We use standardized end-of-course knowledge assessments to examine student learning during the disruptions induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining seven economics courses taught at four US R1 institutions, we find that students performed substantially worse, on average, in Spring 2020 when...

We utilize the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (1964) mechanism to estimate the willingness to pay for clean drinking water technology in northern Ghana. The BDM mechanism has attractive properties for empirical research, allowing us to directly estimate demand, compute heterogeneous treatment effects,...

This paper builds on the developing literature delineating and specifying uncertainty and risk as it can be associated with measures of entrepreneurial profit in development valuation procedure. These conceptual and empirical associations enable the formulation of strategic differencing in...

ERES:conference

In current times of economic austerity, the retail sector in many towns and cities are suffering significantly from funding cuts to public services and a lack of investment. With many retail businesses feeling the effects of reduced consumer spending innovation in business-led initiatives are...

Property performance indices have invariably focused upon prime markets with a variety of approaches used to measure investment returns. With urban policy driven by the sustainability agenda, increasing attention is being placed on the re-use of existing sites and brownfield land. However, there...

The last year has seen financial crisis, and the threat of further more dramatic financial events across Europe dominate much of the global economic news. This is having an increasing impact on the commercial real estate market. Many participants are wondering about how this will feed through to...

This article reviews the research on fortification of food in the context of South Asia, with an emphasis on avenues for future research in economics and policy. We argue that while the efficacy of fortified foods in controlled settings is well established, more research is needed to evaluate...