Research

    • “Gender attitudes among agrifood policy actors as institutional constraints on women’s leadership in agrifood systems: Evidence from India and Nigeria.” With Catherine Ragasa. Link.

    • “Can role models and skills training increase women’s voice in asset selection? Experimental evidence from Odisha, India.” With Katrina Kosec, Sudha Narayanan, Kalyani Raghunathan, and Soumyajit Ray. Link.

    • “How Local Leaders View Transparency and Local Autonomy in Humanitarian Aid Distribution: Evidence from Mali.” With Jaimie Bleck, Lucia Carrillo, Jessica Gottlieb, Sidiki Guindo, Katrina Kosec, and Moumouni Soumano. Link.

    • “Are food policies empowering women? Framework, measurement, and empirical evidence from India and Nigeria.” With Catherine Ragasa. Link.

    • “Bridging gender gaps in political participation: Experimental evidence on group-based trainings from Nigeria.” With Claire Adida, Katrina Kosec, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, Leonardo Arriola, Aila Matanock, Dolapo Adeyanju, and Rachel Fisher. Link.

    • “Conflict, Aspirations, and Women’s Empowerment: Household Survey Evidence from Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Nigeria.” With Mulubrhan Amare, Lucia Carrillo, and Katrina Kosec. Link.

    • “Political Economy and Governance: Agriculture and Food Policy from Local to Global,” in 2025 Global Food Policy Report: Lessons and Priorities for a Changing World, 2025, edited by Christopher Barrett and Johan Swinnen. With Danielle Resnick and Jonathan Mockshell. Link.

    • “Nepal’s Changing Governance Structure and Implications for Agricultural Development,” in Agricultural Transformation in Nepal, 2019, edited by G. Thapa, A. Kumar, and P. Joshi. Singapore: Springer. With Danielle Resnick.

    • “What Can We Learn from Oil Contracts? Clarifying the Links between Transparency and Accountability.” In Transparency Governance in the Age of Abundance, 2014, edited by M. Masson and J. C. Vieyra. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank. Link.

    • “Staking claim to entitlements under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).” The India Forum. 28 Aug 2024. With Kalyani Raghunathan, Katrina Kosec, Sudha Narayanan and Soumyajit Ray. Link.

    • “How to scrap fuel subsidies.” Project Syndicate. 26 Jul 2023. With Kwaw Andam. Link.

    • “Building popular support for post-conflict constitutions.” Brookings (Up Front). 16 Jun 2023. With Danielle Resnick. Link.

    • “When policymakers add administrative burdens while expanding access: What to do about the good intentions behind program complexity.” Can We Still Govern? 20 Jan 2023. Link

    • “Here’s why raising gas prices leads to violent protests like Ecuador’s.” The Washington Post (Monkey Cage). 14 Oct 2019. Link.

    • “What Populists Do to Democracies.” The Atlantic. 26 Dec 2018. With Yascha Mounk. Link.

    • “Why It’s So Difficult to Kill a Populist Movement.” The Washington Post (Outlook). 11 March 2018. With Yascha Mounk. Link.

    • “How can community grants promote gender-inclusive development in fragile settings? Insights from rural Nigeria.” 2025. IFPRI Project Note. With Dolapo Adeyanju, Claire Adida, Leonardo Arriola, Lucia Carrillo, Rachel Fisher, Augustine Iraoya, Katrina Kosec, Aila Matanock, and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo.

    • “The changing geography of food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa.” 2025. Food Frontiers and Security Working Paper. With Jeffrey Bloem.

    • “Strengthening women’s livelihoods through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA): Policy strategies for resilience and inclusion.” 2025. South Asia Policy Perspectives No. 3. With S. Narayanan, K. Raghunathan, K. Kosec, M. H. Paul, D. Kumar, S. Agnihotri, I. Murthy, P. Sarathy, and A. Panda.

    • “Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) Assessment Framework: Insights from the India Pilot Study.” 2024, IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 2313. With Catherine Ragasa, Sabina Yasmin, Harshita Pande, Aanshi Sharma, Sampurna Basu, and Dina Najjar.

    • “Unlocking locally-led resilience amid conflict and climate stress: Views from community leaders in Mali on development priorities, aid distribution, and anticipatory action.” 2024. IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 2272. With Jaimie Bleck, Lucia Carrillo, Jessica Gottlieb, Katrina Kosec, and Moumouni Soumano.

    • “Gender and age gaps in voice and agency in community governance.” 2024, IFPRI Policy Note. With Hiroyuki Takeshima, Katrina Kosec, and Kalyani Raghunathan.

    • “Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) Assessment Framework: A Pilot Study in Nigeria.” 2023, IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 02222. With C. Ragasa, A. Onoja, A. Achike, S. Adejoh, C. Onyenekwe, G. Koledoye, G. Ujor, and P. Nwali.

    • “Conceptualizing Women’s Empowerment within Agrifood System Governance: A new framework.” 2022, IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 2153. With Catherine Ragasa, Patricia Kristjanson, and Sarah Eissler

    • “High Tide? Populism in Power, 1990-2019.” 2020, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Report. With Brett Meyer.

    • “The Populist Harm to Democracy: An Empirical Assessment.” 2018, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Report. With Yascha Mounk.

    • “Populism in Power Around the World.” 2018, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Report. With Limor Gultchin.

    • “Improving the Equity and Effectiveness of Nepal’s Fertilizer Subsidy Program.” 2017, IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 1685. With Danielle Resnick & Madhab Karkee.

    • “Perspectives on the Role of the State in Economic Development: Taking Stock of the ‘Developmental State’ After 35 Years.” 2017, IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 1597.

    • “Nepal’s 2072 Federal Constitution: Implications for Governance of the Agricultural Sector.” 2016, IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 1589. With Danielle Resnick.