Details about Ethan Ligon

Homepage:	http://are.berkeley.edu/~ligon
Postal address:	207 Giannini Hall #3310 University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
Workplace:	Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2024

1. Spatial Procurement of Farm Products and the Supply of Processed Foods: Application to the Tomato Processing Industry
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
   Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (2023) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Spatial Procurement of Farm Products and the Supply of Processed Foods: Application to the Tomato Processing Industry, Review of Industrial Organization, Springer (2024) (2024)

2023

2. Risk sharing tests and covariate shocks
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

2022

3. SMS Surveys of Selected Expenditures
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

2020

4. Estimating Household Welfare from Disaggregate Expenditures
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (2)
   Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (2017)
5. Inferring informal risk-sharing regimes: Evidence from rural Tanzania
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
   See also Journal Article Inferring informal risk-sharing regimes: Evidence from rural Tanzania, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2020) (2020)
6. Should Consumption Sub-Aggregates Be Used to Measure Poverty ?
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
   Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (2020)

2019

7. Structural experimentation to distinguish between models of risk sharing with frictions in rural Paraguay
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (2)
   Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (2017)
   See also Journal Article Structural Experimentation to Distinguish between Models of Risk Sharing with Frictions in Rural Paraguay, Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press (2020) View citations (1) (2020)

2017

8. Asset Transfers and Household Neediness
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (1)
9. Estimating the Relative Benefits of Agricultural Growth on the Distribution of Expenditures
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Estimating the Relative Benefits of Agricultural Growth on the Distribution of Expenditures, World Development, Elsevier (2018) View citations (38) (2018)
10. US Farm-Household Consumption Expenditures and the Value of Crop Insurance
    SCC-76 Meeting, 2017, March 30-April 1, Pensacola, Florida, SCC-76: Economics and Management of Risk in Agriculture and Natural Resources

2016

11. All \lambda-separable Frisch demands and corresponding utility functions
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
12. Some $\lambda$-separable Frisch demands with utility functions
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (1)
    Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (2016) View citations (1)

2013

13. Structural Experimentation to Distinguish between Models of Risk Sharing with Frictions
    2013 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics

2012

14. Incentives & Nutrition For Rotten Kids: The Quantity & Quality Of Food Allocated Within Philippine Households
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
    Also in 2012 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics (2012)

2011

15. Dynamic intrahousehold bargaining, matrimonial property law and suicide in Canada
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (8)
    Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2011) View citations (7)
16. Dynamics, risk, and vulnerability
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
    Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2011)
17. Estimating the effects of aggregate agricultural growth on the distribution of expenditures
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (8)
    Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (2011) View citations (9)
18. Incentives and nutrition for rotten kids: intrahousehold food allocation in the Philippines
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (16)
    Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2011) View citations (5)
19. Motives for Sharing in Social Networks
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (2)
    Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2011) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Motives for sharing in social networks, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2012) View citations (90) (2012)
20. Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
    See also Chapter Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2011) View citations (3) (2011)
21. The Value of social networks in rural Paraguay
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (1)
    Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2011) View citations (1)

2010

22. Measuring Risk by Looking at Changes in Inequality: vulnerability in Ecuador
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (5)
23. Nutrition and Risk Sharing within the Household
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (1)
    Also in IDEI Working Papers, Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse (2009) View citations (3)
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2009) View citations (3)
    TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) (2009) View citations (3)

2008

24. ARE Update Volume 12, Number 2
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
25. Interactions between Explicit and Implicit Contracting: Evidence from California Agriculture
    2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (1)

2006

26. Can Growth Compensate Inequality and Risk?---a welfare analysis for Chinese households
    2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

2005

27. Poverty and the Welfare Costs of Risk Associated with Globalization
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
    See also Journal Article Poverty and the welfare costs of risk associated with globalization, World Development, Elsevier (2006) View citations (8) (2006)

2004

28. Evaluating different approaches to estimating vulnerability
    Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes, The World Bank View citations (53)
29. Targeting and Informal Insurance
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (8)
    Also in WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) (2002) View citations (8)

2003

30. On the Efficacy of Contractual Provisions for Processing Tomatoes
    2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (4)

2002

31. Dynamic Bargaining in Households (with application to Bangladesh)
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (56)
    Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (2002) View citations (56)
32. Estimation of an Efficient Tomato Contract
    Staff General Research Papers Archive, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations (19)
    See also Journal Article Estimation of an efficient tomato contract, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation (2002) View citations (16) (2002)
33. MEASURING VULNERABILITY
    2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (19)
    Also in Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2002, Royal Economic Society (2002) View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article Measuring Vulnerability, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2003) View citations (212) (2003)
34. Measuring Vulnerability: The Director's Cut
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (11)

2001

35. Agricultural Markets As Relative Performance Evaluation
    Staff General Research Papers Archive, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations (15)
    See also Journal Article Agricultural Markets as Relative Performance Evaluation, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2001) View citations (15) (2001)
36. ESTIMATION OF AN OPTIMAL TOMATO CONTRACT
    2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (1)
37. Policing Mechanisms in Agricultural Contracts
    Staff General Research Papers Archive, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations (14)

2000

38. Informal Insurance Arrangements in Village Economies
    Keele Department of Economics Discussion Papers (1995-2001), Department of Economics, Keele University
    Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (1997) View citations (19)

1999

39. Agricultural Supply Response Under Contract
    Staff General Research Papers Archive, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article Agricultural Supply Response Under Contract, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (1999) View citations (6) (1999)
40. Incentive Instruments in Agricultural Contracts: Input Control, Monitoring, Quality Measurement, and Price Risk
    Staff General Research Papers Archive, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations (46)
41. Producer Price Risk and Quality Measurement
    Staff General Research Papers Archive, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations (42)
    Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (1998) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Producer Price Risk and Quality Measurement, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (1999) View citations (39) (1999)

1998

42. ECONOMIC DISTANCE, SPILLOVERS, AND CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
43. Mutual Insurance, Individual Savings and Limited Commitment
    Keele Department of Economics Discussion Papers (1995-2001), Department of Economics, Keele University
    See also Journal Article Mutual Insurance, Individual Savings and Limited Commitment, Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics (2000) View citations (115) (2000)
44. QUALITY MEASUREMENT AND RISK-SHARING IN CONTRACTS FOR CALIFORNIA FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
    1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (4)

1997

45. Government Management of Village Commons: Evaluating Joint Forest Management
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
46. PANEL DATA AND EULER EQUATIONS
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (1997)

1996

47. RISK SHARING AND INFORMATION: THEORY AND MEASUREMENT IN VILLAGE ECONOMIES
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (3)
    Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (1996) View citations (5)

1995

48. ALTRUISM AND MARKETS
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (1)
49. COMPUTING PRIVATE INFORMATION EQUILIBRIA: MORAL HAZARD IN AN INDIAN VILLAGE
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (1995)

1994

50. Risk-Sharing Under Varying Information Regimes: Theory and Measurement in Village Economies
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (3)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Spatial Procurement of Farm Products and the Supply of Processed Foods: Application to the Tomato Processing Industry
   Review of Industrial Organization, 2024, 64, (1), 11-33
   See also Working Paper Spatial Procurement of Farm Products and the Supply of Processed Foods: Application to the Tomato Processing Industry, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series (2024) (2024)

2022

2. Consumption Subaggregates Should Not Be Used to Measure Poverty
   The World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36, (2), 413-432 View citations (3)

2020

3. Inferring informal risk-sharing regimes: Evidence from rural Tanzania
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177, (C), 941-955
   See also Working Paper Inferring informal risk-sharing regimes: Evidence from rural Tanzania, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series (2020) (2020)
4. Structural Experimentation to Distinguish between Models of Risk Sharing with Frictions in Rural Paraguay
   Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 69, (1), 1 - 50 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Structural experimentation to distinguish between models of risk sharing with frictions in rural Paraguay, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series (2019) View citations (2) (2019)

2019

5. What explains low adoption of digital payment technologies? Evidence from small-scale merchants in Jaipur, India
   PLOS ONE, 2019, 14, (7), 1-22 View citations (16)

2018

6. Estimating the Relative Benefits of Agricultural Growth on the Distribution of Expenditures
   World Development, 2018, 109, (C), 417-428 View citations (38)
   See also Working Paper Estimating the Relative Benefits of Agricultural Growth on the Distribution of Expenditures, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series (2017) View citations (2) (2017)

2016

7. All λ-separable demands and rationalizing utility functions
   Economics Letters, 2016, 147, (C), 16-18 View citations (5)
8. Some λ-Separable Frisch Demands with Utility Functions
   Economics Bulletin, 2016, 36, (1), 68-74 View citations (1)

2012

9. Cooperation, Reciprocity and Altruism in Developing Countries: Discussion
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2012, 94, (2), 419-421
10. Motives for sharing in social networks
    Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99, (1), 13-26 View citations (90)
    See also Working Paper Motives for Sharing in Social Networks, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series (2011) View citations (2) (2011)

2009

11. Risk Management in the Cooperative Contract
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2009, 91, (5), 1211-1217 View citations (5)

2007

12. AJAE Appendix: Agricultural Contracts: Data and Research Needs
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics APPENDICES, 2007, 89, (5), 7 View citations (7)
13. Agricultural Contracts: Data and Research Needs
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89, (5), 1276-1281 View citations (11)

2006

14. Poverty and the welfare costs of risk associated with globalization
    World Development, 2006, 34, (8), 1446-1457 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper Poverty and the Welfare Costs of Risk Associated with Globalization, WIDER Working Paper Series (2005) (2005)

2005

15. Formal Markets and Informal Insurance
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2005, 25, (1), 75-88 View citations (4)

2004

16. Using Production Data to Design Efficient Contracts
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2004, 86, (3), 848-853 View citations (1)

2003

17. Measuring Vulnerability
    Economic Journal, 2003, 113, (486), C95-C102 View citations (212)
    See also Working Paper MEASURING VULNERABILITY, 2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA (2002) View citations (19) (2002)
18. Optimal risk in agricultural contracts
    Agricultural Systems, 2003, 75, (2-3), 265-276 View citations (3)

2002

19. Economic Distance and Cross-Country Spillovers
    Journal of Economic Growth, 2002, 7, (2), 157-87 View citations (138)
20. Estimation of an efficient tomato contract
    European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2002, 29, (2), 237-253 View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper Estimation of an Efficient Tomato Contract, Staff General Research Papers Archive (2002) View citations (19) (2002)
21. Informal Insurance Arrangements with Limited Commitment: Theory and Evidence from Village Economies
    The Review of Economic Studies, 2002, 69, (1), 209-244 View citations (433)

2001

22. Agricultural Markets as Relative Performance Evaluation
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2001, 83, (2), 318-328 View citations (15)
    See also Working Paper Agricultural Markets As Relative Performance Evaluation, Staff General Research Papers Archive (2001) View citations (15) (2001)

2000

23. Mutual Insurance, Individual Savings and Limited Commitment
    Review of Economic Dynamics, 2000, 3, (2), 216-246 View citations (115)
    See also Working Paper Mutual Insurance, Individual Savings and Limited Commitment, Keele Department of Economics Discussion Papers (1995-2001) (1998) (1998)

1999

24. Agricultural Supply Response Under Contract
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1999, 81, (3), 610-615 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Agricultural Supply Response Under Contract, Staff General Research Papers Archive (1999) View citations (9) (1999)
25. Government Management of Village Commons: Comparing Two Forest Policies
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1999, 37, (3), 272-289 View citations (23)
26. Incentive Instruments in Fruit and Vegetable Contracts: Input Control, Monitoring, Measuring, and Price Risk
    Review of Agricultural Economics, 1999, 21, (2), 374-389 View citations (51)
27. LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS AND INCENTIVE CONTRACTS
    Macroeconomic Dynamics, 1999, 3, (1), 1-47 View citations (18)
28. Producer Price Risk and Quality Measurement
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1999, 81, (3), 512-524 View citations (39)
    See also Working Paper Producer Price Risk and Quality Measurement, Staff General Research Papers Archive (1999) View citations (42) (1999)

1998

29. Risk Sharing and Information in Village Economies
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1998, 65, (4), 847-864 View citations (145)

Chapters

2011

1. Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance
   A chapter in The Intended and Unintended Effects of US Agricultural and Biotechnology Policies, 2011, pp 113-142 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2011) View citations (3) (2011)

2007

2. Risk and the Evolution of Inequality in China in an Era of Globalization
   A chapter in Globalization and Poverty, 2007, pp 599-628 View citations (3)