Travis Lybbert
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Associate Professor 2155 Social Sciences & Humanities Office Hours: By Appointment Phone: (530) 554-1393 Fax: (530) 752-5614 |
Publications
- Travis Lybbert in Google Scholar
- Hybrid Public-Private Delivery of Preventative Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplement Products: Key Challenges, Opportunities and Players in an Emerging Product Space SCN News (UN Standing Committee on Nutrition) 39: 32-39.
- Agricultural Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Countries: Policy Options for Innovation and Technology Diffusion (with Daniel Sumner) Food Policy 37(2012): 114-123.
- Booming markets for Moroccan argan oil appear to benefit some rural households while threatening the endemic argan forest (with Abdellah Aboudrare, Deborah Chaloud, Nicholas Magnan) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(34) 23 Aug 2011: 13963–13968.
- Risk & Intertemporal Substitution: Livestock Portfolios & Off-take Among Kenyan Pastoralists (with John McPeak) Journal of Development Economics 97(2012): 415-426.
- Does the Red Flag Rule Induce Risk Taking in Spring Finishes? Moral Hazard Crashes in Cycling’s Grand Tours (with Troy C. Lybbert, Aaron Smith, and Scott Warren) Journal of Sports Economics In press.
- The Option Value of Delayed Input Use Under Catastrophic Drought Risk: The case of no-till in Morocco (with Nicholas Magnan, Rachid Mrabet, and Aziz Fadlaoui) American Journal of Agricultural Economics 93(2) (2011): 498-504.
- Modeling the Limitations and Implicit Costs of Cereal Self-Sufficiency: The Case of Morocco (with Nicholas Magnan, Alex F. McCalla, and Julian A. Lampietti) Food Security 3 (Suppl 1) (2011): S49-S60.
- Why Drought Tolerance is not the new Bt (with Adrian Bell) Nature Biotechnology 28(6)(2010):553-554.
- Household and Local Forest Impacts of Morocco's Argan Oil Bonanza (with Nicholas Magnan and Abdellah Aboudrare) Environment & Development Economics 15 (2010): 439-464.
- Dynamic Field Experiments in Development Economics: Risk valuation in Morocco, Kenya and Peru (with Glarza, F.B., J. McPeak, C.B.Barrett, S.R. Boucher, M.R. Carter, S. Chantarat, A. Fadlaoui, and A. Mude.) Agricultural & Resource Economics Review 39(2) (2010): 176-192.
- The Economic Roots of the American "Zigzag": Knives, Forks, and British Mercantilism. Economic Inquiry 48(3) (2010): 810-815.
- Risk Taking Behavior in the Presence of Nonconvex Asset Dynamics (with Christopher B. Barrett) Economic Inquiry (2010).
- Risk Averters that Love Risk? Marginal Risk Aversion in Comparison to a Reference Gamble (with David R. Just). American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(3) (2009): 612-26.
- Le Marché le l'huile d'Argan et son impact sur les ménages et la forêt dans la région d'Essaouira (with Abdellah Aboudrare and Nicholas Magnan) Transfert de Technologie en Agriculture No.175 Avril (2009).
- What's Extra Virgin? An Economic Assessment of California's Olive Oil Labeling Law (with Christopher Gustafson). Agricultural & Resource Economics Update 12:3 Jan/Feb (2009).
- Exploring the Role of Spiritual Capital in Poverty Traps & Microfinance Faith & Economics 51 (2008): 57-79.
- California Wine Grape Growers' Use of Powdery Mildew Forecasts (with W. Douglas Gubler). Agricultural & Resource Economics Update 11:4 March/April (2008).
- Is Risk Aversion Really Correlated with Wealth? How Estimated Probabilities Introduce Spurious Correlation (with David R. Just). American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89(4) (2007): 964-979.
- Polarization and Pricing to the Rich. Applied Economics Letters 14 (2007): 389-394.
- Patent Disclosure Requirements and Benefit Sharing: A counterfactual case of Morocco's argan oil. Ecological Economics 64 (2007): 12-18.
- Indian Farmers' Valuation of Yield Distributions: Will Poor Farmers Value "Poor" Seeds? Food Policy 31(5) (2006): 415-441.
- Risk Responses to Dynamic Asset Thresholds (with Christopher B. Barrett). Review of Agricultural Economics 29(3) (2007): 412-418.
- Bayesian Herders: Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Forecasts (with Christopher B. Barrett, John G. McPeak, and Winnie K. Luseno). World Development 35(3) (2006): 480-497.
- Does Resource Commercialization Induce Local Conservation? A Cautionary Tale from Southwestern Morocco (with Christopher B. Barrett and Hamid Narjisse). Society and Natural Resources 17 (2004): 413-430.
- Stochastic Wealth Dynamics and Risk Management Among a Poor Population (with Christopher B. Barrett, Solomon Desta, and D. Layne Coppock). The Economic Journal 114 (2004): 750-777.
- Technology Transfer for Humanitarian Use: Economic Issues and Market Segmentation Approaches IP Strategy Today, BioDevelopments-International Institute Inc., Ithaca, NY, no. 5-2002, pp. 17-25. Revised version in Journal of Food, Agriculture, & Environment, 1(3-4) (Aug 2003).
- Do Patents Come Too Easy? (with W. Lesser). Idea: The Journal of Law and Technology, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH, 44(3) (2003): 381-407.
- On Assessing the Cost of TRIPS Implementation. World Trade Review 1(3) (2002): 309-321.
- Market-Based Conservation and Local Benefits: The Case of Argan Oil in Morocco (with Christopher B. Barrett and Hamid Narjisse). Ecological Economics 41(1) (2002): 125-144.
- Is Bioprospecting A Viable Strategy for Conserving Tropical Ecosystems? (with Christopher B. Barrett). Ecological Economics 34 (2000): 293-300.
- Migration Effects of Olympic Siting: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Host Regions (with Dawn Thilmany) The Annals of Regional Science 34(3): 405-420.
Other Reports & Articles
- Agricultural Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Countries: Policy Options for Innovation and Technology Diffusion (with Daniel Sumner). ICTSD-IPC Platform on Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade Issue Brief No.6, May 2010, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (Geneva, Switzerland) and International Food & Agriculture Trade Policy Council (Washington DC).
- Costly measures vs. 'unconscionable' profits Op-Ed Palm Beach Post 10 November 2005. Here is a more readable version.