Journal of Development Effectiveness

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Development Effectiveness is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Scaling education innovations in complex emergencies: a meta-evaluation of five process and three impact evaluations13
Vocational training for demobilized ex-combatants with disabilities in Rwanda10
Aggregate development effectiveness and externally-valid extrapolation: a fourth principle for Agency-Wide Performance Measurement Systems?7
Do conditional cash transfers improve antenatal care outcomes in Senegal? Combining non-experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations6
Journal of Development Effectiveness Thank You to our Reviewers6
A social network analysis to determine success factors of food security innovations in Tanzania5
Upping the game: adding costs to impacts an introduction to the special issue on costing in the field of development effectiveness5
Mixed-methods impact evaluation in international development practice: distinguishing between quant-led and qual-led models4
More is more. Combined livelihood-education interventions and their effect on child labour in the agricultural sector4
Impact evaluation and synthesis – how far are they being used in low- and middle-income countries?4
Technical efficiency and technology gap in Kenya’s tea industry: accounting for farm heterogeneity4
Surveyor physical and emotional well-being: learning from Indian context3
A sky view evaluation of the impact of mini-grid projects on progress towards SDG73
Measuring non-monetary poverty in the coffee heartlands of Laos and Rwanda: comparing MPI and EDI frameworks3
Cost and cost-efficiency of unconditional cash transfers in Tahoua, Niger3
Self-selection versus population-based sampling for evaluation of an agronomy training program in Uganda3
Facilitating real-time cost collection and evaluating cost-effectiveness in a multi-armed study with government partners in Ghana2
Correction2
Prioritising job creation without undermining public works construction among road improvement projects in rural Nicaragua2
Thailand’s vocational training and upward mobility: impact heterogeneities and policy implications2
Publisher’s Note2
Fostering social mobility. The case of the Bono de Desarrollo Humano in Ecuador2
Adolescent girls’ agency and their labour force participation: experimental evidence from rural Bangladesh2
Harnessing cost data to improve early grade reading: cost evidence from a large-scale literacy initiative in Pakistan2
Editor’s note2
Subsidized loans and firms’ employment outcomes: evidence from a province in Iran2
For real? Cash transfers’ effects on food consumption during price shocks in Kenya1
Grow the pie, or have it? Using machine learning to impact heterogeneity in the Ultra-poor graduation model1
Research transparency and reproducibility policies and programmes at the international initiative for impact evaluation1
‘Craft for social good’: do on the job training of artisans’ impact on their vulnerability to poverty? Evidence from Kibera1
Returns to Interest-free Microcredit: evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Pakistan1
Experimental evidence from a fodder shrub promotional effort among dairy farmers in Uganda1
Improving access and quality of civic infrastructure and amenities: how effective are the different interventions? A synthesis of the findings from meta analysis studies1
Long-term and spillover effects of rice production training in Uganda1
Malnutrition, stunting, development and evidence generation in Guatemala: a systematic review1
Does psychological well-being mediate economic well-being? short-term evidence from a multifaceted program in the Philippines1
Cost-effectiveness analysis and joint public production of outputs for development: a preliminary framework1
Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of light-touch aspirations interventions in rural Ethiopia1
Improving housing conditions: labelled loans in Kenya and Uganda1
Does citizen engagement improve development outcomes? A realist-informed systematic review of participation and accountability mechanisms1
Enhancing food security through keyhole gardening in Lesotho1
A booster to conditional cash transfer programme: experimental evidence on financial inclusion and livelihood enhancement project1
Is repeated borrowing better at improving MSMEs’ performance and profitability? A PAMF-CI case study from cote d’Ivoire0
Challenges to groundnut value chain development: lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana0
Effects of a large-scale participatory learning and action programme in women’s groups on health, nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Bihar, India0
The long-term effect of a job training programme for youths in Peru0
The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India0
Hospital construction and emergency waiting time: evidence from Nicaragua0
The impacts of rainfall shocks on birth weight in Vietnam0
Integrating research into policy sphere: evidence from Tanzania0
Are children substitutes for assets? Evidence from Bangladesh0
Mobile money demand in utility bill payments: A WTP estimate from Ethiopia0
Does livestock-crop diversification improve food and nutrition security? Evidence from Eastern Ethiopia0
The trade-off between economic development and pandemic control: strategy identification and effect analysis0
Supported cooperative groups and the economic performance of small farmers: evidence from Georgia0
Assistance in chronic conflict areas: evidence from South Sudan0
Infections averted by a comprehensive HIV prevention intervention and its cost-effectiveness: a prospective cohort study of persons who inject drugs in Delhi, India0
Table banking plus certified organic agriculture: an integrated microfinance approach to sustainable livelihoods0
Do floodplain regulation projects increase vulnerability to poverty of resettlers? Recent evidence from downstream Yellow River, China0
Do producer organisations promote environmental sustainability through organic soil investments? Evidence from Cameroon0
Effects of an e-reader intervention on literacy, numeracy and non-verbal reasoning among adolescent girls in Zambia: evidence from a randomised controlled trial0
Changing the logic in agricultural extension: evidence from a demand-driven extension programme in Kenya0
Does social protection reach those left behind: empirical evidence from Botswana using multidimensional poverty approaches0
Impact of cash transfer on food accessibility and calorie-intake in Pakistan0
The impact of Sri lanka’s school-based management programme on teachers’ pedagogical practices and student learning: evidence from a randomised controlled trial0
Microfinance loans, women’s economic empowerment, and poverty: a case study of Baobab Microfinance Company0
Community-based natural resource management: an effective tool to reduce poverty and inequality?0
The effectiveness of industrial policy in developing countries: causal evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing firms0
Unconditional cash transfers and women’s labor supply in Pakistan0
Editorial – TREE special issue0
Employer attitudes towards hiring university-educated refugees: evidence from Rwanda0
Effectiveness of donor supported leadership development interventions intended to promote women’s leadership in health in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review0
The effects of booster classes in protracted crisis settings: Evidence from Kenyan refugee camps0
The impact of an integrated value chain intervention on household poultry production in Burkina Faso: evidence from a randomized controlled trial0
Evaluating spillovers and cost-effectiveness of complementary agricultural and social protection interventions: evidence from Lesotho0
Building community engagement and teacher support in education: qualitative findings from process evaluations in two exceptional settings0
Edutainment and the prevention of under-age marriages: The evaluation of a television series designed to promote positive role models in Bangladesh0
Towards improved and more transparent ethics in randomised controlled trials in development social science0
Economic shocks and risky sexual behaviours in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the literature0
Benefit-cost analysis of iron fortification of rice in India: modelling potential economic gains from improving haemoglobin and averting anaemia0
Book review for Ethics for Evaluation: Beyond ‘Doing No Harm’ to ‘Tackling Bad’ and ‘Doing Good’0
The impact of savings-led microfinance on the lives of refugees0
Improvements in schooling attainment through conditional cash transfers in Mexico0
How accurate are retrospective survey data? Evidence from rural Ethiopia0
The effect of gender targeting of food transfers on child nutritional status: experimental evidence from the Bolivian amazon0
The economic and social impact of private investments: results of a programme to generate useful results while building research capacity0
Does the small business programme benefit self-employed workers? Evidence from Nicaragua0
Impact of the Child-optimized Financial Education (COFE) curriculum among savings group participants in Uganda: A cluster randomised controlled trial0
Rural–urban analysis of parental time poverty and child over-nutrition in ghana0
The State of Cost-Effectiveness Guidance: Ten Best Resources for CEA in Impact Evaluations0
Interest rate caps on microcredit: evidence from a natural experiment in Bolivia0
Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning analytics for development effectiveness: a comprehensive approach to extract insights from project data0
Inadequate teacher content knowledge and what could be done about it: evidence from El Salvador0
Does more schooling infrastructure affect literacy?0
Providing academic opportunities to vulnerable adolescents: a randomised evaluation of privately managed tuition-free middle schools in Uruguay0
A checklist to guide sensitivity analyses and replications of impact evaluations0
Implementation of graduation programs for alleviating rural poverty: an impact analysis in Paraguay0
How neighbours influence commercial health insurance purchase: evidence from 2451 rural households in west China0
Stuck in the middle school rut: can anything improve academic achievement in rural Chinese middle schools?0
Do larger school grants improve educational attainment? Evidence from urban Mexico0
How do patent subsidies drive SMEs to patent? Evidence from China0
Policy equipoise and interventional superiority0
Savings and self-control: the effect of labelling0
Improving microcredit and firm performance in Jamaica: a case study of the development bank of Jamaica0
Using social media for agricultural information dissemination: the role of informant-recipient homogeneity0
Comprehensive social protection programming: what is the potential for improving sanitation outcomes?0
The impact of grants in combination with school-based management trainings on primary education: a cluster-randomized trial in Northern Nigeria0
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