Agnes Quisumbing is an economist and a senior research fellow at the

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. She holds a PhD from the

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(including a year at the

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) and a bachelor's degree from

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Career and policy work

Quisumbing started her career at the University of the Philippines. From 1988 to 1991 she was at the Economic Growth Center at

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winning a Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. She then joined the

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where she worked at the Population and Human Resources Division from 1991 to 1995. Since 1995, she is a research fellow at the

Research

Quisumbing's research focuses on intrahousehold allocation,

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and poverty. Her most quoted paper focuses on marriage and intrahousehold allocation in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and South Africa. With

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, 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". Her works has been quoted over 18000 times and she is among the 120 most quoted women economists in the world. Her research has been quoted in the

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and

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References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of the Philippines alumni Women economists 20th-century Filipino economists De La Salle University alumni 21st-century Filipino economists {{Philippines-academic-bio-stub