deJanvry

Alain de Janvry

Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics

University of California at Berkeley

Agricultural & Resource Economics 
University of California at Berkeley 
207 Giannini Hall 
Berkeley, CA 94720-3310 
Office hours: Fri. 4:00-5:00pm
211 Giannini Hall
Phone: (510) 642-3348
FAX: (510) 643-8911

Courses 

ECON 171/ EEP 151 - INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (undergraduate).
     Course web page Tu Th 9:30-11am, 101 Morgan.

PP C253 / ARE C253 -- INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY: THEORY, METHODS, AND CASE STUDIES (graduate)
     course web page    F 10:00-12:00 pm in 3105 Echeverry.

DEVELOPMENT FIELD
     Current seminar, Monday 4-6 pm, 607-8 Evans
     Development field webpage

Link to the UC Center for International and Development Economics
CEGA - Center of Evaluation for Global Action


Recently Published Papers

Journal Articles (book chapters and other publications below)

    Bernard, Tanguy, Marie-Helene Collion, Alain de Janvry, Pierre Rondot, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2007. "Do Village Organizations Make a Difference in African Rural Development? A Study for Senegal and Burkina Faso." Forthcoming in World Development. pdf

    Alix-Garcia, Jennifer, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2008. "The Role of Deforestation Risk and Calibrated Compensation in Designing Payments for Environmental Services." Environment and Development Economics, 13(3): 375-394 pdf link.

    Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2007. "Optimal Share Contracts with Moral Hazard on Effort and in Output Reporting: Managing the Double Laffer Curve Effect." Oxford Economic Papers, 59: 253-274. link.

    Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2006. "Making Conditionnal Cash Transfers More Efficient: Designing for Maximum Effect of the Conditionality." World Bank Economic Review, 20:1-29. link

    Alain de Janvry, Frederico Finan, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Renos Vakis. 2006. "Can Conditionnal Cash Transfers Serve as Safety Nets in Keeping Children at School and from Working when Exposed to Shocks?" Journal of Development Economics, 79(2): 349-373. link

    McIntosh Craig, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2006. "How Rising Competition among Microfinance Lenders Affect Incumbent Village Bank", Economic Journal, 115(506):987-1004. link

    Qaim, Matin, and Alain de Janvry. 2005. "Bt Cotton and Pesticide Use in Argentina: Economic and Environmental Effects". Environment and Development Economics, 10: 179-200. pdf

    Finan Frederico , Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Alain de Janvry. 2005. "Measuring the Poverty Reduction Potential of Land in Mexico", Journal of Development Economics 77(1), pp. 27-51.link

    Alix-Garcia Jennifer , Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2005. "A Tale of Two Communities: Explaining Deforestation in Mexico", World Development 33(2), pp. 219-235. link

    de Janvry, Alain, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2004. "Fitting the Facts and Capitalizing on New Opportunities to Redesign Rural Development Programs in Latin America" Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, 42(3): 399-430. link

    Godtland, Erin, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Alain de Janvry, Rinku Murgai, and Oscar Ortiz. 2004. "The Impact of Farmer-Field-Schools on Knowledge and Productivity: A Study of Potato Farmers in the Peruvian Andes." Economic Development and Cultural Change pdf

    Araujo, Caridad, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2004. "Patrones espaciales del crecimiento del empleo no agricola en el Mexico rural en los anos noventa" Territorio y Economia 5: 11-28. pdf (in English)

    Qaim, Matin, and Alain de Janvry. 2004. "Cheaper GM Seeds Could Boost Adoption, Farm Benefits and Company Profits: The Case of Bt Cotton in Argentina". Crop Biotech Brief 4(1): 1-4. pdf

    de Janvry, Alain, and Amir Kassam. 2004. "Towards a Regional Approach to Research for the CGIAR and its Partners", Experimental Agriculture 40: 159-78.pdf

    Kassam, Amir, Hans Gregersen, Elias Fereres, Emil Javier, Richard Harwood, Alain de Janvry, and Michael Cernea. 2004. "A Framework for Enhancing and Guarding the Relevance and Quality of Science: The Case of the CGIAR". Experimental Agriculture 40: 1-21. pdf

    Qaim, Matin, Eugenio Cap, and Alain de Janvry. 2003. "Agronomics and Sustainability of Transgenic Cotton in Argentina". AgBioForum 6(1&2): 41-47. pdf

    Janssen, Willem, Amir Kassam, and Alain de Janvry. 2003. "A Regional Approach to Setting Research Priorities and Implementation: Towards Satisfying National, regional, and Global Concerns". Journal of Agricultural and Food Information 5(2): 67-100. pdf

    Matin Qaim and Alain de Janvry, "Genetically Modified Crops, Corporate Pricing Strategies, and Farmers' Adoption: The Case of Bt Cotton in Argentina" American Journal of Agricultural Economics , Vol. 85, No. 4, (Nov 2003), pp 814-828. pdf

    de Janvry, Alain and Elisabeth Sadoulet. "Depasser Bono: Comment rendre plus efficiente l'aide au developpement". Revue d'economie du developpement . 4 (2003) pdf

    Munoz-Pina Carlos, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. "Re-Crafting Rights over Common Property Resources in Mexico" Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2 (1): 129-158 (2003) pdf

    Dutilly-Diane, Celine, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry. "How Improved Natural Resource Management in Agriculture Promotes the Livestock Economy in the Sahel" Journal of African Economies, 2003(12): 343-370. link to journal, pdf . in French in Revue d'economie du developpement. 2004/1

Other publications

    World Bank. 2007. Agriculture for Development. World Development Report 2008. Alain de Janvry and Derek Byerlee, co-directors. link

    Alex-Garcia, Jennifer, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Juan Manuel Torres. 2005. An Assessment of Mexico's Payment for Environmental Services Program. FAO report pdf

    de Janvry, Alain, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2005. Can Mexico's Social Programs Help Reduce Poverty? Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Winter, pp. 8-12. pdf

    Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, 2006. "Access to Land and Development" New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, Palgrave Macmillan. pdf

    Goldstein, Markus Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2005. "Is a Friend in Need a Friend Indeed?" in Stephan Dercon (ed.) Insurance against Poverty, Oxford University Press. pdf

    de Janvry, Alain and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2004. Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Are They Really Magic Bullets? ARE Update, Vol. 7, No. 6 link

    Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. "Progress in the Modeling of Rural Households' Behavior under Market Failures." June 2003, forthcoming in Alain de Janvry and Ravi Kanbur (ed.) Poverty, Inequality and Development. Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke, Kluwer publishing pdf

    de Janvry, A.; Sadoulet, E. "Rural Poverty in Latin America: Determinants and Exit Paths. In: Mathur, S.; Pachico, D. Agricultural research and poverty reduction: Some issues and evidence". Economics and Impact Series 2. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia. p. 105-130. 2003.

    de Janvry, Alain, Gregory Graff, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and David Zilberman. "Agricultural Biotechnology and Poverty: Can the Potential be Made a Reality" FAO Policy Division book, 2003

    de Janvry, Alain and Elisabeth Sadoulet. "En busqueda del exito de las Politicas de Desarollo Rural, Implementation de una Vision Integral." In Ramos, Alvaro, ed. Desarollo Rural Sostenible con Enfoque territorial: Politicas y Estrategias para Uruguay . Montevideo: IICA. 2003.


Working Papers


Conference Presentations


Project Reports

Appendixes from published papers