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A Political Economy Model of Agricultural Taxation, R&D, and Growth in Africa 0 0 0 115 0 1 5 388
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 7 21 414
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 2 6 42
Africa's Growth Trap: A Political-Economy Model of Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 357 1 3 9 1,205
Africa's Growth Trap: A Political-Economy Model of Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 3 0 2 4 26
Africa's growth trap: a political-economy model of taxation, R&D and investment 0 0 0 14 0 4 11 91
Agricultural Price Distortion and Stabilization 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 5
Agricultural Price Distortion and Stabilization: Stylized facts and Hypothesis Tests 0 0 0 111 0 0 21 437
Agricultural Prices and Income Distribution among Farmers: A Whole-Household, Multi-Country, Multi-Year Analysis 0 0 1 97 1 4 10 288
Agriculture and undernutrition through the lens of economics 0 0 0 22 0 0 2 24
Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization: Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 61 1 7 17 278
Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets 0 0 0 5 0 2 7 11
Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets 0 0 1 6 0 3 15 23
Availability of Healthy Diets in 174 Countries, 1961-2019: A Food System Assessment 0 0 0 2 0 1 15 15
Availability, Seasonality, and Affordability of Nutritious Diets for All – Evidence from Malawi 0 0 0 3 0 2 7 14
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 2 9 66
Beyond the IRB: Towards a typology of research ethics in applied economics 0 0 0 28 1 3 12 100
Borders and Barriers: Spatial Analysis of Agricultural Output Spillovers at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 36 0 6 13 160
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity, and the intergenerational transmission of relative height 0 0 0 4 1 7 32 55
Cartel Pricing with Entry: the Experience of the Far West Marketing Order for Spearmint 0 0 0 16 1 3 6 121
Child Undernutrition, Household Poverty and National Income in Developing Countries: Quantile Regression Results 0 0 0 42 0 3 12 137
Climate and Scale In Economic Growth 0 0 1 472 0 1 13 1,872
Climate and Scale in Economic Growth 0 0 1 14 0 4 13 99
Climate and scale in economic growth 0 0 0 26 1 4 16 209
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 12 0 4 20 148
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 25 1 5 16 137
Contests with Random Noise and a Shared Prize 0 0 0 8 0 2 9 53
Cost and affordability of healthy diets across and within countries 1 2 9 89 3 17 66 430
Diet costs by level of food processing in 177 countries, 2011 and 2017 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 4
Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa 0 0 0 71 0 2 12 127
Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa 0 0 1 45 1 1 5 102
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa 0 0 1 43 0 5 19 173
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Cameroon 0 0 0 21 0 3 10 122
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Senegal 0 0 0 10 0 5 9 68
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Sub-Saharan and North Africa 0 0 0 24 1 2 11 94
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Sub-Saharan and North Africa 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 8
Distortions to agricultural incentives in Cameroon 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 7
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 2 6 26
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 4 43
EFFECTS AND DETERMINANTS OF MILD UNDERWEIGHT AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 1 0 4 13 35
EFFECTS AND DETERMINANTS OF MILD UNDERWEIGHT AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 53 0 3 8 444
ENTRY INTO WINNER-TAKE-ALL AND PROPORTIONAL-PRIZE CONTESTS:AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY 0 0 0 48 2 5 15 185
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 9 0 2 20 100
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 102 1 2 28 376
Ethnolinguistic Diversity, Government Expenditures and Economic Growth Across Countries 0 0 0 118 0 1 6 564
Europe, South Africa, and Southern Africa: Regional Integration in a Global Context 0 0 0 1 0 2 9 697
Europe, South Africa, and Southern Africa: Regional Integration in a Global Context 0 0 0 0 0 3 13 949
Evaluating the Economic Efficiency of Agricultural Activities in Developing Countries: Domestic Resource Costs and the Social Cost-Benefit Ration 0 0 1 9 0 1 11 46
Farm Productivity and Household Market Participation: Evidence from LSMS Data 0 0 0 69 1 6 23 233
Farm production, child dietary intake and household wealth: Results from a nationally-representative survey in Nepal 0 0 0 4 0 2 9 33
GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF REAL INCOME: A SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION APPROACH 0 0 0 0 0 3 12 35
GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF REAL INCOME:A SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION APPROACH 0 0 0 157 0 0 4 771
Geography and Economic Transition: Global Spatial Analysis at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 116 3 5 11 746
Global analysis reveals persistent shortfalls and regional differences in availability of foods needed for health 0 0 1 4 0 3 16 34
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 0 3 0 2 12 39
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 1 27 0 4 9 163
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 2 339 0 1 22 3,081
How Far Has Africa Come in Reducing its Anti-agricultural Policy Bias? 0 0 0 21 1 3 7 139
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 0 1 4 1 3 9 15
How Successful Are Government Interventions in Food Markets? Insights from the Philippine Rice Market 0 1 1 17 0 5 12 92
INVESTING IN SOILS: FIELD BUNDS AND MICROCATCHMENTS IN BURKINA FASO 0 0 0 23 1 6 14 202
Impact Assessment of African Agricultural Technology Development and Transfer: Synthesis of Findings and Lessons Learned 0 0 0 15 1 1 4 71
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India 0 0 0 8 0 2 17 82
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India 0 0 0 9 0 2 11 54
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 0 46 1 3 15 97
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 0 31 0 5 20 65
Improving child nutrition through quality certification of infant foods: policy implications of a scoping study in Ghana 0 0 0 3 0 4 7 29
Improving child nutrition through quality certification of infant foods: scoping study from a randomized trial in Ghana 0 0 0 1 0 5 7 26
Least-cost diets to teach optimization and consumer behavior, with applications to health equity, poverty measurement and international development 1 1 1 7 1 7 10 20
Linkages between Market Participation and Productivity: Results from a Multi-Country Farm Household Sample 0 0 1 146 1 2 12 519
MEASURING PROTECTION IN AGRICULTURE: THE PRODUCER SUBSIDY EQUIVALENT REVISITED 0 0 0 55 0 1 10 256
Market access and child nutrition in a conflict environment 0 0 0 11 1 4 36 123
Measuring Access to Nutritious Diets in Africa: Novel Price Indexes for Diet Diversity and the Cost of Nutrient Adequacy 0 0 0 27 0 1 16 72
Measuring Resilience: A Triple-Difference Approach 0 0 1 20 0 4 9 52
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 1 2 24 212
Misreporting Month of Birth: Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Low-Income Countries 0 0 0 1 0 2 10 26
Misreporting Month of Birth: Implications for nutrition research 0 0 0 2 0 3 7 23
Misreporting month of birth: Implications for nutrition research 0 0 0 12 0 1 11 49
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 6 11
Nutrient and mycotoxin content of commercially-sold premixed infant cereals in Malawi 0 0 0 3 0 2 13 32
Nutrition smoothing: Can access to towns and cities protect children against poor health conditions at birth? 0 0 0 6 1 8 12 65
Orange Fanta vs orange fruit: A novel measure of nutrition knowledge and women’s diet quality in Malawi 0 0 0 26 0 3 9 61
PROPERTY RIGHTS, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND DEFORESTATION: COCOA IN WEST AFRICA 0 0 0 34 0 4 11 242
Performance bonuses for public services: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India 0 0 0 34 0 0 9 27
RESEARCH PRIZES: A MECHANISM TO REWARD INNOVATION IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 49
Regionalism in World Food Markets: Implications for Trade and Welfare 0 0 0 9 0 0 5 34
Research Ethics Beyond the IRB: Selection Bias and the Direction of Innovation in Applied Economics 0 0 0 3 0 3 11 25
Retail Food Price Vulnerability to Extreme Weather Events 0 1 2 10 0 4 8 22
Retail prices, environmental footprints, and nutritional profiles of commonly sold retail food items in 181 countries 0 0 3 6 0 8 23 33
Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 43 1 2 10 160
Rural demography, public services, and land rights in Africa: A village-level analysis in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 34 0 3 19 121
SOIL DEGRADATION, TECHNICAL CHANGE AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES IN SOUTHERN MALI 0 0 0 55 0 3 12 280
Seasonality in the cost of nutritious diets by region in Tanzania 0 0 0 8 0 0 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 0 3 13 29
Stringency of COVID-19 movement restrictions are associated with elevated retail food prices: evidence from 133 countries 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 19
TESTING THE LINK BETWEEN PUBLIC INTERVENTION AND FOOD PRICE VARIABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM RICE MARKETS IN THE PHILIPPINES 0 0 0 40 0 2 8 130
THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 54 0 0 9 292
THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 1 7 1 2 14 34
THE VALUE OF QUALITY CERTIFICATION FOR INFANT FOODS: RESULTS FROM A MARKET EXPERIMENT IN MALI 0 0 0 9 1 3 6 41
The Distribution Of Child Nutritional Status Across Countries And Over Time 0 0 0 15 1 3 14 102
The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy: Global Trends and Future Prospects 0 0 0 0 0 4 9 9
The economics of malnutrition: Dietary transition and food system transformation 1 1 5 25 3 7 19 44
The role of leadership in democratic deliberations: Results from a field experiment in sao tome and principe 0 0 2 26 1 3 17 167
Welfare gains from quality certification of infant foods: Results from a market experiment in mali 0 0 0 12 1 3 9 86
Why are nutritious foods so expensive? Economic development and the cost of nutritious diets 0 0 0 30 0 1 5 83
Willingness to Pay for Hermetic Grain Storage Bags in Malawi 0 2 3 7 2 11 34 110
Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experimental Results 0 0 0 89 2 5 32 132
Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experimental Results 0 0 5 240 1 7 35 935
Total Working Papers 3 8 51 4,388 45 344 1,381 21,782
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A Spatial Analysis of Maize Marketing Policy Reforms in Zambia 0 0 0 7 1 5 13 66
A market-based approach to child nutrition: mothers' demand for quality certification of infant foods in Bamako, Mali 0 0 0 14 0 4 11 159
Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts 0 0 0 7 0 0 5 30
Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization: Global analysis at the grid cell level 0 0 0 62 0 1 15 326
An African Growth Trap: Production Technology and the Time‐Consistency of Agricultural Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 35 0 4 8 179
Assessing the affordability of nutrient‐adequate diets 0 0 0 2 0 2 10 15
Beyond Calories: The New Economics of Nutrition 0 1 1 9 0 3 11 40
Book reviews 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 9
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity and the intergenerational transmission of relative height 0 0 0 1 0 2 19 39
Climate and Scale in Economic Growth 0 0 1 195 0 2 12 777
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 8 1 6 17 90
Collier, Paul The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It 0 0 0 10 1 2 6 99
Complementarity and sequencing of innovations: new varieties and mechanized processing for cassava in West Africa 0 0 0 31 1 2 8 215
Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries 0 0 0 5 1 3 14 53
Diffusion and spillover of new technology: a heterogeneous‐agent model for cassava in West Africa 0 0 0 54 0 6 15 234
Disease control, demographic change and institutional development in Africa 0 0 0 25 0 2 8 183
Does Child Undernutrition Persist Despite Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries? Quantile Regression Results 0 0 0 24 0 2 6 84
Effects and determinants of mild underweight among preschool children across countries and over time 0 0 0 17 0 3 10 106
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 2 9 41
Entry into winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: An experimental study 0 0 0 155 1 6 24 475
First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries 0 0 0 3 0 3 8 19
Front Matter and "The Scope and Sequence of Maize Market Reform in Zimbabwe" 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 61
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 1 5 0 2 9 73
Introduction to the special issue on the world food crisis 0 0 0 49 0 2 6 256
Investing in soils: field bunds and microcatchments in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 30 1 4 13 180
Libéraliser l'agriculture mondiale? Théories, modèles et réalités 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 101
Measuring exchange rate misalignment: Inflation differentials and domestic relative prices 0 0 2 68 0 2 11 234
Measuring the Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Africa: Price Indexes for Diet Diversity and the Cost of Nutrient Adequacy 0 1 1 5 1 4 14 44
Measuring the Comparative Advantage of Agricultural Activities: Domestic Resource Costs and the Social Cost-Benefit Ratio 0 0 1 12 0 4 12 69
Measuring the impacts of Malawi’s farm input subsidy programme 0 0 5 107 2 9 60 468
Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries 0 0 2 8 1 7 23 54
Panterritorial versus regional pricing for maize in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 28 0 1 6 129
Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 10
Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali 0 0 0 19 0 4 6 127
Performance bonuses in the public sector: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India 0 0 0 5 0 1 12 37
Production costs and input substitution in Zimbabwe's smallholder agriculture 0 0 0 63 0 4 14 211
Production costs and input substitution in Zimbabwe's smallholder agriculture 0 0 0 1 0 3 10 15
Property rights, production technology, and deforestation: cocoa in Cameroon 0 0 0 42 0 4 11 345
Research ethics beyond the IRB: Selection bias and the direction of innovation in applied economics 0 0 1 3 0 2 10 28
Returns from research in economies with policy distortions: hybrid sorghum in Sudan 0 0 1 21 0 2 5 146
Returns from research in economies with policy distortions: hybrid sorghum in Sudan 0 0 1 2 0 1 7 15
Review: Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and opportunities to monitor food systems for nutrition 0 0 0 4 0 4 11 39
SPATIAL INEQUALITY: OVERCOMING NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS IN AFRICA 0 0 0 110 1 5 7 478
Technical change in Senegal's irrigated rice sector: impact assessment under uncertainty 0 0 0 31 0 0 9 134
The Uruguay Round and Africa: A Global, General Equilibrium Analysis 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 293
The impact of agricultural research in Africa: aggregate and case study evidence 0 0 0 51 1 3 9 171
The impact of agricultural research in Africa: aggregate and case study evidence 0 0 1 3 0 1 4 13
The nutrition transition and agricultural transformation: a Preston curve approach 0 0 0 1 0 1 11 30
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide 0 0 4 5 1 9 32 39
Understanding the Political Economy of Agriculture in the Tropics 0 0 0 54 0 1 5 179
Welfare Gains from Quality Certification of Infant Foods: Results from a Market Experiment in Mali 0 0 0 30 0 3 10 153
William A. Masters 0 0 0 2 0 2 5 32
Winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: Theory and experimental results 0 0 6 57 0 6 39 312
Total Journal Articles 0 2 28 1,494 15 160 638 7,715
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa 0 0 1 27 0 1 11 141
Food Economics 0 0 0 1 1 4 9 12
Total Books 0 0 1 28 1 5 20 153


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Agriculture and undernutrition 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 15
Agriculture for nutrition: Direct and indirect effects 0 0 0 4 0 1 5 29
Climate, Agriculture, and Economic Development 1 1 2 3 1 3 7 12
Collective Action: Government Policies and Programs 0 0 0 0 0 4 13 18
Demographic Pressure and Institutional Change: Village-Level Response to Rural Population Growth in Burkina Faso 0 0 1 8 0 4 12 60
Food and Health: Behavioral Economics and Response to Intervention 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 12
Food in the Macroeconomy: The Whole is More Than the Sum of its Parts 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7
From Local to Global: International Trade and Value Chains 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 11
Individual Choices: Explaining Food Consumption and Production 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 11
International Development: Systemic Change Over Time 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 6
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3
Market Power: Imperfect Competition and Strategic Behavior 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 16
Poverty and Risk: Variation Among People and Over Time 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3
Social Welfare: Evaluating Change in Food Markets 0 0 0 0 6 7 10 10
Societal Outcomes: Predicting Food Market Prices and Quantities 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 8
The Future of Food: Meeting Human Needs with Systemic Change 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 9
Total Chapters 1 1 3 16 10 32 111 230


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