- "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: November 2015
Smallholder farmers’ perceptions and actions in response to violence
Leslie Verteramo Chiu is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Violence associated with the “war on drugs” in Mexico has escalated dramatically in scale and scope since 2006, exposing the population to … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, conflict, Mexico, migration & remittances, risk
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Geo-spatial data repository for agricultural economists
Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Julia Berazneva is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College. We introduce a newly created page on the ETRM blog: a repository of geo-spatial … Continue reading →
Who’s at risk? Biophysical and market forces shape crop nutrient content
Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Worldwide, over 800 million people are lacking energy: they are hungry. Yet far more, over 2 billion people, suffer from “hidden hunger,” micronutrient … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, food security, job market paper, natural resource, nutrition, Uganda
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Productivity repercussions of contract work in India
Vidhya Soundararajan is a PhD candidate in Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Firms are hiring more ‘contract workers’ by means of temporary fixed-term contracts mediated by third-party staffing agencies. With few binding regulations protecting contract … Continue reading →
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Tagged India, job market paper, labor & social protection, labor productivity
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It’s our birthday!
Today we celebrate our first birthday: one year ago today we became a fully functioning blog. To celebrate, we’ve generated this word cloud, which visually captures the topics most frequently tagged on the Economics That Really Matters blog. Click on … Continue reading →