Ellen McCullough is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Labor productivity in…
Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
Erwin Knippenberg is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. In September, the United Nations General Assembly intends to adopt…
Appropriating on Facebook: how to share during fieldwork
Lua Wilkinson is a PhD candidate in Nutrition at Cornell University. Confession: I have posted pictures on Facebook during fieldwork for…
Year of Soils 2015: Climate change and ecosystem services
Julia Berazneva and Leah Bevis are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. In our previous posts we discussed how the quality and…
Measuring hope: Lessons from rural Myanmar
Jeffrey Bloem is a Master’s student in Michigan State University’s Department of Agriculture, Food, and Resource Economics. Follow him on…
What encourages the purchase of a fuel-efficient cookstove?
Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. In a previous…
From the top to the bottom of India’s MGNREGA in one week
Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. In early June, I traveled to India to present…
Agricultural input use in Africa – Revisiting our meager evidence base*
Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. One of the most common assumptions underlying current policy…
My four top learnings from surveying high school students in eastern India
Tanvi Rao is a PhD candidate in Cornell’s Dyson School. She is also a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture…
AERE 2015: Environment and Development
Julia Berazneva and Andrew Simons are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. We attended our first conference of the summer in…