Jeffrey Bloem

Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial We study the effect of the adoption of improved agricultural inputs on deforestation using a randomized control trial in Nigeria which introduced a mo…

Really excited to have this paper published in the JDE! Available online today, blog post and more coming soon…

“Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial” co-authored with Clark Lundberg

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Literally joined this platform (finally) to share this AEDE blog. If you are not heartbroken at the scale of child suffering in Gaza, you are not paying attention. Call your federal rep — at the very least. u.osu.edu/aede/2025/07...

Now available online at JESA: “Survey ordering and the measurement of welfare” with Wahed Rahman and Marc Bellemare

#openaccess link here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We summarized our findings on how farmer-herder conflict influences the labor allocation of agricultural households in this @voxdev.bsky.social piece.

Here is a link to a longer thread on the paper, recently published in the JDE: bsky.app/profile/jeff...

How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria As climate change stretches Nigeria’s dry seasons and disrupts traditional grazing patterns, tensions between nomadic herders and settled farmers fuel violent conflict—most intensely just before the p...

🆕 How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria

Today on VoxDev, @jeffbloem.bsky.social @ifpri.org, Amy Damon (Macalester College), David Francis (World Bank), Harrison Mitchell @ucsandiego.bsky.social show how repeated exposure to violence shifts labour patterns: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

🆕 🗞️ Income aspirations and migration: Evidence from rural #Tajikistan

🖊️ By @jeffbloem.bsky.social, Isabel Lambrecht, and Kamiljon Akromov.

🖱️ Learn more here: doi.org/10.1177/0197...

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Four lessons for financial innovation in agrifood systems Digital apps and other approaches for modernizing value chains.

It's blog week around here. Here's a piece on work with @kateambler.bsky.social @jeffbloem.bsky.social @mehrabbakhtiar.bsky.social & Eduardo Maruyama on financial innovation in agrifood systems, part of the new @ifpri.org series on Financing Food Systems Transformation www.ifpri.org/blog/four-le...

Private sector promotion of agricultural technologies: Experimental evidence from Nigeria Private sector agricultural businesses are critical for scaling new and potentially environmentally-friendly technologies, though much attention has f…

Happy to see this paper finally published and available online today! More things coming soon that build on this project, so stay tuned…

with co-authors Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, Andrew Dillon, and Serge Adjognon www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Income Aspirations and Migration: Evidence From Rural Tajikistan - Jeffrey R. Bloem, Isabel Lambrecht, Kamiljon Akromov, 2025 In places with limited employment opportunities, households aspiring to increase their income are mainly left with two options: either (a) invest locally in the...

New paper just out today: “Income Aspirations and Migration: Evidence From Rural Tajikistan” with Isabel Lambrecht and Kamiljon Akromov journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Did you know that your siblings can influence whether you vote?

Well, because of our new working paper you do!

@mike-bloem.bsky.social, @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social, sam imlay

Five actions to prevent the devastating long-term effects of malnutrition www.cgdev.org/blog/malnutr... from @eeshani.bsky.social @cgdev.org

Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households Violent conflict between nomadic herders and settled agricultural communities in Nigeria occurs as both groups clash over the use of land and natural …

Open access paper link here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The gendered response to farmer-herder violent conflict in Nigeria A study shows how smallholder households deal with disruptions.

Check out the @ifpri.org blog post here: www.ifpri.org/blog/the-gen...

Using panel data from 2010 through 2019, we highlight how exposure to violence can lead to differing responses in the planting or harvest seasons and among men or women.

We generate theory and evidence to study the labor responses of individuals within agricultural households to herder-related violence and consider a “shadow of violence” mechanism, whereby previous exposure to a violent event alters labor responses to a recent event.

Violent conflict between nomadic herders and settled agricultural communities in Nigeria occurs as both groups clash over the use of land and natural resources, in part, due to a changing climate.

Really excited to have our paper “Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households” published in the JDE!!

Migrating to new economic opportunities in cities, rural Indian families don't mechanize, they downsize their farms. Their neighbors produce more as land and crops markets adjust, from @raamadhok.bsky.social, Noack, Mushfiq Mobarak, and Deschenes https://www.nber.org/papers/w33854

How to design studies that scale up? 🤔

Michael Kremer (@devinnovationlab.bsky.social) presented this today at @ifpri.org: Among early projects at former USAID DIV, those that scaled successfully were usually:
💲 Cheaper: unit cost <$3USD
🚷 Did NOT sell to consumers
💻 Evaluated by RCT

Food Policy: Lessons and Priorities for a Changing World 2025 Global Food Policy Report Over the past 50 years, the world’s food systems have changed dramatically. Throughout, policy research has played a

*taps mic*

@ifpri.org launches the 2025 Global Food Policy Report today!

Check it out here:

www.ifpri.org/global-food-...

Food Policy: Lessons and Priorities for a Changing World 2025 Global Food Policy Report Over the past 50 years, the world’s food systems have changed dramatically. Throughout, policy research has played a

The fancy #GFPR2025 launch page is here: www.ifpri.org/global-food-...

A lot of great stuff throughout, reflecting on the last 50 years and thinking ahead about the next 25!

I contributed to chapter 13 on building resilient food systems in fragile and conflict-affected settings

Available here: cgspace.cgiar.org/items/d83f94...

The 2025 Global Food Policy Report published by @ifpri.org is out today!

Check it out here: cgspace.cgiar.org/items/f4fbb6...

In the most recent issue of @restatjournal.bsky.social (direct.mit.edu/rest/article...), we (Kaspar Wuthrich and @karthik-econ.bsky.social) provide guidance on how to analyze and design experiments with factorial designs (or cross-cuts). A 🧵 below:

First post on Bluesky as a new user! Excited to connect with peers here.

Thrilled to share that our paper on air pollution from brick kilns in Bangladesh is published in Science—and it’s on the cover! Huge congrats to my amazing co-authors. Proud to be part of this work!

How different researcher decisions, data cleaning, research design, and interpretations of a policy question, affect variation in estimated treatment effects, from Huntington-Klein, Portner, McCarthy, and The Many Economists Collaborative on Researcher Variation https://www.nber.org/papers/w33729

Very cool to see this paper (my former JMP!) forthcoming at one of my favorite journals!

🚨Development Economists!🚨Do you use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS Program) data, which had been supported by USAID? IPUMS ( @ipums.bsky.social ) and the UN Statistics Division have a survey for you. I just filled it out. You can too. #econsky

The ‘China Shock’ Offers a Lesson. It Isn’t the One Trump Has Learned. (Gift Article) Economists say the U.S. manufacturing decline in recent decades was not mainly about free trade, but about the pace of change without time to adjust.

The lesson of the "China shock" isn't actually about trade. It's about how hard it is for workers and communities to adapt to rapid economic changes. Now Trump is trying to reshape the global economy overnight, with potentially devastating consequences.
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