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Overview

Sudhanshu Handa is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with a total of 37 publications in this main field. The subfields in which they have notably contributed include Safety Research, Nutrition and Dietetics, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, and Pollution.

Their work spans multiple topics, highlighting a focus on areas such as Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Energy and Environment Impacts, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Income, Poverty, and Inequality, HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses, and Agricultural Risk and Resilience.

Handa has published research in various academic venues. The frequent publication venues include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • RIDIE datasets
  • World Development
  • Journal of African Economies
  • Journal of Development Effectiveness

Their recent papers reflect a focus on social protection, food insecurity, life satisfaction, and violence reduction. These include:

  • More evidence on the impact of government social protection in sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe (2021, Development Policy Review)
  • The Rapid Decline of Happiness: Exploring Life Satisfaction among Young People across the World (2023, Applied Research in Quality of Life)

While some papers listed under co-authors include different lead authors, the collaboration network around Handa consists of frequent co-authors such as:

  • David Seidenfeld
  • Harsha Thirumurthy
  • Carolyn Tucker Halpern
  • Audrey Pettifor
  • Tia Palermo

Overall, Sudhanshu Handa's research addresses a variety of social science topics with a significant emphasis on poverty alleviation, child welfare, and the effects of social protection programs in African contexts. Their work intersects with important public health and economic issues, contributing to fields concerned with improving well-being and resilience among vulnerable populations.

Best Publications

  • The Experience of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Sudhanshu Handa;Benjamin Davis

  • Raising primary school enrolment in developing countries. The relative importance of supply and demand

    Sudhanshu Handa

  • An Assessment of Propensity Score Matching as a Nonexperimental Impact Estimator Evidence from Mexico's PROGRESA Program

    Juan Jose Diaz;Sudhanshu Handa

  • The Government of Kenya’s cash transfer program reduces the risk of sexual debut among young people age 15-25.

    Sudhanshu Handa;Carolyn Tucker Halpern;Audrey Pettifor;Harsha Thirumurthy

  • Effects of a Large-Scale Unconditional Cash Transfer Program on Mental Health Outcomes of Young People in Kenya

    Kelly Kilburn;Harsha Thirumurthy;Carolyn Tucker Halpern;Audrey Pettifor

  • Expenditure behavior and children's welfare: an analysis of female headed households in Jamaica.

    Sudhanshu Handa

  • Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Program Impact Evaluation

    S. Handa;M. Park;R. Osei Darko;I. Osei-Akoto

  • 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

  • Maternal Education and Child Height

    Sudhanshu Handa

  • Cash Transfer Programme, Productive Activities and Labour Supply: Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Kenya

    Solomon Asfaw;Benjamin Davis;Josh Dewbre;Sudhanshu Handa

  • From Evidence to Action The Story of Cash Transfers and Impact Evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Paul Winters;Benjamin Davis;Sudhanshu Handa;Sudhanshu Handa;Nicola Hypher

  • From Evidence to Action: The Story of Cash Transfers and Impact Evaluation in Sub Saharan Africa

    Benjamin Davis;Sudhanshu Handa;Nicola Hypher;Natalia Winder Rossi

  • Cash Transfers and Child Nutrition: Pathways and Impacts

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

  • Gender, Headship and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation

    Sudhanshu Handa

  • The economics of rotating savings and credit associations: evidence from the Jamaican `Partner'

    Sudhanshu Handa;Claremont Kirton

  • Can unconditional cash transfers raise long-term living standards? Evidence from Zambia.

    Sudhanshu Handa;Luisa Natali;David Seidenfeld;Gelson Tembo

  • Impact of Cash Transfer programs on Food Security and Nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: A Cross-Country Analysis.

    Smriti Tiwari;Silvio Daidone;Maria Angelita Ruvalcaba;Ervin Prifti

  • Poverty and perceived stress: Evidence from two unconditional cash transfer programs in Zambia

    Lisa Hjelm;Sudhanshu Handa;Sudhanshu Handa;Jacobus de Hoop;Tia Palermo

  • 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

  • Structural Adjustment Policies, Income Distribution and Poverty: A Review of the Jamaican Experience

    Sudhanshu Handa;Damien King

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Davis
Benjamin Davis Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Amber Peterman
Amber Peterman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Harsha Thirumurthy
Harsha Thirumurthy University of Pennsylvania
Carolyn Tucker Halpern
Carolyn Tucker Halpern University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Audrey Pettifor
Audrey Pettifor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephen Devereux
Stephen Devereux Institute of Development Studies
John A. Maluccio
John A. Maluccio Middlebury College
Ilene S. Speizer
Ilene S. Speizer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chirayath M. Suchindran
Chirayath M. Suchindran University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Linda S. Adair
Linda S. Adair University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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