who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250 …,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with information on the incidence of epidemics and local 3G internet infrastructure …

: The first is the widespread adoption of telephony; the second is the internet. We study the implications of these changes … activity in space. The evidence on internet usage is more speculative, although it goes in the same direction. This empirical …

expectations under real-world probabilities, we investigate whether alternative expectations hypotheses entertained in the asset …

measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of … close-ended questions. We use qualitative coding methods to score each woman’s agency based on the interview, which we treat … resulting five-question index is as strongly correlated with the coded qualitative interview as is an index that uses all of the …