- "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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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 →
Job announcement: Impact evaluation opportunity in Mozambique
Teevrat Garg is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. I would like to bring to your attention an opportunity to work with Paul Christian and me on an agricultural water use impact evaluation project … Continue reading →
The hidden local costs of deforestation in the tropics*
Teevrat Garg is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. The debate over deforestation has traditionally weighed the tradeoffs between local economic benefits and the broader ecological footprint measured in carbon emissions (Alix-Garcia et … Continue reading →
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