I’m a development economist and a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Institute (IFPRI) and a research fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). I serve as an associate editor at Economics & Human Biology.
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​My current research centers on policies and interventions addressing extreme poverty and child undernutrition in low-income countries. Most of my research takes place in Ethiopia and is based on statistical analyses of large-scale quantitative household surveys, often from randomized controlled trials.