John McPeak

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Selected Papers and Abstracts since 2000

• Do Community Members Share Development Priorities? Results of a Ranking Exercise in East African Rangelands, John McPeak with C. Doss, C.B. Barrett, P. Kristjanson, Journal of Development Studies. 45(10): 1663-1683, 2009.
• Identifying Conservation Opportunities among Malinké Bushmeat Hunters of Guinea, West Africa, John McPeak with S. Pailler, J. Wagner, D. Floyd, Human Ecology. 37(4): 761-774 , 2009.
• Empirical Forecasting of Slow-Onset Disasters for Improved Emergency Response: an application to Kenya’s arid north., John McPeak with A. Mude, C. B. Barrett, R. Kaitho, P. Kristjanson, Food Policy. 34(4): 329-339 , 2009.
• Understanding Declining Mobility and Interhousehold Transfers Among East African Pastoralists., John McPeak with M. Huysentruyt, C. B. Barrett, Economica. 76: 315-336, 2009.
• Challenging Stereotypes: The Multiple Dimensions of Poverty in Pastoral Areas of East Africa, John McPeak with Peter Little, Christopher B. Barrett, and Patti Kristjanson, Development and Change 39(4): 587-611 , 2008.
• The Environment and Development, John McPeak, Amitava Krishna Dutt and Jamie Ros (eds.) Edward Elgar, International Handbook of Development Economics, p. 404-416., 2008.
• Welfare Dynamics in Rural Kenya and Madagascar, John McPeak, Journal of Development Studies, With Christopher B. Barrett, Paswel Phiri Marenya, Bart Minten, Festus M. Murithi, Willis Oluoch-Kosura, Frank Place, Jean Claude Randrianarisoa, Jhon Rasambainarivo and Justine Wangila 42(2): 248-277 (2006), 2006.
• , John McPeak with Peter D. Little , John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little. Editors. ITDG Publishing. (forthcoming - anticipated in April 2006), 2006.
• Livestock Marketing in Marsabit District, Kenya, Over the Past Fifty Years., John McPeak, in Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges. John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little. Editors. ITDG Publishing. (forthcoming - anticipated in April 2006), 2006.
• Livestock Market Organization and Price Distributions in Northern Kenya., John McPeak with Alan M. Green, Christopher B. Barrett, and Winnie K. Luseno, Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges. John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little. Editors. ITDG Publishing. (forthcoming - anticipated in April 2006), 2006.
• Policy Implications and Future Research Directions, John McPeak with Peter D. Little and Montague W. Demment, Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges. John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little. Editors. ITDG Publishing. (forthcoming - anticipated in April 2006), 2006.
• Poverty Traps and Safety Nets, John McPeak with Christopher B. Barrett, Poverty, Inequality and Development: Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke. Alain de Janvry and Ravi Kanbur (eds.). Springer. (2006), 2006.
• The Dynamics of Coupled Human and Natural Systems, John McPeak, January 2006.
• Are Household Production Decisions Cooperative? Evidence on Pastoral Migration and Milk Sales from Northern Kenya., John McPeak with Cheryl R. Doss, American Journal of Agricultural Economics. (forthcoming in August issue), 2005.
• Confronting the Risk of Asset Loss: What role do livestock transfers in northern Kenya play?, John McPeak, Journal of Development Economics. (forthcoming)., 2005.
• Policy, Technology and Management Strategies for Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Transformation., John McPeak, Agricultural Economics. With David R. Lee and Christopher B. Barrett. (forthcoming). Introduction for a special issue., 2005.
• Individual and Collective Rationality in Pastoral Production: Evidence from Northern Kenya., John McPeak, Human Ecology. 33(2): 171-197 (2005), 2005.
• Linkages Between Community, Environmental, and Conflict Management: Experiences from Northern Kenya., John McPeak with Guyo Haro and Godana Doyo, World Development 33(2): 285-299 (2005), 2005.
• Simulation Noise and the Estimation of Land Use Decisions in Kenya, John McPeak, Applications of Simulation Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics Riccardo Scarpa and Anna Alberini (eds.). Springer. (2005), 2005.
• Cursed If You Do, Cursed If You Don’t: the contradictory processes of pastoral sedentarization in Northern Kenya., John McPeak with Peter D. Little , As Pastoralists Settle: Social, Economic, and Health Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Northern Kenya, Eric Roth and Elliot Fratkin (eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers. (2005) , 2005.
• Educational Investments in a Dual Economy, John McPeak with Andrew Mude, Christopher B. Barrett and Cheryl Doss, Economica (forthcoming), October 2005.
• Linkages Between Community, Environmental and Conflict Management: Experiences from Northern Kenya, Guyo Haro, Godana Doyo and John McPeak, World Development, 33(2), pp. 285-299, January 2005.
• Institutional Arrangements for Rural Poverty Reduction and Resource Conservation, Christopher B. Barrett, David R. Lee and John G. McPeak, World Development, 33(2), pp. 193-197, January 2005.
• Analyzing and Addressing Localized Degradation in the Commons, John McPeak, Land Economics, 78(4), pp. 515-536, November 2003.
• Assessing the Value of Climate Forecast Information for Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya, Winnie K. Luseno, John G. McPeak, Christopher B. Barrett, Peter D. Little and Getachew Gebru, World Development, 31(9), pp. 1477-1494, September 2003.