Publications

Kishore, Avinash; Alvi, Muzna; and Krupnik, Timothy J. 2021. Development of balanced nutrient management innovations in South Asia: Perspectives from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Global Food Security 28(March 2021): 100464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100464

Kachwaha, Shivani; Rao, Krishna; Kaplan, Avril; and Bishai, David. 2019. Women's stated preferences for conditional cash transfer programs focused on maternal and child health and nutrition in India (P22-012-19). Current Developments in Nutrition 3(Supplement 1): 1937. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzz042.P22-012-19

Alderman, Harold; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Lehrer, Kim 2012. The impact of food for education programs on school participation in Northern Uganda. Economic Development and Cultural Change 61(1): 187-218

Ragasa, Catherine; Lambrecht, Isabel; Mahrt, Kristi; and Aung, Zin Wai. 2023. Empowering rural women through gender and nutrition education amid the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from Myanmar's Central Dry Zone. Journal of Rural Studies 103(October 2023): 103134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103134

Kishore, Avinash and Chakrabarti, Suman. 2015. Is more inclusive more effective? The ‘New Style’ public distribution system in India. Food Policy. 55(August 2015): 117-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.06.006

Gillespie, Stuart; Hoddinott, John F.; Nisbett, Nicholas; Arifeen, Shams; and van den Bold, Mara. 2018. Evidence to action: Highlights from Transform Nutrition research (2012-2017). Food and Nutrition Bulletin 39(3): 335-360. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0379572118788155

Houngbe, Freddy; Tonguet-Papucci, Audrey; Altare, Chiara; Aït-Aïssa, Myriam; Huneau, Jean-François; Huybregts, Lieven; and Kolsteren, Patrick. 2017. Unconditional cash transfers do not prevent children’s undernutrition in the Moderate Acute Malnutrition Out (MAM’Out) cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Burkina Faso. Journal of Nutrition 147(7): 1410-1417. https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.117.247858

Kurdi, Sikandra. 2021. The nutritional benefits of cash transfers in humanitarian crises: Evidence from Yemen. World Development 148(December 2021): 105664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105664

Narayanan, Sudha; Raghunathan, Kalyani; Rashid, Shahidur; and Winter-Nelson, Alex. Lessons from a time of upheaval: COVID-19 in South Asia. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 45(4): 2078-2093. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13395

Handa, Sudhanshu; Daidone, Silvio; Peterman, Amber; Davis, Benjamin; Pereira, Audrey; Palermo, Tia; and Yablonski, Jennifer. 2018. Myth-busting? Confronting six common perceptions about unconditional cash transfers as a poverty reduction strategy in Africa. The World Bank Research Observer 33(2): 259–298. https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lky003

Raghunathan, Kalyani; Chakrabarti, Suman; Menon, Purnima; and Alderman, Harold. 2017. Deploying the power of social protection to improve nutrition: What will it take? Economic and Political Weekly 52(46): 90-98. https://www.epw.in/journal/2017/46/special-articles/deploying-power-social-protection-improve-nutrition.html

Kosec, Katrina; Avula, Rasmi; Holtemeyer, Brian; Tyagi, Parul; Hausladen, Stephanie; and Menon, Purnima. 2015. Predictors of essential health and nutrition service delivery in Bihar, India: Results from household and frontline worker surveys. Global Health: Science and Practice 3(2): 255-273. https://doi.org/10.9745/ghsp-d-14-00144

Hargreaves, James R.; Boccia, Delia; Evans, Carlton A.; Adato, Michelle; Petticrew, Mark; Porter, John D. H. 2011. The social determinants of tuberculosis: From evidence to action. American Journal of Public Health 101(4): 654-662. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2010.199505

Praduman, Kumar; and Joshi, Pramod Kumar. 2013. Household consumption pattern and nutritional security among poor rural households: Impact of MGNREGA. Agricultural Economics Research Review 26(1): 73-82. http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:aerr&volume=26&issue=1&article=007

Kachwaha, Shivani; Nguyen, Phuong Hong; DeFreese, Michelle; Avula, Rasmi; Cyriac, Shruthi; Girard, Amy; and Menon, Purnima. 2020. Assessing the economic feasibility of assuring nutritionally adequate diets for vulnerable populations in Uttar Pradesh, India: Findings from a “cost of the diet” analysis. Current Developments in Nutrition 4(12): nzaa169. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa169

Ecker, Olivier; Alderman, Harold; Comstock, Andrew R.; Headey, Derek D.; Mahrt, Kristi; and Pradesha, Angga. 2023. Mitigating poverty and undernutrition through social protection: A simulation analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh and Myanmar. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 45(4): 2034-2055. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13357

Adubra, Laura; Le Port, Agnès; Kameli, Yves; Fortin, Sonia; Mahamadou, Tanimoune; Ruel, Marie T.; Martin-Prevel, Yves; and Savy, Mathilde. 2019. Conditional cash transfer and/or lipid-based nutrient supplement targeting the first 1000 d of life increased attendance at preventive care services but did not improve linear growth in young children in rural Mali: Results of a cluster-randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 110(6): 1476-1490. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqz238

Manley, James; Alderman, Harold; and Gentilini, Ugo. 2022. More evidence on cash transfers and child nutritional outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Global Health 7: e008233. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-008233

Chakrabarti, Suman; Kishore, Avinash; and Roy, Devesh. 2018. Effectiveness of food subsidies in raising healthy food consumption: Public distribution of pulses in India. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 100(5): 1427-1449. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aay022

Hoddinott, John F.; Ahmed, Akhter; and Roy, Shalini. 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(9): 1753-1761. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980017004232

Rivers, Jonathan; Mason, John; Silvestre, Eva; Gillespie, Stuart; Mahy, Mary; Monasch, Roeland. 2008. Impact of orphanhood on underweight prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 29(1): 32-42

Yamauchi, Futoshi; and Larson, Donald F. 2019. Long-term impacts of an unanticipated spike in food prices on child growth in Indonesia. World Development 113(January 2019): 330-343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.09.017

Hirvonen, Kalle; Bossuyt, Anne; and Pigois, Remy. 2021. Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia: Complementarities between social protection and health policies. Development Review 39(4): 532-547. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12516

von Braun, Joachim. 2008. Rising food prices. EuroChoices EuroChoices 7(2): 30-35

Adato, Michelle; Bassett, Lucy. 2009. Social protection to support vulnerable children and families. AIDS Care: Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV AIDS Care: Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV 21(S1): 60-75

Kumar, Anjani; Verma, Smriti; Saroj, Sunil; and Kumar, Niraj. 2021. Introducing biofortified rice and wheat through the public distribution system: An empirical analysis of its implications in Bihar and Odisha. Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics 76(3): 471-485. http://isaeindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/09-Article-Anjani-Kumar.pdf

Maffioli, Elisa M.; Headey, Derek D.; Lambrecht, Isabel; Oo, Than Zaw; and Zaw, Nicholus Tint. A prepandemic nutrition-sensitive social protection program has sustained benefits for food security and diet diversity in Myanmar during a severe economic crisis. Journal of Nutrition 153(4): 1052-1062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.02.009

Cohen, Mark J.; and Garrett, James L. 2010. The food price crisis and urban food (in)security. Environment and Urbanization 22(October): 467-482. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247810380375

Evans, David K.; Holtemeyer, Brian; and Kosec, Katrina. 2016. Cash transfers and health: evidence from Tanzania. Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 7882. Washington, DC : World Bank Group. https://hdl.handle.net/10986/25682

Wang, Jingxi; Hernandez, Manuel A.; and Deng, Guoying. 2023. Large-scale school meal programs and student health: Evidence from rural China. China Economic Review 79(June 2023): 101974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2023.101974