WILLIAM A. MASTERS
Professor of
Agricultural Economics,
Journal articles
available on-line, by topic[*]
Innovation and technological change
“Paying for
Prosperity: How and Why to Invest in Agricultural R&D in Africa”
(2005), Journal
of International Affairs, 58(2): 35-64.
“Research
Prizes: A New Kind of Incentive for
Innovation in African Agriculture” (2005), International Journal of
Biotechnology 7(1/2/3): 195-211.
“Genetic Improvement
and Cocoa Yields in Ghana” (2005),
with James Edwin. Experimental Agriculture,
41(4), in press.
“Complementarity and Sequencing of Innovations” (2004), with Michael Johnson. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 13(1): 19-31.
“Research Prizes: A
Mechanism to Reward Agricultural Innovation in Low-Income Regions”
(2003), AgBioForum 6(1&2): 71-74.
“An African Growth Trap: Production Technology and the Time-Consistency of Agricultural Taxation, R&D and Investment” (2003), with Margaret S. McMillan. Review of Development Economics, 7(2): 179-191.
"The experience of resettled farmers in Zimbabwe" (2003), with Sophia Chiremba. African Studies Quarterly 7(2-3).
“Investing in Soils: Field
Bunds and Microcatchments in Burkina Faso” (2002), with Harounan Kazianga, Environment and Development Economics, 7(3): 571-591.
"Climate and Scale in Economic Growth" (2001), with Margaret S. McMillan, Journal of Economic Growth, 6(3): 167-186.
“Understanding the Political
Economy of Agriculture in the Tropics” (2000), with Margaret S. McMillan, Amer.
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 82(3): 738-42.
“Technical change in
Senegal’s irrigated rice sector: impact assessment under uncertainty”
(2000), with Monica G. Fisher and Mamadou Sidibé, Agricultural Economics, 24(2):
179-197
“Gender and Agricultural
Change: Crop-Livestock Interaction in Senegal” (2000), with Monica G.
Fisher and Rebecca Warner, Society and Natural Resources, 13(3): 203-222.
“Pasture Taxes and
Agricultural Intensification in Southern Mali” (1998), with Timothy J.
Dalton, Agricultural Economics,
19(1-2): 27-32.
“The Impact of
Agricultural Research in Africa: Aggregate and Case Study Evidence” (1998),
with Touba Bedingar and James F. Oehmke,
Agricultural Economics 19(1-2): 81-86.
“Production Costs and
Input Substitution in Zimbabwean Agriculture” (1997) with Timothy J. Dalton
and Kenneth A. Foster, Agricultural Economics 17 (2‑3):
201‑209.
“Returns from Research in
Economies with Policy Distortions: Hybrid Sorghum in Sudan” (1995) with
Mohamed M. Ahmed and John H. Sanders, Agricultural Economics 12: 183-192.
Markets and trade
“Welfare Gains from Quality
Certification of Infant Foods: Results from a Market Experiment in Mali”
(2002), with Diakalia Sanogo, American
Journal of Agricultural Economics,
84(4): 974-989.
“A Market-Based Approach
to Child Nutrition: Mothers’ Demand for Quality Certification of Infant Foods
in Bamako, Mali” (2002), with Diakalia Sanogo, Food Policy, 27(3):
251-268.
“Testing the Link
between Public Intervention and Food Price Variability: Evidence from Rice
Markets in the Philippines” (2002), with Elmer Martinez and Gerald E.
Shively, Pacific Economic Review,
7(3): 545-554.
“L’Europe,
L’Afrique du Sud, et l’Afrique Australe: Intégration Régionale dans un Contexte
Mondial” (2000), with Rob Davies and Thomas W. Hertel, Revue d’Economie du Developpement,
3: 113-134. Summary available on-line
in English, as published by DPRU at the
“The Uruguay Round and
Africa: A Global, General Equilibrium Analysis” (1998), with Thomas W.
Hertel and Aziz Elbehri, Journal of African Economies 7(2): 208‑234.
“Measuring Exchange Rate
Misalignment: Inflation Differentials and Domestic Relative Prices” (1998),
with Elena Ianchovichina, World Development 26(3): 465-77.
“Spatial Analysis of Maize Market
Policy Reform in
"Measuring the Comparative
Advantage of Agricultural Activities: Domestic Resource Costs and the Social
Cost-Benefit Ratio" (1995) with Alex Winter-Nelson, American Journal of Agricultural
Economics 77(2): 243-250.
"Measuring Protection in
Agriculture: the Producer Subsidy Equivalent Revisited" (1993),
"The Scope and Sequence of
Grain Market Reform in
"Panterritorial
versus Regional Pricing for Maize in Zimbabwe" (1993), with
Ernst-August Nuppenau, World Development 21(10): 1647-1658.
"Trade Policy and Agriculture:
Measuring the Real Exchange Rate in
Other
material available online
Government and Agriculture in
Zimbabwe (1994), Praeger Publishing, 256 pages.
The
Economic Impact of Agricultural Research: A Practical Guide,
with spreadsheet exercises. Also
available in French. Distributed by CD-ROM and website: http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/staff/masters/ImpactCD/ImpactInfo.htm
[*] For articles with no link, or if the link does not allow you to access the article, please send me a message and I will email a reprint to you.