Agnes Quisumbing is an economist and a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.[1] She holds a PhD from the University of the Philippines (including a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and a bachelor's degree from De La Salle University.
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| Nationality | Filipino |
| Occupation(s) | Economist, Professor |
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Career and policy work
editQuisumbing started her career at the University of the Philippines. From 1988 to 1991 she was at the Economic Growth Center at Yale University winning a Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. She then joined the World Bank where she worked at the Population and Human Resources Division from 1991 to 1995. Since 1995, she is a research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.[1]
Research
editQuisumbing's research focuses on intrahousehold allocation, gender and poverty. Her most quoted paper focuses on marriage and intrahousehold allocation in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and South Africa.[2] With Sabina Alkire, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Amber Peterman, Greg Seymour and Ana Vaz, she also compiled a women's empowerment in agriculture index which measures the "empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector".[3] Her works has been quoted over 18000 times[4] and she is among the 120 most quoted women economists in the world.[5] Her research has been quoted in the Washington Post[6] and Slate.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b "Agnes Quisumbing | IPFRI". www.ifpri.org. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- ^ Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Maluccio, John A. (2003). "Resources at Marriage and Intrahousehold Allocation: Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and South Africa*". Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 65 (3): 283–327. doi:10.1111/1468-0084.t01-1-00052. ISSN 1468-0084.
- ^ Alkire, Sabina; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; Peterman, Amber; Quisumbing, Agnes; Seymour, Greg; Vaz, Ana (2013-12-01). "The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index". World Development. 52: 71–91. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.06.007. hdl:10535/8724. ISSN 0305-750X.
- ^ "Agnes Quisumbing - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- ^ "Top Female Economists Rankings | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- ^ Kessler, Glenn (March 3, 2015). "Analysis | The zombie statistic about women's share of income and property". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- ^ Naím, Moisés (2015-03-18). "La chute de l'euro est une bonne nouvelle pour l'Europe". Slate.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-27.
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