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DE Bloom, JD Sachs, P Collier… - Brookings papers on economic …, 1998 - JSTOR
THE POVERTY of sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most obdurate features of the world
economy. Since the industrial revolution, this has been the world's poorest and also its most
slowly growing region. The most reliable estimates of world and regional gross domestic ...
C Udry - The Review of Economic Studies, 1994 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Credit contracts play a direct role in pooling risk between households in northern
Nigeria. Repayments owed by borrowers depend on realizations of random shocks by both
borrowers and lenders. The paper develops two models of state-contingent loans. The first ...
P Bardhan… - 1999 - books.google.com
Traditional development economics has recently been revolutionized by the application of
new economic tools and concepts. Development Microeconomics is the first in a series of
books which will look at the entire spectrum of development economics issues, combining ...
C Udry - Journal of Political Economy, 1996 - JSTOR
Virtually all models of the household assume that the allocation of resources is Pareto
efficient. Within many African households, agricultural production occurs on many plots
controlled by different members of the household. Pareto efficiency implies that factors ...
TG Conley… - The American Economic Review, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
... edu); Udry: Department of Economics, Yale University, 27 Hillhouse Ave., Rm. 33,
New Haven, CT 06520-8269 (e-mail: christopher.udry@yale.edu). The authors
have benefitted from the advice of Richard Akresh, Muneeza ...
C Udry - The World Bank Economic Review, 1990 - World Bank
Abstract This article addresses the issues of incomplete markets and imperfect information in
the context of credit markets in rural northern Nigeria. In much recent theoretical literature,
the problems of moral hazard and adverse selection are assumed to be decisive for the ...
M Fafchamps,
C Udry… - Journal of Development economics, 1998 - Elsevier
Households in the West African semi-arid tropics (WASAT) face substantial risk—an
inevitable consequence of engaging in rainfed agriculture in a drought-prone environment. It
has long been hypothesized that these households keep livestock as a buffer stock to ...
E Duflo… - 2004 - nber.org
We study resource allocation within households in C “te d'Ivoire. In C “te d'Ivoire, as in much
of Africa, husbands and wives farm separate plots, and there is some specialization by
gender in the crops that are grown. These different crops are differentially sensitive to ...
M Goldstein… - Journal of Political Economy, 2008 - JSTOR
We examine the impact of ambiguous and contested land rights on investment and
productivity in agriculture in Akwapim, Ghana. We show that individuals who hold powerful
positions in a local political hierarchy have more secure tenure rights and that as a ...
C Udry - The American Economic Review, 1995 - JSTOR
People who live in the rural areas of poor countries often must cope not only with severe
poverty but also with extremely variable incomes. The study of the implications of this
variability for individual utility, production decisions, and the evolution of economic ...
T Conley… - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2001 - ajae.oxfordjournals.org
The adoption of new technology is a central feature of the transformation of farming systems
during the process of economic development. There is a rich tradition of social science
research, therefore, on the adoption of new technologies (Evenson and Westphal; Feder, ...
H Kazianga… - Journal of Development Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper explores the extent of consumption smoothing between 1981 and 1985 in rural
Burkina Faso. In particular, we examine the extent to which livestock, grain storage and inter-
household transfers are used to smooth consumption against income risk. The survey ...
C Udry, J Hoddinott, H Alderman… - Food policy, 1995 - Elsevier
Within many African households, agricultural production is simultaneously carried out on
many plots controlled by different members of the household. Detailed plot-level agronomic
data from Burkina Faso provides striking evidence of substantial inefficiencies in the ...
R Pande… - … Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No …, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In this paper we argue the case for greater exploitation of synergies between
research on specific institutions based on micro-data and the big questions posed by the
institutions and growth literature. To date, the macroeconomic literature on institutions and ...
J Conning… - Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
Abstract This review examines portions of the vast literature on rural financial markets and
household behavior in the face of risk and uncertainty and limited commitment. In addition to
examining household strategies and bilateral contracting we place particular emphasis on ...
C Bell, TN Srintvasan… - Oxford Economic Papers, 1997 - Oxford Univ Press
Abstract A parallel market structure may exhibit extensive rationing in the regulated
segment, and hence spillover of unsatisfied demand into the unregulated segment of the
market. In the latter segment, the borrower can choose to bundle loan contracts with ...
C Udry… - 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In this chapter we examine social networks among farmers in a developing country.
We use detailed data on economic activities and social interactions between people living in
four study villages in Ghana. It is clear that economic development in this region is being ...
M Goldstein… - Yale University. New Haven, CT. Processed, 1999 - ifpri.org
1The innovative work of Besley and Case also highlights the limitations of working with data
on the outcomes of the innovative process. They require a decade of panel data and some
rather heroic assumptions to make progress. This is clearly an enormous step forward ...
C Udry… - … Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No …, 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We show that the real return to capital in Ghana's informal sector is high. For
farmers, we find annual returns ranging from 205-350% in the new technology of pineapple
cultivation, and 30-50% in well-established food crop cultivation. We also examine the ...
E Aryeetey… - Journal of African Economies, 1997 - ideas.repec.org
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H Alderman, J Hoddinott, L Haddad,
CR Udry… - 2003 - cabdirect.org
This chapter challenges one of the main tenets of agricultural economics, ie that households
behave as though they are single individuals, with production factors allocated efficiently between
men and women. The analysis is based on data from a four-year (1981-85) panel study ...
A central question in development economics is the extent to which the rural environment is
characterized by competitive markets. The answer has direct implications for the efficiency of
the allocation of resources, for the design of economic policy, and for the choice of ...
BE Honore, E Kyriazidou… - Journal of econometrics, 1997 - Elsevier
This paper considers estimation of the semiparametric Type 3 Tobit model. We construct two-
step estimators that use the ideas of symmetric trimming and pairwise comparisons which
have been proposed for the censored regression model by Powell (1986) and Honoré ...
E Aryeetey… - CID Working Papers, 2000 - ideas.repec.org
Gross domestic savings in Africa averaged only 8 percent of GDP in the 1980s, compared to
23 percent for Southeast Asia and 35 percent in the Newly Industrialized Economies. Aside
from being generally low, saving rates in most of Africa have shown consistent decline ...
C Udry - The Journal of Economic Education, 1997 - Heldref Publications
This brief annotated bibliography is intended to inform nonspecialists of recent empirical
research on individual and household economic activity in poor countries. I was greatly
aided in this task by the existence of recent review papers and books on the subject and, ...
C Udry - The American Economic Review, 2003 - JSTOR
Development economics has been the beneficiary of a rich tradition of field research. Within
this broad tradition there is a huge variety of methods, from short qualitative studies to large-
scale surveys. In this note, however, I focus on one point in this broad space of research ...
[CITATION] Drought and saving in West Africa: are livestock a buffer stock?
K Czukas, M Fafchamps… - Journal of Development Economics, 1998
[CITATION] Intrahousehold resource allocation in Cote d
E Duflo… - Ivoire: Social norms, separate accounts and …, 2003
E Aryeetey… - African Economic Research, 1995 - aida.econ.yale.edu
National governments and international aid agencies commonly intervene in financial
markets in Africa. These interventions use a substantial amount of resources and may have
dramatic macroeconomic consequences (World Bank, 1989). Over the past few decades ...
[CITATION] Agricultural Credit Markets in Punjab: Segmentation, Rationing and Spillover
C Bell, TN Srinivasan… - Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Processed, 1988
M Goldstein… - Yale University. New Haven, CT. Processed, 2002 - sticerd.lse.ac.uk
The fact that West African marriage bears so little resemblance to European marriage, in
terms both of the domestic economy of the household, and of day to day social activities,
receives insufficient emphasis in the literature. Spouses usually enjoy little everyday ...
[CITATION] Development economics
P Bardhan… - 1999 - Oxford University Press, Oxford
CR Udry… - Yale School of Management Working Papers, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
... Other versions of this item: Paper: Esther Duflo & Christopher Udry, 2004.
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Esther Duflo & Christopher Udry, 2003. "Intrahousehold Resource ...
M Goldstein… - 1999 - econ.yale.edu
The alleviation of rural poverty and the enhancement of food security are central policy goals
in sub0Saharan Africa. Technological innovation and agricultural intensification are
important aspects of almost any strategy designed to meet these goals. As technologies ...
[CITATION] Gender, the theory of production, and the agricultural household
C Udry - Journal of Political Economy, 1996
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This chapter looks at the institutions that are pertinent to economic development
and at the institutional impediments to growth, drawing on several strands of the literature on
organizational behaviour, including the New Institutional Economics. It begins with a ...
[CITATION] Agricultural innovation and risk management in Ghana
M Goldstein… - Unpublished, final report to IFPRI, 1999
[CITATION] Rural credit in northern Nigeria
C Udry - Department of Economics, Yale University, 1991
[CITATION] Social networks in Ghana
TG Conley… - Yale Economic Growth Center Working Paper, 2004
E Aryeetey, LW Senbet… - Journal of African …, 1997 - econpapers.repec.org
By Ernest Aryeetey, Lemma W Senbet and Christopher Udry; Financial Liberalisation and
Financial Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Synthesis. ... Ernest Aryeetey, Lemma W Senbet and
Christopher Udry (). Journal of African Economies, 1997, vol. 6, issue 1, pages 1-28. ...
M Goldstein… - Manuscript. London, UK: London School of …, 2004 - econ.yale.edu
It has long been hypothesized that the quality of the economic institutions of a society has a
fundamental impact on its prospects for economic growth and development. In particular, it is
apparent that investment incentives depend upon expectations of rights over the returns to ...
C Udry - Working Papers, 1991 - econpapers.repec.org
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your bookmarks. A Competitive Analysis of Rural Credit: State-Contingent
Loans in Northern Nigeria. Christopher Udry (). ...
C Udry - Readings in Development Economics Empirical …, 2000 - books.google.com
Empirical studies of consumer demand, labor supply, and household production are
commonly based on the premise that households behave as though they are single
individuals. The assumption of a" unitary household" is convenient and innocuous in ...
H Kazianga… - Economic Growth Center, Working …, 2004 - mailhost.econ.yale.edu
Abstract This paper tests the extent of consumption smoothing between 1981 and 1985 in
rural Burkina Faso. In particular, we examine the extent to which livestock, grain storage,
transfers and reorganization of household units are used to smooth consumption against ...
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana.”
T Conley… - American Economic Review
S Anagol… - 2006 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
... 28417. Title: The Return to Capital in Ghana. Authors: Anagol, Santosh Udry,
Christopher R. Authors (Email): Anagol, Santosh (santosh.anagol@yale.edu) Udry,
Christopher (christopher.udry@yale.edu). Issue Date: 2006. Series ...
C Udry… - African Studies Review, 2007 - JSTOR
This article replicates Guyer's finding in" Marginal Gains"(2004) of a social gradient in
expenditure patterns of Ghanaian households using more flexible statistical techniques than
those used in the book. We show that similar gradients are found in Côte d'Ivoire and in ...
PK Bardhan… - 2000 - books.google.com
These two volumes of readings attempt to bring some degree of structure to a relatively
diffuse field. Because of the sheer volume of high-quality work in development economics
research, they are intended as a sampling of work at the frontier of the field, rather than as ...
[CITATION] Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms
E Duflo… - Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices: Yale …, 2004
C Udry - Papers, 1991 - ideas.repec.org
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[CITATION] Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries, Economic Growth Center, Yale University
J Conning… - 2005 - Center Discussion Paper
[CITATION] pLearning About a New Technology: Pineapples in Ghana. qmimeo
J Conley… - Economic Growth Center at Yale University, 2005
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: One aspect of financial markets that is of great relevance to economic development
is the study of credit mechanism design by lenders facing private information. This chapter
first develops a model of moral hazard in a rural credit market, beginning with the ...
[CITATION] Rural Credit in Northern Nigeria: Testing the Role of Credit as Insurance
E Aryeetey… - American Economic Review, 2010 - econ.yale.edu
Insecure property rights over land have multiple ramifications for agriculture and the
organization of rural economic activity (Besley and Ghatak 2009). The risk that land will be
expropriated deters investment. Insecure property rights reduce the ability of borrowers to ...
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: The basic model of household structure and behaviour in the field of economic
development is that of a household that is jointly engaged in production and consumption—
an 'agricultural household model'. With complete markets, household production is ...
[CITATION] Rural financial markets
C Udry… - Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2005
AN Berger, NH Miller,
MA Petersen, RG Rajan… - 2004 - Citeseer
Abstract: Theories based on incomplete contracting suggest that small organizations may
have a comparative advantage in activities that make heavy use of soft information. We
explore this idea in the context of bank lending to small businesses. We find that large ...
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This chapter first characterizes Pareto-efficient allocation of risk within a
community. A discussion of the documented existence of ex post insurance mechanisms
within communities in less developed countries, and of quantitative studies of community- ...
[CITATION] Rural Household Asset Choice in Ghana
E Aryeetey… - Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1999
H Alderman, J Hoddinott, LJ Haddad… - FCND discussion …, 1995 - ideas.repec.org
Within many African households, agricultural production is simultaneously carried out on
many plots controlled by different members of the household. Detailed plot-level agronomic
data from Burkina Faso provides striking evidence of inefficiencies in the allocation of ...
[CITATION] Rural Financial markets in Developing Countries
JC an d Christopher Udry - Discussion Paper
[CITATION] Learning about a new technology: pineapple growers in Ghana
TG Conley… - Preprint, Northwestern University, 2000
[CITATION] August, 2004.“Child Labor.”
C Udry
[CITATION] Readings in Development Economics
P Bardhan… - 2000 - MIT
[CITATION] Survey on Agricultural Innovation and Resource Management in Rural Households in Ghana, 1998
M Goldstein… - Data and survey instruments available at http://www. …
[CITATION] Risk and Insurance in a Rural Credit Market: An Empirical Investigation in Northern Nigeria. Evanston: Northwestern University
C Udry - 1993 - Mimeo
[CITATION] Learning and Innovation: The Adoption of Pineapple in Ghana
T Conley… - Manuscript: Yale University, 1999
[CITATION] santosh Anagol. 2006.“The Return to Capital in Ghana.”
C Udry - American Economic Review
[CITATION] Institutions and Development: A View From Below (Working Paper)
R Pande… - mimeo, Economic Growth Center
[CITATION] Agricultural Innovation and Resource Management in Ghana: Final Report to IFPRI Under MP17
MP Goldstein… - 1999 - University of California
[CITATION] Agricultural Innovation and Resource Management in Ghana
C Udry… - Gender and Intra-household Aspects of Food Policy. …, 2003
[CITATION] A note on the returns to capital in a developing country
C Udry - 2003 - Mimeo, Yale University
[CITATION] Drought and saving in West Africa: are livestock a buffer stock?
F Marcel, C Udry… - Journal of Development Economics, 1998
[CITATION] Institutions and Development: A View from Below
C Udry… - Yale University, Economic Growth Center Discussion …, 2005
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Focuses on the equity-efficiency trade-off that is central to the analysis of poverty,
looking in particular at cases in which a consideration of aspects such as information,
externalities, and transaction costs reveals the trade-off to be false or exaggerated. A brief ...
C Udry - AERC Conference, Mombasa, 2010 - econ.yale.edu
Page 1. The Economics of Agriculture in Africa: Notes Toward a Research Program Christopher
Udry Yale University Department of Economics April, 2010 1 Introduction The World Development
Report 2008 provides a vivid account of the recent history of agrarian ...
[CITATION] Institutions and Development, A view from Below
P Rohini… - The Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of the …, 2005
[CITATION] Child Labour, Economic Growth Center of Yale University
C Udry - 2003 - Center Discussion Paper
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Begins with a note on the two-way relationship between poverty and the
environment and on the U-shaped curve relating economic development and environmental
quality. The next section elucidates the problem of overexploitation of natural resources ...
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Begins with a dual economy model focusing on the relation between labour
transfer from agriculture to industry and the resultant pressure on food prices and on what
this implies for the industrial wage rate. Contrary to the horizontal labour supply curve of ...
E Aryeetey… - 2009 - gc.cuny.edu
Access to land and security of tenure are prerequisites for development in both rural and
urban areas. Fairly regularly, difficult access to land has been put forward as an explanation
for poverty in many parts of Ghana. Increasingly, however, greater attention is being paid ...
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This chapter first presents a model of learning-by-doing and learning from others in
which farmers learn about the optimal target input for a new technology by observing the
input choice and yield on their own and on neighbouring farms. Because of this 'social ...
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Outlines models that tackle the puzzle of wage rigidity existing under conditions of
severe unemployment or underemployment in developing countries. It begins with efficiency
wage models of agricultural labour markets in which employers pay wages above market- ...
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Lists some of the issues explored through micro models in subsequent chapters of
the book. Also discusses the general economic methodology followed throughout the book.
In particular, the assumption of maximization in household behaviour and its place in the ...
DR Lee, CB Barett,
JA List… - Amer. J. Agr. …, 2005 - ajae.oxfordjournals.org
Lee, DR and CB Barett, eds. Tradeoffs or Synergies? Agricultural Intensification, Eco- nomic
Development and the Environment (Krishna P. Paudel) 262 List, John A. and Aart de Zeeuw,
eds. Recent Advances in Environmental Economics (Edna Loehman) 263 Dolšak, Nives ...
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This chapter is about models that show how intersectoral complementarities in the
economy generate multiple equilibria, highlighting the policy problem of moving away from a
'low-level equilibrium trap'by coordinating expectations. In the first model, we present a ...
Farming in sub-Saharan Africa outside South Africa typically takes place on small plots
cultivated by individuals. The land tenure system is often described as 'communal', meaning
that land is owned by a kin-based or political group and that individuals obtain the right to ...
1 Contact information: dean. karlan@ yale. edu (Yale University, Innovations for Poverty
Action, MIT Jameel Poverty Action Lab, and NBER); ryan. knight@ yale. edu (Yale University
and Innovations for Poverty Action), and christopher. udry@ yale. edu (Yale University, ...
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Begins with a discussion of why industrialization is usually accompanied by the
concentration of industries in urban areas. It then introduces the Harris–Todaro model,
which has been the dominant model of migration in the subject of economic development. ...
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: The conventional household model of family planning focuses on the trade-offs that
households face between the number of children, investment in the children, and
consumption. While the model provides insights into the fertility behaviour of families, it is ...
C Udry - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Esther Duflo, winner of the 2010 John Bates Clark Medal, has made extraordinary
contributions to development economics. She exemplifies and has played a vital role in the
renaissance of development economics over the past decade. She has erected and ...
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Starts with an illustration of the effect of growth on the terms of trade between a rich
and a poor country, using a simple comparative-static framework. Next, we study the pro-
competitive effects of trade liberalization in inputs with a model in which an import- ...
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Commences with some comments on the evolution of property rights in land and
on reasons for rural land markets being relatively 'thin'; the rest of the chapter then analyzes
the more active land-lease market. First, a principal-agent model of tenancy under ...
P Bardhan… - Development Microeconomics, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Studies the economics behind the agrarian institutional arrangement of interlinked
transactions. First, a model of credit-labour interlinkage in which a landlord-employer
provides a loan to a peasant in the slack season as part of a contract that entails the latter ...
[CITATION] Empirical microeconomics
PB Bardhan… - 2000 - MIT Press
C Udry - Understanding Poverty, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: In order to construct effective policies to address the problem of child labor, it is
necessary to understand the circumstances that lead parents to send their children to work.
The essay is organized as follows. The second section briefly describes some of the main ...
[CITATION] Peasants and governments: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989
C Udry - The economic journal, 1991
WP Reforms, WK Easter… - Amer. J. Agr. …, 2001 - ajae.oxfordjournals.org
Levin, Simon A. Fragile Dominion: Complex- ity and the Commons (Stephen Polasky), 246
Dinar, Ariel, ed. The Political Economy of Water Pricing Reforms (R. Bruce Rettig), 247
Easter, William K., Mark W. Rosegrant, and Ariel Dinar. Markets for Water: Potential and ...
[CITATION] Northern Nigeria Credit and Savings Survey, February 1988--February 1989
C Udry, TN Srinivasan… - 1996 - Inter-university Consortium for …
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