John Hoddinott originally joined IFPRI as a research fellow in 1997 and since 2002 has been a Senior Research Fellow in the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division. His overall research focus is on the design and impact of policies and programs to reduce poverty and malnutrition. His research interests lie principally in the microeconometric analysis of the determinants of health and the long-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition and poverty. He also has interests in the causes of poverty and vulnerability, the determinants of human capital formation, intrahousehold resource allocation, the operation of labor markets and the design of anti-poverty interventions. Before joining IFPRI he held university appointments in Canada and the United Kingdom, including a University Lectureship in Economics and Fellowship at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. A Canadian citizen, Hoddinott holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Toronto, an M.A. from York University and a D.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford.

• Pathways from poverty
• Evaluating nutrition related programs

• Ethiopia
• Guatemala
• Zimbabwe

• An analysis of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme and its linkages
  Forthcoming. D. Gilligan, J. Hoddinott, and A. Seyoum. Journal of Development Studies.
• The Impact of nutrition during early childhood on education among Guatemalan Adults
  Forthcoming. J. Maluccio, J. Hoddinott, J. Behrman, R. Martorell, A. Quisumbing, and A. Stein. Economic Journal.
• Evidence of intra-household flypaper effects from a nutrition intervention in rural Guatemala
  Forthcoming. M. Islam and J. Hoddinott. Economic Development and Cultural Change.
• Renegotiating the Food Aid Convention: Background, Context, and Issues
  2008. J. Hoddinott, M. Cohen and C. Barrett. Global Governance, vol 14(3), pp. 283-304.
• The impact of nutrition during early childhood on income, hours worked, and wages of Guatemalan adults
  2008. J. Hoddinott, J. Maluccio, J. Behrman, R. Flores and R. Martorell. The Lancet, vol. 371, pp. 411-416.
• Is there persistence in the impact of emergency food aid? Evidence on consumption, food security and assets in rural Ethiopia
  2007. D. Gilligan and J. Hoddinott. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 89, pp. 1-18.
• Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition
  2006. H. Alderman, J. Hoddinott and B. Kinsey. Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 58, pp. 450-474.
• Shocks and their consequences across and within households in rural Zimbabwe
  2006. J. Hoddinott. Journal of Development Studies, vol. 42, pp. 301-321.
• Consumption and shocks in 15 Ethiopian Villages, 1999-2004
  2005. S. Dercon, J. Hoddinott and T. Woldehanna. Journal of African Economies, vol. 14, pp. 559-585.
• Consumption smoothing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali
  2005. S. Harrower and J. Hoddinott, Journal of African Economies, vol. 14, pp. 489-519.