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2013: How do intrahousehold dynamics change when assets are transferred to women? Evidence from BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor program in Bangladesh

Jinnat Ara, Julia A. Behrman, Narayan Das, Peter Davis, Md. Kamruzzaman, Agnes Quisumbing, Shalini Roy and Rabeya Yasmin

2013: Is there an App for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout

2013: Can integrated agriculture-nutrition programs change gender norms on land and asset ownership? Evidence from Burkina Faso

Deanna K. Olney, Ouédraogo, Marcellin, Abdoulaye Pedehombga, Agnes Quisumbing and Mara van den Bold

2013: Moving in the right direction? Maize productivity and fertilizer use and use intensity in Ghana

Antony Chapoto and Catherine Ragasa

2013: Women’s empowerment in agriculture, production diversity, and nutrition: Evidence from Nepal

Kenda Cunningham, Suneetha Kadiyala, Hazel Jean Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing and Parul Tyagi

2013: Don’t tell on me: Experimental evidence of asymmetric information in transnational households

Kate Ambler

2013: Can dairy value-chain projects change gender norms in rural Bangladesh? Impacts on assets, gender norms, and time use

Jemimah Njuki, Agnes Quisumbing, Shalini Roy, Kakuly Tanvin and Elizabeth Waithanji

2013: Can government-allocated land contribute to food security? Intrahousehold analysis of West Bengal’s microplot allocation program

Diana Fletschner, Amber Peterman, Florence Santos and Vivien Savath

2013: The national health insurance scheme in Ghana: Implementation challenges and proposed solutions

Gissele Gajate-Garrido and Rebecca Owusua

2013: Gender inequalities in ownership and control of land in Africa: Myths versus reality

Cheryl Doss, Chiara Kovarik, Amber Peterman, Agnes Quisumbing and Mara van den Bold

2013: Farmer preferences for drought tolerance in hybrid versus inbred rice: Evidence from Bihar, India

David Ortega, Vartika Singh, David Spielman and Patrick Ward

2013: Borrowing from the insurer: An empirical analysis of demand and impact of insurance in China

Kevin Z. Chen, Ruth Hill, Yanyan Liu and Chengwei Xiao

2013: Organizational partnerships for food Policy research impact: A review of what works

Jenna Ferguson, Athur Mabiso and Teunis van Rheenen

2013: Fertilizer in Ethiopia: An assessment of policies, value chain, and profitability

Gezahegn Ayele, Nicholas Minot, Shahidur Rashid and Nigussie Tefera

2013: The global landscape of poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition, and its implications for agricultural development strategies

Derek Headey

2013: Leveling with friends: Social networks and indian farmers’ demand for agricultural custom hire services

Kajal Gulati, Travis Lybbert, Nicholas Magnan and David Spielman

2013: Assessing the potential and policy alternatives for achieving rice competitiveness and growth in Nigeria

Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Michael E. Johnson and Hiroyuki Takeshima

2013: Revisiting agricultural input and farm support subsidies in Africa: The case of Ghana’s mechanization, fertilizer, block farms, and marketing programs

Emmanuel Abokyi, Gerald Ahorbo, Samuel Benin, Kipo Jimah, Michael E. Johnson, Gamel Nasser, Victor Owusu, Joe Taabazuing and Albert Tenga

2013: The operational evidence base for delivering direct nutrition interventions in India: A desk review

Suneetha Kadiyala, Purnima Menon, Avula Rasmi and Kavita Singh

2013: Rethinking the measurement of undernutrition in a broader health context: Should we look at possible causes or actual effects

Alexander Stein

2013: Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh?

Akhter Ahmed, Hazel Jean Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing and Esha Sraboni

2013: Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions

Catherine Ragasa, Suzanne Thornsbury and Satish Joshi

2013: Efficiency and productivity differential effects of land certification program in Ethiopia: Quasi-experimental evidence from Tigray

Hosaena Ghebru Hagos and Stein Holden

2013: Women’s empowerment and nutrition: An evidence review

Mara van den Bold, Agnes Quisumbing and Stuart Gillespie

2013: An evaluation of poverty prevalence in China: New evidence from four recent surveys

Yu Xie, Qi Xu, Chunni Zhang and Xiaobo Zhang

2013: Cost-benefit analysis of the african risk capacity facility

Daniel Clarke and Ruth Hill

2013: Agricultural mechanization patterns in Nigeria: Insights from farm household typology and agricultural household model simulation

Xinshen Diao, Alejandro Nin-Pratt and Hiroyuki Takeshima

2013: Land constraints and agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: A village-level analysis of high-potential areas

Mekdim Dereje, Derek Headey, Anna Josephson, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert and Alemayehu Taffesse

2013: Welfare and poverty impacts of India’s national rural employment guarantee scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu

2013: Links between tenure security and food security: Evidence from Ethiopia

Hosaena Ghebru Hagos and Stein Holden

2013: Economywide impact of maize export bans on agricultural growth and household welfare in Tanzania: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model Analysis

Xinshen Diao, Adam Kennedy, Athur Mabiso and Angga Pradesha

2013: Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana

Adwinmea Bonsu, Antony Chapoto and Athur Mabiso

2013: Cambodian agriculture: Adaptation to climate change impact

Ros Bansok, Chhim Chhum, Catherine Chiang, Thanakvaro De Lopez, Nang Phirun, Tin Ponlok and Timothy Thomas

2013: The impact of food prices shocks in Uganda: First-order versus long-run effects

Nicholas Minot, Karl Pauw and Bjorn Van Campenhout

2013: Assessment of the capacity, incentives, and performance of agricultural extension agents in western Democratic Republic of the Congo

Badibanga, Thaddée, Catherine Ragasa, Josee Randriamamonjy and John Ulimwengu

2013: The formation of job referral networks: Experimental evidence from urban Ethiopia

Antonia Stefano Caria and Ibrahim Worku Hassen

2013: Agriculture and adaptation in Bangladesh: Current and projected impacts of climate change

Catherine Chiang, Anwarul Haque, Nazria Islam, Khandaker Mainuddin, Saad Quasem, Aminur Rahman, Yun Sun and Timothy Thomas

2013: Demand for weather hedges in India: An empirical exploration of theoretical predictions

Francisco Ceballos, Ruth Hill and Luis Robles

2013: Organizational and institutional issues in climate change adaptation and risk management: Insights from practitioners’ survey in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali

Caroline Abate, Alumu Atlaw, Elizabeth Bryan, Mahamadou Namori Keita, Catherine Ragasa and Yan Sun

2013: The impact of alternative input subsidy exit strategies on Malawi’s maize commodity market

Mariam A. T. J. Mapila

2013: An ex ante analysis of the impact and cost-effectiveness of biofortified high-provitamin A and high-iron banana in Uganda

Ekin Birol, John L. Fiedler and Enoch M. Kilkuwe

2013: Local Warming and Violent Conflict in North and South Sudan

Margherita Calderone, Jean-François Maystadt and Liangzhi You

2013: Comprehensive food security and vulnerability analysis: Nigeria

Akeem Ajibola, Oluyemisi Kuku, Astrid Mathiassen, Lucy Myles and Amit Wadhwa

2013: Targeting technology to reduce poverty and conserve resources: Experimental delivery of laser land leveling to farmers in Uttar Pradesh, India

Anil K. Bhargava, Kajal Gulati, Travis Lybbert, Nicholas Magnan and David Spielman

2013: The logic of adaptive sequential experimentation in policy design

Haipeng Xing and Xiaobo Zhang

2013: Dynamics of transformation: Insights from an exploratory review of rice farming in the Kpong irrigation project

Xinshen Diao, Rebecca Lee Funk, Kipo Jimah, Shashi Kolavalli and Hiroyuki Takeshima

2013: Population density, migration, and the returns to human capital and land: Highlights from Indonesia

Yanyan Liu and Futoshi Yamauchi

2013: Reverse-share-tenancy and Marshallian Inefficiency: Landowners’ bargaining power and sharecroppers’ productivity

Hosaena Gebru Hagos and Stein Holden

2013: The child health implications of privatizing Africa’s urban water supply

Katrina Kosec

2013: Group lending with heterogeneous types

Li Gan, Manuel Hernandez and Yanyan Liu

2013: Typology of farm households and irrigation systems: Some evidence from Nigeria

Hyacinth Edeh and Hiroyuki Takeshima

2013: Understanding the role of research in the evolution of fertilizer policies in Malawi

Michael E. Johnson and Regina Birner

2013: The policy landscape of agricultural water management in Pakistan

Noora-Lisa Aberman, Agha Akram, Andrew Bell, Maikel Issermann, Claudia Ringler, Benjamin Wielgosz and Fatima Zaidi

2013: Who talks to whom in African agricultural research information networks? The Malawi case

Klaus Droppelmann, Mariam Mapila, John Mazunda, Paul Thangata and Jason Yauney

2013: Measuring food policy research capacity: Indicators and Typologies

Suresh Babu and Paul Dorosh

2013: Does freer trade really lead to productivity growth?: Evidence from Africa

Lauren Bresnahan, Ian Coxhead, Jeremy Foltz and Tewodaj Mogues

2013: Data needs for gender analysis in agriculture

Cheryl Doss

2013: Spillover effects of targeted subsidies: An assessment of fertilizer and improved seed use in Nigeria

Lenis Liverpool-Tasie and Sheu Salau

2013: The impact of irrigation on nutrition, health, and gender: A review paper with insights for Africa south of the Sahara

Laia Domenech and Claudia Ringler

2013: Assessing the effectiveness of multistakeholder platforms: Agricultural and rural management councils in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Badibanga, Thaddée, Catherine Ragasa and John Ulimwengu

2013: The impact of Oportunidades on human capital and income distribution: A top-down/bottom-up approach

Dario Debowicz and Jennifer Golan

2013: Filling the learning gap in program implementation using participatory monitoring and evaluation: Lessons from farmer field schools in Zanzibar

Sindu Kebede and Elias Zerfu

2013: Agricultural mechanization in Ghana: Is specialization in agricultural mechanization a viable business model?

Patrick Aboagye, Frances Cossar, Xinshen Diao, Nazaire Houssou, Kipo Jimah and Shashi Kolavalli

2013: A partial equilibrium model of the Malawi maize commodity market

Henry Kankwamba, Johann Kirsten, Mariam Mapila and Ferdinand Meyer

2013: Exchange rate policy and devaluation in Malawi

Paul Dorosh, John Mazunda and Karl Pauw

2013: A regional computable general equilibrium model for Honduras: Modeling exogenous shocks and policy alternatives

Samuel Morley and Piñeiro, Valeria

2013: Agricultural trade: What Matters in the Doha Round?

David Laborde Debucquet and Will Martin

2013: Opportunities and challenges for community involvement in public service provision in rural Guatemala

Johanna Speer and Vásquez, William F.

2013: Rising wages in Bangladesh

Kaikaus Ahmad, Akhter Ahmed, Saika Belal, Hak Lim Lee, Solomon Lemma, Valerie Mueller, Shahidur Rashid and Xiaobo Zhang

2013: How are farmers adapting to climate change in Vietnam?: Endogeneity and sample selection in a rice yield model

Clemens Breisinger, Hai Nguyen, Bingxin Yu and Tingju Zhu

2013: Evaluating the local economywide impacts of irrigation projects: Feed the future in Tanzania

Xinshen Diao, Mateusz Filipski, Dale Manning, Angga Pradesha and J. Edward Taylor

2013: Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency: Evidence from country-level panel data

Yanyan Liu, Keijiro Otsuka and Futoshi Yamauchi

2013: Impact of food price changes on household welfare in Ghana

Reno Dewina and Nicholas Minot

2013: Parametric decomposition of the malmquist index in an output-oriented distance function: Productivity in Chinese agriculture

Xiyuan Liao, Hongfang Shen and Bingxin Yu

2013: Extreme weather and civil war in Somalia: Does drought fuel conflict through livestock price shocks?

Olivier Ecker, Athur Mabiso and Jean-François Maystadt

2013: Evidence on key policies for African agricultural growth

Ousmane Badiane, Frances Cossar, Xinshen Diao, Paul Dorosh, Olivier Ecker, Hosaena Ghebru Hagos, Derek Headey, Adam Kennedy, Athur Mabiso, Tsitsi Makombe, Mehrab Malek and Emily Schmidt

2013: A global assessment of the economic effects of export taxes

Bouёt, Antoine, Carmen Estrades and David Laborde Debucquet