- "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 2016
Gender in rural finance: Evidence from China
Xin Gao is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. “House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.” Proverbs 19:14 It always comes as a surprise to me how severe gender discrimination remains … Continue reading →
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Tagged China, financial sector, gender, migration & remittances, risk
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What happens when cash transfers end? Sustained impacts on productive investments in Niger
Quentin Stoeffler is a Post-doctoral Scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. An important number of policy interventions in developing countries today take the form of fixed-term projects. How can we identify … Continue reading →
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Tagged job market paper, Niger, productive investments, social safety nets, sustained impact, transfers
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