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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From Improved Nutrition to Economic Development?
Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. The UNDP’s 1996 Human Development Report opens with the following statement … More
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
Gender differences in sharing between spouses
Carolina Castilla is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colgate University. “Soon we saw that money going to women brought … More
What does a degree buy you? Signaling, human capital, and the importance of credentials
Alex Eble is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at Brown University. The puzzle Across the world, workers’ wages … 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
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
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
Are cash-crop growing farmers better off?
Aurélie Harou is a post-doctoral research fellow at Columbia University’s Earth Institute Agriculture and Food Security Center. Walking through the … More
Africa’s hidden underemployment sink*
Ellen McCullough is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Labor productivity in … More