Beatrice
Rogers is an economist specializing in the effects
of household income, food prices and food assistance
programs on household and individual food consumption
and nutrition. Her research has concentrated on consumer
food subsidies and on targeted food and income transfer
programs including the US Food Stamp program and programs
in Pakistan, Mozambique and Honduras among other countries.
She has studied the determinants of intrahousehold
resource allocation, including the effect of individuals'
economic roles in the household; her research in this
area includes studies of the effect of female household
headship on consumption and nutrition outcomes in
the Dominican Republic and Honduras. She has recently
completed a study in Honduras comparing the effects
and cost/effectiveness of the direct provision of
food assistance with the effects of providing a cash-like
transfer in school- and health center-based supplementary
feeding programs, and she has just completed work
with a team preparing guidelines for the uses of food
aid in maternal-child health programs. Dr. Rogers
received her Ph.D. from the Florence Heller School
for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis
University. She teaches survey research design, economics
of food policy and US food policy courses at the School
of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
where she serves as Dean for Academic Affairs.
