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D-Index
69
Citations
21913
World Ranking
486
National Ranking
322

Harold Alderman publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Harold Alderman sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 195 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Harold Alderman D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Harold Alderman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 69 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

Harold Alderman is affiliated with the International Food Policy Research Institute in the United States. Their research spans several fields within social sciences and health-related disciplines, with a particular focus on nutrition, child welfare, and food security.

The main fields of study for Alderman include Social Sciences and Nursing. Within these broader categories, their subfields cover Nutrition and Dietetics, General Health Professions, Safety Research, Economics and Econometrics, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their research topics predominantly relate to:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences

Alderman has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Phuong Hong Nguyen, Daniel Gilligan, Aulo Gelli, Purnima Menon, and Jessica Leight, each coauthoring multiple papers together.

The researcher's recent papers cover various aspects of nutrition, health, and agricultural economics. These include:

  • Strategies and interventions for healthy adolescent growth, nutrition, and development (2021, The Lancet)
  • Intergenerational nutrition benefits of India's national school feeding program (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Is Agricultural Insurance Fulfilling Its Promise for the Developing World? A Review of Recent Evidence (2022, Annual Review of Resource Economics)
  • Food for Thought? (2020, The Journal of Human Resources)
  • Nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs increase dietary diversity in children under 5 years: A review and meta-analysis (2022, Journal of Global Health)

Harold Alderman has published multiple articles in specific journals and research platforms. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Maternal and Child Nutrition
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Food Policy
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Lancet

Best Publications

  • Long Term Consequences Of Early Childhood Malnutrition

    Harold Alderman;John Hoddinott;Bill Kinsey

  • Nutrition-sensitive interventions and programmes: how can they help to accelerate progress in improving maternal and child nutrition?

    Marie T Ruel;Harold Alderman

  • Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries

    Patrice L. Engle;Lia C. H. Fernald;Harold Alderman;Jere Behrman

  • Unitary versus Collective Models of the Household: Time to Shift the Burden of Proof?

    Harold Alderman;Pierre Chiappori;Lawrence Haddad

  • The economic rationale for investing in stunting reduction

    John Hoddinott;Harold Alderman;Jere R. Behrman;Lawrence Haddad

  • School Quality, School Cost, and the Public/Private School Choices of Low-Income Households in Pakistan

    Harold Alderman;Peter Orazem;Elizabeth M. Paterno

  • Child Health and School Enrollment: A Longitudinal Analysis

    Harold Alderman;Jere R. Behrman;Victor Lavy;Rekha Menon

  • Reducing child malnutrition : how far does income growth take us?

    Lawrence James Haddad;Harold Alderman;Simon Appleton;Lina Song

  • Attrition in longitudinal household survey data - some tests for three developing-country samples

    Harold Alderman;Jere R. Behrman;Hans-Peter Kohler;John A. Maluccio

  • Gender Differentials in Farm Productivity: Implications For Household Efficiency and Agricultural Policy

    Christopher Udry;John Hoddinott;Harold Alderman;Lawrence Haddad

  • Child Malnutrition in Ethiopia: Can Maternal Knowledge Augment the Role of Income?*

    Luc Christiaensen;Harold Alderman

  • Do the Poor Insure? A Synthesis of the Literature on Risk and Consumption in Developing Countries

    Harold Alderman;Christina H. Paxson

  • Child growth, shocks, and food aid in rural Ethiopia

    Takashi Yamano;Harold Alderman;Luc J.M. Christiaensen

  • Do local officials know something we don’t? Decentralization of targeted transfers in Albania

    Harold Alderman

  • The effects of human capital on wages, and the determinants of labor supply in a developing country☆

    David E. Sahn;Harold Alderman;Harold Alderman

  • The Relative Caloric Prices of Healthy and Unhealthy Foods Differ Systematically across Income Levels and Continents.

    Derek D Headey;Harold H Alderman

  • Hunger and Malnutrition

    Jere R. Behrman;Harold Alderman;John Hoddinott

  • Saving and economic shocks in rural Pakistan

    Harold Alderman

  • THE RETURNS TO ENDOGENOUS HUMAN CAPITAL IN PAKISTAN'S RURAL WAGE LABOUR MARKET

    Harold Alderman;Jere R. Behrman;David R. Ross;Richard Sabot

  • Maternal and child nutrition: building momentum for impact.

    Robert E Black;Harold Alderman;Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Stuart Gillespie

  • Child Growth, Shocks, and Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper.

    Takashi Yamano;Harold Alderman;Luc Christiaensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jere R. Behrman
Jere R. Behrman University of Pennsylvania
Lawrence Haddad
Lawrence Haddad Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
John Hoddinott
John Hoddinott Cornell University
John Giles
John Giles World Bank
Susan Horton
Susan Horton University of Waterloo
Peter F. Orazem
Peter F. Orazem Iowa State University
John A. Maluccio
John A. Maluccio Middlebury College
Hans-Peter Kohler
Hans-Peter Kohler University of Pennsylvania
Susan Cotts Watkins
Susan Cotts Watkins University of California, Los Angeles
David E. Sahn
David E. Sahn Cornell University

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