Erin Lentz

University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

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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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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
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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
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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
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drought, crowding out, pass through, safety nets, social insurance, targeting

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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
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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
Hope C. Michelson, Erin Lentz, Rich Mulwa, Mitchell Morey, Laura Cramer, Megan E. McGlinchy and Christopher B. Barrett
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

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Rural Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition: A Proposal for Diagnostics Linking Food, Health and Institutions

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 12 Mar 2019
Sudha Narayanan, Marzia Fontana, Erin Lentz and Bharati Kulkarni
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), University of Sussex, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) - National Institute of Nutrition
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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
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cargo preference, local and regional purchases, monetization, targeting, tying

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A Data-Driven Approach to Robust Predictions of Food Insecurity Crises

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 31 May 2019
Erin Lentz, Hope Michelson, Katherine Baylis and Yujun Zhou
University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
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Food Insecurity, Crisis, Prediction, Early Warning, Sub-Saharan Africa, Famine

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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

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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

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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

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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
Teevrat Garg, Christopher B. Barrett, Miguel I. Gómez, Erin Lentz and William Violette
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

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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

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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
William Violette, Aurélie Harou, Joanna Upton, Samuel D. Bell, Christopher B. Barrett, Miguel I. Gómez and Erin Lentz
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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis

Food Security, 2009
Posted: 20 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett, Robert Bell, Erin Lentz and Daniel G. Maxwell
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Independent

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Acute food insecurity, Chronic food insecurity, Emergency response, Food aid, Food security, Local and regional purchase, Markets analysis