This presentation took place in Washington DC, United States on June 28, 2016, and was about means-tested cash transfers emerging as the instrument of choice, spreading from middle income early adopters to lower income countries.
Recent flurry of experimental evaluations of micro-financial interventions to improve access to capital have expanded. This presentation is based on the AMA Innovation Lab projects for the Conference on the Economics of Asset Dynamics and Poverty Traps.
The goal of this presentation is to understand Major depression disorder (MDD) through the lens of economics. This presentation took place in Washington DC, United States on June 28, 2016 and was done by Jonathan de Quidt, Princeton University.
In this study, AMA Innovation Lab researchers play a series of incentivized laboratory games with risk-exposed cooperative-based coffee farmers in Guatemala to understand the demand for index-based rainfall insurance.
In this paper we ask two questions: (1) What are the social drivers of aspirations formation?, and (2) How do aspirations influence future-oriented behavior? The difference between current status and aspirations drives future-oriented economic behavior as predicted by theory
This paper examines the extent to which economic development decreases a country’s risk of experiencing climate-related disasters as well as the societal impacts of those events. The study finds that low-income countries are significantly more at risk of climate-related disasters, even after controlling for exposure to climate hazards and other factors that may confound disaster reporting.
There is a great deal of interest in increasing food security through the sustainable intensification of food production in developing countries around the world. The research team uses discrete choice experiments to study farmers’ preferences for different conservation agriculture (CA) practices, and assess willingness to adopt CA.
