Weeding Rice
Fixed costs in the hiring of agricultural workers leads to important scale economies
Fixed costs in the hiring of agricultural workers leads to important scale economies
Ex ante risk in the presence of dynamic complementarities leads to underinvestment in schooling
Changes in income segregation are more complex than previously thought given that small sample bias affects estimates.
Andrew Foster is the George and Nancy Parker Professor of Economics at Brown University. He is an empirical microeconomist with primary interests in economic development, population and the environment. Recent projects focus on the role of scale economies in agriculture, the impact of ex ante risk on schooling choice, and the effect of interhousehold sorting on educational mobility. He also has work on income-segregation and on long-term care in the US. He serves as the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Development Economics and is currently the Director of the Social Science Research Institute at Brown.