- "Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor."
Theodore Schultz
Nobel Lecture, 1979
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Monthly Archives: November 2014
The hidden local costs of deforestation in the tropics*
Teevrat Garg is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. The debate over deforestation has traditionally weighed the tradeoffs between local economic benefits and the broader ecological footprint measured in carbon emissions (Alix-Garcia et … Continue reading →
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Tagged climate change, environment, health, Indonesia, job market paper
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A minimum set of nutrition indicators for agriculture surveys: attempting to bridge the agriculture-nutrition data gap
Katie Ricketts is the Program/Research Manager for Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi), a long-term research initiative based at Cornell University. For decades, agricultural surveys have focused on tracking household income and employment patterns, food supply and food prices, farm management … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, India, methods, nutrition
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Politics and MNREGA: A limited link in Andhra Pradesh*
Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. Yanyan Liu is a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and an Adjunct Professor in Cornell’s Dyson School. Chris Barrett is a Professor in Cornell’s Dyson School. Sudha Narayanan is an … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, India, labor & social protection, public sector & governance
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Resilience: Why all the hype?
Jenn Denno Cissé is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. Although the engineering and ecological origins of the term resilience are well known (see Holling for a nice review), the concept of resilience as employed by the international … Continue reading →
Intro to Resilience Series
Jenn Denno Cissé is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. Given the recent excitement (and even occasional controversy) among donors, practitioners, policy makers, and academics over the concept of resilience, the topic seems ripe for the metaphorical picking. … Continue reading →
Pathways behind intergenerational income mobility in rural Philippines: sons vs. daughters
Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Recent findings by The Equality of Opportunity Project made big press in the US: intergenerational economic mobility in this country is far lower than that of most other developed nations, though it … Continue reading →
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Tagged gender, human capital, Philippines, poverty, social development
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Validating household survey data with audio recordings
Julia Berazneva is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Anybody who has worked with original data has a long list of associated complaints, and they range from missing observations to outliers, to poor or … Continue reading →
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Agricultural economist Theodore Schultz opened his 1979 Nobel Prize acceptance speech as follows: Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really … Continue reading →