This paper reports on the effects of a training-based intervention seeking to increase household engagement in poultry production in Burkina Faso, analyzing data from a large-scale cluster randomized trial in which 1798 households in 60 communes w

Cash transfer programs primarily targeting women in Latin America and East Africa have been shown to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but knowledge gaps remain on how impacts differ by program features and context.

This paper empirically identifies social learning and neighborhood effects in schooling investments in a new technology regime. Social learning implies that learning is most efficient when observed heterogeneity in schooling is greatest.

"This paper examines the determinants of assets at marriage in rural Ethiopia.

"This paper models the assimilation process of migrants and shows evidence of the complementarity between their destination experience and upon-arrival human capital.

This article develops a food demand system based on the demand for energy, variety, and tastes of foods.

Cross-section estimates of income elasticities for food staples in the aggregate based on quantity information from household food expenditure surveys are often in the 0.3 0.6 range.

The wide range of calorie-income elasticities in the literature results, in large part, from the particular calorie and income variables used for estimation.