Christopher Udry

Research interests

Publications

• Agricultural Technology in Africa

  The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.36.1.33

• Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries

  Science Advances · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe0997

• Impact of savings groups on the lives of the poor

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1611520114

• A multifaceted program causes lasting progress for the very poor: Evidence from six countries

  Science · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1260799

• Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints *

  The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qju002

• Learning about a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana

  American Economic Review · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.1.35

• The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana

  Journal of Political Economy · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1086/595561

• Consumption smoothing? Livestock, insurance and drought in rural Burkina Faso

  Journal of Development Economics · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.01.011

• Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.3386/w10498

• Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote D'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

  RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.28404

• Social Learning Through Networks: The Adoption of New Agricultural Technologies in Ghana

  American Journal of Agricultural Economics · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1111/0002-9092.00188

• Development Microeconomics

  Journal · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1093/0198773714.001.0001

• Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa

  Brookings Papers on Economic Activity · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.2307/2534695

• Drought and saving in West Africa: are livestock a buffer stock?

  Journal of Development Economics · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3878(98)00037-6

• Gender, Agricultural Production, and the Theory of the Household

  Journal of Political Economy · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1086/262050

• Gender differentials in farm productivity: implications for household efficiency and agricultural policy

  Food Policy · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9192(95)00035-d

• Risk and Insurance in a Rural Credit Market: An Empirical Investigation in Northern Nigeria

  The Review of Economic Studies · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.2307/2297901

• Risk and Saving in Northern Nigeria

  AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.294825

• Credit Markets in Northern Nigeria: Credit as Insurance in a Rural Economy

  The World Bank Economic Review · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/4.3.251

Current projects

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