selected publications
-
article
- Assessing statistical similarity in dietary intakes of women of reproductive age in Bangladesh.. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 17. 2021
- Conceptualising COVID-19's impacts on household food security.. Food Security. 12:1-4. 2020
- Combined interventions Targeting Agriculture, Gender and Nutrition Improve Agriculture Production and Diet Diversity More Than Individual interventions in Bangladesh 2020
- Strategies Used By Community Health Workers to Influence Adoption of Maternal Nutrition Behaviors in Rural Bangladesh: A Focused Ethnographic Study 2020
- Food transfers, electronic food vouchers and child nutritional status among Rohingya children living in Bangladesh. PLOS ONE. 15:1-15. 2020
- Beneficiary Views on Cash and In-Kind Payments: Evidence from Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme. The World Bank Economic Review. 2020
- The Impacts of GM Foods: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Bt Eggplant in BangladeshJEL codes. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 2020
- Transfers, Behavior Change Communication, and Intimate Partner Violence: Postprogram Evidence from Rural Bangladesh. REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS. 101:865-877. 2019
- Transfers, Nutrition Programming, and Economic Well-Being: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh 2019
- Can transfers and behavior change communication reduce intimate partner violence four years post-program? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh: 2019
- Rural food markets and child nutrition. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 101:1311-1327. 2019
- Food Transfers, Cash Transfers, Behavior Change Communication and Child Nutrition: Evidence From Bangladesh 2019
- The Evolution of Growth Faltering in 37 Developing Countries: A Spline-regression Approach (OR10-08-19) 2019
- Children's diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets 2019
- Changes in Child Under-Nutrition in Ethiopia, 2000–16 2019
- Social Protection in Ethiopia 2019
- Animal sourced foods and child stunting. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 100:1302-1319. 2018
- Evidence to Action: Highlights From Transform Nutrition Research (2012-2017).. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 39:335-360. 2018
- Randomized control trials demonstrate that nutrition-sensitive social protection interventions increase the use of multiple-micronutrient powders and iron supplements in rural pre-school Bangladeshi children.. Public Health Nutrition. 21:1753-1761. 2018
- Nutrition behaviour change communication causes sustained effects on IYCN knowledge in two cluster-randomised trials in Bangladesh.. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 14. 2018
- Rural food markets and child nutrition 2018
- Social Protection, Food Security, and Asset Formation. World Development. 101:88-103. 2018
- Agricultural production and children's diets: evidence from rural Ethiopia. Agricultural Economics. 48:469-480. 2017
- Children’s Diets, Nutrition Knowledge, and Access to Markets. World Development. 95:303-315. 2017
- Behavior change communication activities improve infant and young child nutrition knowledge and practice of neighboring non-participants in a cluster-randomized trial in rural Bangladesh.. PLOS ONE. 12. 2017
- Accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories: A regression-decomposition approach. GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT. 13:12-20. 2017
- The impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme on the nutritional status of children: 2008-2012 2017
- Animal sourced foods and child stunting 2017
- Shocks, social protection, and resilience: Evidence from Ethiopia 2017
- Social protection, household size and its determinants: Evidence from Ethiopia 2017
- The impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme on the nutritional status of children: 2008–2012 2017
- Agriculture, Nutrition, and the Green Revolution in Bangladesh. Agricultural Systems. 149:122-131. 2016
- Adolescent girls' infant and young child nutrition knowledge levels and sources differ among rural and urban samples in Bangladesh.. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 12:885-897. 2016
- Early life height and weight production functions with endogenous energy and protein inputs. Economics and Human Biology. 22:65-81. 2016
- Drivers of nutritional change in four South Asian countries: a dynamic observational analysis.. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 12:210-218. 2016
- Public-Private Partnerships and Undernutrition: Examples and Future Prospects. HIDDEN HUNGER: MALNUTRITION AND THE FIRST 1,000 DAYS OF LIFE: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND SOLUTIONS. 115:233-238. 2016
- Understanding the Rapid Reduction of Undernutrition in Nepal, 2001–2011. PLOS ONE. 10. 2015
- Public-Private Partnerships and the Reduction of Undernutrition in Developing Countries 2015
- Cows, Missing Milk Markets and Nutrition in Rural Ethiopia. Journal of Development Studies. 51:958-975. 2015
- The Impact of Bolsa Família on Schooling. World Development. 70:303-316. 2015
- The Other Asian Enigma: Explaining the Rapid Reduction of Undernutrition in Bangladesh. World Development. 66:749-761. 2015
- Costing alternative transfer modalities. Journal of Development Effectiveness. 7:1-16. 2015
- Agricultural production and children's diets: Evidence from rural Ethiopia 2015
- Bolsa Familia and Household Labor Supply. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 63:423-457. 2015
- Cows, Missing Milk Markets, and Nutrition in Rural Ethiopia. Journal of Development Studies. 51:958-975. 2015
- Linking social protection to agriculture: Evidence from Ethiopia 2015
- Smartphone Platform Survey-Scale Heart Rate Collection: a Performance Evaluation in Ethiopia 2014
- The Impact of Bolsa Família on Women’s Decision-Making Power. World Development. 59:487-504. 2014
- Cash, food, or vouchers? Evidence from a randomized experiment in northern Ecuador. Journal of Development Economics. 107:144-156. 2014
- What determines adult cognitive skills? Influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala. Latin American Economic Review. 23:1-32. 2014
- Agricultural production and children's diets: Evidence from rural Ethiopia 2014
- Can Social Protection Work in Africa? The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 63:1-26. 2014
- Social protection and food security 2014
- Summary of Cows, missing milk markets and nutrition in rural Ethiopia 2014
- The impact of Bolsa Família on Schooling: Girls’ Advantage Increases and Older Children Gain 2014
- The impact of Bolsa Família on schooling: Girls' advantage increases and older children gain 2014
- Understanding the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Nepal, 2001-2011 2014
- Adult consequences of growth failure in early childhood. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION. 98:1170-1178. 2013
- Implementing Social Protection in Agro-pastoralist and Pastoralist Areas: How Local Distribution Structures Moderate PSNP Outcomes in Ethiopia. World Development. 50:1-12. 2013
- The Economic Rationale for Investing in Stunting Reduction. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 9:69-82. 2013
- Parental Resources, Schooling Achievements, and Gender Schooling Gaps: Evidence of Change over 25 years in Rural Guatemala.. Population Research and Policy Review. 32:495-528. 2013
- Adoption of weather‐index insurance: learning from willingness to pay among a panel of households in rural Ethiopia. Agricultural Economics. 44:385-398. 2013
- Adoption of weather-index insurance: learning from willingness to pay among a panel of households in rural Ethiopia. Agricultural Economics. 44:385-398. 2013
- Bolsa Família and household labour supply 2013
- Determinants of Schooling: Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia. Journal of African Economies. 22:693-731. 2013
- Enhancing WFP's capacity and experience to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate vouchers and cash transfer programmes: Study summary 2013
- The Impact of Bolsa Família on Women?s Decision-Making Power 2013
- Long-Term Impact of Investments in Early Schooling: Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia. Journal of Development Economics. 99:292-299. 2012
- The impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme and related transfers on agricultural productivity. Journal of African Economies. 21:761-786. 2012
- Mapping the Impacts of Food Aid: Current Knowledge and Future Directions 2012
- Growth and chronic poverty: Evidence from rural communities in Ethiopia. Journal of Development Studies. 48:238-253. 2012
- Agriculture, Health, and Nutrition: Toward Conceptualizing the Linkages 2012
- Investments to reduce hunger and undernutrition 2012
- Long-term impact of investments in early schooling, Empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia. Journal of Development Economics. vol. 99. 2012
- Must Conditional Cash Transfer Programs be Conditioned to be Effective? The Impact of Conditioning Transfers on School Enrollment in Mexico. Journal of Development Economics. 96:359-370. 2011
- Adoption of weather index insurance, Learning from willingness to pay among a panel of households in rural Ethiopia 2011
- Agriculture, health, and nutrition, Towards conceptualizing the linkages 2011
- Burial societies in rural Ethiopia 2011
- The consequences of early childhood growth failure over the life course 2011
- Disability and self-rated health among older women and men in rural Guatemala: the role of obesity and chronic conditions.. Social Science & Medicine. 71:1418-1427. 2010
- Targeting food security interventions when “everyone is poor”: The case of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme 2010
- The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme and its Linkages. Journal of Development Studies. 45:1684-1706. 2009
- The Impact of Agricultural Extension and Roads on Poverty and Consumption Growth in Fifteen Ethiopian Villages. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 91:1007-1021. 2009
- Individual capital and cognitive ageing in Guatemala. Population Studies-a Journal of Demography. 63:295-306. 2009
- Can Social Protection Work in Africa? Evidence on the Impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme on Food Security, Assets and Incentives 2009
- Early childhood nutrition increases adult wages.. EuroChoices. 8:34-37. 2009
- The Impact of Improving Nutrition During Early Childhood on Education Among Guatemalan Adults. ECONOMIC JOURNAL. 119:734-763. 2009
- The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program on Schooling and Child Labor 2009
- Height for Age Increased While Body Mass Index for Age Remained Stable between 1968 and 2007 among Guatemalan Children. Journal of Nutrition. 139:365-369. 2009
- Evidence of intrahousehold flypaper effects from a nutrition intervention in rural Guatemala. Economic Development and Cultural Change. vol. 57. 2009
- Inversión en nutrición durante la primera infancia 2009
- Nutritional supplementation in girls influences the growth of their children: prospective study in Guatemala. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION. 90:1372-1379. 2009
- Validation of the world food programme's food consumption score and alternative indicators of household food security 2009
- Methods for Microeconometric Risk and Vulnerability Assessments 2008
- Effect of a nutrition intervention during early childhood on economic productivity in Guatemalan adults. LANCET. 371:411-416. 2008
- Collective action and vulnerability, Burial societies in rural Ethiopia 2008
- Hausse des prix alimentaires et actions stratégiques proposées: Que faire, par qui et comment 2008
- Must conditional cash transfer programs be conditioned to be effective?, The impact of conditioning transfers on school enrollment in Mexico 2008
- Renegotiating the Food Aid Convention: Background, context, and issues. GLOBAL GOVERNANCE. 14:283-304. 2008
- Renegotiating the food aid convention, Background, context, and issues 2008
- Social protection, Opportunities for Africa 2008
- Is There Persistence in the Impact of Emergency Food Aid? Evidence on Consumption, Food Security, and Assets in Rural Ethiopia. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 89:225-242. 2007
- Assessing the impact of HYV maize in resettlement areas of Zimbabwe 2007
- Renegotiating the food aid convention 2007
- Social protection: To target or not to target. IDS BULLETIN-INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES. 38:90-+. 2007
- Shocks and their consequences across and within households in Rural Zimbabwe. Journal of Development Studies. 42:301-321. 2006
- The Impact of Nutrition during Early Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults 2006
- Long Term Consequences Of Early Childhood Malnutrition. OXFORD ECONOMIC PAPERS-NEW SERIES. 58:450-474. 2006
- Programme Evaluation with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Selective Implementation: The Mexican PROGRESA Impact on Child Nutrition. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 67:547-569. 2005
- Labor force activities and income among young Guatemalan adults.. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 26. 2005
- Consumption smoothing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali. Journal of African Economies. vol. 14. 2005
- Does food aid really have disincentive effects? New evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. World Development. 33:1689-1704. 2005
- Food and Nutrition Bulletin [Supplement 1], The Human Capital 2002-04 study in Guatemala: a follow-up to the INCAP longitudical study 1969-77 2005
- Labor force activities and income among young Guatemalan adults 2005
- Livelihoods, growth, and links to market towns in 15 Ethiopian villages 2005
- Physical activity level, dietary habits, and alcohol and tobacco use among young Guatemalan adults 2005
- Physical fitness, body composition, blood pressure, and blood metabolic profile among young Guatemalan adults 2005
- Power, politics, and performance: community participation in South African public works programs 2005
- Shocks and consumption in 15 Ethiopian villages, 1999–2004. Journal of African Economies. vol. 14. 2005
- Determinants of Canadian Bilateral Aid Allocations: Humanitarian, Commercial or Political?. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS-REVUE CANADIENNE D ECONOMIQUE. 37:294-312. 2004
- Targeting outcomes, redux. World Bank Research Observer. 19:61-85. 2004
- Consumption smoothing and vulnerability in the Zone Lacustre, Mali 2004
- Examining the incentive effects of food aid on household behavior in rural Ethiopia 2004
- Targeting outcomes redux 2004
- The impact of PROGRESA on food consumption. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 53:37-61. 2004
- Ex-Ante Actions and Ex-Post Public Responses to Drought Shocks: Evidence and Simulations from Zimbabwe. World Development. 31:1239-1255. 2003
- Assessing the impact of high-yielding varieties of maize in resettlement areas of Zimbabwe 2003
- Dynamic Intrahousehold Bargaining, Matrimonial Property Law, and Suicide in Canada 2003
- Health, shocks and poverty persistence 2003
- Long-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition 2003
- Methods for microeconometric risk and vulnerability assessments 2003
- Métodos para proyectos de desarrollo rural, seguridad alimentaria en la práctica 2003
- The impact of Progresa on food consumption 2003
- The impact of agricultural extension on farm production in resettlement areas of Zimbabwe. Economic Development and Cultural Change. vol. 51. 2003
- Dietary diversity as a food security indicator 2002
- Participation and poverty reduction: an analytical framework and overview of the issues. Journal of African Economies. vol. 11. 2002
- Targeting outcomes redux 2002
- An evaluation of the impact of PROGRESA on pre-school child height 2001
- Comparing village characteristics derived from rapid appraisals and household surveys: A tale from northern Mali. Journal of Development Studies. 37:1-20. 2001
- Economic mobility and poverty dynamics in developing countries. Journal of Development Studie. 36:1-24. 2000
- Revisiting Forever Gained: Income Dynamics in the Resettlement Areas of Zimbabwe, 1983-96.. Journal of Development Studies. 36:131-154. 2000
- Validity of rapid estimates of household wealth and income for health surveys in rural Africa. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 54:381-387. 2000
- Adult health in the time of drought 2000
- The impact of changes in common property resource management on intrahousehold allocation. Journal of Public Economics. 72:317-324. 1999
- Child growth in the time of drought. FASEB JOURNAL. 13:A921-A921. 1999
- Choosing outcome indicators of household food security, Technical Guide: Strengthening the household food security and nutritional aspects of IFAD poverty alleviation projects: developing operational methodologies for project design and monitoring 1999
- Classification and regression trees: an introduction 1999
- Designing institutional arrangements to maximize household food security, Technical Guide: Strengthening the Household Food Security and Nutritional Aspects of IFAD Poverty Alleviation Projects: Developing Operational Methodologies for Project Design and Monitoring 1999
- Operationalizing food security in IFAD projects: an introduction, Technical Guide: Strengthening the Household Food Security and Nutritional Aspects of IFAD Poverty Alleviation Projects: Developing Operational Methodologies for Project Design and Monitoring 1999
- The gender wage gap in three African countries. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 47:289-312. 1999
- The impact of changes in common property resource management on intrahousehold allocation 1997
- Water, health, and income, a review 1997
- Primary education as an input into post-primary education: a neglected benefit 1996
- Gender Differentials in Farm Productivity: Implications For Household Efficiency and Agricultural Policy. Food Policy. 20:407-423. 1995
- Does Female Income Share Influence Household Expenditures? Evidence from Cote d'Ivoire. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 57:77-96. 1995
- Does female income share influence household expenditures? evidence from Côte d'Ivoire. 1995
- Gender differentials in farm productivity, implications for household efficiency and agricultural policy 1995
- UNITARY VERSUS COLLECTIVE MODELS OF THE HOUSEHOLD - IS IT TIME TO SHIFT THE BURDEN OF PROOF. World Bank Research Observer. 10:1-19. 1995
- Unitary versus collective models of the household: is it time to shift the burden of proof? 1995
- Strengthening Agricultural and Natural Resource Policy Through Intrahousehold Analysis: An Introduction. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 76:1208-1212. 1994
- Women's income and boy-girl anthropometric status in the Côte d'Ivoire. World Development. 22:543-553. 1994
-
book
- Targeting of transfers in developing countries, review of lessons and experience. Ed. Google Books: http://books.google.com/books/about/Targeting_of_Transfers_in_Developing_Cou.html?id=l3ppSymUipQC Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Targeting-Transfers-Developing-Countries-Experience/dp/0821357697. 2004
-
chapter
- India's right to food act: A novel approach to food security 2014
- Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition 2014
- Mapping the impacts of food aid, Current knowledge and future directions 2014
- Hunger and malnutrition 2013
- The economic cost of malnutrition 2013
- Uncovering the consequences of pre-school malnutrition 2012
- Conditional cash transfer programs, A "magic bullet"? 2010
- Conditional cash transfer programs, A magic bullet 2010
- Conditional cash transfers in the second decade, Current debates and new frontiers 2010
- Nutrition and conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs 2010
- The impact of Ethiopia's productive safety net program on schooling and child labor 2010
- The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on food consumption 2010
- The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on food consumption in Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua 2010
- Los programas de transferencias monetarias condicionadas y la nutricion en America Latina, Evaluacion de impactos y estrategias para mejorarlos 2009
- Health and nutrition and economic development 2008
- Health and nutrition and economic development 2006
- Nutrition, malnutrition, and economic growth 2005
- Hunger and malnutrition 2004
- Social safety nets for more adaptable labor markets in developing countries 2003
-
conference paper
-
dataset
-
document
- Transfers, behavior change communication, and intimate partner violence: Postprogram evidence from rural Bangladesh 2017
- Children's diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets 2016
- Synopsis: Children's diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets 2016
- Agriculture, nutrition, and the Green Revolution in Bangladesh 2015
- Synopsis: Agricultural production and children's diets: Evidence from rural Ethiopia 2015
- Cows, missing milk markets and nutrition in rural Ethiopia 2014
- Seeking evidence-based policy solutions to poverty and malnutrition in Bangladesh: Highlights from the Policy Research and Strategy Support Program 2010-2014 2014
- Social protection and asset accumulation 2014
- Understanding resilience for food and nutrition security 2014
- Agricultural growth program (AGP) of Ethiopia: Baseline report 2011 2013
- Impact evaluation of cash and food transfers for the seasonal emergency safety net in Hajjah and Ibb Governorates, Yemen endline report 2013
- The impact of Bolsa Família on women's decision-making power 2013
- Social protection in West Africa, The status quo, lessons from other regions, implications for research 2012
- Targeting food security interventions in Ethiopia, The productive safety net programme 2012
- Agriculture, health, and nutrition, Toward conceptualizing the linkages 2011
- Sources of inefficiency and growth in agricultural output in subsistence agriculture, A stochastic frontier analysis 2011
- Conditional cash transfers in Latin America 2010
- Comparing food and cash transfers to the ultra-poor in Bangladesh 2009
- Innovations in insuring the poor: Risk and the rural poor 2009
- High food prices: The what, who, and how of proposed policy actions 2008
- Is the conditionality necessary in conditional cash transfer programmes?, Evidence from Mexico 2008
- Los altos precios de los alimentos: El ‘qué', ‘quién' y ‘cómo' de las acciones de política propuestas 2008
- The impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme and its linkages 2008
- The impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen Ethiopian villages 2008
- What determines adult cognitive skills?, Impacts of preschooling, schooling, and post-schooling experiences in Guatemala 2008
- Ethiopia: livelihoods, growth, and markets 2006
- Is there persistence in the impact of emergency food aid?, evidence on consumption, food security, and assets in rural Ethiopia 2006
- The impact of an experimental nutritional intervention in childhood on education among Guatemalan adults 2006
- Assessing the effectiveness of community-based targeting of emergency food aid in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi 2005
- Food aid and dependency, Implications for emergency food security assessments 2005
- Improving child nutrition for sustainable poverty reduction in Africa 2004
- Data sources for microeconometric risk and vulnerability assessments 2003
- An evaluation of the impact of PROGRESA on preschool child height 2001
- Participation and poverty reduction, issues, theory, and new evidence from South Africa 2001
- Comparing village characteristics derived from rapid appraisals and household surveys, a tale from northern Mali 2000
- The impact of PROGRESA on consumption, final report 2000
- Targeting -- Principles and Practice, Technical Guide: Strengthening the Household Food Security and Nutritional Aspects of IFAD Poverty Alleviation Projects: Developing Operational Methodologies for Project Design and Monitoring 1999
- Intrahousehold resource allocation in developing countries, models, methods, and policies 1997
-
editorial article
- Randomized controlled trials of multi-sectoral programs: Lessons from development research.. World Development. 127:104822. 2020
- Cohort Profile: The Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) Nutrition Trial Cohort Study. International Journal of Epidemiology. 37:716-720. 2008
-
report
- Expanding lessons from a randomised impact evaluation of cash and food transfers in Ecuador and Uganda 2015
- Evaluation of the social cash transfer pilot programme: Tigray Region, Ethiopia: Baseline report 2012
- Evaluation of Ethiopia's Food Security Program, Documenting progress in the implementation of the Productive Safety Nets Programme and the Household Asset Building Programme 2011
- The impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Nets and Household Asset Building Programme: 2006-2010 2011
-
review
- Economic and Nutritional Analyses Offer Substantial Synergies for Understanding Human Nutrition. Journal of Nutrition. 537-544. 2007
- [Review of] Glewwe, Paul.1999. The economics of school quality investments in developing countries: an empirical study of Ghana. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc. 2001
-
working paper
- Does livestock ownership affect animal source foods consumption and child nutritional status?, Evidence from rural Uganda 2014
- The impact of South Africa's child support grant on schooling and learning 2012
- Growth and poverty in rural Ethiopia, Evidence from 15 communities 1994-2004 2007
- Revisiting forever gained : income dynamics in the resettlement areas of Zimbabwe, 1983-1997. 1999
- Intrahousehold resource allocation, an overview 1994