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Tag: Technology

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

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Firms, Job Market Paper, Kenya, Technology

ETRM Interview Series – Francis Annan

As part of our interview series, we ask renowned experts in the field about the future of research in development … More

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Finance, Ghana, Technology

ETRM Interview Series- Mushfiq Mobarak

As part of our interview series, we ask renowned experts in the field for their advice for young researchers. For … More

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bangladesh, development, Food Security, ideas, Poverty, Technology

Overcoming frictions with machines: A study of agricultural mechanization in India

Julieta Caunedo is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Cornell University. She also serves as an affiliated researcher at CEPR, … More

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Food and Agriculture, India, Technology

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 … More

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Food and Agriculture, Job Market Paper, Technology

Learning from DISadopters of Pineapple in Ghana*

Vesall Nourani is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Cornell University and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow; he … More

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Ghana, Social, Technology

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

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Food and Agriculture, Kenya, Methods, Technology

An experimental approach to food storage and packaging interventions in international food aid (part 2)

Mark Brennan is a PhD student studying supply chains in relation to food security and assistance, and a researcher on … More

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Aid, Methods, Technology, Uganda

An experimental approach to food storage and packaging interventions in international food aid (part 1)

Mark Brennan is a PhD student studying supply chains in relation to food security and assistance, and a researcher on … More

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Aid, Methods, Technology, Uganda

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

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Food and Agriculture, Kenya, Public Sector & Governance, Technology

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