Research Papers
Published
Arouna, A., J.D. Michler, and J.C. Lokossou. (2021). Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin. Journal of Development Economics 151: 102626.
Available as NBER Working Paper No. 25665
Michler, J.D., W. Masters, and A. Josephson. Beyond the IRB: Selection bias and the direction of innovation in applied economics. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, in press.
Arouna, A., J.D. Michler, W.G. Yergo, and K. Saito (2021). One size fits all? Experimental evidence on the digital delivery of personalized extension advice in Nigeria. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 103 (2): 596-619.
Janzen, S. and J.D. Michler. Ulysses' pact or Ulysses' raft: Using pre-analysis plans in experimental and non-experimental research. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, in press.
Josephson, A., T. Kilic, and J.D. Michler. (2021). Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in low-income countries. Nature Human Behaviour 5: 557-65.
Code. Data. Available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9466.
Michler, J.D. (2020). Agriculture in the process of development: A micro-perspective. World Development 129: 104888.
Michler, J.D. and S.Y. Wu (2020). Relational contracts in agriculture: Theory and evidence. Annual Review of Resource Economics 12: 111-27.
Michler, J.D. and S.Y Wu (2020). Governance and contract choice: Theory and evidence from groundwater irrigation markets. Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization 180: 129-47.
Michler, J.D., K. Baylis, M. Arends-Kuenning, and K. Mazvimavi (2019). Conservation agriculture and climate resilience. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 93: 148–69.
Slade, P., J.D. Michler, and A. Josephson (2019). Foreign geographical indications, consumer preferences, and the domestic market for cheese. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 41 (3): 370-90.
Michler, J.D, E. Tjernström, S. Verkaart, and K. Mausch (2019). Money matters: The role of yields and profits in agricultural technology adoption. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 101 (3): 710-31.
Josephson, A. and J.D. Michler (2018). Beasts of the field? Ethics in agricultural and applied economics. Food Policy 79: 1–11.
Barriga Cabanillas, O., J.D. Michler, A. Michuda, and E. Tjernström (2018). Fitting and interpreting correlated random-coefficient models using Stata. Stata Journal 18 (1): 159–73.
Michler, J.D., and A. Josephson (2017). To specialize or diversify: Agricultural diversity and poverty dynamics in Ethiopia. World Development 89: 214–26.
Michler, J.D., and J.V. Balagtas (2017). The importance of the savings device in precautionary savings: Empirical evidence from rural Bangladesh. Agricultural Economics 48 (2): 129–41.
Verkaart, S., B. Munyua, K. Mausch, and J.D. Michler (2017). Welfare impacts of improved chickpea adoption: A pathway for rural development in Ethiopia? Food Policy 66: 50–61.
Michler, J.D., and G.E. Shively (2015). Land tenure, tenure security and farm efficiency: Panel evidence from the Philippines. Journal of Agricultural Economics 66 (1): 155–69.
In Preparation
Tjernström, E., D. Ghanem, O. Barriga Cabanillas, T.J. Lybbert, J.D. Michler, A. Michuda. A group random coefficient approach to modeling heterogeneous returns to technology adoption.
Michler, J.D., F. Viens, and G. Shively. Risk, agricultural production, and weather index insurance in village South Asia.
Michler, J.D., P. Slade, and S.Y. Wu. Approximation in complex pricing mechanisms.
Deutschmann, J.W., J.D. Michler, and E. Tjernström. Complex pricing and consumer behavior: Evidence from a lab experiment.
Michler, J.D., S.D. Yun, and B. Gramig. A dynamic model of firm location in two-dimensional space.
Josephson, A., J.D. Michler, and A. Orr. An industrious revolution? Changes in the household economy in rural Bangladesh.
Baylis, K., M. Mallory, J.D. Michler, and T. Songsermsawa. Effects of credit and market access on farm gate prices in India.