- "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: June 2015
From the top to the bottom of India’s MGNREGA in one week
Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. In early June, I traveled to India to present research on the varied impacts of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the legal entitlement behind the largest public … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, fieldwork, India, labor & social protection, public sector & governance
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Agricultural input use in Africa – Revisiting our meager evidence base*
Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. One of the most common assumptions underlying current policy and development interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa is that the use of all modern agricultural inputs – like chemical fertilizer, improved … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, Sub-Saharan Africa, technology, technology adoption
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My four top learnings from surveying high school students in eastern India
Tanvi Rao is a PhD candidate in Cornell’s Dyson School. She is also a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi). Earlier this year, I completed a four-month long survey of 12th grade students in and around … Continue reading →
AERE 2015: Environment and Development
Julia Berazneva and Andrew Simons are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. We attended our first conference of the summer in San Diego last week: the 4th Annual Summer Conference of the Association of Environmental and Resources Economists (AERE). Not only … Continue reading →
Job announcements: Research positions with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi)
Jessica Ames is the Program Manager at the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative. Follow on Twitter @TataCornell. I am pleased to announce two new job opportunities at the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative: Research Associate and Research Support Specialist. TCi was established … Continue reading →
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From pastoralists to Mechanical Turks: Using the crowd to validate crowdsourced data
Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Ronan Le Bras is a doctoral candidate at Cornell’s Department of Computer Science. How do you collect expert information on … Continue reading →