Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive preferences consistent with behavioral features such as loss aversion …

. Working with Kenyan farmers, we cross-randomize access to a simple savings product with a harvest-time loan. Among farmers …

This paper explores the idea that a competitive seed system may systematically underserve farmers in small, agro …-ecological niches, leaving potential yield gains on the table and farmers in these areas less productive and poorer than they need be … market in Western Kenya that took place when a combination of public sector foundation breeding and social impact investment …

through text messages in Kenya and Rwanda. The programs shared similar objectives but were implemented by three different … farmers across all experiments, we are sufficiently powered to detect small effects in real input purchase choices. Combining …

focus on Kenya, which has made significant strides in financial inclusion and development in recent years. We find a …

the empowerment of adolescent girls in Malawi during and immediately after the two-year intervention. We find that the …

consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical estimates of how farmers respond to changes in groundwater costs … variation in the price of electricity, a key input into groundwater extraction, we find that farmers are very price responsive … switching and fallowing are the main channel through which farmers respond to increases in groundwater costs. Using a static …

the impact of phone-based monitoring on a program that transferred nearly a billion dollars to 5.7 million Indian farmers … beneficiaries. This led to a 7.6% reduction in the number of farmers who did not receive their transfers. The program was highly …

decline. Crop prices collapsed, reducing farmers' incomes. And across U.S. states and Ohio counties, auto sales fell most in … crop-growing areas. The large spending response may be explained by farmers' indebtedness. Reasonable assumptions about the … marginal propensity to spend of farmers relative to nonfarmers and the pass-through of farm prices to retail prices imply that …