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This document provides methodology and guidance for economists preforming cost-benefit analyses in the agriculture sector.

Esther Duflo became the youngest ever recipient and the second woman to be awarded the Nobel for Economics. Here is a list of things you should know about the trailblazing economist.

This week's links include John List's tips for field experiments and dealing with external validity complaints, examples of bad refereeing, calls for papers and funding, and more...

In a recent study published in the journal Materials, researchers investigated the effect of a fertilizer solution containing silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on agricultural and horticultural plant seed germination. They also analyzed the influence of AgNPs on plant growth and yields.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to show how non-random groupings of YouTube videos can be combined with automated text analysis (ATA) of user comments to conduct quasi-experiments on consumer sentiment towards different types of brands in a naturalistic setting. Design/methodology/approach: NCapture extracted thousands of comments on multiple videos representing different experimental treatments and Leximancer revealed differences in the lexical patterns of user comments for different types of brands. Findings: User comments consistently revealed hypothesized relationships between brand ...