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Amber Peterman is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on health, general health professions, safety research, clinical psychology, and sociology and political science.

They have contributed to 49 publications in social sciences, with notable subfields including health (18 publications), general health professions (14), safety research (12), clinical psychology (11), and sociology and political science (10).

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

Amber Peterman has published in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • UNC Libraries (16 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (4)
  • BMJ Global Health (3)
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2)
  • BMC Public Health (2)

Their recent papers include:

  • "Measuring women's decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda and Yemen," 2021, World Development
  • "COVID-19: Reducing the risk of infection might increase the risk of intimate partner violence," 2020, EClinicalMedicine
  • "Violence against children during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2021, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • "Disclosure, reporting and help seeking among child survivors of violence: a cross-country analysis," 2020, BMC Public Health
  • "COVID-19 response measures and violence against children," 2020, Bulletin of the World Health Organization

The scientist frequently collaborates with co-authors such as:

  • Tia Palermo
  • Amiya Bhatia
  • Alessandra Guedes
  • Mélissa Hidrobo
  • Karen Devries

Best Publications

  • The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

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

  • Pandemics and Violence Against Women and Children

    Amber Peterman;Alina Potts;Megan O'Donnell;Kelly Thompson

  • Tip of the iceberg: reporting and gender-based violence in developing countries

    Tia Palermo;Jennifer Bleck;Amber Peterman

  • COVID-19: Reducing the risk of infection might increase the risk of intimate partner violence.

    N. van Gelder;A. Peterman;A. Peterman;A. Potts;M. O'Donnell

  • Estimates and Determinants of Sexual Violence Against Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Amber Peterman;Tia M. Palermo;Caryn Bredenkamp

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • A Mixed-Method Review of Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Ana Maria Buller;Amber Peterman;Meghna Ranganathan;Alexandra Bleile

  • The Effect of Cash, Vouchers, and Food Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Northern Ecuador

    Melissa Hidrobo;Amber Peterman;Lori Heise

  • Cash, Food, or Vouchers? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Northern Ecuador

    Melissa Hidrobo;John Hoddinott;Amber Peterman;Amy Margolies

  • Gender in Agriculture Closing the Knowledge Gap

    Agnes R. Quisumbing;Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick;Terri L. Raney;André Croppenstedt

  • Who perpetrates violence against children? A systematic analysis of age-specific and sex-specific data

    Karen Devries;Louise Knight;Max Petzold;Katherine G. Merrill

  • An empirical exploration of female child marriage determinants in Indonesia.

    Lauren Rumble;Amber Peterman;Nadira Irdiana;Margaret Triyana

  • Impact of the Kenya Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children on early pregnancy and marriage of adolescent girls

    Sudhanshu Handa;Amber Peterman;Carolyn Huang;Carolyn Halpern

  • Cash Transfers and Child Nutrition: Pathways and Impacts

    Richard de Groot;Tia Palermo;Sudhanshu Handa;Sudhanshu Handa;Luigi Peter Ragno

  • Age and Intimate Partner Violence: An Analysis of Global Trends Among Women Experiencing Victimization in 30 Developing Countries

    Amber Peterman;Jennifer Bleck;Tia Palermo

  • Women's Property Rights and Gendered Policies: Implications for Women's Long-term Welfare in Rural Tanzania

    Amber Peterman

  • Opening Up Pandora’s Box: The Effect of Gender Targeting and Conditionality on Household Spending Behavior in Mexico’s Progresa Program

    Sudhanshu Handa;Amber Peterman;Benjamin Davis;Marco Stampini

  • Examination of performance of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale Short Form 10 among African youth in poor, rural households

    Kelly Kilburn;Leah Prencipe;Lisa Hjelm;Amber Peterman

  • Gender, Assets, and Agricultural Development Programs: A Conceptual Framework

    Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick;Nancy Johnson;Agnes R. Quisumbing;Jemimah Njuki

  • Replication data for: The Effect of Cash, Vouchers, and Food Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Northern Ecuador

    Melissa Hidrobo;Amber Peterman;Lori Heise

Frequent Co-Authors

Sudhanshu Handa
Sudhanshu Handa University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Ruth Meinzen-Dick International Food Policy Research Institute
Lori Heise
Lori Heise Johns Hopkins University
Benjamin Davis
Benjamin Davis Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Karen Devries
Karen Devries London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Sabina Alkire
Sabina Alkire University of Oxford
Ephraim Nkonya
Ephraim Nkonya International Food Policy Research Institute
Kathryn M. Yount
Kathryn M. Yount Emory University
Naeemah Abrahams
Naeemah Abrahams South African Medical Research Council
Suzanne Maman
Suzanne Maman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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