- "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: February 2015
Spatial trends in Indian agriculture: 1960s to 2000s*
Hilary Byerly is a Masters student at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research assistant for the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi). The narrative of the Green Revolution in India is familiar to agricultural development practitioners. High-yield varieties of wheat … Continue reading →
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Does index insurance make people feel better off?
Kibrom Hirfrfot is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Uninsured risk exposure and the experience of uninsured shocks in low-income rural communities cause serious welfare losses and distort behaviors, potentially even resulting in poverty traps (Rosenzweig and Binswanger, 1993; … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ethiopia, impact evaluation, insurance, risk, subjective wellbeing
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Conducting fieldwork in a conflict zone in Mexico
Leslie Verteramo Chiu is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School. One of the most serious risks a researcher can face in an unknown environment is the risk of being a crime victim, especially of a violent crime. What follows … Continue reading →
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Year of Soils 2015: Why we should care
Leah Bevis and Julia Berazneva are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. On December 5th of 2014 the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon declared 2015 the International Year of Soils, reminding us that “[a] healthy life is not possible without healthy soils.” … Continue reading →
Call for abstracts: Second International Conference on Global Food Security
Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. The Second International Conference on Global Food Security will take place in Ithaca, New York on the 11-14th of October 2015. … Continue reading →
What are the environmental impacts of index-based livestock insurance?
Russell Toth is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney’s School of Economics and an alumnus of Cornell’s Economics Department. The Pastoralist Livelihood Migrant pastoralists on the arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) of East Africa are among the poorest and … Continue reading →