Erwin Knippenberg is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. According to Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom “Practitioners and scholars…
Index-based insurance: Insurance or lottery tickets?
Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).…
Improving agricultural productivity while sequestering carbon
Julia Berazneva is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. For the majority of the…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…