Akhter U Ahmed
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4265070 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Akhter U Ahmed |
| PRENOMES | Akhter U |
| SOBRENOME | Ahmed |
| ASSINATURA | AHMED A U |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 115 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Understanding social safety nets and intra-household food allocation
Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being
Many cash transfer programs include complementary nutrition training, with the aim of encouraging households to use transfer resources toward improving child nutrition. Evidence indicates that these bundled programs, if intensive and well-implemented, can be effective in improving child nutritional status. However, little is known about how adding nutrition training to transfer programs affects their economic impacts. In particular, few studies h…
Climbing up the Ladder and Watching Out for the Fall
Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture
Using nationally representative survey data from Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women’s empowerment in agriculture and two measures of household food security: per adult equivalent calorie availability and dietary diversity. We use the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index to assess the extent of women’s empowerment in agriculture and instrumental variables techniques to correct for the potential endogeneity of empowerment. We…
Do crowded classrooms crowd out learning? Evidence from the food for education program in Bangladesh
Weighing what’s practical
Poverty in Bangladesh
This article, using the methodology developed by Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke to measure and decompose poverty, provides estimates of the levels of poverty in rural and urban areas in Bangladesh. It investigates in the context of Bangladesh, the most powerful effect of poverty in terms of a shortfall in food for daily calorie intake by the poor. It provides intertemporal comparison of poverty and its decomposition among subgroups. It also makes c…
Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture
Using nationally representative survey data from Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women’s empowerment in agriculture and two measures of household food security: per adult equivalent calorie availability and dietary diversity. We use the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index to assess the extent of women’s empowerment in agriculture and instrumental variables techniques to correct for the potential endogeneity of empowerment. We…
Weighing what’s practical
Climbing up the Ladder and Watching Out for the Fall
Do crowded classrooms crowd out learning? Evidence from the food for education program in Bangladesh
Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being
Many cash transfer programs include complementary nutrition training, with the aim of encouraging households to use transfer resources toward improving child nutrition. Evidence indicates that these bundled programs, if intensive and well-implemented, can be effective in improving child nutritional status. However, little is known about how adding nutrition training to transfer programs affects their economic impacts. In particular, few studies h…
Poverty in Bangladesh
This article, using the methodology developed by Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke to measure and decompose poverty, provides estimates of the levels of poverty in rural and urban areas in Bangladesh. It investigates in the context of Bangladesh, the most powerful effect of poverty in terms of a shortfall in food for daily calorie intake by the poor. It provides intertemporal comparison of poverty and its decomposition among subgroups. It also makes c…
Weighing what’s practical
Do crowded classrooms crowd out learning? Evidence from the food for education program in Bangladesh
Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture
Using nationally representative survey data from Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women’s empowerment in agriculture and two measures of household food security: per adult equivalent calorie availability and dietary diversity. We use the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index to assess the extent of women’s empowerment in agriculture and instrumental variables techniques to correct for the potential endogeneity of empowerment. We…
Climbing up the Ladder and Watching Out for the Fall
Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being
Many cash transfer programs include complementary nutrition training, with the aim of encouraging households to use transfer resources toward improving child nutrition. Evidence indicates that these bundled programs, if intensive and well-implemented, can be effective in improving child nutritional status. However, little is known about how adding nutrition training to transfer programs affects their economic impacts. In particular, few studies h…
Understanding social safety nets and intra-household food allocation
Economic growth (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 obras) · Public economics (4 obras) · Agricultural risk and resilience (3 obras) · Business (3 obras) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 obras) · Demographic economics (3 obras) · Development economics (3 obras) · Geography (3 obras)