Kyle Emerick

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Tufts University

Kyle Emerick received his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2014. His research is in development economics ‹ with a particular focus on the economics of agricultural development. His work has included studies on the effects of risk-reducing technologies on the decisions of poor farmers in rural India, the efficiency of informal seed exchanges between Indian farmers, and the effects of more secure property rights on labor reallocation in Mexico. His studies rely on both field experiments and observational data.

Recent work by Kyle Emerick

Demonstrator selection, farmer field days and agricultural technology adoption in India

Training field days increase awareness and adoption of technology, irrespective of how the demonstrators are selected

Articles : Agriculture

Kyle Emerick Manzoor Dar

Published 09.05.22
Measuring the productivity of smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa

Collecting data using multiple survey methods can mitigate data errors that magnify the differences between low- and high-productivity farms

Articles : Agriculture

Casey Maue Marshall Burke Kyle Emerick

Published 15.06.20

Kyle Emerick

Recent work by Kyle Emerick

Demonstrator selection, farmer field days and agricultural technology adoption in India

Measuring the productivity of smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa