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My JMP, "Measuring Risk from Crop Portfolio Choices in Development Interventions" asks whether cash makes farmers take on more risk and how to best measure their risk exposure
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How much is this risk reduction worth?
Bounding risk aversion from where farmers sit on the frontier, it is worth 5.2 to 12% of the grant each season.
This range comes from farmers' own portfolio positions and not from uncertainty on estimated preference parameters
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Thanks to Craig McIntosh, Tom Vogl, @PaulFNiehaus and @sararlowes for their years of advice, and to @LoriBeaman, @deankarlan, B.Thuysbaert & @chrisudry for sharing their experiment.
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Does connecting a village to markets make it richer? Studying newly created villages in Indonesia, @hmitchell_14 shows higher initial market access lowers long-run village income even as it shifts workers out of agriculture.
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8/ In a WP, @vinnyarmentano and I investigate the potential impacts of proposed federal rules. Using the 2015 Clean Water Rule as an example, we show that the cost of prosing regulation can be almost 60% as large as the cost of the regulation itself. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Who wins with up-zoning? @phoxie58 shows how deregulation for ADUs capitalizes into land values, benefitting home owners and increasing property tax collections, even with low take-up. Check out his JMP, publications, and working papers at: philiphoxie.com/
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High electric vehicle fast charging prices have negative efficiency and equity implications. Joshua Aarons explores the impacts of competition, fixed costs, capacity constraints, and consumer preferences on prices and welfare.
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Neat paper!
Small-scale farmers in low-income countries are solving an incredibly sophisticated portfolio optimization problem under difficult conditions.
Even so, many farmers are close to the efficient frontier. Unconditional cash helps them get even closer.
Does cash enable farmers to take on more risk? @vinnyarmentano applies Modern Portfolio Theory to crop choice in Mali and shows instead that an unconditional cash transfer reduced portfolio risk with no return penalty.
Read more: vincentarmentano.com
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