- "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: September 2015
Combining data for research that is more than the sum of its parts
Liz Bageant is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. Economists tend to undervalue qualitative data, yet in many cases, our quantitative data fall short. In such cases, carefully collected qualitative data can be used at any or all … Continue reading →
Gender differences in sharing between spouses
Carolina Castilla is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colgate University. “Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a … Continue reading →
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What does a degree buy you? Signaling, human capital, and the importance of credentials
Alex Eble is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at Brown University. The puzzle Across the world, workers’ wages are positively correlated with the number of years they spent in school. Economists think these returns largely flow through two … Continue reading →
Food security as resilience
Joanna Upton is a Postdoctoral Associate and Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. The international community came to agreement on the definition of food security during the 1996 World Food Summit, defining food security as existing when “…all people … Continue reading →
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International Conference of Agricultural Economists 2015: A recap via datasets
Leah Bevis, Tanvi Rao, and Andrew Simons are all PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. Andrew and Leah are currently on the job market. We recently attended the International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE) 2015 in Milan. This conference was … Continue reading →