Melissa Hidrobo is a Senior Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit at IFPRI. She is an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of gender, rural livelihoods, poverty reduction, and social protection. Her gender research focuses on how different interventions affect intrahousehold dynamics and how intrahousehold dynamics affect agricultural production. Her recent research involves impact evaluations in Mali, Ghana, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Kenya, and Senegal of nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs, social protection and economic inclusion programs, and edutainment to change gender norms. Melissa holds a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley.