A5021048667- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
- Education Methods and Practices
- Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
- School Choice and Performance
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
University of Georgia
2019-2024
Shaanxi Normal University
2016-2019
Northwest University
2016
Healthy diets are not affordable to all in Africa due a combination of high food prices and low incomes. However, how African consumers might change demand patterns if or incomes were remains poorly understood. Using nationally representative household panel survey data from five sub-Saharan countries, we model consumer preferences examine nutrient intake responds changing prices, total expenditures other determinants. Here find stronger positive relationship between growth poor consumers'...
There is a significant gap in academic achievement between rural and urban students China. Policymakers have sought to close this by improving the quality of teaching areas through teacher professional development (PD) programs. However, there limited evidence on effectiveness such In paper, we evaluate impact PD program-National Teacher Training Program (NTTP) find that NTTP has no effect math achievement. We also while program positive knowledge teachers, it practices classroom. Taken...
Consumer preferences can be leveraged to magnify the impacts of agricultural investments and interventions on diets for all consumers in an economy, not just farmers. Using nationally representative panel data from Tanzania, we estimate demand 19 food groups using Exact Affine Stone Index censored system, which is flexible, utility-theoretic, controls unobserved heterogeneity, accounts bias arising endogenous prices. We find strong links between growth household expenditures improved diet...
Evidence from developed countries shows that there is a significant gender gap in STEM occupations. Girls may begin to underperform math early as primary school. One possible explanation the negative stereotype threat towards girls. However, this has been understudied rural China. In paper, we describe performance China, compare between and urban finally Chinese situation with other countries. We further examine explanations for comparative perspectives. Using first hand datasets of 3,789...