Liz Bageant is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. Economists tend to undervalue qualitative data, yet in many…
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Carolina Castilla is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colgate University. “Soon we saw that money going to women brought…
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Alex Eble is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at Brown University. The puzzle Across the world, workers’ wages…
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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…
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…
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,…
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Aurélie Harou is a post-doctoral research fellow at Columbia University’s Earth Institute Agriculture and Food Security Center. Walking through the…
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…
Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
Erwin Knippenberg is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. In September, the United Nations General Assembly intends to adopt…
Appropriating on Facebook: how to share during fieldwork
Lua Wilkinson is a PhD candidate in Nutrition at Cornell University. Confession: I have posted pictures on Facebook during fieldwork for…