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A Political Economy Model of Agricultural Taxation, R&D, and Growth in Africa 0 0 0 115 2 3 3 386
Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture 0 0 3 93 4 6 10 402
Advancing the use of household surveys for nutrition: Nutrient adequacy at the household level and the cost of nutritious diets in Malawi 0 0 1 14 1 1 4 37
Africa's Growth Trap: A Political-Economy Model of Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 357 2 2 2 1,198
Africa's Growth Trap: A Political-Economy Model of Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 24
Africa's growth trap: a political-economy model of taxation, R&D and investment 0 0 0 14 0 3 3 83
Agricultural Price Distortion and Stabilization 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Agricultural Price Distortion and Stabilization: Stylized facts and Hypothesis Tests 0 0 0 111 2 2 3 418
Agricultural Prices and Income Distribution among Farmers: A Whole-Household, Multi-Country, Multi-Year Analysis 0 1 2 97 0 3 4 281
Agriculture and undernutrition through the lens of economics 0 0 0 22 0 1 1 23
Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization: Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 61 0 1 4 264
Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets 0 1 1 6 4 7 9 16
Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets 0 0 0 5 0 2 3 6
Availability of Healthy Diets in 174 Countries, 1961-2019: A Food System Assessment 0 0 0 2 11 11 11 11
Availability, Seasonality, and Affordability of Nutritious Diets for All – Evidence from Malawi 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 10
Behavior Change for Early Childhood Nutrition: Effectiveness of Health Worker Training Depends on Maternal Information in a Randomized Control Trial 0 0 0 40 2 4 7 62
Beyond the IRB: Towards a typology of research ethics in applied economics 0 0 0 28 2 2 6 91
Borders and Barriers: Spatial Analysis of Agricultural Output Spillovers at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 36 3 4 7 152
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity, and the intergenerational transmission of relative height 0 0 0 4 4 9 13 35
Cartel Pricing with Entry: the Experience of the Far West Marketing Order for Spearmint 0 0 0 16 0 1 4 116
Child Undernutrition, Household Poverty and National Income in Developing Countries: Quantile Regression Results 0 0 0 42 5 6 6 131
Climate and Scale In Economic Growth 0 0 1 471 2 5 7 1,864
Climate and Scale in Economic Growth 0 1 1 14 1 5 9 92
Climate and scale in economic growth 0 0 1 26 1 5 10 200
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 25 2 4 11 129
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 12 3 5 14 136
Contests with Random Noise and a Shared Prize 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 44
Cost and affordability of healthy diets across and within countries 1 1 11 85 13 20 52 393
Diet costs by level of food processing in 177 countries, 2011 and 2017 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3
Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa 0 0 0 71 2 4 6 119
Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa 0 0 0 44 1 3 4 100
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa 0 1 1 43 3 8 10 163
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Cameroon 0 0 0 21 1 2 4 114
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Senegal 0 0 0 10 2 2 4 62
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Sub-Saharan and North Africa 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 5
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Sub-Saharan and North Africa 0 0 0 24 2 6 6 89
Distortions to agricultural incentives in Cameroon 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2
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 1 3 21
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 1 11 0 0 3 39
EFFECTS AND DETERMINANTS OF MILD UNDERWEIGHT AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 53 2 2 2 438
EFFECTS AND DETERMINANTS OF MILD UNDERWEIGHT AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 25
ENTRY INTO WINNER-TAKE-ALL AND PROPORTIONAL-PRIZE CONTESTS:AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY 0 0 0 48 2 3 5 174
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 9 1 3 3 83
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 102 0 2 4 350
Ethnolinguistic Diversity, Government Expenditures and Economic Growth Across Countries 0 0 0 118 2 4 4 562
Europe, South Africa, and Southern Africa: Regional Integration in a Global Context 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 939
Europe, South Africa, and Southern Africa: Regional Integration in a Global Context 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 691
Evaluating the Economic Efficiency of Agricultural Activities in Developing Countries: Domestic Resource Costs and the Social Cost-Benefit Ration 0 0 0 8 1 2 4 38
Farm Productivity and Household Market Participation: Evidence from LSMS Data 0 0 0 69 6 9 14 221
Farm production, child dietary intake and household wealth: Results from a nationally-representative survey in Nepal 0 0 0 4 1 1 5 27
GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF REAL INCOME: A SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION APPROACH 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 23
GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF REAL INCOME:A SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION APPROACH 0 0 0 157 0 2 3 769
Geography and Economic Transition: Global Spatial Analysis at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 116 2 3 3 738
Global analysis reveals persistent shortfalls and regional differences in availability of foods needed for health 0 0 3 4 1 5 19 25
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 3 339 2 6 22 3,075
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 0 3 1 2 4 30
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 2 27 0 0 4 155
How Far Has Africa Come in Reducing its Anti-agricultural Policy Bias? 0 0 0 21 2 2 3 134
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 1 1 1 4 1 1 6 10
INVESTING IN SOILS: FIELD BUNDS AND MICROCATCHMENTS IN BURKINA FASO 0 0 0 23 2 3 7 193
Impact Assessment of African Agricultural Technology Development and Transfer: Synthesis of Findings and Lessons Learned 0 0 1 15 0 0 2 68
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India 0 0 0 9 2 2 3 45
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India 0 0 0 8 0 2 3 67
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 0 46 1 3 7 86
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 0 31 4 5 5 50
Improving child nutrition through quality certification of infant foods: policy implications of a scoping study in Ghana 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 23
Improving child nutrition through quality certification of infant foods: scoping study from a randomized trial in Ghana 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 20
Least-cost diets to teach optimization and consumer behavior, with applications to health equity, poverty measurement and international development 0 0 1 6 0 1 3 11
Linkages between Market Participation and Productivity: Results from a Multi-Country Farm Household Sample 0 0 0 145 1 3 7 511
MEASURING PROTECTION IN AGRICULTURE: THE PRODUCER SUBSIDY EQUIVALENT REVISITED 0 0 0 55 0 2 3 248
Market access and child nutrition in a conflict environment 0 0 0 11 17 18 20 106
Measuring Access to Nutritious Diets in Africa: Novel Price Indexes for Diet Diversity and the Cost of Nutrient Adequacy 0 0 0 27 11 11 12 67
Measuring Resilience: A Triple-Difference Approach 0 0 2 20 1 2 6 47
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 4 8 16 202
Misreporting Month of Birth: Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Low-Income Countries 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 17
Misreporting Month of Birth: Implications for nutrition research 0 0 0 2 1 2 2 18
Misreporting month of birth: Implications for nutrition research 0 0 0 12 2 4 5 43
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 1 2 4 7
Nutrient and mycotoxin content of commercially-sold premixed infant cereals in Malawi 0 0 0 3 2 3 4 23
Nutrition smoothing: Can access to towns and cities protect children against poor health conditions at birth? 0 0 0 6 0 1 2 55
Orange Fanta vs orange fruit: A novel measure of nutrition knowledge and women’s diet quality in Malawi 0 0 1 26 0 1 2 53
PROPERTY RIGHTS, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND DEFORESTATION: COCOA IN WEST AFRICA 0 0 0 34 0 3 4 234
Performance bonuses for public services: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India 0 0 0 34 2 4 5 23
RESEARCH PRIZES: A MECHANISM TO REWARD INNOVATION IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE 0 0 0 4 1 1 6 48
Regionalism in World Food Markets: Implications for Trade and Welfare 0 0 1 9 0 1 2 30
Research Ethics Beyond the IRB: Selection Bias and the Direction of Innovation in Applied Economics 0 0 0 3 0 1 6 17
Retail Food Price Vulnerability to Extreme Weather Events 0 0 0 8 1 1 1 15
Retail prices, environmental footprints, and nutritional profiles of commonly sold retail food items in 181 countries 0 2 2 5 3 8 17 22
Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 43 1 2 3 152
Rural demography, public services, and land rights in Africa: A village-level analysis in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 34 2 6 7 108
SOIL DEGRADATION, TECHNICAL CHANGE AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES IN SOUTHERN MALI 0 0 0 55 1 2 5 270
Seasonality in the cost of nutritious diets by region in Tanzania 0 0 0 8 1 1 2 25
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 1 1 4 0 1 3 18
Stringency of COVID-19 movement restrictions are associated with elevated retail food prices: evidence from 133 countries 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10
TESTING THE LINK BETWEEN PUBLIC INTERVENTION AND FOOD PRICE VARIABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM RICE MARKETS IN THE PHILIPPINES 0 0 0 40 0 1 2 123
THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 54 3 4 4 287
THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 1 1 1 7 4 5 7 26
THE VALUE OF QUALITY CERTIFICATION FOR INFANT FOODS: RESULTS FROM A MARKET EXPERIMENT IN MALI 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 35
The Distribution Of Child Nutritional Status Across Countries And Over Time 0 0 0 15 3 5 6 93
The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy: Global Trends and Future Prospects 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
The economics of malnutrition: Dietary transition and food system transformation 0 1 3 23 2 5 9 33
The role of leadership in democratic deliberations: Results from a field experiment in sao tome and principe 0 1 2 25 3 7 13 157
Welfare gains from quality certification of infant foods: Results from a market experiment in mali 0 0 0 12 1 1 2 79
Why are nutritious foods so expensive? Economic development and the cost of nutritious diets 0 0 0 30 0 0 1 78
Willingness to Pay for Hermetic Grain Storage Bags in Malawi 1 1 3 5 3 8 21 88
Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experimental Results 0 0 1 89 2 4 9 106
Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experimental Results 0 0 7 239 4 7 26 915
Total Working Papers 4 13 60 4,353 196 353 655 20,782
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A Spatial Analysis of Maize Marketing Policy Reforms in Zambia 0 0 0 7 4 4 6 58
A market-based approach to child nutrition: mothers' demand for quality certification of infant foods in Bamako, Mali 0 0 0 14 1 5 5 153
Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts 0 0 0 7 1 2 3 28
Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization: Global analysis at the grid cell level 0 0 0 62 1 3 7 315
An African Growth Trap: Production Technology and the Time‐Consistency of Agricultural Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 35 0 3 3 174
Assessing the affordability of nutrient‐adequate diets 0 0 0 2 2 2 6 10
Beyond Calories: The New Economics of Nutrition 0 0 0 8 0 2 5 31
Book reviews 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 5
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity and the intergenerational transmission of relative height 0 0 0 1 4 6 8 27
Climate and Scale in Economic Growth 0 0 1 194 4 5 10 772
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 8 0 1 3 75
Collier, Paul The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 93
Complementarity and sequencing of innovations: new varieties and mechanized processing for cassava in West Africa 0 0 0 31 2 4 5 211
Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries 0 0 2 5 2 5 11 46
Diffusion and spillover of new technology: a heterogeneous‐agent model for cassava in West Africa 0 0 0 54 0 2 4 222
Disease control, demographic change and institutional development in Africa 0 0 1 25 0 2 5 177
Does Child Undernutrition Persist Despite Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries? Quantile Regression Results 0 0 0 24 1 2 3 80
Effects and determinants of mild underweight among preschool children across countries and over time 0 0 0 17 0 1 1 97
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 3 5 35
Entry into winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: An experimental study 0 0 0 155 0 6 15 460
First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries 0 0 0 3 1 2 5 15
Front Matter and "The Scope and Sequence of Maize Market Reform in Zimbabwe" 0 0 0 8 1 2 2 55
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 1 5 0 1 3 67
Introduction to the special issue on the world food crisis 0 0 0 49 1 3 4 253
Investing in soils: field bunds and microcatchments in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 30 0 4 4 171
Libéraliser l'agriculture mondiale? Théories, modèles et réalités 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 98
Measuring exchange rate misalignment: Inflation differentials and domestic relative prices 0 0 1 67 0 1 5 226
Measuring the Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Africa: Price Indexes for Diet Diversity and the Cost of Nutrient Adequacy 0 0 0 4 1 2 3 33
Measuring the Comparative Advantage of Agricultural Activities: Domestic Resource Costs and the Social Cost-Benefit Ratio 1 1 1 12 2 2 4 59
Measuring the impacts of Malawi’s farm input subsidy programme 0 2 3 104 16 30 37 439
Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries 0 1 2 8 1 4 10 39
Panterritorial versus regional pricing for maize in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 28 1 2 5 127
Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali 0 0 0 19 1 2 2 123
Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 4
Performance bonuses in the public sector: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India 0 0 0 5 1 1 6 31
Production costs and input substitution in Zimbabwe's smallholder agriculture 0 0 0 63 1 2 8 203
Production costs and input substitution in Zimbabwe's smallholder agriculture 0 0 0 1 1 5 5 10
Property rights, production technology, and deforestation: cocoa in Cameroon 0 0 0 42 1 2 4 337
Research ethics beyond the IRB: Selection bias and the direction of innovation in applied economics 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 19
Returns from research in economies with policy distortions: hybrid sorghum in Sudan 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 9
Returns from research in economies with policy distortions: hybrid sorghum in Sudan 1 1 1 21 1 1 1 142
Review: Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and opportunities to monitor food systems for nutrition 0 0 1 4 1 1 5 29
SPATIAL INEQUALITY: OVERCOMING NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS IN AFRICA 0 0 0 110 2 2 4 473
Technical change in Senegal's irrigated rice sector: impact assessment under uncertainty 0 0 0 31 2 4 6 130
The Uruguay Round and Africa: A Global, General Equilibrium Analysis 0 0 0 0 2 4 7 287
The impact of agricultural research in Africa: aggregate and case study evidence 0 0 0 51 1 2 4 165
The impact of agricultural research in Africa: aggregate and case study evidence 0 0 1 3 0 0 3 11
The nutrition transition and agricultural transformation: a Preston curve approach 0 0 0 1 7 8 8 27
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide 0 2 4 4 5 10 15 19
Understanding the Political Economy of Agriculture in the Tropics 0 0 0 54 0 3 4 177
Welfare Gains from Quality Certification of Infant Foods: Results from a Market Experiment in Mali 0 0 0 30 0 1 2 144
William A. Masters 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 28
Winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: Theory and experimental results 1 1 8 56 3 8 37 293
Total Journal Articles 4 10 29 1,485 81 175 324 7,312
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa 0 0 1 27 0 4 5 135
Food Economics 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 4
Total Books 0 0 1 28 1 5 7 139


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Agriculture and undernutrition 0 0 0 1 2 3 5 14
Agriculture for nutrition: Direct and indirect effects 0 0 0 4 1 2 4 27
Climate, Agriculture, and Economic Development 0 0 2 2 0 1 6 7
Collective Action: Government Policies and Programs 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 8
Demographic Pressure and Institutional Change: Village-Level Response to Rural Population Growth in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 7 3 4 6 52
Food and Health: Behavioral Economics and Response to Intervention 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 7
Food in the Macroeconomy: The Whole is More Than the Sum of its Parts 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 5
From Local to Global: International Trade and Value Chains 0 0 0 0 3 6 7 8
Individual Choices: Explaining Food Consumption and Production 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 6
International Development: Systemic Change Over Time 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 3
Introduction 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2
Market Power: Imperfect Competition and Strategic Behavior 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 10
Poverty and Risk: Variation Among People and Over Time 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Social Welfare: Evaluating Change in Food Markets 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Societal Outcomes: Predicting Food Market Prices and Quantities 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3
The Future of Food: Meeting Human Needs with Systemic Change 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 4
Total Chapters 0 0 2 14 17 32 64 157


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