Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. What are the biggest problems facing the world today? If you…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Intro to Resilience Series
Jenn Denno Cissé is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. Given the recent excitement (and even occasional controversy)…
Pathways behind intergenerational income mobility in rural Philippines: sons vs. daughters
Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Recent findings by The Equality of Opportunity Project made big press in…
Validating household survey data with audio recordings
Julia Berazneva is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Anybody who has worked with…
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Agricultural economist Theodore Schultz opened his 1979 Nobel Prize acceptance speech as follows: Most of the people in the world…