Mariapia Mendola

@marimendola.bsky.social

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Professor of economics at University of Milano Bicocca. Development economics and Migration, Passionate explorer, Proud mom 🦉

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 7d

A national extension programme in Uganda raised farmers’ expectations and adoption of oilseed crops – revealing how beliefs, not just knowledge, drive agricultural transformation.

Read today's article to learn more:

Treatment effects on expectation levels (intensive margin)

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 7d

🆕 How information shapes farmers’ expectations and adoption in Uganda

Today on VoxDev, Jacopo Bonan (Milan), Harounan Kazianga (Oklahoma State) & Mariapia Mendola (Milano-Bicocca) discuss a national extension programme in Uganda: https://ow.ly/9ZwG50XlBQg

How information shapes farmers’ expectations and adoption in Uganda

A national extension programme in Uganda raised farmers’ expectations and adoption of oilseed crops – revealing how beliefs, not just knowledge, drive agricultural transformation.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 28d

Innovation is at the center of economic growth. Congratulations to three who’ve taught us so much.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Aug 14

This is a crucial point. Still relatively few economists are explicitly trained on this point, and too many econ papers show it.

David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · Feb 22

Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is?

NO

We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference.

www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

The necessity of construct and external validity for deductive causal inference

The Credibility Revolution advances internally valid research designs intended to identify causal effects from quantitative data. The ensuing emphasis on internal validity, however, has enabled a negl...

www.degruyter.com

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