Development Economist. Associate Research Fellow at @IFPRI. PhD @UMichEcon, Master's @MSUAFRE, BA @almacollege. RPCV Mali. Opinions are mine. bsky: @jealleniv
Washington D.C.
Joined June 2015
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Do cash transfers (CTs) cause price inflation?💸➡️📈
Excited to share a new Evidence Brief joint with @Ugentilini reviewing 12 studies of CTs on price changes in LMICs that offer practical insights for researchers and policymakers.
Check it out: hdl.handle.net/10568/177175
ALT Link to paper: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177175
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Thank you @leightjessica and @JEAllenIV for hosting me at @IFPRI last week! It was amazing to interact with your stellar community -- very excited to have IFPRI folks as key movers and shakers in @ideadevecon!
Thrilled to see @IFPRI cracking the top 3 in the IDEA membership list! Many thanks to @deanyang for visiting today to share both an overview of his work on migration + a forward looking discussion on the growth of @ideadevecon
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Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon ... Open to every development economist, everywhere.
Join the community: idea.devecon.org
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Why do households often prefer men—not women—to take paid jobs, even when women could earn more?
A new paper by @JEAllenIV, Daniel Gilligan, Sikandra Kurdi, Nada Shokry & Basma Yassa use experimental survey evidence to measure gendered work norms in #Egypt.
📄 hdl.handle.net/10568/178587
#IWD2026 #ForAllWomenAndGirls #WithScienceWeCan
@CGIAR @CGIARgender
From yesterday's 84°F and balmy to today's 30°F and snowy, DC weather is really putting the CHANGE in climate change. 😩
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By providing doorstep services such as diagnosis and treatment of childhood illnesses, health promotion, and referrals, community health workers (CHWs) are widely viewed as a promising and cost-effective way to extend health systems to underserved populations.
🔍 How should these programs be structured to achieve the greatest health gains where resources are severely limited?
Learn more in this blog by @JEAllenIV: on.cgiar.org/4r2alvD
@CGIAR @IFPRI_Africa @IFPRIMalawi
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🆕 #Blog: When caseloads matter: Community health workers, home visits, and child survival in Mali
🖊️ By @JEAllenIV.
🖱️Read more here: on.cgiar.org/4r2alvD
@CGIAR @IFPRIAfrica
Live footage of me working on paper revisions before re-submitting. #runningupthathill #econtwitter
Because of me, a journal submission page now says "Selected submissions are currently experiencing intermittent issues on the services page. If you encounter an error, please wait for a short period before trying to proceed."
So this is what it feels like to make a difference.🦸
Both #misinformation and #stigma can be barriers for HIV testing and, our research finds, can be worsened inadvertently by community health programs. 😬
Check out @VoxDev article on my research joint w/ @deanyang @HangYu1990 & others:
voxdev.org/topic/health/comm…
#WorldAIDSDay2025
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📝 A recent IFPRI discussion paper explores a lab-in-the-field experiment that assessed conditional cooperation for a new school meals program implemented by @WorldVision in Nampula and Zambezia provinces in rural Mozambique.
🖱️ Learn more in this blog by @JEAllenIV, @NKarachiwalla, and @meanregressive: on.cgiar.org/3XKyEBg
@CGIAR
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💡50 Years of Innovation to Support Evolving Food Systems🌱
Today on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #IDEVAW, we highlight IFPRI’s work on how cash transfer programs can help reduce intimate partner violence.
Part of our #IFPRI50Innovations series.
🔗 cash-ipv.org/
See more innovations from IFPRI here: ifpri.org/landing/50/#innova…
@CGIAR @LSHTM @UNC @UNICEF #IFPRI50 #IFPRI50Innovations
A 🆕 @IFPRI paper & blog joint w/ @NKarachiwalla & @meanregressive!
🤝When asked to support a school meals program, many households reduced contributions as others gave more—opposite of findings from high-income labs.
Paper: hdl.handle.net/10568/176850
Blog: ifpri.org/blog/all-in-togeth…
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🆕 #Blog All in together? How communities contribute to school meals programs
🖋️ By @JEAllenIV, @NKarachiwalla, and @meanregressive.
🖱️ Read more: on.cgiar.org/3XKyEBg
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Molly Doruska (Cornell) studies small firms in flood-prone Dakar using an RCT and finds that vouchers spur defensive investments, but that only group coordination reduces flood losses for the average firm, as uncoordinated individual-firm investments generate harmful spillovers!