2003b. Data sources for microeconometric risk and vulnerability assessments (2009)
John Hoddinott, Agnes Quisumbing, The World Bank, John Hoddinott, Agnes Quisumbing
Social Protection Discussion Papers are not formal publications of the World Bank. They present preliminary and unpolished results of analysis that are circulated to encourage discussion and comment;...
www.ifpri.org IFPRI Division Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results. They have not been subject to formal external reviews managed by IFPRI’s Publications Review...
John A. Maluccio, John Hoddinott, Jere R. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, Agnes R. Quisumbing, Aryeh D. Stein
www.ifpri.org IFPRI Division Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results. They have not been subject to formal external reviews managed by IFPRI’s Publications Review...
Urmil Chugh, John Hoddinott, Tim Buell, Bill Fricker
The project was funded by
www.ifpri.org Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data (2008)
Michelle Adato, John Hoddinott, Adato Michelle, John Hoddinott, Lawrence James Haddad
Sections of this material may be reproduced for personal and not-for-profit use without the express written permission of but with acknowledgment to IFPRI. To reproduce the material contained herein...
DYNAMIC INTRAHOUSEHOLD BARGAINING, MATRIMONIAL (2008)
Christopher Adam, John Hoddinott, Ethan Ligon
Abstract. This paper develops a dynamic model of household bargaining and uses it to motivate an empirical analysis of the impact changes in Canadian laws regarding the allocation of family assets...
2003a. Methods for microeconometric risk and vulnerability assessments (2008)
The World Bank, John Hoddinott, John Hoddinott, Agnes Quisumbing, Agnes Quisumbing
this paper are entirely those of the author(s) and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the...
Collective Action and Vulnerability: Burial Societies in Rural Ethiopia (2008)
Dercon, Stefan, Hoddinott, John, Krishnan, Pramila, Woldehannna, Tassew
"Collective action can help individuals, groups, and communities achieve common goals, thus contributing to poverty reduction. Drawing on longitudinal household and qualitative community data, the...
Jere R. Behrman, John Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Erica Soler-hampejsek, Emily L. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, ...
agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group...
agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group...
Daniel O. Gilligan, John Hoddinott, Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, Daniel O. Gilligan, International Food
agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group...
Stefan Dercon, Daniel O. Gilligan, John Hoddinott, Tassew Woldehanna, Stefan Dercon, Tassew Woldehanna
agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group...
DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 25 WATER, HEALTH, AND INCOME: A REVIEW (2007)
FCND Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
Harold Alderman, John Hoddinott, Lawrence Haddad, Christopher Udry
FCND Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
Luc J. Christiaensen, Richard N. Boisvert, John Hoddinott
Household food insecurity indicators are typically static in nature, thereby ignoring a key dimension of food insecurity. This paper develops an explicitly forward-looking food insecurity indicator...
FCND DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 52 TESTING NASH-BARGAINING HOUSEHOLD MODELS WITH TIME-SERIES DATA (2007)
John Hoddinott, Christopher Adam
FCND Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
FCND DP No. 136 FCND DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 136 DIETARY DIVERSITY AS A FOOD SECURITY INDICATOR (2007)
John Hoddinott, Yisehac Yohannes
FCND Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
FCND DP No. 144 FCND DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 144 TARGETING OUTCOMES REDUX (2007)
David Coady, Margaret Grosh, John Hoddinott
FCND Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
Sarah Harrower, John Hoddinott
FCND Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
Harold Alderman, John Hoddinott, Bill Kinsey
FCND Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
John Hoddinott, Michelle Adato, Tim Besley, Lawrence Haddad
FCND Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
Luc Christiaensen, John Hoddinott, Gilles Bergeron
FCND Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
Dercon, Stefan, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hoddinott, John, Woldehanna, Tassew
This paper investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates of...
Dercon, Stefan, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hoddinott, John, Woldehanna, Tassew
This paper investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates of...
Dercon, Stefan, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hoddinott, John, Woldehanna, Tassew
This paper investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates of...
Dercon, Stefan, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hoddinott, John, Woldehanna, Tassew
This paper investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates of...
Food Consumption and Nutrition Division (2007)
John Hoddinott, Marc J. Cohen, John Hoddinott, Marc J. Cohen
of 15 agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the
Behrman, Jere R, Hoddinott, John, Maluccio, John A, Soler-Hampejsek, Erica, Behrman, Emily L, Martorell, Reynaldo, ...
Most investigations of the importance of and the determinants of adult cognitive skills assume that (a) they are produced primarily by schooling and (b) schooling is statistically predetermined. But...
Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition (2006)
Alderman, Harold, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill
This paper examines the impact of pre-school malnutrition on subsequent human capital formation in rural Zimbabwe using a maternal fixed effects--instrumental variables (MFE-IV) estimator with a long...
Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition (2006)
Alderman, Harold, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill
This paper examines the impact of pre-school malnutrition on subsequent human capital formation in rural Zimbabwe using a maternal fixed effects—instrumental variables (MFE-IV) estimator with a...
Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition (2006)
Alderman, Harold, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill
This paper examines the impact of pre-school malnutrition on subsequent human capital formation in rural Zimbabwe using a maternal fixed effects--instrumental variables (MFE-IV) estimator with a long...
Consumption Smoothing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali (2005)
Harrower, Sarah, Hoddinott, John
This paper examines consumption smoothing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali, a poor region in one of the poorest countries in the world. Idiosyncratic shocks appear to have little impact on consumption. A...
Consumption Smoothing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali (2005)
Harrower, Sarah, Hoddinott, John
This paper examines consumption smoothing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali, a poor region in one of the poorest countries in the world. Idiosyncratic shocks appear to have little impact on consumption. A...
Consumption Smoothing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali (2005)
Harrower, Sarah, Hoddinott, John
This paper examines consumption smoothing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali, a poor region in one of the poorest countries in the world. Idiosyncratic shocks appear to have little impact on consumption. A...
Targeting Outcomes Redux (2004)
Coady, David, Grosh, Margaret, Hoddinott, John
A newly constructed comprehensive database of 122 targeted antipoverty interventions in 48 countries is used to examine the contested issue of the efficacy of targeting interventions in developing...
Participation and Poverty Reduction: An Analytical Framework and Overview of the Issues (2002)
This paper examines the relationship between community participation and the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty. It outlines a simple model that identifies three actors involved in...
The impact of agricultural extension on farm production in resettlement areas of Zimbabwe. (2001)
Owens, Trudy, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill
Abstract: In this paper, we revisit the contested issue of the impact of agricultural extension on farm production. We exploit two features of the data available to us: its longitudinal nature and...
The impact of agricultural extension on farm production in resettlement areas of Zimbabwe. (2001)
Owens, Trudy, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill
Abstract: In this paper, we revisit the contested issue of the impact of agricultural extension on farm production. We exploit two features of the data available to us: its longitudinal nature and...
The impact of agricultural extension on farm production in resettlement areas of Zimbabwe. (2001)
Owens, Trudy, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill
Abstract: In this paper, we revisit the contested issue of the impact of agricultural extension on farm production. We exploit two features of the data available to us: its longitudinal nature and...
The impact of agricultural extension on farm production in resettlement areas of Zimbabwe. (2001)
Owens, Trudy, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill
Abstract: In this paper, we revisit the contested issue of the impact of agricultural extension on farm production. We exploit two features of the data available to us: its longitudinal nature and...
Jere R. Behrman, John Hoddinott
The nutrition of preschool children is of considerable interest not only because of concern over their immediate welfare, but also because their nutrition in this formative stage of life is widely...
FCND DP No. 79 FCND DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 79 ADULT HEALTH IN THE TIME OF DROUGHT (2000)
This paper examines the impact of rainfall shocks on a measure of adult health, body mass, drawing on a unique panel data set of households residing in rural Zimbabwe. Controlling for individual,...
Revisiting forever gained: income dynamics in the resettlement areas of Zimbabwe, 1983-1997 (1999)
Gunning, Jan Willem, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill, Owens, Trudy
ABSTRACT: This paper examines income dynamics for a panel of households resettled on former white-owned farms in the aftermath of Zimbabwe's independence. There are four core findings: (i) there has...
Revisiting forever gained: income dynamics in the resettlement areas of Zimbabwe, 1983-1997 (1999)
Gunning, Jan Willem, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill, Owens, Trudy
ABSTRACT: This paper examines income dynamics for a panel of households resettled on former white-owned farms in the aftermath of Zimbabwe's independence. There are four core findings: (i) there has...
Revisiting forever gained: income dynamics in the resettlement areas of Zimbabwe, 1983-1997 (1999)
Gunning, Jan Willem, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill, Owens, Trudy
ABSTRACT: This paper examines income dynamics for a panel of households resettled on former white-owned farms in the aftermath of Zimbabwe's independence. There are four core findings: (i) there has...
Revisiting forever gained: income dynamics in the resettlement areas of Zimbabwe, 1983-1997 (1999)
Gunning, Jan Willem, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill, Owens, Trudy
ABSTRACT: This paper examines income dynamics for a panel of households resettled on former white-owned farms in the aftermath of Zimbabwe's independence. There are four core findings: (i) there has...
ABSTRACT: This study examines the consequences of alternative relief and development interventions on the well being of households in rural Zimbabwe. It does so by: a) establishing a framework that...
ABSTRACT: This study examines the consequences of alternative relief and development interventions on the well being of households in rural Zimbabwe. It does so by: a) establishing a framework that...
ABSTRACT: This study examines the consequences of alternative relief and development interventions on the well being of households in rural Zimbabwe. It does so by: a) establishing a framework that...
ABSTRACT: This study examines the consequences of alternative relief and development interventions on the well being of households in rural Zimbabwe. It does so by: a) establishing a framework that...
Validity Of Rapid Estimates Of Household Wealth And Income For Health Surveys In Rural Africa (1999)
Saul Morris Calogero, Saul Morris, Calogero Carletto, John Hoddinott
Drawing data from four different integrated household surveys in rural areas of Mali, Malawi, and two national surveys in Cte d'Ivoire, this paper tests the validity of proxy measures of...
OPERATIONALIZING HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY IN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS: (1999)
An Introduction, John Hoddinott
INTRODUCTION !TECHNICAL GUIDE #1! John Hoddinott International Food Policy Research Institute 2033 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 U.S.A. March, 1999 CONTENTS 1. Introduction...
Targeting: Principles And Practice (1999)
Technical Guide John, John Hoddinott
CONTENTS 1. Introduction ........................................................... 9-1 2. The Principles of Targeting ................................................ 9-1 3. The Practice of...
Luc Christiaensen, John Hoddinott, Gilles Bergeron, Comments Welcomed
Counting people and measuring wealth in northern Mali: A tale of two methods
Address for correspondence: (1998)
It is well known that households in developing countries experience fluctuations in incomes both inter- and intra-annually. A growing literature is exploring the extent to which households can smooth...
Fcnd Discussion Paper, Philip Maggs, John Hoddinott
In developing countries, common property resources (CPRs) can be an important source of income for certain individuals within households. This paper demonstrates that if a change in the management of...
UNITARY VERSUS COLLECTIVE MODELS OF THE HOUSEHOLD: IS IT TIME TO SHIFT THE BURDEN OF PROOF? (1995)
Alderman, Harold, Chiappori, Pierre-André, Haddad, Lawrence, Hoddinott, John, Kanbur, Ravi
Most development objectives focus on the well-being of individuals. Policies are targeted to increase the percentage of individuals who avoid poverty, who can read, who are free from hunger and...
Modelling Remittance Flows in Kenya (1992)
This paper examines the determinants of migrants' remittances in Kenya. Drawing on data from Central Province, it compares four econometric specifications of the remittance function, finding that...
Rivard, Paul G., Hoddinott, John
This study investigates the influence of the red: far-red (R: FR) light ratio supplied by artificial light sources on the form of Myriophyllum excalbescens Fern. plants growing in aquaria in a...
Migration, accumulation and old age security in Western Kenya [microform] / (1989)
BLDSC reference no.: D97788.
Migration, accumulation and old age security. (1989)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oxford, 1989.
Translocation in petioles and transport along phloem loops of Heracleum lanatum [microform] / (1974)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alberta, 1974.
Thesis (M. Sc.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1970.
Livelihoods, growth, and links to market towns in 15 Ethiopian villages
Dercon, Stefan, Hoddinott, John
""This paper uses longitudinal data from 15 villages in rural Ethiopia to explore the nature and consequences of these links. It addresses the following questions: (1) What are the links between...
Aid, policies and growth, redux
Jeff Dayton-Johnson, John Hoddinott
Aid; Growth; Aid Effectiveness; World Bank
Consumption soothing and vulnerability in the Zone Lacustre, Mali
Harrower, Sarah, Hoddinott, John
"This paper explores risk sharing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali, as viewed through the lens of consumption smoothing. We find that idiosyncratic shocks appear to have little impact on consumption, and...
This paper examines the impact of improved water access on health and incomes in the developing world, drawing on contributions from public health, economics, and anthropology. It argues that the...
The impact of changes in common property resource management on intrahousehold allocation
Maggs, Philip, Hoddinott, John
In developing countries, common property resources (CPRs) can be an important source of income for certain individuals within households. This paper demonstrates that if a change in the management of...
Testing Nash-bargaining household models with time-series data
Hoddinott, John, Adam, Christopher
This paper uses a “natural experiment” in Canadian divorce law reform to discriminate empirically between unitary and Nash-bargained models of the household. Using time-series data from three...
Gender differentials in farm productivity
Alderman, Harold, Hoddinott, John, Haddad, Lawrence James, Udry, Christopher
Within many African households, agricultural production is simultaneously carried out on many plots controlled by different members of the household. Detailed plot-level agronomic data from Burkina...
Validity of rapid estimates of household wealth and income for health surveys in rural Africa
Morris, Saul Sutkover, Calogero, Carletto, Hoddinott, John, Christiaensen, Luc J. M.
Drawing data from four different integrated household surveys in rural areas of Mali, Malawi, and two national surveys in Côte d'Ivoire, this paper tests the validity of proxy measures of household...
Improving child nutrition for sustainable poverty reduction in Africa
Alderman, Harold, Behrman, Jere R., Hoddinott, John
"While famines and other episodes of severe hunger receive significant press coverage and attract much public attention, chronic hunger and malnutrition are considerably more prevalent in Africa. It...
Redefining the role of food aid
Hoddinott, John, Cohen, Marc J., Bos, Maria Soledad
"The principal objective of food aid, besides responding to needs created by conflict, and other disasters, should be to provide an insurance function for those events for which existing insurance...
Examining the incentive effects of food aid on household behaviour in rural Ethiopia
"In Ethiopia, while superficial examination suggests strong disincentive effects of food aid on labor supply and agricultural activities, these largely vanish under more careful statistical...
Improving child nutrition for sustainable poverty reduction in Africa
Alderman, Harold, Behrman, Jere R., Hoddinott, John
"While famines and other episodes of severe hunger receive significant press coverage and attract much public attention, chronic hunger and malnutrition are considerably more prevalent in Africa. It...
Unitary versus collective models of the household : time to shift theburden of proof?
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre, Haddad, Lawrence, Hoddinott, John, Kanbur, Ravi
Until recently, most economists viewed the household as a collection of individuals who behave as if in agreement on how best to combine time and goods (purchased or produced at home) to produce...
Intrahousehold resource allocation : an overview
Haddad, Lawrence, Hoddinott, John, Alderman, Harold
The policy failures associated with inappropriate acceptance of unitary models of household behavior are more serious than those associated with inappropriate acceptance of collective models, contend...
Alterations in Source-Sink Patterns by Modifications of Source Strength 1
Borchers-Zampini, Charlotte, Glamm, Ann Bailey, Hoddinott, John, Swanson, Carroll A.
Bean plants, trimmed to a simplified “double source, double sink” translocation system (the paired primary leaves serving as the double source and the paired lateral leaflets of the immature...
Effect of Light and Ontogenetic Stage on Sink Strength in Bean Leaves 1
Swanson, Carroll A., Hoddinott, John
Light (about 3,000 foot-candles) neither increased nor decreased the sink strength of young, rapidly expanding leaves of Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. Black Valentine, as measured by the comparative...
Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition
Harold Alderman, John Hoddinott, Bill Kinsey
This paper examines the impact of pre-school malnutrition on subsequent human capital formation in rural Zimbabwe using a maternal fixed effects--instrumental variables (MFE-IV) estimator with a long...
Maluccio, John A., Hoddinott, John, Behrman, Jere R., Martorell, Reynaldo, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Stein, Aryeh D.
"Studies have shown that malnourished children in developing countries score lower on tests of cognitive function and fail to acquire fine motor skills at the normal rate. Do the effects of...
Maluccio, John A., Hoddinott, John, Behrman, Jere R., Martorell, Reynaldo, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Stein, Aryeh D.
"Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on early childhood nut ition...
Alterations in Source-Sink Patterns by Modifications of Source Strength 1
Borchers-Zampini, Charlotte, Glamm, Ann Bailey, Hoddinott, John, Swanson, Carroll A.
Bean plants, trimmed to a simplified “double source, double sink” translocation system (the paired primary leaves serving as the double source and the paired lateral leaflets of the immature...
Effect of Light and Ontogenetic Stage on Sink Strength in Bean Leaves 1
Swanson, Carroll A., Hoddinott, John
Light (about 3,000 foot-candles) neither increased nor decreased the sink strength of young, rapidly expanding leaves of Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. Black Valentine, as measured by the comparative...
Renegotiating the Food Aid Convention: Background, context, and issues
Hoddinott, John, Cohen, Marc J.
"The current global agreement governing food aid—the Food Aid Convention (FAC)—will expire in 2007. It has come under heavy criticism as has the diffuse set of broader food aid governance...
Validating operational food insecurity indicators against a dynamic benchmark : evidence from Mali
Christiaensen, Luc J., Boisvert, Richard N., Hoddinott, John
The authors develop an explicitly forward-looking indicator of food insecurity that takes into account both current dietary inadequacy and vulnerability to dietary inadequacy in the future....
Wages and Unemployment in an Urban African Labour Market.
This paper argues that urban labor markets in Africa exhibit a wage curve similar to those found in the United States, Britain, Canada and other developed countries. Drawing on data from the Ivory...
The Impact of Nutrition during Early Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults
John Hoddinott, Jere R. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, Agnes R. Quisumbing, Aryeh D. Stein
Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on the effect of early...
Jere R. Behrman, John Hoddinott, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Emily L. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, ...
Most investigations of the importance of and the determinants of adult cognitive skills assume that (a) they are produced primarily by schooling and (b) schooling is statistically predetermined. But...
Jere R. Behrman, John Hoddinott
This paper considers the impact of Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación ("PROGRESA"), a large Mexican rural anti-poverty programme that had an evaluation sample in which overall treatment...
Child Growth in the Time of Drought.
This paper examines the impact of rainfall shocks on a measure of child health, growth in height, drawing on a unique household panel data set from rural Zimbabwe. We find that children aged 12 to 24...
Primary Education as an Input into Post-primary Education: A Neglected Benefit.
Appleton, Simon, Hoddinott, John, Knight, John
In some developing countries, private rates of return to primary education have fallen to low levels. An explanation is provided as to why this fall need not reduce the demand for primary education....
Does Female Income Share Influence Household Expenditures? Evidence from Cote d'Ivoire.
Hoddinott, John, Haddad, Lawrence
This paper uses a noncooperative bargaining model to motivate an empirical analysis of the determinants of household expenditures. Drawing on a national household survey from the Cote d'Ivoire, the...
Power, politics, and performance: community participation in South African public works programs
Adato, Michelle, Hoddinott, John, Haddad, Lawrence James
"...Through a study of seven public works programs implemented in Western Cape province, this report examines the benefits and challenges of pursuing community participation, together with the...
Determinants of Canadian bilateral aid allocations: humanitarian, commercial or political?
Ryan Macdonald, John Hoddinott
In this paper we examine the determinants of the allocation of Canadian bilateral aid over the period 1984-2000. We draw on models of donor behaviour that allow us to incorporate humanitarian,...
Renegotiating the Food Aid Convention: background, context, and issues
Hoddinott, John, Cohen, Marc J.
"The current global agreement governing food aid—the Food Aid Convention (FAC)—will expire in 2007. It has come under heavy criticism as has the diffuse set of broader food aid governance...
Daniel O. Gilligan, John Hoddinott
We identify the impact of emergency food aid programs after the 2002 drought in rural Ethiopia on future welfare. Based on a difference-in-differences matching estimator, participation in...
Long Term Consequences Of Early Childhood Malnutrition
Harold Alderman, John Hoddinott, Bill Kinsey
This paper examines the impact of preschool malnutrition on subsequent human capital formation in rural Zimbabwe using a maternal fixed effects - instrumental variables (MFE-IV) estimator with a long...
Comparing village characteristics derived from rapid appraisals and household surveys
Christiaensen, Luc J. M., Hoddinott, John, Bergeron, Gilles
This paper investigates whether inferences drawn about a population are sensitive to the manner by which those data are obtained. It compares information obtained using participatory appraisal...
An evaluation of the impact of PROGRESA on pre-school child height
Behrman, Jere R., Hoddinott, John
One of the major components of the PROGRESA program has been directed toward improving the nutritional status of small children in poor rural communities in Mexico. Results suggest that PROGRESA may...
Participation and poverty reduction
Hoddinott, John, Haddad, Lawrence James, Besley, Tim, Adato, Michelle
This paper examines the relationship between community participation and the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty. We develop some simple analytics that are used to structure a review...
Coady, David P., Grosh, Margaret, Hoddinott, John
"...There are sharply divergent views as to how much narrowly targeted interventions actually benefit the poor. These result from differing assessments of three issues: whether better targeting...
Dietary diversity as a food security indicator
Hoddinott, John, Yohannes, Yisehac
Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active,...
The impact of Progresa on food consumption
Hoddinott, John, Skoufias, Emmanual
" This paper as exemplified by the Millennium Declaration of the United Nations, the reduction of poverty and hunger are now seen as central objectives of international development. Yet the...
Assessing the impact of high-yielding varieties of maize in resettlement areas of Zimbabwe
Bourdillon, Michael, Hebinck, Paul, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill, Marondo, John, Mudege, Netsayi, ...
"This study is part of a larger effort to explore the impact of agricultural research on poverty reduction. It examines the diffusion and impact of hybrid maize in selected resettlement areas of...
Long-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition
Alderman,Harold, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill
"This paper examines the impact of preschool malnutrition on subsequent human capital formation in rural Zimbabwe using a maternal fixed effects-instrumental variables (MFE-IV) estimator with a...
Adult health in the time of drought
This paper examines the impact of rainfall shocks on a measure of adult health, body mass, drawing on a unique panel data set of households residing in rural Zimbabwe. Controlling for individual,...
Comparing village characteristics derived from rapid appraisals and household surveys
Christiaensen, Luc J. M., Hoddinott, John, Bergeron, Gilles
This paper investigates whether inferences drawn about a population are sensitive to the manner by which those data are obtained. It compares information obtained using participatory appraisal...
An evaluation of the impact of PROGRESA on pre-school child height
Behrman, Jere R., Hoddinott, John
One of the major components of the PROGRESA program has been directed toward improving the nutritional status of small children in poor rural communities in Mexico. Results suggest that PROGRESA may...
Participation and poverty reduction
Hoddinott, John, Haddad, Lawrence James, Besley, Tim, Adato, Michelle
This paper examines the relationship between community participation and the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty. We develop some simple analytics that are used to structure a review...
Dietary diversity as a food security indicator
Hoddinott, John, Yohannes, Yisehac
Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active,...
Coady, David P., Grosh, Margaret, Hoddinott, John
"...There are sharply divergent views as to how much narrowly targeted interventions actually benefit the poor. These result from differing assessments of three issues: whether better targeting...
The impact of Progresa on food consumption
Hoddinott, John, Skoufias, Emmanual
" This paper as exemplified by the Millennium Declaration of the United Nations, the reduction of poverty and hunger are now seen as central objectives of international development. Yet the...
Assessing the impact of high-yielding varieties of maize in resettlement areas of Zimbabwe
Bourdillon, Michael, Hebinck, Paul, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill, Marondo, John, Mudege, Netsayi, ...
"This study is part of a larger effort to explore the impact of agricultural research on poverty reduction. It examines the diffusion and impact of hybrid maize in selected resettlement areas of...
Long-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition
Alderman,Harold, Hoddinott, John, Kinsey, Bill
"This paper examines the impact of preschool malnutrition on subsequent human capital formation in rural Zimbabwe using a maternal fixed effects-instrumental variables (MFE-IV) estimator with a...
Consumption soothing and vulnerability in the Zone Lacustre, Mali
Harrower, Sarah, Hoddinott, John
"This paper explores risk sharing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali, as viewed through the lens of consumption smoothing. We find that idiosyncratic shocks appear to have little impact on consumption, and...
Shocks and their consequences across and within households in Rural Zimbabwe
Increasing attention is now being paid to poverty dynamics in developing countries. This work links the extent to which households smooth consumption or smooth assets given income shocks, the...
A Model of Migration and Remittances Applied to Western Kenya.
Existing models treat migration as either an individual or household decision. In this paper, migration is modeled as the outcome of joint utility maximization by the prospective migrant and other...
Consumption Smoothing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali
Sarah Harrower, John Hoddinott
This paper examines consumption smoothing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali, a poor region in one of the poorest countries in the world. Idiosyncratic shocks appear to have little impact on consumption. A...
Participation and Poverty Reduction: An Analytical Framework and Overview of the Issues
This paper examines the relationship between community participation and the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty. It outlines a simple model that identifies three actors involved in...
Modelling Remittance Flows in Kenya.
This paper examines the determinants of migrants' remittances in Kenya. Drawing on data from Central Province, it compares four econometric specifications of the remittance function, finding that...
De Brauw, Alan, Hoddinott, John
"A growing body of evidence suggests that conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs can have strong, positive effects on a range of welfare indicators for poor households in developing countries....
Gilligan, Daniel O., Hoddinott, John
"The primary goal of emergency food aid after an economic shock is often to bolster short-term food and nutrition security. However, these transfers also act as insurance against other shock effects,...
Paúl Melgar, Luis Fernando Ramírez, Scott McNiven, Rosa Mery Mejía, Ann DiGirolamo, John Hoddinott, ...
The allocation of resources across generations and the consequences of these allocations represent a research agenda with significant policy implications. At the same time, their empirical...
Is the Conditionality Necessary in Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes? Evidence from Mexico
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are an increasingly popular tool for poverty alleviation. Drawing on lessons learned from programmes in a variety of countries ? notably Mexico?s PROGRESA programme...
High food prices: The what, who, and how of proposed policy actions
Von Braun, Joachim, Ahmed, Akhter, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Fan, Shenggen, Gulati, Ashok, Hoddinott, John, ...
"The complex causes of the current food and agriculture crisis require a comprehensive response. In view of the urgency of assisting people and countries in need, the first set of policy actions—...
Hausse des prix alimentaires et actions stratégiques proposées: Que faire, par qui et comment
Von Braun, Joachim, Ahmed, Akhter, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Fan, Shenggen, Gulati, Ashok, Hoddinott, John, ...
"La complexité des causes de la crise actuelle en matière d'alimentation et d'agriculture exige une réponse exhaustive. Compte tenu de l'urgence de l'aide à apporter aux personnes et aux pays...
Hohe Nahrungsmittelpreise: Konzept f ür die Wege aus der Krise
Von Braun, Joachim, Ahmed, Akhter, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Fan, Shenggen, Gulati, Ashok, Hoddinott, John, ...
"Die vielschichtigen Ursachen der gegenwärtigen Krise im Bereich der Nahrungsmittelproduktion und Landwirtschaft erfordern eine umfassende globale Antwort. Angesichts der dringend benötigen Hilfe...
High food prices: The what, who, and how of proposed policy actions [In Chinese]
Von Braun, Joachim, Ahmed, Akhter, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Fan, Shenggen, Gulati, Ashok, Hoddinott, John, ...
"The complex causes of the current food and agriculture crisis require a comprehensive response. In view of the urgency of assisting people and countries in need, the first set of policy actions—...
Von Braun, Joachim, Ahmed, Akhter, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Fan, Shenggen, Gulati, Ashok, Hoddinott, John, ...
"La complejidad de las causas de la actual crisis alimentaria y agrícola requiere de una respuesta integral. En vista de que es urgente prestar asistencia a las poblaciones y los países...
Collective action and vulnerability: Burial societies in rural Ethiopia
Dercon, Stefan, Hoddinott, John, Krishnan, Pramila, Woldehannnam, Tassew
"Collective action can help individuals, groups, and communities achieve common goals, thus contributing to poverty reduction. Drawing on longitudinal household and qualitative community data, the...
The Impact of PROGRESA on Food Consumption
Hoddinott, John, Skoufias, Emmanuel
In this article we used data from the Mexican poverty alleviation program called PROGRESA (Programa de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion) to examine whether eligibility for a cash transfer provided by...
Growth-promoting social safety nets:
Alderman, Harold, Hoddinott, John
Poverty reduction, Hunger, Poor and vulnerable, Cash transfers, Inequality, Pro-poor policies, Safety nets,
Conditional cash transfer programs: A "magic bullet" for reducing poverty?
Adato, Michelle, Hoddinott, John
Hunger, Poor households, Cash transfer programs, Inequality, Poverty reduction, Micronutrient deficiencies, Developing countries,
Ethiopia: livelihoods, growth, and markets
Dercon, Stefan, Hoddinott, John
Livelihoods, Market access, Household surveys, Rural-urban linkages, Poverty reduction,
Social protection: Opportunities for Africa
Adato,Michelle, Hoddinott,John
"Social protection involves policies and programs that protect people against risk and vulnerability, mitigate the impacts of shocks, and support people who suffer from chronic incapacities to secure...
Evidence of Intrahousehold Flypaper Effects from a Nutrition Intervention in Rural Guatemala
Programs designed to improve child nutrition are widespread. The ability of such programs to improve the nutrition of individual children depends on how households choose to allocate resources among...
Gilligan, Daniel O., Hoddinott, John
The material contained herein is supplementary to the article named in the title and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, May 2007, Volume 89, Issue 2.
Health, Shocks and Poverty Persistence
Dercon, Stefan, Hoddinott, John
health, risk, shocks, consumption smoothing, catching up
Behrman, Jere R., Hoddinott, John, Maluccio, John A., Soler-Hampejsek, Erica, Behrman, Emily L., Martorell, Reynaldo, ...
"Most investigations into the importance and determinants of adult cognitive skills assume that (1) they are produced primarily by schooling, and (2) schooling is statistically predetermined or...
The impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme and its linkages:
Gilligan, Daniel O., Hoddinott, John, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum
"This paper assesses the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Nets Programme (PSNP), the largest social protection program in Sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa. Using Propensity Score...
Dercon, Stefan, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hoddinott, John, Woldehan, Tassew
"This paper investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates...
Investing in early childhood nutrition:
"It has long been known that good nutrition is essential to children's physical and cognitive development, but recent evidence sheds new light on the optimal timing of interventions to improve child...
Education and health in sub-Saharan Africa
Simon Appleton, John Hoddinott, John MacKinnon
This paper provides an introduction to education and health issues in sub-Saharan Africa. Cross-regional and cross-country comparisons reveal that Africa lags behind other parts of the world in the...
Determinants of Schooling Outcomes: Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Subha Mani, John Hoddinott, John Strauss
This paper examines the determinants of schooling outcomes - current enrollment status and relative grade attainment - among primary school children in rural Ethiopia. We use repeated cross-sectional...
The Impact of Improving Nutrition During Early Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults
John A. Maluccio, John Hoddinott, Jere R. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, Agnes R. Quisumbing, Aryeh D. Stein
Using a longitudinal survey from rural Guatemala, we examine the effect of an early childhood nutritional intervention on adult educational outcomes. An intent-to-treat model yields substantial...
Wiesmann, Doris, Bassett, Lucy, Benson, Todd, Hoddinott, John
"The objective of this study is to validate the World Food Programme's (WFP) method of establishing the prevalence of food insecurity. WFP's method has two parts: (1) the construction of a Food...
Jere R. Behrman, John Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Reynaldo Martorell
Previous studies report that adult height has significant associations with wages even controlling for schooling. But schooling and height are imperfect measures of adult cognitive skills...
Stefan Dercon, Daniel O. Gilligan, John Hoddinott, Tassew Woldehanna
This article investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates...
Early Childhood Nutrition Increases Adult Wages
A study in Guatemala presents the first direct evidence of the effects of early childhood nutrition programs on adult economic productivity and incomes. The research shows that feeding young children...