Presentation: Medium-term Impacts if a Productive Safety Net on Aspirations...
To combat poverty traps, policies are passed to change the investment behavior of the poor. This presentation is based on the AMA Innovation Lab projects for the Conference on the Economics of Asset...
View ArticlePresentation: Can Cash Transfers Help Households Escape Poverty Traps?
This presentation took place in Washington DC, United States on June 29, 2016 by M. Araujo, Mariano Bosch Norbert Schady investigating if cash transfers help households escape poverty traps.
View ArticlePresentation: Mind the Gap Workshop
This presentation is based on the AMA Innovation Lab projects throughout Africa. This research seeks to explore the growing gap between the rural poor farmers of Africa and their barriers relating to...
View ArticlePresentation: Heterogeneous Constraints and Incentives and the Uptake of...
Observations of smallholder farmer inefficiency often reflect failure to control for nature. An example would be Ivorien rice farmers effected on their production frontier once inconsistent control for...
View ArticlePresentation: Addressing Beliefs and Behaviors for Equitable Agriculture...
This presentation took place in Washington DC on November 3, 2016, and describes challenges separating men and women relating to their yield gap.
View ArticlePaper: Insured Loans Improve Credit Access and Technology Adoption of...
Increasing agricultural efficiency via technology adoption remains a high priority among development practitioners. One potential tool for furthering this objective is using drought index insurance to...
View ArticlePaper: Influence of Neighbor Experience and Exit on Small Farmer Market...
This research analyzes the motivations and dynamics of small farmer participation in supermarket supply chains in developing countries. Results suggest that farmers delay entry to observe their...
View ArticlePaper: Telephone Directories for Mobile Phone Networks
A set of RCTs in Tanzania tested the impact of a telephone directory on business and agricultural households. Enterprises saw large increases in calls and mobile money. Households increased search...
View ArticlePaper: Credit Lines as Insurance: Evidence from Bangladesh
This study tests whether a new financial product that offers guaranteed credit access after a shock allows households to insure themselves against risk with a large-scale RCT involving 300,000 subjects...
View ArticlePaper: Willingness to Pay for Insured Loans in Northern Ghana
This study from Ghana found that index insurance lowers overall demand for agricultural loans while farmers appear to prefer micro-level insurance over meso‐level insurance. The study also shows that...
View ArticlePaper: Crony Capitalism, Collective Action, and ICT: Evidence from Kenyan...
The shift from subsistence to commercial economies creates surplus, but often induces conflict over it. Under extractive institutions and weak contract enforcement, crony capitalism may emerge and...
View ArticlePaper: Insured Loans and Credit Access: Evidence from a Randomized Field...
In Ghana, insured loans increased farmers' likelihood of receiving credit by between 15 and 21 percentage points. There was no impact on the likelihood that farmers apply for credit but there was an...
View ArticlePaper: Search Cost, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from...
This paper presents evidence from a large-scale experiment designed to reduce search costs in randomly selected sub-counties in Uganda by introducing a mobile phone-based marketplace for agricultural...
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