Last week, BU students Sarah Safi, Avantika Tandon, and Prachi Aneja gave a presentation at UROP on the Jaunpur Social Networks Study (JSNS). With the help of faculty supervisor Mahesh Karra, the students created posters of their findings and provided short presentations on their research methods, data collection, and analysis. The project, titled “Networks and Global […]
This morning, Thomas Gautier kicked off our 2019 HCI Speaker Series with a talk entitled “The Long-Run Impact of Losing Siblings During a Genocide.” In his research, Gautier explores the long-term impacts of violent conflict on human capital. He is particularly concerned with the effect of losing siblings during a genocide on long-term health and […]
Thank you to all who joined us for our 2nd Annual Open House: Human Capital & Development at Boston University on Friday evening, September 20, 2019. Our core faculty of the newly launched Human Capital Initiative (HCI), Mahesh Karra, Patricia Cortes, Jacob Bor, Samuel Bazzi, and Rachel Brulé, presented their latest research and spoke about […]
We are pleased to announce the official launch of the GDP Center’s Human Capital Initiative (HCI). The Human Capital Initiative brings together interdisciplinary policy-oriented research that focuses on the role of human capital in shaping the social, political and economic opportunities of individuals and communities in low- and middle-income settings around the world. Researchers from the […]
Many nations have set quotas reserving a certain portion of seats in government for women, including India, South Africa and Switzerland. While quotas are meant to ensure female political representation, the data on whether they also advance economic gender equality is mixed. Some scholars contend that female political representatives boost women’s ability to voice policy […]
In 2016, Saudi Arabia announced Vision 2030, an ambitious new framework to guide the kingdom’s next decade and a half of development. The central goals of the framework include diversifying the Saudi economy, strengthening government programs and investing in education and workforce development. As part of the latter objective, the Vision 2030 plan acknowledges the […]
Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, co-wrote a recently published journal article in International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. Karra’s article, entitled “Ethnolinguistic Concordance and the Receipt of Postpartum IUD Counseling Services in Sri Lanka,” was published in International Perspectives on Sexual and […]
Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the GDP Center and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published a recent journal article in the International Journal of Epidemiology. Karra’s article, entitled “Early-Life Exposure to Ambient Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: […]
Each year, over 2.5 million children die within the first 28 days of birth, with three out of four of these neonatal deaths occurring in Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, many low- and middle-income countries are becoming increasingly exposed to adverse environmental stresses such as ambient fine particulate air pollution, which […]
Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently attended the Population Association of America’s Annual Meeting in Austin, TX where he chaired a session on the determinants of child health and mortality and presented several papers and posters. The papers and posters Karra presented on included […]