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Author: Paul Christian

The distributional consequences of group procurement: In practice (part 2)

Paul Christian is a Research Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School.  In an earlier post I described how in-kind transfers of … More

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India, Nutrition, Poverty

The distributional consequences of group procurement: In theory (part 1)

Paul Christian is a Research Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School.  Making sure that the benefits of poverty programs most accrue … More

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India, Nutrition, Poverty

Household survey safari: (almost) Overland from Woldya to Mwanza

Ellen McCullough is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Without data, those of us seeking to apply economics to … More

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Ethiopia, Fieldwork, Tanzania, Uganda

Resilience: So what is it anyway?

Jenn Denno Cissé is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. Quite a bit of confusion, or at least disagreement, … More

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Climate Change, Poverty, Resilience

Revisiting our macro-level views on agricultural input use in Africa using micro-level data

Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. Before I spent a summer in western Kenya helping … More

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Food and Agriculture, Sub-Saharan Africa, Technology

Using a big data approach to study daily cooking behaviors in the developing world

Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. What are the biggest problems facing the world today? If you … More

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Environment, Health, Methods, Uganda

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 … More

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Climate Change, Environment, Health, Indonesia, Job Market Paper

A minimum set of nutrition indicators for agriculture surveys: attempting to bridge the agriculture-nutrition data gap

Katie Ricketts is the Program/Research Manager for Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi), a long-term research initiative based at Cornell University. … More

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Food and Agriculture, India, Methods, Nutrition

Politics and MNREGA: A limited link in Andhra Pradesh*

Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. Yanyan Liu is a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research … More

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Food and Agriculture, India, Labor, Public Sector & Governance

Resilience: Why all the hype?

Jenn Denno Cissé is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. Although the engineering and ecological origins of the … More

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Climate Change, Poverty, Resilience

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