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tightening constraints on water, arable land, and other natural resources, agricultural innovation is quickly becoming the most … universities, which, historically, have been a major source of agricultural innovation, increasingly dependent on funding from … evidence on the forces that drive research and innovation in agriculture. This book aims to provides such evidence through …
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This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
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using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
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audits on bed net distribution programs in three countries (Ghana, Kenya and Uganda) to investigate local agency problems and …
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United States, Kenya, and Uganda. The existing evidence shows consistent positive impacts on school participation in the …
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We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and three dimensions of financial inclusion: access (determined by a participation cost), depth (determined by a borrowing constraint), and intermediation efficiency (determined by a monitoring cost). We find that the...
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curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 …
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The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...
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settings across five countries: India, Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, and Uganda. We test multiple scalable models of remote …
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U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical … innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and … changing technological regulations--let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and …
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