Gerald Shively
Biographic Data
| ID | 371333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald Shively |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald |
| FAMILY NAME | Shively |
| SIGNATURE | SHIVELY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0460-0762 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 279 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Stocks and shocks: Assessing the relative roles of public and private inventories in buffering rice price volatility in the Philippines
Public stockholding of food is politically contentious and economically challenging. Although private stocks are generally understood to be more efficient than public stocks at providing a reliable buffer against production shortfalls, private stocks often fail to stabilize prices during extreme food market shocks. Moreover, maintaining large public stock programs in which the government acts as the buyer or seller of last resort, can be very cos…
Excess calorie availability and adult BMI: A cohort analysis of patterns and trends for 156 countries from 1890 to 2015
Current trends in adult obesity threaten global health. Although the implications of changes in diets, lifestyles, and food environments have been examined, the specific role of excess calorie availability (ECA)—understood as calorie availability in excess of human requirements for a healthy life—and the cohort mechanisms that underlie trends in adult body mass index (BMI) are poorly understood. We examine these relationships for 156 countries ov…
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal
Lack of economic opportunities in their local communities push many individuals to migrate and send remittances to their families. Remittances can potentially influence household spending in sizeable ways, making it an important source of income. This article investigates the impact of remittances on various categories of household expenditure, including those for food, alcohol and tobacco, clothing, ceremonies, healthcare, education, home improv…
Unanticipated events, perceptions, and household labor allocation in Zimbabwe
Altitude and early child growth in 47 countries
The relationship between altitude of residence and child linear growth is studied using data for 630,499 children below age 5 years born between 1992 and 2016, as recorded in 47 countries at elevations ranging from − 377 to 4498 m above sea level. Regressions are used to measure the role of household, community, and environmental factors in explaining an observed altitude effect on linear growth. Controlling for birth year and country effects, an…
Rainfall and child weight in Uganda
We combine data from the 2006 and 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Surveys (UDHS) with rainfall data and two waves of the Ugandan National Household Survey (UNHS) to study patterns in child weight, as measured by weight-for-height z scores (WHZ), among 3492 rural children below age 5 in Uganda. We focus on rainfall as a nutrition driver along agriculture and disease pathways. We find a positive and significant association between crop yield and…
Elevation and Child Linear Growth in Nepal
The relationship between elevation of residence and a child's linear growth was studied using data for 8824 children below the age of 5 years born between 2001 and 2016 at elevations ranging from 50 to 3200 m above sea level in Nepal. Multiple regression was used to measure the role of a variety of household and community factors in explaining the observed elevation effect. A negative association was found between elevation and linear growth that…
Does improved storage technology promote modern input use and food security? Evidence from a randomized trial in Uganda
We use panel data from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) administered among 1200 smallholders in Uganda to evaluate input use and food security impacts of an improved maize storage technology. After two seasons, households who received the technology were 10 percentage points more likely to plant hybrid maize varieties that are more susceptible to insect pests in storage than traditional lower-yielding varieties. Treated smallholders also store…
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal
Environmental conditions in early life are known to have impacts on later health outcomes, but causal mechanisms and potential remedies have been difficult to discern. This paper uses the Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys of 2006 and 2011, combined with earlier NASA satellite observations of variation in the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) at each child's location and time of birth to identify the trimesters of gestation and peri…
Agricultural Diversity and Child Stunting in Nepal
This article investigates empirical connections between agriculture and child nutrition in Nepal. We augment the standard approach to explaining child nutrition outcomes by including information about household level agricultural production characteristics, including indicators of agricultural diversity. Data from the 2010/2011 Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS) are used in a series of regression models to explain stunting outcomes and variatio…
Taxes and Bribes in Uganda
Using data from 433 firms operating along Uganda's charcoal and timber supply chains we investigate patterns of bribe payment and tax collection between supply chain actors and government officials responsible for collecting taxes and fees. We examine the factors associated with the presence and magnitude of bribe and tax payments using a series of bivariate probit and Tobit regression models. We find empirical support for a number of hypotheses …
Measuring the forest and income impacts of forest user group participation under Malawi's Forest Co-management Program
Environmental variability and child growth in Nepal
Access to variety contributes to dietary diversity in China
Safety Nets, Gap Filling and Forests: A Global-Comparative Perspective
In the forest–livelihoods literature, forests are widely perceived to provide both common safety nets to shocks and resources for seasonal gap-filling. We use a large global-comparative dataset to test these responses. We find households rank forest-extraction responses to shocks lower than most common alternatives. For seasonal gap-filling, forest extraction also has limited importance. The minority of households using forests for coping is asse…
Using satellite remote sensing and household survey data to assess human health and nutrition response to environmental change
Climate change and degradation of ecosystem services functioning may threaten the ability of current agricultural systems to keep up with demand for adequate and inexpensive food and for clean water, waste disposal and other broader ecosystem services. Human health is likely to be affected by changes occurring across multiple geographic and time scales. Impacts range from increasing transmissibility and the range of vectorborne diseases, such as …
Challenging Perceptions about Men, Women, and Forest Product Use: A Global Comparative Study
This study uses a multi-case dataset to question current assumptions about the gender differentiation of forest product use. We test some of the commonly held ideas on how men and women access, manage, and use different forest products. Overall, we found significant gender differentiation in the collection of forest products, which seems to support the claim that there are distinctive "male" and "female" roles associated with the collection of fo…
Repeated Transaction in Rural Grain Markets of Ethiopia
This article uses the theory of repeated transaction to model exchange in rural grain markets. We examine the theoretical and empirical drivers of repeated transaction, as well as potential problems that may arise as a result of its widespread use. We develop a structural repeated game to represent buyer-seller relations in a developing country grain market, motivated by observations in Ethiopia. The model generates hypotheses regarding the logic…
Circular migration, small-scale logging, and household livelihoods in Uganda
Cropland Allocation Effects of Agricultural Input Subsidies in Malawi
Vulnerability, Income Growth and Climate Change
Income, poverty and charcoal production in Uganda
Input Choices in Agriculture: Is There A Gender Bias
Competing for Coffee Space: Development-Induced Displacement in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
Vietnam has emerged as the world's second largest producer of coffee. The benefits of this expanding coffee economy are substantial but not universal; their distribution follows ethnic lines despite government commitment to equalize welfare. Focusing on Dak Lak Province in Vietnam's Central Highlands, we investigate this commercial transformation and the 'competition for coffee space' that it has occasioned. Combined ethno-history and household i…
Can Income Programs Reduce Tropical Forest Pressure? Income Shocks and Forest Use in Malawi
Challenging Perceptions about Men, Women, and Forest Product Use: A Global Comparative Study
This study uses a multi-case dataset to question current assumptions about the gender differentiation of forest product use. We test some of the commonly held ideas on how men and women access, manage, and use different forest products. Overall, we found significant gender differentiation in the collection of forest products, which seems to support the claim that there are distinctive "male" and "female" roles associated with the collection of fo…
Safety Nets, Gap Filling and Forests: A Global-Comparative Perspective
In the forest–livelihoods literature, forests are widely perceived to provide both common safety nets to shocks and resources for seasonal gap-filling. We use a large global-comparative dataset to test these responses. We find households rank forest-extraction responses to shocks lower than most common alternatives. For seasonal gap-filling, forest extraction also has limited importance. The minority of households using forests for coping is asse…
Cropland Allocation Effects of Agricultural Input Subsidies in Malawi
Using satellite remote sensing and household survey data to assess human health and nutrition response to environmental change
Climate change and degradation of ecosystem services functioning may threaten the ability of current agricultural systems to keep up with demand for adequate and inexpensive food and for clean water, waste disposal and other broader ecosystem services. Human health is likely to be affected by changes occurring across multiple geographic and time scales. Impacts range from increasing transmissibility and the range of vectorborne diseases, such as …
Can Income Programs Reduce Tropical Forest Pressure? Income Shocks and Forest Use in Malawi
Competing for Coffee Space: Development-Induced Displacement in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
Vietnam has emerged as the world's second largest producer of coffee. The benefits of this expanding coffee economy are substantial but not universal; their distribution follows ethnic lines despite government commitment to equalize welfare. Focusing on Dak Lak Province in Vietnam's Central Highlands, we investigate this commercial transformation and the 'competition for coffee space' that it has occasioned. Combined ethno-history and household i…
Spatial integration, transport costs, and the response of local prices to policy changes in Ghana
Environmental variability and child growth in Nepal
Does improved storage technology promote modern input use and food security? Evidence from a randomized trial in Uganda
We use panel data from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) administered among 1200 smallholders in Uganda to evaluate input use and food security impacts of an improved maize storage technology. After two seasons, households who received the technology were 10 percentage points more likely to plant hybrid maize varieties that are more susceptible to insect pests in storage than traditional lower-yielding varieties. Treated smallholders also store…
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal
Lack of economic opportunities in their local communities push many individuals to migrate and send remittances to their families. Remittances can potentially influence household spending in sizeable ways, making it an important source of income. This article investigates the impact of remittances on various categories of household expenditure, including those for food, alcohol and tobacco, clothing, ceremonies, healthcare, education, home improv…
Income, poverty and charcoal production in Uganda
Economic reform and food prices: Evidence from markets in Ghana
Vulnerability, Income Growth and Climate Change
Poverty, consumption risk, and soil conservation
Access to variety contributes to dietary diversity in China
Unanticipated events, perceptions, and household labor allocation in Zimbabwe
Circular migration, small-scale logging, and household livelihoods in Uganda
Prices and Tree Planting on Hillside Farms in Palawan
Modeling the Nutritional and Distributional Effects of Taxing Export Crops
Altitude and early child growth in 47 countries
The relationship between altitude of residence and child linear growth is studied using data for 630,499 children below age 5 years born between 1992 and 2016, as recorded in 47 countries at elevations ranging from − 377 to 4498 m above sea level. Regressions are used to measure the role of household, community, and environmental factors in explaining an observed altitude effect on linear growth. Controlling for birth year and country effects, an…
Input Choices in Agriculture: Is There A Gender Bias
Disaster Research, Management and Mitigation: Past Trends and Future Agenda A Review Article
Modeling the Nutritional and Distributional Effects of Taxing Export Crops
Economic reform and food prices: Evidence from markets in Ghana
Spatial integration, transport costs, and the response of local prices to policy changes in Ghana
Prices and Tree Planting on Hillside Farms in Palawan
Poverty, consumption risk, and soil conservation
Can Income Programs Reduce Tropical Forest Pressure? Income Shocks and Forest Use in Malawi
Competing for Coffee Space: Development-Induced Displacement in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
Vietnam has emerged as the world's second largest producer of coffee. The benefits of this expanding coffee economy are substantial but not universal; their distribution follows ethnic lines despite government commitment to equalize welfare. Focusing on Dak Lak Province in Vietnam's Central Highlands, we investigate this commercial transformation and the 'competition for coffee space' that it has occasioned. Combined ethno-history and household i…
Income, poverty and charcoal production in Uganda
Input Choices in Agriculture: Is There A Gender Bias
Cropland Allocation Effects of Agricultural Input Subsidies in Malawi
Vulnerability, Income Growth and Climate Change
Repeated Transaction in Rural Grain Markets of Ethiopia
This article uses the theory of repeated transaction to model exchange in rural grain markets. We examine the theoretical and empirical drivers of repeated transaction, as well as potential problems that may arise as a result of its widespread use. We develop a structural repeated game to represent buyer-seller relations in a developing country grain market, motivated by observations in Ethiopia. The model generates hypotheses regarding the logic…
Circular migration, small-scale logging, and household livelihoods in Uganda
Access to variety contributes to dietary diversity in China
Safety Nets, Gap Filling and Forests: A Global-Comparative Perspective
In the forest–livelihoods literature, forests are widely perceived to provide both common safety nets to shocks and resources for seasonal gap-filling. We use a large global-comparative dataset to test these responses. We find households rank forest-extraction responses to shocks lower than most common alternatives. For seasonal gap-filling, forest extraction also has limited importance. The minority of households using forests for coping is asse…
Using satellite remote sensing and household survey data to assess human health and nutrition response to environmental change
Climate change and degradation of ecosystem services functioning may threaten the ability of current agricultural systems to keep up with demand for adequate and inexpensive food and for clean water, waste disposal and other broader ecosystem services. Human health is likely to be affected by changes occurring across multiple geographic and time scales. Impacts range from increasing transmissibility and the range of vectorborne diseases, such as …
Challenging Perceptions about Men, Women, and Forest Product Use: A Global Comparative Study
This study uses a multi-case dataset to question current assumptions about the gender differentiation of forest product use. We test some of the commonly held ideas on how men and women access, manage, and use different forest products. Overall, we found significant gender differentiation in the collection of forest products, which seems to support the claim that there are distinctive "male" and "female" roles associated with the collection of fo…
Agricultural Diversity and Child Stunting in Nepal
This article investigates empirical connections between agriculture and child nutrition in Nepal. We augment the standard approach to explaining child nutrition outcomes by including information about household level agricultural production characteristics, including indicators of agricultural diversity. Data from the 2010/2011 Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS) are used in a series of regression models to explain stunting outcomes and variatio…
Taxes and Bribes in Uganda
Using data from 433 firms operating along Uganda's charcoal and timber supply chains we investigate patterns of bribe payment and tax collection between supply chain actors and government officials responsible for collecting taxes and fees. We examine the factors associated with the presence and magnitude of bribe and tax payments using a series of bivariate probit and Tobit regression models. We find empirical support for a number of hypotheses …
Measuring the forest and income impacts of forest user group participation under Malawi's Forest Co-management Program
Environmental variability and child growth in Nepal
Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal
Environmental conditions in early life are known to have impacts on later health outcomes, but causal mechanisms and potential remedies have been difficult to discern. This paper uses the Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys of 2006 and 2011, combined with earlier NASA satellite observations of variation in the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) at each child's location and time of birth to identify the trimesters of gestation and peri…
Does improved storage technology promote modern input use and food security? Evidence from a randomized trial in Uganda
We use panel data from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) administered among 1200 smallholders in Uganda to evaluate input use and food security impacts of an improved maize storage technology. After two seasons, households who received the technology were 10 percentage points more likely to plant hybrid maize varieties that are more susceptible to insect pests in storage than traditional lower-yielding varieties. Treated smallholders also store…
Rainfall and child weight in Uganda
We combine data from the 2006 and 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Surveys (UDHS) with rainfall data and two waves of the Ugandan National Household Survey (UNHS) to study patterns in child weight, as measured by weight-for-height z scores (WHZ), among 3492 rural children below age 5 in Uganda. We focus on rainfall as a nutrition driver along agriculture and disease pathways. We find a positive and significant association between crop yield and…
Economics (21 works) · Geography (20 works) · Agriculture (15 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (8 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Demography (7 works)