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    Support for Graduate Students
    … Research Awards EGC awards research grants to support data collection and travel to less developing countries to … with other funding sources at EGC. EGC Secondary Data Acquisition Grant EGC is able to provide funds to PhD students from across Yale to acquire secondary data focused on research topics in international development. …
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    Covid-19 in low-income countries
    … a large slum in Nairobi, Kenya. The team updated the data every two weeks and observed the impact of cash … crisis for developing countries. She is organizing data collection to facilitate analysis of short- and … instruments and other resources useful for gathering data and formulating a response in other developing …
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    Woman standing in line, holding a baby and getting food and milk from government official. Rupak De Chowdhuri, Reuters
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    Gender gaps and structural transformation in a new development era
    … of jobs, sectors and occupations of employment, time-use data on paid and unpaid work, and gender wage gaps. Focusing … more productive outside the home. Harmonizing time-use data in a consistent way is an important task that will allow … a recent paper where he and co-authors integrated time-use data into a macroeconomic model to analyze the gender …
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    A wide show of panel speakers during a discussion Kaveh Sardari
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    Pande and coauthors in Indian Express: Food first, cash later
    … to digital bank transfers and ration cards, according to data analysis by Rohini Pande, Charity Troyer Moore, and … planned tranches of cash transfers. But what does the data tell us about how these efforts are covering India’s … But, our analysis of nationally representative survey data, described below, suggests that PMJDY-linked transfers …
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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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    Looking back on the Trade and Development conference
    … Dina Pomeranz [3] used detailed firm-to-firm sales data to examine how trade affects workers in Ecuador, both … models [2,3,5,6,7,8]), as well as a variety of data sources (tailored surveys [1,7,8], administrative data [3,4,9,10], national surveys [2,5,6]), and study a …
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    Presenters sitting and laughing in audience during conference. Julia Luckett
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    Measuring local governance capacity in Nepal
    … phone surveys with government officials, and analyzed this data in connection with administrative data on citizens’ policy priorities; development partners’ … adaptation.Pande and coauthors in the Kathmandu Post: Data can strengthen democratic systems teaser_verticalPande …
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    How a job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a groundbreaking path in computer science
    … science: the story of Susan Eggers For Susan Eggers, a data request from her boss at the Yale Economic Growth Center … skills, she became a research associate, completing data tasks around the EGC. She also worked elsewhere around … under her belt. Their contribution was a method to save data storage by compressing the zeroes that made up the vast …
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    Eggers as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1980s. She decided to pursue a PhD after 19 years working in New Haven. Photo courtesy Susan Eggers
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    Simone Schaner
    Simone Schaner is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. She studies how the social and economic environment shapes individual and household choices, elucidating how beliefs and power affect the decision-making …
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    Simone Schaner
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    Q&A: Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg on Poverty Reduction in an Era of Waning Globalization
    … that the 2021 World Development Report will focus on “Data for Development”. How do you think these changing … are many conceptual issues – about getting access to the data, about collecting data – but more than anything else you have the problem that …
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    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Christina Felschen/German Academic Exchange Service
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    Sources and Methods
    … with cutting-edge digital tools to make historical data more accessible and analyzable.The central repository … hispánica (Charles Boyd-Bowman, 1976) - Individual-level data on more than 56,000 migrants Regional studies by García … errors and capture nuances.Our team standardizes and links data across sources to remove duplicates and unify fragmented …
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    EGC Incubation Fund offers flexible pilot funding to promising projects by Yale researchers and collaborators
    … has made five investments to date. Building on EGC’s data access initiative, one set of EGC Incubation Fund … affiliates where there was an opportunity to create a data product that is useful for a broader set of researchers or policy stakeholders. Processing data on product entry to international markets Diana Van …
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    Farmers harvesting rice in rice field in india. Photo by Rahul D'silva via Shutterstock