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John Hoddinott is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the study of social sciences and nursing, with particular focus on nutrition and dietetics, safety research, soil science, general health professions, and sociology and political science. Their research addresses a diverse range of topics including child nutrition and water access, poverty, education, and child welfare, as well as agricultural risk and resilience. Other significant topics in their body of work cover food security and health in diverse populations, global maternal and child health, income, poverty, and inequality, and gender, labor, and family dynamics.

Their frequent coauthors include Shalini Roy, Akhter Ahmed, Christopher B. Barrett, Kibrom A. Abay, and Fiona Coleman, indicating collaborative efforts across multiple projects. They have published repeatedly in venues such as Current Developments in Nutrition, SSRN Electronic Journal, World Development, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and PLoS ONE.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by John Hoddinott are:

  1. A scoping review of the development resilience literature: Theory, methods and evidence, 2021, World Development
  2. Economic costs of childhood stunting to the private sector in low- and middle-income countries, 2022, EClinicalMedicine
  3. COVID-19 and Food Security in Ethiopia: Do Social Protection Programs Protect?, 2021, Economic Development and Cultural Change
  4. Heat exposure and child nutrition: Evidence from West Africa, 2022, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
  5. Land Fragmentation and Food Insecurity in Ethiopia, 2020, American Journal of Agricultural Economics

John Hoddinott has contributed to book publications with the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, including titles such as COVID-19 and Food Security in Ethiopia: Do Social Protection Programs Protect? (2020), Assessing Response Fatigue in Phone Surveys: Experimental Evidence on Dietary Diversity in Ethiopia (2021), and Beneficiary Views on Cash and In-Kind Payments: Evidence from Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (2020).

Best Publications

  • Long Term Consequences Of Early Childhood Malnutrition

    Harold Alderman;John Hoddinott;Bill Kinsey

  • DOES FEMALE INCOME SHARE INFLUENCE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES? EVIDENCE FROM CÔTE D'IVOIRE

    John Hoddinott;Lawrence J. Haddad

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

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

  • Economic mobility and poverty dynamics in developing countries

    Bob Baulch;John Hoddinott

  • Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries: Review of Lessons and Experience

    David Coady;Margaret E. Grosh;John Hoddinott

  • DIETARY DIVERSITY AS A FOOD SECURITY INDICATOR

    John Hoddinott;Yisehac Yohannes

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

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

  • A model of migration and remittances applied to western Kenya.

    John Hoddinott

  • Child Growth in the Time of Drought

    John Hoddinott;Bill Kinsey

  • The economic rationale for investing in stunting reduction

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

  • The Impact of Agricultural Extension and Roads on Poverty and Consumption Growth in Fifteen Ethiopian Villages

    Stefan Dercon;Daniel O. Gilligan;John Hoddinott;Tassew Woldehanna

  • Shocks and Consumption in 15 Ethiopian Villages, 1999–2004

    Stefan Dercon;John Hoddinott;Tassew Woldehanna

  • Adult consequences of growth failure in early childhood

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

  • The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme and its Linkages

    Daniel O. Gilligan;John Hoddinott;Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse

  • Shocks and their consequences across and within households in Rural Zimbabwe

    John Hoddinott

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

    Christopher Udry;John Hoddinott;Harold Alderman;Lawrence Haddad

  • The Impact of PROGRESA on Food Consumption

    John Hoddinott;Emmanuel Skoufias

  • 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

  • Conceptualising COVID-19's impacts on household food security.

    Stephen Devereux;Stephen Devereux;Christophe Béné;John Hoddinott

  • Validity of rapid estimates of household wealth and income for health surveys in rural Africa

    Saul Sutkover Morris;Calogero Carletto;John Hoddinott;Luc J.M. Christiaensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jere R. Behrman
Jere R. Behrman University of Pennsylvania
Alan de Brauw
Alan de Brauw International Food Policy Research Institute
Stefan Dercon
Stefan Dercon University of Oxford
John A. Maluccio
John A. Maluccio Middlebury College
Lawrence Haddad
Lawrence Haddad Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Agnes R. Quisumbing
Agnes R. Quisumbing International Food Policy Research Institute
Harold Alderman
Harold Alderman International Food Policy Research Institute
Mark W. Rosegrant
Mark W. Rosegrant International Food Policy Research Institute
Shenggen Fan
Shenggen Fan China Agricultural University
Kathryn M. Yount
Kathryn M. Yount Emory University

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