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Nonclassical Measurement Error and Farmers’ Response to Information Reveal Behavioral Anomalies (英语)
This paper reports on a randomized experiment conducted among Malawian agricultural households to study nonclassical measurement error in self-reported plot area and farmers’ responses to new information...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS9908 文件日期: 2022年1月24日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Abay,Kibrom A.,Barrett,Christopher B.,Kilic,Talip,Moylan,Heather G.,Ilukor,John,Vundru,Wilbert Drazi
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Agriculture in Africa : telling myths from facts (英语)
This report presents the insights obtained, organized around the confirmation (fact) or rebuttal (myth) of 16 frequently held perceptions. It is found that women do not contribute 60 to 80 percent of the...
文件类型: 出版 报告号: 127073 文件日期: 2018年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Christiaensen,Luc,Demery,Lionel,Dillon,Brian,Barrett,Christopher B.,Deininger,Klaus W.,Savastano,Sara,Xia,Fang,Adjognon,Guigonan Serge,Liverpool-Tasie,Lenis Saweda O.,Reardon,Thomas,Carletto,Calogero,Corral,Paul,Guelfi,Anita,McCullough,Ellen B.,Palacios-Lopez,Amparo,Kilic,Talip,Davis,Benjamin K.,Di Giuseppe,Stefania,Zezza,Alberto,Nagler,Paula,Naude,Wim,Sheahan,Megan Britney,Binswanger-Mkhize,Hans P,Omonona,Bolarin Titus,Sanou,Awa,Ogunleye,Wale Olatunji,Miller,Daniel Charles,Munoz Mora,Juan Carlos,Nikoloski,Zlatko Slobodan,Hill,Ruth,Ndiaye,Moctar,d’Hotel,Elodie Maitre,Cotty,Tristan Le,Kaminski,Jonathan
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Insuring well-being ? buyer's remorse and peace of mind effects from insurance (英语)
This paper estimates the causal effects of index insurance coverage on subjective well-being among livestock herders in southern Ethiopia. The randomization of incentives to purchase index-based livestock...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS8256 文件日期: 2017年11月27日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Hirfrfot,Kibrom Tafere,Barrett,Christopher B.,Lentz,Erin,Ayana,Birhanu T.
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Revisiting the effect of food aid on conflict : a methodological caution (英语)
A popular identification strategy in non-experimental panel data uses instrumental variables constructed by interacting exogenous but potentially spurious time series or spatial variables with endogenous...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS8171 文件日期: 2017年8月23日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Christian,Paul J.,Barrett,Christopher B.
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On the structural transformation of rural Africa (英语)
From 2000 to 2014, per capita gross domestic product in Sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35 percent in real terms, doubling in some countries. Such progress happened while agricultural productivity...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS7938 文件日期: 2017年1月10日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Barrett,Christopher B.,Christiaensen,Luc,Sheahan,Megan Britney,Shimeles,Abebe
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Preferential resource spending under an employment guarantee : the political economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh (英语)
Are ostensibly demand-driven public works programs with high levels of safeguards nonetheless susceptible to political influence? This conjecture is investigated using expenditure data at the local level...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS7818 文件日期: 2016年9月12日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Sheahan,Megan Britney,Liu,Yanyan,Barrett,Christopher B.,Narayanan,Sudha
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Agricultural factor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : an updated view with formal tests for market failure (英语)
This paper uses the recently collected Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative data sets from five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to provide a comprehensive overview...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS7117 文件日期: 2014年11月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Barrett,Christopher B.,Dillon,Brian
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Understanding the agricultural input landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : recent plot, household, and community-level evidence (英语)
Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs despite the fact that most growth-inducing and poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the region is expected to come largely...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS7014 文件日期: 2014年8月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Barrett,Christopher B.,Sheahan,Megan Britney
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Community-based risk management arrangements : an overview and implications for social fund programs (英语)
Risk and its consequences pose a formidable threat to poverty reduction efforts. This study reviews a plethora of community-based risk management arrangements across the developing world. These types of...
文件类型: 工作文件（编号系列） 报告号: 46333 文件日期: 2008年10月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Barrett,Christopher B.,Bhattamishra,Ruchira
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Poverty traps and social protection (英语)
This paper demonstrates that there are potentially large returns to having a social protection policy that stakes out a productive safety net below the vulnerable and keeps them from slipping into a poverty...
文件类型: 工作文件（编号系列） 报告号: 42752 文件日期: 2008年2月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Barrett,Christopher B.,Carter,Michael R., Ikegami , Munenobu
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The CGIAR at 31 : an independent meta-evaluation of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research - natural resources management research in CGIAR - a meta-evaluation (英语)
Over the past decade, natural resources management (NRM) has come to occupy an increasingly prominent position within the research portfolio of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research...
文件类型: 工作文件 报告号: 27799 文件日期: 2003年6月27日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Barrett,Christopher B.