Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Part I: The Welfare Impact of Agricultural Supply Chains, Market Structure and Farm Constraints -- Chapter 2: A Model of Agricultural Supply Chains, Market Structure and Farm Constraints -- 2.1 Cash Crop Exports...

How do tariffs impact gender inequality? Using harmonized household survey and tariff data from 54 low- and middle-income countries, this paper shows that protectionism has an anti-female bias. On average, tariffs repress the real incomes of female headed households by 0.6 percentage points...

How do tariffs impact gender inequality? Using harmonized household survey and tariff data from 54 low- and middle-income countries, this paper shows that protectionism has an anti-female bias. On average, tariffs repress the real incomes of female headed households by 0.6 percentage points...

As global competition increasingly focuses on product quality, firms need to ensure the quality of their inputs. A central question is then which organizational structure best enables them to achieve this objective. Numerous papers have found that firms that produce higher quality are more...

This paper studies how the internal structure of agriculture export markets and the level of competition affect poverty and welfare in rural areas in Africa. We develop a game-theory model of supply chains in cash crop agriculture between many atomistic smallholders and a few exporters. The...