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The Causes and Consequences of Conflict and Violence | CSAE 2019 Recap

Heidi Kaila is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Cornell University, and a Co-Editor of EconThatMatters. Jeffrey Bloem is a Ph.D. candidate…

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Conferences, Conflict

Development programs, security, and violence reduction: Evidence from an insurgency in India

Heidi Kaila is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Cornell University, and a Co-Editor of EconThatMatters. Saurabh Singhal is a Lecturer at Lancaster University and…

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Conflict, India, Pakistan

Is good on average good enough? Not for Sub-Saharan African farmers

S. Jessica Zhu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin…

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Food and Agriculture, Job Market Paper, Technology

Why we should consider mental health when thinking about poverty

Mo Alloush is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Davis. Nearly one in five adults is affected by…

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Health, Job Market Paper, Poverty

Anticipatory Migration: Learning about Climate Risk from its Impacts on Others

Esteban J. Quiñones is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison…

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Climate Change, Food and Agriculture, Job Market Paper, Labor, Migration

Highlights from Environment, Energy, and Resource Economics (EERE), Climate Change, and Conflict: Dynamic Research for a Dynamic World | NEUDC 2018

Shiyi Zhang is a PhD student in Economics at Cornell University. Sergey Smirnov is a junior in the College of…

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Climate Change, Conferences, Environment

Insights into historic and modern political institutions | NEUDC 2018

Vasudha Mathur is a senior from New Delhi, studying Economics in the Cornell College of Arts and Sciences. Her primary…

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Conferences, Public Sector & Governance

Toward a better understanding of food insecurity—and what to do about it | NEUDC 2018

Joanna Upton is a Research Associate in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management – and also Co-Editor…

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Aid, Conferences, Food Security, Social

Doing Business in the Developing World: Recap of the Firms and Finance Theme at NEUDC 2018

Chenyang Cao is a Master of Science candidate in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at…

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Conferences, Finance, Firms, Summaries and Reviews

Lessons on the importance of education supply and demand | NEUDC 2018

Heidi Kaila is a post-doctoral fellow at the College of Human Ecology; Germán Reyes is an Economics PhD student, both at Cornell…

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Conferences, Education, Human Capital

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Nobel Lecture, 1979
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