Julieta Caunedo

University of Toronto

Julieta Caunedo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, and an affiliated researcher at Y-RISE. Her research interests include macroeconomics and development economics. Julieta holds a PhD in Economics from Washington University in St.Louis.

What are the gains from mechanization? We run a randomized control trial that subsidizes access to equipment rental markets to study how the adoption of mechanization shifts farming households’ labor supply, farm productivity and labor demand.

The measurement of the returns to adoption of mechanised practices is of first order relevance to understanding the effect of policies directed towards capital intensification on overall productivity.

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Julieta Caunedo

Researcher's Grant Projects

Leveraging Custom Hire Markets for Increasing Scale and Productivity

Researcher's Publications

Mechanizing Agriculture

Mechanising Agriculture: Impacts for Labour and Agricultural Productivity