Charity Troyer Moore

Research Assistant Professor, Ohio State University; Scientific Director for India, Inclusion Economics, Yale University

Charity Troyer Moore is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University, and the Scientific Director of India for Inclusion Economics at Yale University. Her research focuses how to make labor markets work better for the rural poor, particularly women, and the relevance of bureaucratic structure to local service delivery in low-income settings, among other topics.

Recent work by Charity Troyer Moore

Overburdened bureaucrats, not corruption, are delaying public benefits in India

Delays in public benefit delivery can harm societies' most vulnerable households, but making management-relevant information more accessible to the bureaucrats implementing these programmes can meaningfully improve delivery speeds.

Institutions & Political Economy

Eric Dodge Yusuf Neggers Rohini Pande Charity Troyer Moore

Published 02.06.26

Empowering women through direct digital wage payments

Providing poor Indian women with more control of their potential wages increased labour force participation and led to more progressive gender norms

Labour Markets

Erica Field Rohini Pande Natalia Rigol Simone Schaner Charity Troyer Moore

Published 04.11.19

Charity Troyer Moore

Recent work by Charity Troyer Moore

Overburdened bureaucrats, not corruption, are delaying public benefits in India

Empowering women through direct digital wage payments