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Working Papers

2024

1. Income and the Demand for Food among the Poor
   Working Papers, Center for Global Development

2023

2. Fixed Effects and Causal Inference
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (2)
3. Global Agricultural Value Chains and Food Prices
   2023: The Future of (Ag-) Trade and Trade Governance in Times of Economic Sanctions and Declining Multilateralism, December 10-12, Clearwater Beach, FL, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium
   Also in 2022: Transforming Global Value Chains, December 11-13, Clearwater Beach, FL, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (2022) View citations (6)

2022

4. Can agricultural development projects empower women? A synthesis of mixed methods evaluations using pro-WEAI in the gender, agriculture, and assets project (phase 2) portfolio
   IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

2021

5. Why Not Insure Prices? Experimental Evidence from Peru
   2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual, International Association of Agricultural Economists
   Also in 2021 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Austin, Texas, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2021)
   See also Journal Article Why not insure prices? Experimental evidence from Peru, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2022) (2022)

2019

6. Commodity Price Shocks and Rural Mortality
   2019 Annual Meeting, July 21-23, Atlanta, Georgia, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2018

7. Expert Panel on Technical Questions and Data Gaps for the ERS Loss-Adjusted Food Availability (LAFA) Data Series
   Contractor and Cooperator Reports, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service View citations (1)
8. Production Decision Making under Price Ambiguity: An Experimental Evidence
   2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
9. Tenurial security and agricultural investment: Evidence from Vietnam
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Tenurial security and agricultural investment: Evidence from Vietnam, Food Policy, Elsevier (2020) View citations (5) (2020)

2016

10. Foods and Fads - The Welfare Impacts of Rising Quinoa Prices in Peru
    Working Papers, Towson University, Department of Economics View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Foods and fads: The welfare impacts of rising quinoa prices in Peru, World Development, Elsevier (2018) View citations (14) (2018)

2015

11. Climate Change, Global Food Security and the U.S. Food System
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (9)
12. Contract Farming and Food Security
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (16)
    See also Journal Article Contract Farming and Food Security, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2017) View citations (86) (2017)
13. Farmers markets and Food-Borne illness
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Farmers Markets and Food-Borne Illness*, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2018) View citations (5) (2018)
14. Lagged Explanatory Variables and the Estimation of Causal Effects
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (32)
15. Was Sandmo Right? Experimental Evidence on Attitudes to Price Risk and Uncertainty
    2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2014

16. Smallholder Participation in Contract Farming and Food Security
    2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (2)

2013

17. All in the Family: Explaining the Persistence of Female Genital Cutting in the Gambia
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (2)
18. Why Do Members of Congress Support Agricultural Protection?
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
    Also in 2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2013)
    See also Journal Article Why do members of congress support agricultural protection?, Food Policy, Elsevier (2015) View citations (11) (2015)

2012

19. Look who's talking: the impacts of the intrahousehold allocation of mobile phones on agricultural prices
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Look Who's Talking: The Impacts of the Intrahousehold Allocation of Mobile Phones on Agricultural Prices, Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals (2013) View citations (12) (2013)
20. State and Power in Rural Africa: Evidence from Madagascar
    2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2011

21. Rising food prices, food price volatility, and political unrest
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (31)

2010

22. Agricultural Extension and Imperfect Supervision in Contract Farming: Evidence from Madagascar
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (43)
    See also Journal Article Agricultural extension and imperfect supervision in contract farming: evidence from Madagascar, Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists (2010) View citations (43) (2010)
23. As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (13)
    Also in MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany (2010) View citations (11)
    See also Journal Article As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming, World Development, Elsevier (2012) View citations (173) (2012)
24. Insecure Land Rights and Share Tenancy in Madagascar
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (8)
25. Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity-Size Relationship
    Working Papers, Duke University, Department of Economics View citations (185)
    See also Journal Article Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity-Size Relationship, World Development, Elsevier (2010) View citations (163) (2010)
26. Smallholder Participation in Agricultural Value Chains: Comparative Evidence from Three Continents
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (14)
27. The Determinants of Music Piracy in a Sample of College Students
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
28. The Productivity Impacts of de Jure and de Facto Land Rights
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (6)
29. The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Fluctuations: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (15)

2009

30. Household Welfare and Multi-Commodity Price Risk: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia (PowerPoint)
    SCC-76 Meeting, 2009, March 19-21, Galveston, Texas, SCC-76: Economics and Management of Risk in Agriculture and Natural Resources
31. On the (Mis)Use of Wealth as a Proxy for Risk Aversion (PowerPoint)
    SCC-76 Meeting, 2009, March 19-21, Galveston, Texas, SCC-76: Economics and Management of Risk in Agriculture and Natural Resources View citations (3)
32. The (Im)Possibility of Reverse Share Tenancy
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
33. The Structural Estimation of Principal-Agent Models by Least Squares: Evidence from Land Rental Markets in Madagascar (PowerPoint)
    SCC-76 Meeting, 2009, March 19-21, Galveston, Texas, SCC-76: Economics and Management of Risk in Agriculture and Natural Resources
34. The Structural Estimation of Principal-Agent Models by Least Squares: Evidence from Land Tenancy in Madagascar
    2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2005

35. An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia
    Working Papers, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management View citations (20)
    See also Journal Article An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2006) View citations (160) (2006)
36. Household-Level Livestock Marketing Behavior Among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian Pastoralists
    Working Papers, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management View citations (5)

2003

37. AN ASSET-RISK MODEL OF REVERSE TENANCY
    2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (1)
38. An Asset Risk Theory of Share Tenancy
    Working Papers, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management View citations (6)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Retrospectives: Yair Mundlak and the Fixed Effects Estimator
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2025, 39, (2), 261-74

2024

2. Marc Bellemare
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2024, 106, (2), 452-453
3. The Paper of How: Estimating Treatment Effects Using the Front‐Door Criterion
   Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86, (4), 951-993

2022

4. Agricultural value chains: towards a marriage of development economics and industrial organisation?
   Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2022, 66, (02) View citations (1)
   Also in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2022, 66, (2), 241-255 (2022) View citations (2)
5. The contribution of the Online Agricultural and Resource Economics Seminar to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in agricultural and applied economics
   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2022, 44, (4), 1909-1924 View citations (1)
6. Why not insure prices? Experimental evidence from Peru
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, (C), 580-631
   See also Working Paper Why Not Insure Prices? Experimental Evidence from Peru, 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual (2021) (2021)

2021

7. Contract farming as partial insurance
   World Development, 2021, 140, (C) View citations (19)
8. Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes
   Nature Sustainability, 2021, 4, (3), 242-251 View citations (14)
9. Quinoa Production and Growth Potential in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru
   Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2021, 35, (4)
10. Who Participates in Urban Agriculture? An Empirical Analysis†
    Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2021, 43, (1), 430-442 View citations (2)

2020

11. Elasticities and the Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Transformation
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82, (1), 50-61 View citations (489)
12. Producer Attitudes Toward Output Price Risk: Experimental Evidence from the Lab and from the Field
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 102, (3), 806-825 View citations (15)
13. Tenurial security and agricultural investment: Evidence from Vietnam
    Food Policy, 2020, 94, (C) View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Tenurial security and agricultural investment: Evidence from Vietnam, WIDER Working Paper Series (2018) View citations (2) (2018)
14. The Microeconomics of Agricultural Price Risk
    Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2020, 12, (1), 149-169 View citations (9)

2019

15. Decision-making and vulnerability in a pyramid scheme fraud
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2019, 80, (C), 1-13 View citations (6)
16. Whither the pin factory? Modern food supply chains and specialization in India
    Agricultural Economics, 2019, 50, (4), 395-405 View citations (2)

2018

17. Contract farming: opportunity cost and trade†offs
    Agricultural Economics, 2018, 49, (3), 279-288 View citations (20)
18. Does contract farming improve welfare? A review
    World Development, 2018, 112, (C), 259-271 View citations (70)
19. Experimental Conversations: Perspectives on Randomized Trials in Development Economics, by T.N. Ogden
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2018, 100, (2), 642-643
20. Farmers Markets and Food-Borne Illness*
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2018, 100, (3), 676-690 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Farmers markets and Food-Borne illness, MPRA Paper (2015) View citations (1) (2015)
21. Foods and fads: The welfare impacts of rising quinoa prices in Peru
    World Development, 2018, 112, (C), 163-179 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper Foods and Fads - The Welfare Impacts of Rising Quinoa Prices in Peru, Working Papers (2016) View citations (5) (2016)

2017

22. Contract Farming and Food Security
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 99, (2), 357-378 View citations (86)
    See also Working Paper Contract Farming and Food Security, MPRA Paper (2015) View citations (16) (2015)
23. On the Measurement of Food Waste
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 99, (5), 1148-1158 View citations (73)

2016

24. Attitudes to Price Risk and Uncertainty: The Earnest Search for Identification and Policy Relevance
    Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 2016, 64, (4), 599-612 View citations (7)
25. The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Volatility: Reply
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2016, 98, (2), 676-678 View citations (1)

2015

26. All in the family: Explaining the persistence of female genital cutting in West Africa
    Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 116, (C), 252-265 View citations (31)
27. Contract Farming: What’s In It for Smallholder Farmers in Developing Countries?
    Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2015, 30, (3), 4 View citations (18)
28. Fair Enough? Food Security and the International Trade of Seafood
    World Development, 2015, 67, (C), 151-160 View citations (43)
29. Rising Food Prices, Food Price Volatility, and Social Unrest
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2015, 97, (1), 1-21 View citations (204)
30. Why do members of congress support agricultural protection?
    Food Policy, 2015, 50, (C), 20-34 View citations (11)
    See also Working Paper Why Do Members of Congress Support Agricultural Protection?, MPRA Paper (2013) (2013)

2013

31. Look Who's Talking: The Impacts of the Intrahousehold Allocation of Mobile Phones on Agricultural Prices
    Journal of Development Studies, 2013, 49, (5), 624-640 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper Look who's talking: the impacts of the intrahousehold allocation of mobile phones on agricultural prices, MPRA Paper (2012) View citations (1) (2012)
32. Managing basis risk with multiscale index insurance
    Agricultural Economics, 2013, 44, (4-5), 419-431 View citations (42)
33. The Productivity Impacts of Formal and Informal Land Rights: Evidence from Madagascar
    Land Economics, 2013, 89, (2) View citations (38)
34. The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Volatility: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013, 95, (4), 877-899 View citations (119)

2012

35. As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming
    World Development, 2012, 40, (7), 1418-1434 View citations (173)
    See also Working Paper As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming, MPRA Paper (2010) View citations (13) (2010)
36. Insecure Land Rights and Share Tenancy: Evidence from Madagascar
    Land Economics, 2012, 88, (1), 155-180 View citations (22)
37. Smallholder Participation in Contract Farming: Comparative Evidence from Five Countries
    World Development, 2012, 40, (4), 715-730 View citations (254)

2010

38. Agricultural extension and imperfect supervision in contract farming: evidence from Madagascar
    Agricultural Economics, 2010, 41, (6), 507-517 View citations (43)
    See also Working Paper Agricultural Extension and Imperfect Supervision in Contract Farming: Evidence from Madagascar, MPRA Paper (2010) View citations (43) (2010)
39. On the (Mis)Use of Wealth as a Proxy for Risk Aversion
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2010, 92, (1), 273-282 View citations (12)
40. Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity-Size Relationship
    World Development, 2010, 38, (1), 88-97 View citations (163)
    See also Working Paper Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity-Size Relationship, Working Papers (2010) View citations (185) (2010)

2009

41. When Perception is Reality: Subjective Expectations and Contracting
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2009, 91, (5), 1377-1381 View citations (7)

2006

42. An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2006, 88, (2), 324-337 View citations (160)
    See also Working Paper An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia, Working Papers (2005) View citations (20) (2005)

Chapters

2020

1. How COVID-19 may disrupt food supply chains in developing countries
   Chapter 17 in COVID-19 and global food security, 2020, pp 78-80 View citations (23)

2014

2. Comment on "Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation, and Poverty"
   A chapter in The Economics of Food Price Volatility, 2014, pp 339-344 View citations (3)