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    Broken politics, economic growth, and institutional reform: a Q&A with Leonard Wantchekon
    … Broken politics, economic growth, and institutional reform: a Q&A with Leonard Wantchekon … March 22, 2022 | News Broken … development. The Princeton professor will deliver the annual Kuznets Memorial Lecture “Political Distortions and … the 31st Annual Alfred Kuznets Memorial Lecture, hosted by EGC, will be delivered by a prominent voice on these topics: …
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    Princeton University professor Leonard Wantchekon
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    How an Early Vision of Training Global Economists Led to Yale’s International and Development Economics (IDE) Master’s Program
    … Economics (IDE) Master’s Program … April 30, 2025 | EGC History How an Early Vision of Training Global Economists … Triffin joined Yale’s economics department in 1951 – after a decade at institutions including the Federal Reserve , the … Ana Cecilia Fieler, who became IDE faculty codirector in 2023. “Many IDE alumni went on to hold influential leadership …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Fall 2024
    … EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Fall 2024 … September 24, 2024 | … Islam Subscribe to receive EGC's quarterly newsletter A history of providing refuge for independent-minded … a circle of friends and donors in his name. As we set out on Academic Year 2024-25, we look forward to serving as a …
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    Jessica Seddon
    … Jessica Seddon is a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Jackson School of Global Affairs and an EGC affiliate. She is also a Senior Fellow at Artha Global, a … program leadership, and strategic advisory roles focused on institutional design for integrating science into policy …
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    Jessica Seddon
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    Why women in India are dropping out of the workforce: Farzana Afridi and Kanika Mahajan on their research on gender and labor markets
    … out of the workforce: Farzana Afridi and Kanika Mahajan on their research on gender and labor markets … May 20, 2024 … on gender and labor markets Voices in Development: A Podcast from Yale’s Economic Growth Center explores issues … place the problem in a bigger economic context.” A recent focus of their research is women’s work and digital …
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    Kanika Mahajan and Farzana Afridi
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    Arielle Bernhardt
    … NYU. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 2023. Before joining NYU, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Department of Economics for the 2023–24 academic year. Her research focuses on development economics, economic history, and political …
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    Simone Schaner
    … and misallocation in low-income settings, with a focus on labor, financial, and healthcare markets.  Schaner is the …
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    Simone Schaner
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    EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 6: Orazio Attanasio and Costas Meghir
    … EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 6: Orazio Attanasio and Costas Meghir … October 31, 2023 | Podcast EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 6: … environments where poverty travels through generations in a cycle that is difficult to break.  How can economic tools …
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    Orazio Attanasio (left) and Costas Meghir (right) in the Yale Broadcast Studio. Photo by Zahrah Abdulrauf
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    Bridging the Digital Gender Divide in Chhattisgarh
    … devices. Yet many women in India remain excluded. Can a large-scale, government-run, smartphone distribution … read the discussion paper here . Highlights In the News EGC affiliates in USC's Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & … men own mobile phones, but only 38% of women do. In this report researchers identify the leading barriers to Indian …
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    Four women sitting in front of a doorway. Two are using smartphones. Photo by Ishan Tankha
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Summer 2022
    … EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Summer 2022 … June 2, 2022 | News … graduates also had their Yale education disrupted by a shift to online classes, canceled fieldwork, uncertainty, … his view of current research in political economy, the focus of the 31st Kuznets Memorial Lecture , which he …
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    The IDE Class of 2022
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    Binta Zahra Diop
    … Binta Zahra Diop was a Kuznets Postdoctoral Associate at the EGC during the 2024-2025 Academic Year, working on topics in … fairness principles). She received her PhD in Economics in 2023 from University of Oxford during which she received the …
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    Diop
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    EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 5: Kevin Donovan
    … EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 5: Kevin Donovan … April 10, 2023 | Podcast EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 5: … World Bank Group and the IMF, “Reshaping Development for a New Era”, Episode 5 features Kevin Donovan of Yale …
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    Kevin Donovan
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    EGC Incubation Fund
    … EGC Incubation Fund … EGC Incubation Fund The EGC … and expensive. EGC now has an opportunity to catalyze a much larger set of research to answer priority questions … Recipients of the EGC Incubation Fund Established in early 2023, and leveraging the initial set of resources raised, the …
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    IE team members during a field visit