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Yale Economic Growth Center

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Yale Economic Growth Center

@YaleEGC

Economics and data-driven insights for equitable development

New Haven, CT

Joined February 2020

Yale Economic Growth Center
@YaleEGC
Jul 5, 2022
Welcome, Christopher A. Neilson @ChrisANeilson to @YaleEconomics @JacksonYale & EGC as Professor of Economics & Global Affairs! Explore his research on education & #HumanCapital: christopherneilson.github.io/index.html And his work with @ConsiliumBots: consiliumbots.com
Yale Economic Growth Center
@YaleEGC
Apr 13, 2022
Congratulations to Lauren Falcao Bergquist who will join @YaleEconomics F22 as Asst. Prof of Econ & #GlobalAffairs, and EGC as an affiliate. Explore her work in #DevelopmentEconomics, focusing on agricultural markets & firms in #SubSaharanAfrica: sites.google.com/site/laurenfbe…
Yale Economic Growth Center
@YaleEGC
Oct 19, 2023
Industrial policy needs good bureaucrats: Moving bureaucrat ability up by 1 standard deviation, from the 20th percentile to 50th, increases exports by about 40%. @philippbarteska/@LSEnews on work w @EuijungJay, using data from S Korea country offices at #FirmsTradeDev @The_IGC
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Yale Economic Growth Center
@YaleEGC
Sep 15, 2020
Susan Eggers, computer scientist and 1st woman to win Eckert-Mauchly Award, began her career problem-solving at Yale EGC. Read her story: egc.yale.edu/how-job-yale-1… @CRA_WP @ComputerSociety @TheOfficialACM @margmartonosi @csenews @JeffDean @rebeccawb @bobbyschnabel @juliaferraioli
Yale Economic Growth Center
@YaleEGC
Mar 24, 2022
Congratulations to Mayara Felix @mayara_pfs who will join @YaleEconomics & @JacksonYale as Asst. Prof of Econ, and EGC as an affiliate July 2024. Alum of @MITEcon & @EPoDHarvard, upcoming fellowships at @IESPrinceton & @YaleCowles. Explore her research: mayarafelix.com
Yale Economic Growth Center
@YaleEGC
Aug 2, 2022
Updated #WorkingPaper: "Growing Like India: The Unequal Effects of Service-Led Growth" by Michael Peters and @FabrizioZilibo1 of EGC / @YaleEconomics and Tianyu Fan @YaleEconomics / @Yale @nberpubs w28551: nber.org/papers/w28551 @vox_dev post: voxdev.org/topic/macroeco…
Yale Economic Growth Center
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Mar 17, 2020
New paper from Imperial College on COVID-19 suppression and mitigation options. Conclusion: suppression is the only viable policy right now, given ICU capacity constraints. imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial…
Yale Economic Growth Center
@YaleEGC
Nov 4, 2022
We’re excited to host #NEUDC2022 this weekend, and welcome 300+ participants for 135+ paper presentations on the latest research in development economics! See the full agenda here: editorialexpress.com/conference/NEU… 🧵THREAD below on individual sessions and links to all the papers
Yale Economic Growth Center
@YaleEGC
May 23, 2023
Congratulations to @finamor_lucas (@YaleEconomics)! He will serve as a Postdoctoral Fellow @TheIFS for the 2023-2024 academic year then join @EconFGVSP as an Assistant Professor in August 2024. #Yale2023 🎓 Learn more about his work & future plans: egc.yale.edu/news/egc-celeb…
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Yale Economic Growth Center
@YaleEGC
Apr 19, 2023
Congratulations to Orazio Attanasio @orazio_at (EGC, @Yale, @YaleEconomics, @TheIFS) on being elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! Read about Orazio's research : campuspress.yale.edu/orazioattanasi… Read the @americanacad announcement: amacad.org/new-members-20…
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Yale Economic Growth Center
@YaleEGC
Nov 9, 2023
"This is what we owe..." Esther Duflo of @JPAL @MITEcon @MIT at #YCEEG23 argues the world must commit now to a mechanism to raise money for a fund (like #LossAndDamage) exclusively destined for low-income countries. She also estimates the amount. cutt.ly/YCEEG23
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Yale Economic Growth Center
@YaleEGC
Jun 3, 2022
Congrats to Sunil Amrith of @yale_history @SouthAsiaYale @YaleMacMillan on receiving 2022 Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History, which honors work on #inequality and #climatechange. See his work w EGC on #YaleDevDialogue series here: egc.yale.edu/events/dialogu… heinekenprizes.org/2022/06/03/sun…
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The Yale Development Dialogues
Virtual panel discussions applying lessons from history and economics to help address today's policy problems in low- and middle-income countries, presented by EGC, the Department of History, and the...
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Mar 16, 2023
Can conditional cash transfer programs increase formal employment rates? @orazio_at & @CostasMeghir of EGC & @YaleEconomics; @LinaCardonaSosa (@WorldBank) @cpossosu (Central Bank of Colombia) @CarlosMedinaD @BibianaTaboada (@BancoRepublica) in @vox_dev:
The long-term effects of conditional cash transfer programmes: Evidence from Colombia
From voxdev.org
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Yale Economic Growth Center
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Mar 3, 2023
How can development interventions change harmful gender norms? @elianalaferrara (@Kennedy_School @EPoDHarvard @HarvardCID), #Kuznets2023 speaker, is delivering the opening remarks for the 2023 Kuznets Mini-Conference “Norms, Gender, and Development.”
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