This is our 9th blog post for our Job Market Paper Series blog for 2025-2026. Jiayue Zhang is a PhD student … More
Tag: Kenya
Short Messages Fall Short for Micro-Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Muhammad Zia Mehmood is a PhD Job Market Candidate at UC Berkeley in the Business and Public Policy group at … More
Alcohol and Agriculture: Results from a Field Experiment in Kenya
David Murphy is an assistant professor of economics at Colgate University. Why look at alcohol in Africa? While alcohol abuse … More
A Business Evaluation of the Sales and Distribution Model for Index-Based Livestock Insurance in Kenya
This post was written by the 2018 Kenya Student Multidisciplinary Applied Research Team, comprised of Francine Barchett (International Agriculture and Rural … More
Farmer Learning through Information Transfers in Kenya: Fieldwork Report and Early Findings
David Murphy is a PhD Candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. In a May 2016 blog … More
Farmer Learning through Information Transfers: The Effect of Soil Testing on Farmer Demand for Agricultural Inputs
David Murphy is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. A recent blog post described … More
Learning about perceived, measured, and estimated soil fertility
Linden McBride is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School; Julia Berazneva is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College; Megan … More
How (pre-2007) Kenya represents an alternative approach to fertilizer subsidies
Megan Sheahan works at a new start-up social enterprise, Precision Agriculture for Development, and is a former Research Support Specialist … More
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 … More
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, … More