2026 Agnes R. Quisumbing: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	85	216	196	157	140	355	27403

Overview

Agnes R. Quisumbing is affiliated with the International Food Policy Research Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the social sciences, with specific attention to nutrition and dietetics, safety research, general health professions, economics and econometrics, and gender studies.

The scientist addresses several main topics, including child nutrition and water access, poverty, education, child welfare, food security and health in diverse populations, microfinance and financial inclusion, gender, labor, and family dynamics, agricultural innovations and practices, and rural development and sustainability.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Current Developments in Nutrition
Global Food Security
Food Policy
Social Science & Medicine

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Agnes R. Quisumbing are:

A review of evidence on gender equality, women's empowerment, and food systems (2022), Global Food Security
Do tradeoffs among dimensions of women's empowerment and nutrition outcomes exist? Evidence from six countries in Africa and Asia (2020), Food Policy
Measuring Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: Innovations and evidence (2023), Global Food Security
Measuring Time Use in Developing Country Agriculture: Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda (2020), Feminist Economics
Bargaining power, decision making, and biofortification: The role of gender in adoption of orange sweet potato in Uganda (2020), Food Policy

Agnes R. Quisumbing collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

Hazel Malapit
Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Greg Seymour
Jessica Heckert
Cheryl R. Doss

Best Publications

The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

Sabina Alkire;Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Amber Peterman;Agnes R. Quisumbing

1453
Citations
Resources at Marriage and Intrahousehold Allocation: Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and South Africa*

Agnes R. Quisumbing;John A. Maluccio

1014
Citations
The impact of improving nutrition during early childhood on education among Guatemalan adults.

John A. Maluccio;John Hoddinott;Jere R. Behrman;Reynaldo Martorell

836
Citations
Gender, property rights, and natural resources

Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick;Lynn R. Brown;Hilary Sims Feldstein;Agnes R. Quisumbing

798
Citations
Promising Approaches to Address the Needs of Poor Female Farmers: Resources, Constraints, and Interventions

Agnes R. Quisumbing;Lauren Pandolfelli

729
Citations
Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: What Role for Food Security in Bangladesh?

Esha Sraboni;Hazel J. Malapit;Agnes R. Quisumbing;Akhter U. Ahmed

681
Citations
Male-female differences in agricultural productivity: Methodological issues and empirical evidence

Agnes R. Quisumbing

595
Citations
Adult consequences of growth failure in early childhood

John Hoddinott;Jere R Behrman;John A Maluccio;Paul Melgar

576
Citations
Household decisions, gender, and development: a synthesis of recent research.

Agnes R. Quisumbing

514
Citations
INTRAHOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION AND GENDER RELATIONS: NEW EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM FOUR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Agnes R. Quisumbing;John A. Maluccio

511
Citations
Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: What have we learned so far?

Marie T. Ruel;Agnes R. Quisumbing;Mysbah Balagamwala

494
Citations
The gender implications of large-scale land deals

Julia A. Behrman;Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick;Agnes R. Quisumbing

435
Citations
What dimensions of women’s empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition in Ghana?

Hazel Jean L. Malapit;Agnes R. Quisumbing

423
Citations
A Review of Empirical Evidence on Gender Differences in Nonland Agricultural Inputs, Technology, and Services in Developing Countries

Amber Peterman;Julia Andrea Behrman;Agnes R. Quisumbing

415
Citations
Women’s Empowerment Mitigates the Negative Effects of Low Production Diversity on Maternal and Child Nutrition in Nepal

Hazel Jean L. Malapit;Suneetha Kadiyala;Agnes R. Quisumbing;Kenda Cunningham

399
Citations
Gender inequalities in ownership and control of land in Africa: myth and reality

Cheryl Doss;Chiara Kovarik;Amber Peterman;Agnes R. Quisumbing

397
Citations
Understanding the complexities surrounding gender differences in agricultural productivity in Nigeria and Uganda

Amber Peterman;Agnes Quisumbing;Julia Andrea Behrman;Ephraim Nkonya

395
Citations
Women: the key to food security.

A. R. Quisumbing;L. R. Brown;H. S. Feldstein;L. Haddad

393
Citations
Women in agriculture: Four myths

Cheryl Doss;Cheryl Doss;Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Agnes Quisumbing;Sophie Theis

364
Citations
Human Capital, Productivity, and Labor Allocation in Rural Pakistan

Marcel Fafchamps;Agnes R. Quisumbing

360
Citations
Gender and Sustainability

Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Chiara Kovarik;Agnes R. Quisumbing

213
Citations
Promising approaches to address the needs of poor female farmers

Agnes Quisumbing;Lauren Pandolfelli

78
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth Meinzen-Dick International Food Policy Research Institute

Cheryl R. Doss Tufts University

Keijiro Otsuka Kobe University

Marcel Fafchamps Stanford University

John Hoddinott Cornell University

Amber Peterman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lawrence Haddad Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Jere R. Behrman University of Pennsylvania

John A. Maluccio Middlebury College

Kathryn M. Yount Emory University

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