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Danielle Resnick

Danielle Resnick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit and a Non-Resident Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. Her research focuses on the political economy of agricultural policy and food systems, governance, and democratization, drawing on extensive fieldwork and policy engagement across Africa and South Asia.

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Trade‐off between accuracy and cognitive burden: Influence of stated attribute non‐attendance questions on participants’ choice behaviors

2026Nian, Yefan; Gao, Zhifeng; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Zhao, Yuning; Van Asselt, Joanna
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Trade‐off between accuracy and cognitive burden: Influence of stated attribute non‐attendance questions on participants’ choice behaviors

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2026

Authors

Nian, Yefan; Gao, Zhifeng; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Zhao, Yuning; Van Asselt, Joanna

Citation

Nian, Yefan; Gao, Zhifeng; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Zhao, Yuning; and Van Asselt, Joanna. 2026. Trade‐off between accuracy and cognitive burden: Influence of stated attribute non‐attendance questions on participants’ choice behaviors. Agricultural Economics 57(1): e70070. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70070

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Behaviour; Surveys; Willingness to Pay; Econometric Models

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English

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Limited Access

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https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70070 Source record

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Confidence and information usage: Evidence from soil testing in India

2025Gars, Jared; Fishman, Ram; Kishore, Avinash; Rothler, Yoav; Ward, Patrick S.
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Confidence and information usage: Evidence from soil testing in India

Informational barriers are often considered to be a major constraint to the adoption of improved farming practices, inputs, and technologies by smallholder farmers. In the Indian context, it is widely believed that farmers misapply chemical fertilizers because they lack scientific information on soil conditions and corresponding fertilizer recommendations, thus resulting in imbalanced and potentially detrimental fertilizer application. Policymakers are frequently interested in providing farmers with various streams of information to overcome these informational barriers to optimize farming activities. However, such informational interventions frequently fail either because generic recommendations may be ill-suited for decision makers in highly heterogeneous agricultural environments or because farmers’ beliefs may be so entrenched as to make them unresponsive to new information. We implemented a field experiment in Bihar, India to test whether plot-specific fertilizer recommendations affect farmers’ fertilizer use. We find little evidence for sizable impacts on fertilizer use in general, though impacts are more apparent for low cost or costless recommendations such as increasing the use of highly subsidized fertilizers or shifting the timing of application. Despite modest evidence of such effects, even those fall short of their potential magnitude. We show that treated farmers who are less confident in their subjective beliefs about optimal fertilizer application rates (i.e., with more disperse priors) are more responsive to the recommendations and have a higher ex ante willingness to pay for soil testing. These results suggest that heterogeneity in beliefs may constrain the overall effectiveness of information provision, even when the information is tailored to individual farms. JEL Classification: D83, O13

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2025

Authors

Gars, Jared; Fishman, Ram; Kishore, Avinash; Rothler, Yoav; Ward, Patrick S.

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Gars, Jared; Fishman, Ram; Kishore, Avinash; Rothler, Yoav; and Ward, Patrick S. 2025. Confidence and information usage: Evidence from soil testing in India. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 107(5): 1406-1437. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12513

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India

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Asia; Southern Asia; Fertilizers; Soil Analysis; Smallholders

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12513 Source record

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National Policies and Strategies

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Production shocks, exports and market prices: An analysis of the rice sector in Myanmar

2019Dorosh, Paul A.; Win, Myat Thida; van Asselt, Joanna
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Production shocks, exports and market prices: An analysis of the rice sector in Myanmar

Since 2012/13, rice exports to China (which may have reached two million tons in 2015/16) boosted total demand for Myanmar’s rice and rice prices. In mid-2016, however, China stopped rice imports through the main land entry point, putting substantial downward pressure on prices. Analysis presented in this paper, based on econometric estimates of consumption parameters and a simple model of Myanmar’s rice supply and demand, suggests that market prices would fall by 26 to 43 percent or more (in real terms) in the absence of increased exports to the world market and/or government domestic procurement. Such a decline in prices could have seriously harmed Myanmar’s rice producers, including many poor farmers with marketable surpluses. Model simulations suggest that government procurement of about one million tons would limit the estimated price decline to only 17 to 30 percent. Further refinements in the simulations are needed to take account for the seasonal nature of paddy production in Myanmar, possible price-responsiveness of export demand and the effects of changes in paddy incomes on farmer demand for rice. Medium-term analysis of procurement, storage and future sales is needed to analyze fiscal costs under various scenarios, as well, covering alternative shocks to production, export demand and world prices. Nonetheless, the main results are clear: without substantial market interventions on the order of one million tons (milled rice equivalent), the paddy (rice) price could fall dramatically when production increases or export demand declines.

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2019

Authors

Dorosh, Paul A.; Win, Myat Thida; van Asselt, Joanna

Citation

Dorosh, Paul; Win, Myat Thida; and Van Asselt, Joanna. 2019. Production shocks, exports and market prices: An analysis of the rice sector in Myanmar. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1830. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145611

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Myanmar

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Asia; South-eastern Asia; Agricultural Production; Exports; Market Prices; Rice; Foreign Trade; Domestic Consumption; Agriculture; Trade Policies; Trade; Price Stabilization; Product Quality

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English

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Open Access

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https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133220 Source record

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Working Paper

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CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture Convention
IFPRI at External Event

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October 3 to 5, 2018

CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture Convention

IFPRI Staff are participating in the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture co-hosted by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) taking place October 3-5, 2018 at the Campus of the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya. This convention is the second yearly event to bring together the people and organizations that make the […]