Jeffrey Bloem, Khandker Wahedur Rahman, and Harshada Karnik are PhD students in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota In this … More
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MIEDC 2018 Recap (3): Poverty, Labor, Politics, and Methods
Jeffrey Bloem, Khandker Wahedur Rahman, and Harshada Karnik are PhD students in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota In this … More
A Business Evaluation of the Sales and Distribution Model for Index-Based Livestock Insurance in Kenya
This post was written by the 2018 Kenya Student Multidisciplinary Applied Research Team, comprised of Francine Barchett (International Agriculture and Rural … More
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