Agnes Quisumbing, a senior research fellow, co-leads a research program analyzing the factors that enable individuals, households, and communities to move out of poverty over the long term. Her past work at IFPRI focused on how resource allocation within households and families affects the design and outcome of development policies. Her research interests include poverty, gender, property rights, and economic mobility. She led a study on intrahousehold allocation and development policy in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Guatemala, and South Africa. She has also worked on women's land rights in Ghana, the Philippines, and Sumatra. She is currently involved in longitudinal studies in Bangladesh, Guatemala, and the Philippines. A citizen of the Philippines, Quisumbing joined IFPRI in 1995. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from the University of the Philippines, Quezon City, and her A.B. in economics from De La Salle University in Manila. Before joining IFPRI, Quisumbing worked at the University of the Philippines, Diliman and Los Baños; the World Bank; Yale University; and the International Rice Research Institute.

• Property Rights and Collective Action
• Urban Challenges to Food and Nutrition Security
• Pathways from Poverty (co-leader)

• Asia (Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia)
• Sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, Ethiopia)
• Mexico
• Guatemala

• Land and Schooling: Transferring Wealth Across Generations
  Quisumbing, Agnes R., Jonna P. Estudillo, and Keijiro Otsuka. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press for the International Food Policy Research Institute. 2004.
• Resources at Marriage and Intrahousehold Allocation: Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and South Africa
  Quisumbing, Agnes R. and John. A. Maluccio. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 65 (3): 283-328. 2003.
• Food Aid and Child Nutrition in Rural Ethiopia
  Quisumbing, Agnes R. World Development 31 (7): 1309-1324. 2003.
• Social Roles, Human Capital, and the Intrahousehold Division of Labor: Evidence from Pakistan
  Fafchamps, Marcel and Agnes R. Quisumbing. Oxford Economic Papers 55 (1): 36-80. 2003.
• Control and Ownership of Assets Within Rural Ethiopian Households
  Fafchamps, Marcel, and Agnes R. Quisumbing. Journal of Development Studies, 38(2) : 47-82. 2002.
• Land Inheritance and Schooling in Matrilineal Societies: Evidence from Sumatra
  Quisumbing, Agnes R. and Keijiro Otsuka. World Development, Vol. 29, No. 12 (December 2001), pp. 2093-2110. 2001.
• Women's Land Rights in the Transition to Individualized Ownership: Implications for the Management of Tree Resources in Western Ghana
  Quisumbing, Agnes R., Ellen Payongayong, J.B. Aidoo, and Keijiro Otsuka. Economic Development and Cultural Change 50(1): 157-182. 2001.
• Gender Differences In Land Inheritance, Schooling, and Lifetime Income: Evidence from the Rural Philippines
  Estudillo, Jonna, Agnes R. Quisumbing, and Keijiro Otsuka. Journal of Development Studies Vol.37, No.4, April 2001, pp.23-48. 2001.
• Land, Trees, and Women: Evolution of Land Tenure Institutions in Western Ghana and Sumatra
  Quisumbing, Agnes R. and Keijiro Otsuka. Research Report 121. 2001.
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• Are Women Over-Represented Among the Poor? An Analysis of Poverty in Ten Developing Countries
  Quisumbing, Agnes R., Lawrence Haddad, and Christine Peña. Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 66 (1) (August 2001), pp. 225-269. 2001.
• Human Capital, Productivity, and Labor Allocation in Rural Pakistan
  Fafchamps, Marcel and Agnes R. Quisumbing. Journal of Human Resources 34 (2) (Spring 1999): 369-406. 1999.