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D-Index
47
Citations
24326
World Ranking
1538
National Ranking
924

Christopher Udry publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher Udry sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 216 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Christopher Udry D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher Udry sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Christopher Udry is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and specializes primarily in the social sciences. Their research spans several subfields including economics and econometrics, safety research, soil science, sociology and political science, and social psychology.

The core topics of Christopher Udry's work include poverty, education, and child welfare, microfinance and financial inclusion, agricultural risk and resilience, income, poverty, and inequality, international development and aid, fintech, crowdfunding, digital finance, and ICT impact and policies.

Christopher Udry has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries, 2021, Science Advances
  • Agricultural Technology in Africa, 2022, The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Machine learning and phone data can improve targeting of humanitarian aid, 2022, Nature
  • Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture, 2020, Journal of Political Economy
  • Tackling psychosocial and capital constraints to alleviate poverty, 2022, Nature

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Dean Karlan, Gharad Bryan, Lasse Brune, Robert Osei, and Emily Aiken.

Christopher Udry's work has been published in multiple venues with higher productivity in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Journal of Development Economics
  • Nature

Christopher Udry has also contributed to book publications with the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. Two titles include:

  • Pathways out of Extreme Poverty: Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-Faceted Social Protection Program in Niger, 2021
  • The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources: Evidence from Ghana, 2020

Recognition for Christopher Udry's contributions to the field includes being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana

    Timothy G. Conley;Christopher R. Udry

  • Geography, demography, and economic growth in Africa.

    David E. Bloom;Jeffrey D. Sachs

  • Gender, Agricultural Production, and the Theory of the Household

    Christopher Udry

  • The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana

    Markus P. Goldstein;Christopher Robert Udry

  • Risk and Insurance in a Rural Credit Market: An Empirical Investigation in Northern Nigeria

    Christopher Udry

  • Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

    Dean Karlan;Robert Darko Osei;Isaac Osei-Akoto;Christopher Udry

  • Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote D'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

    Esther Duflo;Christopher R. Udry

  • A multifaceted program causes lasting progress for the very poor: Evidence from six countries

    Abhijit Banerjee;Esther Duflo;Nathanael Goldberg;Dean Karlan

  • Drought and saving in West Africa: are livestock a buffer stock?

    Marcel Fafchamps;Christopher Udry;Katherine Czukas

  • Consumption smoothing? Livestock, insurance and drought in rural Burkina Faso

    Harounan Kazianga;Christopher R. Udry

  • Credit markets in Northern Nigeria : credit as insurance in a rural economy

    Christopher Udry

  • Institutions and Development: A View from Below

    Rohini Pande;Christopher R. Udry

  • Gender Differentials in Farm Productivity: Implications For Household Efficiency and Agricultural Policy

    Christopher Udry;John Hoddinott;Harold Alderman;Lawrence Haddad

  • Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries

    Jonathan Conning;Christopher R. Udry

  • The Return to Capital in Ghana

    Christopher Udry;Santosh Anagol

  • Social Learning Through Networks: The Adoption of New Agricultural Technologies in Ghana

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  • Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries.

    Dennis Egger;Dennis Egger;Edward Miguel;Shana S. Warren;Ashish Shenoy

  • Risk and Saving in Northern Nigeria

    Christopher Udry

  • Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote D'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

    Esther Duflo;Christopher R. Udry

  • Development Microeconomics

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  • RATIONING, SPILLOVER, AND INTERLINKING IN CREDIT MARKETS: THE CASE OF RURAL PUNJAB

    Clive Bell;T. N. Srintvasan;Christopher Udry

  • The Characteristics of Informal Financial Markets in Africa

    Ernest Aryeetey;Christopher Udry

  • Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture

    Douglas Gollin;Christopher R Udry

  • Social networks in Ghana

    Christopher R. Udry;Timothy G. Conley

Frequent Co-Authors

Dean Karlan
Dean Karlan Northwestern University
Mark R. Rosenzweig
Mark R. Rosenzweig Yale University
Douglas Gollin
Douglas Gollin Tufts University
Elizabeth H. Bradley
Elizabeth H. Bradley Vassar College
Pranab Bardhan
Pranab Bardhan University of California, Berkeley
Marcel Fafchamps
Marcel Fafchamps Stanford University
Jonathan Zinman
Jonathan Zinman Dartmouth College
Lawrence Haddad
Lawrence Haddad Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

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