Although agriculture is widely thought to be an important sector for influencing nutrition outcomes, there is a remarkable dearth of rigorous evidence on the role of large scale agricultural programs, such as Asia's Green Revolution. This paper therefore analyzes agriculture and nutrition...

South Asia has long been synonymous with persistent and unusually high rates of child undernutrition — the so-called Asian enigma. Yet contrary to this stereotype, Bangladesh has managed to sustain a rapid reduction in the rate of child undernutrition for at least two decades. In this paper we...

Interest has grown in leveraging cash transfer programs with nutrition interventions to improve child nutrition at scale. However, little is known about how doing so affects household economic well-being. We study a program providing cash or food transfers, with or without nutrition behavior...

Little is known about whether reductions in intimate partner violence (IPV) from cash transfer programs persist over the longer term. Using a randomized controlled trial design, we show that a program providing poor women in rural Bangladesh with cash or food transfers, alongside nutrition...