Thomas de Hoop is a principal economist at American Institutes for Research. He is the co-principal investigator for the Evidence Consortium on Women’s groups, for which his research focuses on the synergies between economic self-help groups and social protection programs, the costs and cost-effectiveness of the National Rural Livelihoods Mission in India, a typology of women’s groups, as well as evidence syntheses on the impact of women’s groups on asset ownership, and country-specific evidence syntheses on women’s groups in Uganda and Nigeria. Previously, he conducted a systematic review on the impact of economic self-help group programs on women’s empowerment and a quasi-experimental study on the impact of self-help groups in Odisha, India.