John
McPeak
John
McPeak
Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration
336 Eggers Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13210
Office Phone: 315-443-6146
Fax: 315-443-9721
e-mail: jomcpeak@maxwell.syr.edu
Courses:
PPA 723 Managerial Economics for Public Administrators
PPA 757/ ECN 661 Economics of Development
PPA 730-4 Institutions and Economic Change
Education:
PhD in Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1999)
MA in Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1996)
BA in Economics and Sociology, Saint Lawrence University (1988)
Publications:
Journal Articles
"Challenging Orthodoxies: Understanding Poverty in Pastoral Areas of East Africa." With Peter Little, Christopher B. Barrett, and Patti Kristjanson. Development and Change Forthcoming.
"Interpersonal, Intertemporal and Spatial Variation in Risk Perceptions: Evidence from East Africa." With Cheryl Doss and Christopher B. Barrett. World Development. Forthcoming.
"Understanding Declining Mobility and Interhousehold Transfers Among East African Pastoralists." With Marieke Huysentruyt and Christopher B. Barrett. Economica. Forthcoming.
"Educational Investments in a Dual Economy" With Andrew Mude, Christopher B. Barrett and Cheryl Doss. Economica 74:351-369. (2007)
"Bayesian Herders: Updating of Rainfall Beliefs In Response To External Forecasts." With Travis Lybbert, Christopher B. Barrett, and Winnie Luseno. World Development 35(3):480-497. (2007)
"Confronting the Risk of Asset Loss: What role do livestock transfers in northern Kenya play?" Journal of Development Economics. 81(2): 415-437. (2006)
"Are Household Production Decisions Cooperative? Evidence on Pastoral Migration and Milk Sales from Northern Kenya." With Cheryl R. Doss. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 88(3): 525-541. (2006)
“Welfare Dynamics in Rural Kenya and Madagascar,” 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)
"Policy, Technology and Management Strategies for Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Transformation." Agricultural Economics. With David R. Lee and Christopher B. Barrett. 34(2): 123-127. (2006) Introduction for a special issue.
"The Dynamics of Coupled Human and Natural Systems." Environment and Development Economics. With David. R. Lee and Christopher B. Barrett. 11:9-13 (2006) Introduction for a special section.
“Individual and Collective Rationality in Pastoral Production: Evidence from Northern Kenya.” Human Ecology. 33(2): 171-197 (2005)
"Contrasting Income Shocks with Asset Shocks: Livestock Sales in Northern Kenya.” Oxford Economic Papers. 56: 263-284. (2004)
“Analyzing and Addressing Localized Degradation in the Commons.” Land Economics 78(4): 515-536 (2003)
“Assessing the Value of Climate Forecast Information for Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya” with Winnie Luseno, Christopher B. Barrett, Peter Little and Getachew Gebru. World Development. 31(9):1477-1494. (2003)
“Differential Risk Exposure and Stochastic Poverty Traps Among East African Pastoralists,” with Christopher B. Barrett. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 83:3 674-679. (2001)
“Diversity in Income Generating Activities for Sedentarized Pastoral Women in Northern Kenya,” with Immaculate Nduma and Patti Kristjanson. Human Organization. 60(4): 319-325 (2001)
Book Chapters
"The Environment and Development." in The International Handbook of Development Economics. Amitava Krishna Dutt and Jamie Ros (Eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing. (forthcoming)
"Introduction." With Peter D. Little in Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges. John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little. Editors. IT Publishing.
"Livestock Marketing in Marsabit District, Kenya, over the past fifty years." in Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges. John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little. Editors. IT Publishing.
"Livestock Market Organization and Price Distributions in Northern Kenya." With Alan M. Green, Christopher B. Barrett, and Winnie K. Luseno. in Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges. John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little. Editors. IT Publishing.
"Policy Implications and Future Research Directions." With Peter D. Little and Montague W. Demment in Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges. John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little. Editors. IT Publishing.
“Poverty Traps and Safety Nets.” with Christopher B. Barrett, in Poverty, Inequality and Development: Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke. Alain de Janvry and Ravi Kanbur (eds.). Springer. (2006)
“Simulation Noise and the Estimation of Land Use Decisions in Kenya.” in Applications of Simulation Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics Riccardo Scarpa and Anna Alberini (eds.). Springer. (2005)
“Cursed If You Do, Cursed If You Don’t: the contradictory processes of pastoral sedentarization in Northern Kenya.” with Peter D. Little in As Pastoralists Settle: Social, Economic, and Health Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Northern Kenya, Eric Roth and Elliot Fratkin (eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers. (2005)
Books
Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges. John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little. Editors. IT Publishing. Order form
Research Projects:
Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program:
Livestock Marketing in Kenya and Ethiopia (PI)
"Livestock Marketing in Kenya and Ethiopia: Proceedings of a workshop held in Nairobi Kenya August 11-13.” Edited by John McPeak. Mimeo, Syracuse University. (September 2003) Nairobi Workshop Proceedings
This is the project that lead to the book noted above.
Pastoral Risk Management Project (co-PI)
"Do Pastoral Husbands and Wives in Northern Kenya View Milk Markets Differently?" Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 06-02-PARIMA
"Empirical Forecasting of Slow-Onset Disasters for Improved Emergency Response: An application to Kenya's Arid Lands" Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 06-07-PARIMA
"Variation in Risk Perceptions across Individuals, Time, and Space: Evidence from Pastoral East Africa." Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 06-08-PARIMA
"Development Priorities in the Rangelands of Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia: Results of a Ranking Exercise Among Pastoralists." Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 06-09-PARIMA
"Linkages Among Community, Environmental, and Conflict Management: Experiences from Northern Kenya." With Guyo Haro and Godana Doyo. Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 05-01-PARIMA
"Do Livestock Transfers Among Gabra Herders Insure Against Herd Loss?" Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 05-09-PARIMA
"Herd Accumulation: Pastoral Strategy to Reduce Risk Exposure." Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 04-05-PARIMA.
"Constraints Limiting Marketed Livestock Offtake Rates Among Pastoralists." Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 04-06-PARIMA.
“Fuelwood Gathering and Use in Northern Kenya: Implications for Food Aid and Local Environments.” Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 03-01-PARIMA.
“Pastoral Sedentarization and Community Resilience in Response to Drought: Perspectives from Northern Kenya.” Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 03-02-PARIMA.
“Pastoralists’ Use of Markets.” Global Livestock CRSP Research Brief 01-04-PARIMA.
Other briefs available at: http://aem.cornell.edu/special_programs/AFSNRM/Parima/research.htm
BASIS-Collaborative Research Support Program
Rural Markets, Natural Capital, and Dynamic Poverty Traps in East Africa (team member)
"Poverty Traps and Resource Degradation." With Chris Barrett, Larry Blume, Bart Minten, Festus Murithi, Ben Okumu, Alice Pell, Frank Place, Jean Claude Randrianarisoa, and Jhon Rasambainarivo. BASIS Brief #6, (January 2002.)
Reconciling Rural Poverty Reduction and Resource Conservation: Identifying Relationships and Remedies (co-organizer with Chris Barrett and David Lee)
AMAREW , working with an Ethiopian researcher on livestock crop interactions in the area of Debre Berhan, Ethiopia.
Some photos from Northern Kenya:
CV: CV0907mcpeak.pdf