William A. Masters (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana)

Submitted: Mon, 18 October 2004


William A. Masters
Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics
Purdue University
1145 Krannert Building
West Lafayette, Indiana  47907-1145   USA

phone:     765-494-4235
fax:       765-494-9176
e-mail:    wmasters@purdue.edu

Web page:  http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/staff/masters


Research on food policy, agriculture and economic development,
principally in West Africa (the Sahel region) and Southern Africa
(especially Zimbabwe).

Teach undergraduate course on agricultural development, and graduate
course in agricultural policy.

2003-04: Visiting Professor and Interim Executive Director, Center on 
Globalization and Sustainable Development, The Earth Institute and The 
Department of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
See: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/cgsd/masters


Selected recent publications

Books

1994   Government and agriculture in Zimbabwe.  Westport, CT: 
Praeger.

Chapters in books

2003   Forthcoming. "Climate, agriculture and economic 
development," in Land quality, agricultural productivity, and food 
scarcity. Ed. by K.D. Wiebe.  Cheltenham, UK; Northamption, MA: Edward 
Elgar.

        Forthcoming.  With M. McMillan. "Ethnolinguistic diversity, 
government and growth," in Welfare, ethnicity and algruism. Ed. by 
Frank Salter. London: Frank Cass.

1999    With Thomas W. Hertel, Mark J. Gehlhar. "Regionalism in world food 
markets: implications for trade and welfare," in Food security, 
diversification and resource management: refocusing the role of 
agriculture.  Ed. by G.H. Peters, D.D. Hedley.  Aldershot, UK: 
Dartmouth.

Journal articles

2003   Forthcoming  With Michael Johnson. "Complementarity and 
sequencing of innovations," Economics of innovation and new technology.

       "Research prizes: a mechanism to reward agricultural innovation in 
low-income regions," AgBioForum  6, 1 and 2 (2003): 1-5.

       With Margaret S. McMillan. "An African growth trap: production 
technology and the time-consistency of agricultural taxation, R&D and 
investment," Review of development economics  7, 3 (2003): 179-91.

2002   With Harounan Kazianga. "Investing in soils: field bunds and 
microcatchments in Burkina Faso," Environment and development economics 
7, 3 (2002): 571-91.
    
       With Diakalia Sanogo. "Welfare gains from quality certification of 
infant foods: results from a market experiment in Mali," American journal 
of agricultural economics  84, 4 (2002): 974-89.

       With Diakalia Sanogo.  "A market-based approach to child nutrition: 
mothers' demand for quality certification of infant foods in Bamako, 
Mali," Food policy  27, 3 (2002): 251-68.

2001   With Margaret S. McMillan. "Climate and scale in economic growth," 
Journal of economic growth  6, 3 (2001): 167-86.

2000   With Margaret S. McMillan. "Understanding the political economy of 
agriculture in the tropics," American journal of agricultural economics  
82, 3 (2000): 738-42.

       With Monica G. Fisher, Mamadou Sidibé. "Technical change in 
Senegal's irrigated rice sector: impact assessment under uncertainty," 
Agricultural economics  24, 2 (2000): 179-97.

       With Monica G. Fisher, Rebecca Warner. "Gender and agricultural 
change: crop-livestock interaction in Senegal," Society and natural 
resources  13, 3 (2000): 203-22.