EDUCATION

Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 1996
Master of Arts, Economics, University of California at San Diego, 1992
Bachelor of Arts, Non-Western Studies, University of San Diego, 1988

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Rural development, migration and remittances, project impact evaluation, cash transfer programs in developing countries, rural livelihood strategies, contract farming and agricultural biodiversity

TEACHING

ECON 110: The Global Majoirty (Fall and Spring)
ECON 362: Microeconomics of Economic Development (Fall)
ECON 665: Project Evaluation in Developing Countries (Spring)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Carola Álvarez, Florencia Devoto and Paul Winters. “Why do beneficiaries leave the safety net in Mexico? A study of the effects of conditionality on dropouts.” World Development, Vol. 36(4), April 2008, pp. 641-658.

• Guy Stecklov, Paul Winters, Jessica Todd and Ferdinando Regalia. “Unintended effects of poverty programmes on childbearing in less developed countries: Experimental evidence from Latin America.” Population Studies Vol. 61(2), July 2007, pp. 125-140.

• Gero Carletto, Angeli Kirk, Paul Winters, and Benjamin Davis, “Non-Traditional Crops, Traditional Constraints: the Adoption and Diffusion of Cash Crops among Guatemalan Smallholders,” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4347, 2007.

• Marta Ruiz, Benjamin Davis, Ashu Handa, Marco Stampini and Paul Winters. “Program Conditionality and Food Security: The Impact of PROGRESA and PROCAMPO Transfers in Rural Mexico,” Revista Economia Vol. 7(2), May-August 2006, pp. 249-278.

• Guy Stecklov, Paul Winters, Marco Stampini and Benjamin Davis. “Do conditional cash transfers influence migration? A study using experimental data from the Mexican PROGRESA program,” Demography Vol42(4), November 2005, pp. 769-790.

• Phil Simmons, Paul Winters and Ian Patrick. “An Examination of Three Farm Contracts in Indonesia,” Agricultural Economics Vol 33(3), November 2005, pp.513-525.

• Paul Winters, Phil Simmons and Ian Patrick. “Evaluation of a Hybrid Seed Contract between Smallholders and an MNC in East Java, Indonesia,” Journal of Development Studies Vol 41(1), January 2005, pp. 62-89.

• Paul Winters, Charles Crissman and Patricio Espinoza. “Inducing the Adoption of Conservation Technologies: Lessons from the Ecuadorian Andes,” Environment and Development Economics Vol 9(5), October 2004, pp. 697-719.

  
  

PAPERS IN PROGRESS OR UNDER REVIEW

• Paul Winters and Vera Chiodi. “Oportunidades, human capital investment and long-term poverty reduction in rural Mexico.” Under review at Journal of International Development.
  

• Jessica Todd, Paul Winters and Tom Hertz. “Conditional Cash Transfers and Agricultural Production: Lessons from the Oportunidades Experience in Mexico.” Under review at Journal of Development Studies.
  

• Paul Winters, Benjamin Davis, Gero Carletto, Katia Covarrubias, Kostas Stamoulis, Esteban J. Quiñones, and Alberto Zezza “Assets, Activities and Rural Poverty: A Multicountry Analysis,” Under review at World Development.
  

• Benjamin Davis, Paul Winters,  Gero Carletto, Katia Covarrubias, Esteban J. Quiñones, Alberto Zezza, Kostas Stamoulis, and Stefania DiGiuseppe. “A Cross Country Comparison of Rural Income Generating Activities.” Under review at World Development.
  

• Paul Winters and Benjamin Davis. “Designing a program to support smallholder agriculture in Mexico: Lessons from PROCAMPO and Oportunidades.” Under Review at Development Policy Review.
  

• Jessica Todd, Paul Winters and Guy Stecklov. “Evaluating the Impact of the Poverty-Reduction Programs on Fertility: The Case of the Red de Protección Social in Nicaragua,” Under review at World Development.
  

• Paul Winters, Guy Stecklov and Jessica Todd. “Household structure and short-run economic change in Nicaragua.” Under review at Journal of Marriage and Family.
  

• Gbemisola Oseni and Paul Winters, “Rural non-farm activities and agricultural production in Nigeria.” Under review at Agricultural Economics.
  

• Jessica Todd and Paul Winters. “The Effect of Early Interventions in Health and Nutrition on On-time School Enrollment: Evidence from the Oportunidades Program in Rural Mexico.” Under review at Economic Development and Cultural Change.
  

• Paul Winters, Ana Paula de la O, Esteban J. Quiñones, Thomas Hertz, Benjamin Davis, Alberto Zezza, Katia Covarrubias and Kostas Stamoulis. “Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries.” Under review at Oxford Development Studies.
  

• Katia Covarrubias, Benjamin Davis and Paul Winters, “Examining the linkages between credit constraints, rural non-farm activities and agricultural production decisions in Nicaragua.” Under review at Agricultural Economics.

  
  

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

• Agricultural and Resource Economist, Inter-American Development Bank, Department for Mexico, Central America, Dominican Republic and Haiti, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, October 2002 to July 2004
  

• Lecturer, University of New England, Graduate School of Agricultural and Resource Economics & School of Economics, Armidale, Australia, January 1999 to September 2002
  

• Visiting Expert through the Academic Partnership Program, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Economic and Social Division, Rome, Italy, January 2002 to July 2002
  

• Economist/Rockefeller Foundation Research Fellow, International Potato Center (CIP), Lima, Peru, January 1997 to December 1998
  

• Visiting Researcher, International Irrigation Management Institute, Lahore, Pakistan, February 1995 to May 1995

FIELDWORK

• Bolivia, Survey design/testing and enumerator training, Food and Agriculture Organization and PROINPA, 2006-2007
  

• Ecuador, Survey design/testing and enumerator training, Food and Agriculture Organization and International Potato Center, 2006-2007
  

• Ethiopia, Survey design/testing and enumerator training, Food and Agriculture Organization, 2002
  

• Indonesia, Survey design/testing, Australian Center for International Agricultural Research, 2001
  

• Peru, Survey design/testing and enumerator training, World Bank, 1999
  

• Peru, Survey design/testing and project evaluation, International Potato Center, 1997-1998
  

• Bolivia, Survey design and project evaluation, International Potato Center, 1997-1998
  

• Ecuador, Project evaluation, CARE-Ecuador and International Potato Center, 1997
  

• Pakistan, Informal interviews and survey design, International Irrigation Management Institute, 1995