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Recent Unpublished Papers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Papers Not Yet Accepted For Publication (and reports not to be published in journals):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. Marc F. Bellemare, Christopher B. Barrett. Zachary S. Brown, and David R. Just, "The Welfare Impacts of Price Stabilization: Evidence from Rural Ethiopian Households," June 2009.
  2. Kira M. Villa, Christopher B. Barret, and David R. Just, "Differential Nutritional Responses across Various Income Sources among East African Pastoralists: Intrahousehold Effects, Missing Markets and Mental Accounting," May 2009.
  3. Kira M. Villa, Christopher B. Barrett, and David R. Just, "Intrahousehold Allocation of Dietary Diversity in East African Pastoralist Households," May 2009.
  4. David Stifel, Felix Forster, and Christopher B. Barrett, "The Evolution of Groupwise Poverty in Madagascar, 1999-2005," March 2009 revision.
  5. Felix Naschold and Christopher B. Barrett, "Do Short-Term Observed Income Changes Overstate Structural Economic Mobility?" February 2008 version.
  6. Christian Kuhlgatz, Awudu Abdulai and Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Aid Donor Cooperation and Responsiveness to Recipient Country Need" February 2009.
  7. Dr. Andrew Mude, Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, Sommarat Chantarat, Munenobu Ikegami, and John McPeak, " Index Based Livestock Insurance for Northern Kenya's Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: The Marsabit Pilot" January 2009.
  8. Emma C. Stephens, and Christopher B. Barrett, "Incomplete Credit Markets and Commodity Marketing Behavior" June 2009.
  9. Jean Claude Randrianarisoa, Christopher B. Barrett, and David Stifel, " The Demand for Hired Labor in Rural Madagascar," January 2009.
  10. Daniel G. Maxwell, Erin C. Lentz, and Christopher B. Barrett, " Research Brief: Cash, Local Purchase, and/or Imported Food Aid?: Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis," December 2008.
  11. Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, Sommarat Chantarat, John McPeak, and Andrew Mude, "Altering Poverty Dynamics with Index Insurance: Northern Kenya's HSNP," November 2008.
  12. Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett, "Persistent Poverty and informal credit, " November 2008 revision.
  13. Michael R. Carter, Christopher B. Barrett, Stephen Boucher, Sommarat Chantarat, Francisco Galarza, John McPeak, Andrew Mude, adn Caroline Trivelli, "Insuring the Never Before Insured: Explaining Index Insurence Through Financial Education Games," October 2008 version.
  14. Ruchira Bhattamishra and Christopher B. Barrett, "Community-based risk management arrangements: An overview and implications for social fund program design," October 2008 revision.
  15. Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett, "Identity, Interest and Information Search in a Dynamic Rural Economy," October 2008 revision.
  16. Christopher B. Barrett, "A Normative Framework for Social Science Activities in the CGIAR," October 2008 Version.
  17. Ruchira Bhattamishra and Christopher B. Barrett, "Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements" USAID AMA CRSP BASIS Brief. September 2008 Version.
  18. Emma C. Stephens, Christopher B. Barrett, Douglas R. Brown, Johannes Lehmann, David Mbugua, Solomon Ngoze, Chrales F. Nicholson, David Parsons, Alice N. Pell, and Susan J. Riha, "Modeling Feedback between Economic and Biophysical Systems in Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya: The Crops, Livestock and Soils in Smallholder Economic Systems (CLASSES) Model," October 2008 Version.
  19. Sommarat Chantarat and Christopher B. Barrett, "Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps," August 2008 revision.
  20. Paswel Marenya, Christopher B. Barrett and Trudi Gulick, "Farmers' Perceptions of Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Yield Response in Kenya," August 2008.
  21. C. Stuart Clark, Sophia Murphy, Gawain Kripke, Christopher B. Barrett, "The Role of Monetization in Propsed Food Aid Modalities," July 2008.
  22. Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett , "What Do We Learn From Social Networks When We Only Sample Individuals? Not Much," May 2008.
  23. Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Systems and the Escape from Poverty and Ill-Health Traps in sub-Saharan Africa," May 2008 revision.
  24. Christopher B. Barrett et al. "Human Considerations in Determining Conservation Priorities" Letter to the Editor, Science
    April 2008 final draft.
  25. Emma C. Stephens, Edward Mabaya, Stephan Von Cramon-Taubadel, and Christopher B. Barrett, "Spatial Price Adjustment with and without Trade," March 2008 version.
  26. Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter and Munenobu Ikegami, "Poverty Traps and Social Protection," February 2008 revision.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. Christopher B. Barrett, "The United States’ International Food Assistance Programs: Issues and Options for the 2007 Farm Bill," February 2007.
  32. Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett, "Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On The Roles of Risk and Ability," June 2006 revision.
  33. Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Aid In Response to Acute Food Insecurity," April 2006 revision.
  34. Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Aid As Part Of A Coherent Strategy To Advance Food Security Objectives," March 2006 revision.
  35. Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Aid’s Intended and Unintended Consequences," March 2006 revision.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. Christopher B. Barrett, "Displaced Distortions: Financial Market Failures and Seemingly Inefficient Resource Allocation," USAID BASIS CRSP Brief #32, August 2005.
  39. Erin Lentz and Christopher B. Barrett, “Food Aid Targeting, Shocks and Private Transfers Among East African Pastoralists,” July 2005 revision.
  40. 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.
  41. Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Aid At A Crossroads: The Shared Challenge NGOs Face," April 2005.
  42. Christopher B. Barrett and Daniel G. Maxwell, "Policy Brief: Recasting Food Aid's Role," August 2004.
  43. Awudu Abdulai, Christopher B. Barrett and Peter Hazell, “Food Aid for Market Development in Sub-Saharan Africa,” March 2004.
  44. 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.
  45. Marc F. Bellemare and Christopher B. Barrett, "An Asset Risk Model of Reverse Tenancy," May 2003 revision.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. 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.
  50. 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.
  51. Christopher B. Barrett, "Climate Forecasting for Pastoralists?" USAID Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 01-03-PARIMA, December 2001.
  52. Christopher B. Barrett, "Livestock Pricing and Markets Performance," USAID Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 01-05-PARIMA, December 2001.
  53. Christopher B. Barrett and David E. Sahn, "Food Policy in Crisis Management," Food Policy Toolkit draft report to the World Bank, January 2001.
  54. 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.
  55. 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.
  56. 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. Christopher B. Barrett and Erin C. Lentz, "Food Insecurity," June 2009 revision, In Robert Denemark et. al. , editors, The International Studies Compendium Project (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming).
  2. Paswel P. Marenya and Christopher B. Barrett, "Soil quality and fertilizer use rates among smallholder farmers in western Kenya," Agricultural Economics, forthcoming.
  3. Christopher B. Barrett, Marc F. Bellemare and Janet Y. Hou, "Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity-Size Relationship," May 2009 revision, World Development, forthcoming.
  4. John McPeak, Cheryl Doss, Christopher B. Barrett and Patti Kristjansen, "Are Development Prorities Shared by Community Members? Results of a Ranking Exercise in East Africa Rangelands," Journal of Development Studies, forthcoming.
  5. Heidi Hogset and Christopher B. Barrett , "Social Learning, Social Influence and Projection Bias: A Caution On Inferences Based on Proxy–reporting of Peer Behavior," Economic Develoment and Cultural Change, forthcoming.
  6. Paswel P. Marenya and Christopher B. Barrett, "State-conditional fertilizer yield response on western Kenyan farms," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming.
  7. Andrew G. 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," Food Policy, forthcoming.
  8. Travis J. Lybbert and Christopher B. Barrett, "Risk taking behavior in the presence of nonconvex asset dynamics," Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.
  9. Thomas Reardon, Christoper B. Barrett, Julio A. Berdegue and Johan F.M. Swinnen, "Agrifood Industry Transformation and Small Farmers in Developing Countries," World Development, Volume 37, Number 11 (November 2009): in press.
  10. 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).
 

Last updated October 11, 2007.