We use a variety of well-tested and novel approaches to understanding how to balance economic, social and environmental objectives. From cost-benefit analysis to machine learning, CEOS members use and advance methods to model complex social-environmental systems, estimate impact of interventions and design optimal policy solutions to enable us to build a more sustainable society.
Research Output
| Title | Publication | Authors | Year Published | Category | Method | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-Sections, Obesity, and Healthcare Specialization: Evidence from Mexico | The World Bank of Economic Review | Herrera-Almanza Catalina, Marquez F. and Prina, Silvia | 2024 | SC | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| The role of Unidroit and the development of legal structures to support contract farming | Edward Elgar Publishing | A Bryan Endres, Jessica Guarino | 2024 | SC | (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Agritourism liability: why definition matters from a legal and risk management perspective | Current Issues in Tourism | Renata Endres, A Bryan Endres, Jessica Guarino, Tyler Swanson, Suiwen Zou | 2024 | SC | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Household Responsibilities and Career Opportunities: Distance Learning for Rural Women in Nepal | Sarah Janzen, Nicholas Magnan, Conner Mullally, Shruti Sharma, Bhola Shrestha | 2024 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper | |
| The Dynamic Trajectory of the Effects of Retirement on Health | American Society of Health Economics | Hyeran Chung, Mary Arends-Kuenning | 2024 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper |
| The effect of NAFTA on Mexico's wage gap | The Annals of Regional Science | Mary P. Arends-Kuenning, Kathy Baylis & Rafael Garduño-Rivera | 2024 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| The Influence of COVID-19 on Young Women's Labor Market Aspirations and Expectations in India | AEA Papers and Proceedings | S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Sophie Ochmann | 2024 | SC | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| A review of livestock development interventions’ impacts on household welfare in low-and middle-income countries | Global Food Security | Sarah Janzen, Anissa Collishaw, Conner Mullally, Hannah Camilli | 2023 | FA, SC | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Community-Based Health Programs and Child Vaccinations: Evidence from Madagascar | World Development | Herrera-Almanza Catalina, Rosales-Rueda Maria | 2023 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Coping with COVID‐19 shocks in rural Nepal | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | Sarah Janzen, Kierstin Ekstrom, Nicholas Magnan | 2023 | SC | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Women's empowerment: evidence from rural Western Paraná (Brazil) | Mary Arends-Kuenning, Roberta Vedana, Marcos de Oliveira Garcias, Pery Shikida | 2023 | FA, SC | N/A | (WP) Working Paper | |
| COVID-19 school closures and mental health of adolescent students: Evidence from rural Mozambique | Social Science and Medicine-Mental Health | Feliciano Chimbutane a, Catalina Herrera-Almanza b, Naureen Karachiwalla c, Carlos Lauchande d, Jessica Leigh | 2023 | SC | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Is tech-enhanced bikeshare a substitute or complement for public transit? | Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice | Martin, R., & Xu, Y. | 2022 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Demand for Weather Index Insurance among Smallholder Farmers under Prospect Theory | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | Sarah Janzen, Soye Shin, Nicholas Magnan, Conner Mullally | 2022 | SC | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Can mobile technology improve female entrepreneurship? evidence from Nepal | Sarah Janzen, Conner Mullally, Nicholas Magnan, Shruti Sharma, Bhola Shrestha | 2022 | SC | N/A | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Private contributions for public information: soil testing in Malawi | SSRN | Berazneva, J., Maertens, A., Mhango, W., & Michelson, H. | 2022 | LW, SC | (FE) Field Experiment | (WP) Working Paper |
| The joint effects of information and financing constraints on technology adoption: Evidence from a field experiment in rural Tanzania | Journal of Development Economics | Harou, A.P., Madajewicz, M., Michelson, H., Palm, C.A., Amuri, N., Magomba, C., Semoka, J.M., Tschirhart, K., & Weil, R. | 2022 | FA, SC | (FE) Field Experiment | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Digital trust substitution technologies to support smallholder livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa | Global Food Security | Lee, N.M., Varshney, L.R., Michelson, H.C., Goldsmith, P., & Davis, A. | 2022 | FA, SC | (OM) Other | |
| Anti-poverty programmes build resilience | Nature Climate Change | 2022 | SC | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed | |
| O Cooperativismo na dinâmica econômica e social da agropecuária brasileira | Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada | Mary Arends-Kuenning, Roberta Vedana, Marcos de Oliveira Garcias, Pery Francisco Assis Shikida | 2022 | FA, SC | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Empoderamento feminino na agricultura: um estudo na Lar Cooperativa Agroindustrial (Paraná) | Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural | Mary Arends-Kuenning, Roberta Vedana, Pery Francisco Assis Shikida, Marcos de Oliveira Garcias | 2022 | FA, SC | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Community pressure and the spatial redistribution of pollution: The relocation of toxic releasing facilities | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Wang, X., Deltas, G., Khanna, M., & Bi, X. | 2021 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Incentives for corporate social responsibility in India: Mandate, peer pressure and crowding-out effects | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Bansal, S., Khanna, M., Sydlowski, J. | 2021 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Distribution of pollution incidence based on community characteristics: evidence from relocating toxic-releasing facilities | SSRN | Wang, X., Deltas, G., Khanna, M., & Bi, X. | 2021 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper |
| Sustainability standards in global agrifood supply chains | Nature Food | Meemken, E.M., Barrett, C.B., Michelson, H.C., Qaim, M., Reardon, T., Sellare, J. | 2021 | FA, SC | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| How do farmers learn from extension services? Evidence from Malawi | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Maertens, A., Michelson, H., & Nourani, V. | 2021 | FA, LW, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| The demand for mobility: Evidence from an experiment with Uber riders | IZA Discussion Paper | Christensen, P., & Osman, A. | 2021 | EE, SC | (FE) Field Experiment | |
| Public good provision and democracy: Evidence from an experiment with farmer groups in Malawi | World Development | Nourania, V., Maertens, A., & Michelson, H. | 2021 | FA, SC | (PD) Policy Design, (FE) Field Experiment | |
| Racial, ethnic, and urban/rural differences in transitions into diabetes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey biomarker and self-reported data | Journal of Rural Social Sciences | Chung, H. & and Arends-Kuenning, M. Journal of Rural Social Sciences, accepted. (OM, SC) | 2021 | SC | (OM) Other | (WP) Working Paper |
| Examining nutrition and food waste trade-offs using an obesity prevention context | Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior | Ellison, B., & Pflugh Prescott, M. | 2021 | SC | (OM) Other | |
| What happens when Airbnb comes to the neighborhood: The impact of home-sharing on neighborhood investment | Regional Science and Urban Economics | Xu, M., & Xu, Y. | 2021 | SC | (OM) Other | |
| Foreclosed American Dream? Parental foreclosure and young adult children’s homeownership | Journal of Family and Economic Issues | Xu, Y. | 2020 | SC | (OM) Other | |
| Willingness-to-volunteer and stability of preferences between cities: Estimating the benefits of stormwater management | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Cadavid, C.L., Ando, A.W., Netusil, N., & Parthum, B. |
2020 | LW, SC | (VA) Valuation | |
| Should congested cities reduce their speed limits? Evidence from São Paulo, Brazil | Journal of Public Economics | Ang, A., Christensen, P., & Schwambach-Vieira, R. | 2020 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Growing green business investments in Asia and the Pacific: Trends and opportunities | Asian Development Bank | Khanna, M. | 2020 | SC | (OM) Other | |
| Childhood Determinants of Youth Internal Migration in Senegal | Demographic Research | Herrera-Almanza Catalina, David Sahn | 2020 | SC | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Decomposing the wedge between projected and realized savings in energy efficiency programs | E2e Working Paper | Christensen, P., Francisco, P., Myers, E., & Souza, M. | 2020 | EE, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Assessing preferences for growth on the rural-urban fringe using a stated choice analysis | Landscape and Urban Economics | Stamberger, L., Van Riper, C., Stewart, W., Ando, A. W., Gobster, P., & Hunt, L. | 2020 | SC | (VA) Valuation | |
| Assessing the role of stakeholder platforms as drivers of resilient communities: the case of Malawi | Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension | Álvarez-Mingote, C., Moore, A.C., & McNamara, P.E. | 2020 | FA, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Decomposing the wedge between projected and realized savings in energy efficiency programs | E2e Working Paper | Christensen, P., Francisco, P., Myers, E., & Souza, M. (2020). | 2020 | EE, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Does irrigation reduce the impact of climate shocks on conflict? Evidence from Indonesia | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Gatti, N.,† K. Baylis and B. Crost | 2020 | SC | N/A | |
| Housing discrimination and the toxics exposure gap in the United States: Evidence from the rental market | Review of Economics and Statistics | Christensen, P., Sarmiento-Barbieri, I., & Timmins, C. | 2020 | EE, SC | (OM) Other | |
| Assessing the downstream socioeconomic impacts of agroforestry in Kenya | Development | Hughes, K., S. Morgan,† K. Baylis, J. Odoul, E. Smith-Dumont, T.G. Vagen and H. Kegode | 2020 | SC | N/A | |
| The practice of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the Tropical Andes: Evidence from program administrators | Ecosystem Services | Bauchet, J., Asquith, N., Ma, Z., Raudel, C., Godoy, R., Zanotti, L., Steele, D., Gramig, B. M., Chong, A. E. | 2020 | SC | (OM) Other | |
| Unlocking amenities: Complementarity in public good consumption | Journal of Public Economics | Albouy, D., Christensen, P., & Sarmiento, I. |
2020 | SC, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Reducing the cost of remoteness: Community-based health interventions and fertility choices | Journal of Health Economics | Herrera-Almanza, C., & Rosales, M. | 2020 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Can insurance alter poverty dynamics and reduce the cost of social protection in developing countries? | Journal of Risk and Insurance | Janzen, S. A., Carter, M. R., & Ikegami, M. | 2020 | SC | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Mitigation of long-term human capital losses from natural disasters: Evidence from the Philippines | The World Bank Economic Review | Herrera-Almanza, C., & Cas, A. | 2020 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Can experiential games and improved risk coverage raise demand for index insurance? Evidence from Kenya | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Janzen, S. A., Magnan, N., Mullally, C., Shin, S., Palmer, I., Oduol, J., & Hughes, K. | 2020 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Assessing the downstream socioeconomic impacts of agroforestry in Kenya | World Development | Hughes, K., Morgan, S., Baylis, K., Oduol, J., Smith-Dumont, E., Vågen, T. G., & Kegode, H. |
2020 | FA, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Consequences of protected areas for forest extraction and human well-being: Evidence from Nepal | Environmental and Resource Economics | Howlader, A., & Ando, A. W. | 2020 | LW, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Do foreign-educated nurses displace native-educated nurses? | IZA Journal of Labor Policy | H. Chung, H. & Arends-Kuenning, M. | 2020 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| A systematic review of school meal nudge interventions to improve youth food behaviors | International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity | Metcalfe, J.J., Ellison, B., Hamdi, N., Richardson, R., & Prescott, M. (2020) "A systematic review of school meal nudge interventions to improve youth food behaviors." International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity(17) | 2020 | SC | (OM) Other | |
| Análise dos determinantes da felicidade dos associados da Lar Cooperativa Agroindustrial | Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural | Vedana, R., Garcias, M., Shikida, P., & Arends-Kuenning, M. | 2020 | SC | (OM) Other | |
| The effect of NAFTA on internal migration in Mexico: A regional economic analysis | Applied Economics | Arends-Kuenning, M., K. Baylis, K., & Garduno-Rafael, R. | 2019 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Poverty traps and the social protection paradox | The Economics of Poverty Traps (book) | Ikegami, M., Carter, M. R., & Barrett, C. B. | 2019 | SC | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Sorting or steering: Experimental evidence on the economic effects of housing discrimination | NBER Working Paper | Christensen, P., & Timmins, C. |
2019 | SC, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Economic effects of environmental crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan | Working Paper | Christensen, P., Keiser, D., & Lade, G. |
2019 | SC, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| After the drought: The impact of microinsurance on consumption smoothing and asset protection | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Janzen, S. A., & Carter, M. R. | 2019 | FA, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Bridging versus bonding social capital and the management of the firewood commons | Land Economics | Baylis, K, Gong, Y., & Wang, S. |
2019 | SC, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Short-term impacts of a pay-it-forward livestock transfer and training program in rural Nepal | American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings | A., Magnan, N. P., Sharma, S, & Thompson, W. M. | 2018 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| The Millennium Villages project and local land values: Using hedonic pricing methods to evaluate development projects | World Development | Michelson, H., & Tully, K. | 2018 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (VA) Valuation | |
| Social protection in the face of climate change: Targeting principles and transfer mechanisms | Environment and Development Economics | Carter, M. R. | 2018 | SC | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Can insurance help manage climate risk and food insecurity? Evidence from the pastoral regions of East Africa | Climate Smart Agriculture - Building Resilience to Climate Change | Carter, M. R., A., & Stoeffler, Q. | 2018 | SC | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Asymmetric information is residential rental markets: Implications for the energy efficiency gap | E2e Working Paper | Myers, E. | 2018 | EE, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Modeling uncertainty in climate change: A multi-model comparison | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics | Gillingham, K., Nordhaus, W., Blanford, G., Bosetti, V., Christensen, P., McJeon, H., Reilly, J., and Sztorc, P. | 2018 | SC | N/A | |
| Geographic determinants of China's urbanization | Regional Science and Urban Economics | Christensen, P., & McCord, G.C. |
2018 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Valuing the benefits of green stormwater infrastructure | Oxford Encyclopedia of Water Resources Management and Policy | Ando, A.W., & Netusil, N. | 2018 | LW, SC | (VA) Valuation | |
| Genetic and environmental influences on household financial distress | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | Xu, Y., Briley, D. A., Brown, J. R., & Roberts, B. W. (2017). Genetic and environmental influences on household financial distress. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,142, 404-424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.08.001 | 2017 | SC | (OM) Other | |
| Mandatory savings, credit access and home ownership: The case of the housing provident fund | Urban Studies | Xu, Y. | 2017 | SC | (OM) Other | |
| The importance of animal source foods for nutrient sufficiency in the developing world: The Zambia scenario | Food and Nutrition Bulletin | Zhang, Z., Goldsmith, P. D., & Winter-Nelson, A. | 2016 | SC | (PD) Policy Design, (SM) System Modeling | |
| Personality and young adult financial distress | Journal of Economic Psychology | Xu, Y., Beller, A. H., Roberts, B. W., & Brown, J. R. |
2015 | SC | (OM) Other | |
| Renewable energy policies for eco-innovation | Managing Emerging Technologies for Socio-Economic Impact | Dombrovski, R. (eds) Assimakopoulos, D., Oshri, I., & Pandza, K. | 2015 | EE, SC | (PD) Policy Design | |
| The economics of post-harvest loss: A case study of the new large soybean-maize producers in tropical Brazil | Food Security | Goldsmith, P.D., Martins, A.G., & Moura, A.D. | 2015 | SC | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Effectiveness of financial and fiscal instruments for promoting sustainable renewable energy technologies | Economic and Business Review | 2015 | EE, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | ||
| Milk in the data: food security impacts of livestock in Zambia | World Development | Jodlowski, M., Winter-Nelson, A. Baylis, K., & Goldsmith, P.D. | 2015 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation |