Faculty Publications
Welcome to the core CIDER faculty publications page, highlighting the most impactful research contributions from our faculty over the past five years.
- Aker, Jenny, James Berry, and Sawyer, Melita. “Making sense of the shapes: what do we know about literacy learning in adulthood?” Economics of Education Review, 2024.
- Aker, Jenny, and Kelsey B. Jack. “Harvesting the Rain: The Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sahel.” Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024.
- Aker, Jenny, Brian Dillon and C. Jamilah Welch. “The Emergence of New Markets for Agricultural Technologies: The Case of Cowpea Storage in West Africa.” Journal of Development Economics, 2023.
- Aker, Jenny, Daniel Gilligan, Melissa Hidrobo, Natasha Ledlie and Giordano Palloni. “Paying for Information: Assessing Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for a Digital Agriculture and Nutrition Service in Ghana.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022.
- Aker, Jenny, Silvia Prina and Jamilah Welch. “Migration, Money Transfers and Mobile Money.” American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. 110: 589-93, May 2020.
- Aker, Jenny, Markus Goldstein, Margaret McConnell, Melita Sawyer, and Michael O’Sullivan. “Just a Bit of Cushion: The Role of a Simple Savings Device in Planned and Unplanned Expense Events in Rural Niger.” World Development. 128: April 2020.
- Aker, Jenny, and Christopher J. Ksoll. “Can ABC Lead to Sustained 123? The Medium-Term Effects of a Technology-Enhanced Adult Education Program.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 68, no. 3 (April 2020): 1081-1102.
- Aker, Jenny, John Quattrochi, Maarten Voors, Peter van der Windt. March 2020. “Contributions of experimental approaches to development and poverty alleviation: Field experiments and humanitarian assistance.” World Development. 127 (2020).
- Aker, Jenny, and Christopher Ksoll. “Call Me Educated: Evidence from a Mobile Phone Experiment in Niger.” Economics of Education Review. October 2019. 72(2019): 239-257, 2019.
- Aker, Jenny, Paul Collier and Pedro Vicente. “Is Information Power? Using Mobile Phones and Free Newspapers during an Election in Mozambique.” Vol XCIX (2). Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2017.
- Turkum, B. “Abstract Reasoning, Theory of Mind and Character Development in the School.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 221.
- Mumcu, I. “Nurturing Childhood Curiosity to Enhance Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Pedagogical Intervention.” American Economic Review, 2024, 114.
- Kubilay, E. “Impersonal Trust in a Just and Unjust World: Evidence from an Educational Intervention.” Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 162.
- Corekcioglu, G., and Sutter, M. “Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138(1).
- Duysak, E., Kubilay, E., and Mumcu, I. “Social Exclusion and Ethnic Segregation in Schools: The Role of Teacher’s Ethnic Prejudice.” Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105(5).
- Baysan, C., Gumren, M., and Kubilay, E. “Building Social Cohesion in Ethnically Mixed Schools: An Intervention on Perspective Taking.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021, 136(4). (In memory of Alberto Alesina, 1957-2020).
- Ertac, S., Kubilay, E., and Loranth, G. “Understanding Gender Differences in Leadership.” Economic Journal, 2020, 130(626).
- Ertac, S., and Boneva, T. “Ever Failed, Try Again, Succeed Better: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention on Grit.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, 134(3).
- Ertac, S. “Mitigating the Gender Gap in the Willingness to Compete: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment.” Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17(4).
- Ertac, S. “Fostering Patience in the Classroom: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention.” Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126(5).
- Barrett, Christopher and Paul Christian. “Spurious Regressions and Panel IV Estimation: Revisiting the Causes of Conflict.” Economic Journal, April 2024.
- Barrett, Christopher, Rachel Neugarten, Ranaivo Rasolofoson, Amanda Rodewald, and Ghislain Vieiledent. “The effect of a political crisis on performance of community forests and protected areas in Madagascar.” Nature Communications, April 2024.
- Barrett, Christopher, Meha Jain, Kate Ghezzi-Kopel, and Divya Solomon. “Surveying the Evidence on Sustainable Intensification Strategies for Smallholder Agricultural Systems.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, November 2023.
- Barrett, Christopher, Gashaw Abate, Kibrom Abay, Hope Michelson, James Stevenson, and Tesfamicheal Wossen. “Inferential and behavioral implications of measurement error in agricultural data.” Annual Review of Resource Economics, November 2023.
- Barrett, Christopher. “‘Benevolent’ patent extensions could raise billions for R&D in poorer countries.” Nature, September 2023.
- Barrett, Christopher, Kibrom Abay, John Ilukor, Talip Kilic, Heather Moylan, and Wilbert Vundru. “Nonclassical Measurement Error and Farmers’ Response to Information Reveal Behavioral Anomalies.” Journal of Development Economics, September 2023.
- Barrett, Christopher, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, and Trinh Pham. “Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate, and the Environment.” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, July 2023.
- Barrett, Christopher, Sidy Bakhoum, , Andrew Chamberlin, David Civitello, Cledor Diatta, Giulio De Leo, Molly Doruska, Christopher Haggerty, Isabel Jones, Nicolas Jouanard, David Lopez-Carr, Andrea Lund, Amadou Ly, Raphael Ndione, Justin Remais, Gilles Riveau, Jason Rohr, Alexandra Sack, Anne-Marie Schacht, Momy Seck, Simon Senghor, Susanne Sokolow and Caitlin Wolfe. “A planetary health innovation for disease, food and water challenges in Africa.” Nature, July 2023.
- Barrett, Christopher, Anaka Aiyar, Michael Smith, and Dennis Wesselbaum. “A Food Insecurity Kuznets Curve?” World Development, January 2023.
- Barrett, Christopher, Thomas Reardon, Johan Swinnen and David Zilberman. “Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low-and Middle-Income Countries.” Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022.
- Dillon, Brian, and Travis Lybbert. “The Gambler’s Fallacy Prevails in Lottery Play.” Forthcoming in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2024.
- Dillon, Brian, Jenny Aker, and C. Jamilah Welch. “Demand, Supply, and Long-Term Adoption: Evidence from a Storage Technology in West Africa.” Forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics, 2022.
- Dillon, Brian, Richard Anderson, Laurel Krovetz, Hosea Mpogole, Henry Mulisa, and Ananditha Ragunath. “From Grasshoppers to Secondhand Cars: Understanding the Smartphone-Enabled Marketplace in Peri-urban Tanzania.” Forthcoming in CHI 2023 Conference Proceedings.
- Dillon, Brian, A. Bell, N. Bunnefeld, A. B. Duthie, O.S. Rakotonarivo, R. A. Rasolofoson, J. Razafimanahaka, and A. Kipchumba. “Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Payments and Property Rights on Forest User Decisions.” Frontiers in Conservation Science 2 (2021): 33.
- Dillon, Brian. “Selling Crops Early to Pay for School: A Large-scale Natural Experiment in Malawi.” Journal of Human Resources 56, no. 4 (2020): 1296-1325.
- Dillon, Brian, Joachim De Weerdt, and Ted O’Donoghue. “Paying More for Less: Why Don’t Households in Tanzania Take Advantage of Bulk Discounts?” World Bank Economic Review 35, no. 1 (2020): 148-179.
- Dillon, Brian, Peter Brummund, and Germano Mwabu. “Asymmetric Non-separation and Rural Labor Markets.” Journal of Development Economics 139 (2019): 78-96.
- Dillon, Brian, and Alessandra Voena. “Widows’ Land Rights and Agricultural Investment.” Journal of Development Economics 135 (2018): 449-460.
- Hoddinott J., A. Ahmed, M. Hidrobo, B. Kolt, S. Roy, and S. Tauseef. “Sustainable Poverty Reduction Through Social Assistance: Modality, Context, and Complementary Programming in Bangladesh.” Forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
- Hoddinott, J., A. Ahmed, and S. Roy. “Food Transfers, Cash Transfers, Behavior Change Communication, and Child Nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh.” Forthcoming in World Bank Economic Review.
- Hoddinott, J., A. Ahmed, M. Hidrobo, B. Koch, and S. Roy. “Can Transfers and Behavior Change Communication Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Four Years Post-Program? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh.” Forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources 59, no. 6: 1714-1740.
- Hoddinott, J., C. Barrett, and S. Lee. “Food Security Dynamics in the United States, 2001-2017.” Forthcoming in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023.
- Hoddinott, J., A. Ahmed, F. Coleman, J. Ghostlaw, P. Menon, A. Parvin, A. Pereira, A. Quisumbing, S. Roy, and M. Younus. “Increasing Production Diversity and Diet Quality: Evidence from Bangladesh.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 106, no. 3 (2024): 1089-1110.
- Hoddinott, John, Liza von Grafenstein, and Stephan Klasen. “The Indian Enigma Revisited.” Economics and Human Biology 49 (April 2023): 101237.
- Hoddinott, J., S. Blom, and A. Ortiz-Bobea. “Heat Exposure and Child Nutrition: Evidence from West Africa.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 115 (2022): 102698.
- Hoddinott, J., C. Barrett, K. Ghezzi-Kopel, N. Homami, E. Tennant, J. Upton, and T. Wu. “A Scoping Review of the Development Resilience Literature: Theory, Methods and Evidence.” World Development 146 (2021): 105612.
- Hoddinott, H. E. Knippenberg, and D. Jolliffe. “Land Fragmentation and Food Insecurity in Ethiopia.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 102, no. 5 (2020): 1557-1577.
- Hoddinott, J., A. Ahmed, S. Roy, and M. Hidrobo. “Transfers, Behavior Change Communication, and Intimate Partner Violence: Post-Program Evidence from Rural Bangladesh.” Review of Economics and Statistics 101, no. 5 (2019): 865-877.
- Liao, C., and Y. Lee. “Upholding Household Agency in Climate Mitigation and Socio-Technical Energy Transition in Ethiopia.” Energy Policy 188 (2024): 114067.
- Liao, C., and A. Agrawal. “Towards a Science of ‘Land Grabbing’.” Land Use Policy 137 (2024): 107002.
- Liao, C., A. Agrawal, D. Brown, and S. Jung. “Does Land Tenure Change Accelerate Deforestation? A Matching-Based Four-Country Comparison.” Ecological Economics 215 (2024): 108011.
- Liao, C., A. Agrawal, and J. Liu. “Sustainability Governance for Agrarian Transformation under Climate Change.” Sustainability Science, 2023.
- Liao, C., A. Agrawal, D. Brown, J. Lay, and K. Nolte. “The Carbon Cost of Agricultural Production in the Global Land Rush.” Global Environmental Change 80 (2023): 102679.
- Liao, C., S. Brandhorst, P. Clark, and X. Wang. “Sedentarization as an Adaptation to Socio-Environmental Changes? Everyday Herding Practices in Pastoralist Communities in Southern Ethiopia.” Ecology & Society 27, no. 3 (2022).
- Liao, C., and A. Agrawal. “Sustainable and Just Energy Transitions in the Global South.” World Development 152 (2022): 105798.
- Liao, C., A. Agrawal, C. Althoff, D. Brown, J. Lay, K. Nolte, and J. Sullivan. “Carbon Emissions from the Global Land Rush and Their Potential Mitigation.” Nature Food 2 (2021): 15–18.
- Liao, C., A. Agrawal, J. Erbaugh, and A. Kelly. “Clean Energy Transitions and Human Well-Being Outcomes in Lower and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review.” Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 145 (2021): 111063.
- Liao, C., D. Fei, Q. Huang, L. Jiang, and P. Shi. “Targeted Poverty Alleviation through Photovoltaic-Based Intervention: Rhetoric and Reality in Qinghai, China.” World Development 137 (2021): 105117.
- Mason-D’Croz, D., C. M. Godde, M. Herrero, D. Mayberry, and P. Thornton. “Impacts of Climate Change on the Livestock Food Supply Chain, a Review of the Evidence.” Global Food Security 28 (2021): 100488.
- Mason-D’Croz, D., C. B. Barrett, T. G. Benton, B. L. Bodirsky, J. R. Bogard, G. D. Bonnett, B. A. Bryan, B. M. Campbell, S. Christensen, J. Fanzo, M. Clark, C. M. Godde, A. Hall, M. Herrero, A. Jarvis, A. M. Loboguerrero, A. Mathys, C. L. McIntyre, R. L. Naylor, R. Nelson, M. Obersteiner, J. Palmer, A. Parodi, I. Pikaar, A. Popp, P. Pradhan, K. Ricketts, J. Rockström, P. Smith, P. K. Thornton, H. Valin, S. J. Vermeulen, J. Vervoort, M. van Wijk, H. H. E. van Zanten, P. C. West, and S. A. Wood. “Articulating the Effect of Food Systems Innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals.” The Lancet Planetary Health 5, no. 1 (2021): e50-e62.
- Mason-D’Croz, D., A. Komarek, and S. Robinson. “The Economics of Increasing Production Diversity Applied to Livestock Feeds.” PLOS ONE 17, no. 11 (2022): e0277817.
- Mason-D’Croz, D., A. Barnhill, J. Bernstein, J. Bogard, G. Dennis, P. Dixon, J. Fanzo, R. Faden, M. Herrero, R. McLaren, J. Palmer, T. Rieder, and M. Rimmer. “Ethical and Economic Implications of Alternative Plant-Based Beef Substitutes in the USA: A General Equilibrium Modelling Study.” The Lancet Planetary Health 6, no. 8 (2022): e658-e669.
- Mason-D’Croz, D., J. R. Bogard, H. C. J. Godfray, M. Herrero, S. Robinson, T. B. Sulser, K. Wiebe, and D. Willenbockel. “Modelling the Global Economic Consequences of a Major African Swine Fever Outbreak in China.” Nature Food 1, no. 4 (2020): 221–228.
- Mason-D’Croz, D., J. R. Bogard, N. Cenacchi, S. Dunston, M. Herrero, T. B. Sulser, and K. Wiebe. “Gaps between Fruit and Vegetable Production, Demand, and Recommended Consumption at Global and National Levels: An Integrated Modelling Study.” The Lancet Planetary Health 3, no. 7 (2019): 318-329.
- Mason-D’Croz, D., S. K. Lowder, A. Nin-Pratt, W. Rosegrant, T. B. Sulser, K. Wiebe, M. , , D. Willenbockel, S. Robinson, T. Zhu, N. Cenacchi, S. Dunston, and R. Robertson. “Agricultural Investments and Ending Hunger in Africa: Modeling Potential Contributions to SDG 2.” World Development 116 (2019): 38–53.
- Stehfest, E., W. van Zeist, H. Valin, P. Havlik, A. Popp, P. Kyle, A. Tabeau, D. Mason-D’Croz, T. Hasegawa, B. Bodirsky, K. Calvin, J. Doelman, S. Fujimori, F. Humpenöder, H. Lotze-Campen, H. van Meijl, and K. Wiebe. “Key Determinants of Global Land-Use Futures.” Nature Communications 10 (2019): 2166.
- The EAT–Lancet 2.0 Commissioners and contributing authors. “EAT–Lancet Commission 2.0: Securing a Just Transition to Healthy, Environmentally Sustainable Diets for All.” The Lancet, 2023.
- Thornton, P., D. Mason-D’Croz, C. Kugler, R. Remans, H. Zornetzer, and M. Herrero. “Enabling Food System Innovation: Accelerators for Change.” Global Food Security, 2024.
- Occelli, M., E. Compaore, D. Brown, F. Barry, L. S. Poda, F. Traore, A. Waongo, D. Rubin, and H. A. Tufan. Ex-ante priority setting in crop breeding: Towards inclusive innovation for impact. Agricultural Systems, May 2024.
- Occelli, M., R. Mukerjee, C. Miller, J. Porciello, S. Puerto, E. Garner, M. Guerra, M. I. Gomez, and H. A. Tufan. A scoping review on tools and methods for trait prioritization in crop breeding programmes. Nature Plants, February 2024.
- Occelli, M., J. Sellare, K. D. Sousa, M. Dell’Acqua, L. Mercado, S. Paredes, J. Robalino, J. C. Rosas, and J. van Etten. Group‐based and citizen science on‐farm variety selection approaches for bean growers in Central America. Agricultural Economics, February 2024.
- Caldarola, B., M. Grazzi, M. Occelli, and M. Sanfilippo. Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda. Research Policy, December 2023.
- Mukerjee, R., N. F. Faye, M. J. Badji, M. Gomez, D. Rubin, H. A. Tufan, and M. Occelli. Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, November 2023.
- Coronese, M., M. Occelli, F. Lamperti, and A. Roventini. AgriLOVE: agriculture, land-use and technical change in an evolutionary, agent-based model. Ecological Economics, June 2023.
- Occelli, M., A. Mantino, G. Ragaglini, M. Dell’Acqua, C. Fadda, M. E. Pè, and A. Nuvolari. Traditional knowledge affects soil management ability of smallholder farmers in marginal areas. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, January 2021.
- Gautam Rao, Susan Redline, Frank Schilbach, Heather Schofield, and Mattie Toma. “Informing sleep policy through field experiments.” Science 374.6567 (2021):530-533.
- Pedro Bessone-Tepedino, Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, Heather Schofield, and Mattie Toma. “The economic consequences of increasing sleep among the urban poor.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2021) 136:3: 1887-1941.
- Heather Schofield and Atheendar Venkataramani. “Poverty-related bandwidth constraints reduce the value of consumption.” PNAS 118.35 (2021).
- Dean, Emma, Frank Schilbach, and Heather Schofield. “Poverty and Cognitive Function.” In The Economics of Poverty Traps. University of Chicago Press. 2018.
- Bilicka, Katarzyna, and Daniela Scur. “Organizational Practices and Profit Shifting,” Journal of Public Economics, July 2024.
- Lemos, Renata, Karthik Muralidharan, and Daniela Scur. “Personnel Management and School Productivity: Evidence from India,” Economic Journal, July 2024.
- Bennedsen, M., B. Larsen, and I. Schmutte. “The effect of preserving job matches during a crisis,” Labour Economics, October 2023.
- Scur, Daniela, and Sarah Wolfolds. “Revisiting the World Management Survey in Strategy: Applications to Theory and Replication,” Strategy Science, July 2023.
- Cornwell, Christopher, Ian M. Schmutte, and Daniela Scur. “Building a Productive Workforce: The Role of Structured Management Practices.” Management Science, October 2021.
- Scur, Daniela, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen, Renata Lemos, and Nicholas Bloom. “The World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the Way Forward,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, June 2021.