Examining unofficial borders, not reflected in official trade data – or much research:
@EleanorWiseman of @StanfordKingCtr conducted an information experiment w/ small traders (mostly women) at Kenya-Uganda border. #Kuznets2024
Congrats to ARE professors Alain deJanvry, Betty Sadoulet and ARE alumni Kyle Emerick and Eleanor Wiseman on their AEJ:Applied publication "Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture"
https://t.co/vZGa9ldYeG
@KyleEmerick5@EleanorWiseman
Today's @IFPRI Applied Micro & Development speaker is @EleanorWiseman (postdoc @StanfordKingCtr@FoodSecurity_SU & soon AP @UW_AAE).
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Official stats may ignore informal traders, but she does not! Sending them info on tariffs & local prices post border closing ⬆️s trader profits.
Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @EleanorWiseman, currently a postdoc at Stanford + headed for @UW_AAE next fall.
https://t.co/8e2dZGZoQq
https://t.co/lyuTZCt6SX
#NEUDC2023 session on Agriculture featured papers on land fragmentation, informal trade, training farmers to detect seed quality, and allocation of new technology, chaired by @afosterri.
🖇️Read the papers: https://t.co/OOLtdyANUE
Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @EleanorWiseman, currently a postdoc at Stanford + headed for @UW_AAE next fall.
https://t.co/8e2dZGZoQq
https://t.co/lyuTZCt6SX
Meet our job market candidate and development economist @EleanorWiseman! Her JMP looks at the role of information frictions in traders’ choices of markets and border crossings at the Kenyan-Ugandan border.
https://t.co/o5IGTGo3dd
Skimming the webpages of job-market candidates in trade (https://t.co/b2Qb0JtQUF) and spatial (https://t.co/Os9ctuScVr) is humbling. So many economists working on neat topics. It's impossible for one to work on more than a small sliver of the interesting research questions.
@TradeDiversion Hello Jonathan. Could I be added too? My JMP is "Border Trade and Information Frictions: Evidence from Informal Traders in Kenya". I am a PhD student at UC Berkeley ( https://t.co/WqhbH0ln7S). Thanks so much!
Does information technology increase the gains from trade in developing countries? Read all about job market candidate Eleanor Wiseman's fascinating study featured in WB's Development Impact Blog:
https://t.co/eLNzSw84UA
@EleanorWiseman@NatureAtCal@worldbank@CalEcons4Equity
Informal Trade, contract farming, crop "booms" & household well-being, and the effects of coffee mill work on women's lives:
#NEUDC Agricultural Trade @KyleEmerick5, @EleanorWiseman, @mi_econ, @KailaHeidi & @DenizSanin_
Papers here: https://t.co/SdlnIJJo7K
A highlight of #NEUDC2022 for me has been watching the blazing @EleanorWiseman present her job market work on information frictions about cross-border trade which also shows how informal markets can have positive welfare effects for consumers in some developing country settings!