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    Articles on EGC History
    … Quarterly Newsletter recounts the 1951 origins of the IFEA program – a precursor to today’s International and Development Economics (IDE) masters program – and how it paved the way for the EGC. publication … International and Foreign Economic Administration (IFEA) program and the roots of EGCIn the decade following EGC's …
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    Firms, Trade, and Development Conference 2025
    … in New Haven, CT, with an option to attend virtually. Program: The conference program is available here, and all sessions took place at the … Growth Centre (IGC) Fri, Oct 24 - Sat, Oct 25 2025, All day 13147 …
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    Empowering Women through Workfare and Financial Inclusion in India
    … autonomy. The Government of India’s flagship workfare program, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment … them from accessing wages and participating fully in the program. India’s transition to the Aadhaar-Based Payment … to enable a comprehensive evaluation of longer-term program effects and community-wide impacts. If you are …
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    E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India
    … the nationwide scale-up of a reform to India's workfare program. Advance payments were replaced by "just-in-time" … it easier to detect misreporting. Leakages went down: program expenditures dropped by 24 percent, while employment … were fewer fake households in the official database; and program officials' personal wealth fell by 10 percent. …
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    Greg Larson
    Greg Larson is a freelance writer, editor, and consultant based in Washington, DC who serves as a consultant editor and writer for the Yale Economic Growth Center and Inclusion Economics. Previously, he served as an economist and senior advisor at the US …
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    Pande et al., 2025: "From Delay to Payday: Easing Bureaucrat Access to Implementation Information Strengthens Social Protection Delivery
    … costs may improve their grasp of frontline issues and program performance. However, in the presence of managerial … backfire. To assess this trade-off and implications for program performance, we collaborated with two Indian states … worker payment processing for the national rural workfare program. In treated districts, PayDash expedited bureaucrat …
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    Kaivan Munshi
    … the Social Sciences in 2016. Munshi’s long-term research program examines the multifaceted role played by informal … Munshi has continued to advance his long-term research program on social networks, exploring the historical origins … the Social Sciences in 2016. Munshi’s long-term research program examines the multifaceted role played by informal …
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    Firms, Organizations, and Institutions in Economic History
    … History A conference sponsored by the Yale University Program in Economic History<br /> November 5-6, 2021 | … Please contact Noel Sardalla for the password. Day 1: Friday, November 5, 2021 1:00 - 1:10 pm Welcome 1:10 - 2:00 pm Paper 1: Kara Dimitruk, Swarthmore College, “Before …
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    Support for Graduate Students
    … To learn more about the separate Sylff Fellowship Program at EGC, click here. Evenson Fund Travel Research … a $4000 additional stipend. For more information on the program and current and past fellows, please visit: The Sylff …
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    The 2023 Kuznets Mini-Conference: Norms, Gender, and Development
    … and Development highlighted current work in these areas.Program Schedule 7:30-8:00 Breakfast 8:00-8:10 Opening … 9:40 – 10:00 am Coffee Break 10:00 – 11:30 am Session 2: Social Norms Lucia Corno (Cattolica University) “Norms … WATCH THE 31ST KUZNETS LECTURE Fri, Mar 3 2023, All day 10301 Kuznets Memorial Lecture Series …
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    Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Economic Justice Virtual Symposium, Second Session
    … systemic oppression occurs on multiple dimensions.Session 2 RegistrationMorning Session Zoom Registration Afternoon … Authors: Charlotte Cavaillé and Karine Van Der Straeten. Speaker: Charlotte Cavaillé "Minimum Wages and Racial … Gerald Jaynes and Charity Moore Fri, Nov 5 2021, All day …
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    Skill India: Innovating for India's young women
    … Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), a major program in the government’s Skill India campaign. But while … large, government-funded skills training and job placement program in India, a research team surveyed men and women … Fund and Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence Program Woman using sewing machine, credit IndianFaces, …
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    Conference Program: Gender and Growth Gaps in South Asia
    … Conference Program: Gender and Growth Gaps in South Asia … serves as an internal advisor and provides oversight and day-to-day guidance and support to research teams, to ensure … Thu, Aug 3 2023, 8:30am - 5:15pm (Wed, Aug 2 2023, 11pm - Thu, Aug 3 2023, 7:45am) 10280 …
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