Yale Economic Growth Center

What barriers impede future progress in poverty reduction, and where will future growth in lower-income countries come from?

NEW in @nber.org, by Pascaline Dupas, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, & Rohini Pande: www.nber.org/papers/w34943

Yale researchers offer new insight into the role of women in economic development More than fifty years after the U.N.’s establishment of International Women’s Day, what progress have women made? Where should we go from here? Rohini Pande, Pinelopi (Penny) Koujianou Goldberg, and o...

For #IWD2026, Yale researchers offer valuable perspectives on women’s economic empowerment around the world, from household dynamics to labor force participation, economic growth, and more:

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Event Recap: Experimental Economics Workshop on Discrimination and Prejudice

We welcomed researchers to Yale for our first Experimental Economics Workshop on Discrimination and Prejudice. Our recap summarizes the latest insights from experimental methods into the mechanisms behind—and potential solutions to—discrimination and prejudice:
egc.yale.edu/news/260302/...

🆕 Carbon offsets are broken. Economists know how to fix them.

In this episode of Economics Unpacked, Rohini Pande (@yaleegc.bsky.social) and Daniel Xu (Duke University) the theory and real-world evidence behind carbon offset markets.

Watch below ⤵️

📢 📢 Calling all pre-doctoral fellows 📢 📢

The second annual Pre-Doctoral Economics Conference will be hosted by Yale University on Friday, June 5.

Please use this link to submit your research by April 6th: tobin.yale.edu/events/2026/...

What shapes public support for trade? EGC affiliate Diana Van Patten and her coauthor analyze a unique Costa Rican referendum to study popular attitudes towards trade, finding that economic factors play a significant role.

⚖️ What shapes public support for trade?

🇨🇷 EGC affiliate Diana Van Patten and coauthor Esteban Méndez analyzed a unique Costa Rican referendum to study popular attitudes towards trade, finding that economic factors play a significant role.

📚 Read the research summary: egc.yale.edu/research/wha...

New Summary: Forthcoming in Econometrica, How Does Informality Affect Gains from Trade?

@rafael-dix.bsky.social, Penny Goldberg, Costas Meghir & @gulyssea.bsky.social find in Brazil, ⬇️ trade barriers helps workers move to more productive formal sector & real income ⬆️

egc.yale.edu/research/how...

In Conversation: Andreas Ferrara & Melanie Xue on Understanding Race and Gender through Economic History Drawing on sources like Civil War records and ancient Chinese poetry, two economic historians discuss how their work informs contemporary debates on the economic dimensions of gender and race.

Drawing on sources like Civil War records and ancient Chinese poetry, economic historians @andyferrara.bsky.social &
@melanie-xue.bsky.social discuss how their work informs contemporary debates on the economic dimensions of gender and race.

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Missed Leah Boustan's AEA Distinguished Lecture at the conference? Watch it here: www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202...

Her new findings on recent immigrant assimilation patterns across Europe show some similarities, but also some critical differences compared to the US.

If you'll be at the AEA meetings, Leah Boustan, Director of our Program on Economic History, will be giving the AEA Distinguished Lecture on Sat., Jan 3:

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝? 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐒 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞

www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
It will also be live streamed online

We're hiring! We're looking for someone amazing to join our team as a senior administrative assistant and Registrar for our Master's in International and Development Economics (IDE) program. Please share with colleagues who might be interested.

egc.yale.edu/opportunitie...

The relationships between rich and poor countries were reshaped this year. Here is how the Economic Growth Center has contributed to knowledge and action in areas like trade, immigration, and climate…... The relationships between rich and poor countries were reshaped this year. Here is how the Economic Growth Center has contributed to knowledge and action in areas like trade, immigration, and climate ...

The relationships between rich and poor countries were reshaped this year. Here is how the Economic Growth Center has contributed to knowledge and action in areas like trade, immigration, and climate in 2025, and a preview of what we have planned for 2026:

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Recently back from the COP30 conference, EGC director Rohini Pande explains how a new plan for carbon emissions she presented there could offer a path to global net zero.

news.yale.edu/2025/12/16/w...

The global cost of gender inequality in labour market opportunities The new Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI) quantifies the impact of gender gaps in the labour market, shedding light on how much higher economic activity would be if women had the same opportunities as men.

🆕 The global cost of gender inequality in labour market opportunities

Today on VoxDev w/ Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University), Charles Gottlieb (Aix Marseille Université), Somik Lall, Meet Mehta, Michael Peters & Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan (Yale Economic Growth Center): https://ow.ly/mwvG50XKM1g

Continuing our series in EGC history:
In 1965, when the University of Bombay asked American economists to help build a program in monetary & international economics, their collaboration brought new research methods and perspectives on economic growth.

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📚 Read more: news.yale.edu/2025/12/08/s...

🗣️ In a new study, EGC postdoctoral fellow Meital Peleg Mizrachi examines whether secondhand purchasing supplements primary market consumption rather than replacing it, negating resale’s environmental benefits and enabling the overproduction of over 2.5 billion surplus garments.

👠 Fast fashion is part of one of the world’s most carbon-intensive industries, and secondhand shopping is often seen as a way to limit its negative impact. But new data suggests that the resale market could actually expand the sector’s carbon footprint.

When should big data and algorithms be used to determine programme eligibility? Although machine learning models using mobile phone data can make poverty targeting faster and more cost-effective, traditional survey-based methods remain more accurate. The optimal approach therefor...

📚 EGC affiliate @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social and coauthors discuss in the newest EGC Perspectives article: egc.yale.edu/news/251208/...

📳 Although machine learning models using mobile phone data can make poverty targeting faster and more cost-effective, traditional survey-based methods remain more accurate. The optimal approach therefore depends on striking the right balance between cost, accuracy, and programme scale.

🆕 When should big data and algorithms be used to determine programme eligibility?

In Conversation: Maria Kogelnik & Alejandro Martinez-Marquina on experimental economics Ahead of a new workshop series, two researchers discuss how experiments can complement traditional tools in economics, deepen our understanding of behavior, and guide more informed policy debates.

🗣️ Ahead of a December 5 workshop, EGC affiliate Maria Kogelnik & collaborator Alejandro Martinez-Marquina discuss how the field has evolved and what their own research reveals about controversial policies like gender quotas.

📚 Read more: egc.yale.edu/news/251201/...

🆕 How can experimental economics complement traditional tools in the field and guide more informed policy debates?

Cameron LaPoint

📊 Professor LaPoint’s research explores topics at the intersection of real estate, macro-finance, and corporate finance. A theme of his research is how housing market conditions matter for the aggregate economy and financial markets.

📚Learn more about Cameron LaPoint: egc.yale.edu/people/camer...

Cameron LaPoint

👋 Join us in welcoming Assistant Professor of Finance Cameron LaPoint as an EGC faculty affiliate!

Rooted in Community: Understanding Meghalaya’s Green Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) Program Yale Inclusion Economics intern Austin Bodetti accompanies researchers investigating Meghalaya's payment for ecosystem services (PES) program aimed at preventing deforestation.

🌳 What matters for Meghalaya’s forest conservation?

🍃 Yale #InclusionEconomics intern Austin Bodetti accompanied researchers investigating Meghalaya's payment for ecosystem services (PES) program aimed at preventing deforestation.

📚 Read the newest Perspectives article: ie.yale.edu/news/251117/...

🆕 Rethinking trade and development 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Pinelopi Goldberg (@yaleegc.bsky.social) & Michele Ruta (International Monetary Fund) discuss international trade and development: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...

We’re excited to introduce the Yale Department of Economics 2025-26 Job Market Candidates!

Look out for individual posts about their research interests and job market papers this week, and learn more about the candidates here: economics.yale.edu/phd-program/...

Home Call for Papers: Y-RISE Annual Conference 2026. NEW deadline Nov 14, 2025....

Hello world!

CALL FOR PAPERS - Annual Y-RISE Conference, Feb 2026.
Deadline: Nov 14, 2025.
We welcome papers related to complexities of scaling policy interventions.
See our website here for more details yrise.yale.edu
Submit papers here forms.gle/WbTnxPr5S5fX...
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Awarded 2025 Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize The EGC affiliate was awarded the prize for her work on policy-relevant questions in trade and development.

🏆 EGC affiliate Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg has been awarded the 2025 Jean-Jacques Laffont Award by the Toulouse School of Economics

📚 Learn more: egc.yale.edu/news/251030/...