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John A. Maluccio is affiliated with Middlebury College in the United States, focusing their research on social sciences and nursing. Their scholarly work spans several subfields, including safety research, nutrition and dietetics, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, general health professions, and sociology and political science.

The core topics of Maluccio's research include poverty, education, and child welfare; child nutrition and water access; global maternal and child health; income, poverty and inequality; agricultural risk and resilience; adolescent sexual and reproductive health; and global health care issues.

Maluccio has published extensively on the impacts of multisectoral cash transfer programs and their effects on adolescent girls' health, education, and economic outcomes, particularly within Kenyan contexts. Their recent papers include:

  • Impacts of two-year multisectoral cash plus programs on young adolescent girls' education, health and economic outcomes: Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K) randomized trial (2021), published in BMC Public Health
  • Impacts of multisectoral cash plus programs after four years in an urban informal settlement: Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K) randomized trial (2022), published in PLoS ONE
  • Impacts of Multisectoral Cash Plus Programs on Marriage and Fertility After 4 Years in Pastoralist Kenya: A Randomized Trial (2022), published in Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Rainfall shocks, cognitive development and educational attainment among adolescents in a drought-prone region in Kenya (2020), published in Environment and Development Economics
  • Prevalence, risk factors and short-term consequences of adverse birth outcomes in Zimbabwean pregnant women: a secondary analysis of a cluster-randomized trial (2021), published in International Journal of Epidemiology

Maluccio frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Karen Austrian, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Benta Abuya, Beth Kangwana, and Yohannes Dibaba Wado. These collaborative efforts contribute to advancing the knowledge on socioeconomic and health-related challenges facing young populations in developing regions.

Their work has been published in a range of academic venues, with recurring publications in Harvard Dataverse, Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Food Policy, Research Square, and UNC Libraries.

Best Publications

  • Effect of a nutrition intervention during early childhood on economic productivity in Guatemalan adults

    John Hoddinott;John A Maluccio;Jere R Behrman;Rafael Flores

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

    Agnes R. Quisumbing;John A. Maluccio

  • Impact Evaluation of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program: The Nicaraguan Red de Proteccion Social

    John A. Maluccio;Rafael Flores

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

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

  • Adult consequences of growth failure in early childhood

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

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

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

  • Independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene, and improved complementary feeding, on child stunting and anaemia in rural Zimbabwe: a cluster-randomised trial

    Jean H Humphrey;Mduduzi N N Mbuya;Robert Ntozini;Lawrence H Moulton

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

    Agnes R. Quisumbing;John A. Maluccio

  • Social Capital and Coping with Economic Shocks: An Analysis of Stunting of South African Children

    Michael R. Carter;John A. Maluccio

  • The Cost of Poverty Alleviation Transfer Programs: A Comparative Analysis of Three Programs in Latin America

    Natalia Caldes;David P. Coady;John A. Maluccio

  • Social capital and household welfare in South Africa, 1993–98

    John Maluccio;Lawrence Haddad;Julian May

  • Age-based preventive targeting of food assistance and behaviour change and communication for reduction of childhood undernutrition in Haiti: a cluster randomised trial

    Marie T Ruel;Purnima Menon;Jean-Pierre Habicht;Cornelia Loechl

  • Long-Term Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Review of the Evidence

    Teresa Molina Millán;Tania Barham;Karen Macours;John A. Maluccio

  • The Sanitation Hygiene Infant Nutrition Efficacy (SHINE) Trial: Rationale, Design, and Methods.

    Jean H. Humphrey;Andrew D. Jones

  • The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Consumption and Investment in Nicaragua

    John A. Maluccio

  • The Impact of Nutrition during Early Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults

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

  • Attrition in Longitudinal Household Survey Data

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

  • The Nutrition Intervention Improved Adult Human Capital and Economic Productivity

    Reynaldo Martorell;Paul Melgar;John A. Maluccio;Aryeh D. Stein

  • Eradicating diseases: The effect of conditional cash transfers on vaccination coverage in rural Nicaragua

    Tania Barham;John A. Maluccio

  • Coping with the "Coffee Crisis" in Central America: The Role of the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social

    John A. Maluccio

  • Impact evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program

    John Maluccio;Rafael Flores

  • Independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene, and improved complementary feeding, on child stunting and anaemia in rural Zimbabwe: a cluster-randomised trial

    Humphrey Jh;Mbuya Mnn;Ntozini R;Moulton Lh

  • Social capital and coping with economic shocks

    Michael R. Carter;John A. Maluccio

  • Attrition in longitudinal household survey data

    Harold Alderman;Susan Cotts Watkins;Hans-Peter Kohler;John A. Maluccio

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence Haddad
Lawrence Haddad Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Susan Cotts Watkins
Susan Cotts Watkins University of California, Los Angeles
Hans-Peter Kohler
Hans-Peter Kohler University of Pennsylvania
Kathryn M. Yount
Kathryn M. Yount Emory University

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