- "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: January 2015
Contextualizing agriculture in Africa for New York state farmers
Joanna Upton and Nathan Jensen are Postdoctoral Associates at Cornell’s Dyson School. Liz Bageant and Megan Sheahan are Research Support Specialists at Cornell’s Dyson School. When asked the question “what’s it like to work in (country x)?” we know that … Continue reading →
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Job announcement: Impact evaluation opportunity in Mozambique
Teevrat Garg is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. I would like to bring to your attention an opportunity to work with Paul Christian and me on an agricultural water use impact evaluation project … Continue reading →
Improved poverty targeting through machine learning (part 2)
Linden McBride is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School As discussed in a prior post, the objective of proxy means test targeting is to identify households in developing countries in need of a transfer using a simple model parameterized with … Continue reading →
Improved poverty targeting through machine learning
Linden McBride is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School Accurate targeting is crucial to the success of food security or social safety net interventions. To achieve accurate targeting, project implementers seek to minimize rates of leakage (benefits reaching those … Continue reading →
Creative chaos: A review of Ben Ramalingam’s “Aid on the Edge of Chaos”
Erwin Knippenberg is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. According to Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom “Practitioners and scholars who fall into panacea traps falsely assume that all problems of resource governance can be represented by a small set … Continue reading →