Christopher B. Barrett

Biography

Chris Barrett is Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and an international professor of agriculture at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, as well as a professor in the Departments of Economics and of Global Development, and a fellow of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, all at Cornell University. He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Food Policy, edits the Palgrave Macmillan book series Agricultural Economics and Food Policy, and co-edits the Elsevier Handbook of Agricultural Economics, volumes 5 and 6. He has won several university, national, and international awards for teaching, research and public outreach, and is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and the African Association of Agricultural Economists.

Selected Publications

• The Economics of Poverty Traps, Ed. Christopher Barrett, Ed. Michael Carter, Ed. Jean-Paul Chavas. University of Chicago Press. (2019): 464pp
• Jensen, Nathaniel; Barrett, Christopher; Mude, Andrew. "Cash Transfers and Index Insurance: A Comparative Impact Analysis From Northern Kenya"Journal of Development Economics. 129.1 (2017): 14-28
• Liang, Jingjing; Crowther, Thomas; Picard, Nicolas; Wiser, Susan; Zhou, Mo; et al. "Positive Biodiversity-productivity Relationship Predominant in Global Forests"Science. 354.6309 (2016): 196 and aaf8957-1-aaf8957-12
• Jagnani, Maulik; Barrett, Christopher; Liu, Yanyan; You, Liangzhi. "Within-Season Producer Response to Warmer Temperatures: Defensive Investments by Kenyan Farmers"Economic Journal. 131.633 (2021): 392-419
• Dillon, Brian; Barrett, Christopher. "Global Oil Prices and Local Food Prices: Evidence from East Africa"American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 98.1 (2016): 154-171
• Abay, Kibrom; Abate, Gashaw; Barrett, Christopher; Bernard, Tanguy. "Correlated Non-Classical Measurement Errors, ‘Second Best’ Policy Inference and the Inverse Size-Productivity Relationship in Agriculture"Journal of Development Economics. 139 (2019): 171-184
• Barrett, Christopher; Bevis, Leah. "The Self-reinforcing Feedback Between Low Soil Fertility and Chronic Poverty"Nature Geoscience. 8.12 (2015): 907-912
• Rohr, Jason; Barrett, Christopher; Civitello, David; Craft, Meggan; Delius, Bryan; et al. "Emerging Human Infectious Diseases and the Links to Global Food Production"Nature Sustainability (Online Only). 2.6 (2019): 445-456
• Barrett, Christopher; Constas, Mark. "Toward a theory of resilience for international development applications"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111.40 (2014): 14625-14630
• Barrett, Christopher; Cason, Jeffery; Lentz, Erin. Overseas Research: A Practical Guide: Third Edition. Routledge. 3rd (2020): 200pp

Awards and Honors

• USAID Science and Technology Pioneers Prize, Grand Prize winner (2013) US Agency for International Development
• Agricultural and Applied Economics Association’s Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award for ten or more years’ experience (2017)

Recent Courses

• AEM 2000 - Contemporary Controversies in the Global Economy
• AEM 7650/ECON 7650 - Development Microeconomics Graduate Research Seminar

Academic Degrees

• PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994
• MS University of Oxford, 1985
• BA Princeton University, 1984

In the News

• June 30, 2017 How to Feed More People Worldwide
• May 15, 2017 How to Help Africa Feed Itself
• September 01, 2016 Insurance for Economic Development