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3/6/2014

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1. It turns out that contract farming shortens the duration of periods of hunger during the dry season (in addition to increasing income) for smallholder farmers in Madagascar. Is contract farming specific to developing countries? Nope; Tyson's popularized it in the chicken market in 1947. Don Tyson developed industrial chicken production (and contributed to the oligopoly of the chicken market) through a high-tech form of sharecropping.

2. Women in academia are less likely to collaborate with junior colleagues. Keep in mind that the sample size is 55 female faculty members in this study. That is less than the number of female faculty members in the Psychology Department at the University of Minnesota.

3. How (the demand for) toilet paper (and other types of sanitation) explain (wealth in) the world

4. Images from Crimea.

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    Aine Seitz McCarthy

    International development, economics and some pretty ambitious ideas from a stubborn graduate student clinging to her sense of adventure.


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