Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Journal Articles
- M.F. Bellemare. "Insecure Land Rights and Share Tenancy: Evidence from Madagascar." Land Economics 88.1 (2012): forthcoming.
- C.B. Barrett, M.E. Bachke, M.F. Bellemare, H.C. Michelson, S. Narayanan, T.F. Walker. "Smallholder Participation in Contract Farming: Comparative Evidence from Five Countries." World Development (2012): forthcoming.
- M.F. Bellemare. "As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming." World Development (2012): forthcoming.
- M.F. Bellemare. "Agricultural Extension and Imperfect Supervision in Contract Farming: Evidence from Madagascar." Agricultural Economics 41.6 (2010): 507-517.
- M.F. Bellemare and Z.S. Brown. "On the (Mis)Use of Wealth as a Proxy for Risk Aversion.." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 92.1 (2010): 273-282.
- C.B. Barrett, M.F. Bellemare, and J.Y. Hou. "Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity-Size Relationship." World Development 38.1 (2010): 88-97.
- M.F. Bellemare. "Sharecropping, Insecure Land Rights, and Land Titling Policies: A Case Study of Lac Alaotra, Madagascar." Development Policy Review 29.1 (2009): 87-106.
- M.F. Bellemare. "When Perception is Reality: Subjective Expectations and Contracting." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91.5 (2009): 1377-1381.
- M.F. Bellemare and C.B. Barrett. "An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88.2 (2006): 324-337.
Chapters in Books
- M.F. Bellemare. "Sharecropping." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
Ed. William A. Darity Jr. Macmillan Reference USA, 2008
- M.F. Bellemare. "Tobit." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
Ed. William A. Darity Jr. Macmillan Reference USA, 2008
- Barrett, Christopher B., Marc F. Bellemare, and Sharon M. Osterloh. "Household-Level Livestock Marketing Behavior Among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian Pastoralists." Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges.
Ed. John McPeak and Peter D. Little Warwickshire, UK: ITDG Publishing, 2006: 15-38.
Sanford Institute Working Papers
- M.F. Bellemare. "Rising Food Prices, Food Price Volatility, and Political Unrest." (2011).
- S. Tveteras, F. Asche, M.F. Bellemare, M.D. Smith, A. Guttormsen, A. Lem, K. Lien, and S. Vannucini. "Fish Is Food: The FAO's Fish Price Index." (2011).
- M.F. Bellemare, C.B. Barrett, and D.R. Just. "The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Fluctuations: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia." (December, 2010). [papers.cfm] [abs]
- M.F. Bellemare and A.M. Holmberg. "The Determinants of Music Piracy in a Sample of College Students." (2010). [papers.cfm] [abs]
- M.F. Bellemare. "The Productivity Impacts of Formal and Informal Land Rights.." (2010).
- M.F. Bellemare. "The (Im)possibility of Reverse Share Tenancy." (2008). [papers.cfm] [abs]
Op-eds
- C.B. Barrett and M.F. Bellemare. Why Food Price Volatility Doesn't Matter. Foreign Affairs
(July 12, 2011). [why-food-price-volatility-doesnt-matter]
- M.F. Bellemare. Goals Miss the Mark. The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC)
(2010).
- M.F. Bellemare. The UN's Useless Promises. The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
(2010).
- M.F. Bellemare. Why Africa's Food Markets are Thin. The News & Observer (Raleigh-Durham, NC)
(April 25, 2008). [html]
- M.F. Bellemare. Crise alimentaire mondiale: Un problème structurel en Afrique. Le Devoir (Montréal)
(April 17, 2008). [html]
Published Policy Briefs and Comments
- M.F. Bellemare. "Insécurité foncière, fluctuations de prix, ou responsabilité limitée: La nature et les causes du métayage inverse dans l'Alaotra." USAID BASIS Collaborative Research Program Policy Brief #1 (2005). [pdf]

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