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 …

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 … an under-serviced equilibrium. To study the empirical veracity of this model, we study the disruption of the maize seed …

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 …

Exploiting a large migration of farmers to the West of Brazil between 1950 and 2010, we study how migration shapes … aggregate and regional comparative advantage. We document that farmers emigrating from regions with high employment in an …

Access to microcredit has been shown to generate only modest average benefits for recipient households. We study …. Working with Kenyan farmers, we cross-randomize access to a simple savings product with a harvest-time loan. Among farmers …

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 …

farmers across all experiments, we are sufficiently powered to detect small effects in real input purchase choices. Combining …

Agricultural extension programs often train a few farmers and count on diffusion through social networks for the …-step experiment of an agronomy training program among Rwandan coffee farmers, we first randomize the concentration of trainees at the … farmers. We find no evidence of social diffusion; instead, control households experienced negative spillovers in high …