- "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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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 →
You’re Approved! Insured Loans Improve Credit Access and Technology Adoption of Ghanaian Farmers
Khushbu Mishra is a PhD Candidate in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State University and is currently on the job market. Increasing agricultural efficiency is key to reducing poverty in developing agrarian economies such as those in Sub-Saharan … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, climate change, gender, Ghana, insurance, job market paper
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Characterizing Regional Suitability for Index Based Livestock Insurance
Chris Mills is a PhD student in Economics at Princeton University and a recent graduate in Economics and Computer Science at Cornell Pastoral populations of Sub-Saharan Africa are particularly vulnerable to environmental shocks, which contribute to livestock mortality and therefore losses … Continue reading →
Jargon detection in international development
Jeong Hyun Lee is a Strategic Outreach and Communications Intern with the Economics that Really Matters Blog and a senior at Ithaca High School In response to Chris Blattman’s invitation to compare jargon words in international development documents, I have … Continue reading →
An experimental approach to food storage and packaging interventions in international food aid (part 2)
Mark Brennan is a PhD student studying supply chains in relation to food security and assistance, and a researcher on MIT’s Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation, which is funded by USAID’s Global Development Lab. Food losses due to poor … Continue reading →
An experimental approach to food storage and packaging interventions in international food aid (part 1)
Mark Brennan is a PhD student studying supply chains in relation to food security and assistance, and a researcher on MIT’s Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation, which is funded by USAID’s Global Development Lab. Food assistance supply chains face quality … Continue reading →
NBER Workshop Recap: Follow-up Interviews
Jeong Hyun Lee is a Strategic Outreach and Communications Intern with the Economics that Really Matters Blog. Following the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access workshop on The Economics of Asset Dynamics and Poverty … Continue reading →
NBER Workshop Recap: Policy in the Presence of Poverty Trap Mechanisms
Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Emilia Tjernström is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Many poor households struggle to accumulate wealth or increase incomes … Continue reading →
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Tagged cash transfers, conference, policy, poverty, poverty trap
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NBER Workshop Recap: Imperfect and Incomplete Financial Markets & Dynamics and Resilience in Natural Resources and Agriculture
Julia Berazneva is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College. Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Linden McBride is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. This is the third … Continue reading →
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Tagged conference, environment, labor & social protection, natural resource, poverty, poverty trap, resilience, risk
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NBER Workshop Recap: Psychology of Poverty, Hope, and Aspirations
Kibrom Tafere Hirfrfot is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Liz Bageant is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. In this post we continue our coverage of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Feed the Future Innovation Lab … Continue reading →