Better information about where to find fish can make extraction more efficient and lower costs. However, if everyone gets the same precise information, they might all rush to the same location at the same time. This creates congestion, which can cancel out or even outweigh the benefits of the...Read more about The Value of Information in a Congested Fishery
In South Asia, most brick manufacturing occurs in traditional coal-fired kilns that are among the greatest contributors of air pollution in the region. But managing the greenhouse gas emissions from such informal industries is difficult because of weak state and regulatory capacity. A...Read more about ARE Professor Aprajit Mahajan publishes in Science
ARE was honored and delighted to welcome Distinguished Professor Thomas Reardon on Friday Oct. 24th as ARE Alumnus of the Year 2025. Professor Reardon presented "Rocking the Boat to Change the Debate: Identifying and Testing Conventional Wisdom on Agrifood Systems In Developing...Read more about ARE Celebrates Tom Reardon as Alumnus of the Year 2025
Wardle's paper titled "The Recreational Value of Rare Species: Causal Evidence from the Cassia Crossbill" uses a taxonomic species split as a natural experiment to estimate recreational value.Read more about PhD Candidate Arthur Wardle publishes in JAERE
An ARE dream team consisting of Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Alain de Janvry, Betty Sadoulet and recent ARE alumni Joel Ferguson (U Wisconsin-Madison) and Abdoulaye Cisse (World Bank), as well as two Senegal-based researchers, have a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics.Read more about The Impact of Irrigation Infrastructure Development in Senegal
Professor Shah is a development economist whose primary research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of applied microeconomics, health, and international development. Welcome!Read more about Manisha Shah joins ARE in Fall 2025
