- "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 2016
From Knowledge to Action in an Information Experiment: What’s the Weakest Link?
Tanvi Rao is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and a TCI Scholar; she is currently on the job market. Providing information on the returns to education in the labor market is seen as a powerful demand-side tool to encourage human capital … Continue reading →