Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍

Join us in-person (if you’re in DC) or online, it should be fun!

International Food Policy Research Institute@ifpri.org · 4mo ago

TMRW, this seminar co-organized by IFPRI & AgIncentives Consortium will focus on research that can help explain why food- importing countries with low agricultural productivity use their resources to produce food domestically. 📉🌱 📍In person or online🎟️ bit.ly/Trade-Risk @cgiar.org

🎉First post here I had the privilege of moderating a fantastic @aaea-economics.bsky.social webinar today on using social media for professional visibility 🌾💻 If you missed the live session, you can catch the full recording on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0fM...

Using Social Media for Professional Visibility

YouTube video by Ag Econ (AAEA)

youtube.com

Why/how should multiple hypothesis testing be done differently in empirical work? We give an economic foundation trading off research costs and incentives with implications for empirical practice. New paper by Viviano, Wüthrich, and Niehaus: www.restud.com/a-model-of-m... #REStud #EconSky

Yikes! The knock on effects of climate change seem quite bad… The upside of this is that increasing agricultural productivity, and adaptation to a changing climate, can reduce deforestation pressures… Let’s slow climate change and increase agricultural productivity!

ClimateFran@climatefran.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A downward spiral - climate change lowers agricultural productivity, leading to cropland expansion and deforestation, and thus more climate change. www.nber.org/papers/w3502...

New WB Policy Research Working Paper: “Shaken, but Not Deterred : Acute Stressors and the Formation of Hope and Aspirations among Tertiary-Educated Youth in Myanmar in the Aftermath of the 2025 Earthquake” - check it out!

Shaken, but Not Deterred : Acute Stressors and the Formation of Hope and Aspirations among Tertiary-Educated Youth in Myanmar in the Aftermath of the 2025 Earthquake

Although hope and aspirations are increasingly considered to be both intrinsically and instrumentally valuable, quantitative evidence on the formation of these factors is .

documents.worldbank.org

Recently accepted by #QJE: “The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Long-Term Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia,” by Bernard, Dercon (@gamblingondev.bsky.social), Orkin, Schinaia, and Taffesse (@astaffesse.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Long-Term Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia*

Abstract. Aspirations may condition the future-oriented choices of individuals and thus may play a role in the persistence of poverty or the effort to brea

doi.org

Recently accepted by #QJE: “Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict,” by Gehring (@kaigehring.bsky.social) and Schaudt (@paulschaudt.bskz.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict*

Abstract. We provide quasi-experimental evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate drought-induced co

doi.org

🆕 African agriculture's underappreciated supply side Today on VoxDevTalks, @hopecm.bsky.social (UIUC) discusses how understanding the risks, incentives, and constraints faced by agro-dealers is essential for sustained productivity gains: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data. github.com/echolab-stan...

GitHub - echolab-stanford/heat: R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools

R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools - echolab-stanford/heat

github.com

What would it cost to end extreme poverty? "We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year." "The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."

Did you hear the USDA plans to cease data collection for the CPS Food Security supplement? We have a blog post to give you more information. If you want to sign a letter asking for data collection to continue, see the threaded opportunities below. blog.popdata.org/food-securit...

Evidence from the same context + the same team (now adding @JeffBloem) that while depression ⬆️ among women in the perinatal period in S Africa, exposure to the grant during the perinatal period eliminates this increased risk www.dropbox.com/scl/...

🆕 Intensification or expansion? A new approach to measuring agricultural change Today on VoxDev, @jeffbloem.bsky.social (@ifpri.org) & Clark Lundberg (San Diego State University) discuss the impact of agricultural technology adoption on deforestation in Nigeria: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

Intensification or expansion? A new approach to measuring agricultural change

Drawing on a randomised controlled trial among rice farmers in Nigeria, we introduce a new method for linking village-level interventions with high-resolution earth observation data – which captures s...

voxdev.org

Icymi. . .@ifpri is on fire in the latest issue of JDE (well, soon-to-be the Jan 2026 issue of JDE) with six separate papers from 7 different researchers

Anyone who has studied development economics has learned about the structural transformation of national economies that occurs amid the development process. The traditional narrative emphasizes intersectoral labour reallocation out of agriculture and into manufacturing and services.

🆕 #Blog Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption 🖋️ By @jeffbloem.bsky.social. 🔗 Read the full story here: on.cgiar.org/4oR3GUA @cgiar.org

Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption

A new form of fertilizer offers advantages.

on.cgiar.org

New on the @ifpri.org blog today: “Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption” www.ifpri.org/blog/natures...

Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption

A new form of fertilizer offers advantages.

ifpri.org

The #WEFIDEV #webinar series is back this fall! We are looking for *preliminary or early-stage work* in #Finance and #Development to be presented We also aim to have a session devoted to job candidates in finance and development on the market this fall Submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Webinar in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV)

This form collects interest for presentations in the fall season of the Webinar series in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV) for junior scholars working on finance topics in developing countries. We ar...

docs.google.com

New on the Engendering data blog: “Sources of bias when measuring women’s empowerment in fragile and conflict-affected settings: a story of four case studies” gender.cgiar.org/news/sources...

Sources of bias when measuring women’s empowerment in fragile and conflict-affected settings: a story of four case studies

Accurately measuring women’s empowerment systematically across a variety of settings is critical to ensure equal access to market participation, control of the use of productive resources, opportuniti...

gender.cgiar.org

In low-income countries, most people work in farming; in richer countries, they work in services

Really excited to have this paper published in the JDE! Available online today, blog post and more coming soon… “Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial” co-authored with Clark Lundberg www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial

We study the effect of the adoption of improved agricultural inputs on deforestation using a randomized control trial in Nigeria which introduced a mo…

sciencedirect.com

Literally joined this platform (finally) to share this AEDE blog. If you are not heartbroken at the scale of child suffering in Gaza, you are not paying attention. Call your federal rep — at the very least. u.osu.edu/aede/2025/07...

Now available online at JESA: “Survey ordering and the measurement of welfare” with Wahed Rahman and Marc Bellemare #openaccess link here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We summarized our findings on how farmer-herder conflict influences the labor allocation of agricultural households in this @voxdev.bsky.social piece. Here is a link to a longer thread on the paper, recently published in the JDE: bsky.app/profile/jeff...

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last yr.

🆕 How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria Today on VoxDev, @jeffbloem.bsky.social @ifpri.org, Amy Damon (Macalester College), David Francis (World Bank), Harrison Mitchell @ucsandiego.bsky.social show how repeated exposure to violence shifts labour patterns: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

🆕 How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria Today on VoxDev, @jeffbloem.bsky.social @ifpri.org, Amy Damon (Macalester College), David Francis (World Bank), Harrison Mitchell @ucsandiego.bsky.social show how repeated exposure to violence shifts labour patterns: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria

As climate change stretches Nigeria’s dry seasons and disrupts traditional grazing patterns, tensions between nomadic herders and settled farmers fuel violent conflict—most intensely just before the p...

voxdev.org

🆕 🗞️ Income aspirations and migration: Evidence from rural #Tajikistan 🖊️ By @jeffbloem.bsky.social, Isabel Lambrecht, and Kamiljon Akromov. 🖱️ Learn more here: doi.org/10.1177/0197... @cgiar.org

It's blog week around here. Here's a piece on work with @kateambler.bsky.social @jeffbloem.bsky.social @mehrabbakhtiar.bsky.social & Eduardo Maruyama on financial innovation in agrifood systems, part of the new @ifpri.org series on Financing Food Systems Transformation www.ifpri.org/blog/four-le...

Four lessons for financial innovation in agrifood systems

Digital apps and other approaches for modernizing value chains.

ifpri.org