Hope Michelson

Associate Professor
Faculty
Hope Michelson

Dr. Michelson studies the dynamics of poverty and security in low-income countries. She explores the interaction of international development with local and large-scale agribusiness. She investigates small farmer responses to expanding international supply chains, sustainable supply chains for buying and selling agricultural inputs, and innovation in enhancing soil health. Hope is an Associate Director of CEOS with Shadi S. Atallah.

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Research Output

Title Publication Year Category
Navigating the Measurement Frontier: New Insights into Small Farm Realities 2024 FA
Relaxing Information and Credit Constraints: Five-Year Experimental Evidence from Tanzanian Agriculture Economic Development and Cultural Change 2024 FA
Village fairness norms and land rental markets. World Bank Economic Review 2024 LW
Misattribution and uncertainty about beliefs prevent learning. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2024 FA
Maize farmers acquire early maturity seed across production environments CGIAR 2023 FA, EE
Inferential and behavioral implications of measurement error in agricultural data Annual Review of Resource Economics 2023 O
Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity Journal of Development Economics 2023 LW
Restoring Trust: Evidence from the Fertiliser Market in Tanzania American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2023 FA
Price risk and small farmer maize storage in Sub‐Saharan Africa: New insights into a long‐standing puzzle American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2023 FA
Purchased agricultural input quality and small farms Pergamon 2023 FA
Private contributions for public information: soil testing in Malawi SSRN 2022 LW, SC
The joint effects of information and financing constraints on technology adoption: Evidence from a field experiment in rural Tanzania Journal of Development Economics 2022 FA, SC
Digital trust substitution technologies to support smallholder livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa Global Food Security 2022 FA, SC
Machine learning for food security: Principles for transparency and usability Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy 2021 FA
Misperceived Quality: Fertilizer in Tanzania Journal of Development Economics 2021 FA
How do farmers learn from extension services? Evidence from Malawi American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2021 FA, LW, SC
Public good provision and democracy: Evidence from an experiment with farmer groups in Malawi World Development 2021 FA, SC
Sustainability standards in global agrifood supply chains Nature Food 2021 FA, SC
How do farmers learn from extension services? Evidence from Malawi American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2020 FA
A data-driven approach improves food insecurity crisis prediction World Development 2019 FA
Constraints to adopting soil fertility management practices in Malawi: A choice experiment approach World Development 2019 FA
The Millennium Villages project and local land values: Using hedonic pricing methods to evaluate development projects World Development 2018 SC
Variable soils, variable fertilizer quality, and variable prospects Tropical Conservation Science 2017 FA, O
Influence of neighbor experience and exit on small farmer market participation American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2017 O