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Author: Kibrom Hirfrfot, Liz Bageant

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 … More

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Conferences, Poverty

NBER Workshop Recap: Nutrition, Health, and Human Capital Formation

Mohamad Alloush is a PhD candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. Joanna Upton is a … More

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Health, Human Capital, Nutrition, Poverty

NBER Workshop Recap: The Economics of Asset Dynamics and Poverty Traps

The National Bureau of Economic Research and the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access held an intensive … More

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Conferences, Poverty

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 … More

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Gender, Labor, Latin America

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 … More

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Conferences, Environment

Farmer Learning through Information Transfers: The Effect of Soil Testing on Farmer Demand for Agricultural Inputs

David Murphy is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. A recent blog post described … More

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Fieldwork, Food and Agriculture, Kenya

MIEDC 2016: Recap

Jeff Bloem is a MS student in Michigan State University’s Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics and is beginning … More

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Conferences

The Growth-Employment-Poverty Nexus in Latin America in the 2000s

David Jaume is a PhD student in Cornell’s Department of Economics. In a recent UNU-WIDER project Gary Fields, Guillermo Cruces … More

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Comparative Studies of Countries, Labor, Latin America

A behavioral solution to the inverse size-productivity puzzle?

Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School, and beginning as an assistant professor at Ohio State University in … More

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Behavioral Economics, Food and Agriculture, Uganda

Building Resilience in Ethiopia through the Public Safety Nets Program

Erwin Knippenberg is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. El Nino is upon us with is its inevitable litany … More

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Ethiopia, Food Security, Methods, Resilience

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