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Evaluation
Examining Underinvestment in Agriculture: Returns to Capital and Insurance Among Farmers in Ghana
Researchers in northern Ghana evaluated the underlying reason for underinvestment by examining the relative effectiveness of cash grants and insurance grants in improving crop yields. Results suggest that uninsured risk, rather than a lack of capital, was the primary constraint on investment. Researchers found that farmers who received free insurance spent more on fertilizer and hired labor, and they also cultivated more land than those who received cash grants.
Evaluation
Mobile Money and Agricultural Investment in Mozambique
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of offering interest-paying mobile money saving accounts to farmers, and in some cases farmers’ friends, on their financial behavior such as agricultural investment. Providing farmers access to interest-bearing mobile savings accounts increased both the amount of money they saved using these accounts and the likelihood they invested in fertilizer, while providing farmer’s closest farming friends the same incentivized mobile money accounts did not increase savings.
Evaluation
The Market for Local Agricultural Information in Western Kenya
This study in Western Kenya will test for failures in the market for local agricultural information and measure the impact of disseminating local information on farmers’ decisions to invest in agricultural inputs.
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Emily Sylvia
Emily Sylvia is a Policy Manager at J-PAL, where she manages the Agriculture sector. Under J-PAL's Agriculture sector, she advises the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI) and the Digital Agricultural Innovations and Services Initiative (DAISI) and liaises with the UM6P-J-PAL...
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Leonie Rauls
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Tavneet Suri
Tavneet Suri's research centers on a variety of applied economics issues in sub-Saharan Africa. She uses microeconomic and econometric models to examine the efficiency of household behavior and to understand subsequent policy implications.
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Jeremy Magruder
Jeremy Magruder is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, at University of California, Berkeley.
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Craig McIntosh
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Namrata Kala
Evaluation
Encouraging Adoption of Rainwater Harvesting Tanks Through Collateralized Loans in Kenya
In partnership with Nyala Dairy Cooperative, researchers evaluated the impact of offering asset collateralized loans for rainwater harvesting tanks on both credit access for dairy farmers and profitability for the lender. Using the tanks as loan collateral led to higher take-up of loans by farmers without worsening repayment or leading to losses for the lender and also allowed farmers to invest in an agricultural technology.
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Alejandro Noriega
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Sarah Margolis
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Daniela Gomez Trevino
Daniela Gómez Treviño is a Research Manager at J-PAL North America where she supports the launch of new evaluations of social programs, and contributes to trainings for research staff. She also supports multiple impact evaluations through Research Management Support (RMS).
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Anisha Sehgal
Anisha Sehgal is a Policy Associate at J-PAL North America where she supports the U.S. Health Care Delivery Initiative and Homelessness and Housing Stability team to generate and disseminate rigorous evidence to policymakers and practitioners.
Event
Ecole d’été 2024: Méthodologies du Développement
Dans le cadre de la Chaire «Méthodologies du Développement» d’Abhijit Banerjee et Esther Duflo, une école d’été pour chercheurs et porteurs de projets africains sera organisée du 1 au 4 juillet 2024 à Rabat, sur le campus de l’Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P).