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Digging for Answers: Examining the effects of rainfall index insurance for farmers in Ghana

Agriculture is a source of income for about half of the population in Africa, but unlike the rest of the world, crop yields have remained flat. Affiliates Christopher Udry (Yale) and Dean Karlan (Yale) investigate when and why farmers decide to use certain agricultural technologies.

Gujarat adopts reforms after impact study shows they reduce pollution

Environmental authorities in Gujarat, India, reform their environmental auditing system based on findings from a large-scale randomized evaluation conducted in partnership with J-PAL affiliates from Harvard, MIT, the University of Chicago, and Yale. The new guidelines require environmental auditors...

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