2020 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting, January 3-5, 2020, San Diego, California

What constitutes a commodity is circumscribed by the pertaining technology and by incentives. Biotechnology innovations allow for more consistent production while sensors [...]

We explore the impact of flooding on migration in Bangladesh and examine whether migration responses are mitigated by access to credit. Using unique data from a household [...]

In France as in other European countries, farm outsourcing has been developing for the past twenty years. Today, this phenomenon concerns both small and large farms. What [...]

We estimate the degree of spatial differentiation among downstream firms that buy corn from upstream farmers and examine whether such differentiation confers market power [...]

Projections of sea-level rise and coastal flooding place Bangladesh as one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change by the end of this century. These changes ar [...]

Restrictive social norms and strategic constraints imposed by family members can limit women’s access to and benefits from social networks, especially in patrilocal soc [...]

In arid areas, irrigation water is an essential input into agricultural production. However, rainfall and, correspondingly, surface water supplies, are often highly varia [...]