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Tag: Gender

Gender Recap in Light of #MeToo | NEUDC 2018

Anaka Aiyar is a Post-Doc working at the Tata-Cornell Institute in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … More

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Conferences, Gender

Let Her Live? Women’s Electoral Success and Girl Survival in India

Nabaneeta Biswas is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Georgia Terry College of Business and is currently … More

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Gender, India, Job Market Paper, Public Sector & Governance

You’re Approved! Insured Loans Improve Credit Access and Technology Adoption of Ghanaian Farmers

Khushbu Mishra is a PhD Candidate in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State University and is currently on … More

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Climate Change, Food and Agriculture, Gender, Ghana, Insurance, Job Market Paper

The recent deceleration of female labor force participation in Latin America

Leonardo Gasparini is the director of the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) at Universidad Nacional de La Plata … More

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Gender, Labor, Latin America

Gender in rural finance: Evidence from China

Xin Gao is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. “House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent … More

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China, Finance, Gender, Migration, Risk

Gender research beyond fairy tales: we can still do more and better

Isabel Lambrecht is an Associate Research Fellow at IFPRI’s office in Ghana and a former visiting scholar at Cornell’s Dyson … More

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DRC, Food and Agriculture, Gender, Technology

Combining data for research that is more than the sum of its parts

Liz Bageant is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. Economists tend to undervalue qualitative data, yet in many … More

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Ethiopia, Fieldwork, Gender, Insurance, Methods

Gender differences in sharing between spouses

Carolina Castilla is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colgate University. “Soon we saw that money going to women brought … More

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Behavioral Economics, Food and Agriculture, Gender, India

What encourages the purchase of a fuel-efficient cookstove?

Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. In a previous … More

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Environment, Gender, Technology, Uganda

Lessons from implementing a field survey in India

Soumya Gupta is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition … More

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Fieldwork, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Gender, Health, Human Capital, India, Nutrition

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Nobel Lecture, 1979
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