Tanzania scores highly for gender equality on conventional indicators 80% of women are in the labour force 37% of parliamentary seats are held by women However, this neglects gender violence 40% have been beaten And bravo to Girija Borker for identifying sexual harassment

Latest Let’s Talk Development Blog by Arianna Legovini and me calls for multifaceted interventions that can help address several barriers that women face *together* so that women can make the choices they truly deserve

Great event on gender and growth gaps in India organized by Yale Economic Growth Center and IEG. Really enjoyed the discussions around digital gender gap, the effects of flexibility on women’s labor force participation and interaction of the demand and supply side constraints.

Know an early-career researcher studying crime/CJ policy in the US? If they have an ongoing causal research project, please tell them they should apply for funding via this RFP! Sometimes we all need a personal nudge/invitation. Please help us help them! assets.arnoldventures.org/uploads/Causal…

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On the 2nd day of 16-Days of Activism against GBV, today's article explores how increasing police presence and visibility can help tackle street harassment that particularly affects women's safety and their opportunities: voxdev.org/topic/health/h…

Very interesting paper on longer school days and divorce rates, in part because of increased female labor force participation rates.

Watch out for the rising star: Dev Patel. Glad to be able to say I knew him before he was famous. An outstanding and kind economist

🚨Happy to share our #OpenAccess publication with kanika mahajan & Zahra Siddique in Labour Economics! We analyze gendered language in job ads and its link to #GenderWageGap using 6M+ applications to 160K jobs ads in India. 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.labe… #WomenInWorkforce #EconTwitter

Y’all, I wrote a book! The Science of Second Chances is based on my decades of work studying crime and criminal behavior, first as an economics professor and now as a policy expert at Arnold Ventures. It shares what we know from cutting-edge research about how to intervene at

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Excited to be speaking at Yale’s Research-Policy Workshop on Gender & Structural Transformation in South Asia - Aug 13 at India Habitat Centre, Delhi, with an option to join online. See program here: egc.yale.edu/events/2025/co… #GenderPolicy #SouthAsia #DelhiEvents #ResearchPolicy