Christopher Udry
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- PhD Economics University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christopher R. Udry is an American economist who currently serves as King Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. Udry is the co-founder and current co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab at the Kellogg School of Management. Udry's research focuses mostly on development economics, in particular rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa, to which he owes his position as one of the world's most prominent agricultural economists.
Christopher Udry's Published Works
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Published Works
- Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana (2010) (1986)
- Gender, Agricultural Production, and the Theory of the Household (1996) (1416)
- The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana (2005) (1132)
- Risk and Insurance in a Rural Credit Market: An Empirical Investigation in Northern Nigeria (1994) (1114)
- Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints (2012) (928)
- Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote D'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices (2003) (802)
- Drought and Saving in West Africa: Are Livestock a Buffer Stock? (1996) (782)
- A multifaceted program causes lasting progress for the very poor: Evidence from six countries (2015) (764)
- Consumption Smoothing? Livestock, Insurance and Drought in Rural Burkina Faso (2004) (606)
- Gender Differentials in Farm Productivity: Implications For Household Efficiency and Agricultural Policy (1995) (542)
- Credit Markets in Northern Nigeria: Credit as Insurance in a Rural Economy (1990) (520)
- Institutions and Development: A View from Below (2005) (366)
- Risk and Saving in Northern Nigeria (1995) (324)
- Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries (2021) (218)
- The Return to Capital in Ghana (2006) (207)
- RATIONING, SPILLOVER, AND INTERLINKING IN CREDIT MARKETS: THE CASE OF RURAL PUNJAB (1997) (175)
- Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali (2014) (136)
- Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries (2005) (136)
- Impact of savings groups on the lives of the poor (2017) (125)
- Crop Price Indemnified Loans for Farmers: A Pilot Experiment in Rural Ghana (2011) (124)
- Social Networks in Ghana (2004) (114)
- Consulting and capital experiments with microenterprise tailors in Ghana (2015) (105)
- The Characteristics of Informal Financial Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (1997) (100)
- Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development (2012) (100)
- Profitability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali (2013) (100)
- Readings in development microeconomics (2000) (98)
- Poor mental health in Ghana: who is at risk? (2013) (86)
- Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture (2019) (83)
- Production Relations in Semi‐Arid African Agriculture (1991) (81)
- The Dual Economy (1999) (70)
- Estimation of Type 3 Tobit models using symmetric trimming and pairwise comparisons (1997) (69)
- Efficiency and Market Structure : Testing for Profit Maximization in African Agriculture (1996) (65)
- External Validity in a Stochastic World: Evidence from Low-Income Countries (2019) (65)
- The economics of agriculture in Africa: Notes toward a research program (2010) (65)
- Psychological distress in Ghana: associations with employment and lost productivity (2013) (57)
- Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages Over the Agricultural Production Cycle (2014) (57)
- Land Tenure (2021) (54)
- The Characteristics of Informal Financial Markets in Africa (1995) (47)
- Saving in Sub-Saharan Africa (2000) (47)
- Fieldwork, Economic Theory, and Research on Institutions in Developing Countries (2003) (43)
- Creating Property Rights: Land Banks in Ghana (2010) (42)
- Forecasting Profitability (2013) (31)
- Empowerment and use of antenatal care among women in Ghana: a cross-sectional study (2014) (30)
- Gender differentials in farm productivity (1995) (29)
- Unpacking a Multi-Faceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Very Poor (2018) (28)
- A call for structured ethics appendices in social science papers (2021) (27)
- Recent Advances in Empirical Microeconomic Research in Poor Countries: An Annotated Bibliography (1997) (26)
- Households and the Social Organization of Consumption in Southern Ghana (2007) (24)
- Gender, Land Rights and Agriculture in Ghana∗ (2002) (24)
- Machine learning and phone data can improve targeting of humanitarian aid (2022) (23)
- The Role of Middlemen in Marketing and Credit Outcomes in Ghana (2015) (22)
- External Validity in a Stochastic World (2016) (20)
- Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance (2021) (20)
- Gender, Power and Agricultural Investment in Ghana1 (2003) (16)
- Misallocation, Growth and Financial Market Imperfections (2012) (13)
- Risk, Insurance and Default in a Rural Credit Market: An Empirical Investigation in Northern Nigeria (1991) (10)
- A Competitive Analysis of Rural Credit: State-Contingent Loans in Northern Nigeria (1991) (10)
- Institutional Economics and the State in Economic Development (1999) (10)
- Financial Liberalisation and Financial Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Synthesis (1997) (9)
- Impact Assessment of Savings Groups Findings from Three Randomized Evaluations of CARE Village Savings and Loan Associations programs in Ghana , Malawi and Uganda Final Report Innovations for Poverty Action (2012) (8)
- Flickering Decades of Agriculture and Agricultural Policy (2017) (8)
- Tackling psychosocial and capital constraints to alleviate poverty (2022) (8)
- Does Poverty Change Labor Supply? Evidence from Multiple Income Effects and 115,579 Bags (2020) (8)
- Esther Duflo: 2010 John Bates Clark Medalist (2011) (7)
- The Impact of Immigration on Natives in the Antebellum U . S . Labor Market , 1850-60 (1996) (6)
- Assessing the Benefits of Long-Run Weather Forecasting for the Rural Poor: Farmer Investments and Worker Migration in a Dynamic Equilibrium Model (2019) (6)
- Pathways out of Extreme Poverty: Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-Faceted Social Protection Program in Niger (2021) (6)
- Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana (2021) (5)
- Social Networks in Ghana 1 (2004) (5)
- Good Identification, Meet Good Data (2019) (5)
- Performance and adoption factors for open pollinated and hybrid maize varieties: Evidence from farmers’ fields in northern Ghana (2018) (5)
- Risk and Insurance in an Agricultural Economy (1999) (5)
- Social Protection Amidst Social Upheaval: Examining the Impact of a Multi-Faceted Program for Ultra-Poor Households in Yemen (2020) (5)
- ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY, INCOME AND MARKET ACCESS OF RURAL PRODUCERS IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF CONTRACT FARMING IN NIGERIA By Prof. Aderibigbe S. Olomola (2010) (5)
- The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources : Evidence from Ghana (2020) (5)
- Forecasting Profitability 1 (4)
- Agronomic performance of open pollinated and hybrid maize varieties: Results from on-farm trials in northern Ghana: (2018) (4)
- Crop price indemnified loans for farmers (2010) (4)
- Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights: Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda (2019) (4)
- Networks, Local Institutions and Agriculture in Africa: Notes Toward a Research Program (2009) (4)
- Does Community-Based Development Empower Citizens? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Ghana (2016) (4)
- How Political Insiders Lose Out When International Aid Underperforms: Evidence from a Participatory Development Experiment in Ghana (2020) (4)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy among Ghana's Rural Poor Is Effective Regardless of Baseline Mental Distress (2022) (4)
- Impact Evaluation of a New Millennium Village in Northern Ghana: Initial Design Document and Peer Review Assessment (2013) (4)
- The Targeting Performance and Short-Term Welfare Effects of Female Income Support Programs : Evidence from Pakistan (2017) (3)
- Fragmented Credit Markets (1999) (3)
- Readings in Development Economics, Volume I: Micro-Theory (2000) (2)
- Interlinkage of Transactions and Rural Development (1999) (2)
- Human Capital and Income Distribution (1999) (2)
- Readings in Development Economics: Empirical Microeconomics (2000) (2)
- Technological Progress and Learning (1999) (2)
- Financial Markets, Investment and Productivity in African Agriculture (2015) (2)
- Consumption Smoothing and Livestock in Rural Burkina Faso ∗ (2004) (2)
- Escaping Poverty: Comparing Livelihood Approaches for the Ultra-Poor in Ghana (2020) (2)
- Evidence paper: Firm capabilities and economic growth (2014) (2)
- Incentives for joint land titling : Experimental evidence from Uganda Presenter (2018) (1)
- Identifying Bias in Luminosity-Based Estimation: A Local Level Assessment of Night Light Data as a Proxy for Economic Activity Author: Anand Lal-Tabak Thesis Advisor: Professor Christopher Udry (2019) (1)
- Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights (2019) (1)
- Heterogeneity, Measurement and Misallocation in African Agriculture (2017) (1)
- The Rural Land Market (1999) (1)
- Comparing Yields and Profits of Seed Varieties in Northern Ghana (2018) (1)
- Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana (2022) (1)
- The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources (2020) (1)
- Readings in Development Economics: Micro-Theory (2000) (1)
- Igc Evidence Paper Firm Capabilities and Economic Growth Evidence Paper Firm Capabilities and Economic Growth (2013) (1)
- Explaining African Economic Growth Performance Conference Series Saving in Sub-Saharan Africa (2000) (1)
- Poverty Alleviation: Efficiency and Equity Issues (1999) (0)
- Intersectoral Complementarities and Coordination Failures (1999) (0)
- Child Labor (1909) (0)
- Opportunities to Improve the Expansion and Impact of Agricultural Lending in Mali (2022) (0)
- Cash and Compliance with Social Distancing: Experimental Evidence from Ghana (2020) (0)
- CENTRE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH SOCIAL NETWORKS, EXTENDED FAMILIES, AND CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING: FIELD EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH AFRICA (2004) (0)
- Development outreach 8 (1) : equity and development (2006) (0)
- Impact Evaluation of a New Millennium Village in Northern Ghana Peer Review Group assessment of the initial design document (2013) (0)
- Building a Sustainable System of Agricultural Extension around Schools in Liberia (2021) (0)
- Replication data for: Rainfall Forecasts, Weather, and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle (2019) (0)
- Employing the Ultra-Poor in Ghana: Investigating Rural Labor Markets (IGC Working Paper) (2012) (0)
- Building a Sustainable System of Rural Education in Liberia (2021) (0)
- NO . 888 SOCIAL NETWORKS IN GHANA (2004) (0)
- Rainfall Insurance, Agricultural extension, Information asymmetry, and Small-holder farmer adoption practices in the Northern Region of Ghana (2020) (0)
- Gender , Power and Agricultural Investment in Ghana 1 (2003) (0)
- Can easier access to credit help lift Ghanaian farmers out of poverty (2013) (0)
- Graduating the Ultra-Poor in Ghana (2020) (0)
- SERIES PREFERENCES OVER LEISURE AND CONSUMPTION OF SIBLINGS AND INTRA-HOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION Martina Kirchberger (2014) (0)
- Environment and Development (1999) (0)
- Introduction: Land and property rights (2014) (0)
- Disseminating Innovative Resources and Technologies to Smallholder Farmers in Ghana (2018) (0)
- Readings in Development Economics, Volume II: Emprical Microeconomics (2000) (0)
- [Peer pressure and motivation of alcoholic and drug dependent patients to accept treatment]. (1997) (0)
- The Returns to Investment in a New Technology (2006) (0)
- Fragmented Markets: Labour (1999) (0)
- Trade and Development (1999) (0)
- Networks, Local Institutions and Agriculture (2009) (0)
- Examining Underinvestment in Agriculture (IGC Policy Brief) (2012) (0)
- Marketing, Tractor Coordination and Technology Adoption (2019) (0)
- Blue Porches: Finding the Limits of External Validity of the Endowment Effect (2020) (0)
- Digital Credit and Agriculture: A Randomized Experiment in Ghana (2020) (0)
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