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Working Papers

2008

1. Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
   Also in
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany (2007)

2006

2. Food Aid as Part of a Coherent Strategy to Advance Food Security Objectives
   Working Papers, Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - ESA)
3. Food Aid in Response to Acute Food Insecurity
   Working Papers, Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - ESA)
4. Food Aid’s Intended and Unintended Consequences
   Working Papers, Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - ESA)
5. Interpersonal, Intertemporal and Spatial Variation in Risk Perceptions: Evidence from East Africa
   Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University

2004

6. Food aid for market development in Sub-Saharan Africa
   DSGD discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations

2003

7. Technological change and price effects in agriculture
   MTID discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations

1996

8. An Analysis of Iodine Deficiency Disorder and Eradication Strategies in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco
   Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics
9. Modeling Ecological Constraints on Tropical Forest Management: Comment
   Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics
   See Also Journal Article in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (1997)

1994

10. THE IMPACTS OF AGRICULTURAL LIBERALIZATION ON COMMODITY PRICE DISTRIBUTIONS
    Staff Papers, University of Wisconsin Madison, AAE
11. The Impacts of Agricultural Liberalization on Commodity Price Distributions: Evidence from Madagascar
    Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural and Applied Economics Staff Papers, Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural and Applied Economics Department

1993

12. ON THE PRICE RISK AND THE INVERSE FARM SIZE-PRODUCTIVITY RELATIONSHIP
    Staff Papers, University of Wisconsin Madison, AAE
    Also in
    Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural and Applied Economics Staff Papers, Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural and Applied Economics Department (1993)

Undated

13. The Fallacy of Nearby Contract Commodity Futures Price Analysis: Intramarket Futures Contracts are not Identically Distributed
    Annual Meeting Selected Papers, Western Agricultural Economics Association, Selected Papers of the 1997 Annual Meeting, July 13-16, 1997, Reno/Sparks, Nevada

Journal Articles

2008

1. Shadow wages, allocative inefficiency, and labor supply in smallholder agriculture
   Agricultural Economics, 2008, 38, (1), 21-34 View citations

2007

2. Bayesian Herders: Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Forecasts
   World Development, 2007, 35, (3), 480-497 View citations
3. Educational Investments in a Dual Economy
   Economica, 2007, 74, (294), 351-369
4. Household-level determinants of adoption of improved natural resources management practices among smallholder farmers in western Kenya
   Food Policy, 2007, 32, (4), 515-536
5. Productivity in Malagasy rice systems: wealth-differentiated constraints and priorities
   Agricultural Economics, 2007, 37, (s1), 225-237
6. Risk Responses to Dynamic Asset Thresholds*
   Review of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 29, (3), 412-418
7. The social dimensions of microeconomic behavior in low-income communities: Introduction to a symposium
   Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 83, (2), 253-255
8. Using Weather Index Insurance to Improve Drought Response for Famine Prevention
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89, (5), 1262-1268

2006

9. An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2006, 88, (2), 324-337 View citations
10. Food-for-work for poverty reduction and the promotion of sustainable land use: can it work?
    Environment and Development Economics, 2006, 11, (01), 15-38 View citations
11. Fractal poverty traps
    World Development, 2006, 34, (1), 1-15 View citations
12. Introduction: The dynamics of coupled human and natural systems
    Environment and Development Economics, 2006, 11, (01), 9-13
13. Policy, technology, and management strategies for achieving sustainable agricultural intensification
    Agricultural Economics, 2006, 34, (2), 123-127
14. The complex dynamics of smallholder technology adoption: the case of SRI in Madagascar
    Agricultural Economics, 2006, 35, (3), 373-388 View citations
15. The economics of poverty traps and persistent poverty: An asset-based approach
    The Journal of Development Studies, 2006, 42, (2), 178-199 View citations
16. Towards a global food aid compact
    Food Policy, 2006, 31, (2), 105-118
17. Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa: Introduction to a special issue
    The Journal of Development Studies, 2006, 42, (2), 167-177
18. Welfare dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar
    The Journal of Development Studies, 2006, 42, (2), 248-277 View citations

2005

19. Does food aid Really have disincentive effects? New evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
    World Development, 2005, 33, (10), 1689-1704 View citations
20. Institutional Arrangements for Rural Poverty Reduction and Resource Conservation
    World Development, 2005, 33, (2), 193-197 View citations
21. Rural poverty dynamics: development policy implications
    Agricultural Economics, 2005, 32, (s1), 45-60 View citations
22. Social groups and economic inequality
    Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3, (3), 187-191 View citations

2004

23. Better Technology, Better Plots, or Better Farmers? Identifying Changes in Productivity and Risk among Malagasy Rice Farmers
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2004, 86, (4), 869-888
24. Decomposing producer price risk: a policy analysis tool with an application to northern Kenyan livestock markets
    Food Policy, 2004, 29, (4), 393-405 View citations
25. Stochastic wealth dynamics and risk management among a poor population
    Economic Journal, 2004, 114, (498), 750-777 View citations

2003

26. Assessing the Value of Climate Forecast Information for Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya
    World Development, 2003, 31, (9), 1477-1494 View citations
27. How Accurate is Food-for-Work Self-Targeting in the Presence of Imperfect Factor Markets? Evidence from Ethiopia
    The Journal of Development Studies, 2003, 39, (5), 152-180 View citations
28. Livestock Pricing in the Northern Kenyan Rangelands
    Journal of African Economies, 2003, 12, (2), 127-155 View citations
29. Prospects for integrated soil fertility management using organic and inorganic inputs: evidence from smallholder African agricultural systems
    Food Policy, 2003, 28, (4), 365-378
30. The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2003, 85, (5), 1140-1146 View citations
31. The disappointing adoption dynamics of a yield-increasing, low external-input technology: the case of SRI in Madagascar
    Agricultural Systems, 2003, 76, (3), 1085-1100

2002

32. An Assessment of Empirical Model Performance When Financial Market Transactions Are Observed at Different Data Frequencies: An Application to East Asian Exchange Rates
    Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2002, 19, (2), 111-29
33. Distinguishing between Equilibrium and Integration in Spatial Price Analysis
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2002, 84, (2), 292-307 View citations
34. How effectively does multilateral food aid respond to fluctuating needs?
    Food Policy, 2002, 27, (5-6), 477-491 View citations
35. Market-based conservation and local benefits: the case of argan oil in Morocco
    Ecological Economics, 2002, 41, (1), 125-144 View citations
36. Smallholder technical efficiency controlling for environmental production conditions
    Journal of Development Economics, 2002, 69, (1), 85-101 View citations

2001

37. A flexible parametric GARCH model with an application to exchange rates
    Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2001, 16, (4), 521-536 View citations
38. Agroindustrialization, globalization, and international development: the environmental implications
    Environment and Development Economics, 2001, 6, (04), 419-433
39. Differential Risk Exposure and Stochastic Poverty Traps among East African Pastoralists
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2001, 83, (3), 674-79
40. Does Food Aid Stabilize Food Availability?
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2001, 49, (2), 335-49 View citations
41. Income diversification, poverty traps and policy shocks in Cote d'Ivoire and Kenya
    Food Policy, 2001, 26, (4), 367-384 View citations
42. Introduction: Farming the Garden of Eden
    Environment and Development Economics, 2001, 6, (04), 503-531
43. Nonfarm income diversification and household livelihood strategies in rural Africa: concepts, dynamics, and policy implications
    Food Policy, 2001, 26, (4), 315-331 View citations
44. Not Necessarily In The Same Boat: Heterogeneous Risk Assessment Among East African Pastoralists
    The Journal of Development Studies, 2001, 37, (5), 1-30 View citations
45. Rational incompatibility with international product standards
    Journal of International Economics, 2001, 54, (1), 171-191 View citations
46. Stochastic food prices and slash-and-burn agriculture
    Environment and Development Economics, 2001, 4, (02), 161-176

2000

47. Agroindustrialization, globalization, and international development: An overview of issues, patterns, and determinants
    Agricultural Economics, 2000, 23, (3), 195-205 View citations
48. Famine In Africa: Causes, Responses, and Prevention: Joachim von Braun, Tesfaye Teklu and Patrick Webb, Johns Hopkins University Press for the International Food Policy Research Institute, Baltimore, 1999, 238 pp., US$ 39.00 cloth, ISBN 080-186-1217
    Agricultural Economics, 2000, 23, (1), 91-92
49. Is bioprospecting a viable strategy for conserving tropical ecosystems?
    Ecological Economics, 2000, 34, (3), 293-300 View citations
50. Participatory Risk Mapping for Targeting Research and Assistance: With an Example from East African Pastoralists
    World Development, 2000, 28, (11), 1945-1959
51. Subdiscipline-Specific Journal Rankings: Whither Applied Economics?
    Applied Economics, 2000, 32, (2), 239-52 View citations

1999

52. Are Agricultural Experiment Station Faculty Salaries Competitively or Monopsonistically Determined?
    Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 1999, 28, (1), 1-10
53. The Dynamic Effects of U.S. Food Aid
    Economic Inquiry, 1999, 37, (4), 647-56 View citations
54. The effects of real exchange rate depreciation on stochastic producer prices in low-income agriculture
    Agricultural Economics, 1999, 20, (3), 215-230
55. The microeconomics of the developmental paradox: on the political economy of food price policy
    Agricultural Economics, 1999, 20, (2), 159-172

1998

56. Immiserized growth in liberalized agriculture
    World Development, 1998, 26, (5), 743-753

1997

57. Food marketing liberalization and trader entry: Evidence from Madagascar
    World Development, 1997, 25, (5), 763-777 View citations
58. Liberalization and food price distributions: ARCH-M evidence from Madagascar
    Food Policy, 1997, 22, (2), 155-173 View citations
59. Modeling Ecological Constraints on Tropical Forest Management: Comment
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1997, 32, (2), 271-275
    See Also Working Paper (1996)

1996

60. Fairness, stewardship and sustainable development
    Ecological Economics, 1996, 19, (1), 11-17 View citations
61. On price risk and the inverse farm size-productivity relationship
    Journal of Development Economics, 1996, 51, (2), 193-215 View citations

1995

62. Are Integrated Conservation-Development Projects (ICDPs) Sustainable? On the conservation of large mammals in sub-Saharan Africa
    World Development, 1995, 23, (7), 1073-1084 View citations

Chapters

2002

1. Food security and food assistance programs
   Chapter 40 in Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2002, vol. 2, Part 2, pp 2103-2190 View citations