John Hoddinott

About

John Hoddinott is associated with the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research at Cornell University. The center assists faculty in developing translational research projects, providing support such as proposal preparation, training, technical support, and facilitating collaborative relationships. The center also offers workshops, summer institutes, and talks on current research topics, aiming to enhance the impact and dissemination of research findings. Specific details about John Hoddinott's research focus, background, or key contributions are not provided in the available page text.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Economics
• Public economics
• Geography
• Business
• Medicine
• Economic growth
• Environmental health
• Psychology
• Demographic economics

Selected publications

• Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security

  Food Security · 2020 · 435 citations

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• A scoping review of the development resilience literature: Theory, methods and evidence

  World Development · 2021 · 132 citations

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• Economic costs of childhood stunting to the private sector in low- and middle-income countries

  EClinicalMedicine · 2022 · 77 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Background: Stunting during childhood has long-term consequences on human capital, including decreased physical growth, and lower educational attainment, cognition, workforce productivity and wages. Previous research has quantified the costs of stunting to national economies however beyond a few single-country datasets there has been a limited number of which have used diverse datasets and have had a dedicated focus on the private sector, which employs nearly 90% of the workforce in many low- an…

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• Gender differences in perceptions of “joint” decision-making about spending money among couples in rural Tanzania

  PLoS ONE · 2024-06-12 · 10 citations

  articleOpen accessCorresponding

  Family and cultural contexts can constrain the effectiveness of evidence-based interventions designed to improve the health and wellbeing of women and their children. Unequal power relationships within the household may underlie the failure of many programs targeting women to achieve their intended impact. To reduce these unequal power dynamics within the households, many programs or interventions aim to both assess and improve the gender dynamics between husbands and wives within the household.…

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• Household dairy production, dairy intake, and anthropometric outcomes in rural Bangladesh

  Food Policy · 2023-11-01 · 10 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding

  We assess whether ownership of dairy cows is associated with a greater likelihood of consuming dairy products and with child anthropometric status in rural Bangladesh. Consistent with the assumption of imperfectly functioning markets for dairy products, ownership of dairy cows increases the likelihood that a child 6-59 months consumes milk by 7.7 percentage points with no difference in this association between boys and girls. This association nearly doubles in magnitude when we consider househol…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01HD045627

  NIH · $2.0M · 2010

Frequent coauthors

• Shalini Roy

  60 shared

• Daniel Gilligan

  46 shared

• Jere R. Behrman

  37 shared

• Akhter Ahmed

  International Food Policy Research Institute

  34 shared

• Derek Headey

  International Food Policy Research Institute

  32 shared

• Kalle Hirvonen

  29 shared

• Stefan Dercon

  University of Oxford

  29 shared

• Alan de Brauw

  26 shared

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