Selected Working Papers and Data

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  1. Creating Property Rights: Land Banks in Ghana, with Ernest Aryeetey. Forthcoming, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.
  2. Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana, with Tim Conley. Forthcoming, American Economic Review.
  3. Networks, Local Institutions and Agriculture in Africa: Notes Toward a Research Program, July 2009.
  4. The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana, with Markus Goldstein. Journal of Political Economy, December 2008
  5. Households and the Social Organization of Consumption in Southern Ghana, with Hyungi Woo. African Studies Review, 2007.
  6. Power Point presentation for "The Teaching of Africa", July 2009.
  7. The Return to Capital in Ghana, with Santosh Anagol, February 2006, AER Papers and Proceedings.
  8. Addressing Unequal Economic Opportunities: A Case Study of Land Tenure in Ghana, with Markus Goldstein. Development Outreach, February 2006.
  9. Institutions and Development: A View from Below, in Advances in Economics and Econometrics 2006, Blundell, Newey and Persson, eds., with Rohini Pande
  10. Consumption Smoothing? Livestock, Insurance and Drought in Rural Burkina Faso, Journal of Development Economics, 2006 with Harounan Kazianga.
  11. Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries,  Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2007, with Jonathan Conning.
  12. Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Côte d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices, December 2004, with Esther Duflo.
  13. Child Labor, in Banerjee, Benabou and Mookherjee, eds. Understanding Poverty, 2006.
  14. Social Networks in Ghana, May 2004 (Economic Growth Center Working Paper no. 888), with Tim Conley.
  15. Slides from “Mixing Methods” talk
  16. Fieldwork, Economic Theory and Research on Institutions in Developing Countries, January 2003.  A somewhat less terse version that ignores the AER Papers and Proceedings restrictions.
  17. Social Learning Through Networks: The Adoption of New Agricultural Technologies in Ghana, November 2000, with Tim Conley. Forthcoming, American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
  18. Informal notes on households, firms and networks in Africa, April, 2000.
  19. Gender and Land Resource Management in Southern Ghana, September 1999 with Markus Goldstein.
  20. Agricultural Innovation and Resource Management in Ghana with Markus Goldstein . September 1999. Here are the landscape figures and the portrat figures.
    This appendix contains reproductions of the survey instruments, and the schedule of their administration. The survey is still ongoing, but we'll be adding the raw data to this site as quickly as possible.
  21. Development Microeconomics, a graduate textbook I've written with Pranab Bardhan.
  22. Efficiency and Market Structure: Testing for Profit Maximization in African Agriculture, June 1997.
  23. Gender, Agricultural Productivity and the Theory of the Household, Journal of Political Economy, 1996 (104/5).
  24. Drought and Saving in West Africa: Are Livestock a Buffer Stock?, with Marcel Fafchamps and Katie Czukas. 1997, Journal of Development Economics.
  25. Risk and Saving in Northern Nigeria, American Economic Review, January 1996.
  26. Recent Advances in Empirical Microeconomic Research in Poor Countries,Journal of Economic Education, Winter 1997.
  27. The Characteristics of Informal Financial Markets in Africa, with Ernest Aryeetey, Journal of African Economies 1997 (6/1) .
  28. Documentation for the Northern Nigeria Rural Credit Survey. This is data that I collected in 1988-89 near Zaria, Northern Nigeria. One relevant reference is Udry, "Risk and Insurance in a Rural Credit Market: An Empirical Investigation in Northern Nigeria." Review of Economic Studies, 61, 1994. You can download the data. If you do download the data, I ask that you send me e-mail to let me know. I would also like to receive copies of any papers written using these data. The data are also available at the ICPSR as study number 1107.
  29. Estimation of Type 3 Tobit Models using Symmetric Trimming and Pairwise Comparisons, with Bo Honoré and Ekaterini Kyriazidou , This paper is available at the Journal of Econometrics web site.
  30. Archives of the Ghana survey questionnaires and associated documents. Partially modified to US format. In original wp format. In original word format.