Women workers in India
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Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize winning research

On Sunday, December 12, Claudia Goldin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her work on women’s progress in the workforce. In this piece, Farzana Afridi reflects on the significance of Goldin’s win and the contribution of her research to understanding the gender dynamics of labour markets. She also delves into the implications of this research for developing countries like India, where female labour force participation has remained low despite economic growth, and why this matters for economic growth.

Landscape dependency of land-based salmon farming under climate change

Submitted by Cristóbal Vásquez on
EfD Authors:
Salazar, César

The success of Chilean salmon farming’s early cultivation stages is largely facilitated by access to high-quality water, which is provisioned by watersheds dominated by native forests and defined by high precipitation levels. In recent decades, human activities have increasingly affected both attributes. This study analyzed the risk of climate change in 123 watersheds that supply water to land-based salmon farms in south-central Chile (36.5−43°S).

Peer Reviewed
Climate Change, Fisheries

Private benefits from ambient air pollution reduction policies: Evidence from the household heating stove replacement program in Chile

Submitted by Cristóbal Vásquez on
EfD Authors:
Uribe, Adolfo
Chavez, Carlos
Gomez Bofill, Walter
Jaime Torres, Mónica Marcela
Bluffstone, Randall

We estimate the key private benefits from a program to improve ambient air quality during winter in central Chile by replacing inefficient wood-fired home heating stoves with more efficient pellet stoves. We are interested in the private benefits to households, because they represent additional value of the program and likely drive adoption.

Peer Reviewed
Air Quality

PhD studentship on the social and environmental outcomes of reforestation processes

Deadline: 12 February 2024 Midnight (GMT)

Interviews: 22 February 2024

Studentship Funding

The Sustainable Forest Transitions (SFT) Project is recruiting one full-time PhD student at the Global Development Institute (University of Manchester) from September 2024 to work on one of two themes:

Theme 1: Evaluating social and environmental outcomes of reforestation drivers using large-scale publicly available social and environmental datasets.

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