Working papers

How Much are Multisectoral Programs Worth? A New Method with an Application to School Meals (with H. Alderman, A. Gelli, B. Wong, F. Turkson, P. Twumasi Baffour), submitted
School Meals as a Market for Smallholder Agriculture Experimental Evidence from Ghana (with A. Gelli, H. Alderman, et al). Submitted

Publications by topics:

Child education and learning, including the impact of school meals and social protection

Child food security, nutrition and health

Miscellaneous
Understanding and tackling poverty and vulnerability in mountain livelihoods in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (with G. Gioli et al.). The Hindu Kush Himalaya assessment: Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability and People. 2019, Springer, link to book

Permanent working papers
Selecting a core set of indicators to monitor global food security: A methodological proposal
FAO Working Paper Series, 2014
Appropriate measures to track progress towards global food security are critical for designing and evaluating policies and programs as well to enhance the accountability of the policy process. However, finding an agreement on a common framework for the monitoring of countries’ and global food security is nonetheless challenging for various reasons. Ultimately, this exercise relates to the selection of the most appropriate informational basis for the monitoring of global food security and of which criteria should inform this choice. This paper proposes a methodology to select indicators in multidimensional assessments, such as the ones required for the measurement of food security. By linking the overarching objectives of the evaluation to the nature of the indicators, this methodology is able to discriminate among the hundreds of indicators proposed in the literature. The proposed methodology provides the conceptual framework underpinning the selection of the suite of core food security indicators first presented in the 2012 State of Food Insecurity in the World (FAO 2012), and, while this specific application focuses on the monitoring of global food security, it is more generally suitable for the measurement of other multidimensional phenomena.

Exploring the effect of educational opportunity and inequality on learning outcomes in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam (with Z. James and C. Rolleston)
UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report Background Paper, 2013

`If we eat well, we can study'. Dietary diversity in the everyday lives of children in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India (with V. Morrow)
Young Lives, Working Paper n. 144

Young Lives Ethiopia School Survey 2012-13. Data Overview Report (with Z. James and C. Rolleston)
Young Lives, Working Paper n. 134, 2014