As part of the Human Capital Initiative Speaker Series for Spring 2021, Dr. Adam Auerbach will present on local governance and urban politics in India. Dr. Auerbach is an Assistant Professor at American University. STARTS: 4:00 PM EST on Wednesday, March 24, 2020 ENDS: 5:00 PM EST on Wednesday, March 24, 2020 LOCATION: Via Zoom […]
By Maria Santarelli As part of the Human Capital Spring Speaker Series, Dr. Kathleen Park was invited to speak about her forthcoming paper on migration status, labor stratification, and labor relations in the Arabian Gulf Region on February 17, 2021. Dr. Park is an Assistant Professor of Administrative Sciences at Boston University and has conducted […]
Siddharth George, Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University, is the newest faculty member of the Human Capital Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center. The Human Capital Initiative brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers across the Boston University community to contribute to the advancement of innovative research on the political economy of human development. […]
By Maria Santarelli On Friday December 11, the Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) hosted a webinar to launch the new book from Rachel Brulé, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, “Women, Power, and Property: the Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India.” The book investigates […]
By Maria Santarelli It is widely known that pregnancy is a critical time in a person’s life, but less frequently acknowledged is the importance of adequate timing in between pregnancies. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a woman should wait at least 24 months after a live birth before getting pregnant again. Poorly spaced […]
By Maria Santarelli As part of the Human Capital Speaker Series, Dr. Alisha C. Holland spoke about her new book project “Creative Construction” on the politics of large-scale infrastructure in Latin America. Holland is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University and she has conducted extensive research on social and urban politics in Latin America. […]
The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries like the US, convergence in labor market outcomes appears to have slowed in recent decades. Could […]
Worldwide, social networks play an important role in the lives of individuals, influencing everything from the knowledge people acquire to the goods and services they utilize. However, not everyone experiences equal opportunity to gain from social connections. In traditional patriarchal societies, women may have limited ability to access and benefit from existing networks due to […]
Many datasets involving human subjects contain sensitive information and require the protection of subject confidentiality. The protection of subject confidentiality can, however, limit access to the data, which in turn may limit the scope for valuable research. A common approach to addressing this issue is to create public use datasets that mask, or perturb, information […]
Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of GDP Center’s Human Capital Initiative and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School for Global Studies at Boston University, has been appointed as a Max Planck Sabbatical Award Laureate for 2020. The Max Planck Society launched the Max Planck Sabbatical Award in order to support scientists by awarding them research stays […]