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Basis Risk and the Welfare Gains from Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya

Jensen, Nathaniel D.; Barrett, Christopher B.; Mude, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Index insurance products circumvent many of the transaction costs and asymmetric information problems that obstruct provision of low value conventional insurance policies in developing countries. Recent years have seen tremendous growth in index insurance pilots in developing countries, but...

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Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps

Chantarat, Sommarat; Barrett, Christopher B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The paper explores the role social network capital might play in facilitating poor agents’ escape from poverty traps … social network capital who make investment and technology choices over time in the absence of financial markets and faced … with multiple production technologies featuring different fixed costs and returns. We show that social network capital can …

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Smallholder Technical Efficiency with Stochastic Exogenous Production Conditions

Sherlund, Shane M.; Barrett, Christopher B.; Adesina, … - 2001

There is a large literature on the estimation of frontier production functions, much of it applied to low-income agriculture. However, much of this literature largely ignores nature's role in agricultural production. Because exogenous, natural production conditions (e.g., rainfall, soil quality,...

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Does Food Aid Stabilize Food Availability?

Barrett, Christopher B. - 2015

This paper explores the empirical relationship between U.S. food aid flows per capita and nonconcessional food availability per capita in PL 480 recipient economies. The evidence suggests PL 480, while modestly progressive in its distribution, is if anything procyclical in recipient economies....

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Wildlife Harvest in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects : Linking Harvest to Household Demand, Agricultural Production, and Environmental Shocks in the Serengeti

Barrett, Christopher B.; Arcese, Peter - 2015

This paper develops a model coupling wildlife population dynamics to endogenous human consumption and poaching behavior in an environment of imperfect labor and product markets and static agricultural production technology subject to environmental shocks. Using a model of the Serengeti...

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Wildlife Harvest in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects : Linking Harvest to Household Demand, Agricultural Production, and Environmental Shocks in the Serengeti

Barrett, Christopher B.; Arcese, Peter - 2015

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The Microeconomics of the Developmental Paradox : On the Political Economy of Food Price Policy

Barrett, Christopher B. - 2001

A longstanding puzzle in comparative economics is the "developmental paradox," the tendency for government support for agriculture to increase with national income and to decrease with the proportion of economic activity and of the population in agriculture. This paper offers a microeconomic...

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The Microeconomics of the Developmental Paradox : On the Political Economy of Food Price Policy

Barrett, Christopher B. - 1999

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The Dynamic Effects of U.S. Food Aid

Barrett, Christopher B.; Mohapatra, Sandeep; Snyder, … - 2015

Although food aid may have important medium-to-long term effects, there is a glaring absence of empirical research on food aid dynamics. This paper applies vector autoregression methods to data from 18 countries over the period 1961-95. We find evidence that food aid has a pronounced J-curve...

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Stochastic Food Prices and Slash-and-Burn Agriculture

Barrett, Christopher B. - 2011

This paper explores the interrelationship between poverty, risk, and deforestation by small farmers in the low-income tropics. A nonseparable household model reveals how exogenous shocks to the mean or variance of a food price distribution might affect peasants' incentives to clear forest. The...

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