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Julieta Caunedo
Julieta Caunedo is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Cornell University (on leave) and at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management.
She is also an affiliated researcher at CEPR, J-PAL, Y-RISE, ATAI, and a theme leader for STEG. Her research interests include macroeconomics and development, with emphasis on the impact of technology for productivity and the labour market.
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Easing contracting frictions with machines: Evidence from Karnataka
Productivity-enhancing technology adoption in agriculture, which makes workers available for other economic sectors, has long been considered essential for economic development. Based on a field experiment among 7,000 farmers in Karnataka, this article shows that mechanisation lowers supervision needs for hired workers in stages of production other than the one being mechanised, and family workers freed from those tasks engage in non-agricultural activities.
