"Structural Change & Falling Farm Productivity: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa", by Christopher Udry, Northwestern University (Venue: SIPA 1-100)

Dr. Christopher Udry is the Robert E. and Emily King Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He is a development economist whose research focuses on rural economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa. He has conducted extensive field research in West Africa on technological change in agriculture, the use of financial markets, asset accumulation and gift exchange to cope with risk, gender relations and the structure of household economies, property rights, and a variety of other aspects of rural economic organization. He spent two years as a secondary school teacher in northern Ghana, and has been a visiting scholar at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and at the University of Ghana at Legon. He served on the editorial boards of American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Development Economics, and Economic Development and Cultural Change. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Board Member of Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. For more information, please visit his website here.