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2015: Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability-search cost dynamics

Joyce Chen, Katrina Kosec and Valerie Mueller

2015: The effect of insurance enrollment on maternal and child health care utilization: The case of Ghana

Gissele Gajate-Garrido and Clement Ahiadeke

2015: Stories of change in nutrition: A tool pool

Stuart Gillespie and Mara van den Bold

2015: Optimal tariffs with smuggling: A spatial analysis of Nigerian rice policy options

Michael E. Johnson and Paul Dorosh

2015: Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy

Isabel Lambrecht and Sarah Asare

2015: Returns to agricultural public spending in Africa south of the Sahara

Samuel Benin

2015: Lost in translation: The fractured conversation about trade and food security

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

2015: Gender roles and food safety in 20 informal livestock and fish value chains

Delia Grace, Kristina Roesel, Erastus Kang'ethe, Bassirou Bonfoh and Sophie Theis

2015: Farm household typologies and mechanization patterns in Nepal Terai: Descriptive analysis of the Nepal living standards survey

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Rajendra Prasad Adhikari, Mahendra Nath Poudel and Anjani Kumar

2015: Public-private partnerships and the reduction of undernutrition in developing countries

John Hoddinott, Stuart Gillespie and Sivan Yosef

2015: How does women’s time in reproductive work and agriculture affect maternal and child nutrition? Evidence from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Mozambique, and Nepal

Hitomi Komatsu, Sophie Theis and Hazel Jean Malapit

2015: US maize data reveals adaptation to heat and water stress

Timothy Thomas

2015: Customary tenure and innovative measures of safeguarding land rights in Africa: The community land initiative (iniciativa de terras comunitárias) in Mozambique

Hosaena H. Ghebru, Raul Pitoro and Sileshi Woldeyohannes

2015: The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT): Model description for version 3

Sherman Robinson, Mason-D’Croz, Daniel, Shahnila Islam, Timothy Sulser, Richard Robertson, Tingju Zhu, Arthur Gueneau, Gauthier Pitois and Mark W. Rosegrant

2015: Enhancing food security in South Sudan: The role of public food stocks and cereal imports

Paul Dorosh, Shahidur Rashid, Abigail Childs and Joanna Van Asselt

2015: Gender, headship, and the life cycle: Landownership in four Asian countries

Kathryn Sproule, Caitlin Kieran, Agnes Quisumbing and Cheryl Doss

2015: The food-energy-water security nexus: Definitions, policies, and methods in an application to Malawi and Mozambique

Thea Nielsen, Franziska Schuenemann, Emily McNulty, Manfred Zeller, Ephraim Nkonya, Edward Kato, Stefan Meyer, Weston Anderson, Tingju Zhu, Antonio Queface and Lawrence Mapemba

2015: The making of public investments: Champions, coordination, and characteristics of nutrition interventions

Tewodaj Mogues and Lucy Billings

2015: The dynamics of smallholder marketing behavior: Explorations using Ugandan and Mozambican panel data

Bjorn Van Campenhout

2015: Adjusting to external shocks in small open economies: The case of Honduras

Samuel Morley and Piñeiro, Valeria

2015: Drivers of growth in agricultural returns to scale: The hiring in of tractor services in the Terai of Nepal

Hiroyuki Takeshima

2015: The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program: An illustration from PROGRESA

Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman and Afia Tasneem

2015: Reconstructing public expenditure data: Use of classification systems to better measure public spending in agriculture — a Mozambique case study

Leonardo Caceres, Francisco A. Fernandez, Tewodaj Mogues and Mariam B. Umarji

2015: Agricultural insurance and the World Trade Organization

Joseph W. Glauber

2015: Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries

Francisco Ceballos, Manuel Hernandez, Nicholas Minot and Luis Robles

2015: Policy changes in times of crisis: Evidence from the Arab Spatial Policy Analyzer

Jacopo Bordignon and Clemens Breisinger

2015: Gender empowerment gaps in agriculture and children’s well-being in Bangladesh

Hazel Jean Malapit, Esha Sraboni, Agnes Quisumbing and Akhter Ahmed

2015: Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Ex ante analysis of promising and alternative crop technologies using DSSAT and IMPACT

Sherman Robinson, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Shahnila Islam, Nicola Cenacchi, Gregorio Creamer, Arthur Gueneau, Guy Hareau, Ulrich Kleinwechter, Khondoker Mottaleb, Nedumaran Swamikannu, Richard Robertson, Mark W. Rosegrant, Sika Gbegbelegbe, Timothy Sulser and Keith D. Wiebe

2015: A proximity-based measure of industrial clustering

Jianqing Ruan and Xiaobo Zhang

2015: Aspirations and the role of social protection: Evidence from a natural disaster in rural Pakistan

Katrina Kosec and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

2015: Addressing human capital development in public agriculture extension in Southern Africa: Assessing Mozambique’s experience

Gêmo, Hélder and Kristin Davis

2015: Microinsurance decisions: Gendered evidence from rural Bangladesh

Daniel Clarke and Neha Kumar

2015: Institutions and market integration: The case of coffee in the Ethiopian commodity exchange

Manuel Hernandez, Shahidur Rashid, Solomon Lemma and Tadesse Kuma

2015: Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being?

Xin Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang and Xi Chen

2015: The impact of the use of new technologies on farmers’ wheat yield in Ethiopia: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Gashaw Abate, Alan de Brauw, Nicholas Minot and Tanguy Bernard

2015: Living like there’s no tomorrow: Saving and spending following the Sichuan earthquake

Mateusz Filipski, Ling Jin, Xiaobo Zhang and Kevin Z. Chen

2015: Agricultural value chain development in practice: Private sector-led smallholder development

Shashi Kolavalli, Akwasi Mensah-Bonsu and Saima Zaman

2015: Cropping intensity gaps: The potential for expanded global harvest areas

Wenbin Wu, Liangzhi You and Kevin Z. Chen

2015: Migration, gender, and farming systems in Asia: Evidence, data, and knowledge gaps

Valerie Mueller, Chiara Kovarik, Kathryn Sproule and Agnes Quisumbing

2015: Agriculture, gendered time use, and nutritional outcomes: A systematic review

Deborah Johnston, Sara Stevano, Hazel Jean Malapit, Elizabeth Hull and Suneetha Kadiyala

2015: Public benefits of private technology adoption: The localized spatial externalities of water conservation in eastern Uttar Pradesh

Anil K. Bhargava, Travis Lybbert and David Spielman

2015: Supply-side dynamics of chickpeas and pigeon peas in India

Kalimuthu Inbasekar, Devesh Roy and Pramod Kumar Joshi

2015: Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen

Amber Peterman, Benjamin Schwab, Shalini Roy, Melissa Hidrobo and Daniel Gilligan

2015: The potential of farm-level technologies and practices to contribute to reducing consumer exposure to aflatoxins: A theory of change analysis

Nancy L. Johnson, Christine Atherstone and Delia Grace

2015: How will training traders contribute to improved food safety in informal markets for meat and milk? A theory of change analysis

Nancy L. Johnson, John Mayne, Delia Grace and Amanda J. Wyatt

2015: Communication and coordination: Experimental evidence from farmer groups in Senegal

Fo Kodjo Dzinyefa Aflahagah, Tanguy Bernard and Angelino Viceisza

2015: The impact of household health shocks on female time allocation and agricultural labor participation in rural Pakistan

Gissele Gajate-Garrido

2015: The biophysical potential for urea deep placement technology in lowland rice production systems of Ghana and Senegal

Cindy M. Cox, Ho Young Kwon and Jawoo Koo

2015: The impact of investment in agricultural research and development and agricultural productivity

Nicostrato D. Perez and Mark W. Rosegrant

2015: Agricultural diversification and poverty in India

Pratap Birthal, Devesh Roy and Digvijay Negi

2015: Peer effects in the valuation of attributes and practices for food safety: findings from the study of dairy consumers in India

Raj Chandra, Abdul Munasib, Devesh Roy and Vinay Sonkar

2015: The Bali Agreement: An assessment from the perspective of developing countries

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio and David Laborde Debucquet

2015: Rural and agricultural mechanization: A history of the spread of small engines in selected asian countries

Stephen Biggs and Scott E. Justice

2015: Investigating public financial accounts and coding system in Malawi and measuring agricultural expenditures within the system

Chance Mwabutwa

2015: The effects of political competition on rural land: Evidence from Pakistan

Katrina Kosec, Hamza S. Haider, David Spielman and Fatima Zaidi

2015: Heterogeneous preferences and the effects of incentives in promoting conservation agriculture in Malawi

Patrick Ward, Andrew R. Bell, Gregory M. Parkhurst, Klaus Droppelmann and Lawrence Mapemba

2015: The cooling effect of pulse imports on price: The case of the pigeon pea in India

Akanksha Negi and Devesh Roy

2015: Financial constraints and international trade with endogenous mode of competition

Bouët, Antoine and Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël

2015: Understanding men’s and women’s access to and control of assets and the implications for agricultural development projects: A case study in rice-farming households in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

Valerien Pede, Joyce Luis, Raman Sharma, Abha Singh, Jeffrey Stipular, Donald Villanueva and Thelma R. Paris

2015: Gender, assets, and agricultural development: Lessons from eight projects

Nancy L. Johnson, Chiara Kovarik, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Jemimah Njuki and Agnes Quisumbing

2015: A framework for physical growth and child development

Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman and Paul Glewwe

2015: Filling the legal void? Experimental evidence from a community-based legal aid program for gender-equal land rights in Tanzania

Valerie Mueller, Lucy Billings, Tewodaj Mogues, Amber Peterman and Ayala Wineman

2015: Agricultural intensification in Africa: A regional analysis

Alejandro Nin-Pratt

2015: Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara

Alejandro Nin-Pratt

2015: When expectations become aspirations: Reference-dependent preferences and liquidity constraints

Berber Kramer

2015: Demand for complementary financial and technological tools for managing drought risk

Patrick Ward, David Spielman, David Ortega, Neha Kumar and Sumedha Minocha

2015: Examining gender inequalities in land rights indicators in Asia

Caitlin Kieran, Kathryn Sproule, Cheryl Doss, Agnes Quisumbing and Sung Mi Kim

2015: Is reliable water access the solution to undernutrition? A review of the potential of irrigation to solve nutrition and gender gaps in Africa South of the Sahara

Domènech, Laia

2015: What will it take for biofortification to have impact on the ground? Theories of change for three crop-country combinations

Nancy L. Johnson, Hannah Guedenet and Amy Saltzman

2015: Managing risk with insurance and savings: Experimental evidence for male and female farm managers in West Africa

Clara Delavallade, Felipe Dizon, Ruth Hill and Jean Paul Petraud

2015: The impact of “At-the-Border†and “Behind-the-Border†policies on cost-reducing research and development

Julien Berthoumieu and Bouët, Antoine

2015: Market imperfections for tractor service provision in Nigeria: International perspectives and empirical evidence

Hiroyuki Takeshima

2015: Agriculture, nutrition, and the Green Revolution in Bangladesh

Derek Headey and John Hoddinott

2015: Rural finance and agricultural technology adoption in Ethiopia: Does institutional design matter?

Gashaw Abate, Shahidur Rashid, Carlo Borzaga and Kindie Getnet

2015: Is more inclusive more effective? The “new-style†public distribution system in India

Avinash Kishore and Suman Chakrabarti

2015: Explicitly integrating institutions into bioeconomic modeling

Kimberly A. Swallow and Brent Swallow

2015: Time allocation to energy resource collection in rural Ethiopia: Gender-disaggregated household responses to changes in firewood availability

Elena Scheurlen

2015: Communities’ perceptions and knowledge of ecosystem services: Evidence from rural communities in Nigeria

Wei Zhang, Edward Kato, Prapti Bhandary, Ephraim Nkonya, Hassan Ishaq Ibrahim, Mure Uhunamure Agbonlahor and Hussaini Yusuf Ibrahim

2015: 2011 Social Accounting Matrix for Senegal

Fofana, Ismaël, Mamadou Yaya Diallo, Ousseynou Sarr and Abdou Diouf

2015: Firm heterogeneity in food safety provision: Evidence from aflatoxin tests in Kenya

Christine Moser and Vivian Hoffmann

2015: Mechanization outsourcing clusters and division of labor in Chinese agriculture

Xiaobo Zhang, Jin Yang and Thomas Reardon

2015: Conceptualizing drivers of policy change in agriculture, nutrition, and food security: The kaleidoscope model

Danielle Resnick, Suresh Chandra Babu, Steven Haggblade, Sheryl Hendriks and David Mather

2015: Value chains and nutrition: A framework to support the identification, design, and evaluation of interventions

Aulo Gelli, Corinna Hawkes, Jason Donovan, Jody Harris, Summer L. Allen, Alan de Brauw, Spencer Henson, Nancy L. Johnson, James Garrett and David Ryckembusch

2015: Climate, change adaptation assets and group-based approaches: Gendered perceptions from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, and Kenya

Noora-Lisa Aberman, Snigdha Ali, Julia A. Behrman, Elizabeth Bryan, Peter Davis, Aiveen Donnelly, Violet Gathaara, Koné, Daouda, Teresiah Nganga, Jane Ngugi, Barrack Okoba and Carla Roncoli

2015: Information networks among women and men and the demand for an agricultural technology in India

Nicholas Magnan, David Spielman, Kajal Gulati and Travis Lybbert

2015: Measurement of agricultural productivity in Africa south of Sahara: A spatial typology application

Bingxin Yu and Zhe Guo

2015: Eliciting farmers’ valuation for abiotic stress-tolerant rice in India

Anchal Arora, Sangeeta Bansal and Patrick Ward

2015: Understanding the policy landscape for climate change adaptation: A cross-country comparison using the Net-map method

Noora-Lisa Aberman, Regina Birner, Eric Haglund, Marther Ngigi, Snigdha Ali, Barrack Okoba, Koné, Daouda and Tekie Alemu