Linden McBride is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School As discussed in a prior post, the objective of proxy means … More
Tag: Poverty
Improved poverty targeting through machine learning
Linden McBride is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School Accurate targeting is crucial to the success of food security … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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, … More
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 … More
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) … More
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 … More