Erin C Lentz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1633165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin C Lentz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin C |
| FAMILY NAME | Lentz |
| SIGNATURE | LENTZ E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9934-9496 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sentinels and satellites: Food security monitoring from near and far
The integrated food security phase classification system: Seven defining characteristics
The Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) is the global standard for analyzing and classifying food insecurity, including famine. While media attention tends to focus on IPC famine analyses, the IPC conducts most of its analyses in non-famine contexts, providing critical assessments of sub-national food insecurity. These analyses guide considerable humanitarian intervention and investment. We argue that IPC analyses are most valuable and effectiv…
Inside the black box: How Consistent Are Global Food Security Crisis Analyses
We conduct the first systematic analysis of consistency in IPC food security area analyses. • Food security indicators used by the IPC often present conflicting signals to analysts. • Analysis outcomes follow IPC guidance but guidance is broad. • Use of food security indicators in analyses varies, underscoring the value of transparency. • Findings highlight both strengths and challenges in the IPC consensus process. The world relies on analyses b…
Political commitment and implementation: The health system response to violence against women in Mexico
Violence against women (VAW) is a widespread concern globally and in Mexico, where in 2021, 44% of women aged ≥15 years have experienced some form of intimate partner violence during their relationship and a quarter have experienced sexual violence in the past 12 months. To respond, Mexico passed comprehensive legislation addressing VAW, which outlines the role of the health system in identifying, treating, and referring women experiencing violen…
Shocks and rural food insecurity: Insights from high frequency data during the Covid-19 pandemic in Malawi
Resilient food security information systems in the age of disruption: An ecosystem approach
How do women’s empowerment metrics measure up? A comparative analysis
Women’s empowerment is a critical factor for nutrition and health outcomes. • There is no consensus on how empowerment should be measured. • With data from a single sample of Kenyan women, we compare five empowerment metrics. • We find striking differences between these common empowerment metrics. • Metric choice dramatically influences which women are identified as empowered. Research has identified women’s empowerment as a critical factor for n…
Adapting the Women’s empowerment in nutrition index: Lessons from Kenya
Women face a disproportionate burden of malnutrition and food insecurity. Research has shown that women's empowerment can buffer women against nutritional problems. This paper contributes to ongoing efforts to measure women's empowerment that are both context-sensitive and universal, focusing on the recently developed Women's Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI). Earlier research has shown it is both a valid construct and positively related to d…
Causal Chains Linking Weather Hazards to Disasters in Somalia
Weather risk management products can be critical for supporting effective humanitarian actions to mitigate and prevent disasters; however, to be truly actionable, they must be based in an understanding of how weather contributes to disaster risk, informed by humanitarians’ decision-making context. Our paper seeks to identify considerations for weather risk management products to support disaster risk management, through analysis of humanitarian p…
How do information problems constrain anticipating, mitigating, and responding to crises
Rural Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition: A Framework Linking Food, Health and Institutions
Undernutrition remains a wide spread problem, especially for women and their children. A wide body of research has identified women’s empowerment as a contributor to nutritional outcomes for children, and, to a lesser extent, for women themselves. Yet, evidence remains mixed, in part reflecting the difficulties of measuring empowerment, in general and as it relates to nutrition. In-depth interviews with women from rural South Asia reveal that wom…
Overseas Research: A Practical Guide
When conducting research in developing countries, an ability to negotiate a bewildering array of cultural and logistical obstacles is essential. Overseas Research: A Practical Guide distills essential lessons from scores of students and scholars who have collected data and done fieldwork abroad, including how to prepare for the field, how and where to find funding for one’s fieldwork, issues of personal safety and security, and myriad logistical …
Developing the Women's Empowerment in Nutrition Index in Two States of India
A data-driven approach improves food insecurity crisis prediction
Last and least: Findings on intrahousehold undernutrition from participatory research in South Asia
The Invisible Hand that Rocks the Cradle: On the Limits of Time Use Surveys
Almost every intervention in the field of international agricultural development - from microcredit finance to fertilizer subsidies to trade policy - has come to recognize gender, and relationships within households, as important. Yet most interventions continue to treat the household as a 'black box', with changes within the household measured by the effects on income, anthropometry, health, or other secondary metrics within bargaining models. I…
Complicating narratives of women’s food and nutrition insecurity: Domestic violence in rural Bangladesh
A rich body of research confirms a strong association between a mother’s exposure to domestic violence and poor nutritional outcomes of her children. However, there is less empirical research on how domestic violence impacts nutrition and food security. Two pathways described in the literature are (1) perpetrators withhold food as a form violence or control, leading to poor nutrition of women and (2) women’s food preparation and portion allocatio…
Keeping Up with the Neighbors? Reference Groups in Ghana
In this article, I ask how a respondent-centered understanding of reference groups might offer new insights into the study of subjective well-being. Analyzing unique microlevel data from rural Ghana, I examine the influence of reference groups’ economic characteristics on respondents’ perceptions of their economic well-being. I find that the way a reference group is defined is strongly associated with whether respondents experience relative depri…
The economics and nutritional impacts of food assistance policies and programs
The Timeliness and Cost-Effectiveness of the Local and Regional Procurement of Food Aid
Tradeoffs or Synergies? Assessing Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement through Case Studies in Burkina Faso and Guatemala
Market Prices and Food Aid Local and Regional Procurement and Distribution: A Multi-Country Analysis
Recipients’ Satisfaction with Locally Procured Food Aid Rations: Comparative Evidence from a Three Country Matched Survey
Improving Food Aid: What Reforms Would Yield the Highest Payoff
Complicating narratives of women’s food and nutrition insecurity: Domestic violence in rural Bangladesh
A rich body of research confirms a strong association between a mother’s exposure to domestic violence and poor nutritional outcomes of her children. However, there is less empirical research on how domestic violence impacts nutrition and food security. Two pathways described in the literature are (1) perpetrators withhold food as a form violence or control, leading to poor nutrition of women and (2) women’s food preparation and portion allocatio…
A data-driven approach improves food insecurity crisis prediction
Last and least: Findings on intrahousehold undernutrition from participatory research in South Asia
The economics and nutritional impacts of food assistance policies and programs
The Timeliness and Cost-Effectiveness of the Local and Regional Procurement of Food Aid
Developing the Women's Empowerment in Nutrition Index in Two States of India
Recipients’ Satisfaction with Locally Procured Food Aid Rations: Comparative Evidence from a Three Country Matched Survey
The Invisible Hand that Rocks the Cradle: On the Limits of Time Use Surveys
Almost every intervention in the field of international agricultural development - from microcredit finance to fertilizer subsidies to trade policy - has come to recognize gender, and relationships within households, as important. Yet most interventions continue to treat the household as a 'black box', with changes within the household measured by the effects on income, anthropometry, health, or other secondary metrics within bargaining models. I…
Tradeoffs or Synergies? Assessing Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement through Case Studies in Burkina Faso and Guatemala
Improving Food Aid: What Reforms Would Yield the Highest Payoff
Resilient food security information systems in the age of disruption: An ecosystem approach
How do women’s empowerment metrics measure up? A comparative analysis
Women’s empowerment is a critical factor for nutrition and health outcomes. • There is no consensus on how empowerment should be measured. • With data from a single sample of Kenyan women, we compare five empowerment metrics. • We find striking differences between these common empowerment metrics. • Metric choice dramatically influences which women are identified as empowered. Research has identified women’s empowerment as a critical factor for n…
Adapting the Women’s empowerment in nutrition index: Lessons from Kenya
Women face a disproportionate burden of malnutrition and food insecurity. Research has shown that women's empowerment can buffer women against nutritional problems. This paper contributes to ongoing efforts to measure women's empowerment that are both context-sensitive and universal, focusing on the recently developed Women's Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI). Earlier research has shown it is both a valid construct and positively related to d…
Market Prices and Food Aid Local and Regional Procurement and Distribution: A Multi-Country Analysis
Improving Food Aid: What Reforms Would Yield the Highest Payoff
The economics and nutritional impacts of food assistance policies and programs
The Timeliness and Cost-Effectiveness of the Local and Regional Procurement of Food Aid
Tradeoffs or Synergies? Assessing Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement through Case Studies in Burkina Faso and Guatemala
Market Prices and Food Aid Local and Regional Procurement and Distribution: A Multi-Country Analysis
Recipients’ Satisfaction with Locally Procured Food Aid Rations: Comparative Evidence from a Three Country Matched Survey
Complicating narratives of women’s food and nutrition insecurity: Domestic violence in rural Bangladesh
A rich body of research confirms a strong association between a mother’s exposure to domestic violence and poor nutritional outcomes of her children. However, there is less empirical research on how domestic violence impacts nutrition and food security. Two pathways described in the literature are (1) perpetrators withhold food as a form violence or control, leading to poor nutrition of women and (2) women’s food preparation and portion allocatio…
Keeping Up with the Neighbors? Reference Groups in Ghana
In this article, I ask how a respondent-centered understanding of reference groups might offer new insights into the study of subjective well-being. Analyzing unique microlevel data from rural Ghana, I examine the influence of reference groups’ economic characteristics on respondents’ perceptions of their economic well-being. I find that the way a reference group is defined is strongly associated with whether respondents experience relative depri…
Developing the Women's Empowerment in Nutrition Index in Two States of India
A data-driven approach improves food insecurity crisis prediction
Last and least: Findings on intrahousehold undernutrition from participatory research in South Asia
The Invisible Hand that Rocks the Cradle: On the Limits of Time Use Surveys
Almost every intervention in the field of international agricultural development - from microcredit finance to fertilizer subsidies to trade policy - has come to recognize gender, and relationships within households, as important. Yet most interventions continue to treat the household as a 'black box', with changes within the household measured by the effects on income, anthropometry, health, or other secondary metrics within bargaining models. I…
Overseas Research: A Practical Guide
When conducting research in developing countries, an ability to negotiate a bewildering array of cultural and logistical obstacles is essential. Overseas Research: A Practical Guide distills essential lessons from scores of students and scholars who have collected data and done fieldwork abroad, including how to prepare for the field, how and where to find funding for one’s fieldwork, issues of personal safety and security, and myriad logistical …
Causal Chains Linking Weather Hazards to Disasters in Somalia
Weather risk management products can be critical for supporting effective humanitarian actions to mitigate and prevent disasters; however, to be truly actionable, they must be based in an understanding of how weather contributes to disaster risk, informed by humanitarians’ decision-making context. Our paper seeks to identify considerations for weather risk management products to support disaster risk management, through analysis of humanitarian p…
How do information problems constrain anticipating, mitigating, and responding to crises
Rural Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition: A Framework Linking Food, Health and Institutions
Undernutrition remains a wide spread problem, especially for women and their children. A wide body of research has identified women’s empowerment as a contributor to nutritional outcomes for children, and, to a lesser extent, for women themselves. Yet, evidence remains mixed, in part reflecting the difficulties of measuring empowerment, in general and as it relates to nutrition. In-depth interviews with women from rural South Asia reveal that wom…
How do women’s empowerment metrics measure up? A comparative analysis
Women’s empowerment is a critical factor for nutrition and health outcomes. • There is no consensus on how empowerment should be measured. • With data from a single sample of Kenyan women, we compare five empowerment metrics. • We find striking differences between these common empowerment metrics. • Metric choice dramatically influences which women are identified as empowered. Research has identified women’s empowerment as a critical factor for n…
Adapting the Women’s empowerment in nutrition index: Lessons from Kenya
Women face a disproportionate burden of malnutrition and food insecurity. Research has shown that women's empowerment can buffer women against nutritional problems. This paper contributes to ongoing efforts to measure women's empowerment that are both context-sensitive and universal, focusing on the recently developed Women's Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI). Earlier research has shown it is both a valid construct and positively related to d…
Political commitment and implementation: The health system response to violence against women in Mexico
Violence against women (VAW) is a widespread concern globally and in Mexico, where in 2021, 44% of women aged ≥15 years have experienced some form of intimate partner violence during their relationship and a quarter have experienced sexual violence in the past 12 months. To respond, Mexico passed comprehensive legislation addressing VAW, which outlines the role of the health system in identifying, treating, and referring women experiencing violen…
Shocks and rural food insecurity: Insights from high frequency data during the Covid-19 pandemic in Malawi
Resilient food security information systems in the age of disruption: An ecosystem approach
Sentinels and satellites: Food security monitoring from near and far
The integrated food security phase classification system: Seven defining characteristics
The Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) is the global standard for analyzing and classifying food insecurity, including famine. While media attention tends to focus on IPC famine analyses, the IPC conducts most of its analyses in non-famine contexts, providing critical assessments of sub-national food insecurity. These analyses guide considerable humanitarian intervention and investment. We argue that IPC analyses are most valuable and effectiv…
Inside the black box: How Consistent Are Global Food Security Crisis Analyses
We conduct the first systematic analysis of consistency in IPC food security area analyses. • Food security indicators used by the IPC often present conflicting signals to analysts. • Analysis outcomes follow IPC guidance but guidance is broad. • Use of food security indicators in analyses varies, underscoring the value of transparency. • Findings highlight both strengths and challenges in the IPC consensus process. The world relies on analyses b…
Economics (16 works) · Food security (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (12 works) · Agriculture (11 works) · Business (11 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (11 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (10 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Political science (8 works)