John A Maluccio

Datos Biográficos

ID324214
NOMBREJohn A Maluccio
NOMBRESJohn A
APELLIDOMaluccio
FIRMAMALUCCIO J A
AFILIACIONESMiddlebury College
ORCID0000-0003-1849-7759
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS32
TOTAL DE CITAS252
TOTAL COMO AUTOR32
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2000
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H7

  • Second generation effects of an experimental conditional cash transfer program on early childhood human capital in Nicaragua

    Open AccessTania Barham, Oscar M Díaz-Botía et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2025

    Interventions targeting improvements in human capital are often motivated by their potential to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty from parents to children. This study contributes to the thin evidence base on these links by examining outcomes for children of former program beneficiaries of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, capitalizing on randomized variation in the timing and CCT's impact on maternal human capital. We e…

  • Experimental Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Program

    Open AccessTania Barham, Karen Macours et al.ARTICLEJournal of the European Economic…2024

    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are the antipoverty program of choice in many developing countries, aiming to improve human capital and break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. A decade after a randomized 3 year CCT program began, earlier exposure during primary school ages when children were at risk of dropout led to higher labor market participation for young men and women and higher earnings for men. The findings highlight…

  • Long-term impacts of a cash plus program on marriage, fertility, and education after six years in pastoralist Kenya

    Open AccessKaren Austrian, John A Maluccio et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2024

    This study shows the potential for interventions in early adolescence with an education component to delay marriage and fertility into late adolescence and early adulthood in a marginalized and socially conservative setting with low education and high rates of child marriage

  • Effects of a single cash transfer on school re-enrollment during Covid-19 among vulnerable adolescent girls in Kenya

    Open AccessJohn A Maluccio, Erica Soler-Hampejsek et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2023

    COVID-19 related school closures in Kenya were among the longest in Africa, putting older adolescent girls nearing the end of secondary school at risk of permanent dropout. Using a randomized-controlled trial we evaluated a logistically simple cash transfer intervention in urban areas designed to promote their return to school. There were no required conditions for receiving the transfer and the intervention is interpreted as a labeled cash trans…

  • Sustaining enrolment when rains fail

    Open AccessIrene Staffieri, Nicholas J Sitko et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 7

    Emerging evidence suggests that rural children, especially older girls in low-income countries, are at risk of being withdrawn from school when adverse weather-related events occur. Identifying actions that mitigate the adverse effects of weather shocks on schooling, therefore, is critical for sustaining equitable human capital formation. In this paper, we use four waves of household and community panel survey data, merged with long-term, spatial…

  • Food Aid and Fertility

    Open AccessJohn A Maluccio, Kailash Pandey et al.ARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…2022Referencias: 30

  • Rainfall shocks, cognitive development and educational attainment among adolescents in a drought-prone region in Kenya

    Open AccessLaura Nübler, Karen Austrian et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Development…2021

    There is growing evidence that early life conditions are important for outcomes during adolescence, including cognitive development and education. Economic conditions at the time children enter school are also important. We examine these relationships for young adolescents living in a low-income drought-prone pastoral setting in Kenya using historical rainfall patterns captured by remote sensing as exogenous shocks. Past rainfall shocks measured …

  • Migration, Economic Crisis and Child Growth in Rural Guatemala

    Open AccessCalogero Carletto, John A Maluccio et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2021Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

    Migration has been demonstrated by various studies to be closely linked to improvements in individual- and household-level outcomes. In this paper, rather than examining the effects of migration, we explore whether an economic shock in United States affected migrant households in rural Guatemala. Treating the Great Recession as a natural experiment affecting migrant and non-migrant households differently, we put the spotlight on the effect of the…

  • Independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene, and improved complementary feeding, on child stunting and anaemia in rural Zimbabwe

    Open AccessJean H Humphrey, Mduduzi NN Mbuya et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2019

    BACKGROUND: Child stunting reduces survival and impairs neurodevelopment. We tested the independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), and improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) on stunting and anaemia in in Zimbabwe. METHODS: We did a cluster-randomised, community-based, 2 × 2 factorial trial in two rural districts in Zimbabwe. Clusters were defined as the catchment area of between one and four villag…

  • Experimental Long-Term Effects of Early-Childhood and School-Age Exposure to a Conditional Cash Transfer Program

    Open AccessTeresa Molina-Millán, Teresa Molina Millán et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2019

  • Experimental long-term effects of early-childhood and school-age exposure to a conditional cash transfer program

    Open AccessTeresa Molina-Millán, Teresa Molina Millán et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2019Citada por: 14Referencias: 1

  • Long-Term Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers

    Open AccessTeresa Molina-Millán, Teresa Molina Millán et al.ARTICLEThe World Bank Research Observer2018

    Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs, started in the late 1990s in Latin America, have become the antipoverty program of choice in many developing countries in the region and beyond. This paper reviews the literature on their long-term impacts on human capital and related outcomes observed after children have reached a later stage of their life cycle, focusing on two life-cycle transitions. The first includes children exposed to CCTs in utero…

  • Adolescent girls’ primary school mobility and educational outcomes in urban Kenya

    Open AccessJohn A Maluccio, Mohamed E Hussein et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018Referencias: 5

    With hundreds of primary schools to choose from, young adolescent girls in Nairobi’s urban informal settlements commonly transfer schools. We qualitatively investigate the causes and quantitatively investigate the consequences of such mobility. Key reasons for transferring schools include difficulty in paying fees and anticipated net benefits from a different school. Transferring during lower primary leads to a poorer resourced school, while tran…

  • Nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, agricultural diversity, food access and child dietary diversity

    Open AccessAdam M Rosenberg, John A Maluccio et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2018Citada por: 5Referencias: 2

  • Early life height and weight production functions with endogenous energy and protein inputs

    Open AccessEsteban Puentes, Fan Wang et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2016

    We examine effects of protein and energy intakes on height and weight growth for children between 6 and 24 months old in Guatemala and the Philippines. Using instrumental variables to control for endogeneity and estimating multiple specifications, we find that protein intake plays an important and positive role in height and weight growth in the 6-24 month period. Energy from other macronutrients, however, does not have a robust relation with the…

  • The Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K)

    Open AccessKaren Austrian, Eunice Muthengi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    ISRCTN77455458 , December 24, 2015

  • Assessing the Impact of Food Assistance on Stigma Among People Living with HIV in Uganda Using the HIV/Aids Stigma Instrument-PLWA (Hasi-P)

    Open AccessJohn A Maluccio, Fan Wu et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2016

  • Adult consequences of growth failure in early childhood

    Open AccessJohn Hoddinott, Jere R Behrman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Clinical…2013

  • Boys' Cognitive Skill Formation and Physical Growth

    Tania Barham, Karen Macours et al.ARTICLEAmerican Economic Review2013

    It is often assumed that early life circumstances, in particular before age two, are important for later human capital development. Using experimental variation in the timing of benefits from a conditional cash transfer program, we test the hypothesis that intervention starting in utero and continuing in the first two years is critical. At age ten, boys exposed to the program during this period had better cognitive, but not anthropometric, outcom…

  • Parental Resources, Schooling Achievements, and Gender Schooling Gaps

    Open AccessKathryn M Yount, John A Maluccio et al.ARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…2013Citada por: 1Referencias: 78

  • The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Consumption and Investment in Nicaragua

    John A MaluccioARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2010

    This article examines the impact of a Nicaraguan conditional cash transfer programme on measures of expenditures and productive investment. Despite clear evidence from a randomised evaluation that the programme increased current expenditures, there is little evidence that it increased agricultural or non-agricultural investment. An estimated marginal propensity to consume out of the transfers of nearly one, combined with no effect of cumulative p…

  • Migration and child growth in rural Guatemala

    Open AccessCalogero Carletto, Katia Covarrubias et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2010Citada por: 15Referencias: 8

  • Matching the Gold Standard

    Sara Handa, Sudhanshu Handa et al.ARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…2010Citada por: 2Referencias: 23

    We compare nonexperimental impact estimates based on matching methods with those from a randomized evaluation to determine whether the nonexperimental approach can “match” the so‐called gold standard. The social experiment we use was carried out to evaluate a geographically targeted conditional cash transfer antipoverty program in Nicaragua. The outcomes we assess include several components of household expenditure and a variety of children’s hea…

  • The Impact of Improving Nutrition During Early Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults

    Open AccessJohn A Maluccio, John Hoddinott et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2009Citada por: 106Referencias: 43

    Using a longitudinal survey from rural Guatemala, we examine the effect of an early childhood nutritional intervention on adult educational outcomes. An intent-to-treat model yields substantial effects of an experimental intervention that provided highly nutritious food supplements to children, a quarter century after it ended: increases of 1.2 grades completed for women and one quarter SD on standardised reading comprehension and non-verbal cogn…

  • Effect of a nutrition intervention during early childhood on economic productivity in Guatemalan adults

    Open AccessJohn Hoddinott, John A Maluccio et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2008