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Alan de Brauw is affiliated with the International Food Policy Research Institute in the United States. Their research spans several interrelated fields, including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences. Within these domains, they have a strong focus on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science, Safety Research, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

Their research primarily addresses themes related to Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Child Nutrition and Water Access, impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Agricultural risk and resilience, and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development.

Alan de Brauw has published work in multiple venues, notably:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Food Security
  • Food Policy
  • BIO Web of Conferences

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include Kate Ambler, Erwin Bulte, Gashaw Tadesse Abate, Inge D. Brouwer, and Elise F. Talsma.

Their publications include recent papers such as:

  • Food Consumption and Food Security during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Addis Ababa, 2021, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • Reverse thinking: taking a healthy diet perspective towards food systems transformations, 2021, Food Security
  • Migration, labor and women's empowerment: Evidence from an agricultural value chain in Bangladesh, 2021, World Development
  • Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food Systems in low and Middle Income Countries, 2020, Food Security
  • Can conditional cash transfers improve maternal health care? Evidence from El Salvador's Comunidades Solidarias Rurales program, 2020, Health Economics

They have also authored a book published by Springer International Publishing titled African Farmers, Value Chains and Agricultural Development (2021).

Best Publications

  • THE EVOLUTION OF CHINA'S RURAL LABOR MARKETS DURING THE REFORMS

    Alan de Brauw;Jikun Huang;Scott Rozelle;Linxiu Zhang

  • Migration and Incomes in Source Communities: A New Economics of Migration Perspective from China

    J. Edward Taylor;Scott Rozelle;Alan de Brauw

  • The Evolution of China's Rural Labor Markets During the Reforms

    Alan de Brauw;Jikun Huang;Scott Rozelle;Linxiu Zhang

  • Must conditional cash transfer programs be conditioned to be effective? The impact of conditioning transfers on school enrollment in Mexico

    Alan de Brauw;John Hoddinott

  • The Evolution of China's Rural Labor Markets during the Reforms

    Alan de Brauw;Jikun Huang;Scott Rozelle;Linxiu Zhang

  • The Role of Rural–Urban Migration in the Structural Transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa

    Alan de Brauw;Valerie Mueller;Hak Lim Lee

  • Migration and Household Investment in Rural China

    Alan De Brauw;Scott Rozelle

  • A large-scale intervention to introduce orange sweet potato in rural Mozambique increases vitamin A intakes among children and women

    Christine Hotz;Cornelia Loechl;Alan de Brauw;Patrick Eozenou

  • The Impact of Bolsa Família on Women’s Decision-Making Power

    Alan de Brauw;Daniel O. Gilligan;John Hoddinott;Shalini Roy

  • Reconciling the Returns to Education in Off-Farm Wage Employment in Rural China

    Alan de Brauw;Scott Rozelle

  • Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China

    Alan De Brauw;John T. Giles

  • Seasonal Migration and Improving Living Standards in Vietnam

    Alan de Brauw;Tomoko Harigaya

  • Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China

    Alan De Brauw;John T. Giles

  • China's rural labor market development and its gender implications

    Linxiu Zhang;Alan De Brauw;Scott Rozelle

  • Working until You Drop: The Elderly of Rural China

    Lihua Pang;Alan de Brauw;Scott Rozelle

  • Food Consumption and Food Security during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Addis Ababa.

    Kalle Hirvonen;Alan de Brauw;Gashaw T. Abate

  • Migration and the overweight and underweight status of children in rural China

    Alan de Brauw;Ren Mu

  • Feminization of Agriculture in China? Myths Surrounding Women's Participation in Farming

    Alan de Brauw;Qiang Li;Chengfang Liu;Scott Rozelle

  • Biofortification, crop adoption and health information: Impact pathways in Mozambique and Uganda

    Alan de Brauw;Patrick Eozenou;Daniel O. Gilligan;Christine Hotz

  • Measuring risk attitudes among Mozambican farmers

    Alan de Brauw;Patrick Eozenou

  • Seasonal Migration and Agricultural Production in Vietnam

    Alan De Brauw

  • Social network effects on mobile money adoption in Uganda

    Conrad Murendo;Meike Wollni;Alan de Brauw;Nicholas Mugabi

  • The Impact of Bolsa Família on Schooling

    Alan de Brauw;Daniel O. Gilligan;John Hoddinott;John Hoddinott;Shalini Roy

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott Rozelle
Scott Rozelle Stanford University
John Hoddinott
John Hoddinott Cornell University
John Giles
John Giles World Bank
Linxiu Zhang
Linxiu Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Erwin H. Bulte
Erwin H. Bulte Wageningen University & Research
Jikun Huang
Jikun Huang Peking University
John Gibson
John Gibson University of Waikato
Nicholas Minot
Nicholas Minot International Food Policy Research Institute
J. Edward Taylor
J. Edward Taylor University of California, Davis
Corinna Hawkes
Corinna Hawkes City, University of London

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