Jeffrey D Michler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1917429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey D Michler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey D |
| FAMILY NAME | Michler |
| SIGNATURE | MICHLER J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7778-8703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Mismeasure of Weather
The availability of weather data from remotely sensed Earth observation data has reduced the cost of including weather variables in econometric models. Weather variables are common instrumental variables used to predict economic outcomes and serve as an input in modeling crop yields for rainfed agriculture. The use of Earth observation data in econometric applications has only recently been met with critical assessment of the suitability and qual…
Impact evaluations in data-scarce environments
The mismeasure of weather
Coping or hoping? Livelihood diversification and food insecurity in the Covid-19 pandemic
Food insecurity during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in four African countries
Privacy protection, measurement error, and the integration of remote sensing and socioeconomic survey data
When publishing socioeconomic survey data, survey programs implement a variety of statistical methods designed to preserve privacy but which come at the cost of distorting the data. We explore the extent to which spatial anonymization methods to preserve privacy in the large-scale surveys supported by the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) introduce measurement error in econometric estimates…
Contract farming and rural transformation
Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present results from a field experiment on contract farming for rice production in Benin. While all contracts have positive effects on welfare and productivity measures, we find that the simplest contract has impacts nearl…
Socioeconomic impacts of Covid-19 in low-income countries
Agriculture in the process of development
Viewpoint
Ongoing changes to research practices and recent media attention to agricultural and applied economics have raised new ethical problems, but also created opportunities for new solutions. In this paper, we discuss ethical issues facing the profession and propose potential ways in which the field can address these issues. We divide our discussion into two topics. First are ethical issues that arise during the collection, management and analysis of …
Welfare impacts of improved chickpea adoption
We analyse the impact of improved chickpea adoption on welfare in Ethiopia using three rounds of panel data. First, we estimate the determinants of improved chickpea adoption using a double hurdle model. We apply a control function approach with correlated random effects to control for possible endogeneity resulting from access to improved seed and technology transfer activities. To instrument for these variables we develop novel distance weighte…
To Specialize or Diversify
To Specialize or Diversify
Welfare impacts of improved chickpea adoption
We analyse the impact of improved chickpea adoption on welfare in Ethiopia using three rounds of panel data. First, we estimate the determinants of improved chickpea adoption using a double hurdle model. We apply a control function approach with correlated random effects to control for possible endogeneity resulting from access to improved seed and technology transfer activities. To instrument for these variables we develop novel distance weighte…
Socioeconomic impacts of Covid-19 in low-income countries
Contract farming and rural transformation
Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present results from a field experiment on contract farming for rice production in Benin. While all contracts have positive effects on welfare and productivity measures, we find that the simplest contract has impacts nearl…
Food insecurity during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in four African countries
Privacy protection, measurement error, and the integration of remote sensing and socioeconomic survey data
When publishing socioeconomic survey data, survey programs implement a variety of statistical methods designed to preserve privacy but which come at the cost of distorting the data. We explore the extent to which spatial anonymization methods to preserve privacy in the large-scale surveys supported by the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) introduce measurement error in econometric estimates…
Agriculture in the process of development
Welfare impacts of improved chickpea adoption
We analyse the impact of improved chickpea adoption on welfare in Ethiopia using three rounds of panel data. First, we estimate the determinants of improved chickpea adoption using a double hurdle model. We apply a control function approach with correlated random effects to control for possible endogeneity resulting from access to improved seed and technology transfer activities. To instrument for these variables we develop novel distance weighte…
To Specialize or Diversify
Viewpoint
Ongoing changes to research practices and recent media attention to agricultural and applied economics have raised new ethical problems, but also created opportunities for new solutions. In this paper, we discuss ethical issues facing the profession and propose potential ways in which the field can address these issues. We divide our discussion into two topics. First are ethical issues that arise during the collection, management and analysis of …
Agriculture in the process of development
Contract farming and rural transformation
Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present results from a field experiment on contract farming for rice production in Benin. While all contracts have positive effects on welfare and productivity measures, we find that the simplest contract has impacts nearl…
Socioeconomic impacts of Covid-19 in low-income countries
Food insecurity during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in four African countries
Privacy protection, measurement error, and the integration of remote sensing and socioeconomic survey data
When publishing socioeconomic survey data, survey programs implement a variety of statistical methods designed to preserve privacy but which come at the cost of distorting the data. We explore the extent to which spatial anonymization methods to preserve privacy in the large-scale surveys supported by the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) introduce measurement error in econometric estimates…
The Mismeasure of Weather
The availability of weather data from remotely sensed Earth observation data has reduced the cost of including weather variables in econometric models. Weather variables are common instrumental variables used to predict economic outcomes and serve as an input in modeling crop yields for rainfed agriculture. The use of Earth observation data in econometric applications has only recently been met with critical assessment of the suitability and qual…
Impact evaluations in data-scarce environments
The mismeasure of weather
Coping or hoping? Livelihood diversification and food insecurity in the Covid-19 pandemic
Geography (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Agricultural economics (3 works) · Climate change impacts on agriculture (3 works) · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (3 works)