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Christopher B. Barrett

Global rank #586 99%

Institution: Cornell University

Primary Field: Development (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://barrett.dyson.cornell.edu/

First Publication: 1995

Most Recent: 2026

RePEc ID: pba458 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 6.77 3.39 0.00 16.93
Last 10 Years 0.00 9.95 10.59 0.00 30.50
All Time 0.00 16.66 52.76 0.00 87.49

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 89
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 72.57

Publications (89)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2026 Estimating multidimensional development resilience Journal of Development Economics A 4
2025 Index-based Livestock insurance to support pastoralists against droughts Food Policy B 8
2025 Food Policy at 50 years Food Policy B 4
2024 Spurious Regressions and Panel IV Estimation: Revisiting the Causes of Conflict Economic Journal A 2
2024 Food security dynamics in the United States, 2001–2017 American Journal of Agricultural Economics A 3
2023 Nonclassical measurement error and farmers’ response to information treatment Journal of Development Economics A 6
2023 A food insecurity Kuznets Curve? World Development B 4
2022 Experimental Evidence on Adoption and Impact of the System of Rice Intensification American Journal of Agricultural Economics A 5
2022 Caveat utilitor: A comparative assessment of resilience measurement approaches Journal of Development Economics A 3
2022 The implications of aggregate measures of exposure to violence for the estimated impacts on individual risk preferences World Development B 2
2021 Journal submissions, review and editorial decision patterns during initial COVID-19 restrictions Food Policy B 6
2021 How land tenure and labor relations mediate charcoal’s environmental footprint in Zambia: Implications for sustainable energy transitions World Development B 4
2021 A scoping review of the development resilience literature: Theory, methods and evidence World Development B 7
2021 Frequency and timing of fungicide applications for the control of gray leaf spot in maize Economic Journal A 4
2021 Overcoming Global Food Security Challenges through Science and Solidarity American Journal of Agricultural Economics A 1
2021 Measurement Error Mechanisms Matter: Agricultural Intensification with Farmer Misperceptions and Misreporting American Journal of Agricultural Economics A 3
2020 Close to the edge: High productivity at plot peripheries and the inverse size-productivity relationship Journal of Development Economics A 2
2020 The intertemporal evolution of agriculture and labor over a rapid structural transformation: Lessons from Vietnam Food Policy B 4
2020 Finding our balance? Revisiting the randomization revolution in development economics ten years further on World Development B 2
2020 Comment on “The Effects of Untying International Food Assistance: The Case of Canada” American Journal of Agricultural Economics A 1
2019 Correlated non-classical measurement errors, ‘Second best’ policy inference, and the inverse size-productivity relationship in agriculture Journal of Development Economics A 4
2018 Estimating development resilience: A conditional moments-based approach Journal of Development Economics A 2
2018 How basis risk and spatiotemporal adverse selection influence demand for index insurance: Evidence from northern Kenya Food Policy B 3
2018 Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee: The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh World Bank Economic Review B 4
2017 Cash transfers and index insurance: A comparative impact analysis from northern Kenya Journal of Development Economics A 3
2017 Ten striking facts about agricultural input use in Sub-Saharan Africa Food Policy B 2
2017 Agricultural factor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: An updated view with formal tests for market failure Food Policy B 2
2017 Review: Food loss and waste in Sub-Saharan Africa Food Policy B 2
2017 The “Discouraged Worker Effect” in Public Works Programs: Evidence from the MGNREGA in India World Development B 4
2017 Welfare Impacts of Index Insurance in the Presence of a Poverty Trap World Development B 4
2016 Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Index-Based Livestock Insurance Demand in Southern Ethiopia World Development B 4
2015 Decomposing Intergenerational Income Elasticity: The Gender-differentiated Contribution of Capital Transmission in Rural Philippines World Development B 2
2014 The impact of changing rainfall variability on resource-dependent wealth dynamics Ecological Economics B 2
2014 Got milk? The impact of Heifer International’s livestock donation programs in Rwanda on nutritional outcomes Food Policy B 5
2013 Post-green revolution food systems and the triple burden of malnutrition Food Policy B 8
2013 The economics and nutritional impacts of food assistance policies and programs Food Policy B 2
2013 Targeting Maps: An Asset-Based Approach to Geographic Targeting World Development B 3
2013 On The Choice and Impacts of Innovative International Food Assistance Instruments World Development B 4
2013 Market Prices and Food Aid Local and Regional Procurement and Distribution: A Multi-Country Analysis World Development B 5
2013 Recipients’ Satisfaction with Locally Procured Food Aid Rations: Comparative Evidence from a Three Country Matched Survey World Development B 7
2013 Tradeoffs or Synergies? Assessing Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement through Case Studies in Burkina Faso and Guatemala World Development B 5
2013 The Timeliness and Cost-Effectiveness of the Local and Regional Procurement of Food Aid World Development B 3
2012 Spatial Price Adjustment with and without Trade Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 4
2012 Smallholder Participation in Contract Farming: Comparative Evidence from Five Countries World Development B 6
2012 Does the Nonfarm Economy Offer Pathways for Upward Mobility? Evidence from a Panel Data Study in Ethiopia World Development B 3
2011 RISK‐TAKING BEHAVIOR IN THE PRESENCE OF NONCONVEX ASSET DYNAMICS Economic Inquiry C 2
2011 Do Short‐Term Observed Income Changes Overstate Structural Economic Mobility? Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 2
2011 Persistent poverty and informal credit Journal of Development Economics A 2
2010 Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity-Size Relationship World Development B 3
2010 Identity, Interest and Information Search in a Dynamic Rural Economy World Development B 2
2010 Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements: A Review World Development B 2
2010 Social Learning, Social Influence, and Projection Bias: A Caution on Inferences Based on Proxy Reporting of Peer Behavior Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2009 Understanding Declining Mobility and Inter‐household Transfers among East African Pastoralists Economica C 3
2009 Empirical forecasting of slow-onset disasters for improved emergency response: An application to Kenya's arid north Food Policy B 5
2009 Agrifood Industry Transformation and Small Farmers in Developing Countries World Development B 4
2009 Do Free Goods Stick to Poor Households? Experimental Evidence on Insecticide Treated Bednets World Development B 3
2008 Smallholder market participation: Concepts and evidence from eastern and southern Africa Food Policy B 1
2008 Poverty Traps and Index-Based Risk Transfer Products World Development B 3
2008 Agricultural Technology, Productivity, and Poverty in Madagascar World Development B 2
2008 Improving Food Aid: What Reforms Would Yield the Highest Payoff? World Development B 2
2008 Interpersonal, Intertemporal and Spatial Variation in Risk Perceptions: Evidence from East Africa World Development B 3
2007 Educational Investments in a Dual Economy Economica C 4
2007 The social dimensions of microeconomic behavior in low-income communities: Introduction to a symposium Journal of Development Economics A 2
2007 Household-level determinants of adoption of improved natural resources management practices among smallholder farmers in western Kenya Food Policy B 2
2007 Bayesian Herders: Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Forecasts World Development B 4
2006 Towards a global food aid compact Food Policy B 2
2006 Fractal poverty traps World Development B 2
2005 Does food aid Really have disincentive effects? New evidence from sub-Saharan Africa World Development B 3
2005 Institutional Arrangements for Rural Poverty Reduction and Resource Conservation World Development B 3
2004 Decomposing producer price risk: a policy analysis tool with an application to northern Kenyan livestock markets Food Policy B 2
2003 Prospects for integrated soil fertility management using organic and inorganic inputs: evidence from smallholder African agricultural systems Food Policy B 5
2003 Assessing the Value of Climate Forecast Information for Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya World Development B 5
2002 Smallholder technical efficiency controlling for environmental production conditions Journal of Development Economics A 3
2002 Market-based conservation and local benefits: the case of argan oil in Morocco Ecological Economics B 3
2002 How effectively does multilateral food aid respond to fluctuating needs? Food Policy B 2
2001 Rational incompatibility with international product standards Journal of International Economics A 2
2001 Nonfarm income diversification and household livelihood strategies in rural Africa: concepts, dynamics, and policy implications Food Policy B 3
2001 Income diversification, poverty traps and policy shocks in Cote d'Ivoire and Kenya Food Policy B 3
2001 Does Food Aid Stabilize Food Availability? Economic Development & Cultural Change B 1
2000 Is bioprospecting a viable strategy for conserving tropical ecosystems? Ecological Economics B 2
2000 Participatory Risk Mapping for Targeting Research and Assistance: With an Example from East African Pastoralists World Development B 3
2000 Subdiscipline-specific journal rankings: whither Applied Economics? Applied Economics C 3
1998 Immiserized growth in liberalized agriculture World Development B 1
1997 Modeling Ecological Constraints on Tropical Forest Management: Comment Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 2
1997 Liberalization and food price distributions: ARCH-M evidence from Madagascar Food Policy B 1
1997 Food marketing liberalization and trader entry: Evidence from Madagascar World Development B 1
1996 On price risk and the inverse farm size-productivity relationship Journal of Development Economics A 1
1996 Fairness, stewardship and sustainable development Ecological Economics B 1
1995 Are Integrated Conservation-Development Projects (ICDPs) Sustainable? On the conservation of large mammals in sub-Saharan Africa World Development B 2