- "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: December 2014
Index-based insurance: Insurance or lottery tickets?
Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Environmental shocks are drivers of poverty as well as a fact of life in many rural areas of the developing … Continue reading →
Improving agricultural productivity while sequestering carbon
Julia Berazneva is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. For the majority of the world’s poorest billion people living in rural areas, the connection between their livelihoods and the natural resource base is clear. … Continue reading →
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The distributional consequences of group procurement: In practice (part 2)
Paul Christian is a Research Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School. In an earlier post I described how in-kind transfers of staple food grains could be self-targeting in the sense of generating more participation from the poor. The self-targeting happens, however, … Continue reading →
The distributional consequences of group procurement: In theory (part 1)
Paul Christian is a Research Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Making sure that the benefits of poverty programs most accrue to the poorest possible beneficiaries is difficult. Directly excluding people based on measures of poverty like income, expenditure, or assets … Continue reading →
Household survey safari: (almost) Overland from Woldya to Mwanza
Ellen McCullough is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Without data, those of us seeking to apply economics to real world development questions are flying blind. As a PhD candidate in applied economics, I knew I wanted to address … Continue reading →
Resilience: So what is it anyway?
Jenn Denno Cissé is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. Quite a bit of confusion, or at least disagreement, appears to exist within the development community as to the definition of resilience and how to measure it. Chris Barrett … Continue reading →
Revisiting our macro-level views on agricultural input use in Africa using micro-level data
Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. Before I spent a summer in western Kenya helping to supervise data collection for a nationwide household survey, my assumption was that smallholder farming systems in Africa were nearly … Continue reading →
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Using a big data approach to study daily cooking behaviors in the developing world
Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. What are the biggest problems facing the world today? If you are a reader of this blog, then you probably think (like I do) that they include poverty, disease, and climate … Continue reading →