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Sydney Gourlay

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Affiliation

(50%) Data Group
Economics Research
World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/unit/unit-dec#2
RePEc:edi:datwbus (more details at EDIRC)

(50%) Department of Economics
American University

Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
http://www.american.edu/cas/economics/
RePEc:edi:deameus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Petruccelli, Federica & Gourlay, Sydney & Paolantonio, Adriana & Clemente, Emanuele & Ilukor, John, 2026. "In Tablets We Trust ? Validation of the Use of Tablet-Based Tools for Land Area Measurement in Household Surveys," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11363, The World Bank.
  2. Jeffrey D. Michler & Anna Josephson & Elinor Benami & Patrick Behrer & Michael J. Cecil & Sydney Gourlay & Robert Heilmayr & Ella Kirchner & Gina Maskell & Kunwar Singh, 2026. "Treatment Geometry and Causal Identification with Earth Observation Data," Papers 2607.19908, arXiv.org.
  3. Gourlay, Sydney & Ambel, Alemayehu A. & Wollburg, Philip Randolph & Djima, Ismael Yacoubou & Palacios-Lopez, Amparo & Kilic, Talip & Mcgee, Kevin, 2026. "Six Years of High-Frequency Phone Surveys : Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11435, The World Bank.
  4. Amankwah,Akuffo & Ambel,Alemayehu A. & Gourlay,Sydney & Kilic,Talip & Markhof,Yannick Valentin & Wollburg,Philip Randolph, 2024. "Fertilizer Price Shocks in Smallholder Agriculture : Cross-Country Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10842, The World Bank.
  5. Dang, Hai-Anh & Carleto, Gero & Gourlay, Sydney & Abanokova, Kseniya, 2023. "Addressing Soil Quality Data Gaps with Imputation: Evidence from Ethiopia and Uganda," 2023 Annual Meeting, July 23-25, Washington D.C. 335648, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
  6. Gourlay,Sydney & Kilic,Talip, 2022. "Is Dirt Cheap ? The Economic Costs of Failing to Meet Soil Health Requirements onSmallholder Farms," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10108, The World Bank.
  7. Michelson,Hope Carolyn & Gourlay,Sydney & Wollburg,Philip Randolph, 2022. "Non-Labor Input Quality and Small Farms in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Review," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10092, The World Bank.
  8. Zezza,Alberto & Mcgee,Kevin Robert & Wollburg,Philip Randolph & Assefa,Thomas Woldu & Gourlay,Sydney, 2022. "From Necessity to Opportunity : Lessons for Integrating Phone and In-Person Data Collectionfor Agricultural Statistics in a Post-Pandemic World," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10168, The World Bank.
  9. Gourlay,Sydney & Maggio,Giuseppe & Safyan,Anahit & Zezza,Alberto, 2022. "Measuring Land Tenure at the Individual Level : Lessons from Methodological Research in Armenia," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10140, The World Bank.
  10. Gourlay, Sydney & Amankwah, Akuffo, 2021. "Household Agriculture and Food Security in the Face of COVID-19: Evidence from Five Sub-Saharan African Countries," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315881, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
  11. John Ilukor & Sydney Gourlay, 2021. "Locust Invasion in Ethiopia," World Bank Publications - Reports 35605, The World Bank Group.
  12. Lobell,David B. & Azzari,George & Marshall,Burke & Gourlay,Sydney & Jin,Zhenong & Kilic,Talip & Murray,Siobhan, 2018. "Eyes in the sky, boots on the ground : assessing satellite- and ground-based approaches to crop yield measurement and analysis in Uganda," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8374, The World Bank.
  13. Gourlay,Sydney & Kilic,Talip & Lobell,David & Gourlay,Sydney & Kilic,Talip & Lobell,David, 2017. "Could the debate be over ? errors in farmer-reported production and their implications for the inverse scale-productivity relationship in Uganda," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8192, The World Bank.
  14. Gourlay,Sydney & Aynekulu,Ermias & Shepherd,Keith & Carletto,Calogero & Gourlay,Sydney & Aynekulu,Ermias & Shepherd,Keith & Carletto,Calogero, 2017. "Collecting the dirt on soils : advancements in plot-level soil testing and implications for agricultural statistics," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8057, The World Bank.
  15. Carletto,Calogero & Gourlay,Sydney & Murray,Siobhan & Zezza,Alberto & Carletto,Calogero & Gourlay,Sydney & Murray,Siobhan & Zezza,Alberto, 2016. "Cheaper, faster, and more than good enough : is GPS the new gold standard in land area measurement ?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7759, The World Bank.
  16. Dillon,Andrew S. & Gourlay,Sydney & Mcgee,Kevin Robert & Oseni,Gbemisola O. & Dillon,Andrew S. & Gourlay,Sydney & Mcgee,Kevin Robert & Oseni,Gbemisola O., 2016. "Land measurement bias and its empirical implications : evidence from a validation exercise," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7597, The World Bank.
  17. Carletto, Calogero & Gourlay, Sydney & Murray, Siobhan & Zezza, Alberto, 2015. "Welcome to Fantasyland: Comparing Approaches To Land Area Measurement In Household Surveys," 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 211849, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
  18. Carletto,Calogero & Gourlay,Sydney & Winters,Paul Conal & Carletto,Calogero & Gourlay,Sydney & Winters,Paul Conal, 2013. "From guesstimates to GPStimates : land area measurement and implications for agricultural analysis," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6550, The World Bank.
  19. Sydney Gourlay & Kara M. Reynolds, 2011. "Political Economy of Antidumping Reviews: The Impact of Discretion at the International Trade Administration," Working Papers 2012-15, American University, Department of Economics.

Articles

  1. Amankwah, Akuffo & Ambel, Alemayehu & Gourlay, Sydney & Kilic, Talip & Markhof, Yannick & Wollburg, Philip, 2025. "Smallholder farming, fertilizer use, and the polycrisis period: Cross-country evidence from longitudinal surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 133(C).
  2. Gourlay, Sydney & Maggio, Giuseppe & Safyan, Anahit & Zezza, Alberto, 2025. "Are you s(ec)ure? assessing the sensitivity of land tenure security estimates to survey design choices," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 134(C).
  3. Alberto Zezza & Kevin McGee & Philip Wollburg & Thomas Assefa & Sydney Gourlay, 2023. "From necessity to opportunity: lessons for integrating phone and in-person data collection," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 50(4), pages 1364-1400.
  4. Sydney Gourlay & Talip Kilic, 2023. "Is dirt cheap? The economic costs of failing to meet soil health requirements on smallholder farms," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 54(6), pages 793-818, November.
  5. Michelson, Hope & Gourlay, Sydney & Lybbert, Travis & Wollburg, Philip, 2023. "Review: Purchased agricultural input quality and small farms," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
  6. Gourlay, Sydney & Kilic, Talip & Martuscelli, Antonio & Wollburg, Philip & Zezza, Alberto, 2021. "Viewpoint: High-frequency phone surveys on COVID-19: Good practices, open questions," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
  7. David B Lobell & George Azzari & Marshall Burke & Sydney Gourlay & Zhenong Jin & Talip Kilic & Siobhan Murray, 2020. "Eyes in the Sky, Boots on the Ground: Assessing Satellite‐ and Ground‐Based Approaches to Crop Yield Measurement and Analysis," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 102(1), pages 202-219, January.
  8. Calogero Carletto & Sydney Gourlay, 2019. "A thing of the past? Household surveys in a rapidly evolving (agricultural) data landscape: Insights from the LSMS‐ISA," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 50(S1), pages 51-62, November.
  9. Andrew Dillon & Sydney Gourlay & Kevin McGee & Gbemisola Oseni, 2019. "Land Measurement Bias and Its Empirical Implications: Evidence from a Validation Exercise," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 67(3), pages 595-624.
  10. Gourlay, Sydney & Kilic, Talip & Lobell, David B., 2019. "A new spin on an old debate: Errors in farmer-reported production and their implications for inverse scale - Productivity relationship in Uganda," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 141(C).
  11. Calogero Carletto & Sydney Gourlay & Paul Winters, 2015. "Editor's choice From Guesstimates to GPStimates: Land Area Measurement and Implications for Agricultural Analysis," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 24(5), pages 593-628.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 12 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (11) 2013-08-05 2016-03-29 2016-05-21 2016-07-30 2021-11-29 2022-10-31 2022-10-31 2022-10-31 2022-10-31 2024-07-15 2025-03-03. Author is listed
  2. NEP-DEV: Development (3) 2022-10-31 2024-07-15 2025-03-03
  3. NEP-CIS: Confederation of Independent States (2) 2022-10-31 2025-03-03
  4. NEP-EFF: Efficiency and Productivity (1) 2013-08-05
  5. NEP-TRA: Transition Economics (1) 2022-10-31

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