A temporary subsidy for maize farmers in Mozambique stimulated Green Revolution technology adoption and led to increased maize yields. Social networks of subsidized farmers benefit from spillovers, experiencing increases in technology adoption, yields and beliefs about the returns to the technologies.
Behavioral poverty traps and shortsightedness reinforce each other. By using a model with long-term planning horizon, this tool can help improve economic decisions and prospects based on a randomized controlled trial in Mozambique providing agro-input subsidies.
In this paper, we lay out the logic and impact evaluation methodology of this multi-dimensional pilot intervention in Mozambique designed to evaluate the impact of voucher coupons in both in the short and medium terms.
This presentation took place in University of California Davis, United States describing subsidies and basic savings can be negative complements because of behavioral poverty traps in Mozambique.
This presentation took place in University of California Davis, United States describing complementary relationship between providing savings, and saving match programs in Mozambique.
This paper proposes a decomposition of time discounting into time preference and a horizon function, which describes the extent to which an individual relates to her future selves.
L’article présent résume le travail réalisé par Michael Carter, Rachid Laajaj et Andres Moya avec l’aide de Catherine Guirkinger et Ombeline De Bock, qui ont envisagé deux types d’indices : l’indice climatique et l’indice basé sur les rendements moyens.
This memorandum describes how the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) can help to realize the potential of index insurance to build credit markets, enhance technology adoption and support farmers' income.