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research methodologies

Research in Review: 2022

February 28, 2023February 28, 2023

2022 was a tremendous leap forward for research at PxD. Our research and operations teams completed a total of eight A/B test experiments and impact evaluations. We collected data in person and over the phone …

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Brewing better weather services for Indian coffee farmers

May 20, 2022May 17, 2022

Accurate, medium-range weather forecasting information can help mitigate smallholder farmers’ exposure to climate-related risks. PxD is in the process of launching new products to assist smallholder farmers to make more informed and timely decisions based …

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Increasing information sharing with women farmers in Odishan smallholder households

March 10, 2022March 7, 2022

Precision Development (PxD) recognizes that the informational needs of poor women farmers, and the challenges they confront, are unique. As a consequence, our services must be tailored to reach and be relevant to the needs …

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Research in Progress (and in Practice): 2021 in Review

December 23, 2021December 23, 2021

Precision Development’s goal is to generate large aggregate impacts for the poor. Research plays a central role in advancing that objective. In a collaborative post, our Research Team surveys their work in 2021 and outlines …

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Milk It, It’s Worth It: Survey & Experimental Data on Household Division of Responsibility & Intra-household Cooperation

October 26, 2021October 26, 2021

Women play important roles in smallholder dairy production. As PxD prepares to roll out a dairy advisory initiative in Kenya, we conducted a gender survey to better understand the division of labor within households. In …

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The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics reminds us that rigorous research design and empirical methods are at the core of empirical knowledge

October 15, 2021October 15, 2021

Tomoko Harigaya, PxD’s Chief Economist and Director of Research, reflects on the work of the 2021 Nobel Prize winners in Economic Sciences, and how their contributions to the field have informed PxD’s research practice. Last …

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Generating New Insights for Increased Impact

August 2, 2021August 2, 2021

Tomoko Harigaya, PxD’s Chief Economist and Director of Research, and Caitlin McKee, Global Research Support Manager (with input from across the Research Team) detail lines of new inquiry intended to build our research base and …

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Who’s Talking? Varying Narrator Gender to Enhance User Engagement

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021

Sam Carter, Revati Vaidya, Simon Rubangakene, Georges Poquillon and Habtamu Yesiget recount how we improved our content and services by learning about our end-users response to messages recorded with men’s voices and women’s voices. Do farmers act differently when they hear …

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Milking Gender Data for Improved Service Provision in the Kenyan Dairy Sector

June 28, 2021March 24, 2021

Research Associate Sam Strimling argues that one must understand the specific needs of women to inform effective service delivery and presents an upcoming effort to gather these insights prior to launching a PAD advisory service …

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So Many Ideas, So Little Time: Using Adaptive Experiments for Efficient and Iterative Inquiry.

January 28, 2021January 27, 2021

Tomoko Harigaya, Precision Agriculture for Development’s Director of Research, and Grady Killeen, a former PAD Research Associate, consider the merits of adaptive experiments. How does one create space to take stock of what we are …

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