Mahnaz Islam
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahnaz Islam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahnaz |
| FAMILY NAME | Islam |
| SIGNATURE | ISLAM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Information and behavior
Rule-of-Thumb Instructions to Improve Fertilizer Management
Heavy government subsidies have led to inefficient application and overuse of fertilizer in Bangladesh. This results in above-optimal costs to farmers as well as to the environment and the public. In a randomized controlled trial, we provide farmers with a simple tool (a leaf color chart) and basic, rule-of-thumb instructions to guide the timing and quantity of urea (nitrogen) application. Treatment farmers reduce urea use by 8% without compromis…
Evidence of Intrahousehold Flypaper Effects from a Nutrition Intervention in Rural Guatemala
Programs designed to improve child nutrition are widespread. The ability of such programs to improve the nutrition of individual children depends on how households choose to allocate resources among their members; interventions that target specific individuals in a household may be neutralized by reallocations of the resource away from the child. On the other hand, the transfer may not be reallocated away, a phenomenon called the intrahousehold “…
Information and behavior
Evidence of Intrahousehold Flypaper Effects from a Nutrition Intervention in Rural Guatemala
Programs designed to improve child nutrition are widespread. The ability of such programs to improve the nutrition of individual children depends on how households choose to allocate resources among their members; interventions that target specific individuals in a household may be neutralized by reallocations of the resource away from the child. On the other hand, the transfer may not be reallocated away, a phenomenon called the intrahousehold “…
Evidence of Intrahousehold Flypaper Effects from a Nutrition Intervention in Rural Guatemala
Programs designed to improve child nutrition are widespread. The ability of such programs to improve the nutrition of individual children depends on how households choose to allocate resources among their members; interventions that target specific individuals in a household may be neutralized by reallocations of the resource away from the child. On the other hand, the transfer may not be reallocated away, a phenomenon called the intrahousehold “…
Rule-of-Thumb Instructions to Improve Fertilizer Management
Heavy government subsidies have led to inefficient application and overuse of fertilizer in Bangladesh. This results in above-optimal costs to farmers as well as to the environment and the public. In a randomized controlled trial, we provide farmers with a simple tool (a leaf color chart) and basic, rule-of-thumb instructions to guide the timing and quantity of urea (nitrogen) application. Treatment farmers reduce urea use by 8% without compromis…
Information and behavior
Economics (3 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (2 works) · Agricultural science (2 works) · Agronomy (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Environmental Science (2 works) · Fertilizer (2 works) · Intervention (counseling) (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Agricultural economics (1 work)