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A Political Economy Model of Agricultural Taxation, R&D, and Growth in Africa 0 0 0 115 1 4 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 4 9 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 3 4 5 40
Africa's Growth Trap: A Political-Economy Model of Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 357 2 4 4 1,200
Africa's Growth Trap: A Political-Economy Model of Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 24
Africa's growth trap: a political-economy model of taxation, R&D and investment 0 0 0 14 3 5 6 86
Agricultural Price Distortion and Stabilization 0 0 0 0 3 3 4 4
Agricultural Price Distortion and Stabilization: Stylized facts and Hypothesis Tests 0 0 0 111 3 5 6 421
Agricultural Prices and Income Distribution among Farmers: A Whole-Household, Multi-Country, Multi-Year Analysis 0 1 2 97 3 4 7 284
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 1 2 5 265
Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets 0 0 1 6 3 9 12 19
Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets 0 0 0 5 2 4 5 8
Availability of Healthy Diets in 174 Countries, 1961-2019: A Food System Assessment 0 0 0 2 2 13 13 13
Availability, Seasonality, and Affordability of Nutritious Diets for All – Evidence from Malawi 0 0 0 3 1 3 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 2 5 8 64
Beyond the IRB: Towards a typology of research ethics in applied economics 0 0 0 28 3 5 8 94
Borders and Barriers: Spatial Analysis of Agricultural Output Spillovers at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 36 1 5 8 153
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity, and the intergenerational transmission of relative height 0 0 0 4 6 12 18 41
Cartel Pricing with Entry: the Experience of the Far West Marketing Order for Spearmint 0 0 0 16 2 3 5 118
Child Undernutrition, Household Poverty and National Income in Developing Countries: Quantile Regression Results 0 0 0 42 3 8 9 134
Climate and Scale In Economic Growth 1 1 2 472 6 11 13 1,870
Climate and Scale in Economic Growth 0 0 1 14 2 4 11 94
Climate and scale in economic growth 0 0 1 26 5 10 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 6 10 19 142
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 25 2 6 11 131
Contests with Random Noise and a Shared Prize 0 0 0 8 5 5 6 49
Cost and affordability of healthy diets across and within countries 1 2 12 86 11 30 58 404
Diet costs by level of food processing in 177 countries, 2011 and 2017 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 4
Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa 1 1 1 45 1 3 5 101
Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa 0 0 0 71 4 8 10 123
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa 0 0 1 43 4 9 14 167
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Cameroon 0 0 0 21 3 4 6 117
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 1 2 6 6
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Sub-Saharan and North Africa 0 0 0 24 1 5 7 90
Distortions to agricultural incentives in Cameroon 0 0 0 0 3 4 5 5
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 2 3 4 23
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 2 2 3 41
EFFECTS AND DETERMINANTS OF MILD UNDERWEIGHT AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 1 5 6 8 30
EFFECTS AND DETERMINANTS OF MILD UNDERWEIGHT AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 53 3 5 5 441
ENTRY INTO WINNER-TAKE-ALL AND PROPORTIONAL-PRIZE CONTESTS:AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY 0 0 0 48 3 6 7 177
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 9 13 16 16 96
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 102 23 23 27 373
Ethnolinguistic Diversity, Government Expenditures and Economic Growth Across Countries 0 0 0 118 1 4 5 563
Europe, South Africa, and Southern Africa: Regional Integration in a Global Context 0 0 0 1 3 5 6 694
Europe, South Africa, and Southern Africa: Regional Integration in a Global Context 0 0 0 0 6 8 9 945
Evaluating the Economic Efficiency of Agricultural Activities in Developing Countries: Domestic Resource Costs and the Social Cost-Benefit Ration 1 1 1 9 5 6 9 43
Farm Productivity and Household Market Participation: Evidence from LSMS Data 0 0 0 69 4 13 18 225
Farm production, child dietary intake and household wealth: Results from a nationally-representative survey in Nepal 0 0 0 4 4 5 8 31
GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF REAL INCOME: A SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION APPROACH 0 0 0 0 6 6 7 29
GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF REAL INCOME:A SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION APPROACH 0 0 0 157 2 4 5 771
Geography and Economic Transition: Global Spatial Analysis at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 116 3 5 6 741
Global analysis reveals persistent shortfalls and regional differences in availability of foods needed for health 0 0 3 4 3 5 21 28
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 2 27 2 2 5 157
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 3 339 3 7 24 3,078
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 0 3 3 5 7 33
How Far Has Africa Come in Reducing its Anti-agricultural Policy Bias? 0 0 0 21 2 4 5 136
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 1 2 7 11
How Successful Are Government Interventions in Food Markets? Insights from the Philippine Rice Market 0 0 0 16 5 5 6 86
INVESTING IN SOILS: FIELD BUNDS AND MICROCATCHMENTS IN BURKINA FASO 0 0 0 23 2 5 8 195
Impact Assessment of African Agricultural Technology Development and Transfer: Synthesis of Findings and Lessons Learned 0 0 1 15 2 2 4 70
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India 0 0 0 8 9 9 11 76
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India 0 0 0 9 5 7 8 50
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 0 46 4 7 11 90
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 0 31 4 8 9 54
Improving child nutrition through quality certification of infant foods: policy implications of a scoping study in Ghana 0 0 0 3 2 3 3 25
Improving child nutrition through quality certification of infant foods: scoping study from a randomized trial in Ghana 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 21
Least-cost diets to teach optimization and consumer behavior, with applications to health equity, poverty measurement and international development 0 0 1 6 0 0 3 11
Linkages between Market Participation and Productivity: Results from a Multi-Country Farm Household Sample 0 0 0 145 2 4 8 513
MEASURING PROTECTION IN AGRICULTURE: THE PRODUCER SUBSIDY EQUIVALENT REVISITED 0 0 0 55 7 9 10 255
Market access and child nutrition in a conflict environment 0 0 0 11 4 22 23 110
Measuring Access to Nutritious Diets in Africa: Novel Price Indexes for Diet Diversity and the Cost of Nutrient Adequacy 0 0 0 27 4 15 15 71
Measuring Resilience: A Triple-Difference Approach 0 0 1 20 1 3 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 6 14 22 208
Misreporting Month of Birth: Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Low-Income Countries 0 0 0 1 5 6 7 22
Misreporting Month of Birth: Implications for nutrition research 0 0 0 2 2 3 4 20
Misreporting month of birth: Implications for nutrition research 0 0 0 12 2 5 7 45
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 3 8
Nutrient and mycotoxin content of commercially-sold premixed infant cereals in Malawi 0 0 0 3 5 7 9 28
Nutrition smoothing: Can access to towns and cities protect children against poor health conditions at birth? 0 0 0 6 1 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 3 4 5 56
PROPERTY RIGHTS, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND DEFORESTATION: COCOA IN WEST AFRICA 0 0 0 34 1 3 4 235
Performance bonuses for public services: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India 0 0 0 34 4 8 9 27
RESEARCH PRIZES: A MECHANISM TO REWARD INNOVATION IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE 0 0 0 4 1 2 6 49
Regionalism in World Food Markets: Implications for Trade and Welfare 0 0 0 9 4 5 5 34
Research Ethics Beyond the IRB: Selection Bias and the Direction of Innovation in Applied Economics 0 0 0 3 3 4 9 20
Retail Food Price Vulnerability to Extreme Weather Events 0 0 0 8 2 3 3 17
Retail prices, environmental footprints, and nutritional profiles of commonly sold retail food items in 181 countries 1 2 3 6 2 7 17 24
Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 43 5 6 8 157
Rural demography, public services, and land rights in Africa: A village-level analysis in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 34 10 14 17 118
SOIL DEGRADATION, TECHNICAL CHANGE AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES IN SOUTHERN MALI 0 0 0 55 4 6 8 274
Seasonality in the cost of nutritious diets by region in Tanzania 0 0 0 8 4 5 5 29
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 6 6 8 24
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 5 5 6 128
THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 54 3 6 7 290
THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 1 1 7 4 9 11 30
THE VALUE OF QUALITY CERTIFICATION FOR INFANT FOODS: RESULTS FROM A MARKET EXPERIMENT IN MALI 0 0 0 9 3 3 3 38
The Distribution Of Child Nutritional Status Across Countries And Over Time 0 0 0 15 3 8 8 96
The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy: Global Trends and Future Prospects 0 0 0 0 4 5 5 5
The economics of malnutrition: Dietary transition and food system transformation 0 0 3 23 1 3 10 34
The role of leadership in democratic deliberations: Results from a field experiment in sao tome and principe 0 0 2 25 6 10 19 163
Welfare gains from quality certification of infant foods: Results from a market experiment in mali 0 0 0 12 4 5 6 83
Why are nutritious foods so expensive? Economic development and the cost of nutritious diets 0 0 0 30 3 3 3 81
Willingness to Pay for Hermetic Grain Storage Bags in Malawi 0 1 2 5 9 15 29 97
Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experimental Results 0 0 7 239 6 13 29 921
Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experimental Results 0 0 1 89 16 19 25 122
Total Working Papers 5 11 59 4,374 392 682 995 21,255
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A Spatial Analysis of Maize Marketing Policy Reforms in Zambia 0 0 0 7 2 6 8 60
A market-based approach to child nutrition: mothers' demand for quality certification of infant foods in Bamako, Mali 0 0 0 14 2 5 7 155
Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts 0 0 0 7 0 2 3 28
Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization: Global analysis at the grid cell level 0 0 0 62 6 9 13 321
An African Growth Trap: Production Technology and the Time‐Consistency of Agricultural Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 35 0 2 3 174
Assessing the affordability of nutrient‐adequate diets 0 0 0 2 1 3 7 11
Beyond Calories: The New Economics of Nutrition 0 0 0 8 4 5 9 35
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 7 13 15 34
Climate and Scale in Economic Growth 1 1 2 195 2 7 12 774
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 0 8 6 7 9 81
Collier, Paul The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It 0 0 0 10 4 4 5 97
Complementarity and sequencing of innovations: new varieties and mechanized processing for cassava in West Africa 0 0 0 31 1 4 6 212
Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries 0 0 2 5 3 6 14 49
Diffusion and spillover of new technology: a heterogeneous‐agent model for cassava in West Africa 0 0 0 54 5 7 9 227
Disease control, demographic change and institutional development in Africa 0 0 1 25 3 4 8 180
Does Child Undernutrition Persist Despite Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries? Quantile Regression Results 0 0 0 24 2 4 4 82
Effects and determinants of mild underweight among preschool children across countries and over time 0 0 0 17 2 3 3 99
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 3 6 8 38
Entry into winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: An experimental study 0 0 0 155 6 8 21 466
First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries 0 0 0 3 1 2 6 16
Front Matter and "The Scope and Sequence of Maize Market Reform in Zimbabwe" 0 0 0 8 5 6 7 60
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 1 5 3 4 6 70
Introduction to the special issue on the world food crisis 0 0 0 49 0 1 4 253
Investing in soils: field bunds and microcatchments in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 30 3 6 7 174
Libéraliser l'agriculture mondiale? Théories, modèles et réalités 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 99
Measuring exchange rate misalignment: Inflation differentials and domestic relative prices 1 1 2 68 3 4 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 3 4 6 36
Measuring the Comparative Advantage of Agricultural Activities: Domestic Resource Costs and the Social Cost-Benefit Ratio 0 1 1 12 3 5 7 62
Measuring the impacts of Malawi’s farm input subsidy programme 2 3 5 106 14 40 50 453
Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries 0 0 2 8 5 7 15 44
Panterritorial versus regional pricing for maize in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 28 0 1 5 127
Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 6
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 4 5 10 35
Production costs and input substitution in Zimbabwe's smallholder agriculture 0 0 0 1 2 5 7 12
Production costs and input substitution in Zimbabwe's smallholder agriculture 0 0 0 63 3 5 11 206
Property rights, production technology, and deforestation: cocoa in Cameroon 0 0 0 42 4 6 8 341
Research ethics beyond the IRB: Selection bias and the direction of innovation in applied economics 0 1 1 3 3 4 4 22
Returns from research in economies with policy distortions: hybrid sorghum in Sudan 0 1 1 2 2 3 5 11
Returns from research in economies with policy distortions: hybrid sorghum in Sudan 0 1 1 21 1 2 2 143
Review: Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and opportunities to monitor food systems for nutrition 0 0 1 4 4 5 9 33
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 1 5 7 131
The Uruguay Round and Africa: A Global, General Equilibrium Analysis 0 0 0 0 5 9 12 292
The impact of agricultural research in Africa: aggregate and case study evidence 0 0 1 3 0 0 2 11
The impact of agricultural research in Africa: aggregate and case study evidence 0 0 0 51 2 4 5 167
The nutrition transition and agricultural transformation: a Preston curve approach 0 0 0 1 1 9 9 28
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide 0 0 4 4 6 13 21 25
Understanding the Political Economy of Agriculture in the Tropics 0 0 0 54 1 4 5 178
Welfare Gains from Quality Certification of Infant Foods: Results from a Market Experiment in Mali 0 0 0 30 4 4 6 148
William A. Masters 0 0 0 2 2 3 4 30
Winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: Theory and experimental results 1 2 9 57 9 16 43 302
Total Journal Articles 5 11 34 1,490 156 296 470 7,468
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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 7 137
Food Economics 0 0 0 1 3 4 5 7
Total Books 0 0 1 28 5 9 12 144


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Agriculture and undernutrition 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 14
Agriculture for nutrition: Direct and indirect effects 0 0 0 4 1 2 5 28
Climate, Agriculture, and Economic Development 0 0 2 2 2 3 7 9
Collective Action: Government Policies and Programs 0 0 0 0 4 5 9 12
Demographic Pressure and Institutional Change: Village-Level Response to Rural Population Growth in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 7 1 4 7 53
Food and Health: Behavioral Economics and Response to Intervention 0 0 0 0 3 4 9 10
Food in the Macroeconomy: The Whole is More Than the Sum of its Parts 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 7
From Local to Global: International Trade and Value Chains 0 0 0 0 2 5 9 10
Individual Choices: Explaining Food Consumption and Production 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 6
International Development: Systemic Change Over Time 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 3
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
Market Power: Imperfect Competition and Strategic Behavior 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 12
Poverty and Risk: Variation Among People and Over Time 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2
Social Welfare: Evaluating Change in Food Markets 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2
Societal Outcomes: Predicting Food Market Prices and Quantities 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4
The Future of Food: Meeting Human Needs with Systemic Change 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 6
Total Chapters 0 0 2 14 23 48 85 180


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