The recent financial crisis in Indonesia has resulted in dramatic price increases. Using very recent data, we …

to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … worse performance does not appear to be due to elite capture. Instead, communities appear to be using a different concept of … poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and …

more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …

Human capital, including health and nutrition, has played a key role in the literature on poverty traps. Economic … and, thereby, push individuals into poverty. Three potential concerns in this literature are explored with empirical … evidence drawn from primary longitudinal survey data collected before and after two major shocks in Indonesia: the 1998 …

examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then … a more efficient irrigation technology on average. We also present evidence that adoption rates are driven more by …

Irrigation in the Eastern US receives little attention compared to the West, but farmers in humid states of the US …, traditionally reliant on rainfall, have more than tripled irrigation since 1978. We examine this trend in Illinois where there has … been a nearly threefold increase in center pivot irrigation systems (CPIS) installations since 1988. Specifically, we …

We examine constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda. We … leverage a plot-level spatial regression discontinuity design to produce 3 key results. First, irrigation enables dry season … horticultural production, which boosts on-farm cash profits by 70%. Second, adoption is constrained: access to irrigation causes …