- "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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The recent deceleration of female labor force participation in Latin America
Leonardo Gasparini is the director of the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) at Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), and a researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET, Argentina); Mariana Marchionni is a Senior Researcher at … Continue reading →
AERE Summer Conference: Papers on Developing Countries
Julia Berazneva is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College. Teevrat Garg is a Postdoc at the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and an Assistant Professor at the School of Global Policy and … Continue reading →