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- Cheap Talk and Coordination in the Lab and in the Field: Collective Commercialization in Senegal -- by Fo Kodjo Dzinyefa Aflagah, Tanguy Bernard, Angelino ViceiszaCoordination is central to social interactions. Theory and conventional lab experiments suggest that cheap talk/communication can enhance coordination under certain conditions. Two aspects that remain underexplored are (1) the interaction between the number of players (group size) and communication and (2) how existing findings might play out in the field. We address both of these […]
- The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Crime Victimization -- by Aaron Chalfin, Benjamin Hansen, Rachel RyleyFor every crime there is a victim. However nearly all studies in the economics of crime have focused the causal determinants of criminality. We present novel evidence on the causal determinants of victimization, focusing on legal access to alcohol. The social costs of alcohol use and abuse are sizable and well-documented. We find criminal victimization […]
- The Effects of Decentralized and Video-based Extension on the Adoption of Integrated Soil Fertility Management – Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia -- by Denise Hörner, Adrien Bouguen, Markus Frölich, Meike WollniThe slow adoption of new agricultural technologies is an important factor in explaining persistent productivity deficits among smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Farmers delay in particular the uptake of technology packages. Since knowledge constraints are an important barrier to adoption, effective extension approaches are key. In recent decades, extension systems in many SSA countries have […]
- Forward Guidance: Is It Useful Away from the Lower Bound? -- by Lilia Maliar, John B. TaylorDuring the recent economic crisis, when nominal interest rates were at their effective lower bounds, central banks used forward guidance announcements about future policy rates to conduct their monetary policy. Many policymakers believe that forward guidance will remain in use after the end of the crisis; however, there is uncertainty about its effectiveness. In this […]
- Can Smallholder Extension Transform African Agriculture? -- by Joshua W. Deutschmann, Maya Duru, Kim Siegal, Emilia TjernströmAgricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of policy experiments has yielded more evidence on what fails than on what works. We analyze a randomized control trial of a rare scaled-up success story: One Acre Fund’s small farmer program. Much like anti-poverty "graduation" interventions, […]
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