John G. McPeak

Syracuse University - Department of Economics

Syracuse, NY 13244-1020

United States

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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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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)
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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
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
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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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Are Household Production Decisions Cooperative? Evidence on Pastoral Migration and Milk Sales from Northern Kenya

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Feb 2005
Cheryl R. Doss and John G. McPeak
University of Oxford - Department of International Development and Syracuse University - Department of Economics
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Intrahousehold decision-making, household production, Kenya

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Diversify More or Less? Household Resilience and Food Security in Rural Nigeria

Partnership for Economic Policy Working Paper No. 2018-01
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 May 2018 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2018
Senakpon F. A. Dedehouanou and John G. McPeak
KU Leuven and Syracuse University - Department of Economics
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Rural Household, Livelihood Diversification, Food Security, Shocks, Nigeria

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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
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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Educational Investments in a Dual Economy

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 May 2005
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
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Poverty traps, Informal finance, Education, Rural-Urban migration

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Leaving or Staying: Inter-Provincial Migration in Vietnam

Asia and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 473-500, 2010
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 27 Jul 2011
University of Iowa - School of Urban & Regional Planning & Public Policy CenterSchool of Urban & Regional Planning & Public Policy Center, University of Iowa and Syracuse University - Department of Economics
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Educational Investments in a Spatially Varied Economy

Cornell University, Applied Economics Working Paper No. 2003-21
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 09 Sep 2003
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
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Bayesian Herders: Optimistic Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Forecasts

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 May 2005
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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expectations, risk, uncertainty, weather, early warning systems

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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
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poverty, risk and uncertainty, dynamics, experiments, Kenya, Morocco, Peru

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

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
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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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

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Understanding Declining Mobility and Interhousehold Transfers Among East African Pasoralists

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2008
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

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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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Understanding Declining Mobility and Interhousehold Transfers among East African Pastoralists

Economia, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
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

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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

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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
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

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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
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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Interpersonal, Intertemporal and Spatial Variation in Risk Perceptions: Evidence from East Africa

World Development, Forthcoming, Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper Forthcoming
Posted: 22 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 21 May 2011
University of Oxford - Department of International Development, Syracuse University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Risk ranking, risk perceptions, intrahousehold, Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia

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Welfare Dynamics in Rural Kenya and Madagascar

Journal of Development Studies, Forthcoming, UNDERSTANDING AND REDUCING PERSISTENT POVERTY IN AFRICA, Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter and Peter D. Little, eds., Routledge, 2008
Posted: 06 May 2005 Last Revised: 23 May 2011
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University, Syracuse University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), Independent, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University - School of Applied Economics and Management, Center for National Agricultural Research (FOFIFA) and World Argoforestry Centre (ICRAF)

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