Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. By the time you read this post, around 600…
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Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).…
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…
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Liz Bageant is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. Economists tend to undervalue qualitative data, yet in many…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…