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2016: Estimating spatial basis risk in rainfall index insurance: Methodology and application to excess rainfall insurance in Uruguay

Francisco Ceballos

2016: The effect of land inheritance on youth employment and migration decisions: Evidence from rural Ethiopia

Katrina Kosec, Hosaena Ghebru, Brian Holtemeyer, Valerie Mueller and Emily Schmidt

2016: How headquarters relocation is affected by rising wages and ownership: Evidence from China's annual survey of industrial enterprises, 1999–2008

Qingtao Wang, Kevin Z. Chen, Longwen Chiang and Xuanli Xie

2016: External shocks, food security, and development: Exploring scenarios for Central America

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Piñeiro, Valeria and Pablo Elverdin

2016: The role of learning in technology adoption: Evidence on hybrid rice adoption in Bihar, India

Jared Gars and Patrick Ward

2016: Building effective clusters and industrial parks

Xiaobo Zhang

2016: Nepal’s 2072 federal constitution: Implications for the governance of the agricultural sector

Jordan Kyle and Danielle Resnick

2016: Entitlement fetching or snatching? Effects of arbitrage on India’s public distribution system

Suman Chakrabarti, Avinash Kishore and Devesh Roy

2016: Changing preferences through experimental games: Evidence from sanitation and hygiene in Tamil Nadu

Yaniv Stopnitzky

2016: Climate change, agriculture, and adaptation in the Republic of Korea to 2050: An integrated assessment

Nicola Cenacchi, Youngah Lim, Timothy Sulser, Shahnila Islam, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Richard Robertson, Chang-Gil Kim and Keith D. Wiebe

2016: The dark side of competition: Gender differences

Simone Chang, Kamhon Kan and Xiaobo Zhang

2016: Harnessing net primary productivity data for monitoring sustainable development of agriculture

Nathaniel P. Robinson, Cindy M. Cox and Jawoo Koo

2016: Effects of agricultural mechanization on smallholders and their self-selection into farming: An insight from the Nepal Terai

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Rudra Bahadur Shrestha, Basu Dev Kaphle, Madhab Karkee, Suroj Pokhrel and Anjani Kumar

2016: The agricultural sector as an alternative to illegal mining in Peru: A case study of Madre de Dios

Piñeiro, Valeria, Jenny Thomas and Pablo Elverdin

2016: What drives diversification of national food supplies? A cross-country analysis

Samira Choudhury and Derek Headey

2016: Identity, household work, and subjective well-being among rural women in Bangladesh

Greg Seymour and Maria S. Floro

2016: Youth employment, agricultural transformation, and rural labor dynamics in Nigeria

Margaret Abiodun Adesugba and George Mavrotas

2016: Farm size and effects of chemical fertilizer price on farm households: Insights from Nepal Terai

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Sabnam Shivakoti, Binod Bhattarai, Madhab Karkee, Suroj Pokhrel and Anjani Kumar

2016: Energy use and rural poverty: Empirical evidence from potato farmers in north China

Zihan Li, Yazhen Gong and Kevin Z. Chen

2016: Does a “Blue Revolution†help the poor? Evidence from Bangladesh

Shahidur Rashid, Nicholas Minot and Solomon Lemma

2016: Do development projects crowd out private-sector activities? A survival analysis of contract farming participation in northern Ghana

Isabel Lambrecht and Catherine Ragasa

2016: Strong democracy, weak state: The political economy of Ghana’s stalled structural transformation

Danielle Resnick

2016: Agricultural extension messages using video on portable devices: Increase knowledge about seed selection and seed storage and handling among smallholder potato farmers in southwestern Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Senne Vandevelde, Wilberforce Walukano and Piet Van Asten

2016: What drives input subsidy policy reform? The case of Zambia, 2002–2016

Danielle Resnick and Mason, Nicole, M.

2016: Using household consumption and expenditure surveys to make inferences about food consumption, nutrient intakes and nutrition status: How important is it to adjust for meal partakers?

John L. Fiedler and Dena M. Mwangi

2016: Improving household consumption and expenditure surveys’ food consumption metrics: Developing a strategic approach to the unfinished agenda

John L. Fiedler and Dena M. Mwangi

2016: Microcredit in Viet Nam: Does it matter?

Jonathan Haughton and Shahidur Khandker

2016: Micronutrient policy process in Malawi

Suresh Chandra Babu, Steven Haggblade, Elizabeth Mkandawire, Flora Nankhuni and Sheryl L. Hendriks

2016: Framework to assess performance and impact of pluralistic agricultural extension systems: The best-fit framework revisited

Guy Faure, Kristin Davis, Catherine Ragasa, Steven Franzel and Suresh Chandra Babu

2016: Food markets and nutrition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2004–2005)

Wim Marivoet

2016: Learning from China? Manufacturing, investment, and technology transfer in Nigeria

Yunnan Chen, Irene Yuan Sun, Rex Uzonna Ukaejiofo, Tang Xiaoyang and Bräutigam, Deborah

2016: Using cognitive interviewing to improve the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index survey instruments: Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda

Hazel Jean Malapit, Kathryn Sproule and Chiara Kovarik

2016: New modalities for managing drought risk in rainfed agriculture: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Odisha, India

Patrick Ward and Simrin Makhija

2016: Using zero tillage to ameliorate yield losses from weather shocks: Evidence from panel data in Haryana, India

Md Tajuddin Khan, Avinash Kishore, Divya Pandey and Pramod Kumar Joshi

2016: Limits to green revolution in rice in Africa: The case of Ghana

Catherine Ragasa and Antony Chapoto

2016: Will China’s demographic transition exacerbate its income inequality? A CGE modeling with top-down microsimulation

Xinxin Wang, Kevin Z. Chen, Sherman Robinson and Zuhui Huang

2016: Comparing apples to apples: A new indicator of research and development investment intensity in agriculture

Alejandro Nin-Pratt

2016: Have Chinese firms become smaller? If so, why?

Qiming Yang, Xiaobo Zhang and Wu Zhu

2016: Export competition issues after Nairobi: The recent World Trade Organization agreements and their implications for developing countries

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio and Jonathan Hepburn

2016: Adoption of food safety measures among Nepalese milk producers: Do smallholders benefit?

Anjani Kumar, Ganesh Thapa, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Devesh Roy

2016: Making pulses affordable again: Policy options from the farm to retail in India

Pramod Kumar Joshi, Avinash Kishore and Devesh Roy

2016: Implications of slowing growth in emerging market economies for hunger and poverty in rural areas of developing countries

David Laborde Debucquet and Will Martin

2016: Impacts of CAADP on Africa’s agricultural-led development

Samuel Benin

2016: Do beliefs about agricultural inputs counterfeiting correspond with actual rates of counterfeiting? Evidence from Uganda

Maha Ashour, Lucy Billings, Daniel Gilligan, Jessica Hoel and Naureen Karachiwalla

2016: Agricultural inputs policy under macroeconomic uncertainty: Applying the kaleidoscope model to Ghana’s Fertilizer Subsidy Programme (2008–2015)

Danielle Resnick and David Mather

2016: Gender dimensions on farmers’ preferences for direct-seeded rice with drum seeder in India

Md Tajuddin Khan, Avinash Kishore and Pramod K. Joshi

2016: A farm-level perspective of the policy challenges for export diversification in Malawi: Example of the oilseeds and maize sectors

Michael E. Johnson, Brent Edelman and Cynthia Kazembe

2016: The distribution of power and household behavior: Evidence from Niger

Fleur Wouterse

2016: Market integration and price transmission in Tajikistan’s wheat markets: Rising like rockets but falling like feathers?

Jarilkasin Ilyasov, Götz, Linde, Kamiljon Akramov, Paul Dorosh and Thomas Glauben

2016: The economic value of seasonal forecasts stochastic economywide analysis for East Africa

Joao Rodrigues, James Thurlow, Willem Landman, Claudia Ringler, Richard Robertson and Tingju Zhu

2016: Perceived land tenure security and rural transformation: Empirical evidence from Ghana

Hosaena Ghebru, Huma Khan and Isabel Lambrecht

2016: Global and regional pulse economies: Current trends and outlook

Pramod Kumar Joshi and P. Parthasarathy Rao

2016: United States agricultural policy: Its evolution and impact

Joseph W. Glauber and Anne Effland

2016: Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from China

Xu Wang, Xiaobo Zhang, Zhuan Xie and Yiping Huang

2016: A systematic review of cross-country data initiatives on agricultural public expenditures in developing countries

Richard Anson and Tewodaj Mogues

2016: Does female labor scarcity encourage innovation? Evidence from China’s gender imbalance

Zhibo Tan and Xiaobo Zhang

2016: Linking smallholder farmers to commercial markets: Evidence from nongovernmental organization training in Nicaragua

Ayako Ebata and Manuel Hernandez

2016: Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Longitudinal evidence from rural India

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Yanyan Liu and Sudhir Singh

2016: Labor adaptation to climate variability in Eastern Africa

Xiaoya Dou, Clark Gray, Valerie Mueller and Glenn Sheriff

2016: A dynamic spatial model of agricultural price transmission: Evidence from the Niger millet market

Anatole Goundan and Mahamadou Tankari

2016: Qualitative methods for gender research in agricultural development

Deborah Rubin

2016: Anchoring bias in recall data: Evidence from Central America

Susan Godlonton, Manuel Hernandez and Mike Murphy

2016: Contracting by small farmers in commodities with export potential: Assessing farm profits of lentil growers in Nepal

Anjani Kumar, Devesh Roy, Gaurav Tripathi, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Rajendra Prasad Adhikari

2016: Rent Dispersion in the US Agricultural Insurance Industry

Vincent H. Smith, Joseph W. Glauber and Robert Dismukes

2016: Long-term drivers of food and nutrition security

David Laborde Debucquet, Fahd Majeed, Simla Tokgoz and Maximo Torero

2016: Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture: Modeling a case study in Malawi

Patrick Ward, Andrew R. Bell, Klaus Droppelmann and Tim Benton

2016: A model of reporting and controlling outbreaks by public health agencies

Alexander Saak and David Hennessy

2016: Boserupian pressure and agricultural mechanization in modern Ghana

Frances Cossar

2016: Agricultural mechanization and agricultural transformation

Xinshen Diao, Jed Silver and Hiroyuki Takeshima

2016: Delegation of quality control in value chains

Alexander Saak

2016: Structural transformation and intertemporal evolution of real wages, machine use, and farm size–productivity relationships in Vietnam

Yanyan Liu, William Violette and Christopher Barrett

2016: Can contract farming increase farmers’ income and enhance adoption of food safety practices? Evidence from remote areas of Nepal

Anjani Kumar, Devesh Roy, Gaurav Trapathi, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Rajendra Prasad Adhikari

2016: Effectiveness of food subsidies in raising healthy food consumption: Public distribution of pulses in India

Suman Chakrabarti, Avinash Kishore and Devesh Roy

2016: Findings across agricultural public expenditure reviews in African countries

Stephen D. Mink

2016: Risk and sustainable crop intensification: The case of smallholder rice and potato farmers in Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Emmanuel Bizimungu and Dorothy Birungi

2016: Varietal integrity, damage abatement, and productivity: Evidence from the cultivation of Bt cotton in Pakistan

Xingliang Ma, Melinda Smale, David Spielman, Patricia Zambrano, Hina Nazli and Fatima Zaidi

2016: Institutional arrangements to make public spending responsive to the poor—(where) have they worked? Review of the evidence on four major intervention types

Tewodaj Mogues and Alvina Erman

2016: A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America

Manuel Hernandez and Maximo Torero

2016: Can information help reduce imbalanced application of fertilizers in India? Experimental evidence from Bihar

Ram Fishman, Avinash Kishore, Yoav Rothler, Patrick Ward, Shankar Jha and R.K. P. Singh

2016: Pakistan’s fertilizer sector: Structure, policies, performance, and impacts

Mubarik Ali, Faryal Ahmed, Hira Channa and Stephen Davies

2016: Agriculture-nutrition linkages and child health in the presence of conflict in Nepal

Elizabeth Bageant, Yanyan Liu and Xinshen Diao

2016: “As a husband I will love, lead, and provideâ€: Gendered access to land in Ghana

Isabel Lambrecht

2016: Formal versus informal: Efficiency, inclusiveness, and financing of dairy value chains in India

Ramesh Chand, Pramod Kumar Joshi, Raka Saxena, Pallavi Rajkhowa, Md. Tajuddin Khan, Mohd. Arshad Khan, Khyali R. Chaudhary and Pratap Birthal

2016: Measuring women’s disempowerment in agriculture in Pakistan

Nuzhat Ahmad and Huma Khan

2016: The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico

Quiñones, Esteban J. and Shalini Roy

2016: Why some are more equal than others: Country typologies of food security

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio and Marcelle Thomas

2016: Empowerment and agricultural production: Evidence from rural households in Niger

Fleur Wouterse

2016: Is access to tractor service a binding constraint for Nepali Terai farmers?

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Rajendra Prasad Adhikari and Anjani Kumar

2016: Determinants of chemical fertilizer use in Nepal: Insights based on price responsiveness and income effects

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Rajendra Prasad Adhikari, Basu Dev Kaphle, Sabnam Shivakoti and Anjani Kumar

2016: Volatile volatility: Conceptual and measurement issues related to price trends and volatility

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

2016: Changes in Ghanaian farming systems: Stagnation or a quiet transformation?

Nazaire Houssou, Michael E. Johnson, Shashi Kolavalli and Collins Asante-Addo

2016: Returns to agricultural public spending in Ghana: Cocoa versus noncocoa subsector

Samuel Benin

2016: Challenges in implementing a small-scale farmers’ capacity-building program: The case of the food production, processing, and marketing project in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Catherine Ragasa, Ephraim Nkonya, John Ulimwengu and Josee Randriamamonjy

2016: Leveling the field for biofuels: Comparing the economic and environmental impacts of biofuel and other export crops in Malawi

Franziska Schuenemann, James Thurlow and Manfred Zeller

2016: Farm transition and indigenous growth: The rise to medium- and large-scale farming in Ghana

Nazaire Houssou, Collins Asante-Addo and Antony Chapoto

2016: The impact of agricultural extension services in the context of a heavily subsidized input system: The case of Malawi

Catherine Ragasa, John Mazunda and Mariam Kadzamira

2016: Ghana’s macroeconomic crisis: Causes, consequences, and policy responses

Stephen D. Younger