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  1. Book ; Article ; Online: Migration and remittances in Central America

    Ambler, Kate

    New evidence and pathways for future research

    2019  

    Abstract: Emigration from the countries of Central America has evolved since the 1960s from small numbers of largely intra-regional emigrants to substantial numbers of people, emigrating in large part to the United States. For example, in 1960, 69 percent of ... ...

    Abstract Emigration from the countries of Central America has evolved since the 1960s from small numbers of largely intra-regional emigrants to substantial numbers of people, emigrating in large part to the United States. For example, in 1960, 69 percent of emigrants from El Salvador resided in Honduras and only 12 percent lived in the United States. By 2000, 88 percent of Salvadoran emigrants in the world lived in the United States.

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    IFPRI1; CRP2

    MTID; PIM

    CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
    Keywords CENTRAL AMERICA ; LATIN AMERICA ; migration ; emigration ; migrants ; remittances
    Language English
    Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  2. Article: Viewpoint: Finance needs of the agricultural midstream.

    Ambler, Kate / de Brauw, Alan / Herskowitz, Sylvan / Pulido, Cristhian

    Food policy

    2023  Volume 121, Page(s) 102530

    Abstract: Recent literature suggests that agricultural value chains are changing rapidly and places an increasing focus on the importance of actors and activities taking place in the "midstream" of these value chains, after production and prior to final sale. This ...

    Abstract Recent literature suggests that agricultural value chains are changing rapidly and places an increasing focus on the importance of actors and activities taking place in the "midstream" of these value chains, after production and prior to final sale. This article discusses the financial needs of midstream actors in agricultural value chains, emphasizing differences across midstream activities and highlighting how value chain characteristics can influence both financial needs and potential remedies. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the prospects of digital financial services and policy levers for government actors in this space.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-07
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 194840-4
    ISSN 0306-9192
    ISSN 0306-9192
    DOI 10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102530
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  3. Article: Don't tell on me: Experimental evidence of asymmetric information in transnational households.

    Ambler, Kate

    Journal of development economics

    2015  Volume 113, Page(s) 52–69

    Abstract: Although most theoretical models of household decision making assume perfect information, empirical studies suggest that information asymmetries can have large impacts on resource allocation. I demonstrate the importance of these asymmetries in ... ...

    Abstract Although most theoretical models of household decision making assume perfect information, empirical studies suggest that information asymmetries can have large impacts on resource allocation. I demonstrate the importance of these asymmetries in transnational households, where physical distance between family members can make information barriers especially acute. I implement an experiment among migrants in Washington, DC, and their families in El Salvador that examines how information asymmetries can have strategic and inadvertent impacts on remittance decisions. Migrants make an incentivized decision over how much of a cash windfall to remit, and recipients decide how they will spend a remittance. Migrants strategically send home less when their choice is not revealed to recipients. Recipients make spending choices closer to migrants' preferences when the migrants' preferences are shared, regardless of whether or not the spending choices are revealed to the migrants, suggesting that recipients' choices are inadvertently affected by imperfect information.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-03-01
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 0304-3878
    ISSN 0304-3878
    DOI 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.11.001
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  4. Article ; Online: Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture

    Ambler, Kate / de Brauw, Alan / Murphy, Mike

    Agricultural Economics

    A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana

    2023  

    Abstract: Conservation agriculture techniques have the potential to increase agricultural production while decreasing CO2 emissions, yet adoption in the developing world remains low—in part because many years of continuous adoption may be required to realize gains ...

    Abstract Conservation agriculture techniques have the potential to increase agricultural production while decreasing CO2 emissions, yet adoption in the developing world remains low—in part because many years of continuous adoption may be required to realize gains in production. We conduct a framed field experiment in northern Ghana to study how incentives and peer information may affect adoption. Incentives increase adoption, both while they are available and after withdrawal. There is no overall effect of peer information, but we do find evidence that information about long-term adoption increased adoption, particularly when that information shows that yield gains have been achieved.
    Keywords conservation agriculture ; carbon dioxide ; agricultural production ; information ; yields
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-09-14T20:15:57Z
    Publisher Wiley
    Publishing country fr
    Document type Article ; Online
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  5. Book ; Online: Financial services and logistics innovation within agri-food value chains

    Ambler, Kate / Bloem, Jeffrey R. / Brauw, Alan de

    A conceptual framework

    2023  

    Abstract: Finance and logistics services for agricultural value chains based on technological innovations exist in several LMICs, but they are not often extended to small holders or SMEs working in the agricultural midstream. We consider the constraints to ... ...

    Abstract Finance and logistics services for agricultural value chains based on technological innovations exist in several LMICs, but they are not often extended to small holders or SMEs working in the agricultural midstream. We consider the constraints to adoption of those services faced by smallholders or SMEs. Finance and logistics improvements hold promise for increased employment, but research is needed to understand where employment gains are most likely. All value chain innovations must carefully consider possible equity-efficiency tradeoffs to ensure change does not negatively affect poor and vulnerable populations.
    Keywords financial institutions ; innovation ; value chains ; agricultural value chains ; frameworks ; small and medium enterprises ; smallholders ; employment
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-11T21:33:30Z
    Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute
    Publishing country fr
    Document type Book ; Online
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  6. Book ; Article ; Online: Lump-sum transfers for agriculture, support services, and household decision making

    Ambler, Kate / de Brauw, Alan / Godlonton, Susan

    2023  

    Abstract: We study the impact of one-season transfers framed for agricultural investment combined with agricultural support services on decision making among smallholder households in Senegal and Malawi using data from randomized control trials. In Senegal, we ... ...

    Abstract We study the impact of one-season transfers framed for agricultural investment combined with agricultural support services on decision making among smallholder households in Senegal and Malawi using data from randomized control trials. In Senegal, we find evidence that the program increased the decision power of male household heads at the expense of other males in the household after two years. We cannot disentangle the impacts of the farm planning program and the lump sum transfer that comprised that program. In Malawi, we observe that over two years male program recipients exhibit increased decisionmaking power, while male non-recipients see reductions in decision-making power. These results are broadly due to both the transfers and the intensive agricultural support services. Changes in decision power seem to flow not just from control of income, but also from shifting household norms linked to program participation. Only in Malawi do we note some suggestive evidence that decision making power increases among female program recipients.
    Keywords social protection ; social safety nets ; cash transfers ; social services ; decision making ; households
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-22T22:06:28Z
    Publisher CGIAR System Organization
    Publishing country fr
    Document type Book ; Article ; Online
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  7. Article ; Online: Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture

    Ambler, Kate / de Brauw, Alan / Murphy, Mike

    Agricultural Economics 54(5): 742-756

    A framed field experiment in northern Ghana

    2023  

    Abstract: Conservation agriculture techniques have the potential to increase agricultural production while decreasing CO2 emissions, yet adoption in the developing world remains low—in part because many years of continuous adoption may be required to realize gains ...

    Abstract Conservation agriculture techniques have the potential to increase agricultural production while decreasing CO2 emissions, yet adoption in the developing world remains low—in part because many years of continuous adoption may be required to realize gains in production. We conduct a framed field experiment in northern Ghana to study how incentives and peer information may affect adoption. Incentives increase adoption, both while they are available and after withdrawal. There is no overall effect of peer information, but we do find evidence that information about long-term adoption increased adoption, particularly when that information shows that yield gains have been achieved.

    PR

    IFPRI3; ISI; CRP2; 1 Fostering Climate-Resilient and Sustainable Food Supply; IFPRIOA

    Markets, Trade, and Institutions (MTI); Food and Nutrition Policy; PIM

    CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
    Keywords conservation agriculture ; carbon dioxide ; agricultural production ; information ; yields ; adoption
    Language English
    Publisher John Wiley & Sons
    Publishing country us
    Document type Article ; Online
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  8. Article ; Online: Earned and unearned income

    Ambler, Kate / Godlonton, Susan

    Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 187(July 2021): 33-44

    Experimental evidence on expenditures and labor supply in Malawi

    2021  

    Abstract: Though the differential impacts of earned and unearned income have long been of interest to economists and policymakers, the study of this question is often conflated by other differences between the income streams. We conduct a field experiment in ... ...

    Abstract Though the differential impacts of earned and unearned income have long been of interest to economists and policymakers, the study of this question is often conflated by other differences between the income streams. We conduct a field experiment in Malawi in which we examine the differential short-term effect of earned and unearned income on the allocation of expenditures and labor supply, holding all other factors constant. All participants receive an equal size cash payment and make the same time investment; half are required to work, and half are not. Our main finding is that the work requirement results in a reallocation of labor supply away from household work in the very short term. Conversely, there is no evidence that the allocation of expenditures across categories is affected.

    PR

    IFPRI3; IFPRIOA; ISI; CRP2; 3 Building Inclusive and Efficient Markets, Trade Systems, and Food Industry

    MTID; PIM

    CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
    Keywords MALAWI ; SOUTHERN AFRICA ; AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA ; AFRICA ; income ; expenditure ; labour market ; labour requirements ; earned and unearned income ; time use ; J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    Subject code 332
    Language English
    Publisher Elsevier
    Publishing country us
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  9. Book ; Article ; Online: Tools and methods for gender research and integration in agricultural value chain, market and entrepreneurship projects

    Twyman, Jennifer / Ambler, Kate

    2021  

    Keywords gender ; value chains ; markets ; women
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-12-20T12:51:04Z
    Publisher CGIAR GENDER Platform
    Publishing country fr
    Document type Book ; Article ; Online
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  10. Article ; Online: Bargaining with Grandma

    Ambler, Kate

    Journal of Human Resources 51(4)

    The impact of the South African pension on household decision-making

    2016  

    Abstract: PR ... IFPRI3; ISI; C Improving markets and trade ... ...

    Abstract PR

    IFPRI3; ISI; C Improving markets and trade

    MTID
    Keywords SOUTH AFRICA ; SOUTHERN AFRICA ; AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA ; AFRICA ; households ; poverty ; gender ; women ; income ; pensions ; decision making ; resource allocation
    Language English
    Publishing country us
    Document type Article ; Online
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