For farmers in rural Zambia, payday comes only once a at harvest time year. This particular fact impacts almost every element of their life, but as yet researchers hadn’t recognized the extent that is true.
Economist Kelsey Jack, an connect teacher at UC Santa Barbara, desired to analyze just how this extreme seasonality affects farmers’ livelihoods, along with development initiatives geared towards increasing their condition.
Jack along with her coauthors carried out a two-year test in that they offered loans to assist families through the months before harvest.