Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face survey data collection efforts
came to a halt due to lockdowns, limitations on mobility and social distancing requirements …

International agricultural research is often motivated by the potential benefits it could bring to
smallholder farmers in develo** countries. A recent experimental literature has emerged …

Using detailed household-level data from Malawi on physical quantities of outputs and
inputs in agricultural production, we measure total factor productivity (TFP) for farms …

We show that non-classical measurement errors (NCME) on both sides of a regression can
bias the parameter estimate of interest in either direction. Furthermore, if these NCME are …

A major impediment to understanding human-environment interactions is that data on social
systems are not collected in a way that is easily comparable to natural systems data. While …

The relationship between farm size and productivity is a recurrent topic in development
economics, almost as old as the discipline itself. This paper emphasizes the importance of …

Background Multiple epidemiological studies have shown that exposure to single pesticide
active ingredients or chemical groups is associated with adverse neurobehavioral outcomes …

Modern inputs and mechanization are promoted across Africa to raise smallholder labor
productivity and broker the structural transformation. Yet, adoption has remained low and the …

This paper discusses the challenges associated with implementing time-use surveys among
agricultural households in develo** countries and offers advice on best practices for two …

Online technologies enable lower-cost, rapid data collection, but concerns about sample
composition biases and mode-specific measurement error impede their use. I conduct a …