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Ethan Ligon

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First Name:Ethan
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http://are.berkeley.edu/~ligon
207 Giannini Hall #3310 University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
Terminal Degree:1994 Department of Economics; University of Chicago (from RePEc Genealogy)

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Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (United States)
http://areweb.berkeley.edu/
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Working papers

  1. Hamilton, Stephen & Ligon, Ethan & Shafran, Aric, 2023. "Spatial Procurement of Farm products and the Supply of Processed Foods: Application to the Tomato Processing Industry," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt1g81h250, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  2. Ligon, Ethan, 2023. "Risk sharing tests and covariate shocks," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt2zr503fq, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  3. Lang, Megan & Ligon, Ethan, 2022. "SMS Surveys of Selected Expenditures," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt7p7336h5, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  4. Ligon, Ethan, 2020. "Estimating Household Welfare from Disaggregate Expenditures," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt3ts0g5tn, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  5. Li, Zhimin & Ligon, Ethan, 2020. "Inferring informal risk-sharing regimes: Evidence from rural Tanzania," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt50f6t3fh, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  6. Ligon, Ethan & Christiaensen, Luc & Sohnesen, Thomas P, 2020. "Should Consumption Sub-Aggregates be Used to Measure Poverty?," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt9b9929jh, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  7. Ligon, Ethan & Schechter, Laura, 2019. "Structural experimentation to distinguish between models of risk sharing with frictions in rural Paraguay," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt6vp5g054, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  8. Ligon, Ethan & Sadoulet, Elisabeth, 2017. "Estimating the Relative Benefits of Agricultural Growth on the Distribution of Expenditures," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt3zh92962, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  9. Johnsen, Reid & Ligon, Ethan & Schatzberg, Madeline, 2017. "US Farm-Household Consumption Expenditures and the Value of Crop Insurance," SCC-76 Meeting, 2017, March 30-April 1, Pensacola, Florida 256330, SCC-76: Economics and Management of Risk in Agriculture and Natural Resources.
  10. Ligon, Ethan & Collins, Elliott, 2017. "Asset Transfers and Household Neediness," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt24t720fk, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  11. Ligon, Ethan, 2016. "All \lambda-separable Frisch demands and corresponding utility functions," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt1w13q2f1, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  12. Ligon, Ethan, 2016. "Some $\lambda$-separable Frisch demands with utility functions," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt1s06c2zp, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  13. Laura Schechter & Ethan Ligon, 2013. "Structural Experimentation to Distinguish between Models of Risk Sharing with Frictions," 2013 Meeting Papers 174, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  14. Dubois, Pierre & Ligon, Ethan, 2012. "Incentives & Nutrition For Rotten Kids: The Quantity & Quality Of Food Allocated Within Philippine Households," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt2r96467x, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  15. Ligon, Ethan & Sadoulet, Elisabeth, 2011. "Estimating the effects of aggregate agricultural growth on the distribution of expenditures," CUDARE Working Papers 120420, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  16. Ligon, Ethan & Schechter, Laura, 2011. "The Value of social networks in rural Paraguay," CUDARE Working Papers 120419, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  17. Ligon, Ethan, 2011. "Dynamics, risk, and vulnerability," CUDARE Working Papers 120423, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  18. Ethan Ligon, 2011. "Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance," NBER Working Papers 16709, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  19. Ligon, Ethan & Schechter, Laura, 2011. "Motives for sharing in social networks," CUDARE Working Papers 120376, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  20. Adam, Christopher & Hoddinott, John & Ligon, Ethan, 2011. "Dynamic intrahousehold bargaining, matrimonial property law and suicide in Canada," CUDARE Working Papers 120422, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  21. Dubois, Pierre & Ligon, Ethan, 2011. "Incentives and nutrition for rotten kids: intrahousehold food allocation in the Philippines," CUDARE Working Papers 120421, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  22. Ligon, Ethan A., 2010. "Measuring Risk by Looking at Changes in Inequality: vulnerability in Ecuador," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt8vj75725, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  23. Dubois, Pierre & Ligon, Ethan A., 2010. "Nutrition and Risk Sharing within the Household," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt2td8z1g3, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  24. Carter, Colin A. & Rausser, Gordon C. & Smith, Aaron & Sumner, Dan & Wright, Brian & Alston, Julian M. & Beddow, Jason & Pardey, Philip & Ligon, Ethan & de Janvry, Alain & Sadoulet, Elisabeth, 2008. "ARE Update Volume 12, Number 2," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt0xv4q8fr, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  25. Hueth, Brent & Ligon, Ethan & Melkonyan, Tigran A., 2008. "Interactions between Explicit and Implicit Contracting: Evidence from California Agriculture," 2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida 6068, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
  26. Cao, Heping & Ligon, Ethan & Meng, Xiangyi, 2006. "Can Growth Compensate Inequality and Risk?---a welfare analysis for Chinese households," 2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA 21458, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
  27. Ethan Ligon, 2005. "Poverty and the Welfare Costs of Risk Associated with Globalization," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2005-57, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  28. Ligon, Ethan & Schechter, Laura, 2004. "Evaluating different approaches to estimating vulnerability," Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes 30159, The World Bank.
  29. Ligon, Ethan, 2004. "Targeting and Informal Insurance," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt4km8q3gv, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  30. Hueth, Brent & Ligon, Ethan, 2003. "On the Efficacy of Contractual Provisions for Processing Tomatoes," 2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada 21990, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
  31. Ligon, Ethan, 2002. "Estimation of an Efficient Tomato Contract," Staff General Research Papers Archive 10235, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
  32. Ethan Ligon & Laura Schechter, 2002. "Measuring Vulnerability: The Director's Cut," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2002-86, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  33. Ligon, Ethan, 2002. "Dynamic Bargaining in Households (with application to Bangladesh)," CUDARE Working Papers 25102, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  34. Ligon, Ethan & Schechter, Laura, 2002. "Measuring Vulnerability," 2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA 19899, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
  35. Hueth, Brent & Wolf, Stephen & Ligon, Ethan, 2001. "Policing Mechanisms in Agricultural Contracts," Staff General Research Papers Archive 5257, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
  36. Hueth, Brent & Ligon, Ethan, 2001. "Estimation Of An Optimal Tomato Contract," 2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL 20560, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
  37. Hueth, Brent & Ligon, Ethan, 2001. "Agricultural Markets As Relative Performance Evaluation," Staff General Research Papers Archive 5036, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
  38. Hueth, Brent & Ligon, Ethan & Wolf, Stephen & Wu, Steven, 1999. "Incentive Instruments in Agricultural Contracts: Input Control, Monitoring, Quality Measurement, and Price Risk," Staff General Research Papers Archive 5237, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
  39. Hueth, Brent & Ligon, Ethan, 1999. "Agricultural Supply Response Under Contract," Staff General Research Papers Archive 5039, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
  40. Hueth, Brent & Ligon, Ethan, 1998. "Quality Measurement And Risk-Sharing In Contracts For California Fruits And Vegetables," 1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT 20957, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
  41. Conley, Timothy G. & Ligon, Ethan, 1998. "Economic Distance, Spillovers, And Cross-Country Comparisons," CUDARE Working Papers 25037, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  42. Ethan Ligon & Jonathan P. Thomas & Tim Worrall, 1998. "Mutual Insurance, Individual Savings and Limited Commitment," Keele Department of Economics Discussion Papers (1995-2001) 98/14, Department of Economics, Keele University.
  43. Hueth, Brent & Ligon, Ethan, 1998. "Producer Price Risk and Quality Measurement," CUDARE Working Papers 198661, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  44. Ligon, Ethan & Thomas, Jonathan & Worrall, Tim, 1997. "Informal Insurance Arrangements in Village Economies," CUDARE Working Papers 198657, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  45. Ligon, Ethan & Narain, Urvashi, 1997. "Government Management of Village Commons: Evaluating Joint Forest Management," CUDARE Working Papers 198655, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  46. Ligon, Ethan, 1997. "Panel Data And Euler Equations," CUDARE Working Papers 25011, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  47. Ligon, Ethan, 1996. "Risk Sharing And Information: Theory And Measurement In Village Economies," CUDARE Working Papers 25091, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  48. Ligon, Ethan, 1995. "Computing Private Information Equilibria: Moral Hazard In An Indian Village," CUDARE Working Papers 25035, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  49. Ligon, Ethan, 1995. "Altruism And Markets," CUDARE Working Papers 25115, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  50. Ligon, Ethan, 1994. "Risk-Sharing Under Varying Information Regimes: Theory and Measurement in Village Economies," CUDARE Working Papers 201473, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
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Articles

  1. Stephen Hamilton & Scott Kjorlien & Ethan Ligon & Aric Shafran, 2024. "Spatial Procurement of Farm Products and the Supply of Processed Foods: Application to the Tomato Processing Industry," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 64(1), pages 11-33, February.
  2. Luc Christiaensen & Ethan Ligon & Thomas Pave Sohnesen, 2022. "Consumption Subaggregates Should Not Be Used to Measure Poverty," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 36(2), pages 413-432.
  3. Ethan Ligon & Laura Schechter, 2020. "Structural Experimentation to Distinguish between Models of Risk Sharing with Frictions in Rural Paraguay," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 69(1), pages 1-50.
  4. Li, Zhimin & Ligon, Ethan, 2020. "Inferring informal risk-sharing regimes: Evidence from rural Tanzania," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 177(C), pages 941-955.
  5. Ethan Ligon & Badal Malick & Ketki Sheth & Carly Trachtman, 2019. "What explains low adoption of digital payment technologies? Evidence from small-scale merchants in Jaipur, India," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(7), pages 1-22, July.
  6. Ligon, Ethan & Sadoulet, Elisabeth, 2018. "Estimating the Relative Benefits of Agricultural Growth on the Distribution of Expenditures," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 109(C), pages 417-428.
  7. Ethan Ligon, 2016. "Some λ-Separable Frisch Demands with Utility Functions," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 36(1), pages 68-74.
  8. Ligon, Ethan, 2016. "All λ-separable demands and rationalizing utility functions," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 147(C), pages 16-18.
  9. Ethan Ligon, 2012. "Cooperation, Reciprocity and Altruism in Developing Countries: Discussion," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 94(2), pages 419-421.
  10. Ligon, Ethan & Schechter, Laura, 2012. "Motives for sharing in social networks," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 99(1), pages 13-26.
  11. Ethan Ligon, 2009. "Risk Management in the Cooperative Contract," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 91(5), pages 1211-1217.
  12. Brent Hueth & Ethan Ligon & Carolyn Dimitri, 2007. "Agricultural Contracts: Data and Research Needs," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 89(5), pages 1276-1281.
  13. Hueth, Brent & Ligon, Ethan & Dimitri, Carolyn, 2007. "AJAE Appendix: Agricultural Contracts: Data and Research Needs," American Journal of Agricultural Economics APPENDICES, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 89(5), pages 1-7, December.
  14. Ligon, Ethan, 2006. "Poverty and the welfare costs of risk associated with globalization," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 34(8), pages 1446-1457, August.
  15. Ligon, Ethan, 2005. "Formal Markets and Informal Insurance," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 25(1), pages 75-88, March.
  16. Ethan Ligon, 2004. "Using Production Data to Design Efficient Contracts," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 86(3), pages 848-853.
  17. Ligon, Ethan, 2003. "Optimal risk in agricultural contracts," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 75(2-3), pages 265-276.
  18. Ethan Ligon & Laura Schechter, 2003. "Measuring Vulnerability," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 113(486), pages 95-102, March.
  19. Ethan Ligon & Jonathan P. Thomas & Tim Worrall, 2002. "Informal Insurance Arrangements with Limited Commitment: Theory and Evidence from Village Economies," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 69(1), pages 209-244.
  20. Brent Hueth & Ethan Ligon, 2002. "Estimation of an efficient tomato contract," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 29(2), pages 237-253, June.
  21. Conley, Timothy G & Ligon, Ethan, 2002. "Economic Distance and Cross-Country Spillovers," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 7(2), pages 157-187, June.
  22. Brent Hueth & Ethan Ligon, 2001. "Agricultural Markets as Relative Performance Evaluation," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 83(2), pages 318-328.
  23. Ethan Ligon & Jonathan P. Thomas & Tim Worrall, 2000. "Mutual Insurance, Individual Savings and Limited Commitment," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 3(2), pages 216-246, April.
  24. Lehnert, Andreas & Ligon, Ethan & Townsend, Robert M., 1999. "Liquidity Constraints And Incentive Contracts," Macroeconomic Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 3(1), pages 1-47, March.
  25. Brent Hueth & Ethan Ligon & Steven Wolf & Steven Wu, 1999. "Incentive Instruments in Fruit and Vegetable Contracts: Input Control, Monitoring, Measuring, and Price Risk," Review of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 21(2), pages 374-389.
  26. Brent Hueth & Ethan Ligon, 1999. "Producer Price Risk and Quality Measurement," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 81(3), pages 512-524.
  27. Ligon, Ethan & Narain, Urvashi, 1999. "Government Management of Village Commons: Comparing Two Forest Policies," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 37(3), pages 272-289, May.
  28. Brent Hueth & Ethan Ligon, 1999. "Agricultural Supply Response Under Contract," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 81(3), pages 610-615.
  29. Ethan Ligon, 1998. "Risk Sharing and Information in Village Economies," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 65(4), pages 847-864.

Chapters

  1. Ethan Ligon, 2011. "Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance," NBER Chapters, in: The Intended and Unintended Effects of US Agricultural and Biotechnology Policies, pages 113-142, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Ethan Ligon, 2007. "Risk and the Evolution of Inequality in China in an Era of Globalization," NBER Chapters, in: Globalization and Poverty, pages 599-628, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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  1. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (13) 2009-11-27 2009-12-05 2010-05-22 2011-01-30 2012-03-28 2016-08-21 2017-02-26 2017-07-23 2018-09-03 2020-01-13 2022-10-24 2023-08-28 2024-02-05. Author is listed
  2. NEP-UPT: Utility Models and Prospect Theory (5) 2016-02-04 2016-02-04 2016-02-12 2016-08-21 2023-08-28. Author is listed
  3. NEP-DEV: Development (4) 2009-11-27 2009-12-05 2020-01-13 2020-09-07
  4. NEP-IAS: Insurance Economics (3) 2011-01-30 2018-09-03 2020-01-13
  5. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (1) 2019-05-20
  6. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (1) 2012-03-28
  7. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (1) 2012-03-28
  8. NEP-GTH: Game Theory (1) 2012-03-28
  9. NEP-NET: Network Economics (1) 2012-03-28
  10. NEP-SEA: South East Asia (1) 2010-05-22
  11. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (1) 2012-03-28

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