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Working Papers

2025

1. Social Desirability Bias in Program Evaluation: The Case of a Childhood Nutrition Program in Sri Lanka
   2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
2. Willingness to Pay for an Agricultural Technology: An Economic Application of List Experiments
   2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2024

3. Lists Experiments Conducted Via Phone: A Proof of Concept
   2024 Annual Meeting, July 28-30, New Orleans, LA, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2023

4. Analyzing Food Price Movements Using Crowdsourced Data
   2023 Annual Meeting, July 23-25, Washington D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2022

5. Guaranteed Storage? Risk and Credit Constraints in the Demand for Postharvest Technology and Rice Seed Storage Decisions in Bangladesh
   2022 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Anaheim, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
6. How does recall bias impact separability tests?
   2022 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Anaheim, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
7. Signaling and Willingness to Pay: An Experimental Assessment
   2022 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Anaheim, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2018

8. Comparing the Productive Effects of Cash and Food Transfers in a Crisis Setting: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Yemen
   Innocenti Working Papers View citations (2)
   Also in 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, International Association of Agricultural Economists (2018) View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Comparing the Productive Effects of Cash and Food Transfers in a Crisis Setting: Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Yemen, Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals (2019) View citations (17) (2019)

2016

9. Farm Training and Farm Efficiency in Armenia: A Cluster Analysis
   2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2015

10. Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (21)
    See also Journal Article Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda and Yemen, World Development, Elsevier (2021) View citations (23) (2021)

2014

11. Much ado about modalities: Multicountry experiments on the effects of cash and food transfers on consumption patterns
    2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (6)

2012

12. The Rhythm of the Rains: Seasonal Effects on Child Health in The Gambia
    2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, International Association of Agricultural Economists View citations (5)
    Also in 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, International Association of Agricultural Economists (2012) View citations (5)

2011

13. Nutrition, Education and Development: The Case of Vitamin D Milk
    2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Undated

14. Can food safety shortfalls disrupt nutritional gains from increased animal-source food consumption? Evidence from Eid al-Adha
    2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
15. Does Loss Aversion Affect Improved Storage Technology Adoption? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana
    SCC-76 Meeting, 2019, April 4-6, Kansas City, Missouri, SCC-76: Economics and Management of Risk in Agriculture and Natural Resources View citations (1)
16. Does the intrahousehold allocation of male and female agricultural labor depend on distance to markets? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
    2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
17. Gender differences in land ownership and managerial rights: Implications for intrahousehold farm labor allocation in Ethiopia and Malawi
    2019 Annual Meeting, July 21-23, Atlanta, Georgia, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
18. Green Acres? Cannabis agriculture and rural land values in Northern California
    2017 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 1, Chicago, Illinois, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
19. In the form of bread? A randomized comparison of cash and food transfers in Yemen
    2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (21)
    See also Journal Article In the Form of Bread? A Randomized Comparison of Cash and Food Transfers in Yemen, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons (2020) View citations (12) (2020)
20. Modeling Farm Household’s Productivity under Inseparable Production and Consumption decisions
    2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
21. Who has the time? Gender, Labor and Willingness to Pay for Mechanized technology in Bangladesh and Ethiopia
    2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Guaranteed storage? Risk and credit constraints in the demand for postharvest technology
   Oxford Economic Papers, 2025, 77, (2), 289-309
2. Quality signaling and willingness-to-pay: an experimental assessment
   Marketing Letters, 2025, 36, (3), 341-353

2024

3. How does recall bias in farm labor impact separability tests?
   Food Policy, 2024, 128, (C)

2023

4. The role of mobile money in household resilience: Evidence from Kenya
   World Development, 2023, 165, (C) View citations (12)

2022

5. Mobile money, transaction costs, and market participation: evidence from Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania
   Food Policy, 2022, 112, (C) View citations (8)

2021

6. Demand for Agriculture Mechanization in the Hauts-Bassins Region in Burkina Faso
   Journal of Agribusiness, 2021, 39, (01)
7. Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda and Yemen
   World Development, 2021, 141, (C) View citations (23)
   See also Working Paper Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen, IFPRI discussion papers (2015) View citations (21) (2015)
8. Sick and tell: A field experiment analyzing the effects of an illness-related employment gap on the callback rate
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 185, (C), 865-882 View citations (8)

2020

9. Constructing a summary index using the standardized inverse-covariance weighted average of indicators
   Stata Journal, 2020, 20, (4), 952-964 View citations (11)
10. From the Ground Up: A Look at Kansas’ First Year of Industrial Hemp Production
    Western Economics Forum, 2020, 18, (2)
11. Gender differences in the relationship between land ownership and managerial rights: Implications for intrahousehold farm labor allocation
    World Development, 2020, 125, (C) View citations (18)
12. In the Form of Bread? A Randomized Comparison of Cash and Food Transfers in Yemen
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 102, (1), 91-113 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper In the form of bread? A randomized comparison of cash and food transfers in Yemen, 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. View citations (21)
13. Media Review: “What Happens When a State Grows Way Too Much Weed?” by VICE News (Reporter: Roberto Ferdman)
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 102, (3), 1050-1052

2019

14. Can food safety shortfalls disrupt ‘Ag for Nutrition’ gains? Evidence from Eid al-Adha
    Food Policy, 2019, 83, (C), 170-179 View citations (3)
15. Comparing the Productive Effects of Cash and Food Transfers in a Crisis Setting: Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Yemen
    Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55, (S1), 29-54 View citations (17)
    See also Working Paper Comparing the Productive Effects of Cash and Food Transfers in a Crisis Setting: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Yemen, Innocenti Working Papers (2018) View citations (2) (2018)

2017

16. Inside the Emerald Triangle: Modeling the Placement and Size of Cannabis Production in Humboldt County, CA USA
    Ecological Economics, 2017, 142, (C), 70-80 View citations (4)

2016

17. Employer-sponsored health insurance and the gender wage gap
    Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 45, (C), 103-114 View citations (9)
18. Self-control exertion and the expression of time preference: Experimental results from Ethiopia
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 52, (C), 136-146 View citations (6)

2011

19. The incidence of the healthcare costs of smoking
    Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30, (5), 1094-1102 View citations (14)

Software Items

2021

1. SWINDEX: Stata module to create a standardized weighted index of multiple indicator variables
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics