Caroline Miehe
Researcher, NOVAFRICA, NOVA University Lisbon
Caroline Miehe is a researcher at NOVAFRICA (Nova University Lisbon, Portugal). She holds a PhD in Economics from LICOS (KU Leuven, Belgium) and has recently worked with the Development Economics Group (Wageningen University, Netherlands). Her research focuses on Development Economics, particularly the design and evaluation of field experiments and randomized controlled trials in sub-Saharan Africa. She investigates how information asymmetries, learning failures, and decision-making under risk and uncertainty affect outcomes in areas such as agricultural technology adoption, climate disaster management, gender dynamics, and public service delivery. Caroline has conducted extensive fieldwork, working closely with smallholder farmers and agro-input dealers in Uganda, and with vulnerable urban communities in Mozambique.
Recent work by Caroline Miehe
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How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds
Often presented as game-changing solutions, agricultural technologies like improved seeds or fertilisers can lead farmers to adopt one at the expense of others, only to disadopt when the expected gains, based on overly optimistic assumptions about re...
Published 21.05.25