Melissa Hidrobo is a Senior Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. She is an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of gender, agriculture, and social protection. Her gender research focuses on how different interventions, including cash transfers and “edutainment,” affect intrahousehold dynamics, and how intrahousehold dynamics affect agricultural production. Her current works involves impact evaluations of nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs, social protection, and edutainment in Mali, Ghana, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, and Senegal. Melissa holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.