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Faculty Affiliate Alessandra Voena and her co-authors write in CEPR about their findings on the misconceptions of gender norms across the world.

Faculty Director Pascaline Dupas shares insights from her recent working paper analyzing the state health insurance program in Rajasthan, India.

Research funding recipient Ceyenna Tillman shares what led her to study the oceans, and why the next generation of ocean scholars must define the field more broadly.

Learn how this organizational sociologist is constantly cooking up new ideas to inspire curiosity and generosity — for himself and others — in the kitchen and the classroom.

Faculty Affiliates Stephen Luby, Desiree LaBeaud, and Jade Benjamin-Chung discuss their work in finding solutions to the urgent problems of planetary and human health.

Faculty Affiliate Stephen Luby and affiliated researcher Jenna Forysth discuss their research on hunting for the sources of lead poisoning in Bangladesh.

Faculty Affiliate Giulio De Leo's research on schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease, takes him to the Senegal River, where introducing prawns may help combat the parasite.

Postdoc Juan Felipe Riaño writes in VoxDev that family ties to non-elected bureaucrats distort public employment outcomes, and standard anti-nepotism policies are ineffective.

In a new study in Rajasthan, Faculty Director Pascaline Dupas investigates whether informing patients of their benefits helps hold hospitals accountable.

Faculty Affiliate Erin Mordecai explains why warmer and wetter weather will mean more tropical illnesses far beyond the tropics.

Meet the organizational sociologist, avid indoor rower, New England Patriots fan, mystery lover, and K-drama fan (at least while he’s rowing his 10,000 daily meters).

With the risk of mosquito-borne disease expected to grow with climate change, Faculty Affiliate Desiree LaBeaud reveals the factors that put communities at risk for such illnesses.

Only a handful of economies have risen from middle- to high-income status, Faculty Affiliate Scott Rozelle examines how China compares to other middle-income countries.

Faculty Affiliate Jenna Davis on water and sanitation challenges: “A lot of the obstacles have nothing to do with technology and very little to do with money or knowledge.”

Stanford postdoctoral scholar Catherine Thomas writes in VoxDev how special "graduated" interventions were found to be effective.