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Backstory: Maddie McKelway on Household Communication and Women's Employment

Backstory: Maddie McKelway on Household Communication and Women's Employment

Update: 2025-10-09
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Join Maddison as she speaks with Madeline McKelway, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. Maddie shares the backstory behind her paper with Namrata Kala, "The Power of Persuasion: Causal Effects of Household Communication on Women's Employment." She also shares her experience navigating field work and getting started with RCTs.


The working paper can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LgQtwvTMExxf49YvnkgWugxhffJ2rqlF/view

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Backstory: Maddie McKelway on Household Communication and Women's Employment

Backstory: Maddie McKelway on Household Communication and Women's Employment

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