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Agnes Quisumbing
@agnesq.bsky.social
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Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute; proud Pinay working for gender equality; crazy about turtles
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Bedford MA: resisting tyranny for 250 years!
April 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Introducing my wonderful workplace where I've been for almost (gasp!) 30 years! Follow us for research on #foodpolicy, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
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🦋IFPRI is excited to join @bsky.app! Colleagues, partners, friends @cgiar.org and beyond - who's there? 👋 Welcome to our cloud!
December 13, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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As #climate disasters increase in severity & frequency, there is growing concern about how emergency responses can address gender inequality. But--why not think ahead? #AnticipatoryAction can help mobilize resources before disaster strikes. Check out our blog (and discussion paper)!
December 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Thanks to partners: Enabel, Trias, SFTZ, and to support from
@agnesq.bsky.social, IFPRI, Gates Foundation.

The pdf is available to download for FREE EVERYWHERE because the wonderful @melindagates foundation covered our open access fees!

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Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania
Understanding the effectiveness of programs designed to empower women is important for development policy, and critically important in places with his…
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November 13, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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Is there a group of #Pinoys and #Fil-Am academics here? Looking for community! Also, my son (college freshman) is interested in finding Fil-Am professors with whom to brainstorm. He's trying to decide between STEM and social sciences (or keeping both!)

Maraming salamat!
October 13, 2023 at 4:31 PM
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Just came across this cool paper! "A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh." by Nina Buchmann, Erica Field, Rachel Glennerster, Shahana Nazneen, and Xiao Yu Wang. 2023. American Economic Review www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... #Econsky 📈📉
Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment opportunities have grown. We experimentally evaluate a financial incentive to delay marriage alongside a girls' empowerment program in Bangladesh. While girls eligible for two years of incentive are 19 percent less likely to marry underage, the empowerment program failed to decrease adolescent marriage. We show that these results are consistent with a signaling model in which bride type is imperfectly observed but preferred types (socially conservative girls) have lower returns to delaying marriage. Consistent with our theoretical prediction, we observe substantial spillovers of the incentive on untreated nonpreferred types.
September 27, 2023 at 3:36 PM
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Hi! I'm a new migrant to this site. I work on gender, intrahousehold issues, women's empowerment, & economic development at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Curious to know who else is here!
September 27, 2023 at 1:37 AM