Drawing on a unique panel sample of households residing in three resettlement areas of rural Zimbabwe, the authors analyse the impact of farmer contact with agricultural extension services of farm productivity. They exploit two features of the data: the data's longitudinal nature and explicit...

This paper re-enters the contested discussion surrounding the Indian Enigma, the high prevalence of chronic undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the worse treatment of higher birth order children,...