His work focuses on poverty alleviation programs to improve education, combat malnutrition, reduce infant mortality, and empower women in Africa, Latin America and Asia. These programs include the largest welfare program in Honduras, the social network program in Nicaragua and interventions in African countries to increase women's incomes and food security, intergenerational transfers, property rights, and land reform. He has also worked extensively in environmental research on projects aimed at providing resources for farmers who live in less favored lands such as hillsides prone to degradation, deforestation and desertification, to give rural populations the tools needed to encourage the sustainable use of natural resources. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from Yale University. Neidecker-Gonzales is a citizen of Honduras.
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