In household surveys, husbands and wives who are asked the same set of survey questions often provide different responses.

Experimental evidence shows interventions that reduce aflatoxin exposure can be cost-effective based on averted poisoning deaths and cancer cases alone; impacts on stunting imply additional health benefits. 
 

As a substantial portion of the rural labor force migrates to urban areas, it is commonly assumed that women could take over traditionally male tasks in agricultural production, with potentially empowering outcomes for women.

We study the take‐up of an intervention designed to increase women’s economic empowerment among sugarcane farmers in Uganda. We find that lower socioeconomic status and household gender norms both predict a couple’s refusal of the intervention.

Oshida and Haryana States experienced different challenges during India's lockdown due to existing structural differences and state-specific COVID-related policies.

Remote areas are often characterized by lower welfare outcomes due to economic disadvantages and higher transaction costs for trade. But their poorer situation may also be linked to worse public service delivery.

A look beyond the identity of household decisionmakers to the rationale behind who makes decisions and whether that rationale factors in household outcomes.

Do impacts of health insurance depend on households' access to informal insurance, as proxied for by mobile money usage in Kenya?

Whether the sector of growth matters for the speed of poverty reduction, why, and how best to invest to maximize the poverty reducing effects of sectoral growth remain topics of intense debate.

The implications of productivity improvements in agriculture, industry, and services for global poverty. In poor countries, increases in agricultural productivity generally have a larger poverty-reduction effect than increases in industry or services.