Publications

Doss, Cheryl R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Pereira, Audrey; and Pradhan, Rajendra. 2020. Women’s empowerment, extended families and male migration in Nepal: Insights from mixed methods analysis. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1977. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134159.

Haile, Beliyou; Azzarri, Carlo; Roberts, Cleo; Ulimwengu, John M. and Randriamamonjy, Josée. 2016. Plant different, eat different? Insights from participatory agricultural research. Presented at CSAE Conference 2016: Economic Development in Africa. St Catherine's College, Oxford, March 20 - 22, 2016. https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=CSAE2016&paper_id=1058

Kosec, Katrina; Song, Jie; Zhao, Hongdi; and Holtemeyer, Brian. 2023. The gendered impacts of income fluctuations on household departure, labor supply, and human capital decisions: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan. Feminist Economics 29(1): 205-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2022.2101680

Haile, B. 2016. Targeting and bias in participatory research: Evidence from Malawi. Africa RISING Evidence Brief. Ibadan, Nigeria: IITA.

Pyburn, Rhiannon; Stoian, Dietmar; and Quintero, Sandra. 2021. Gender dynamics in value chains. PIM Synthesis Brief December 2021. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute

Bryan, Elizabeth; Mawia, Harriet; Ringler, Claudia; Mane, Erdgin; Costa, Valentina; and Ndoro, Rumbidzai. 2023. The gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya, Niger, Rwanda, and Uganda: Evidence from phone surveys. Rome, Italy; Washington, DC: Food and Agriculture Organization; International Food Policy Research Organization. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc7322en.

Kosec, Katrina; Song, Jie; Zhao, Hongdi; and Holtemeyer, Brian. 2021. The gendered impacts of income fluctuations on household departure, labor supply, and human capital decisions: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2040. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134563.

Eissler, Sarah; Heckert, Jessica; Pedehombga, Abdoulaye; Sanou, Armande; Ganaba, Rasmané; and Gelli, Aulo. 2025. Unpacking power dynamics and women's economic empowerment in polygynous households in Burkina Faso. Journal of Marriage and Family 87(3): 1249-1268. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13063

Ambler, Kate and de Brauw, Alan. 2017. The impacts of cash transfers on women’s empowerment: Learning from Pakistan’s BISP program. Social Protection and Labor Discussion Paper 1702. Washington, DC: World Bank Group. https://hdl.handle.net/10986/26272

Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie. 2019. The role of empowerment in agricultural production: evidence from rural households in Niger. Journal of Development Studies 55(4): 565-580. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2017.1408797

Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema; Kyle, Jordan; Olken, Benjamin A.; and Sumarto, Sudarno. Tangible information and citizen empowerment: Identification cards and food subsidy programs in Indonesia. Journal of Political Economy. Journal of Political Economy 126(2): 451-491. https://doi.org/10.1086/696226

D'Exelle, Ben; Lecoutere, Els; Van Campenhout, Bjorn 2012. Equity-efficiency trade-offs in irrigation water sharing: Evidence from a field lab in rural Tanzania. World Development 40(12): 2537-2551

CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi). 2010. Community forestry in Nepal: Women and collective action. In Resources, rights, and cooperation: A sourcebook on property rights and collective action for sustainable development, CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi). Gender, Collective Action and Property Rights, Chapter 7, Pp. 229-232. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154025

Torbi, E. N.; Wrigley-Asante, C.; Ablo, D. A.; Ragasa, Catherine. 2023. Women and youth entrepreneurship in aquaculture in Ghana. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute

Quisumbing, Agnes; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; Heckert, Jessica; and Seymour, Greg. 2024. Presentations for Introducing the new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS). Presented at IFPRI on February 22, 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139606

Mwangi, Maina; Shuto, Kumiko; Mwangi, Peter; Mburu, Mercy; and Mburugu, Sylvia. 2021. Motivating farmers' market-oriented production: Smallholder horticulture empowerment and promotion approach in Kenya. Country Investment Highlights 6. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.4060/cb7026en.

de Brauw, Alan; Kramer, Berber; and Murphy, Mike. 2020. Migration, labor, and women’s empowerment: Evidence from an agricultural value chain in Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1959. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133936.

Heckert, Jessica; Raghunathan, Kalyani; Myers, Emily; Ramani, Gayathri V.; Faas, Simone; Ferguson, Nathaniel; et al. 2023. Development of a Women’s Empowerment metric for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WE-WASH). IFPRI Discussion Paper 2207. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137008.

Kosec, Katrina; Doss, Cheryl; and Slavchevska, Vanya. 2020. Gender and rural transformation. PIM Synthesis Brief October 2020. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134037.

Malabo Montpellier Panel. 2020. Meat, milk and more: Policy innovations to shepherd inclusive and sustainable livestock systems in Africa. Malabo Montpellier Panel Livestock Report. Dakar, Senegal: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); and AKADEMIYA2063. https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293861.

Kruijssen, Froukje; Rappoldt, Anne; Ragasa, Catherine; and Newton, Julie. 2020. Inclusive business models for access to quality fish seed and technical assistance: Insights from Ghana. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1948. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133804.

Kumar, Neha; Quisumbing, Agnes R. 2013. Gendered impacts of the 2007–2008 food price crisis: Evidence using panel data from rural Ethiopia. Food Policy 38(February 2013): 11-22

Aberman, Noora-Lisa; and Roopnaraine, Terry. 2020. To sell or consume? Gendered household decision-making on crop production, consumption, and sale in Malawi. Food Security 12: 433–447. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-020-01021-2

Hannan, Anika; Heckert, Jessica; James-Hawkins, Laurie; and Yount, Kathryn M. 2020. Cognitive interviewing to improve women's empowerment questions in surveys: Application to the health and nutrition and intrahousehold relationships modules for the project‐level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index. Maternal and Child Nutrition 16(1): e12871. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12871

Kovarik, Chiara; Malapit, Hazel J.; and Sproule, Kathryn. 2015. Using cognitive pretesting to improve the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index survey. Selected Poster prepared for presentation at the 2015 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association & Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, July 26-28, 2015. https://purl.umn.edu/206310

Aku, Aika; Mpenda, Zena; Mpunde, Venance; Bryan, Elizabeth; and Mather, David L. 2023. Opportunities for and Constraints to Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania’s Cashew Value Chain. PRCI Research Paper 22. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University. https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/opportunities-for-and-constraints-to-women-s-empowerment-in-tanzania-s-cashew-value-chain

Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Fafchamps, Marcel; Goldstein, Markus; Leonard, Kenneth L.; and Papineni, Sreelakshmi. 2022. Women's empowerment and the intrinsic demand for agency: Experimental evidence from Nigeria. NBER Working Paper 30789. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w30789

Malapit, Hazel J.; and Quisumbing, Agnes R. 2015. What dimensions of women’s empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition in Ghana? Food Policy 52(April 2015) 54 - 63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.02.003

Narayanan, Sudha; Lentz, Erin; Fontana, Marzia; and Kulkarni, Bharati. 2022. Rural women’s empowerment in nutrition: A framework linking food, health and institutions. Journal of Development Studies 58(1): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2021.1961746

Dorosh, Paul A.; Thurlow, James 2012. Agglomeration, growth and regional equity: An analysis of agriculture- versus urban-led development in Uganda. Journal of African Economies 21(1): 94-123