A cascade model for cost-effective agricultural extension: Evidence from Uganda Farmer-to-farmer information diffusion is a cost-effective approach for improving practices and profits for smallholder dairy farmers in East Africa Agriculture Luc Behaghel Jérémie Gignoux Karen Macours Published 06.11.20
Do social structures affect the success of development policies? Policy delivery agents perform better when working with members of their own social groups thereby affecting the efficiency of policy interventions Institutions & Political Economy Oriana Bandiera Robin Burgess Erika Deserranno Imran Rasul Munshi Sulaiman Ricardo Morel Published 23.09.20
The long debate on sharecropping and productivity Increasing the tenant’s share in output encourages profitable risk-taking, in addition to large effects on input levels Agriculture Konrad Burchardi Selim Gulesci Benedetta Lerva Munshi Sulaiman Published 07.09.20
Returns to work, child labour, and schooling: The income versus price effects Returns to child work play an important role in determining child labour and schooling through changing the opportunity costs of schooling Education Jie Bai Yukun Wang Published 21.08.20
Measuring the productivity of smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa Collecting data using multiple survey methods can mitigate data errors that magnify the differences between low- and high-productivity farms Agriculture Casey Maue Marshall Burke Kyle Emerick Published 15.06.20
Temporary agricultural input subsidies have lasting impacts: The Mozambique experiment Subsidies need not be permanent to benefit farmers. Well-designed policy that encourages experimentation can generate widespread and lasting impacts. Agriculture Michael R. Carter Rachid Laajaj Dean Yang Published 21.10.19
Scabs: The social suppression of labour supply Social norms help sustain wage floors with workers taking jobs at wage cuts in private, but rejecting them in public due to fear of sanctions Labour Markets Emily Breza Supreet Kaur Nandita Krishnaswamy Published 07.10.19
Decentralisation under changing state capacity: Experimental evidence from Paraguay Decentralising the monitoring of public sector workers is cost-effective, but as central state capacity increases this advantage disappears Public Economics Ernesto Dal Bó Frederico Finan Nicholas Li Laura Schechter Published 08.10.18
Climate change and Indian agriculture Climate change could reduce farm incomes by 15-18%, and by as much as 20-25% in un-irrigated areas Agriculture Siddharth Hari Parth Khare Arvind Subramanian Published 06.08.18
