Felipe Dizon is a PhD candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. In 2013 alone, … More
Tag: Risk
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
Deconstructing the risks: A review of Andrew Karolyi’s “Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma”
Parul Sharma is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Two factors—the rate of domestic capital formation and the inflow … More
Multidisciplinary approaches to analysis and fieldwork: High-quality coffee markets in Colombia
Juan N. Hernández-Aguilera, Mary Kate Wheeler, and Romane Viennet are all members of Cornell’s Dyson School. Juan is a PhD … More
Designing a robust profitability tool for targeting agricultural interventions
Julianne Quinn is a PhD student in Cornell’s School of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Far too often, agricultural interventions are … More
Does index insurance make people feel better off?
Kibrom Hirfrfot is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Uninsured risk exposure and the experience of uninsured shocks in … More
Conducting fieldwork in a conflict zone in Mexico
Leslie Verteramo Chiu is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School. One of the most serious risks a researcher can … More
Index-based insurance: Insurance or lottery tickets?
Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). … More