Event Recap: Trade Reform, Exchange Rates, and Economic History On March 26, 2026, the EGC hosted a mini-conference highlighting research by early- and mid-career scholars, building on themes from the 35th Kuznets Memorial Lecture, “Trade Reform, Exchange Rates, a...

📚 Read the recap from the Kuznets Mini-Conference, building on themes from the lecture: egc.yale.edu/news/260416/...

📸 Douglas Irwin delivered the 35th Simon Kuznets Memorial Lecture earlier this year, sharing insights from a career studying economic history and trade policy.

Read more about this work – as well as the EGC community’s research, programming, teaching, and mentoring across a broad range of areas of international development in the 2025 Annual Report: egc.yale.edu/about/annual...

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Over the past five years EGC has deepened our work and strengthened our institutional base. Our mission remains unchanged, but we are now better equipped to interpret and assist in a rapidly evolving global economy, whatever challenges the next horizon may bring.

"This paper focuses on a set of domestic distortions that give rise to a phenomenon that is pervasive in developing economies: informality."

NEW in Econometrica, by Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Pinelopi Goldberg, Costas Meghir, and Gabriel Ulyssea: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3982/...

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Jesús Fernández-Villaverde of @upenn.edu presenting his paper on the interplay between trade, consumption, public opinion and lobbying at today's Kuznets Mini-Conference on Trade Reform, Exchange Rates, and Economic History

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A Global Perspective on Industrial Policy and the Semiconductor Industry

Summary from @nber.org www.nber.org/digest/20241...

At the Kuznets Mini-Conference on Trade Reform, Exchange Rates & Econ History @rjuhasz.bsky.social walks through the semiconductor value chain, presenting her paper (with Goldberg, @nathanlane.bsky.social, Lo Forte & Thurk) on industrial policy in the sector www.rjuhasz.com/research/Sem...

After yesterday's packed Kuznets lecture by Dartmouth's Doug Irwin (at the 250th anniversary of the publication of The Wealth Of Nations), he and Yale's Penny Goldberg kick of today's Kuznetz mini-conference on Trade Reform, Exchange Rates, and Economic History.

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Doug Irwin speaking with students

Ahead of giving the 35th annual Kuznets Memorial Lecture, Dartmouth’s Doug Irwin spoke with Yale International and Development Econ Master’s students about international trade and finance. Join us today online or in person for his public lecture:
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This Thursday, Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth College) will present the 35th Kuznets Memorial Lecture on trade policy and exchange rate reform.

Join us March 26 at 4pm ET, in person or online, for @yaleegc.bsky.social's annual event: egc.yale.edu/events/simon...

We’re pleased to see our conversation with Girija Borker & Ieda Matavelli about their gender research in the Dev Impact links, & congrats to @dmckenzie.bsky.social himself on his business training research being part of the Economist’s firm growth research primer (also in the links).

In Conversation: Girija Borker & Ieda Matavelli on gender, education, and labor Two researchers discuss how gender norms and constraints can limit economic opportunities and outcomes – and how policy can respond.

Recent Kuznets visitors Girija Borker & Ieda Matavelli discuss their research on gender in development, how their backgrounds growing up in India & Brazil inform their research, and what it takes for research to make change in the world.

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2026 ACES Summer School in Political Economy - Call for Applications Email from Association of Comparative Economics Studies     APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN 5th ACES Summer School in Political Economy August 12-14, 2026 | Kathmandu, Nepal   The Association for Comparative Ec

ACES is pleased to accept applications for its 2026 ACES Summer School in Political Economy, August 12-14 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Details and application instructions available here: conta.cc/4l2ox5I Application deadline April 15.

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:
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🆕 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.

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📢 📢 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 ⬆️

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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.

Professor Leah Boustan

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

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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.

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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.

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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

P. R. Brahmananda, who co-developed the Wage-Goods Model, would go on to lead the University of Bombay Economics Department for many years.

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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