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Paul Winters is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research spans primarily within the Social Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a total of 20 and 18 publications respectively. The focus of their scholarly work covers several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science, Business and International Management, and Ecology.

Winters' research topics encompass agricultural innovations and practices, innovation and socioeconomic development, agricultural risk and resilience, migration and labor dynamics, poverty, education and child welfare, child nutrition and water access, and income, poverty, and inequality.

Frequent co-authors who have contributed significantly to Winters' work include Kashi Kafle, Tisorn Songsermsawas, Alejandro Estefan, Romina Ordóñez, and Marco d'Errico.

Their work has been published repeatedly in several academic venues, most notably:

  • The Journal of Development Studies
  • AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Nature Food

Among Winters' recent publications are:

  • Global food systems transitions have enabled affordable diets but had less favourable outcomes for nutrition, environmental health, inclusion and equity, 2022, Nature Food
  • Do not transform food systems on the backs of the rural poor, 2022, Food Security
  • Does relative deprivation induce migration? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, 2020, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • Youth Inclusion in Rural Transformation, 2020, The Journal of Development Studies
  • Evaluating Program Impact on Resilience: Evidence from Lesotho's Child Grants Programme, 2020, The Journal of Development Studies

Best Publications

  • A Cross-Country Comparison of Rural Income Generating Activities

    Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters;Gero Carletto;Katia Covarrubias

  • An analysis of contract farming in East Java, Bali, and Lombok, Indonesia

    Phil Simmons;Paul Winters;Ian Patrick

  • FAMILY AND COMMUNITY NETWORKS IN MEXICO-U.S. MIGRATION

    Paul C. Winters;Alain de Janvry;Elisabeth Sadoulet

  • Assets, Activities and Rural Income Generation: Evidence from a Multicountry Analysis

    Paul Winters;Benjamin Davis;Gero Carletto;Katia Covarrubias

  • Rural Nonfarm Activities and Agricultural Crop Production in Nigeria

    Gbemisola Oseni;Paul Winters

  • From protection to production: productive impacts of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer scheme

    Katia Covarrubias;Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters

  • Domestic and international migration from rural Mexico: Disaggregating the effects of network structure and composition

    Benjamin Davis;Guy Stecklov;Paul Winters

  • Do conditional cash transfers influence migration? A study using experimental data from the Mexican PROGRESA program.

    Guy Stecklov;Paul Winters;Marco Stampini;Benjamin Davis

  • From guesstimates to GPStimates : land area measurement and implications for agricultural analysis

    Calogero Carletto;Sydney Gourlay;Paul Conal Winters

  • Explaining gender differentials in agricultural production in Nigeria

    Gbemisola Oseni;Paul Corral;Markus Goldstein;Paul Winters

  • Localized and incomplete mutual insurance

    Rinku Murgai;Paul Winters;Elisabeth Sadoulet;Alain de Janvry

  • Assets, Activities and Income Generation in Rural Mexico: Factoring in Social and Public Capital

    Paul C. Winters;Benjamin Davis;Leonardo Corral

  • Gender, Networks and Mexico-U.S. Migration

    Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters

  • Cash Transfer Programme, Productive Activities and Labour Supply: Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Kenya

    Solomon Asfaw;Benjamin Davis;Josh Dewbre;Sudhanshu Handa

  • Rural Income Generating Activities : A Cross Country Comparison

    Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters;Gero Carletto;Katia Covarrubias

  • From Evidence to Action The Story of Cash Transfers and Impact Evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Paul Winters;Benjamin Davis;Sudhanshu Handa;Sudhanshu Handa;Nicola Hypher

  • From Evidence to Action: The Story of Cash Transfers and Impact Evaluation in Sub Saharan Africa

    Benjamin Davis;Sudhanshu Handa;Nicola Hypher;Natalia Winder Rossi

  • Investigating the impacts of increased rural land tenure security: A systematic review of the evidence

    Daniel Higgins;Tim Balint;Harold Liversage;Paul Winters

  • Assessing the impact of migration on food and nutrition security

    Alberto Zezza;Calogero Carletto;Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters

  • The impact of migration on food consumption patterns: The case of Vietnam

    Minh Cong Nguyen;Paul Winters

  • Farm-level pathways to improved nutritional status

    Gero Carletto;Marie Ruel;Paul Winters;Alberto Zezza

  • Assets, Activities and Income Generation in Rural Mexico: Factoring in Social and Public Capital

    Paul Winters;Leonardo Corral;Benjamin Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Davis
Benjamin Davis Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Sudhanshu Handa
Sudhanshu Handa University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Elisabeth Sadoulet University of California, Berkeley
Alain de Janvry
Alain de Janvry University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Reardon
Thomas Reardon Michigan State University
Melinda Smale
Melinda Smale Michigan State University
Boris E. Bravo-Ureta
Boris E. Bravo-Ureta University of Connecticut
Timothy Coelli
Timothy Coelli University of Queensland

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