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    Economist Ebonya Washington examines questions of race and gender
    … can raise questions worthy of analysis, she says. Not long after she joined Yale’s faculty in 2004, Washington was … “The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood?” , asserts that women miscalculate the … can women be miscalculating the impact of motherhood, an event for which there is so much data available in the form …
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    Gerard Padró i Miquel to Speak
    … obtaining good performance from local officials and losing vertical means of control. We test the predictions of … work on the ethnic underpinnings of dictatorships and civil war. Event Details Talk Title:  ”The Rise and Fall of Village …
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    Senior Essays Nominated for Prizes
    … Iyer Agricultural and Mining Labor Interactions in Peru:A Long-Run Perspective (1571-1812) Avery Schwartz Arbitrage in the … Environmental News and Noise in Financial Markets: Event Studies Concerning the Effect of Environmental …
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    How Can Improved Data and Evidence Improve Lives in Connecticut?
    … and Tobin Center announced a joint commitment to launch evidence-based policy initiatives, and identify ways to … free public pre-kindergarten (pre-K) affects near-term and long-term outcomes for kids and their parents. The research … this work, Connecticut can create a model that other states will value, will find helpfully instructional, and can …
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    Nat McLaughlin, Tobin Senior Program Manager, with Scott Gaul and Rachel Leventhal-Weiner
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    Yale welcomes new assistant professor Michael Peters
    … a macroeconomist with a focus on development economics and long run economic growth. He has worked on the importance of … of population movements in Europe after the Second World War. After receiving his PhD from MIT, Michael spent one year …
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    Michael Peters
    … Yale. In his research he focuses on economic growth and long-run economic development. He has worked on theories of … work Journal Publication Growing Like India—the Unequal Effects of Service-Led Growth Econometrica (Jul 2023) Tianyu …
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    Department Welcomes Padró i Miquel
    … developing countries, political and economic history, and civil war and conflict, and has published work on the ethnic underpinnings of dictatorships and civil war. Padró i Miquel holds a Ph.D. in Economics from …
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    ‘Path-breaking work’ adapted 19th-century trade theory to modern day
    … of issues, including the implications of NAFTA, trade’s effects on carbon emissions, and its influence on … your own, you’d make a little progress and get stuck for a long time, but the person you’re working with solves the problem and then you both run with it. It can be quite an amazing experience.” Thinking …
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    In conversation with: William Nordhaus, president-elect of the American Economic Association
    … Perhaps the most daunting is to understand how the United States got into the deep recession, now six years running; … We roll the dice here at our peril. Before the U.S. war in Iraq began, you  published a study  projecting that … have such talent steering monetary policy. Economics has a long history at Yale, an eminent faculty, and strong …
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    Yale to Host Young Economists Symposium Conference
    … Formerly titled EconCon, YES is an annual graduate student-run conference for Economics Ph.D. students sponsored by five … Economics PhD program are eligible to present. The two-day event will be Yale’s first time hosting the event in its … Yale, NYU, Michigan, Duke, Maryland, and many others,” states the webpage.  What’s more, the event is designed for …
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    Ebonya Washington, Research
    … the twentieth century. To what extent did Democrats' 1960s Civil Rights initiatives trigger this exodus, versus Southern … then show using IRS tax return data and county-level fixed effects regressions that the larger the typical share of … that food cycling behavior is most likely due to short-run impatience. " The Impact of Banking and Fringe Banking …
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    Inaugural Senior Essay Conference Highlights Cutting Edge Student Research
    … 150 students, faculty advisors, family, and friends. The event featured a full day of student presentations across … Gender, and Informality Eming Shyu: Interest-Rate Related Run Risks of Mid- to Large-sized Banks in the United States … in Export Elasticities to the 2018 U.S.-China Trade War Tariffs and Implications for Thailand Gabriel Thomaz …
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    In Conversation: Costas Meghir and Amer Hasan on early childhood development
    … in early childhood development (ECD) are critical for long-term growth and development. ECD interventions have been … and socioemotional skills – with positive effects on long-run educational, employment, and health outcomes. Yet ECD … on the themes explored in this discussion at our upcoming event in Nairobi on June 30, “ Harnessing Human Capital for …
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