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THE DEVELOPMENT FIELD
AGRICULTURAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
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Some Current Research Projects:
Information Sharing in Microfinance
Credit-reporting bureaus and the deepening of financial services for the rural poor in Latin America
Risk and Consumption Smoothing
Methods for consumption smoothing over idiosyncratic shocks
Education programs
Education programs for the rural poor, Mexico and Brazil
Other Research Projects:
Deforestation
Payments for environmental services in the Mexican ejido
Poverty Mapping
Econometric techniques for deriving more detailed poverty profiles around the world
(Research project continuing at the World Bank)
Some Recent Dissertations:
Clair Null. 2009.
(Advisor: Ethan Ligon)
Donors' Decisions and Dirty Drinking Water: Three Essays on Development Economics
Peter Kelly. 2009. (Advisor: Alain de Janvry)
Farmland Reforestation in China
Robert Santillano. 2009. (Advisor: Ann Harrison)
Essays on Immigrant Students in Public Schools - Evidence from North Carolina
Jenny Aker. 2008.
(Advisor: Max Auffhammer)
Three Essays on Markets and Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa
Celine Ferre. 2008. (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Three Essays in Development Economics
James Manley. 2008. (Advisor: Peter Berck)
Clinics, Stoves and Ill-behaved Children: Essays in Health and Development Economics
Sarah Baird. 2007.
(Advisor: Ethan Ligon)
Three Seemingly Unrelated Essays in Development Economics
Xiangyi (Daniel) Meng. 2007. (Advisors: Ethan Ligon)
Essays on China's Economic Development
Frederico Finan. 2006.
(Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet).
Political Corruption
Manisha Shah. 2006. (Advisor: Ethan Ligon)
Risk Behavior,
Occupational Choice, and Regulation of Sex Workers: Evidence from Mexico and
Ecuador
Ruth Uwaifo-Oyere. 2006. (Advisor: Brian Wright)
Geopolitical, time and cohort differences in returns to education: the
Nigerian story
Tomoki Fujii. 2005. Three essay on poverty mapping and targeting.
Tania Barham . 2005.
Providing a Healthier Start to Life: The Impact of Managed Care and Conditional Cash Transfers on the Health of Low Income Children (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth
Sadoulet)
Making Babies Healthier by Providing a Managed Care Option to California's Poor (May 2003)
Providing a Healthier
Start to Life: The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Infant Mortality
(January2005)
The Impact of the Mexican Conditional Cash Transfers on Vaccination Rates (May 2005)
Laura Schechter. 2005. (Advisor: Ethan Ligon)
Trust, Trustworthiness, and Risk in Rural Paraguay.
Jennifer Alix-Garcia. 2005.
A Tale of Two Communities (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: A Spatial Analysis of Common Property Deforestation
A Tale of Two Communities: Explaining Deforestation in Mexico
Payments
for Environmental Services: To whom, for what and how much?
Fang Lai. 2005. (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
The Impact of School Quality and Peer Influence on Educational Outcome-Insights from Middle School Education of Beijing's Eastern City District
Karen Macours . 2003.
Matching in the land rental market: causes and consequences for access to land
in Latin America (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Insecurity of Property Rights and Matching in the Tenancy Market (May
2003)
Comparing a Direct with an Indirect Approach to Collecting
Household Level Data: Who tells the truth? (Jun 2003)
Ethnic Divisions, Interlinkages and Search Costs in the Guatemalan
Land Rental Market (Sept 2003)
Diana Clark Rodriguez . 2003.
Evaluating the effects of social programs. (Advisor: Jeff Perloff).
Caridad Araujo. 2003.
The role of the local context and non-agricultural employment on poverty
reduction: micro and macro evidence from rural Mexico. (Advisors: Alain de
Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Participation in off-farm employment in rural Mexico: the role of
individual attributes, the local context, and social networks
Spatial patterns of non-agricultural employment growth in rural Mexico
during the 90s
Non-agricultural employment growth and rural poverty reduction
in Mexico during the 90s
Craig McIntosh. 2003.
Impact Analysis in Microfinance. (Advisors: Alain de
Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Estimating Treatment Effects from Spatial Policy Experiments: An Application to Ugandan Microfinance
The Use of Two Control Groups in Quasi-Experimental Program Evaluation
Investment, Inequality, and Risk in a Closed, Poor Economy
Renos Vakis. 2002.
The impact of market failures on household behavior: explaining labor
market segmentation, technology adoption patterns and transaction costs in
rural Peru. (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Searching for failures in the Peruvian labor market via mixture models.
Transactions costs and the role of bargaining and information: Evidence
from Peru.
Overcoming credit market failures: A paradigm of diversification for technology adoption in
Peru.
Minnie Ames. 2002. "Three Essays on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Indonesia"
(Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Paul Gertler)
Nalinee Sangrujee. 2001. In sickness or in health: Risk of infant mortality and the demand for
immunization. (Advisor: Ethan Ligon)
Camille Antinori. "Vertical Integration in Mexican Common Property
Forests". (Advisor: Gordon Rausser)
Contractual Hazards and Vertical Integration in Mexico's Community
Forestry Sector (with Gordon Rausser)
Carlos Muñoz-Piña. 2001. Recrafting rights over common property resources in Mexico: Divide,
incorporate, and equalize. (Advisor: Alain de Janvry)
Ming Chen. 2001. Development and the Environment.
Erin McCormick. 2001. Reducing Poverty in the Andes with genetically improved potato varieties: The
importance of knowledge and risk. (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Melanie Raymond. 2001. Schooling and migration in rural Mexico. (Advisor: Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Norman Offstein. 2001. The behavior of a Guerrilla movement. (Advisor: Ethan Ligon)
Markus Goldstein. 2000. Intra-household allocation and farming in Southern Ghana. (Advisors: Alain de
Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Tamara Fox. 2000. Stated and revealed preferences for fertility regulation in
Tanzania. (Advisor: David Zilberman)
Lipper, Leslie. 1999. The logic of Swidden : poverty and environmental determinants of household farming
system choice. (Advisor: David Zilberman)
Narain, Urvashi. 1998. Essays on common property resources with applications to forestry and global
warming. (Advisor: Ethan Ligon)
Edmonds, Christopher. 1998. Policy regimes, agrarian institutions, and the performance of smallholder
agriculture in Chile : three essays analyzing longitudinal survey data on Chilean peasant
farms. (Advisor Alain de Janvry)
Murgai, Rinku. 1997. Localized reciprocity, self-insurance, and agricultural productivity in South
Asia. (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Davis, Benjamin. 1997. Economic reform and the determinants of income among agricultural households in
Mexico and Nicaragua. (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Key, Nigel. 1997. Modeling and estimating agricultural household behavior under imperfect
markets. (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Warning, Matthew. 1997. Three essays in economic development : village intermediaries, rural labor, and
income mobility. (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Hart, Tracy. 1997. Spatially efficient management of a sea water intruded aquifer. (Advisor: David
Zilberman)
Leonard, Kenneth. 1997. Contractural structure of health care in rural Cameroun. (Advisor: Elisabeth
Sadoulet)
Winters, Paul. 1996. Three essays in economic development : migration networks, village-level risk
sharing, and agriculture in development. (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Carletto, Calogero. 1996. Non-traditional agro-exports among smallholders in Guatemala. (Advisors: Alain
de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
Brière, Bénédicte de la. 1996. Household behavior towards soil conservation and remittances in the
Dominican Sierra. (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
McCarthy, Nancy. 1996. Common property and cooperation in rural Mexico. (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and
Elisabeth Sadoulet)