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Tag: Methods

A reminder for those thinking about poverty traps

Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). … More

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Methods, Poverty

Combining data for research that is more than the sum of its parts

Liz Bageant is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. Economists tend to undervalue qualitative data, yet in many … More

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Ethiopia, Fieldwork, Gender, Insurance, Methods

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

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Food Security, Kenya, Methods, Nutrition, Resilience

International Conference of Agricultural Economists 2015: A recap via datasets

Leah Bevis, Tanvi Rao, and Andrew Simons are all PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. Andrew and Leah are currently … More

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Conferences, Methods

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 … More

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Behavioral Economics, Fieldwork, Human Capital, Methods, Myanmar

Resilience: Who are the non-resilient?

Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. With the growing focus on resilience programming among donors and implementers, … More

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Food and Agriculture, Methods, Poverty, Resilience

Food price shocks: How do uncertainties affect land allocation decisions?

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and a … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Methods, Uganda

Food price shocks: Is there empirical evidence of a link to poverty traps?

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Methods, Uganda

Food price shocks: Are we over or under estimating the welfare effects?

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Methods, Uganda

Multidisciplinary approaches to analysis and fieldwork: High-quality coffee markets in Colombia

Juan N. Hernández-Aguilera, Mary Kate Wheeler, and Romane Viennet are all members of Cornell’s Dyson School. Juan is a PhD … More

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Colombia, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Methods, Risk, Technology

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"Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters."
Theodore Schultz
Nobel Lecture, 1979
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