Shifting behavior and economic attitudes.

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Although hope and aspirations are increasingly considered to be both intrinsically and instrumentally valuable, quantitative evidence on the formation of these factors is .

Abstract. Aspirations may condition the future-oriented choices of individuals and thus may play a role in the persistence of poverty or the effort to brea

Abstract. We provide quasi-experimental evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate drought-induced co

R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools - echolab-stanford/heat

Drawing on a randomised controlled trial among rice farmers in Nigeria, we introduce a new method for linking village-level interventions with high-resolution earth observation data – which captures s...

A new form of fertilizer offers advantages.

A new form of fertilizer offers advantages.

This form collects interest for presentations in the fall season of the Webinar series in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV) for junior scholars working on finance topics in developing countries. We ar...

Accurately measuring women’s empowerment systematically across a variety of settings is critical to ensure equal access to market participation, control of the use of productive resources, opportuniti...

We study the effect of the adoption of improved agricultural inputs on deforestation using a randomized control trial in Nigeria which introduced a mo…

Survey ordering and the measurement of welfare

As climate change stretches Nigeria’s dry seasons and disrupts traditional grazing patterns, tensions between nomadic herders and settled farmers fuel violent conflict—most intensely just before the p...

Digital apps and other approaches for modernizing value chains.

Private sector agricultural businesses are critical for scaling new and potentially environmentally-friendly technologies, though much attention has f…

In places with limited employment opportunities, households aspiring to increase their income are mainly left with two options: either (a) invest locally in the...

Over the past 50 years, the world’s food systems have evolved tremendously amid major economic, environmental, and social changes. Throughout this period, policy research has played a critical role in...

Economists say the U.S. manufacturing decline in recent decades was not mainly about free trade, but about the pace of change without time to adjust.

Intermediary firms within agri-food value chains — operating between the farmgate and retailers — typically account for at least as much, if not more,…

We use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions—specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretat