Working Papers
Find below copies of papers not yet accepted for publication and reports not to be published in journals.
Critical comments on these are greatly appreciated.
Published papers are available here, and a list also can be
found in my curriculum vita. Anyone desiring reprints of published
papers can email me.
- Molly J Doruskaa, Christopher B Barretta, Jason R Rohrc; Modeling how and why aquatic vegetation removal can free rural households from
poverty-disease traps, January 2024
-
Juan M. Vergara, and Christopher B. Barrett "Private capital
investments in agrifood-tech
startups in South America, 2007-2022," December 2023.
- Christopher B. Barrett & Yuma Noritomo, Nathan Jensen, Karlijn Morsink & Hyuk Harry Son "Long-run
effects of
catastrophic drought
insurance," November 2023.
- Megan Sheahan, Yanyan Liu, Sudha Narayanan, Christopher B. Barrett,
"Disaggregated labor supply implications of guaranteed employment in India," September 2020
draft.
- Vesall Nourani, Christopher B. Barrett, Eleonora Patacchini, Thomas Walker, "Altruism,
Insurance, And Costly Solidarity Commitments," May 2020
- Erin C. Lentz, Stephanie Mercier, Christopher B. Barrett, "International
Food Aid and Food Assistance Programs and the Next Farm Bill," October 2017 revision.
- Paul Christian and Christopher B. Barrett, "Revisiting
the Effect of Food Aid on Conflict: A Methodological Caution," World Bank Policy Research
Working Paper 8171, August 2017 revision.
- Christopher J. Mills, Nathaniel D. Jensen, Christopher B. Barrett, and Andrew G. Mude, "ILRI Research Report 39, Characterization for index
based livestock insurance," added May 2016.
- Megan Sheahan and Christopher B. Barrett, "Understanding
the agricultural input landscape in sub-Saharan Africa: Recent plot, household, and community-level
evidence," World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7014, August 2014.
- Christopher B. Barrett and Derek Headey, "Measuring resilience in a volatile world: A
proposal for a multicountry system of sentinel sites," May 2014, 2020 Resilience Conference
Paper 1 - Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (View on IFPRI
website)
- Chayanee Chawanote and Christopher B. Barrett, "Farm and Non-farm Occupational
and Earnings Dynamics in Rural Thailand," February 2014 revision.
- Erin C. Lentz, Christopher B. Barrett and Miguel I. Gómez, "The Impacts of Local and Regional
Procurement of US Food Aid: Learning Alliance Synthesis Report," Final Report: A
Multidimensional Analysis of Local and Regional Procurement of US Food Aid, January 2012.
- Christopher B. Barrett and Marc F. Bellemare, "The G-20’s error: Food price
volatility is not the problem," July 2011.
- Christopher B. Barrett, "Assisting the escape from
persistent ultra-poverty in rural Africa," April 2011.
- Andrew Mude, Sommarat Chantarat, Christopher B. Barrett, Michael Carter, Munenobu Ikegami, and John
McPeak, "Insuring Against
Drought-Related Livestock Mortality: Piloting Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern
Kenya," June 2010.
- Christopher B. Barrett, Arun Agrawal, Oliver T. Coomes, Jean-Philippe Platteau, " Stripe Review of Social Sciences in
the CGIAR," August 2009.
- 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.
- Jean Claude Randrianarisoa, Christopher B. Barrett, and David Stifel, " The Demand for Hired Labor in
Rural Madagascar," January 2009.
- Christopher B. Barrett, "A Normative
Framework for Social Science Activities in the CGIAR," October 2008 Version.
- Paswel Marenya, Christopher B. Barrett and Trudi Gulick, "Farmers' Perceptions of Soil Fertility and Fertilizer
Yield Response in Kenya,"
August 2008.
- Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett ,
"What Do We Learn From Social Networks When We Only Sample Individuals? Not Much," May
2008.
- Christopher B. Barrett, "Food Systems
and the Escape from Poverty and Ill-Health Traps in sub-Saharan Africa,"
May 2008 revision.
- Christopher B. Barrett et al. "Human
Considerations in Determining Conservation Priorities" Letter to the
Editor, Science
April 2008 final draft.
- Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter and Munenobu Ikegami, "Poverty Traps and Social Protection," February
2008 revision.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Christopher B. Barrett, "The
United States" International Food Assistance Programs: Issues and Options for the 2007 Farm
Bill," February 2007.
- Christopher B. Barrett,
"Food Aid In Response to Acute Food Insecurity," April 2006 revision.
- Christopher B. Barrett,
"Food Aid As Part Of A Coherent Strategy To Advance Food Security Objectives,"
March 2006 revision.
- Christopher B. Barrett,
"Food Aid"s Intended and Unintended Consequences,"
March 2006 revision.
- 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.
- 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.
- Erin Lentz and Christopher B. Barrett, "Food
Aid Targeting, Shocks and Private Transfers Among East African Pastoralists,"
July 2005 revision.
- 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.
- Christopher B. Barrett, "Food
Aid At A Crossroads: The Shared Challenge NGOs Face," April 2005.
- Awudu Abdulai, Christopher B. Barrett and Peter Hazell, "Food
Aid for Market Development in Sub-Saharan Africa," March 2004.
- 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.
- Marc F. Bellemare and Christopher B. Barrett,
"An Asset Risk Model of Reverse Tenancy," May 2003 revision.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Christopher B. Barrett and David E. Sahn,
"Food Policy in Crisis Management," Food Policy Toolkit draft
report to the World Bank, January 2001.
- 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.
- 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.