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A Political Economy Model of Agricultural Taxation, R&D, and Growth in Africa 0 0 0 115 0 0 0 383
Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture 0 2 4 93 1 4 8 397
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 0 0 3 36
Africa's Growth Trap: A Political-Economy Model of Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 22
Africa's Growth Trap: A Political-Economy Model of Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 357 0 0 0 1,196
Africa's growth trap: a political-economy model of taxation, R&D and investment 0 0 0 14 1 1 1 81
Agricultural Price Distortion and Stabilization 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Agricultural Price Distortion and Stabilization: Stylized facts and Hypothesis Tests 0 0 0 111 0 0 2 416
Agricultural Prices and Income Distribution among Farmers: A Whole-Household, Multi-Country, Multi-Year Analysis 0 0 1 96 2 2 3 280
Agriculture and undernutrition through the lens of economics 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 22
Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization: Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 61 0 1 4 263
Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 4
Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets 1 1 1 6 1 1 3 10
Availability of Healthy Diets in 174 Countries, 1961-2019: A Food System Assessment 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
Availability, Seasonality, and Affordability of Nutritious Diets for All – Evidence from Malawi 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 8
Behavior Change for Early Childhood Nutrition: Effectiveness of Health Worker Training Depends on Maternal Information in a Randomized Control Trial 0 0 0 40 1 2 4 59
Beyond the IRB: Towards a typology of research ethics in applied economics 0 0 0 28 0 1 4 89
Borders and Barriers: Spatial Analysis of Agricultural Output Spillovers at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 36 0 1 3 148
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity, and the intergenerational transmission of relative height 0 0 0 4 3 5 8 29
Cartel Pricing with Entry: the Experience of the Far West Marketing Order for Spearmint 0 0 0 16 0 0 4 115
Child Undernutrition, Household Poverty and National Income in Developing Countries: Quantile Regression Results 0 0 0 42 1 1 1 126
Climate and Scale In Economic Growth 0 0 1 471 0 0 2 1,859
Climate and Scale in Economic Growth 1 1 1 14 3 4 8 90
Climate and scale in economic growth 0 0 1 26 0 2 6 195
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 8 125
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal 0 0 1 12 1 2 11 132
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 0 1 12 84 1 3 43 374
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 0 0 2 115
Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa 0 0 0 44 1 1 2 98
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa 1 1 1 43 3 3 5 158
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Cameroon 0 0 2 21 1 1 6 113
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Senegal 0 0 0 10 0 1 2 60
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Sub-Saharan and North Africa 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 4
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Sub-Saharan and North Africa 0 0 0 24 2 2 2 85
Distortions to agricultural incentives in Cameroon 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
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 0 2 20
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 0 0 0 436
EFFECTS AND DETERMINANTS OF MILD UNDERWEIGHT AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 24
ENTRY INTO WINNER-TAKE-ALL AND PROPORTIONAL-PRIZE CONTESTS:AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY 0 0 0 48 0 1 2 171
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 80
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 102 2 2 5 350
Ethnolinguistic Diversity, Government Expenditures and Economic Growth Across Countries 0 0 0 118 1 1 1 559
Europe, South Africa, and Southern Africa: Regional Integration in a Global Context 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 937
Europe, South Africa, and Southern Africa: Regional Integration in a Global Context 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 689
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 3 37
Farm Productivity and Household Market Participation: Evidence from LSMS Data 0 0 0 69 0 1 7 212
Farm production, child dietary intake and household wealth: Results from a nationally-representative survey in Nepal 0 0 0 4 0 1 4 26
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 0 1 767
Geography and Economic Transition: Global Spatial Analysis at the Grid Cell Level 0 0 0 116 1 1 1 736
Global analysis reveals persistent shortfalls and regional differences in availability of foods needed for health 0 1 3 4 3 5 19 23
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 28
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 1 3 339 2 10 23 3,071
HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN FOOD MARKETS? INSIGHTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE RICE MARKET 0 1 2 27 0 1 4 155
How Far Has Africa Come in Reducing its Anti-agricultural Policy Bias? 0 0 0 21 0 0 1 132
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 0 3 0 2 5 9
INVESTING IN SOILS: FIELD BUNDS AND MICROCATCHMENTS IN BURKINA FASO 0 0 0 23 0 2 4 190
Impact Assessment of African Agricultural Technology Development and Transfer: Synthesis of Findings and Lessons Learned 0 0 1 15 0 1 2 68
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India 0 0 0 8 2 2 3 67
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 43
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 0 46 0 1 4 83
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 0 0 31 1 1 1 46
Improving child nutrition through quality certification of infant foods: policy implications of a scoping study in Ghana 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 22
Improving child nutrition through quality certification of infant foods: scoping study from a randomized trial in Ghana 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 19
Least-cost diets to teach optimization and consumer behavior, with applications to health equity, poverty measurement and international development 0 0 1 6 1 1 4 11
Linkages between Market Participation and Productivity: Results from a Multi-Country Farm Household Sample 0 0 0 145 1 2 5 509
MEASURING PROTECTION IN AGRICULTURE: THE PRODUCER SUBSIDY EQUIVALENT REVISITED 0 0 0 55 0 0 3 246
Market access and child nutrition in a conflict environment 0 0 0 11 0 1 2 88
Measuring Access to Nutritious Diets in Africa: Novel Price Indexes for Diet Diversity and the Cost of Nutrient Adequacy 0 0 0 27 0 0 1 56
Measuring Resilience: A Triple-Difference Approach 0 1 2 20 0 2 4 45
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 1 2 89 0 4 9 194
Misreporting Month of Birth: Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Low-Income Countries 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 16
Misreporting Month of Birth: Implications for nutrition research 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 17
Misreporting month of birth: Implications for nutrition research 0 0 0 12 1 2 2 40
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 1 3 6
Nutrient and mycotoxin content of commercially-sold premixed infant cereals in Malawi 0 0 0 3 1 1 4 21
Nutrition smoothing: Can access to towns and cities protect children against poor health conditions at birth? 0 0 0 6 1 2 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 0 2 52
PROPERTY RIGHTS, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND DEFORESTATION: COCOA IN WEST AFRICA 0 0 0 34 1 1 3 232
Performance bonuses for public services: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India 0 0 0 34 0 1 1 19
RESEARCH PRIZES: A MECHANISM TO REWARD INNOVATION IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE 0 0 0 4 0 1 5 47
Regionalism in World Food Markets: Implications for Trade and Welfare 0 0 1 9 0 0 1 29
Research Ethics Beyond the IRB: Selection Bias and the Direction of Innovation in Applied Economics 0 0 0 3 0 1 5 16
Retail Food Price Vulnerability to Extreme Weather Events 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 14
Retail prices, environmental footprints, and nutritional profiles of commonly sold retail food items in 181 countries 1 1 1 4 3 6 14 17
Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 43 1 1 2 151
Rural demography, public services, and land rights in Africa: A village-level analysis in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 34 2 2 4 104
SOIL DEGRADATION, TECHNICAL CHANGE AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES IN SOUTHERN MALI 0 0 0 55 0 0 3 268
Seasonality in the cost of nutritious diets by region in Tanzania 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 24
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 1 1 1 4 1 2 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 1 1 2 123
THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 6 0 1 2 21
THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME 0 0 0 54 1 1 1 284
THE VALUE OF QUALITY CERTIFICATION FOR INFANT FOODS: RESULTS FROM A MARKET EXPERIMENT IN MALI 0 0 1 9 0 0 2 35
The Distribution Of Child Nutritional Status Across Countries And Over Time 0 0 0 15 0 0 1 88
The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy: Global Trends and Future Prospects 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The economics of malnutrition: Dietary transition and food system transformation 1 3 4 23 3 5 9 31
The role of leadership in democratic deliberations: Results from a field experiment in sao tome and principe 1 1 2 25 3 3 9 153
Welfare gains from quality certification of infant foods: Results from a market experiment in mali 0 0 0 12 0 1 1 78
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 0 0 2 4 2 5 17 82
Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experimental Results 0 0 1 89 1 3 7 103
Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experimental Results 0 3 8 239 0 5 24 908
Total Working Papers 7 20 63 4,347 63 141 422 20,492
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A Spatial Analysis of Maize Marketing Policy Reforms in Zambia 0 0 0 7 0 1 2 54
A market-based approach to child nutrition: mothers' demand for quality certification of infant foods in Bamako, Mali 0 0 0 14 2 2 2 150
Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 26
Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization: Global analysis at the grid cell level 0 0 0 62 0 0 5 312
An African Growth Trap: Production Technology and the Time‐Consistency of Agricultural Taxation, R&D and Investment 0 0 0 35 1 1 1 172
Assessing the affordability of nutrient‐adequate diets 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 8
Beyond Calories: The New Economics of Nutrition 0 0 0 8 1 1 6 30
Book reviews 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity and the intergenerational transmission of relative height 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 21
Climate and Scale in Economic Growth 0 0 3 194 0 2 8 767
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 2 74
Collier, Paul The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It 0 0 0 10 0 0 3 93
Complementarity and sequencing of innovations: new varieties and mechanized processing for cassava in West Africa 0 0 0 31 1 1 3 208
Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries 0 0 2 5 2 3 10 43
Diffusion and spillover of new technology: a heterogeneous‐agent model for cassava in West Africa 0 0 0 54 0 1 2 220
Disease control, demographic change and institutional development in Africa 0 0 1 25 1 1 4 176
Does Child Undernutrition Persist Despite Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries? Quantile Regression Results 0 0 0 24 0 0 1 78
Effects and determinants of mild underweight among preschool children across countries and over time 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 96
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 0 2 32
Entry into winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: An experimental study 0 0 3 155 4 5 16 458
First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries 0 0 0 3 1 1 4 14
Front Matter and "The Scope and Sequence of Maize Market Reform in Zimbabwe" 0 0 0 8 1 1 1 54
Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India 0 1 1 5 0 1 2 66
Introduction to the special issue on the world food crisis 0 0 1 49 2 2 4 252
Investing in soils: field bunds and microcatchments in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 30 1 1 1 168
Libéraliser l'agriculture mondiale? Théories, modèles et réalités 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 97
Measuring exchange rate misalignment: Inflation differentials and domestic relative prices 0 1 1 67 0 1 5 225
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 2 32
Measuring the Comparative Advantage of Agricultural Activities: Domestic Resource Costs and the Social Cost-Benefit Ratio 0 0 0 11 0 0 2 57
Measuring the impacts of Malawi’s farm input subsidy programme 1 1 2 103 4 5 13 413
Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries 1 2 2 8 2 5 8 37
Panterritorial versus regional pricing for maize in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 28 1 2 4 126
Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
Pasture taxes and agricultural intensification in southern Mali 0 0 0 19 1 1 1 122
Performance bonuses in the public sector: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India 0 0 1 5 0 2 6 30
Production costs and input substitution in Zimbabwe's smallholder agriculture 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 7
Production costs and input substitution in Zimbabwe's smallholder agriculture 0 0 0 63 0 0 7 201
Property rights, production technology, and deforestation: cocoa in Cameroon 0 0 0 42 0 1 2 335
Research ethics beyond the IRB: Selection bias and the direction of innovation in applied economics 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 18
Returns from research in economies with policy distortions: hybrid sorghum in Sudan 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 141
Returns from research in economies with policy distortions: hybrid sorghum in Sudan 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 8
Review: Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and opportunities to monitor food systems for nutrition 0 0 1 4 0 0 5 28
SPATIAL INEQUALITY: OVERCOMING NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS IN AFRICA 0 0 0 110 0 0 3 471
Technical change in Senegal's irrigated rice sector: impact assessment under uncertainty 0 0 0 31 0 0 3 126
The Uruguay Round and Africa: A Global, General Equilibrium Analysis 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 283
The impact of agricultural research in Africa: aggregate and case study evidence 0 1 1 3 0 2 3 11
The impact of agricultural research in Africa: aggregate and case study evidence 0 0 0 51 0 1 2 163
The nutrition transition and agricultural transformation: a Preston curve approach 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 19
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide 2 2 4 4 3 4 8 12
Understanding the Political Economy of Agriculture in the Tropics 0 0 0 54 0 0 1 174
Welfare Gains from Quality Certification of Infant Foods: Results from a Market Experiment in Mali 0 0 0 30 1 1 2 144
William A. Masters 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 27
Winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: Theory and experimental results 0 4 7 55 1 11 35 286
Total Journal Articles 4 12 31 1,479 35 73 213 7,172
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa 0 1 1 27 1 2 2 132
Food Economics 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3
Total Books 0 1 1 28 1 2 3 135


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Agriculture and undernutrition 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 11
Agriculture for nutrition: Direct and indirect effects 0 0 0 4 1 1 3 26
Climate, Agriculture, and Economic Development 0 0 2 2 0 0 5 6
Collective Action: Government Policies and Programs 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 7
Demographic Pressure and Institutional Change: Village-Level Response to Rural Population Growth in Burkina Faso 0 0 0 7 1 1 3 49
Food and Health: Behavioral Economics and Response to Intervention 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6
Food in the Macroeconomy: The Whole is More Than the Sum of its Parts 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4
From Local to Global: International Trade and Value Chains 0 0 0 0 3 3 4 5
Individual Choices: Explaining Food Consumption and Production 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
International Development: Systemic Change Over Time 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Market Power: Imperfect Competition and Strategic Behavior 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 9
Poverty and Risk: Variation Among People and Over Time 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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 0 0 1 2
The Future of Food: Meeting Human Needs with Systemic Change 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 3
Total Chapters 0 0 2 14 7 9 42 132


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