eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Food Security 2372-0107 2020-10-13 8 3 89 97 10.12691/jfs-8-3-2 JFS2020832 article Md. Adnan Shahid 1 Alok Bohara 1 Department of Economics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA This paper estimates the impact of participation in a microfinance program on household food security using primary data from Nepal. We also disentangle the relationship by gender. Using variants of propensity score matching to adequately address endogeneity of our treatment variable, we find evidence that microfinance has a positive effect on household food security measured by food consumption score. We also present evidence of significant increase in household food security when women are program participants. In comparison, we find no significant gender difference in the effect of microfinance on household food security status. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jfs/8/3/2/jfs-8-3-2.pdf microfinance food security food consumption score treatment effects