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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Development Effectiveness is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Impact evaluation and synthesis – how far are they being used in low- and middle-income countries?	18
Surveyor physical and emotional well-being: learning from Indian context	14
Mixed-methods impact evaluation in international development practice: distinguishing between quant-led and qual-led models	11
Editor’s note	9
Cost and cost-efficiency of unconditional cash transfers in Tahoua, Niger	9
Publisher’s Note	7
The impact of credit and savings interventions on women’s economic empowerment and agency: a meta-regression analysis	6
Experimental evidence from a fodder shrub promotional effort among dairy farmers in Uganda	6
Conditional cash transfers: effects on labour market outcomes and household financial well-being in Kazakhstan	5
Community-based natural resource management: an effective tool to reduce poverty and inequality?	5
Are children substitutes for assets? Evidence from Bangladesh	4
Implementation of graduation programs for alleviating rural poverty: an impact analysis in Paraguay	4
A checklist to guide sensitivity analyses and replications of impact evaluations	4
Providing academic opportunities to vulnerable adolescents: a randomised evaluation of privately managed tuition-free middle schools in Uruguay	4
The power of narratives: edutainment’s impact on knowledge and behaviour change in faecal sludge management in Urban India	3
Does livestock-crop diversification improve food and nutrition security? Evidence from Eastern Ethiopia	3
More is more. Combined livelihood-education interventions and their effect on child labour in the agricultural sector	3
The persistent effects of school meals on multidimensional human capital: evidence from rural China	3
Effectiveness of donor supported leadership development interventions intended to promote women’s leadership in health in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	3
Population aging, pensions, and vulnerability to multidimensional poverty	3
Journal of Development Effectiveness Thank You to our Reviewers	3
Impact of the Child-optimized Financial Education (COFE) curriculum among savings group participants in Uganda: A cluster randomised controlled trial	3
‘Get three for the price of one’: evaluating the cost-effectiveness of multi-outcome interventions	3
Self-selection versus population-based sampling for evaluation of an agronomy training program in Uganda	3
The trade-off between economic development and pandemic control: strategy identification and effect analysis	2

Research transparency and reproducibility policies and programmes at the international initiative for impact evaluation	2
Enhancing food security through keyhole gardening in Lesotho	2
Does citizen engagement improve development outcomes? A realist-informed systematic review of participation and accountability mechanisms	2
Subsidized loans and firms’ employment outcomes: evidence from a province in Iran	2
Edutainment and the prevention of under-age marriages: The evaluation of a television series designed to promote positive role models in Bangladesh	2
Does the small business programme benefit self-employed workers? Evidence from Nicaragua	2
Upping the game: adding costs to impacts an introduction to the special issue on costing in the field of development effectiveness	2
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, India	1
The Impact of Conditional Cash transfers on labour supply: new evidence from Brazil’s Bolsa Familia	1
The effectiveness of industrial policy in developing countries: causal evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing firms	1
The long-term effect of a job training programme for youths in Peru	1
Changing the logic in agricultural extension: evidence from a demand-driven extension programme in Kenya	1
Policy equipoise and interventional superiority	1
Comprehensive social protection programming: what is the potential for improving sanitation outcomes?	1
Does social protection reach those left behind: empirical evidence from Botswana using multidimensional poverty approaches	1
Rural–urban analysis of parental time poverty and child over-nutrition in ghana	1
Social housing and crime reduction: evidence from Malaysia’s People’s Housing Project	1
Adolescent girls’ agency and their labour force participation: experimental evidence from rural Bangladesh	1
Scaling education innovations in complex emergencies: a meta-evaluation of five process and three impact evaluations	1
The effects of booster classes in protracted crisis settings: Evidence from Kenyan refugee camps	1
Do producer organisations promote environmental sustainability through organic soil investments? Evidence from Cameroon	1
The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India	1