A5021132901- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Agricultural Science and Fertilization
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Global Health Care Issues
- Social and Economic Solidarity
- Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
- Enzyme-mediated dye degradation
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
- Economic Growth and Development
International Food Policy Research Institute
2016-2025
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology
2022-2025
University of Calcutta
2022-2024
Centre For Human Genetics
2024
Krea University
2024
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
2017-2023
Presidency University
2004-2023
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
2023
Chhattisgarh Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya
2021
Northwest Eye Surgeons
2020
Conditional cash transfer programs with female beneficiaries have scope to increase women's intrahousehold decision-making power. Yet quantitative evidence is limited. We show that Brazil's Bolsa Família program has significant impacts on decision making, but considerable heterogeneity in effects. In aggregate, significantly increases power regarding contraception. This effect driven by urban households, which also spheres related children's school attendance and health expenses, household...
Cash transfer programs primarily targeting women in Latin America and East Africa have been shown to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but knowledge gaps remain on how impacts differ by program features context. Using a randomized control trial, we investigate the IPV of Mali's national cash (Jigisémèjiri), which targets household heads (primarily men) West African context where nearly 40 percent households are polygamous. The causes significant decreases polygamous – physical 7.2...
Abstract Transfer programs have been shown to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but little evidence exists on how activities linked transfers affect IPV or what happens when end. We assess postprogram impacts of randomly assigning women in Bangladesh receive cash food, with without nutrition behavior change communication (BCC). Six ten months postprogram, did not differ between receiving and a control group; however, BCC experienced 26% less physical violence. Evidence mechanisms...
Many development interventions target transfers to women. However, little evidence directly explores the "flypaper effects" of whether women retain control over these once within household and how reallocation affects women's empowerment. We study dynamics in context BRAC's randomized CFPR-TUP program Bangladesh, which provides livestock training rural "ultra poor" households. Our analysis confirms previous findings that increased asset ownership, but shows complex effects on targeted Women...
We use longitudinal household data and propensity score weighting methods to assess the impact of Brazil's Bolsa Família conditional cash transfer program on schooling outcomes children aged 6–17 years. Weak aggregate effects mask considerable heterogeneity. Among girls, significantly increases school participation (by 8 percentage points) grade progression 10 points), with large, significant across both younger older girls in rural areas but concentrated among 15–17 years urban areas. Few...
Women's decisionmaking indicators are widely used in social science research, though insufficient attention is given to measurement issues. We interrogate variations indicator construction using survey experiments undertaken the context of transfer programs Ecuador, Yemen, and Uganda. Findings show that small can lead meaningful differences how women ranked on decisionmaking, as well change conclusions whether have significant impacts decisionmaking. Results also raise questions capture...
Value-chain projects are increasingly being used to link smallholders markets. However, in contexts where women tend own and control fewer assets than men, more likely be involved informal rather formal market activities, there is potential for value-chain have unintended consequences on gender dynamics. In particular, concern among project implementors regarding possible adverse effects terms of shifting intrahousehold distribution assets, norms, household members' time allocation various...
There is considerable debate about whether social protection programs providing transfers to households create disincentives for labor supply, but little attention paid the effect of on other forms reallocation. This article estimates impact Brazil's Bolsa Família program several dimensions household using propensity-score-weighted regression. We find no disincentive effects aggregate supply large allocation between sectors and across members. The causes a substantial reallocation hours from...
The importance of women's roles for nutrition-sensitive agricultural projects is increasingly recognized, yet little known about whether such improve empowerment and gender equality. We study the Agriculture, Nutrition, Gender Linkages (ANGeL) pilot project, which was implemented as a cluster-randomized controlled trial by Government Bangladesh. project's treatment arms included training, nutrition behavior change communication (BCC), sensitization trainings delivered to husbands wives...
The present research investigation was carried out to estimate the genetic variability parameters among 42 genotypes of brinjal at Horticulture Research Centre, SVPUA & T, Meerut (U.P.), India, during 2 consecutive Kharif seasons 2022 and 2023, using a 3-replication randomized complete block design. According analysis variance, all characteristics under study exhibited sufficient variability. For each character, it found that Phenotypic Coefficient Variations (PCV) greater than related...
Social assistance programs can increase consumption and reduce poverty, but less is known about whether these impacts are sustained after end or how design context influence sustainability. Using data collected in two regions of Bangladesh four years a randomized intervention ended, we find that combining cash transfers with complementary programming led to increases reductions poverty. Combining food showed similar patterns lesser extent. Cash alone had context-specific effects; no impacts....
We study BRAC's Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction — Targeting Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in Bangladesh, which targets asset transfer (primarily livestock) and training to rural women poor households. Previous research has shown large, significant positive impacts at household level. In this paper, we examine intrahousehold using mixed methods. focus on Specially Targeted Ultra-Poor (STUP) component program, households selected following a randomized controlled trial design....
Programmed death‐1 receptor (PD‐1) expressed in many immune cells is known to trigger T‐cell exhaustion but the significance of macrophage‐associated PD‐1 relevance macrophage apoptosis not known. This study aimed delineate whether pathway has any role eliciting and, if so, then how intra‐macrophage parasite, Leishmania donovani modulates for protecting its niche. Resting macrophages when treated with H 2 O showed increased expression and apoptosis, which was further enhanced on agonist...
Behaviour change communication (BCC) can improve infant and young child nutrition (IYCN) knowledge, practices, health outcomes. However, few studies have examined whether the improved knowledge persists after BCC activities end. This paper assesses effect of sensitive social protection interventions on IYCN in rural Bangladesh, both during intervention activities. We use data from two, 2-year, cluster randomised control trials that included some treatment arms. These were collected at...
To examine the impact on infant and young child nutrition knowledge practice of mothers who were neighbors participating in a Behavior Change Communication (BCC) intervention rural Bangladesh.We analyzed data from 300 whose neighbor participated BCC 600 an that did not include BCC. We constructed measures capturing mothers' (IYCN) food consumption by children 6-24m. The effect these outcomes exposure to receiving was estimated using ordinary least squares probit regressions. study registered...
We estimate the impact of Bolsa Família on a range education outcomes, including school participation, grade progression, repetition, and dropout rates. Using large-sample household panel survey from 2005-2009 collected for this evaluation, we develop statistically balanced comparison group eligible nonparticipant households impacts using propensity-score-weighted regression. that increased average participation among all children age 6 to 17 years by (a weakly significant) 4.5 percent. It...
Abstract This paper reports the results of two 2-year randomized control trials in poor rural areas Bangladesh. Treatment arms included monthly cash transfers, food rations equivalent value to and mixed treatment arms—one with one cash—that combined transfers nutrition-behavior communication change (BCC). design enables a comparison transfer modalities within same experiment. Intent-to-treat estimators show that nutrition BCC had large impact on nutritional status, 0.25 standard deviation...
In rural West Africa, the rate of out-of-school children is high and delayed entry to primary school common, particularly for girls. Using randomized roll-out a large-scale unconditional cash transfer program in Mali, we examine its impact on child schooling by age sex. The leads significant improvements outcomes girls, but not boys. Improvements are especially salient among younger (ages 6–9) older 15–18) Complementary analysis reveals that reduces time girls spend agricultural work at home...
Development interventions increasingly include women's empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but evaluating impact has been stymied by the lack of measures that are comparable across interventions. This paper synthesizes findings 11 mixed-methods evaluations agricultural development projects from South Asia sub-Saharan Africa were part Gender, Agriculture, Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2). As GAAP2, qualitative quantitative data used to develop validate multidimensional...
ABSTRACT Previously, we documented the role of programmed death-1 (PD-1, also known as PDCD1) pathway in macrophage apoptosis and downregulation this signaling during infection by intra-macrophage parasite Leishmania donovani. However, found that, late phase infection, PD-1 expression was significantly increased without activating host cell apoptosis; here show that inhibition led to markedly decreased survival, along with production TNFα, IL-12, reactive oxygen species (ROS) nitric oxide...