Increasing agricultural productivity while ensuring environmental sustainability are two
important targets in achieving the sustainable development goals under climatic shocks. In …

How can governments and nonprofits design aid programs that afford dignity and facilitate
beneficial outcomes for recipients? We conceptualize dignity as a state that manifests when …

Five to seven in every 10 people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are youths. They have
significantly low employment rates but are unattracted to agriculture. Recently, the sector …

Aspirations have been shown to affect households' decisions around productive
investments, but little work explores how aspirations are formed or eroded, especially in the …

This paper describes emerging work in development economics at the intersection of hope,
poverty and material prosperity. We blend Sen's capability approach and Snyder's hope …

Important decisions in life, such as those regarding education, employment and family
planning, are determined by expected costs and benefits, available resources, and …

ABSTRACT A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of
exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations. In theory, raising aspirations could have …

With dramatic global expansion of secondary schooling there has been significant research
interest in how education is related to future aspirations, with important calls to acknowledge …

Aspirations for the future can influence investments made today, and gender gaps in
aspirations can perpetuate gender gaps in outcomes. In this paper, we explore how the local …

Aspirations influence future‐oriented behavior and ensuing outcomes but they may also fail
to do so when the aspired‐to‐status is far away from the current one. Theoretical predictions …