Thomas Pinckney
Dean of the CDE
Director of Graduate Studies 1992-1996
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University 1986
Fields
rural development, food policy, agricultural growth
Country Experience
Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Tanzania
Publications and Working Papers
- Thomas Pinckney, "Why Low Inequality Spurs Growth: Savings and
Investment by the Poor," (with Nancy Birdsall and Richard Sabot) in Inequality, the State, and Social
Values, forthcoming.
- ___________, "Does Education Increase Agricultural Productivity in
Africa?" in Issues in Agricultural Competetiveness: Markets and
Policies, 1996.
- ___________, "Education and Agricultural Productivity in Kenya," (with
Kaye Husbands and Tobias Konyango) in Public
Expenditure and Economics Growth in Africa, 1996.
- ___________, "Smallholder Wood Production and Population Pressure in
East Africa: Evidence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve?" (with Sandeep
Patel and William Jaeger) Land Economics,
November 20, 1995.
- ___________, "Land Tenure Reform in East Africa: Good, Bad, or
Unimportant," (with Peter Kimuyu) Journal of African Economies,
1994.
- ___________, "Is Market Liberilization Compatible with Food Security?
Storage, Trade, and Price Policies for Maize in Southern Africa," Food
Policy, 1993.
- ___________, "The Effects of Pricing Policy on Seasonal Storage of
Wheat in Pakistan," Agricultural Economics, 1991.
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Economics