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Food & Agriculture · Uganda
Tell Me Why: How Mechanistic Explanations Improve Technology Adoption
People in developing countries make decisions across complex domains—for example, agriculture, health, and finance—where the right choice is often hard to identify. A smallholder farmer, for instance, must decide how to purchase and deploy… Anirudh Sankar · February 26, 2026
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.
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Julieth Saenz-Molina · December 19, 2025
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Rubina Hundal · December 18, 2025
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Tarana Chauhan · December 17, 2025
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Industrial Policy and Quality Traps: Lessons from India’s Small-Scale Industry Reservation
Kamalesh Pahurkar · December 15, 2025
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Khyati Malik · December 13, 2025
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Governing Environmental Markets: Lessons from Chile’s experiment on water markets
Maximiliano Garcia · December 11, 2025
Food & Agriculture · India
When irrigation isn’t enough: protecting wages from rainfall shocks
Roshan Saha · December 10, 2025
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How Do Opportunities Shape Aspirational Responses?
Ferran Vega-Carol · December 5, 2025Job Market Paper Series 2025–26
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Tell Me Why: How Mechanistic Explanations Improve Technology AdoptionAnirudh Sankar
Breastfeeding, sons, and the power to say “not yet”Jijee Bhattarai
How Household Responsibilities Limit Small Firms’ Green InvestmentsJiayue Zhang
Too cold to cope, too hot to work: heterogeneous effects of extreme weather on intimate partner violenceJulieth Saenz-Molina
Buccal Up! Poor Oral Health Has a Labor‑Market PenaltyRubina Hundal
Can household loans boost women’s agency without targeting women?Tarana Chauhan
Industrial Policy and Quality Traps: Lessons from India’s Small-Scale Industry ReservationKamalesh Pahurkar
Paying for Carbon that Lasts: Lessons from Farmers and SoilsKhyati Malik
Governing Environmental Markets: Lessons from Chile’s experiment on water marketsMaximiliano Garcia
When irrigation isn’t enough: protecting wages from rainfall shocksRoshan Saha
How Do Opportunities Shape Aspirational Responses?Ferran Vega-Carol
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