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A reminder for those thinking about poverty traps

Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). … More

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Methods, Poverty

From Improved Nutrition to Economic Development?

Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. The UNDP’s 1996 Human Development Report opens with the following statement … More

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Guatemala, Nutrition, Poverty

Combining data for research that is more than the sum of its parts

Liz Bageant is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. Economists tend to undervalue qualitative data, yet in many … More

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Ethiopia, Fieldwork, Gender, Insurance, Methods

Gender differences in sharing between spouses

Carolina Castilla is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colgate University. “Soon we saw that money going to women brought … More

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Behavioral Economics, Food and Agriculture, Gender, India

What does a degree buy you? Signaling, human capital, and the importance of credentials

Alex Eble is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at Brown University.  The puzzle Across the world, workers’ wages … More

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China, Education, Human Capital

Food security as resilience

Joanna Upton is a Postdoctoral Associate and Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. The international community came to agreement … More

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Food Security, Kenya, Methods, Nutrition, Resilience

International Conference of Agricultural Economists 2015: A recap via datasets

Leah Bevis, Tanvi Rao, and Andrew Simons are all PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. Andrew and Leah are currently … More

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Conferences, Methods

Can financial inclusion exclude? Some negative consequences of microsaving programs

Felipe Dizon is a PhD candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. In 2013 alone, … More

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Finance, Kenya, Risk, Social

Are cash-crop growing farmers better off?

Aurélie Harou is a post-doctoral research fellow at Columbia University’s Earth Institute Agriculture and Food Security Center. Walking through the … More

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DRC, Food and Agriculture, Ghana, Risk, Technology

Africa’s hidden underemployment sink*

Ellen McCullough is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Labor productivity in … More

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Comparative Studies of Countries, Food and Agriculture, Labor, Sub-Saharan Africa

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Nobel Lecture, 1979
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