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Competitiveness of African firms: Estimating the impact of temperatures on firm performance
Nouhoum Traore is a PhD candidate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently on the job market; Jeremy Foltz is a … More
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
Underground Knowledge: Estimating the Impact of Soil Information Transfers through Experimental Auctions
David Murphy is a PhD Candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is on the job market this year An excellent … More
Direct Versus Incentive-Based Conservation
Katharine Sims is an associate professor of Economics at Amherst College Global climate mitigation agreements include substantial funding for avoided … More
Is universal inclusion the way forward for poverty alleviation?
Sanjukta Das is an Associate Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research Supporting food security among undernourished populations … More
Measuring Resilience using High Frequency Data (Part 1)
Erwin Knippenberg is a PhD student in the Dyson School; Nathan Jensen is the Resilience and Innovation for Dryland Systems … More
Combating Open Defecation through Community Led Sanitation approach in Rural India
Payal Seth is a PhD Student and a Tata Cornell Scholar in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics … More
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
Call for concept proposals for the Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) project
The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM), supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), … More