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Khalid Siddig

Khalid Siddig is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit and Program Leader for the Sudan Strategy Support Program. He is an agricultural economist with a focus on examining the impacts of potential shocks and the allocation of resources on economic growth, environmental sustainability, and income distribution through the lens of economywide and micro-level tools. 

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

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Journal Article

Experimental measures of intra-household resource control

2024Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly; Recalde, María P.

Experimental measures of intra-household resource control

We study experimental measures of preferences for intra-household resource control among 3387 couples in Ghana and Uganda. We implement two incentivized tasks: (1) a game that measures willingness to pay for resource control in the household, and (2) dictator games played privately and jointly by spouses. Across study sites we find that women exhibit a higher willingness to pay for resource control than their husbands and have less influence over joint dictator game decisions. Importantly, behavior in the two tasks is correlated, suggesting that they capture similar underlying latent variables. In Uganda, experimental measures from both tasks are also robustly correlated with a range of survey measures of women’s access to resources, agency, and wellbeing. This is not the case in Ghana, suggesting that contextual factors may be important, and researchers may want to collect both measures in a project. Like other recent papers, we find that an important fraction of respondents display negative willingness to pay for intra-household resource control. Our analysis shows that such behavior is displayed by women who have higher levels of economic empowerment and wellbeing, a result that contradicts previous conjectures made in the literature. Altogether, our analysis suggests that, despite lacking ideal theoretical properties, private dictator game decisions (even when collected only from the wife) can perform well as proxies of empowerment. JEL Codes: C9, D13, J12, J16

Year published

2024

Authors

Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly; Recalde, María P.

Citation

Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly; and Recalde, María P. 2024. Experimental measures of intra-household resource control. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 227(November 2024): 106705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106705

Country/Region

Ghana; Uganda

Keywords

Africa; Eastern Africa; Western Africa; Bargaining Power; Decision Making; Households; Women’s Empowerment; Gender; Women

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Project

Policies, Institutions, and Markets

Record type

Journal Article

Journal Article

Observed trends in multiple breadbasket yield shocks

2024Chen, Xuan; Anderson, Weston; You, Liangzhi; Pope, Edward

Observed trends in multiple breadbasket yield shocks

Extreme climate events in breadbasket regions have become more frequent due to climate change, exposing crops to a greater frequency and intensity of abiotic stress. But by using observed crop yield statistics and an ensemble of statistical models, we demonstrate that over the last six decades the frequency of crop yield shocks in breadbasket regions has been decreasing due to both climate and non-climate factors. Here non-climate factors refer to interannual variability unrelated to abiotic stress, such as biotic stress and management decisions. We find that although the risk posed by extreme heat to crop yields has been increasing, this risk has been offset by changes to precipitation, extremely cold days, and average growing season temperature in many breadbaskets. As a result, total climate-related crop yield shocks have been decreasing for soybeans and wheat, while they have remained roughly constant for maize. Meanwhile, non-climate risks to crop yields have decreased in nearly every breadbasket region across crops. Because non-climate risks have decreased faster than climate risks, we find that the climate accounts for a greater proportion of crop yield shocks in the recent period (1991–2020) compared to an earlier period (1961–90). Our results indicate that extreme climate events are more important than ever to the relative stability of the food production system, even as the overall frequency of multiple breadbasket yield shocks decreases.

Year published

2024

Authors

Chen, Xuan; Anderson, Weston; You, Liangzhi; Pope, Edward

Citation

Chen, Xuan; Anderson, Weston; You, Liangzhi; and Pope, Edward. 2024. Observed trends in multiple breadbasket yield shocks. Environmental Research Letters 19(10): 104005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad7040

Keywords

Abiotic Stress; Climate Change; Crop Yields; Extreme Weather Events; Food Systems

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Project

Climate Resilience

Record type

Journal Article

Journal Article

Economic AI on the move: the relationship between sugar-sweetened beverages consumption and weight gain in Kyrgyzstan

2024Suyunov, Alisher; Akramov, Kamiljon T.

Economic AI on the move: the relationship between sugar-sweetened beverages consumption and weight gain in Kyrgyzstan

The prevalence of overweight and obesity has been increasing in Central Asia. Among numerous potential dietary determinants of overweight and obesity, sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) have received a great deal of attention because they are a significant source of calories and added sugars in both children and adults. In this study, we examine the relationship between SSB consumption and overweight and obesity in Kyrgyzstan using household-level data from the Kyrgyzstan Integrated Household Survey 2011 using propensity score matching in tandem with machine-learning models. The findings of our study indicate SSBs consumption is associated with 1.6 percentage point higher risk of obesity among both men and women in the context of Kyrgyzstan. Besides, we have observed the positive association between age, income, calorie intake, and share of calorie intake from staples and the likelihood of being obese.

Year published

2024

Authors

Suyunov, Alisher; Akramov, Kamiljon T.

Citation

Suyunov, Alisher; and Akramov, Kamiljon. 2024. Economic AI on the move: the relationship between sugar-sweetened beverages consumption and weight gain in Kyrgyzstan. Journal of Applied Economics 27(1): 2399457. https://doi.org/10.1080/15140326.2024.2399457

Country/Region

Kyrgyzstan

Keywords

Asia; Central Asia; Artificial Intelligence; Capacity Development; Beverages; Machine Learning; Obesity; Weight Gain

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Project

Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africa

Record type

Journal Article

The 2024 Global Food Policy Report

Food systems and diets underpin many critical challenges to public health and environmental sustainability, including malnutrition, noncommunicable diseases, and climate change, but healthy diets have the unique potential to reshape the future for both human and planetary well-being. Drawing on recent evidence and experience, the 2024 Global Food Policy Report highlights opportunities for transforming food systems to ensure sustainable healthy diets for all.

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Amy Margolies is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. She has worked on diverse projects including large-scale impact evaluations of social protection and nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs, cost and cost-effectiveness analyses, and qualitative research. Amy has experience conducting research in Latin America (Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico), Africa (Ethiopia, Uganda, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Mali) and Asia (Bangladesh, India, East Timor). She received a PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and holds a master’s degree from…

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