Op-Eds and Blog Posts
“Partnerships as the path to stability in fragile settings” (2024). CGIAR Blog [link]
“‘Power with’: We know it’s important, but how do we measure it?“ (2024). CGIAR Gender Impact Platform Blog (with Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Hagar ElDidi, Audrey Pereira, Jessica Heckert, Eileen Nchanji, Greg Seymour, and Cheryl Doss) [link]
“How anticipatory action can empower women in disaster-prone areas“ (2024). IFPRI Research Blog (with Emily Myers, Jordan Kyle, Agnes Quisumbing, Teresa Gonzales, Ana Madero, Caitlin Mittrick, and Amica Rapadas) [link]
"Staking Claim to Entitlements under MGNREGA: How can Women Make Their Demands?” (2024). The India Forum (with Kalyani Raghunathan, Jordan Kyle, Sudha Narayanan, and Soumyajit Ray) [link]
“How conflict shapes women's roles and aspirations: Insights from Nigeria“ (2024). CGIAR Blog (with Lucia Carrillo, Mulubrhan Amare, and Jordan Kyle) [link]
“Inspirational filmmaking to raise women’s voice and agency in the construction of assets for climate resilience in India” (2023). IFPRI Research Blog (with Jordan Kyle, Sudha Narayanan, and Kalyani Raghunathan) [link]
“We must build food system resilience before the next crisis” (2023). Devex (with Johan Swinnen) [link]
“How relative poverty influences responses to social protection programmes: Evidence from Pakistan“ (2023). Voxdev (with Cecilia H. Mo) [link]
“Participatory learning to raise rural women’s agency: Cultivating leadership and advocacy in Nigeria“ (2023). IFPRI Research Blog (with Jordan Kyle, Dolapo Adeyanju, Lucia Carrillo, Vivian Efem-Bassey, Opeyemi Olanrewaju, and Evgeniya Anisimova) [link]
“Fragility, Conflict, and Migration: A new CGIAR initiative for a fragile world” (2023) [link]
“CGIAR joins forces with WFP and Norad to enhance climate resilience and food security in sub-Saharan Africa“ (2023) [link]
“Rethinking food crisis responses: Nigeria launch of the CGIAR Initiative on Fragility, Conflict, and Migration“ (2023). [link]
“Can Conditional Cash Transfers Boost Trust within Communities? In Tanzania, They Did" (2022). Center for Global Development Blog (with David K. Evans) [link]
“World Science Day for Peace and Development 2022: Studying how to help vulnerable populations contend with shocks“ (2022) [link]
“Improving agricultural value chain coordination and gender inclusiveness in Papua New Guinea” (2022). IFPRI Research Blog (with Lucia Carrillo, Peixun Fang, and Emily Schmidt). [link]
“Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan” (2021). IFPRI Research Blog (with Lucia Carrillo) [link]
“Disparate health and nutrition impacts of income shocks across different household members: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan” (2021). IFPRI Research Blog (with Lucia Carrillo) [link]
“Using Priming Experiments to Understand Gender Attitudes: Lessons from Papua New Guinea and Nepal” (2021). WEDGE Measurement Note (with Cecilia H. Mo) [link]
“Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions” (2021). The Conversation – US (with Cecilia Mo) [link]
“Using priming experiments to better understand gender attitudes” (2021). PIM Engendering Data Blog (with Cecilia Mo, Emily Schmidt, and Jie Song) [link]
“Are cash transfers the right tool to get the most vulnerable into school?” (2020). Center for Global Development Blog (with Charles Gale and David K. Evans) [link]
“Gender and rural transformation: What do we know and what don’t we know?” (2020). Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets Blog (with Evgeniya Anisimova) [link]
“Should low-income countries decentralize their COVID-19 responses?” (2020). IFPRI Research Blog (with Tewodaj Mogues) [link]
“How to ensure effective government responses as COVID-19 spreads to rural areas” (2020). IFPRI Covid-19 Blog (with Catherine Ragasa) [link]
“Improving teacher accountability in Pakistan’s rural schools” (2020). International Growth Centre Blog (with Saher Asad, Masooma Habib, Naureen Karachiwalla, Clare Leaver, and Attique Ur Rehman) [link]
“When Is Knowledge Power?” (2019). Project Syndicate (with Leonard Wantchekon) [link]
“When information leads to better governance in rural areas—and when it doesn’t” (2019). IFPRI Research Blog (with Leonard Wantchekon) [link]
“International Women’s Day: Why raising aspirations may be key to achieving gender equality” (2019). IFPRI Research Blog [link]
“Competitive elections are good for democracy – just not every democracy” (2019). The Conversation – US (with Jessica Gottlieb) [link]
“IFPRI Research Day: Brookings’ Homi Kharas on overcoming obstacles to meeting the SDGs” (2018). IFPRI Blog (with Katarlah Taylor and Jessica Heckert) [link]
“Cash Transfers Increase Trust in Local Government” (2018). IFPRI Research Blog and World Bank Development Impact Blog (with David K. Evans) [link]
“Natural Disasters Damage Victims’ Goals and Ambitions — Which is Why Disaster Relief is So Important” (2017). Washington Post (with Cecilia H. Mo) [link]
“When Prosperity Leads to Disaffection: Evidence from Pakistan” (2017). Foreign Affairs (with Cecilia H. Mo) [link]
“Harnessing information to improve public services for the rural poor: What are the possibilities, and what are the limits?” (2017). IFPRI Research Blog [link]
“IFPRI Research Day: What to do when markets and governments fail poor people” (2017). IFPRI Research Blog (with Jordan Kyle) [link]
“Cash transfers and health: It matters when you measure, and it matters how many health care workers are around to provide services” (2016). World Bank Development Impact Blog [link]
“Making politics work to meet the SDGs” (2016). IFPRI Research Blog (with Katarlah Taylor and Tewodaj Mogues) [link]
“Privatizing Africa’s Urban Water Supply: Good or Bad for Child Health?” (2013). IFPRI Research Blog. [link]