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- The intertemporal evolution of agriculture and labor over a rapid structural transformation: Lessons from Vietnam.. Food Policy. 94:101913. 2020
- Within-Season Producer Response to Warmer Temperatures: Defensive Investments by Kenyan Farmers. The Economic Journal. 2020
- Measurement Error Mechanisms Matter: Agricultural Intensification with Farmer Misperceptions and Misreporting. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 2020
- Correlated Non-Classical Measurement Errors, Second Best Policy Inference and the Inverse Size-Productivity Relationship in Agriculture. Journal of Development Economics. 139:171-184. 2019
- Signalling change: Micro insights on the pathways to agricultural transformation 2019
- Effects of climate variability on freshwater fisheries in Cambodia's rice field fisheries: a longitudinal cohort study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2. 2018
- How basis risk and spatiotemporal adverse selection influence demand for index insurance: Evidence from northern Kenya. Food Policy. 74:172-198. 2018
- Preferential Resource Spending Under an Employment Guarantee: The Political Economy of Mgnregs in Andhra Pradesh. The World Bank Economic Review. 32:1-569. 2018
- The 'Discouraged Worker Effect' in Public Works Programs: Evidence from the MGNREGA in India. World Development. 100:31-44. 2017
- Cash transfers and index insurance: A comparative impact analysis from northern Kenya. Journal of Development Economics. 129:14-28. 2017
- Variable Returns to Fertiliser Use and the Geography of Poverty: Experimental and Simulation Evidence from Malawi. Journal of African Economies. 26:342-371. 2017
- Welfare Impacts of Index Insurance in the Presence of a Poverty Trap. World Development. 94:119-138. 2017
- Agricultural Index Insurance for Development 2017
- Assessing the Impact of U.S. Food Assistance Delivery Policies on Child Mortality in Northern Kenya.. PLOS ONE. 11. 2016
- Well-Being Dynamics and Poverty Traps. Annual Review of Resource Economics. 8:303-327. 2016
- Poverty Traps and the Social Protection Paradox. National Bureau of Economic Research. 223-256. 2016
- Structural Transformation and Intertemporal Evolution of Real Wages, Machine Use, and Farm Size–Productivity Relationships in Vietnam 2016
- Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Index-Based Livestock Insurance Demand in Southern Ethiopia. World Development. 78:324-340. 2016
- INDEX INSURANCE QUALITY AND BASIS RISK: EVIDENCE FROM NORTHERN KENYA. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 98:1450-1469. 2016
- The 'Discouraged Worker Effect' in Public Works Programs: Evidence from the MGNREGA in India. Social Science Research Network. 2016
- Learning large-scale dynamic discrete choice models of spatio-temporal preferences with application to migratory pastoralism in East Africa 2015
- The favourable impacts of Index-Based Livestock Insurance: Evaluation results from Ethiopia and Kenya 2015
- The subjective wellbeing gains from insurance that does not pay out 2015
- Index Insurance and Cash Transfers: A Comparative Analysis from Northern Kenya 2014
- How Basis Risk and Spatiotemporal Adverse Selection Influence Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya 2014
- Variable Returns to Fertilizer Use and Its Relationship to Poverty: Experimental and Simulation Evidence from Malawi 2014
- The Political Economy of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Spending in Andhra Pradesh 2014
- Measuring resilience in a risky world: Why, where, how, and who? 2014
- Preferential resource allocation? Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Andhra Pradesh 2014
- Economic instruments for nature conservation 2013
- Designing Index-Based Livestock Insurance for Managing Asset Risk in Northern Kenya. Journal of Risk and Insurance. 80:205-237. 2013
- Heterogeneous pro–poor targeting in India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme 2012
- Modeling the Impact of Natural Resource-Based Poverty Traps on Food Security in Kenya: The Crops, Livestock and Soils in Smallholder Economic Systems (CLASSES) Model. Food Security. 4:423-439. 2012
- Insuring against drought-related livestock mortality: Piloting index-based livestock insurance in northern Kenya 2011
- Insuring Against Drought‐Related Livestock Mortality: Piloting Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya 2010
- Dynamic Field Experiments in Development Economics: Risk Valuation in Morocco, Kenya, and Peru. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. 39:176-192. 2010
- Index based livestock insurance for northern Kenya?s arid and semi-arid lands: the Marsabit Pilot. Project summary 2010
- Do community members share development priorities? Results of a ranking exercise in East African rangelands. Journal of Development Studies. 45:1663-1683. 2009
- Empirical Forecasting of Slow-Onset Disasters for Improved Emergency Response: An Application to Kenya's Arid North. Food Policy. 34:329-339. 2009
- Spatial integration at multiple scales: rice markets in Madagascar. Agricultural Economics. 40:281-294. 2009
- Designing index based livestock insurance for managing asset risk in northern Kenya 2009
- Index Based Livestock Insurance for Northern Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: The Marsabit Pilot 2009
- Index-based livestock insurance: Logic and design 2009
- Agricultural Technology, Productivity and Poverty in Madagascar. World Development. 36:797-822. 2008
- Challenging Orthodoxies: Understanding Poverty in Pastoral Areas of East Africa. Development and Change. 39:587-611. 2008
- Insuring the never before insured: explaining index insurance through financial education games 2008
- Renegotiating the Food Aid Convention: Background, context, and issues. GLOBAL GOVERNANCE. 14:283-304. 2008
- Renegotiating the food aid convention, Background, context, and issues 2008
- Productivity in Malagasy rice systems: wealth-differentiated constraints and priorities. Agricultural Economics. 37:225-237. 2007
- Using Weather Index Insurance to Improve Drought Response for Famine Prevention. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 89:1262-1268. 2007
- Decentralization and the social economics of development: an overview of concepts and evidence from Kenya 2007
- Poverty traps and climate risk: limitations and opportunities of index-based risk financing 2007
- Welfare dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar. Journal of Development Studies. 42:248-277. 2006
- Fractal Poverty Traps. World Development. 34:1-15. 2006
- BAYES' ESTIMATES OF THE DOUBLE HURDLE MODEL IN THE PRESENCE OF FIXED COSTS 2005
- Does food aid really have disincentive effects? New evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. World Development. 33:1689-1704. 2005
- Pastoralist Livestock Marketing Behavior in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia: An Analysis of Constraints Limiting Off-Take Rates 2004
- Food aid for market development in Sub-Saharan Africa 2004
- Prospects for integrated soil fertility management using organic and inorganic inputs: evidence from smallholder African agricultural systems. Food Policy. 28:365-378. 2003
- Livestock pricing in the Northern Kenyan rangelands. Journal of African Economies. 12:127-155. 2003
- Technological change and price effects in agriculture, conceptual and comparative perspectives 2003
- TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND PRICE EFFECTS IN AGRICULTURE: CONCEPTUAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 2002
- The Double Hurdle Model in the Presence of Fixed Costs 2001
- Crossbred Cow Adoption and Milk Market Participation in Multivariate Count Data Framework 2001
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- Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests 2016
- Index-based insurance: Lottery ticket or insurance? 2015
- A proposal for measuring resilience in a risky world 2014
- The political economy of MGNREGS spending in Andhra Pradesh 2014
- Guaranteed employment and the poor, The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme 2013
- Index-Based Livestock Insurance in northern Kenya: An analysis of the patterns and determinants of purchase 2012
- Dynamic field experiments in development economics: Risk valuation in Morocco, Kenya and Peru 2009
- Insuring against drought-related livestock mortality: Piloting index based livestock insurance in northern Kenya 2009
- The performance of index based livestock insurance: ex ante assessment in the presence of a poverty trap 2009
- Willingness to pay for index based livestock insurance: results from a field experiment in northern Kenya 2009
- Food aid and dependency, Implications for emergency food security assessments 2005
- Natural resources management in African agriculture: understanding and improving current practices 2002
- Towards improved natural resource management in African agriculture 2002
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- Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY. 3:974-976. 2020
- Opinion: Measuring development resilience in the world’s poorest countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112:11423-11425. 2015
- Research Principles for Developing Country Food Value Chains. Science. 332:1154-1155. 2011
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- On research strategy for the new one CGIAR: Editor's introduction. Food Policy. 2020
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