Publications

Roy, Shalini; Hidrobo, Melissa; Hoddinott, John F.; and Ahmed, Akhter. 2019. Transfers, behavior change communication, and intimate partner violence: Postprogram evidence from rural Bangladesh. Review of Economics and Statistics 101(5): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00791

Buller, Anna Maria; Hidrobo, Melissa; Peterman, Amber; and Heise, Lori. 2016. The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach? A mixed methods study on causal mechanisms through which cash and in-kind food transfers decreased intimate partner violence. BMC Public Health 16:488. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3129-3

Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, Christopher B. 2013. Heterogeneous pro-poor targeting in the national rural employment guarantee scheme. Economic and Political Weekly 48(10): 46-53. https://www.epw.in/journal/2013/10/special-articles/heterogeneous-pro-poor-targeting-national-rural-employment

Peterman, Amber; Schwab, Benjamin; Roy, Shalini; Hidrobo, Melissa; and Gilligan, Daniel O. 2021. Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda and Yemen. World Development 141(May 2021): 105387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105387

Abay, Kibrom A.; Berhane, Guush; Hoddinott, John F.; and Tafere, Kibrom. 2023. COVID-19 and food security in Ethiopia: Do social protection programs protect? Economic Development and Cultural Change 71(2). https://doi.org/10.1086/715831

Sheahan, Megan; Liu, Yanyan; Narayanan, Sudha; and Barrett, Christopher B. 2016. Disaggregated labor supply implications of guaranteed employment in India. Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association's Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, July 31 - August 2, 2016. https://purl.umn.edu/237345

Gillespie, Stuart; Drimie, Scott. 2008. Agricultural development, social protection and chronic disease. Paper prepared for the IFPRI/UKZN/NEPAD Conference on the Convergence between Social Services Provision (SSP) and Productivity Enhancing Investments (PEI) in development strategies: How to maximize the impact of public expenditure on agricultural growth and poverty reduction, January 29-31, 2008, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Kumar, Anjani; Shinoj, P.; and Joshi, Pramod Kumar. 2016. Impact of Public Distribution System on poverty and food security in India. Indian Farming 66(8), Special Issue-Fourth International Agronomy Congress, November 2016 issue, 59-65.

Ceballos, Francisco; Kramer, Berber; and Robles, Miguel. 2018. The feasibility of picture-based crop insurance (PBI): Smartphone pictures for affordable crop insurance. Presented at the 2018 International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Vancouver, British Columbia, July 28-August 2, 2018. https://purl.umn.edu/277141

Hoddinott, John F.; and Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. 2019. Social protection in Ethiopia. In The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy, eds. Fantu Cheru, Christopher Cramer, and Arkebe Oqubay. Part III: Social Policy and Development, Chapter 24. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-ethiopian-economy-9780198814986?cc=us&lang=en&

von Braun, Joachim. 2007. Investing in agricultural growth and rural social protection: The key to reducing poverty. In Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, November 23-25, 2007, in Kampala, Uganda. Pp. 123-126

Hoddinott, John F.; Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; Berhane, Guush; Handino, Mulugeta; Kumar, Neha; Lind, Jeremy; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum; Tefera, Mulugeta. 2013. Implementing large scale food security programs in rural Ethiopia: Insights from the Productive Safety Net Program. In Food security, safety nets and social protection in Ethiopia, ed. Dessalegn Rahmato, Alula Pankhurst, Jan-Gerrit van Uffelen. Pp. 173-218. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Forum For Social Studies (FSS).

Cockburn, John; Fofana, Ismaël; Tiberti, Luca 2012. Simulating the impact of the global economic crisis and policy responses on children in West and Central Africa.

Fernald, Lia C. H.; Gertler, Paul J.; Hidrobo, Melissa 2012. Conditional cash transfer programs: Effects on growth, health and development in young children. In The Oxford handbook of poverty and child development, ed. Valerie Maholmes, and Rosalind Berkowitz King. Part VI: Helping families help themselves: Evidence-based interventions. Chapter 32

Kumar, Anjani; Singh, R. K. P.; and Kumar, Abhay. Rural labour employment and their livelihoods in Bihar: Micro-level evidences from selected villages. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 58(4): 609 - 629. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41027-016-0034-3

Hoddinott, John F. 2007. Social protection: To target or not to target. Institute for Development Studies (IDS) Bulletin 38(3): 90-94. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2007.tb00387.x

Gilligan, Daniel O.; Hoddinott, John F.; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. 2009. The impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme and its linkages. Journal of Development Studies Journal of Development Studies 45(10): 1684-1706

von Braun, Joachim. 2008. Rising world food prices. China Programme 12(3)

Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; Lind, Jeremy; and Hoddinott, John F. 2021. Graduation after ten years of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme: Surviving but still not thriving. Development Review 39(4): 511-531. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12515

Olney, Deanna K.; Rawat, Rahul; Ruel, Marie T. 2012. Identifying potential programs and platforms to deliver multiple micronutrient interventions. Journal of Nutrition 142(1): 178S-185S

Brune, Lasse; Karlan, Dean; Kurdi, Sikandra; and Udry, Christopher R. 2022. Social protection amidst social upheaval: Examining the impact of a multi-faceted program for ultra-poor households in Yemen. Journal of Development Economics 155(March 2022): 102780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102780

Tesfay, Guush Berhane; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Hoddinott, John F.; Kumar, Neha; and Seyoum Taffesse, Alemayehu. 2014. Can social protection work in Africa? The impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme. Economic Development and Cultural Change 63(1): 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1086/677753

Chen, Kevin Z.; Fan, Shenggen; and Zhan, Yue. 2020. Agriculture and food security under Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (NCP) emergency. China Agricultural Economic Review 12(3): 381-575. https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1756-137X/vol/12/iss/3

von Braun, Joachim. 2009. Food security under volatile markets and economic depression. Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 48 (1): 1-4

Evans, David K.; Holtemeyer, Brian; and Kosec, Katrina. 2019. Cash transfers and health: Evidence from Tanzania. World Bank Economic Review 33(2): 394–412. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhx001

Manley, James; and Alderman, Harold. 2025. Do cash transfer programmes affect child anaemia? Results From a meta-analysis. Maternal and Child Nutrition 21(3): e70026. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.70026

Rao, Krishna D.; Kachwaha, Shivani; Kaplan, Avril; and Bishai, David. 2020. Not just money: What mothers value in conditional cash transfer programs in India. BMJ Global Health 5: e003033. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003033

Hoddinott, John F.; and Mekasha, Tseday J. 2020. Social protection, household size, and its determinants: Evidence from Ethiopia. Journal of Development Studies 56(10): 1818-1837. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2020.1736283

Hendriks, Sheryl L. Review of Nutrition economics: Principles and policy applications by Suresh Chandra Babu, Shailendra N. Gajanan and J. Arne Hallam. Food Security10(2): 495-497. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-018-0775-6

von Braun, Joachim. 2008. El aumento mundial en el precio de los alimentos: ¿cómo enfrentar el problema? Puentas 9(3).