller fellowship … of time; and the use of this material to test hypotheses about economic growth. -  EGC Annual Report, May 1962 …
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    EGC brings leading economists from around the world to Yale for short-term visits
    … and their colleagues. Participants also met with students, presented work, and attended conferences. Photo by … the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning.   “I learned about Yale’s latest developments and its take on the new … be of much help at Los Andes – where we are also thinking about what our next couple of decades will look like, in the …
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    Augustin Tapsoba, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics, presents at EGC's Development Lunch on March 6, 2023 Photo by Vestal McIntyre
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    Do voters hold politicians accountable for vote-buying?
    … potential gains of stealing once in office.  Learn more about this research LISTEN TO THE PODCAST LEIGHT ET AL. 2020. … potential gains of stealing once in office.  Learn more about this research LISTEN TO THE PODCAST LEIGHT ET AL. 2020. …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Spring 2023
    … mini-conference with links to the papers presented LEARN about the history of the Simon Kuznets Memorial Lecture …
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    The cover of the EGC Annual Report, showing a teacher tutoring a student
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    Q&A: Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg on Why Market Size and Equality Are Critical for Poverty Reduction
    … to grow and develop. While there is a lot of debate about the exact numbers, there is no question that India has … “friendshoring” their trade relationships due to concerns about national security, geopolitics, or factors like … for sustainable growth and poverty reduction.   Learn more about this Research Read the paper Penny Goldberg's website …
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    Goldberg Q&A
    Penny Goldberg asks a question at the 2023 Firms, Trade, and Development Conference.