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A Political Economy Model of Agricultural Taxation, R&D, and Growth in Africa 0 0 0 115 0 1 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 1 5 14 407
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 3 4 40
Africa's Growth Trap: A Political-Economy Model of Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 357 1 4 6 1,202
Africa's Growth Trap: A Political-Economy Model of Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 24
Africa's growth trap: a political-economy model of taxation, R&D and investment 0 0 0 14 1 4 7 87
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 15 19 22 437
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 0 1 2 24
Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization: Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 61 1 7 10 271
Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets 0 0 1 6 1 4 13 20
Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets 0 0 0 5 1 3 6 9
Availability of Healthy Diets in 174 Countries, 1961-2019: A Food System Assessment 0 0 0 2 0 3 14 14
Availability, Seasonality, and Affordability of Nutritious Diets for All – Evidence from Malawi 0 0 0 3 1 2 5 12
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 7 64
Beyond the IRB: Towards a typology of research ethics in applied economics 0 0 0 28 2 6 9 97
Borders and Barriers: Spatial Analysis of Agricultural Output Spillovers at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 36 0 2 8 154
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity, and the intergenerational transmission of relative height 0 0 0 4 3 13 25 48
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 3 9 134
Climate and Scale In Economic Growth 0 1 2 472 0 7 13 1,871
Climate and Scale in Economic Growth 0 0 1 14 0 3 12 95
Climate and scale in economic growth 0 0 1 26 0 5 15 205
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 12 0 8 20 144
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 25 1 3 12 132
Contests with Random Noise and a Shared Prize 0 0 0 8 2 7 8 51
Cost and affordability of healthy diets across and within countries 1 2 11 87 6 20 60 413
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 1 1 45 0 1 4 101
Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa 0 0 0 71 0 6 10 125
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa 0 0 1 43 1 5 15 168
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Cameroon 0 0 0 21 1 5 7 119
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Senegal 0 0 0 10 1 1 4 63
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 2 3 9 92
Distortions to agricultural incentives in Cameroon 0 0 0 0 1 5 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 0 3 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 1 0 6 9 31
EFFECTS AND DETERMINANTS OF MILD UNDERWEIGHT AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 53 0 3 5 441
ENTRY INTO WINNER-TAKE-ALL AND PROPORTIONAL-PRIZE CONTESTS:AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY 0 0 0 48 2 6 10 180
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 102 0 24 27 374
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 9 1 15 18 98
Ethnolinguistic Diversity, Government Expenditures and Economic Growth Across Countries 0 0 0 118 0 1 5 563
Europe, South Africa, and Southern Africa: Regional Integration in a Global Context 0 0 0 0 0 7 10 946
Europe, South Africa, and Southern Africa: Regional Integration in a Global Context 0 0 0 1 0 4 7 695
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 11 45
Farm Productivity and Household Market Participation: Evidence from LSMS Data 0 0 0 69 1 6 18 227
Farm production, child dietary intake and household wealth: Results from a nationally-representative survey in Nepal 0 0 0 4 0 4 7 31
GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF REAL INCOME: A SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION APPROACH 0 0 0 0 0 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 3 6 741
Global analysis reveals persistent shortfalls and regional differences in availability of foods needed for health 0 0 2 4 0 6 17 31
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 2 339 1 5 23 3,080
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 2 27 2 4 7 159
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 0 3 2 7 10 37
How Far Has Africa Come in Reducing its Anti-agricultural Policy Bias? 0 0 0 21 0 2 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 0 1 4 1 2 6 12
How Successful Are Government Interventions in Food Markets? Insights from the Philippine Rice Market 0 0 0 16 1 6 7 87
INVESTING IN SOILS: FIELD BUNDS AND MICROCATCHMENTS IN BURKINA FASO 0 0 0 23 0 3 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 0 13 15 80
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India 0 0 0 9 0 7 9 52
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 0 46 0 8 13 94
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 0 31 2 10 15 60
Improving child nutrition through quality certification of infant foods: policy implications of a scoping study in Ghana 0 0 0 3 0 2 3 25
Improving child nutrition through quality certification of infant foods: scoping study from a randomized trial in Ghana 0 0 0 1 0 1 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 2 3 13
Linkages between Market Participation and Productivity: Results from a Multi-Country Farm Household Sample 0 1 1 146 0 6 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 4 13 32 119
Measuring Access to Nutritious Diets in Africa: Novel Price Indexes for Diet Diversity and the Cost of Nutrient Adequacy 0 0 0 27 0 4 15 71
Measuring Resilience: A Triple-Difference Approach 0 0 1 20 0 1 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 2 8 22 210
Misreporting Month of Birth: Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Low-Income Countries 0 0 0 1 1 7 9 24
Misreporting Month of Birth: Implications for nutrition research 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 20
Misreporting month of birth: Implications for nutrition research 0 0 0 12 2 5 10 48
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 9
Nutrient and mycotoxin content of commercially-sold premixed infant cereals in Malawi 0 0 0 3 1 7 11 30
Nutrition smoothing: Can access to towns and cities protect children against poor health conditions at birth? 0 0 0 6 1 2 4 57
Orange Fanta vs orange fruit: A novel measure of nutrition knowledge and women’s diet quality in Malawi 0 0 1 26 2 5 7 58
PROPERTY RIGHTS, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND DEFORESTATION: COCOA IN WEST AFRICA 0 0 0 34 1 4 7 238
Performance bonuses for public services: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India 0 0 0 34 0 4 9 27
RESEARCH PRIZES: A MECHANISM TO REWARD INNOVATION IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE 0 0 0 4 0 1 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 5 9 22
Retail Food Price Vulnerability to Extreme Weather Events 1 1 1 9 1 3 4 18
Retail prices, environmental footprints, and nutritional profiles of commonly sold retail food items in 181 countries 0 1 3 6 0 3 16 25
Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 43 0 6 8 158
Rural demography, public services, and land rights in Africa: A village-level analysis in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 34 0 10 16 118
SOIL DEGRADATION, TECHNICAL CHANGE AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES IN SOUTHERN MALI 0 0 0 55 1 7 9 277
Seasonality in the cost of nutritious diets by region in Tanzania 0 0 0 8 0 5 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 8 10 26
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 0 0 54 1 5 9 292
THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 1 7 1 6 13 32
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 1 6 11 99
The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy: Global Trends and Future Prospects 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 5
The economics of malnutrition: Dietary transition and food system transformation 1 1 4 24 2 4 13 37
The role of leadership in democratic deliberations: Results from a field experiment in sao tome and principe 1 1 2 26 1 7 17 164
Welfare gains from quality certification of infant foods: Results from a market experiment in mali 0 0 0 12 0 4 6 83
Why are nutritious foods so expensive? Economic development and the cost of nutritious diets 0 0 0 30 1 4 4 82
Willingness to Pay for Hermetic Grain Storage Bags in Malawi 0 0 2 5 1 11 28 99
Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experimental Results 0 1 7 240 3 13 32 928
Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experimental Results 0 0 1 89 3 21 30 127
Total Working Papers 4 11 57 4,380 90 575 1,109 21,438
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A Spatial Analysis of Maize Marketing Policy Reforms in Zambia 0 0 0 7 1 3 8 61
A market-based approach to child nutrition: mothers' demand for quality certification of infant foods in Bamako, Mali 0 0 0 14 0 2 7 155
Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts 0 0 0 7 0 2 5 30
Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization: Global analysis at the grid cell level 0 0 0 62 1 10 15 325
An African Growth Trap: Production Technology and the Time‐Consistency of Agricultural Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 35 1 1 4 175
Assessing the affordability of nutrient‐adequate diets 0 0 0 2 1 3 9 13
Beyond Calories: The New Economics of Nutrition 0 0 0 8 0 6 9 37
Book reviews 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity and the intergenerational transmission of relative height 0 0 0 1 0 10 17 37
Climate and Scale in Economic Growth 0 1 2 195 1 3 12 775
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 8 2 9 12 84
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 1 2 6 213
Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries 0 0 1 5 1 4 12 50
Diffusion and spillover of new technology: a heterogeneous‐agent model for cassava in West Africa 0 0 0 54 1 6 10 228
Disease control, demographic change and institutional development in Africa 0 0 1 25 1 4 8 181
Does Child Undernutrition Persist Despite Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries? Quantile Regression Results 0 0 0 24 0 2 4 82
Effects and determinants of mild underweight among preschool children across countries and over time 0 0 0 17 2 6 7 103
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 0 4 8 39
Entry into winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: An experimental study 0 0 0 155 2 9 21 469
First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries 0 0 0 3 0 1 6 16
Front Matter and "The Scope and Sequence of Maize Market Reform in Zimbabwe" 0 0 0 8 0 6 8 61
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 1 5 1 4 7 71
Introduction to the special issue on the world food crisis 0 0 0 49 1 1 4 254
Investing in soils: field bunds and microcatchments in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 30 1 5 9 176
Libéraliser l'agriculture mondiale? Théories, modèles et réalités 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 99
Measuring exchange rate misalignment: Inflation differentials and domestic relative prices 0 1 2 68 3 6 11 232
Measuring the Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Africa: Price Indexes for Diet Diversity and the Cost of Nutrient Adequacy 0 0 0 4 2 7 10 40
Measuring the Comparative Advantage of Agricultural Activities: Domestic Resource Costs and the Social Cost-Benefit Ratio 0 0 1 12 3 6 9 65
Measuring the impacts of Malawi’s farm input subsidy programme 1 3 6 107 4 20 53 459
Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries 0 0 2 8 1 8 16 47
Panterritorial versus regional pricing for maize in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 28 0 1 5 128
Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali 0 0 0 19 0 0 2 123
Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 8
Performance bonuses in the public sector: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India 0 0 0 5 0 5 11 36
Production costs and input substitution in Zimbabwe's smallholder agriculture 0 0 0 63 1 4 12 207
Production costs and input substitution in Zimbabwe's smallholder agriculture 0 0 0 1 0 2 7 12
Property rights, production technology, and deforestation: cocoa in Cameroon 0 0 0 42 0 4 8 341
Research ethics beyond the IRB: Selection bias and the direction of innovation in applied economics 0 0 1 3 1 7 8 26
Returns from research in economies with policy distortions: hybrid sorghum in Sudan 0 0 1 21 1 2 3 144
Returns from research in economies with policy distortions: hybrid sorghum in Sudan 0 0 1 2 0 5 7 14
Review: Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and opportunities to monitor food systems for nutrition 0 0 0 4 1 6 9 35
SPATIAL INEQUALITY: OVERCOMING NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS IN AFRICA 0 0 0 110 0 0 2 473
Technical change in Senegal's irrigated rice sector: impact assessment under uncertainty 0 0 0 31 0 4 9 134
The Uruguay Round and Africa: A Global, General Equilibrium Analysis 0 0 0 0 0 5 11 292
The impact of agricultural research in Africa: aggregate and case study evidence 0 0 0 51 1 3 6 168
The impact of agricultural research in Africa: aggregate and case study evidence 0 0 1 3 0 1 3 12
The nutrition transition and agricultural transformation: a Preston curve approach 0 0 0 1 0 2 10 29
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide 1 1 4 5 2 11 24 30
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 0 6 7 150
William A. Masters 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 30
Winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: Theory and experimental results 0 1 8 57 3 13 41 306
Total Journal Articles 2 7 32 1,492 41 243 513 7,555
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa 0 0 1 27 2 5 10 140
Food Economics 0 0 0 1 1 4 6 8
Total Books 0 0 1 28 3 9 16 148


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Agriculture and undernutrition 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 14
Agriculture for nutrition: Direct and indirect effects 0 0 0 4 0 1 4 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 14
Demographic Pressure and Institutional Change: Village-Level Response to Rural Population Growth in Burkina Faso 0 1 1 8 0 4 10 56
Food and Health: Behavioral Economics and Response to Intervention 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 10
Food in the Macroeconomy: The Whole is More Than the Sum of its Parts 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 7
From Local to Global: International Trade and Value Chains 0 0 0 0 1 3 10 11
Individual Choices: Explaining Food Consumption and Production 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 10
International Development: Systemic Change Over Time 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
Market Power: Imperfect Competition and Strategic Behavior 0 0 0 0 2 5 9 15
Poverty and Risk: Variation Among People and Over Time 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
Social Welfare: Evaluating Change in Food Markets 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 3
Societal Outcomes: Predicting Food Market Prices and Quantities 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 5
The Future of Food: Meeting Human Needs with Systemic Change 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 8
Total Chapters 0 1 2 15 6 41 91 198


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