selected publications
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article
- Nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, agricultural diversity, food access and child dietary diversity: Evidence from rural Zambia. Food Policy. 80:10-23. 2018
- Assessing the Impact of Food Assistance on Stigma Among People Living with HIV in Uganda Using the HIV/AIDS Stigma Instrument-PLWA (HASI-P). Aids and Behavior. 21:766-782. 2017
- Early life height and weight production functions with endogenous energy and protein inputs. Economics and Human Biology. 22:65-81. 2016
- Improving Health-Related Quality of Life among People Living with HIV: Results from an Impact Evaluation of a Food Assistance Program in Uganda. PLOS ONE. 10:1-17. 2015
- What determines adult cognitive skills? Influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala. Latin American Economic Review. 23:1-32. 2014
- The Impact of a Food Assistance Program on Nutritional Status, Disease Progression, and Food Security Among People Living With HIV in Uganda. JAIDS-JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES. 66:E15-E22. 2014
- Adult consequences of growth failure in early childhood. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION. 98:1170-1178. 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
- The consequences of early childhood growth failure over the life course 2011
- Two Food-Assisted Maternal and Child Health Nutrition Programs Helped Mitigate the Impact of Economic Hardship on Child Stunting in Haiti. Journal of Nutrition. 140:1139-1145. 2010
- Does supply matter? Initial schooling conditions and the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers for grade progression in Nicaragua. Journal of Development Effectiveness. 2:87-116. 2010
- The Impact of Improving Nutrition During Early Childhood on Education Among Guatemalan Adults. ECONOMIC JOURNAL. 119:734-763. 2009
- Age-based preventive targeting of food assistance and behaviour change and communication for reduction of childhood undernutrition in Haiti: a cluster randomised trial.. LANCET. 371:588-595. 2008
- Effect of a nutrition intervention during early childhood on economic productivity in Guatemalan adults. LANCET. 371:411-416. 2008
- Preventive targeting of food aid and behavior change communication to 6–24 mo old children is more effective in reducing undernutrition than targeting malnourished children in rural Haiti. The FASEB Journal. 21. 2007
- The Impact of Nutrition during Early Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults 2006
- The cost of poverty alleviation transfer programs: a comparative analysis of three programs in Latin America. World Development. vol. 34. 2006
- Household expenditures and wealth among young Guatemalan adults.. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 26. 2005
- Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults.. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 26. 2005
- Research Note: A Socioeconomic Index for the INCAP Longitudinal Study 1969–77. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 26. 2005
- The cost of conditional cash transfers. Journal of International Development. 17:151-168. 2005
- Coping with the 'coffee crisis' in Central America, the role of the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social 2005
- Household expenditures and wealth among young Guatemalan adults 2005
- Impact evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program, the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social 2005
- Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults 2005
- Research note: a socioeconomic index for the INCAP Longitudinal Study 1969-77 2005
- Social and economic development and change in four Guatemalan villages: demographics, schooling, occupation, and assets 2005
- Social and economic development and change in four Guatemalan villages: infrastructure, services and livelihood 2005
- The Human Capital Study 2002-04: tracking data collection, coverage, and attrition 2005
- Using Quality of Interview Information to Assess Nonrandom Attrition Bias in Developing-Country Panel Data. Review of Development Economics. 8:91-109. 2004
- Coping with the 'coffee crisis' in Central America, the role of the Nicaraguan Social Safety Net Programme 2004
- Impact evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program, the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social 2004
- The cost of poverty alleviation transfer programs, a comparative analysis of three programs in Latin America 2004
- Social Capital and Coping with Economic Shocks: An Analysis of Stunting of South African Children. World Development. 31:1147-1163. 2003
- Household structure and child well-being: evidence from KwaZulu-Natal 2003
- Intrahousehold Allocation and Gender Relations: New Empirical Evidence from Four Developing Countries 2003
- Resources at marriage and intrahousehold allocation: Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and South Africa. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 65:283-327. 2003
- Attrition in longitudinal household survey data: some tests for three developing country samples 2001
- KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) 1993–98: A longitudinal household database for South African policy analysis. Development Southern Africa. 17:567-581. 2000
- Social capital and household welfare in South Africa, 1993–98. Journal of Development Studies. 36:54-81. 2000
- Attrition in longitudinal household survey data, some tests for three developing-country samples 2000
- Attrition in the Kwazulu Natal Income Dynamics Study, 1993-1998 2000
- Intrahousehold allocation and gender relations, new empirical evidence from four developing countries 2000
- New institutional economics and its application to agricultural development [PowerPoint presentation] 2000
- Attrition in Longitudinal Household Survey Data: Some Tests for Three Developing-Country Samples. Demographic Research. 5:79-124. 1999
- Social capital and income generation in South Africa, 1993-98 1999
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chapter
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document
- What determines adult cognitive skills?, Impacts of preschooling, schooling, and post-schooling experiences in Guatemala 2008
- The impact of an experimental nutritional intervention in childhood on education among Guatemalan adults 2006
- Social capital and gender in South Africa, 1993-98 2003
- Social capital and coping with economic shocks, an analysis of stunting of South African children 2002
- Trust, membership in groups, and household welfare, evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 2002
- New institutional economics, applications for agricultural policy research in developing countries 2000
- Endogeneity of schooling in the wage function, evidence from the rural Philippines 1998
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report
- The impact of a food assistance program on nutritional status, disease progression and food security among people living with HIV in Uganda 2014
- The impact of a food assistance program on nutritional status, disease progression and food security among people living with HIV in Uganda 2013
- Prevention or cure? Comparing preventive and recuperative approaches to targeting maternal and child health and nutrition programs in rural Haiti, Executive summary of the evaluation report 2007
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working paper