Economics

Anya Nakhmurina

PhD, MBA, Assistant Professor of Accounting, Yale School of Management

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Ife Vanable

MArch, Lecturer, Yale School of Architecture

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Douglas Rae

PhD, Richard S. Ely Professor Emeritus of Organization and Management, Yale School of Management

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Narasimha Rao

PhD, Associate Professor of Energy Systems, Yale School of the Environment

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Ending Seasonal Hunger: Microfinancing Migration in Bangladesh

A research collaboration of the Yale School of Management, RDRS, Evidence Action, and Innovations for Poverty Action

“Monga,” a pre-harvest seasonal famine that occurs nearly twice every year, hits the rural northwestern districts of Bangladesh especially hard. Faced with fewer job opportunities, many residents with the means of moving migrate to other towns. However, those living below the poverty line or close to subsistence–nearly 5.3 million people–end up starving.

Mushfiq Mobarak

PhD, Jerome Kasoff ‘54 Professor of Management and Economics, Yale University, Yale School of Management, Founder and Faculty Director, Yale Research Initiative on Innocation and Scale

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Proposed Infrastructure Plan Provides Opportunities for Green Innovations

Ken Gillingham, associate professor of environmental and energy economics at the Yale School of the Environment, assesses the climate-focused initiatives embedded in Biden Administration’s $2 trillion infrastructure package.

Sarah Lowe

Sarah Lowe, PhD is Associate Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavorial Sciences) at the Yale School of Public Health, with secondary appointments as Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor of Nursing at the Yale School of Nursing, and Affiliated Faculty at the Yale Institute for Global Health.

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Skilled Workers Flee from Polluted Cities, Hampering Economic Growth

In China, highly educated people are more likely to move away from areas with poor air quality. Reducing pollution could substantially increase GDP there and in other countries, according to a new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Mushfiq Mobarak.