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1317: 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

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

1316: Is there an App for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout

1315: Can integrated agriculture-nutrition programs change gender norms on land and asset ownership? Evidence from Burkina Faso

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

1314: Moving in the right direction? Maize productivity and fertilizer use and use intensity in Ghana

Antony Chapoto and Catherine Ragasa

1313: Women’s empowerment in agriculture, production diversity, and nutrition: Evidence from Nepal

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

1312: Don’t tell on me: Experimental evidence of asymmetric information in transnational households

Kate Ambler

1311: Can dairy value-chain projects change gender norms in rural Bangladesh? Impacts on assets, gender norms, and time use

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

1310: Can government-allocated land contribute to food security? Intrahousehold analysis of West Bengal’s Microplot allocation program

Florence Santos, Diana Fletschner, Vivien Savath and Amber Peterman

1309: The national health insurance scheme in Ghana: Implementation challenges and proposed solutions

Gissele Gajate-Garrido and Rebecca Owusua

1308: 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

1307: Farmer preferences for drought tolerance in hybrid versus inbred rice: Evidence from Bihar, India

Patrick Ward, David Ortega, David Spielman and Vartika Singh

1306: Borrowing from the insurer: An empirical analysis of demand and impact of insurance in China

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

1305: Organizational partnerships for food Policy research impact: A review of what works

Athur Mabiso, Teunis van Rheenen and Jenna Ferguson

1304: Fertilizer in Ethiopia: An assessment of policies, value chain, and profitability

Shahidur Rashid, Nigussie Tefera, Nicholas Minot and Gezahegn Ayele

1303: The global landscape of poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition, and its implications for agricultural development strategies

Derek Headey

1302: Leveling with friends: Social networks and indian farmers’ demand for agricultural custom hire services

Nicholas Magnan, David Spielman, Travis Lybbert and Kajal Gulati

1301: Assessing the potential and policy alternatives for achieving rice competitiveness and growth in Nigeria

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

1300: Revisiting agricultural input and farm support subsidies in Africa: The case of Ghana’s mechanization, fertilizer, block farms, and marketing programs

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

1299: The operational evidence base for delivering direct nutrition interventions in India: A desk review

Rasmi Avula, Suneetha Kadiyala, Kavita Singh and Purnima Menon

1298: Rethinking the measurement of undernutrition in a broader health context: Should we look at possible causes or actual effects

Alexander Stein

1297: Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh?

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

1296: Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions

Catherine Ragasa, Suzanne Thornsbury and Satish Joshi

1295: Efficiency and productivity differential effects of land certification program in Ethiopia: Quasi-experimental evidence from Tigray

Hosaena H. Ghebru and Stein Holden

1294: Women’s empowerment and nutrition: An evidence review

Mara van den Bold, Agnes Quisumbing and Stuart Gillespie

1293: An evaluation of poverty prevalence in China: New evidence from four recent surveys

Chunni Zhang, Qi Xu, Xiaobo Zhang and Yu Xie

1292: Cost-benefit analysis of the African risk capacity facility

Daniel Clarke and Ruth Hill

1291: Agricultural mechanization patterns in Nigeria: Insights from farm household typology and agricultural household model simulation

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Alejandro Nin-Pratt and Xinshen Diao

1290: Land constraints and agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: A village-level analysis of high-potential areas

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

1289: Welfare and poverty impacts of India’s national rural employment guarantee scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu

1288: Links between tenure security and food security: Evidence from Ethiopia

Hosaena H. Ghebru and Stein Holden

1287: 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

1286: Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana

Antony Chapoto, Athur Mabiso and Adwinmea Bonsu

1285: Cambodian agriculture: Adaptation to climate change impact

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

1284: The impact of food price shocks in Uganda: First-order versus long-run effects

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Karl Pauw and Nicholas Minot

1283: Assessment of the capacity, incentives, and performance of agricultural extension agents in western Democratic Republic of the Congo

Catherine Ragasa, John Ulimwengu, Josee Randriamamonjy and Thaddée Badibanga

1282: The formation of job referral networks: Experimental evidence from urban Ethiopia

Antonia Stefano Caria and Ibrahim Worku Hassen

1281: Agriculture and adaptation in Bangladesh: Current and projected impacts of climate change

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

1280: Demand for weather hedges in India: An empirical exploration of theoretical predictions

Ruth Hill, Luis Robles and Francisco Ceballos

1279: Organizational and institutional issues in climate change adaptation and risk management: Insights from practitioners’ survey in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali

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

1278: The impact of alternative input subsidy exit strategies on Malawi’s maize commodity market

Mariam A.T.J. Mapila

1277: An ex ante analysis of the impact and cost-effectiveness of biofortified high-provitamin A and high-iron banana in Uganda

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

1276: Local warming and violent conflict in North and South Sudan

Jean-François Maystadt, Liangzhi You and Margherita Calderone

1275: Comprehensive food security and vulnerability analysis: Nigeria

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

1274: Targeting technology to reduce poverty and conserve resources: Experimental delivery of laser land leveling to farmers in Uttar Pradesh, India

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

1273: The logic of adaptive sequential experimentation in policy design

Haipeng Xing and Xiaobo Zhang

1272: Dynamics of transformation: Insights from an exploratory review of rice farming in the Kpong irrigation project

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

1271: Population density, migration, and the returns to human capital and land: Highlights from Indonesia

Yanyan Liu and Futoshi Yamauchi

1270: Reverse-share-tenancy and Marshallian Inefficiency: Landowners’ bargaining power and sharecroppers’ productivity

Hosaena H. Ghebru and Stein Holden

1269: The child health implications of privatizing Africa’s urban water supply

Katrina Kosec

1268: Group lending with heterogeneous types

Li Gan, Manuel Hernandez and Yanyan Liu