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A Political Economy Model of Agricultural Taxation, R&D, and Growth in Africa 0 0 0 115 0 3 4 387
Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture 0 0 2 93 0 8 13 406
Advancing the use of household surveys for nutrition: Nutrient adequacy at the household level and the cost of nutritious diets in Malawi 0 0 0 14 0 4 4 40
Africa's Growth Trap: A Political-Economy Model of Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 357 1 5 5 1,201
Africa's Growth Trap: A Political-Economy Model of Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 24
Africa's growth trap: a political-economy model of taxation, R&D and investment 0 0 0 14 0 3 6 86
Agricultural Price Distortion and Stabilization 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 4
Agricultural Price Distortion and Stabilization: Stylized facts and Hypothesis Tests 0 0 0 111 1 6 7 422
Agricultural Prices and Income Distribution among Farmers: A Whole-Household, Multi-Country, Multi-Year Analysis 0 0 1 97 0 3 6 284
Agriculture and undernutrition through the lens of economics 0 0 0 22 1 1 2 24
Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization: Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 61 5 6 10 270
Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets 0 0 1 6 0 7 12 19
Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets 0 0 0 5 0 2 5 8
Availability of Healthy Diets in 174 Countries, 1961-2019: A Food System Assessment 0 0 0 2 1 14 14 14
Availability, Seasonality, and Affordability of Nutritious Diets for All – Evidence from Malawi 0 0 0 3 0 2 4 11
Behavior Change for Early Childhood Nutrition: Effectiveness of Health Worker Training Depends on Maternal Information in a Randomized Control Trial 0 0 0 40 0 4 7 64
Beyond the IRB: Towards a typology of research ethics in applied economics 0 0 0 28 1 6 7 95
Borders and Barriers: Spatial Analysis of Agricultural Output Spillovers at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 36 1 5 8 154
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity, and the intergenerational transmission of relative height 0 0 0 4 4 14 22 45
Cartel Pricing with Entry: the Experience of the Far West Marketing Order for Spearmint 0 0 0 16 0 2 5 118
Child Undernutrition, Household Poverty and National Income in Developing Countries: Quantile Regression Results 0 0 0 42 0 8 9 134
Climate and Scale In Economic Growth 0 1 2 472 1 9 13 1,871
Climate and Scale in Economic Growth 0 0 1 14 1 4 12 95
Climate and scale in economic growth 0 0 1 26 0 6 15 205
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 25 0 4 11 131
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 12 2 11 20 144
Contests with Random Noise and a Shared Prize 0 0 0 8 0 5 6 49
Cost and affordability of healthy diets across and within countries 0 2 11 86 3 27 56 407
Diet costs by level of food processing in 177 countries, 2011 and 2017 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 4
Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa 0 0 0 71 2 8 10 125
Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa 0 1 1 45 0 2 4 101
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa 0 0 1 43 0 7 14 167
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Cameroon 0 0 0 21 1 5 7 118
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Senegal 0 0 0 10 0 2 3 62
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Sub-Saharan and North Africa 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 6
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Sub-Saharan and North Africa 0 0 0 24 0 3 7 90
Distortions to agricultural incentives in Cameroon 0 0 0 0 1 5 6 6
Do remote rural people pay higher prices for more nutritious foods? Evidence from 130,975 price observations at rural markets in Malawi, 2007-2017 0 0 0 4 1 4 4 24
Do remote rural people pay higher prices for more nutritious foods? Evidence from 130,975 price observations at rural markets in Malawi, 2007-2017 0 0 0 11 0 2 2 41
EFFECTS AND DETERMINANTS OF MILD UNDERWEIGHT AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 53 0 5 5 441
EFFECTS AND DETERMINANTS OF MILD UNDERWEIGHT AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 1 1 6 9 31
ENTRY INTO WINNER-TAKE-ALL AND PROPORTIONAL-PRIZE CONTESTS:AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY 0 0 0 48 1 6 8 178
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 9 1 15 17 97
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 102 1 24 28 374
Ethnolinguistic Diversity, Government Expenditures and Economic Growth Across Countries 0 0 0 118 0 3 5 563
Europe, South Africa, and Southern Africa: Regional Integration in a Global Context 0 0 0 1 1 6 7 695
Europe, South Africa, and Southern Africa: Regional Integration in a Global Context 0 0 0 0 1 9 10 946
Evaluating the Economic Efficiency of Agricultural Activities in Developing Countries: Domestic Resource Costs and the Social Cost-Benefit Ration 0 1 1 9 1 7 10 44
Farm Productivity and Household Market Participation: Evidence from LSMS Data 0 0 0 69 1 11 19 226
Farm production, child dietary intake and household wealth: Results from a nationally-representative survey in Nepal 0 0 0 4 0 5 8 31
GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF REAL INCOME: A SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION APPROACH 0 0 0 0 3 9 10 32
GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF REAL INCOME:A SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION APPROACH 0 0 0 157 0 2 5 771
Geography and Economic Transition: Global Spatial Analysis at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 116 0 5 6 741
Global analysis reveals persistent shortfalls and regional differences in availability of foods needed for health 0 0 3 4 3 7 22 31
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 2 27 0 2 5 157
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 0 3 2 6 8 35
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 2 339 1 6 23 3,079
How Far Has Africa Come in Reducing its Anti-agricultural Policy Bias? 0 0 0 21 0 4 4 136
How Sensitive Are Cost of Living Metrics to Missing Food Price Data? Evidence from a Novel Market Survey and Consumer Price Data in Rural Malawi 0 1 1 4 0 2 5 11
How Successful Are Government Interventions in Food Markets? Insights from the Philippine Rice Market 0 0 0 16 0 5 6 86
INVESTING IN SOILS: FIELD BUNDS AND MICROCATCHMENTS IN BURKINA FASO 0 0 0 23 1 5 8 196
Impact Assessment of African Agricultural Technology Development and Transfer: Synthesis of Findings and Lessons Learned 0 0 1 15 0 2 4 70
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India 0 0 0 8 4 13 15 80
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India 0 0 0 9 2 9 9 52
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 0 46 4 9 15 94
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 0 31 4 12 13 58
Improving child nutrition through quality certification of infant foods: policy implications of a scoping study in Ghana 0 0 0 3 0 3 3 25
Improving child nutrition through quality certification of infant foods: scoping study from a randomized trial in Ghana 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 21
Least-cost diets to teach optimization and consumer behavior, with applications to health equity, poverty measurement and international development 0 0 0 6 1 1 2 12
Linkages between Market Participation and Productivity: Results from a Multi-Country Farm Household Sample 1 1 1 146 4 7 10 517
MEASURING PROTECTION IN AGRICULTURE: THE PRODUCER SUBSIDY EQUIVALENT REVISITED 0 0 0 55 0 7 10 255
Market access and child nutrition in a conflict environment 0 0 0 11 5 26 28 115
Measuring Access to Nutritious Diets in Africa: Novel Price Indexes for Diet Diversity and the Cost of Nutrient Adequacy 0 0 0 27 0 15 15 71
Measuring Resilience: A Triple-Difference Approach 0 0 1 20 0 2 5 48
Methods and options to monitor the cost and affordability of a healthy diet globally Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 0 0 2 89 0 10 22 208
Misreporting Month of Birth: Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Low-Income Countries 0 0 0 1 1 6 8 23
Misreporting Month of Birth: Implications for nutrition research 0 0 0 2 0 3 4 20
Misreporting month of birth: Implications for nutrition research 0 0 0 12 1 5 8 46
Missing prices in CPI data reflect both seasonal availability and random omissions: Evidence from a novel survey of market informants in Malawi 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 8
Nutrient and mycotoxin content of commercially-sold premixed infant cereals in Malawi 0 0 0 3 1 8 10 29
Nutrition smoothing: Can access to towns and cities protect children against poor health conditions at birth? 0 0 0 6 0 1 3 56
Orange Fanta vs orange fruit: A novel measure of nutrition knowledge and women’s diet quality in Malawi 0 0 1 26 0 3 5 56
PROPERTY RIGHTS, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND DEFORESTATION: COCOA IN WEST AFRICA 0 0 0 34 2 3 6 237
Performance bonuses for public services: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India 0 0 0 34 0 6 9 27
RESEARCH PRIZES: A MECHANISM TO REWARD INNOVATION IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE 0 0 0 4 0 2 5 49
Regionalism in World Food Markets: Implications for Trade and Welfare 0 0 0 9 0 4 5 34
Research Ethics Beyond the IRB: Selection Bias and the Direction of Innovation in Applied Economics 0 0 0 3 1 4 9 21
Retail Food Price Vulnerability to Extreme Weather Events 0 0 0 8 0 3 3 17
Retail prices, environmental footprints, and nutritional profiles of commonly sold retail food items in 181 countries 0 1 3 6 1 6 17 25
Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 43 1 7 8 158
Rural demography, public services, and land rights in Africa: A village-level analysis in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 34 0 12 17 118
SOIL DEGRADATION, TECHNICAL CHANGE AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES IN SOUTHERN MALI 0 0 0 55 2 7 9 276
Seasonality in the cost of nutritious diets by region in Tanzania 0 0 0 8 1 6 6 30
Sources, intake levels, and shadow prices of essential nutrients in rural Malawi: Evidence from household surveys and market prices reveal the cost of vitamins and minerals 0 0 1 4 1 7 9 25
Stringency of COVID-19 movement restrictions are associated with elevated retail food prices: evidence from 133 countries 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
TESTING THE LINK BETWEEN PUBLIC INTERVENTION AND FOOD PRICE VARIABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM RICE MARKETS IN THE PHILIPPINES 0 0 0 40 0 5 6 128
THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 1 1 7 1 9 12 31
THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 54 1 7 8 291
THE VALUE OF QUALITY CERTIFICATION FOR INFANT FOODS: RESULTS FROM A MARKET EXPERIMENT IN MALI 0 0 0 9 0 3 3 38
The Distribution Of Child Nutritional Status Across Countries And Over Time 0 0 0 15 2 8 10 98
The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy: Global Trends and Future Prospects 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 5
The economics of malnutrition: Dietary transition and food system transformation 0 0 3 23 1 4 11 35
The role of leadership in democratic deliberations: Results from a field experiment in sao tome and principe 0 0 2 25 0 9 17 163
Welfare gains from quality certification of infant foods: Results from a market experiment in mali 0 0 0 12 0 5 6 83
Why are nutritious foods so expensive? Economic development and the cost of nutritious diets 0 0 0 30 0 3 3 81
Willingness to Pay for Hermetic Grain Storage Bags in Malawi 0 1 2 5 1 13 29 98
Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experimental Results 0 0 1 89 2 20 27 124
Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experimental Results 1 1 7 240 4 14 30 925
Total Working Papers 2 11 56 4,376 93 681 1,045 21,348
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A Spatial Analysis of Maize Marketing Policy Reforms in Zambia 0 0 0 7 0 6 7 60
A market-based approach to child nutrition: mothers' demand for quality certification of infant foods in Bamako, Mali 0 0 0 14 0 3 7 155
Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts 0 0 0 7 2 3 5 30
Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization: Global analysis at the grid cell level 0 0 0 62 3 10 16 324
An African Growth Trap: Production Technology and the Time‐Consistency of Agricultural Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 35 0 0 3 174
Assessing the affordability of nutrient‐adequate diets 0 0 0 2 1 4 8 12
Beyond Calories: The New Economics of Nutrition 0 0 0 8 2 6 10 37
Book reviews 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity and the intergenerational transmission of relative height 0 0 0 1 3 14 17 37
Climate and Scale in Economic Growth 0 1 2 195 0 6 11 774
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 8 1 7 10 82
Collier, Paul The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It 0 0 0 10 0 4 4 97
Complementarity and sequencing of innovations: new varieties and mechanized processing for cassava in West Africa 0 0 0 31 0 3 5 212
Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries 0 0 1 5 0 5 11 49
Diffusion and spillover of new technology: a heterogeneous‐agent model for cassava in West Africa 0 0 0 54 0 5 9 227
Disease control, demographic change and institutional development in Africa 0 0 1 25 0 3 8 180
Does Child Undernutrition Persist Despite Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries? Quantile Regression Results 0 0 0 24 0 3 4 82
Effects and determinants of mild underweight among preschool children across countries and over time 0 0 0 17 2 4 5 101
Ellis, Frank. Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992, xv + 357 pp., $69.95, $29.95 paper 0 0 0 6 1 5 8 39
Entry into winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: An experimental study 0 0 0 155 1 7 21 467
First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries 0 0 0 3 0 2 6 16
Front Matter and "The Scope and Sequence of Maize Market Reform in Zimbabwe" 0 0 0 8 1 7 8 61
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 1 5 0 3 6 70
Introduction to the special issue on the world food crisis 0 0 0 49 0 1 3 253
Investing in soils: field bunds and microcatchments in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 30 1 4 8 175
Libéraliser l'agriculture mondiale? Théories, modèles et réalités 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 99
Measuring exchange rate misalignment: Inflation differentials and domestic relative prices 0 1 2 68 0 3 8 229
Measuring the Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Africa: Price Indexes for Diet Diversity and the Cost of Nutrient Adequacy 0 0 0 4 2 6 8 38
Measuring the Comparative Advantage of Agricultural Activities: Domestic Resource Costs and the Social Cost-Benefit Ratio 0 1 1 12 0 5 6 62
Measuring the impacts of Malawi’s farm input subsidy programme 0 2 5 106 2 32 51 455
Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries 0 0 2 8 2 8 16 46
Panterritorial versus regional pricing for maize in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 28 1 2 5 128
Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali 0 0 0 0 2 5 5 8
Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali 0 0 0 19 0 1 2 123
Performance bonuses in the public sector: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India 0 0 0 5 1 6 11 36
Production costs and input substitution in Zimbabwe's smallholder agriculture 0 0 0 63 0 4 11 206
Production costs and input substitution in Zimbabwe's smallholder agriculture 0 0 0 1 0 3 7 12
Property rights, production technology, and deforestation: cocoa in Cameroon 0 0 0 42 0 5 8 341
Research ethics beyond the IRB: Selection bias and the direction of innovation in applied economics 0 0 1 3 3 6 7 25
Returns from research in economies with policy distortions: hybrid sorghum in Sudan 0 1 1 21 0 2 2 143
Returns from research in economies with policy distortions: hybrid sorghum in Sudan 0 1 1 2 3 6 7 14
Review: Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and opportunities to monitor food systems for nutrition 0 0 0 4 1 6 8 34
SPATIAL INEQUALITY: OVERCOMING NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS IN AFRICA 0 0 0 110 0 2 4 473
Technical change in Senegal's irrigated rice sector: impact assessment under uncertainty 0 0 0 31 3 6 9 134
The Uruguay Round and Africa: A Global, General Equilibrium Analysis 0 0 0 0 0 7 12 292
The impact of agricultural research in Africa: aggregate and case study evidence 0 0 1 3 1 1 3 12
The impact of agricultural research in Africa: aggregate and case study evidence 0 0 0 51 0 3 5 167
The nutrition transition and agricultural transformation: a Preston curve approach 0 0 0 1 1 9 10 29
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide 0 0 3 4 3 14 22 28
Understanding the Political Economy of Agriculture in the Tropics 0 0 0 54 0 1 4 178
Welfare Gains from Quality Certification of Infant Foods: Results from a Market Experiment in Mali 0 0 0 30 2 6 8 150
William A. Masters 0 0 0 2 0 3 3 30
Winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: Theory and experimental results 0 2 8 57 1 13 38 303
Total Journal Articles 0 9 30 1,490 46 283 485 7,514
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa 0 0 1 27 1 3 8 138
Food Economics 0 0 0 1 0 4 5 7
Total Books 0 0 1 28 1 7 13 145


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Agriculture and undernutrition 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 14
Agriculture for nutrition: Direct and indirect effects 0 0 0 4 0 2 5 28
Climate, Agriculture, and Economic Development 0 0 1 2 0 2 5 9
Collective Action: Government Policies and Programs 0 0 0 0 1 6 9 13
Demographic Pressure and Institutional Change: Village-Level Response to Rural Population Growth in Burkina Faso 1 1 1 8 3 7 10 56
Food and Health: Behavioral Economics and Response to Intervention 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 10
Food in the Macroeconomy: The Whole is More Than the Sum of its Parts 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 7
From Local to Global: International Trade and Value Chains 0 0 0 0 0 5 9 10
Individual Choices: Explaining Food Consumption and Production 0 0 0 0 3 4 7 9
International Development: Systemic Change Over Time 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
Market Power: Imperfect Competition and Strategic Behavior 0 0 0 0 1 4 7 13
Poverty and Risk: Variation Among People and Over Time 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
Social Welfare: Evaluating Change in Food Markets 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
Societal Outcomes: Predicting Food Market Prices and Quantities 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 5
The Future of Food: Meeting Human Needs with Systemic Change 0 0 0 0 2 4 7 8
Total Chapters 1 1 2 15 12 52 89 192


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