Christopher B. Barrett

Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

Stephen B. & Janice G. Ashley Professor

315 Warren Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853-7801

United States

http://aem.cornell.edu/faculty_sites/cbb2/

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Ithaca, NY 14850

United States

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1.

Food Aid and Dependency: Implications for Emergency Food Security Assessments

IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 12-2
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 10 Jul 2008
Erin Lentz, Christopher B. Barrett and John Hoddinott
University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Subdiscipline-Specific Journal Rankings: Whither Applied Economics?

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 13 Jan 1999
Christopher B. Barrett, Aliakbar Olia and DeeVon Bailey
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Utah State University - College of Business - Department of Economics and Utah State University - College of Business - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,905 (17,993)
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Subdiscipline-Specific Journal Rankings: Whither Applied Economics?

Applied Economics
Posted: 02 Jun 1999
Christopher B. Barrett, Aliakbar Olia and DeeVon Bailey
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Utah State University - College of Business - Department of Economics and Utah State University - College of Business - Department of Economics

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Agricultural Markets in Developing Countries

THE NEW PALGRAVE DICTIONARY OF ECONOMICS, 2nd Edition, Lawrence E. Blume, Steven N. Durlauf, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett and Emelly Mutambatsere
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 1,290 (32,954)

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Poverty Traps and Climate Risk: Limitations and Opportunities of Index-Based Risk Financing

IRI Technical Report No. 07-02
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Georgia - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Australian National University - Crawford School of Economics and Government, Columbia University, Cornell University - Department of Economics, Columbia University, University of Kentucky - College of Agriculture - Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Poverty Traps and Social Protection

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter and Munenobu Ikegami
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics and Hosei University - Department of Economics
Downloads 976 (49,282)
Citation 15

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Poverty traps, Targeting transfers, Dynamic modeling

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Asset, Activity, and Income Diversification Among African Agriculturalists: Some Practical Issues

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 05 Feb 2001
Christopher B. Barrett and Thomas Reardon
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural Economics
Downloads 969 (49,739)
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Livestock Markets and Risk Management Among East African Pastoralists: A Review and Research Agenda

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 17 Feb 2001
DeeVon Bailey, Christopher B. Barrett, Peter D. Little and Francis Chabari
Utah State University - College of Business - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Kentucky - Department of Anthropology and GTZ Marsabit Development Program
Downloads 812 (63,316)
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Spatial Market Integration

THE NEW PALGRAVE DICTIONARY OF ECONOMICS, 2nd Edition, Lawrence E. Blume, Steven N. Durlauf, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 801 (64,480)

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Smallholder Participation in Agricultural Value Chains: Comparative Evidence from Three Continents

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Jan 2011
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Independent, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Applied Economics, Columbia University - Columbia Earth Institute, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) and World BankCornell University
Downloads 764 (68,746)
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Agricultural Value Chains, Contract Farming, Africa, Asia, Latin America

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Technological Change and Price Effects in Agriculture: Conceptual and Comparative Perspectives

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 08 Oct 2004
Eleni Gabre-Madhin, Christopher B. Barrett and Paul Dorosch
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Downloads 762 (68,990)
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Food Aid Effectiveness: It's the Targeting, Stupid!

Cornell University Applied Economics and Management Working Paper No. 2002-43
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Aug 2003
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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A Holistic Approach to Sustainability Based on Pluralistic Stewardship

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Dec 1998
Christopher B. Barrett and Raymond E. Grizzle
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and University of New Hampshire - Jackson Estuarine Laboratory
Downloads 729 (71,824)
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A Holistic Approach to Sustainability Based on Pluralistic Stewardship

Environmental Ethics, Vol. 21, Spring 1999
Posted: 08 Dec 1998
Christopher B. Barrett and Raymond E. Grizzle
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and University of New Hampshire - Jackson Estuarine Laboratory

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Agricultural Technology, Productivity, Poverty and Food Security in Madagascar

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 06 May 2005
Bart Minten and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Food and Nutrition Policy Program and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 625 (89,153)
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Foreign Aid, Development Strategies and Poverty Reduction

ECONOMIC JUSTICE IN A FLAT WORLD: CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBALIZATION, Steven L. Rundle, ed., Carlisle, UK: Paternoster, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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Foreign Aid, Development Strategies, and Poverty Reduction

ECONOMICS JUSTICE IN A FLAT WORLD: CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBALIZATION, S. Rundle, ed., Paternoster, August 2009
Posted: 20 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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A Market Analysis and Decision Tree Tool for Response Analysis: Cash, Local Purchase and/or Imported Food Aid? The Decision Tree Tool

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett, Erin Lentz and Daniel G. Maxwell
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Independent
Downloads 531 (109,075)
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Marketing Boards

THE NEW PALGRAVE DICTIONARY OF ECONOMICS, 2nd Edition, Lawrence E. Blume and Steven N. Durlauf, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett and Emelly Mutambatsere
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 511 (114,383)

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Revisiting the Effect of Food Aid on Conflict: A Methodological Caution

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8171
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 28 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2017
Paul Christian and Christopher B. Barrett
World Bank - Development Research Group (DIME) and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 503 (116,538)
Citation 13

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Conflict and Fragile States

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Food Aid for Market Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Oct 2004
Awudu Abdulai, Christopher B. Barrett and Peter Hazell
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and CGIAR - Environment and Production Technology Division
Downloads 502 (116,792)
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Distinguishing between Equilibrium and Integration in Markets Analysis

International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium Working Paper No. 99-8
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Oct 1999
Jau-Rong Li and Christopher B. Barrett
I-Shou University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 211 (295,231)
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Distinguishing between Equilibrium and Integration in Markets Analysis

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 14 Oct 1999
Christopher B. Barrett and Jau-Rong Li
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and I-Shou University
Downloads 139 (427,444)
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Distinguishing between Equilibrium and Integration in Markets Analysis

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Feb 2001
Christopher B. Barrett and Jau-Rong Li
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and I-Shou University
Downloads 135 (437,621)
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Understanding the Agricultural Input Landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Plot, Household, and Community-Level Evidence

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7014
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 20 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2020
Megan Sheahan, Christopher B. Barrett and Megan Britney Sheahan
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Precision Agriculture for Developmen
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Climate Change and Agriculture, Crops and Crop Management Systems, Pest Management, Food Security, Fertilizers, Armed Conflict

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The Double Hurdle Model in the Presence of Fixed Costs

Cornell University, Applied Economics and Management Working Paper
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Jan 2003
Garth J. Holloway, Christopher B. Barrett and Simeon K. Ehui
CGIAR - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and CGIAR - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
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market participation, fixed costs, double-hurdle model, censored

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Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity-Size Relationship

World Development, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2010
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 24 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett, Marc F. Bellemare and Janet Y. Hou
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Applied Economics and Cornell University
Downloads 438 (137,644)
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Inverse Relationship, Productivity, Market Failures, Soil Characteristics, Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar

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The Microeconomics of the Developmental Paradox: On the Political Economy of Food Price Policy

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Dec 1998
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 430 (140,581)
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Development Economics: An Overview

DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS: CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, 4 Volumes, C.B. Barrett, ed., London: Routledge, 2007
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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Does Food Aid Stabilize Food Availability?

Cornell University, Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics Working Paper No. 99-01
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Jan 1999
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 429 (139,873)
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Does Food Aid Stabilize Food Availability?

Posted: 31 Jan 2001
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Insuring Against Drought‐Related Livestock Mortality:  Piloting Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 May 2011
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Australian National University - Crawford School of Economics and Government, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Hosei University - Department of Economics and Syracuse University - Department of Economics
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Market Participation by Rural Households in a Low-Income Country: An Asset Based Approach Applied to Mozambique

Faith and Economics Vol 50, Fall 2007: 64-101
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 06 Jan 2019
Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), affiliation not provided to SSRN, Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural Economics and Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
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Market Participation by Rural Households in a Low-Income Country: An Asset-Based Approach Applied to Mozambique

Faith and Economics, 2007
Posted: 23 May 2011
Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Independent, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural Economics and Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics

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The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Volatility: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 31 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 19 May 2011
Marc F. Bellemare, Christopher B. Barrett and David R. Just
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Applied Economics, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Downloads 398 (153,631)
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Price Volatility, Price Stabilization, Price Risk, Risk and Uncertainty

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How Basis Risk and Spatiotemporal Adverse Selection Influence Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 03 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2018
Nathaniel Duane Jensen, Andrew Mude and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, CGIAR - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 385 (159,369)
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Pastoralists, Uninsured Risk, Livestock, Adverse Selection, Basis Risk

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Pastoralist Livestock Marketing Behavior in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia: An Analysis of Constraints Limiting Off-Take Rates

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 01 Nov 2004
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Syracuse University - Department of Economics, RTI International, University of Kentucky - Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, University of Kentucky and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Downloads 349 (177,639)
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Household-Level Livestock Marketing Behavior Among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian Pastoralists

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 May 2005
Christopher B. Barrett, Marc F. Bellemare and Sharon M. Osterloh
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Applied Economics and Cornell University
Downloads 345 (179,965)
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Food Policy in Crisis Management

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Nov 2004
Christopher B. Barrett and David E. Sahn
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University
Downloads 343 (181,108)
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Food Aid's Intended and Unintended Consequences

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 336 (185,134)
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A New Look at the Trade Volume Effects of Real Exchange Rate Risk: A Rational Expectation-Based Multivariate Garch-M Approach

Cornell University Applied Economics Management Working Paper No. 2002-41
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Sep 2003
Kai Li Wang and Christopher B. Barrett
Tunghai University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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Exchange Rate, Trade, Multivariate GARCH

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Towards a Global Food Aid Compact

Food Policy, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2006
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 May 2005 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2015
Christopher B. Barrett and Daniel Maxwell
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and CARE East Africa Regional Management Unit
Downloads 311 (201,046)
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Improving Humanitarian Response to Slow-Onset Disasters Using Famine Indexed Weather Derivatives

Agricultural Finance Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 26 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2013
Sommarat Chantarat, Calum G. Turvey, Andrew G. Mude and Christopher B. Barrett
Australian National University - Crawford School of Economics and Government, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 304 (206,082)

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Covariate risk, weather derivatives, catastrophe bond, famine relief, food aid, food insecurity, pastoralists, Kenya

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The System of Rice Intensification in Practice: Explaining Low Farmer Adoption and High Disadoption in Madagascar

Cornell Dept. of Applied Economics & Management Working Paper
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Sep 2002
Christopher B. Barrett and Christine M. Moser
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University - Department of Economics and Management
Downloads 298 (210,513)
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Challenging Orthodoxies: Understanding Poverty in Pastoral Areas of East Africa

Development and Change, A. Saith, M. Arsel, K. Biehart, A. Chhachhi, B. O'Laughlin & S. Storm, Published on behalf of the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2014
Peter D. Little, John G. McPeak, Christopher B. Barrett and Patti Kristjanson
University of Kentucky - Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 292 (214,966)
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The Economics of Poverty and the Poverty of Economics: A Christian Perspective

Cornell University Applied Economics and Management Working Paper No. 2003-15
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 23 Aug 2003
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 287 (218,920)
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Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Analyzing Poverty Dynamics

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Oct 2004
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 280 (224,538)
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Cash Transfers and Index Insurance: A Comparative Impact Analysis from Northern Kenya

Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 129, 2017
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 11 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2018
Nathaniel Duane Jensen, Christopher B. Barrett and Andrew Mude
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and CGIAR - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Downloads 276 (227,815)
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social protection, safety nets, HSNP, IBLI, social welfare

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Shadow Wages, Allocative Inefficiency, and Labor Supply in Smallholder Agriculture

Cornell University Applied Economics Working Paper
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Feb 2001
Christopher B. Barrett, Shane M. Sherlund and Akinwumi A. Adesina
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and The Rockefeller Foundation
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The Unfulfilled Promise of Microfinance in Kenya: The KDA Experience

DECENTRALIZATION AND THE SOCIAL ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM KENYA, Christopher B. Barrett, Andrew G. Mude, John M. Omiti, eds., CAB International, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Sharon M. Osterloh and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 265 (237,414)
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Smallholder Participation in Contract Farming: Comparative Evidence from Five Countries

World Development Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 715–730, 2012
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2015
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Independent, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Applied Economics, Columbia University - Columbia Earth Institute, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) and World BankCornell University
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agricultural value chains, contract farming, Africa, Asia, Latin America

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Poverty Traps and Index Based Risk Transfer Products

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Jul 2007
Barry J. Barnett, Christopher B. Barrett and Jerry R. Skees
University of Georgia - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and University of Kentucky - College of Agriculture - Department of Agricultural Economics
Downloads 259 (241,417)
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index-based risk transfer products, insurance, poverty traps, risk management

Poverty Traps and Index-Based Risk Transfer Products

World Development, Vol. 36, No. 10, 2008
Posted: 22 May 2011
Barry J. Barnett, Christopher B. Barrett and Jerry R. Skees
University of Georgia - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and University of Kentucky - College of Agriculture - Department of Agricultural Economics

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index-based risk transfer products, insurance, poverty traps, risk management

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Informal Insurance in the Presence of Poverty Traps: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 12 Jul 2007
Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 255 (246,790)
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risk, informal insurance, social networks, poverty traps, Ethiopia

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Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps

Journal of Economic Inequality
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 27 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2014
Sommarat Chantarat and Christopher B. Barrett
Australian National University - Crawford School of Economics and Government and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 250 (252,868)
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social network capital, endogenous network formation, poverty traps, multiple equilibria, social isolation, social exclusion, crowding-in transfer

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Who Benefits from a Bioprospecting-Based Boom? The Case of Argan Oil in Morocco

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 03 Feb 2001
Travis J. Lybbert, Christopher B. Barrett and Hamid Narjisse
University of California, Davis, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and IAV Hassan II
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Farmers’ Perceptions of Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Yield Response in Kenya

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 19 May 2011 Last Revised: 24 May 2011
Paswel Marenya, Christopher B. Barrett and Trudi Gulick
Cornell University, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 237 (265,294)
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The Ambiguous Effects of Policy Reforms on Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa: Renewed Threats to Fragile Margins?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Oct 1999
Thomas Reardon and Christopher B. Barrett
Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural Economics and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 225 (278,958)
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On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7938
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Jan 2017
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, World Bank, Precision Agriculture for Developmen and Göteborg University
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A Market Analysis and Decision Tree Tool for Response Analysis: Cash, Local Purchase and/or Imported Food Aid? Background Paper

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Daniel G. Maxwell, Erin Lentz and Christopher B. Barrett
Independent, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 220 (285,028)
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Wildlife Harvest in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Linking Harvest to Household Demand, Agricultural Production, and Environmental Shocks in the Serengeti

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 26 Dec 1998
Christopher B. Barrett and Peter Arcese
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Centre for Applied Conservation Biology
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Wildlife Harvest in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Linking Harvest to Household Demand, Agricultural Production and Environmental Shocks in the Serengeti

Land Economics, 1998
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Peter Arcese
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Centre for Applied Conservation Biology

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Wildlife Harvest in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Linking Harvest to Household Demand, Agricultural Production, and Environmental Shocks in the Serengeti

Posted: 24 Mar 1999
Christopher B. Barrett and Peter Arcese
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Centre for Applied Conservation Biology

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On Vulnerability, Asset Poverty and Subsidiarity

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 17 Feb 2001
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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Index Based Livestock Insurance for Northern Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: The Marsabit Pilot

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 11 Jun 2013
CGIAR - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Australian National University - Crawford School of Economics and Government, Hosei University - Department of Economics and Syracuse University - Department of Economics
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U.S. Monetization Policy: Recommendations for Improvement

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Erin Lentz
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Downloads 208 (300,498)
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Poverty Traps and Resource Dynamics in Smallholder Agrarian Systems

ECONOMICS OF POVERTY, ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCE USE, A. Ruijs, R. Dellink, eds., Springer, 2008
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Jun 2007
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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development, feedback effects, multiple equilibria, resilience, stability

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What Do We Learn About Social Networks When We Only Sample Individuals? Not Much

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Jun 2008
Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 204 (306,058)
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Not Necessarily in the Same Boat: Heterogeneous Risk Assessment Among East African Pastoralists

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Oct 1999
Kevin Smith, Christopher B. Barrett and Paul W. Box
International Rescue Committee, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Utah State University
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Not Necessarily in the Same Boat: Heterogeneous Risk Assessment Among East African Pastoralists

Journal of Development Studies
Posted: 31 Jan 2001
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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60.

Food Systems and the Escape from Poverty and Ill-Health Traps in Sub-Saharan Africa

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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61.

Locating Tropical Biodiversity Conservation Amid Weak Institutions

Cornell ARME Department Working Paper No. 99-21
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Dec 1999
Christopher B. Barrett, Katrina Brandon, Clark Gibson and Heidi Gjertsen
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Maryland, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and Cornell University
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62.

Missed Opportunities and Missing Markets: Spatio-Temporal Arbitrage of Rice in Madagascar

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 06 May 2005
Christine Moser, Christopher B. Barrett and Bart Minten
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University - Food and Nutrition Policy Program
Downloads 196 (317,552)
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Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate and the Environment

The SC Johnson College of Business Applied Economics and Policy Working Paper Series No. AEP WP 2021-02
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 01 Oct 2021
Christopher B. Barrett, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea and Trinh Pham
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University and Cornell University
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economic development, structural transformation, agriculture, climate, environment, feedbacks.

Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate and the Environment

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 01 Oct 2021
Christopher B. Barrett, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea and Trinh Pham
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University and Cornell University
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economic development, structural transformation, agriculture, climate, environment, feedbacks.

64.

Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements: An Overview and Implications for Social Fund Program Design

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Ruchira Bhattamishra and Christopher B. Barrett
World Bank and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 194 (320,628)
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65.

Food Aid Targeting, Shocks and Private Transfers Among East African Pastoralists

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 08 Oct 2004
Erin Lentz and Christopher B. Barrett
University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 194 (320,628)
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drought, crowding out, pass through, safety nets, social insurance, targeting

66.

Safety Nets or Social Insurance in the Presence of Poverty Traps? Evidence from Southern Ethiopia

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 03 May 2005
Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 189 (328,365)
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67.

Participatory Risk Mapping for Targeting Research and Assistance: With an Example from East African Pastoralists

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Oct 1999
Kevin Smith, Christopher B. Barrett and Paul W. Box
International Rescue Committee, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Utah State University
Downloads 188 (329,932)
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68.

The Complex Links between Governance and Biodiversity

Conservation Biology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 May 2005 Last Revised: 23 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett, Clark Gibson, B. Hoffman and Mathew D. McCubbins
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and Department of Political Science and Law School, Duke University (deceased)
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Conservation policy, governance, corruption, elephants, forests, politics, environmental policy, biodiversity

69.

The Performance of Index Based Livestock Insurance: Ex Ante Assessment in the Presence of a Poverty Trap

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 May 2011 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2014
Sommarat Chantarat, Andrew G. Mude, Christopher B. Barrett and Calum G. Turvey
Australian National University - Crawford School of Economics and Government, Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Index insurance, asset risk, bifurcated wealth dynamics, nonlinear growth, poverty traps, safety net, risk preference elicitation, pastoralists, Kenya

70.

The Impacts of Household Land Use and Socio Economic Factors on the Soil Fertility of Smallholder Farms in the Highlands of Kenya

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Cornell University, Cornell University - New York State Water Resources Institute, World Argoforestry Centre (ICRAF), World Bank, World Argoforestry Centre (ICRAF), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University, World Argoforestry Centre (ICRAF) and Cornell University
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diffuse, reflectance, spectroscopy, soil degradation, soil management

71.

Cash, Food or Vouchers in Urban and Rural Kenya? An Application of the Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis Framework

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 18 May 2011
Columbia University - Columbia Earth Institute, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, affiliation not provided to SSRN, American Institutes for Research, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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food insecurity, Kenya, response analysis, urban food insecurity

72.

Smallholder Technical Efficiency with Stochastic Exogenous Production Conditions

Cornell University Working Paper No. 98-15
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 Jun 2001
Shane M. Sherlund, Christopher B. Barrett and Akinwumi A. Adesina
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and The Rockefeller Foundation
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73.

State-Conditional Fertilizer Yield Response on Western Kenyan Farms

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Paswel Marenya and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 174 (353,640)
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74.

The Interplay between Smallholder Farmers and Fragile Tropical Agroecosystems in the Kenyan Highlands

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 Nov 2004
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University, World Argoforestry Centre (ICRAF), World Argoforestry Centre (ICRAF), Cornell University - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University, Cornell University, World Argoforestry Centre (ICRAF), Cornell University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University, Cornell University, Cornell University - New York State Water Resources Institute and World Argoforestry Centre (ICRAF)
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75.

Stochastic Wealth Dynamics and Risk Management Among a Poor Population

Cornell University Applied Economics and Management Working Paper No. 2002-44
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Sep 2003
Travis J. Lybbert, Christopher B. Barrett, Solomon Desta and D. Layne Coppock
University of California, Davis, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Utah State University - College of Natural Resources and Utah State University - College of Natural Resources
Downloads 174 (353,640)
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common property, covariate risk, Ethiopia, idiosyncratic risk, poverty traps, social insurance

76.

Renegotiating the Food Aid Convention: Background, Context, and Issues

Global Governance, Forthcoming, IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 12-1
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
John Hoddinott, Marc J. Cohen and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, CGIAR - Food Consumption and Nutrition Division and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 171 (359,020)
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77.

Livestock Pricing and Markets Performance

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 171 (359,020)
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78.

Within-Season Producer Response to Warmer Temperatures: Defensive Investments by Kenyan Farmers

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 23 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2020
Maulik Jagnani, Christopher B. Barrett, Yanyan Liu and Liangzhi You
Cornell University, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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79.

COVID -19, Household Resilience, and Rural Food Systems: Evidence from Southern and Eastern Africa

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2022
Joanna Upton, Elizabeth Tennant, Kathryn Florella and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University, Cornell University, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 161 (378,081)
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Food Security, Household Shocks, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Resilience

80.

But it came from a Food Pantry: Product Stigma and Quality Perceptions of Food Pantry Offerings

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 27 Oct 2021
Christopher B. Barrett, Annette T. Byrne and Teresa Whitaker
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 161 (378,081)
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Private food assistance, grocery store, product evaluation, food experiment

81.

How Accurate is Food-for-Work Self-Targeting in the Presence of Imperfect Factor Markets? Evidence from Ethiopia

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Feb 2001
Christopher B. Barrett and Daniel C. Clay
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Michigan State University - Institute of International Agriculture
Downloads 160 (380,101)
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82.

Recasting Food Aid's Role

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 01 Nov 2004
Christopher B. Barrett and Daniel Maxwell
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and CARE East Africa Regional Management Unit
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Smallholder Technical Efficiency: Controlling for Environmental Production Conditions

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Mar 2003
Shane M. Sherlund, Christopher B. Barrett and Akinwumi A. Adesina
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and The Rockefeller Foundation
Downloads 159 (382,050)
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Production frontiers, agricultural productivity, rice, Africa (Sub-Saharan)

Smallholder Technical Efficiency Controlling for Environmental Production Conditions

Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 69, No. 1, 2002
Posted: 26 May 2011
Shane M. Sherlund, Christopher B. Barrett and Akinwumi A. Adesina
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and The Rockefeller Foundation

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production frontiers, agricultural productivity, rice, Africa (Sub-Saharan)

Smallholder Technical Efficiency: Controlling for Environmental Production Conditions

Posted: 26 Mar 2003
Shane M. Sherlund, Christopher B. Barrett and Akinwumi A. Adesina
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and The Rockefeller Foundation

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Production frontiers, agricultural productivity, rice, Africa (Sub-Saharan)

84.

The Political Economy of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Spending in Andhra Pradesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1371
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Oct 2014
Megan Sheahan, Yanyan Liu, Christopher B. Barrett and Sudha Narayanan
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)
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India, South Asia, Asia, Public Policy, Governance, Poverty, Rural Areas, Rural Population, Social Safety Nets, Social Protection, Political Economy, Clientelism, Project Allocation, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee

85.

Stripe Review of Social Sciences in the CGIAR

Number of pages: 146 Posted: 18 May 2011
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, McGill University - Department of Geography and Member of CRED (Centre de Recherche en Economie du Developpement) at the University of Namur, Belgium
Downloads 155 (390,692)
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86.

Context-Dependent Biodiversity Conservation Management Regimes

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Feb 2001
Christopher B. Barrett and Heidi Gjertsen
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University
Downloads 145 (412,458)

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87.

Modeling the Impact of Natural Resource-Based Poverty Traps on Food Security in Kenya: The Crops, Livestock and Soils in Smallholder Economic Systems (CLASSES) Model

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 May 2011
Pitzer College, Adjunct Associate Professor, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Tasmania, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University, World Argoforestry Centre (ICRAF), Cornell University, Cornell University and Cornell University - New York State Water Resources Institute
Downloads 144 (417,125)
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Poverty traps, Kenya, food security, bio-economic modeling, system dynamics

88.

Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On the Roles of Risk and Ability

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Jul 2007
Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 142 (419,403)
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ability, herd restocking, poverty traps, regression trees, shocks, subjective

89.

Improving Food Aid: What Reforms Would Yield the Highest Payoff?

World Development, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 28 Jun 2007
Erin Lentz and Christopher B. Barrett
University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 140 (424,044)
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cargo preference, local and regional purchases, monetization, targeting, tying

90.

Bayesian Herders: Asymmetric Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Forecasts

Cornell University Applied Economics & Management Working Paper No. 2003-17
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 Sep 2003
Travis J. Lybbert, Christopher B. Barrett, John G. McPeak and Winnie Luseno
University of California, Davis, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Syracuse University - Department of Economics and RTI International
Downloads 137 (431,422)
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91.

Labor, Liquidity, Learning, Conformity and Smallholder Technology Adoption: The Case of Sri in Madagascar

Cornell University Dept. of Applied Economics & Management Working Paper
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 09 Oct 2002
Christine M. Moser and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Management and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 136 (433,918)
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92.

Post-Green Revolution Food Systems and the Triple Burden of Malnutrition

Food Policy 42 (2013) 129–138
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2015
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Independent, Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University, United Nations - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Independent and Independent
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Agricultural productivity, Food and agricultural systems, Nutrition, Green Revolution, Biofortification, Food value chain, Food assistance programs

93.

Spurious Regressions and Panel IV Estimation: Revisiting the Causes of Conflict

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 27 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2022
Paul Christian and Christopher B. Barrett
World Bank - Development Research Group (DIME) and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 132 (444,241)
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food security, risk, shocks, stressors, vulnerability, well-being

94.

Decentralization of Pastoral Resources Management and its Effects on Environmental Degradation and Poverty Experience from Northern Kenya

DECENTRALIZATION AND THE SOCIAL ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM KENYA, Christopher B. Barrett, Andrew G. Mude, John M. Omiti, eds., CAB International, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Kioko Munyao and Christopher B. Barrett
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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95.

Bayesian Estimation of the Double Hurdle Model in the Presence of Fixed Costs

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 22 Jul 2015
Garth J. Holloway, Christopher B. Barrett and Simeon K. Ehui
CGIAR - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and CGIAR - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Downloads 130 (449,714)
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96.

The Response of Income Diversification to Macro and Micro Policy Shocks in Cote D'Ivoire and Kenya

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 Feb 2001
Christopher B. Barrett, Mesfin Bezuneh and Abdillahi Aboud
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Clark Atlanta University - Economics and Egerton University
Downloads 125 (463,599)
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97.

The ‘Discouraged Worker Effect’ in Public Works Programs: Evidence from the MGNREGA in India

IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 1633
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 10 May 2017
Sudha Narayanan, Upasak Das, Yanyan Liu and Christopher B. Barrett
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), University of Manchester, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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India; South Asia; Asia; Wages; Labor; Social Protection; Social Safety Net; Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme; Administrative Rationing; Discouraged Worker Effect; Employment Guarantee

98.

Interest and Identity in Network Formation: Who Do Smallholders Seek Out for Information in Rural Ghana?

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 Oct 2004
Christopher B. Barrett and Paulo Santos
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University
Downloads 117 (487,756)
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Agricultural production, identity, markets, social networks

99.

Food Security Dynamics in the United States, 2001-2017

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 04 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2022
Seungmin Lee, Christopher B. Barrett and John Hoddinott
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University
Downloads 116 (490,912)
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Food Insecurity, Hunger, Measurement, PSID

100.

Educational Investments in a Dual Economy

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 May 2005
Andrew G. Mude, Christopher B. Barrett, John G. McPeak and Cheryl R. Doss
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Syracuse University - Department of Economics and University of Oxford - Department of International Development
Downloads 115 (494,069)
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Poverty traps, Informal finance, Education, Rural-Urban migration

101.

Food Aid at a Crossroads: The Shared Challenge NGOs Face

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 113 (500,635)

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102.

Employment Dynamics in the Rural Nonfarm Sector in Ethiopia: Do the Poor Have Time on Their Side?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Sosina Bezu
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Chr.Michelsen Institute
Downloads 111 (507,232)
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rural nonfarm, income diversification, employment transition, Ethiopia, shocks

103.

Macroeconomic Shocks, Human Capital and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from West African Farmers

Cornell University Applied Economics and Management Working Paper No. 2003-18
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Jun 2001
Christopher B. Barrett, Shane M. Sherlund and Akinwumi A. Adesina
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and The Rockefeller Foundation
Downloads 110 (510,590)
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104.

Does Diversification Translate into Improved Livelihoods? Evidence from Pastoral Households in the Altay and Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang, China

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 10 Jul 2015
Chuan Liao, Christopher B. Barrett and Karim-Aly Kassam
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University - Department of Natural Resources
Downloads 109 (514,068)
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pastoral households, livelihood, diversification, cluster analysis, Xinjiang, China

105.

Food Aid in Response to Acute Food Insecurity

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 109 (517,445)
Citation 4

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106.

Recipients' Satisfaction with Locally Procured Food Aid Rations: Comparative Evidence from a Three Country Matched Survey

World Development (2013)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 10 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2015
Cornell University, Cornell University - School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Cornell University, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
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food aid, consumer preferences, local and regional procurement, ordered probit

107.

Risk and Asset Management in the Presence of Poverty Traps: Implications for Growth and Social Protection

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett and Michael R. Carter
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics
Downloads 108 (517,445)
Citation 4

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108.

Correlated Non-Classical Measurement Errors, ‘Second Best’ Policy Inference and the Inverse Size-Productivity Relationship in Agriculture

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1710
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Mar 2018
University of Copenhagen, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Downloads 107 (520,890)
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ETHIOPIA, EAST AFRICA, AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA, AFRICA, agricultural development, smallholders, accuracy, measurement, agricultural productivity, field size, household surveys, wheat, correlated errors, non-classical measurement error, bias

109.

The 'Discouraged Worker Effect' in Public Works Programs: Evidence from the MGNREGA in India

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 08 Dec 2016
Sudha Narayanan, Upasak Das, Yanyan Liu and Christopher B. Barrett
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), University of Manchester, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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administrative rationing, discouraged worker effect, employment guarantee, India, labor supply, MGNREGA, workfare programs

110.

Heterogeneous Pro-Poor Targeting in India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

IFPRI Discussion Paper 01218
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Jan 2013
Yanyan Liu and Christopher B. Barrett
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 102 (539,127)
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MGNREGS, employment guarantee scheme, public works, rationing, pro-poor targeting, targeting performance

111.

Caveat Utilitor: A Comparative Assessment of Resilience Measurement Approaches

The SC Johnson College of Business Applied Economics and Policy Working Paper
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 27 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2022
Joanna Upton, Susana Constenla-Villoslada and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 100 (546,502)
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Ethiopia, factor analysis, food security, Niger, poverty, predictive performance, risk, shocks, targeting

112.

A Stochastic Dominance Approach to Program Evaluation with an Application to Child Nutritional Status in Kenya

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 May 2011 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2014
Felix Naschold and Christopher B. Barrett
University of Wyoming and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 100 (546,502)
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113.

The United States' International Food Assistance Programs: Issues and Options for the 2007 Farm Bill

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 27 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 99 (550,171)
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114.

Spatial Integration at Multiple Scales: Rice Markets in Madagascar

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Jul 2007
Christine M. Moser, Christopher B. Barrett and Bart Minten
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Management, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University - Food and Nutrition Policy Program
Downloads 99 (550,171)
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115.

Educational Investments in a Spatially Varied Economy

Cornell University, Applied Economics Working Paper No. 2003-21
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 09 Sep 2003
Andrew G. Mude, Christopher B. Barrett, John G. McPeak and Cheryl R. Doss
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Syracuse University - Department of Economics and University of Oxford - Department of International Development
Downloads 97 (557,564)

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116.

Bayesian Herders: Optimistic Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Forecasts

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 May 2005
Travis J. Lybbert, Christopher B. Barrett, John G. McPeak and Winnie Luseno
University of California, Davis, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Syracuse University - Department of Economics and RTI International
Downloads 96 (561,369)

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expectations, risk, uncertainty, weather, early warning systems

117.

Estimating Risk Preferences in the Presence of Bifurcated Wealth Dynamics: Can We Identify Static Risk Aversion Amidst Dynamic Risk Responses?

European Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 40 (2) (2013) pp. 361–377
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 Jul 2015
Travis J. Lybbert, David Just and Christopher B. Barrett
University of California, Davis, Cornell University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 95 (565,171)

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risk, uncertainty, wealth dynamics, risk aversion, risk preference estimation, poverty

118.

Food Aid as Part of a Coherent Strategy to Advance Food Security Objectives

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 27 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Downloads 95 (565,171)
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119.

Dynamic Field Experiments in Development Economics: Risk Valuation in Morocco, Kenya and Peru

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39/2 (April 2010) 176–192
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 Jul 2015
University of California, Davis, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Syracuse University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of California, Davis - Departments of Economics and Agricultural Resource Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Australian National University - Crawford School of Economics and Government, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique and Cornell University - Department of Economics
Downloads 94 (568,892)
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poverty, risk and uncertainty, dynamics, experiments, Kenya, Morocco, Peru

120.

Index Insurance for Pro-Poor Conservation of Hornbills in Thailand

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 10 Jul 2015
Australian National University - Crawford School of Economics and Government, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University, Cornell University, Independent and Independent
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weather risk management, poverty, safety net, sustainable conservation

121.

Social Identity and Manipulative Interhousehold Transfers Among East African Pastoralists

Cornell University Dept. of Applied Economics & Management Working Paper
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 31 Oct 2002
Marieke Huysentruyt, Christopher B. Barrett and John G. McPeak
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Syracuse University - Department of Economics
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122.

The Evolution of Horizontal Inequalities in Madagascar, 1999-2005

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
David C. Stifel, Felix Forster and Christopher B. Barrett
Lafayette College, University of Warwick - Economics and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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123.

The System of Rice Intensification and Its Impacts on Household Income and Child Schooling: Evidence from Rural Indonesia

Amer. J. Agr. Econ. 96(1): 269–289, January 2014
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 10 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2015
Kazushi Takahashi and Christopher B. Barrett
Independent and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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Agricultural technology, impact evaluation, Indonesia, matching, rural development

124.

Perspectives on Development in Arid and Semi-Arid East Africa: Results of a Ranking Exercise

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
John G. McPeak, Cheryl R. Doss, Christopher B. Barrett and Patti Kristjanson
Syracuse University - Department of Economics, University of Oxford - Department of International Development, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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125.

Spatial Price Adjustment with and Without Trade

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Claremont Colleges - Pitzer College, Cornell University, University of Goettingen (Gottingen) and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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126.

Got Milk? The Impact of Heifer International's Livestock Donation Programs in Rwanda on Nutritional Outcomes

Food Policy 44 (2014) 202–213
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 10 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2015
Cornell University, Cornell University, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Robert Gordon University and University of San Francisco - Department of Economics
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Charitable donations, Child nutrition, Dairy cow, Food consumption, Meat goat

127.

Agricultural Factor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Updated View with Formal Tests for Market Failure

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7117
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 10 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 21 May 2020
Brian Dillon, Christopher B. Barrett and Brian Dillon
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University
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Labor Markets, Macroeconomic Management, Economic Forecasting, Governance Diagnostic Capacity Building, Gender and Development, Rural Labor Markets, Food Security

Are Agricultural Experiment Station Faculty Salaries Competitively or Monopsonistically Determined?

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 18 Nov 1998
Christopher B. Barrett and DeeVon Bailey
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Utah State University - College of Business - Department of Economics
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Are Agricultural Experiment Station Faculty Salaries Competitively or Monopsonistically Determined?

Posted: 21 Jan 1999
Christopher B. Barrett and DeeVon Bailey
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Utah State University - College of Business - Department of Economics

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129.

Toward a Theory of Resilience for International Development Applications

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 10 Jul 2015
Christopher B. Barrett and Mark Constas
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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sustainability, vulnerability, poverty traps, risk

130.

Introduction to a Special Issue on Making Markets Work for the Rural Poor

Faith and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett and Thomas Reardon
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural Economics
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131.

Does Nonfarm Economy Offer Pathways for Upward Mobility? Evidence from a Panel Data Study in Ethiopia

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 May 2011
Sosina Bezu, Christopher B. Barrett and Stein T. Holden
Chr.Michelsen Institute, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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rural nonfarm, income dynamics, income diversification, Africa, Ethiopia, impact

132.

Modeling Feedback between Economic and Biophysical Systems in Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya: The Crops, Livestock and Soils in Smallholder Economic Systems (CLASSES) Model

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 May 2011
Claremont Colleges - Pitzer College, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University, World Argoforestry Centre (ICRAF), Cornell University, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tasmania, Cornell University and Cornell University - New York State Water Resources Institute
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133.

Variable Returns to Fertilizer Use and Its Relationship to Poverty: Experimental and Simulation Evidence from Malawi

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1373
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Oct 2014
Aurélie Harou, Yanyan Liu, Christopher B. Barrett and Liangzhi You
Cornell University - School of Applied Economics and Management, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Malawi, southern Africa, Africa south sf Sahara, Africa, Fertilizers, Subsidies, Agricultural Development, Productivity, Farm Inputs

134.

Estimating Risk Preferences in the Presence of Bifurcated Wealth Dynamics: Do We Misattribute Dynamic Risk Responses to Static Risk Aversion?

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 May 2011
Travis J. Lybbert, David R. Just and Christopher B. Barrett
University of California, Davis, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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Risk, uncertainty, wealth dynamics, risk aversion, risk preference estimation, poverty

135.

Empirical Forecasting of Slow-Onset Disasters for Improved Emergency Response: An Application to Kenya's Arid North

Food Policy, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2009
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 24 May 2011
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Syracuse University - Department of Economics, Texas A&M University - Center for Natural Resource Information Technology (NRIT) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Food security, Food aid, Early warning, Emergency response, Forecasting famine

136.

The Demand for Hired Labor in Rural Madagascar

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 May 2011
Jean Claude Randrianarisoa, Christopher B. Barrett and David C. Stifel
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Lafayette College
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137.

Avoiding Disaster: Diversification and Risk Management Among East African Herders

Development and Change Vol. 32 (2001), 401-433
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Jul 2015
University of Kentucky - Department of Anthropology, International Rescue Committee, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Utah State University - College of Natural Resources and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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138.

Tradeoffs or Synergies? Assessing Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement Through Case Studies in Burkina Faso and Guatemala

World Development, 2013
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 10 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2015
Aurélie Harou, Joanna Upton, Christopher B. Barrett, Miguel I. Gómez and Erin Lentz
Cornell University - School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
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farmer based organizations, food aid, food assistance, response analysis, school feeding, local and regional procurement, smallholder farmers, Burkina Faso; Guatemala

139.

Decomposing Producer Price Risk: A New Policy Analysis Tool with an Application to Northern Kenyan Livestock Markets

Cornell University Dept. of Applied Economics & Management Working Paper
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 Nov 2002
Christopher B. Barrett and Winnie Luseno
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and RTI International
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140.

Structural Transformation and Intertemporal Evolution of Real Wages, Machine Use, and Farm Size–Productivity Relationships in Vietnam

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1525
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 May 2016 Last Revised: 12 May 2017
Yanyan Liu, William J. Violette and Christopher B. Barrett
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Brown University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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VIET NAM; VIETNAM; SOUTH EAST ASIA; ASIA; Productivity; Structural Change; Farm Size; Food Production; Households; Mechanization

141.

Smallholder Technical Efficiency with Stochastic Exogenous Production Conditions

Cornell University, Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics Working Paper No. 98-15
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Jan 1999
Shane M. Sherlund, Christopher B. Barrett and Akinwumi A. Adesina
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and The Rockefeller Foundation
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142.

Insuring Well-Being? Buyer's Remorse and Peace of Mind Effects from Insurance

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8256
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 28 Nov 2017
Kibrom Tafere, Christopher B. Barrett, Erin Lentz and Birhanu Ayana
World Bank - Development Research Group, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and CGIAR - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
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Climate Change and Agriculture, Dairies and Dairying

143.

The Negligible Welfare Effects of the International Food Aid Provisions in the 2014 Farm Bill

CHOICES: The magazine of food, farm, and resource issues, 3rd Quarter 2014 • 29(3)
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 10 Jul 2015
Erin Lentz and Christopher B. Barrett
University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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Farm Bill, Food Aid, Food Assistance

144.

Targeting Maps: An Asset-Based Approach to Geographic Targeting

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 May 2011 Last Revised: 24 May 2011
Corey Lang, Christopher B. Barrett and Felix Naschold
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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geographic targeting, assets, poverty maps, spatial variation, Uganda

145.

Perspective Paper: Framework to Assess the Potential of Circular Food System Technologies

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 Jun 2024
Wageningen University, World Bank, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Wageningen Economic Research, Cornell University - College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Fordham University - Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University and Wageningen University
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Circular food system, Food system sustainability, Assessment framework, True cost, Food loss and waste

146.

On the Choice and Impacts of Innovative International Food Assistance Instruments

World Development, 2013
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 10 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2015
Erin Lentz, Christopher B. Barrett, Miguel Ignacio Gomez and Daniel G. Maxwell
University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University - Food Industry Management Program and Independent
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disaster relief, emergency response, food insecurity, food assistance, response analysis

147.

The Impact of Changing Rainfall Variability on Resource-Dependent Wealth Dynamics

Ecological Economics 105 (2014) 48–54
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 10 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2015
Christopher B. Barrett and Paulo Santos
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University
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Climate change, Drought, Ethiopia, Livestock, Pastoralism, Poverty traps

148.

Poverty Traps and Agricultural Research: Improving Policies, Institutions and Technologies to Support Sustainable Poverty Reduction

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 27 Jun 2008
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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149.

Climate Forecasting for Pastoralists?

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 01 Nov 2004
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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150.

Market Prices and Food Aid Local and Regional Procurement and Distribution: A Multi-Country Analysis

World Development (2013)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 10 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2015
Independent, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Cornell University
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food assistance, price analysis, local and regional procurement and distribution, spatial price transmission

151.

U.S. Food Aid: It's Not Your Parents’ Program Any More!

Journal of Agribusiness 24,1(Spring 2006):1S16
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 21 Jul 2015
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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food security, humanitarian assistance, hunger, poverty, safety nets, surplus disposal, trade promotion

152.

Poverty, Disease and the Ecology of Complex Systems

PLOS Biology, April 2014, Vol. 12, Issue 4
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 10 Jul 2015
Harvard University - Harvard Medical School, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University - Harvard Medical School, Harvard University - Harvard Medical School (deceased), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Cergy-PontoiseUniversity of Georgia and Harvard University - Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
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153.

Understanding Declining Mobility and Interhousehold Transfers Among East African Pasoralists

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2008
Marieke Huysentruyt, Christopher B. Barrett and John G. McPeak
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Syracuse University - Department of Economics
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Interhousehold transfers, migration, externalities, poverty traps

154.

Poverty Traps and the Social Protection Paradox

NBER Working Paper No. w22714
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 10 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2023
Munenobu Ikegami, Michael Carter, Christopher B. Barrett and Sarah Janzen
Hosei University - Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Montana State University - Bozeman
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155.

Preferential Resource Spending Under an Employment Guarantee: The Political Economy of Mgnregs in Andhra Pradesh

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7818
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 07 Oct 2016
Megan Sheahan, Yanyan Liu, Christopher B. Barrett and Sudha Narayanan
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)
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Governance Diagnostic Capacity Building

156.

On Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Traps

PNAS, vol. 108, no. 34, August 23, 2011
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 21 Jul 2015
Christopher B. Barrett, Alexander Travis and Partha Dasgupta
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University - David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics and Politics
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development, ecosystem, natural resources, sustainability, wildlife

157.

A Normative Framework for Social Science Activities in the CGIAR

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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158.

Introduction to: The Dynamics of Coupled Human and Natural Systems

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 22 Jul 2015
John G. McPeak, David R. Lee and Christopher B. Barrett
Syracuse University - Department of Economics, Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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159.

The Role of Monetization in Proposed Food Aid Modalities

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 19 May 2011
C. Stuart Clark, Sophia Murphy, Gawain Kripke and Christopher B. Barrett
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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160.

The Incidence of Grocery Taxes in U.S. Food and Factor Markets

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Jul 2024
Jason Zhao, Christopher B. Barrett, Harry M. Kaiser and Yuqing Zheng
Cornell University, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Students, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University - School of Applied Economics and Management and University of Kentucky - College of Agriculture - Department of Agricultural Economics
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Food Sales Taxes, Tax Incidence, Retail Food Prices, Demand Analysis JEL codes: H22, L81, Q11, D12

161.

Understanding Declining Mobility and Interhousehold Transfers among East African Pastoralists

Economia, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Marieke Huysentruyt, Christopher B. Barrett and John G. McPeak
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Syracuse University - Department of Economics
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Interhousehold transfers, migration, externalities, poverty traps

162.

Economic and Geographic Drivers of Wildlife Consumption in Rural Africa

PNAS, Vol. 108, No. 34
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 11 Jul 2015
Independent, Independent, Independent, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Independent
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bushmeat harvest, panel analysis, poverty traps, wildlife conservation

163.

The Effects of Real Exchange Rate Depreciation on Stochastic Producer Prices in Low-Income Agriculture

Agricultural Economics 20 (1999) 215-230
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 22 Jul 2015
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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Depreciation, Production under risk, GARCH estimation, Madagascar

164.

Estimating Multidimensional Development Resilience

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Sep 2024
Seungmin Lee, Kibrom Abay, Christopher B. Barrett and John Hoddinott
University of Notre Dame, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)-Cairo, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Assets, Consumption expenditures, Dietary diversity, Ethiopia, Livestock, Poverty

165.

Measurement Error Mechanisms Matter: Agricultural Intensification with Farmer Misperceptions and Misreporting

NBER Working Paper No. w26066
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2023
Kibrom Abay, Leah Bevis and Christopher B. Barrett
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)-Cairo, Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Agricultural, Environmental & Development Economics and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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166.

Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On the Roles of Risk and Ability

NBER Working Paper No. w22626
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2023
Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett
Monash University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
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167.

Altruism, Insurance, and Costly Solidarity Commitments

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14148
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 04 Dec 2019
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cornell University and World BankCornell University
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168.

Surveying the Evidence on Sustainable Intensification Strategies for Smallholder Agricultural Systems

Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 48, pp. 347-369, 2023
Posted: 22 Nov 2023
Meha Jain, Divya Solomon, Kate Ghezzi-Kopel and Christopher B. Barrett
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Cornell University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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169.

Inferential and Behavioral Implications of Measurement Error in Agricultural Data

Annual Review of Resource Economics, Vol. 15, Issue 1, pp. 63-83, 2023
Posted: 10 Oct 2023
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)-Cairo, CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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170.

Signalling Change: Micro Insights on the Pathways to Agricultural Transformation

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1803
Posted: 20 Feb 2019
University of Hanover, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Leibniz Universität Hannover and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Africa South of Sahara, Africa, Southeast Asia, Asia, Smallholders, Agricultural Development, Agricultural Sector, Microeconomic Analysis, Non-Farm Income, Livestock Production, Farm Size, Agricultural Mechanization, Structural Change, Agricultural Tr

171.

Well-Being Dynamics and Poverty Traps

Annual Review of Resource Economics, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 303-327, 2016
Posted: 11 Oct 2016
Christopher B. Barrett, Teevrat Garg and Linden McBride
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Independent and A member of the CGIAR Consortium - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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172.

The Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty: Policy and Empirical Implications

The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 49, No. 7, 976–990, 2013
Posted: 21 Jul 2015
Christopher B. Barrett and Michael R. Carter
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics

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173.

The Timeliness and Cost-Effectiveness of the Local and Regional Procurement of Food Aid

Posted: 10 Jul 2015
Erin Lentz, Simone Passarelli and Christopher B. Barrett
University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Cornell University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Emergency response, Food assistance, Foreign aid, Humanitarian aid

174.

The Economics and Nutritional Impacts of Food Assistance Policies and Programs

Posted: 10 Jul 2015
Erin Lentz and Christopher B. Barrett
University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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International food assistance, Food aid, Food insecurity

175.

Socioenvironmental Threats to Pastoral Livelihoods: Risk Perceptions in the Altay and Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang, China

Posted: 10 Jul 2015
Liao Li Chuan, Patrick Sullivan, Christopher B. Barrett and Karim-Aly Kassam
Independent, Independent, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University - Department of Natural Resources

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Livelihoods, pastoralists, policy, risk perception, Xinjiang

176.

Food Insecurity and Food Aid in Africa

The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa
Posted: 11 Jun 2013
Christopher B. Barrett and Erin Lentz
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

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177.

Measuring Social Networks’ Effects on Agricultural Technology Adoption

American Journal of Agricultural Economics Papers and Proceedings, 2013
Posted: 17 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2020
Annemie Maertens and Christopher B. Barrett
University of Sussex and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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178.

Prospects for Integrated Soil Fertility Management Using Organic and Inorganic Inputs: Evidence from Smallholder African Agricultural Systems

Food Policy, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2003
Posted: 26 May 2011
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, CGIAR - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT), affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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nutrient management, integrated soil fertility management, inputs, Africa

179.

The Ministry of Referees and Discussants

Faith and Economics, 2002
Posted: 26 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and David B. Mustard
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and University of Georgia - C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business - Department of Economics

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180.

The Disappointing Adoption Dynamics of a Yield-Increasing, Low External Input Technology: The Case of Sri in Madagascar

Agricultural Systems, Forthcoming
Posted: 26 May 2011
Christine M. Moser and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Management and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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sustainable agriculture, low external input agriculture, technology adoption

181.

Nonconcave, Nonmonotonic Network Externalities

Taipei Economic Inquiry, 2002
Posted: 26 May 2011
YiNung Yang and Christopher B. Barrett
Chung Yuan Christian University - Department of International Trade and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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critical mass, history-dependence, imperfect information, multiple

182.

On Social Networks and Economic Development

Faith and Economics, 2003
Posted: 26 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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183.

Introduction: Farming the Garden of Eden

Environment and Development Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 26 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett, Edward B. Barbier and Thomas Reardon
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Economics and Michigan State University

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184.

Self-Targeting Accuracy in the Presence of Imperfect Factor Markets: Evidence from Food-for-Work in Ethiopia

Journal of Development Studies, Forthcoming
Posted: 26 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Daniel C. Clay
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Michigan State University - Institute of International Agriculture

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185.

Agroindustrialization in Emerging Markets: Overview and Strategic Context

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 26 May 2011
Michael Cook, Thomas Reardon, Christopher B. Barrett and Joyce Cacho
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Michigan State University, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Rabobank International, New York - Food and Agribusiness Research

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186.

PL480 Food Aid: We Can Do Better

Choices, 2004
Posted: 25 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Daniel G. Maxwell
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Independent

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187.

The Social Dimensions of Microeconomic Behavior in Low-Income Communities: Introduction to a Symposium

Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 83, No. 2, 2007
Posted: 24 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Andrew D. Foster
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Brown University - Department of Economics

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Groups, Identity, Networks, Poverty

188.

U.S. Food Aid: It’s Not Your Parents’ Program Any More!

Journal of Agribusiness, 2006
Posted: 24 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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food security, humanitarian assistance, hunger, poverty, safety nets, surplus disposal, trade promotion

189.

Social Groups and Economic Inequality

Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005
Posted: 24 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Joan Maria Esteban
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Livelihood Strategies in the Rural Kenyan Highlands

African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2006
Posted: 24 May 2011
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Claremont Colleges - Pitzer College, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Context-Dependent Biodiversity Conservation Management Regimes: Theory and Simulations

Land Economics, 2004
Posted: 24 May 2011
Heidi Gjertsen and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Household-Level Determinants of Adoption of Improved Natural Resources Management Practices Among Smallholder Farmers in Western Kenya

Food Policy, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2007
Posted: 24 May 2011
Paswel Marenya and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Adoption, Disadoption, Integrated Natural Resources Management, Smallholder Agriculture

193.

Estimating the Effects of Exchange Rate Volatility on Export Volumes

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2007
Posted: 24 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Kai Li Wang
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Tunghai University

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agricultural trade, exchange rate, expectations, GARCH

194.

They Profit While the Hungry Die

Los Angeles Times – Op Ed Essay, 2005
Posted: 24 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Daniel G. Maxwell
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Independent

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Institutional Arrangements for Rural Poverty Reduction and Resource Conservation

World Development, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2005
Posted: 24 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett, David R. Lee and John G. McPeak
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University and Syracuse University - Department of Economics

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sustainability, environment, community-based natural resources management, multiscalar approaches

196.

Understanding and Reducing Persistent Poverty in Africa

Journal of Development Studies, 2006
Posted: 24 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter and Peter Little
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Bayesian Herders: Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Climate Forecasts

World Development, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2007
Posted: 24 May 2011
Travis J. Lybbert, Christopher B. Barrett, John G. McPeak and Winnie Luseno
University of California, Davis, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Syracuse University - Department of Economics and RTI International

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information, risk, early warning systems, Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia

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The Value of Climate Forecast Information for Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya

World Development, Vol. 31, No. 9, 2003
Posted: 24 May 2011
RTI International, Syracuse University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and University of Kentucky - Department of Anthropology

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early warning systems, livestock, risk, uncertainty, weather

199.

Household Income Diversification into Rural Nonfarm Activities

TRANSFORMING THE RURAL NONFARM ECONOMY, 2006
Posted: 24 May 2011
Thomas Reardon, Julio Berdegué, Christopher B. Barrett and Kostas Stamoulis
Michigan State University, International Network for Research on Farming Systems (RIMISP), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and United Nations - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

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The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2003
Posted: 24 May 2011
Thomas Reardon, C. Peter Timmer, Christopher B. Barrett and Julio A. Berdegue
Michigan State University, Harvard University, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Covariate Catastrophic Risk Management in the Developing World: Discussion

American Journal of Agriculture Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 23 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Measuring Food Insecurity

Science, 2010
Posted: 23 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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A Century-Long Perspective on Agricultural Development

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2009
Posted: 23 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter and Peter Timmer
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics and Center for Global Development

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Household Models, Institutional Change, Linkages, Structural Transformation, Technical Change

204.

Food Insecurity

International Studies Compendium Project, 2009
Posted: 23 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Erin Lentz
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

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Food Aid and Agricultural Cargo Preference

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Forthcoming
Posted: 23 May 2011
Elizabeth R. Bageant, Christopher B. Barrett and Erin Lentz
Cornell University, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

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Food Aid, International Food Assistance, Maritime Support, PL480, Shipping

206.

Differential Nutritional Responses Across Various Income Sources Among East African Pastoralists: Intrahousehold Effects, Missing Markets and Mental Accounting

Journal of African Economies, 2010
Posted: 23 May 2011
Kira M. Villa, Christopher B. Barrett and David R. Just
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

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Risk Management and Social Visibility in Ghana

African Development Review, 2009
Posted: 23 May 2011
Jacqueline Vanderpuye-Orgle and Christopher B. Barrett
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Agricultural Technology, Productivity and Poverty in Madagascar

World Development, Vol. 36, No. 5, 2008
Posted: 23 May 2011
Bart Minten and Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Food and Nutrition Policy Program and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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poverty, agriculture, technology adoption, spatial analysis, sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar

209.

Persistent Poverty and Informal Credit

Journal of Development Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 23 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Paulo Santos
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Cornell University

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The Power and Pitfalls of Experiments in Development Economics: Some Non-Random Reflections

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policies, 2010
Posted: 23 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Michael Carter
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Ethics, evaluation, identification, randomized controlled trials

211.

Risk Responses to Dynamic Asset Thresholds

Review of Agricultural Economics
Posted: 23 May 2011
Travis J. Lybbert and Christopher B. Barrett
University of California, Davis and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Do Community Members Share Development Priorities? Results of a Ranking Exercise in East African Rangelands

Journal of Development Studies, 2009
Posted: 23 May 2011
John G. McPeak, Cheryl R. Doss, Christopher B. Barrett and Patti Kristjanson
Syracuse University - Department of Economics, University of Oxford - Department of International Development, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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The Evolution of Groupwise Poverty in Madagascar, 1999-2005

Journal of African Economies, 2010
Posted: 23 May 2011
David C. Stifel, Felix Forster and Christopher B. Barrett
Lafayette College, University of Warwick - Economics and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements: A Review

World Development, Vol. 38, No. 7, 2010
Posted: 23 May 2011
Ruchira Bhattamishra and Christopher B. Barrett
World Bank and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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community institutions, risk management, developing countries

215.

Urban Bias in Price Risk: The Geography of Food Price Distributions in Low-Income Economies

Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 830-849, August 1996
Posted: 22 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Improving Food Aid’s Impact: What Reforms Would Yield the Highest Payoff?

World Development, Vol. 36, No. 7, 2008
Posted: 22 May 2011
Erin Lentz and Christopher B. Barrett
University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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cargo preference, local and regional purchases, monetization, targeting, tying

217.

Are ICDPs Sustainable? On the Conservation of Large Mammals in Sub-Saharan Africa

World Development, Vol. 23, No. 7, 1995
Posted: 22 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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218.

Conserving Tropical Biodiversity Amid Weak Institutions

BioScience, 2001
Posted: 22 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett, Katrina Brandon, Clark Gibson and Heidi Gjertsen
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, University of Maryland, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and Cornell University

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Conceptualizing Hunger in Contemporary African Policymaking: From Technical to Community-Based Approaches

Agriculture and Human Values, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 38-46, Fall 1994
Posted: 22 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Smallholder Market Participation: Concepts and Evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa

Food Policy, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2008
Posted: 22 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Food security, Market participation, Poverty traps, Price policy, Trade policy, Transactions costs

221.

Farmers’ Welfare and Changing Food Prices: Nonparametric Evidence from Rice in Madagascar

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 656-669, August 1996, The WTO and Poverty and Inequality, 1996
Posted: 22 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Paul Dorosh
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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Fairness, Stewardship and Sustainable Development

Ecological Economics, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1996
Posted: 22 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Renewable resources; Poverty alleviation; Fairness; Sustainable development

223.

Madagascar: An Empirical Test of the Market Relaxation - State Compression Hypothesis

Development Policy Review, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 391-406, December 1995
Posted: 22 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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224.

Understanding Uneven Agricultural Liberalisation in Madagascar

Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 449-476, September 1994
Posted: 22 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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225.

Policy Reforms and Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa

Development Policy Review, 1999
Posted: 21 May 2011
Thomas Reardon, Christopher B. Barrett, Valerie Kelly and Kimseyinga Savadogo
Michigan State University, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Regulatory Barriers in an Integrating World Food Market

Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 91-107, Spring-Summer 1997
Posted: 21 May 2011
Dawn Thilmany and Christopher B. Barrett
Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Food Marketing Liberalization and Trader Entry: Evidence from Madagascar

World Development, Vol. 25, No. 5, 1997
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Africa, competition, entry, liberalization, Madagascar, traders

228.

Debt Forgiveness and Poverty Reduction: Some Thoughts from a Skeptical Supporter

Faith and Economics, 2000
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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229.

A Pluralistic Stewardship Approach to Sustainable Development

Christian Scholar’s Review, 2000
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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230.

Is Bioprospecting a Viable Strategy for Conserving Tropical Ecosystems?

Ecological Economics, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2000
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Travis J. Lybbert
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and University of California, Davis

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iodiversity conservation, Property rights, Rural development

231.

The Firm-Level Effects of European Monetary Unification

Managerial Finance, 1999
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Wichai Turongpun
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Arab Banking Corporation, Bahrain

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Competitive strategy, Costs, EMU, Microeconomics, Organizational performance

232.

On Pluralistic Ethics and the Economics of Compassion

Bulletin of the Association of Christian Economists, 1999
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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233.

The Value of Imperfect Enso Forecast Information: Discussion

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1998
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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234.

Immiserized Growth in Liberalized Agriculture

World Development, Vol. 26, No. 5, 1998
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Africa, immiserizing growth, Madagascar, peasants, structural adjustment, welfare analysis

235.

The Economics of God’s Creation

Bulletin of the Association of Christian Economists, 1998
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and John C. Bergstrom
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and University of Georgia - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics

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236.

Striking a Balance in the Process of Globalisation

World Economic Affairs, 2002
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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237.

Idea Gaps, Object Gaps, and Trust Gaps in Economic Development

Journal of Developing Areas, 1997
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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238.

Heteroskedastic Price Forecasting for Food Security Management in Developing Countries

Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2, 1997
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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239.

How Credible are Estimates of Peasant Allocative Scale, or Scope Efficiency? A Commentary

Journal of International Development, 1997
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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240.

Liberalization and Food Price Distributions: Arch-M Evidence from Madagascar

Food Policy, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1997
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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price risk, structural adjustment, food marketing

241.

Modeling Ecological Constraints on Tropical Forest Management: Comment

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 32, No. 2, 1997
Posted: 21 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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