Bhavani Shankar

TL;DR: Changes in global food prices will have a greater effect on food consumption in lower income countries and in poorer households within countries, and has important implications for national responses to increases in food prices and for the definition of policies designed to reduce the global burden of undernutrition.

TL;DR: A need exists for a more systematic and accurate evaluation of government-level interventions as well as for a stronger focus on actual behavioral change rather than changes in attitude or intentions alone.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a primer to the Bayesian spatial probit with the objective of making accessible to non-users a class of iterative estimation methods that have become fairly routine in Bayesian circles, offer an extremely powerful addition to applied researchers toolkits, and are essential in bayesian implementation of spatial econometric models.

TL;DR: Overall, it is concluded that measures to support informed choice have a mixed and limited record of success and interventions targeting the market environment are rarer and generally more effective, though more intrusive.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used farm-level panel data from Indian cotton farmers to investigate the yield effect of GM insect-resistant cotton and found that efficient farmers adopt Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton at a higher rate than their less efficient peers.