Christopher B. Barrett :

Working Papers

Recent Unpublished Papers

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A list of published papers may be found in my curriculum vita.

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Papers Not Yet Accepted For Publication (and reports not to be published in journals):

Critical comments on these are greatly appreciated

  1. C. Stuart Clark, Sophia Murphy, Gawain Kripke, Christopher B. Barrett, "The Role of Monetization in Propsed Food Aid Modalities," July 2008.
  2. Thomas Reardon, Christoper B. Barrett, Julio A. Berdegue, Johan F.M. Swinnen, "Agrifood Industry Transformation & Small Farmers in Developing Countries," July 2008.
  3. David Stifel, Felix Forster, and Christopher B. Barrett, "The Evolution of Horizontal Inequalities in Madagascar, 1999-2005," July 2008 revision.
  4. Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett , "What Do We Learn From Social Networks When We Only Sample Individuals? Not Much," May 2008.
  5. Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Systems and the Escape from Poverty and Ill-Health Traps in sub-Saharan Africa," May 2008 revision.
  6. Emma C. Stephans, and Christopher B. Barrett, "Incomplete Credit Markets and Commodity Marketing Behavior" May 2008.
  7. Christopher B. Barrett et al. "Human Considerations in Determining Conservation Priorities" Letter to the Editor, Science
    April 2008 final draft.
  8. Heidi Hogset and Christopher B. Barrett , "Social Learning, Social Influence and Projection Bias: A caution on inferences based on proxy–reporting of peer behavior," April 2008 version.
  9. Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett, "Interest and identity in network formation and activation: Who do smallholders seek out for information in rural Ghana?,"April 2008 revision.
  10. John McPeak, Cheryl Doss, Christopher B. Barrett, and Patti Kristjansen, "Perspectives of Development in Arid and Semi-Arid East Africa: Results of a Ranking Exercise " April 2008.
  11. Emma C. Stephens, Edward Mabaya, Stephan Von Cramon-Taubadel, and Christopher B. Barrett, "Spatial Price Adjustment with and without Trade," March 2008 version.
  12. Ruchira Bhattamishra and Christopher B. Barrett, "Community-based risk management arrangements: An overview and implications for social fund program design" March 2008 revision.
  13. Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter and Munenobu Ikegami, "Poverty Traps and Social Protection," February 2008 revision.
  14. Christine Moser, Christopher B. Barrett, Bart Minten, "Spatial Integration at Multiple Scales: Rice Markets in Madagascar," January 2008 revision.
  15. Sommarat Chantarat and Christopher B. Barrett, "Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps," January 2008 revision.
  16. Felix Naschold and Christopher B. Barrett, "Do Short-Term Observed Income Changes Overstate Structural Economic Mobility?" December 2007 version.
  17. Vivian Hoffmann, Christopher B. Barrett and David R. Just, "Do free goods stick to poor households? Experimental evidence on insecticide treated bednets," November 2007 draft.
  18. Christopher B. Barrett, Barry J. Barnett, Michael R. Carter, Sommarat Chantarat, James W. Hansen, Andrew G. Mude, Daniel E. Osgood, Jerry R. Skees, Calum G. Turvey and M. Neil Ward, "Poverty Traps and Climate Risk: Limitations and Opportunities of Index-Based Risk Financing," November 2007 draft.
  19. Solomon Ngoze, Susan Riha, David Mbugua, Keith Shepherd, Louis Verchot, Christopher Barrett, Johannes Lehmann, Justine Wangila and Alice Pell, "The impacts of household land use and socio economic factors on the soil fertility of smallholder farms in the highlands of Kenya" working draft October 2007.
  20. Daniel G. Maxwell , Erin C. Lentz and Christopher B. Barrett, "A Market Analysis and Decision Tree Tool for Response Analysis: Cash, Local Purchase and/or Imported Food Aid?" Background Paper May 2007.
  21. Christopher B. Barrett, Erin C. Lentz and Daniel G. Maxwell, "A Market Analysis and Decision Tree Tool for Response Analysis: Cash, Local Purchase and/or Imported Food Aid?" May 2007 draft.
  22. Paswel P. Marenya and Christopher B. Barrett, "State-conditional fertilizer yield response on western Kenyan farms," April 2007 initial draft.
  23. Christopher B. Barrett, "The United States’ International Food Assistance Programs: Issues and Options for the 2007 Farm Bill," February 2007.
  24. Andrew Mude, Christopher B. Barrett, John G. McPeak, Robert Kaitho, and Patti Kristjanson, "Empirical Forecasting of Slow-Onset Disasters for Improved Emergency Response: an Application to Kenya’s Arid North," November 2006.
  25. Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett, "Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On The Roles of Risk and Ability," June 2006 revision.
  26. Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett, "Informal insurance in the presence of poverty traps: Evidence from southern Ethiopia", May 2006 revision.
  27. Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Aid In Response to Acute Food Insecurity," April 2006 revision.
  28. Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Aid As Part Of A Coherent Strategy To Advance Food Security Objectives," March 2006 revision.
  29. Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Aid’s Intended and Unintended Consequences," March 2006 revision.
  30. Erin C. Lentz, Christopher B. Barrett and John Hoddinott, "Food Aid and Dependency: Implications for Emergency Food Security Assessments," December 2005 report for World Food Programme program on Strengthening Emergency Needs Assessment Capacity.
  31. Christopher B. Barrett, "Poverty Traps and Agricultural Research: Improving Policies, Institutions and Technologies To Support Sustainable Poverty Reduction," December 2005 invited paper for the Annual General Meetings of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, Marrakech, Morocco.
  32. Christopher B. Barrett, "Displaced Distortions: Financial Market Failures and Seemingly Inefficient Resource Allocation," USAID BASIS CRSP Brief #32, August 2005.
  33. Erin Lentz and Christopher B. Barrett, “Food Aid Targeting, Shocks and Private Transfers Among East African Pastoralists,” July 2005 revision.
  34. Christopher B. Barrett and Michael R. Carter, "Risk and Asset Management in the Presence of Poverty Traps: Implications for Growth and Social Protection," June 2005.
  35. Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Aid At A Crossroads: The Shared Challenge NGOs Face," April 2005.
  36. Christopher B. Barrett and Daniel G. Maxwell, "Policy Brief: Recasting Food Aid's Role," August 2004.
  37. Awudu Abdulai, Christopher B. Barrett and Peter Hazell, “Food Aid for Market Development in Sub-Saharan Africa,” March 2004.
  38. A.N. Pell, D.M. Mbugua,  L.V. Verchot, C.B. Barrett, L.E. Blume, J.G. Gamara, J.M. Kinyangi, C.J. Lehmann, A.O. Odenyo, S.O. Ngoze, B.N. Okumu, M.J. Pfeffer, P.P. Marenya, S.J. Riha, and J. Wangila, "The Interplay Between Smallholder Farmers and Fragile Tropical Agroecosystems in the Kenyan Highlands," prepared for presentation at a National Science Foundation Panel at the AAAS annual meetings in Seattle, WA, February 2004.
  39. Marc F. Bellemare and Christopher B. Barrett, "An Asset Risk Model of Reverse Tenancy," May 2003 revision.
  40. Christopher B. Barrett, “The Economics of Poverty and the Poverty of Economics: A Christian Perspective,” prepared for the Upstate New York InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Faculty Conference, April 5, 2003.
  41. Christine M. Moser and Christopher B. Barrett, "Le Systeme de Riziculture Intensif a Madagascar: Situation Actuelle et Perspectives," (in French) prepared for "Agriculture et Pauvrete" conference, March 2003, in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
  42. Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Aid Effectiveness: 'It's The Targeting, Stupid!" prepared for the Policy Service, Strategy and Policy Division, World Food Programme, December 2002.
  43. Eleni Gabre-Madhin, Christopher B. Barrett and Paul Dorosh, "Technological Change and Price Effects in Agriculture: Conceptual and Comparative Perspectives," International Food Policy Research Institute working paper, May 2002.
  44. Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Aid And Commercial International Food Trade," background paper prepared for the Trade and Markets Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, March 2002.
  45. Christopher B. Barrett, "Climate Forecasting for Pastoralists?" USAID Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 01-03-PARIMA, December 2001.
  46. Christopher B. Barrett, "Livestock Pricing and Markets Performance," USAID Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 01-05-PARIMA, December 2001.
  47. Christopher B. Barrett and David E. Sahn, "Food Policy in Crisis Management," Food Policy Toolkit draft report to the World Bank, January 2001.
  48. Christopher B. Barrett and Thomas Reardon, "Asset, Activity, and Income Diversification Among African Agriculturalists: Some Practical Issues," project report to the USAID BASIS CRSP, March 2000.
  49. Christopher B. Barrett, "On Vulnerability, Asset Poverty and Subsidiarity," comments to Ford/ Rockefeller Foundations Seminar Series session “Managing Variability and Shocks Within the Agro-Food System,” May 1999.
  50. DeeVon Bailey, Christopher B. Barrett, Peter D. Little and Francis Chabari,"Livestock Markets and Risk Management Among East African Pastoralists: A Review and Research Agenda," May 1999.

Papers Forthcoming in Journals or Books:

  1. Peter D. Little, John McPeak, Christopher B. Barrett, and Patti Kristjansen, "Challenging Orthodoxies: Understanding Poverty in Pastoral Areas of East Africa" Development and Change, forthcoming.
  2. John Hoddinott, Marc J. Cohen, Christopher B. Barrett, "Renegotiating the Food Aid Convention: Background, Context, and Issues," Global Governance, forthcoming.
  3. Travis J. Lybbert and Christopher B. Barrett, "Risk taking behavior in the presence of nonconvex asset dynamics" Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.
  4. Jacqueline Vanderpuye-Orgle and Christopher B. Barrett, "Risk Management and Social Visibility in Ghana" African Development Review, forthcoming.
  5. Christopher B. Barrett, "Foreign Aid, Development Strategies and Poverty Reduction," Chapter in Steven L. Rundle, editor, Economic Justice in a Flat World: Christian Perspectives on Globalization, (Carlisle, UK: Paternoster, forthcoming).
  6. Sommarat Chantarat, Calum G. Turvey, Andrew G. Mude and Christopher B. Barrett, "Improving Humanitarian Response to Slow-Onset Disasters using Famine Indexed Weather Derivatives" Agricultural Finance Review, forthcoming.
  7. Christopher B. Barrett and Thomas Reardon, "Introduction to a Special Issue on Making Markets Work for the Rural Poor," Forthcoming, Faith and Economics.
  8. Marieke Huysentruyt, Christopher B. Barrett and John G. McPeak,   "Understanding Declining Mobility and Interhousehold Transfers Among East African Pastoralist,” Forthcoming, Economica.
  9. Cheryl Doss, John McPeak, and Christopher B. Barrett, "Interpersonal, Intertemporal, and Spatial Variation in Risk Perceptions:Evidence from East Africa," Forthcoming in World Development.
  10. Eric C. Lentz and Christopher B. Barrett, "Improving Food Aid’s Impact: What Reforms Would Yield The Highest Payoff?," Forthcoming in World Development.
  11. Christopher B. Barrett, "Poverty Traps and Resource Dynamics In Smallholder Agrarian Systems," Forthcoming in Springer.
  12. Christopher B. Barrett, "Development Economics: An Overview" in C.B. Barrett, ed., Development Economics: Critical Concepts in Development Studies 4 volumes (London: Routledge, 2007), forthcoming.
  13. Sharon M. Osterloh and Christopher B. Barrett, "The Unfulfilled Promise of Microfinance In Kenya: The KDA Experience," in Christopher B. Barrett, Andrew G. Mude, and John M. Omiti, editors, Decentralization and the Social Economics of Development: Lessons from Kenya, CAB International, forthcoming.
  14. Kioko Munyao and Christopher B. Barrett, " Decentralization of pastoral resources management and its effects on environmental degradation and poverty: Experience from northern Kenya," in Christopher B. Barrett, Andrew G. Mude, and John M. Omiti, editors, Decentralization and the Social Economics of Development: Lessons from Kenya, CAB International, forthcoming.
  15. Christopher B. Barrett and Emelly Mutambatsere, "Agricultural Markets in Developing Countries" in Lawrence E. Blume and Steven N. Durlauf, eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
  16. Christopher B. Barrett and Emelly Mutambatsere, "Marketing Boards" in Lawrence E. Blume and Steven N. Durlauf, eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
  17. Christopher B. Barrett, “Spatial Market Integration”, in Lawrence E. Blume and Steven N. Durlauf, eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
  18. Christopher B. Barrett and Daniel G. Maxwell, "They Profit While The Hungry Die", Los Angeles Times op ed essay, October 27, 2005 (originally titled "The Golden Hour and the Iron Triangle" ... the paper's editors chose the final title, not the authors!).
 

Last updated October 11, 2007.