Amber Peterman

Names

Affiliations

• University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Department of Public Polciy (weight: 80%)
  • website
  • location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)
• UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti (weight: 20%)
  • website
  • location: Firenze, Italy

Research profile

author of:

• Child Health and School Enrollment: A Replication
  by Sudhanshu Handa & Amber Peterman
• Opening Up Pandora's Box: The Effect of Gender Targeting and Conditionality on Household Spending Behavior in Mexico's Progresa Program
  by Handa, Sudhanshu & Peterman, Amber & Davis, Benjamin & Stampini, Marco
• Incontinence and trauma: Sexual violence, female genital cutting and proxy measures of gynecological fistula
  by Peterman, Amber & Johnson, Kiersten
• A review of empirical evidence on gender differences in nonland agricultural inputs, technology, and services in developing countries
  by Peterman, Amber & Behrman, Julia & Quisumbing, Agnes
• Understanding gender differences in agricultural productivity in Uganda and Nigeria
  by Peterman, Amber & Quisumbing, Agnes & Behrman, Julia & Nkonya, Ephraim
• Can conditional cash transfers improve maternal health and birth outcomes?: Evidence from El Salvador's Comunidades Solidarias Rurales
  by de Brauw, Alan & Peterman, Amber
• Women's Property Rights and Gendered Policies: Implications for Women's Long-term Welfare in Rural Tanzania
  by Amber Peterman
• Inequality in prime‐age adult deaths in a high AIDS mortality setting: does the measure of economic status matter?
  by Marjorie Opuni & Amber Peterman & David Bishai
• Widowhood and Asset Inheritance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Empirical Evidence from 15 Countries
  by Amber Peterman
• Cash, food, or vouchers?: Evidence from a randomized experiment in northern Ecuador
  by Hidrobo, Melissa & Hoddinott, John F. & Peterman, Amber & Margolies, Amy & Moreira, Vanessa
• The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
  by Alkire, Sabina & Meinzen-Dick, Ruth & Peterman, Amber & Quisumbing, Agnes & Seymour, Greg & Vaz, Ana
• Gender inequalities in ownership and control of land in Africa: Myths versus reality:
  by Doss, Cheryl & Kovarik, Chiara & Peterman, Amber & Quisumbing, Agnes R. & van den Bold, Mara
• Can government-allocated land contribute to food security? Intrahousehold analysis of West Bengal’s microplot allocation program:
  by Santos, Florence & Fletschner, Diana & Savath, Vivien & Peterman, Amber
• Evaluation of grassroots community–based legal aid activities in Uganda and Tanzania: Strengthening women’s legal knowledge and land rights:
  by Peterman, Amber & Billings, Lucy & Behrman, Julia A.
• Gender, assets, and agricultural development programs: A conceptual framework:
  by Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela & Johnson, Nancy & Quisumbing, Agnes R. & Njuki, Jemimah & Behrman, Julia A. & Rubin, Deborah & Peterman, Amber & Waithanji, Elizabeth
• Cash, food, or vouchers? Evidence from a randomized experiment in northern Ecuador
  by Hidrobo, Melissa & Hoddinott, John & Peterman, Amber & Margolies, Amy & Moreira, Vanessa
• Land, assets, and livelihoods: Gendered analysis of evidence from Odisha State in India:
  by Savath, Vivien & Fletschner, Diana & Peterman, Amber & Santos, Florence
• Cash Transfers and Child Nutrition: What we know and what we need to know
  by Richard de Groot & Tia Palermo & Sudhanshu Handa & Amber Peterman & Luigi Peter Ragno & UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
• Can Government-Allocated Land Contribute to Food Security? Intrahousehold Analysis of West Bengal’s Microplot Allocation Program
  by Florence Santos & Diana Fletschner & Vivien Savath & Amber Peterman
• Resettlement and Gender Dimensions of Land Rights in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda
  by Adelman, Sarah & Peterman, Amber
• Impact of the Kenya Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children on early pregnancy and marriage of adolescent girls
  by Handa, Sudhanshu & Peterman, Amber & Huang, Carolyn & Halpern, Carolyn & Pettifor, Audrey & Thirumurthy, Harsha
• Is there Catch-Up Growth? Evidence from Three Continents
  by Sudhanshu Handa & Amber Peterman & UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
• Can Government-Allocated Land Contribute to Food Security? Intrahousehold Analysis of West Bengal’s Microplot Allocation Program
  by Santos, Florence & Fletschner, Diana & Savath, Vivien & Peterman, Amber
• Gender inequalities in ownership and control of land in Africa: myth and reality
  by Cheryl Doss & Chiara Kovarik & Amber Peterman & Agnes Quisumbing & Mara Bold
• Is There Catch-Up Growth? Evidence from Three Continents
  by Sudhanshu Handa & Amber Peterman
• The Effect of Cash, Vouchers, and Food Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Northern Ecuador
  by Melissa Hidrobo & Amber Peterman & Lori Heise
• Income Transfers and Maternal Health: Evidence from a National Randomized Social Cash Transfer Program in Zambia
  by Sudhanshu Handa & Amber Peterman & David Seidenfeld & Gelson Tembo
• Making Money Work: Unconditional cash transfers allow women to save and re-invest in rural Zambia
  by Luisa Natali & Sudhanshu Handa & Amber Peterman & David Seidenfeld & Gelson Tembo & UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti
• Cash for Women’s Empowerment? A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Government of Zambia’s Child Grant Programme
  by Juan Bonilla & Rosa Castro Zarzur & Sudhanshu Handa & Claire Nowlin & Amber Peterman & Hannah Ring & David Seidenfeld
• Unconditional government social cash transfer in Africa does not increase fertility
  by Tia Palermo & Sudhanshu Handa & Amber Peterman & Leah Prencipe & David Seidenfeld
• Myth-busting? Confronting Six Common Perceptions about Unconditional Cash Transfers as a Poverty Reduction Strategy in Africa
  by Sudhanshu Handa & Silvio Daidone & Amber Peterman & Benjamin Davis & Audrey Pereira & Tia Palermo & Jennifer Yablonski
• Cash for Women’s Empowerment? A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Government of Zambia’s Child Grant Program
  by Bonilla, Juan & Zarzur, Rosa Castro & Handa, Sudhanshu & Nowlin, Claire & Peterman, Amber & Ring, Hannah & Seidenfeld, David
• Myth-busting? How research is refuting common perceptions about unconditional cash transfers
  by Amber Peterman & Jennifer Yablonski & Silvio Daidone & UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti
• Exploring Women's Empowerment through Asset Ownership and Experience of Intimate Partner Violence
  by Audrey Pereira & Amber Peterman & Kathryn Yount & UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti
• Understanding the measurement of women’s autonomy: Illustrations from Bangladesh and Ghana
  by Seymour, Gregory & Peterman, Amber
• Peterman etal. Respond
  by Peterman, A. & Palermo, T. & Bredenkamp, C.
• Synopsis of Gender in agriculture: Closing the knowledge gap:
  by Quisumbing, Agnes R. & Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela & Raney, Terri L. & Croppenstedt, André & Behrman, Julia A. & Peterman, Amber
• Filling the legal void? Experimental evidence from a community-based legal aid program for gender-equal land rights in Tanzania:
  by Mueller, Valerie & Billings, Lucy & Mogues, Tewodaj & Peterman, Amber & Wineman, Ayala
• Peterman et al. respond
  by Peterman, A. & Palermo, T. & Bredenkamp, C.
• Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen:
  by Peterman, Amber & Schwab, Benjamin & Roy, Shalini & Hidrobo, Melissa & Gilligan, Daniel
• Themed Issue: Cash Transfers and Microfinance
  by Richard Groot & Tia Palermo & Sudhanshu Handa & Luigi Peter Ragno & Amber Peterman
• Estimates and determinants of sexual violence against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  by Peterman, A. & Palermo, T. & Bredenkamp, C.
• A mixed-method review of cash transfers and intimate partner violence in low and middle-income countries
  by Ana Maria Buller & Amber Peterman & Meghna Ranganathan & Alexandra Bleile & Melissa Hidrobo & Lori Heise
• Women's individual asset ownership and experience of intimate partner violence: Evidence from 28 international surveys
  by Peterman, A. & Pereira, A. & Bleck, J. & Palermo, T. M. & Yount, K. M.
• Economic Transfers and Social Cohesion in a Refugee-hosting Setting
  by Elsa Valli & Amber Peterman & Melissa Hidrobo & UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti
• List randomization for soliciting experience of intimate partner violence: Application to the evaluation of Zambia's unconditional child grant program
  by Amber Peterman & Tia M. Palermo & Sudhanshu Handa & David Seidenfeld & on behalf of the Zambia Child Grant Program Evaluation Team
• Understanding the Complexities Surrounding Gender Differences in Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria and Uganda
  by Amber Peterman & Agnes Quisumbing & Julia Behrman & Ephraim Nkonya
• Context and measurement: An analysis of the relationship between intrahousehold decision making and autonomy
  by Seymour, Greg & Peterman, Amber
• Evidence on Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement
  by Amber Peterman & Jacobus de Hoop & Jose Cuesta & Alexandra Yuster & UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti
• Exploring Impacts of Community-Based Legal Aid on Intrahousehold Gender Relations in Tanzania
  by Valerie Mueller & Amber Peterman & Lucy Billings & Ayala Wineman
• Myth-Busting? Confronting Six Common Perceptions about Unconditional Cash Transfers as a Poverty Reduction Strategy in Africa
  by Sudhanshu Handa & Silvio Daidone & Amber Peterman & Benjamin Davis & Audrey Pereira & Tia Palermo & Jennifer Yablonski
• A Mixed-Method Review of Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
  by Ana Maria Buller & Amber Peterman & Meghna Ranganathan & Alexandra Bleile & Melissa Hidrobo & Lori Heise
• Government of Malawi's unconditional cash transfer improves youth mental health
  by Angeles, Gustavo & de Hoop, Jacobus & Handa, Sudhanshu & Kilburn, Kelly & Milazzo, Annamaria & Peterman, Amber
• Filling the legal void? Impacts of a community-based legal aid program on women’s land-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices
  by Valerie Mueller & Lucy Billings & Tewodaj Mogues & Amber Peterman & Ayala Wineman
• A review of empirical evidence on gender differences in non-land agricultural inputs, technology, and services in developing countries
  by Peterman, Amber & Behrman, Julia & Quisumbing, Agnes
• Toward gender equality: A critical assessment of evidence on social safety nets in Africa
  by Peterman, Amber & Kumar, Neha & Pereira, Audrey & Gilligan, Daniel O.
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• Economic Transfers and Social Cohesion in a Refugee-Hosting Setting
  by Elsa Valli & Amber Peterman & Melissa Hidrobo
• Towards gender equality: A review of evidence on social safety nets in Africa:
  by Peterman, Amber & Kumar, Neha & Pereira, Audrey & Gilligan, Daniel O.
• Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement: Introduction to a Special Issue
  by Tilman Brück & Jose Cuesta & Jacobus De Hoop & Ugo Gentilini & Amber Peterman
• Still a leap of faith: microfinance initiatives for reduction of violence against women and children in low-income and middle-income countries
  by Peterman, Amber & Palermo, Tia M. & Ferrari, Giulia
• Pandemics and Violence Against Women and Children
  by Amber Peterman & Alina Potts & Megan O'Donnell & Kelly Thompson & Niyati Shah & Sabine Oertelt-Prigione & Nicole van Gelder
• Gender-sensitive social protection: A critical component of the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries
  by Hidrobo, Melissa & Kumar, Neha & Palermo, Tia & Peterman, Amber & Roy, Shalini
• Can conditional cash transfers improve maternal health care? Evidence from El Salvador's Comunidades Solidarias Rurales program
  by Alan de Brauw & Amber Peterman
• Why gender-sensitive social protection is critical to the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries
  by Hidrobo, Melissa & Kumar, Neha & Palermo, Tia & Peterman, Amber & Roy, Shalini
  edited by

editor of:

• Gender in Agriculture
  edited by Agnes R. Quisumbing & Ruth Meinzen-Dick & Terri L. Raney & André Croppenstedt & Julia A. Behrman & Amber Peterman