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Associate Professor Russell Toth
BA(Hons) RWC, MS SIUC, MA Cornell, PhD Cornell
Associate Professor
Address
A02 - Social Sciences Building
The University of Sydney
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Member of Sydney Institute of Agriculture
Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
Russell Toth is a development microeconomist focusing on the development of the private sector (firms, access to finance, entrepreneurship, markets, role of new technologies), with projects frequently overlapping with environmental, agricultural and behavioural economics.
Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
Member of Sydney Institute of Agriculture
Publications
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Book Chapters
- Chan, C., Toth, R. (2022). An Australian narrative coordinating an economic english course during COVID-19. In Lucas Kohnke (Eds.), Cases on Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) During COVID-19: Insights From Around the World, (pp. 1-27). Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global. [More Information]
- Oo, A., Toth, R. (2014). Challenges and Constraints for Women-Led Enterprises. In Richard G Seymour (Eds.), Entrepreneurial Women in Asia: Case Studies & Perspectives, (pp. 188-197). Myanmar: Myanmar Heritage Publications.
Journals
- Hoy, C., Toth, R., Merdikawati, N. (2024). A false divide? Providing information about inequality aligns preferences for redistribution between right- and left-wing voters. The Journal of Economic Inequality, 22, 669-707. [More Information]
- Hoy, C., Toth, R., Merdikawati, N. (2022). Can a Multipronged Strategy of "Soft" Interventions Surmount Structural Barriers for Financial Inclusion? Evidence From the Unbanked in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Development Studies, 58(12), 2460-2482. [More Information]
- Headey, D., Goudet, S., Lambrecht, I., Maffioli, E., Zaw Oo, T., Toth, R. (2022). Poverty and food insecurity during COVID-19: Phone-survey evidence from rural and urban Myanmar in 2020. Global Food Security, 33(100626), 100626. [More Information]
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Conferences
- Ermon, S., Xue, Y., Toth, R., Dilkina, B., Bernstein, R., Damoulas, T., Clark, P., DeGloria, S., Mude, A., Barrett, C., et al (2015). Learning Large-Scale Dynamic Discrete Choice Models of Spatio-Temporal Preferences with Application to Migratory Pastoralism in East Africa. 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015), Austin: AAAI Press.
Report
- Toth, R., Roessler, P., Tsai, H., Razi, H. (2022). Inclusive Instant Payment Systems: An Evidence Based Approach from Design to Impact.
- Toth, R., Siddhartha, B., Oo, K., de Brauw, A. (2020). Agricultural value chain finance in Myanmar.
Research Reports
- Neilson, J., Toth, R., Sari, N., Bray, J., Donoghoe, M., Arifin, B., Ismono, H. (2019). Evaluation of the Impacts of Sustainability Standards on Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Southern Sumatra, Indonesia, September 2019, (pp. 5 - 62). London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom: ISEAL Alliance.
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2024
- Hoy, C., Toth, R., Merdikawati, N. (2024). A false divide? Providing information about inequality aligns preferences for redistribution between right- and left-wing voters. The Journal of Economic Inequality, 22, 669-707. [More Information]
2022
- Chan, C., Toth, R. (2022). An Australian narrative coordinating an economic english course during COVID-19. In Lucas Kohnke (Eds.), Cases on Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) During COVID-19: Insights From Around the World, (pp. 1-27). Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global. [More Information]
- Hoy, C., Toth, R., Merdikawati, N. (2022). Can a Multipronged Strategy of "Soft" Interventions Surmount Structural Barriers for Financial Inclusion? Evidence From the Unbanked in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Development Studies, 58(12), 2460-2482. [More Information]
- Toth, R., Roessler, P., Tsai, H., Razi, H. (2022). Inclusive Instant Payment Systems: An Evidence Based Approach from Design to Impact.
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2020
- Toth, R., Siddhartha, B., Oo, K., de Brauw, A. (2020). Agricultural value chain finance in Myanmar.
- Mihm, M., Toth, R. (2020). Cooperative Networks with Robust Private Monitoring. Journal of Economic Theory, 185, 1-29. [More Information]
2019
- John, F., Toth, R., Frank, K., Groeneveld, J., Muller, B. (2019). Ecological Vulnerability Through Insurance? Potential Unintended Consequences of Livestock Drought Insurance. Ecological Economics, 157, 357-368. [More Information]
- Neilson, J., Toth, R., Sari, N., Bray, J., Donoghoe, M., Arifin, B., Ismono, H. (2019). Evaluation of the Impacts of Sustainability Standards on Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Southern Sumatra, Indonesia, September 2019, (pp. 5 - 62). London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom: ISEAL Alliance.
2017
- Gobin, V., Santos, P., Toth, R. (2017). No Longer Trapped? Promoting Entrepreneurship Through Cash Transfers to Ultra-Poor Women in Northern Kenya. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 99(5), 1362-1383. [More Information]
2015
- Ermon, S., Xue, Y., Toth, R., Dilkina, B., Bernstein, R., Damoulas, T., Clark, P., DeGloria, S., Mude, A., Barrett, C., et al (2015). Learning Large-Scale Dynamic Discrete Choice Models of Spatio-Temporal Preferences with Application to Migratory Pastoralism in East Africa. 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015), Austin: AAAI Press.
- Toth, R. (2015). Traps and Thresholds in Pastoralist Mobility. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 97(1), 315-332. [More Information]
2014
- Oo, A., Toth, R. (2014). Challenges and Constraints for Women-Led Enterprises. In Richard G Seymour (Eds.), Entrepreneurial Women in Asia: Case Studies & Perspectives, (pp. 188-197). Myanmar: Myanmar Heritage Publications.
- Oo, A., Toth, R. (2014). Do community-sanctioned social pressures constrain microenterprise growth? Evidence from a framed field experiment. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 33, 75-95. [More Information]
2005
- Burtraw, D., Evans, D., Krupnick, A., Palmer, K., Toth, R. (2005). Economics of Pollution Trading for SO2 and NOx. Annual Review of Environment and the Resources, 30, 253-289. [More Information]
Selected Grants
2023
- The Impacts of Climatic Shock-responsive Social Protection in Fiji, Toth R, DVC Research/External Research Collaboration Seed Funding
2022
- FASS - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Sub Award - IPA Grant - The Impacts of Interoperable Digital Financial Systems in Myanmar and Tanzania - CS0447081/CT34580, Toth R, Innovations for Poverty Action/Research Grant
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Russell Toth on Twitter
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Reports
Toth, R. (2021). Myanmar’s microfinance sector, agriculture, and COVID-19: Emerging insights and new challenges. Myanmar SSP Working Paper. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). [More Information]
Toth, R. (2020). Sustaining Myanmar’s microfinance sector during the COVID-19 economic crisis to support food security, resilience, and economic recovery. Myanmar SSP Policy Note 3. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). [More Information]
Toth, R., Hoy C. (2017). The Use of Financial Products in Mitigating Natural Disaster Risk. [More Information]
Hoy, C., Toth, R. (2017). Draft Baseline Report on the Impact Evaluation of a Financial Inclusion Program in Papua New Guinea.
Neilson, J., Toth, R. (2016). Baseline Report: Evaluation of the Early Impacts of Sustainability Standards on Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Lampung and South Sumatra, Indonesia. [More Information]
