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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Impact of interactive radio programming on agricultural technology adoption and crop diversification in Malawi	14
Mobile money demand in utility bill payments: A WTP estimate from Ethiopia	13
Do producer organisations promote environmental sustainability through organic soil investments? Evidence from Cameroon	10
Interest rate caps on microcredit: evidence from a natural experiment in Bolivia	6
Improving learning by improving vision: evidence from two randomized controlled trials of providing vision care in China	6
The effectiveness of industrial policy in developing countries: causal evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing firms	6
Can’t Wait to Learn: A quasi-experimental mixed-methods evaluation of a digital game-based learning programme for out-of-school children in Sudan	6
The impact of an integrated value chain intervention on household poultry production in Burkina Faso: evidence from a randomized controlled trial	5
Economic shocks and risky sexual behaviours in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the literature	5
How neighbours influence commercial health insurance purchase: evidence from 2451 rural households in west China	5
Assessing cost-effectiveness with equity of a programme targeting marginalised girls in secondary schools in Tanzania	5
Credit cards issued by non-financial companies: an alternative tool for financial inclusion and economic development?	4
Fostering social mobility. The case of the Bono de Desarrollo Humano in Ecuador	4
The impacts of rainfall shocks on birth weight in Vietnam	4
Measuring non-monetary poverty in the coffee heartlands of Laos and Rwanda: comparing MPI and EDI frameworks	4
The effect of gender targeting of food transfers on child nutritional status: experimental evidence from the Bolivian amazon	4
Applying wrapper-based variable selection techniques to predict MFIs profitability: evidence from Peru	3
The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India	3
The impact of Sri lanka’s school-based management programme on teachers’ pedagogical practices and student learning: evidence from a randomised controlled trial	3
Microfinance loans, women’s economic empowerment, and poverty: a case study of Baobab Microfinance Company	3
Community-based natural resource management: an effective tool to reduce poverty and inequality?	3
Building community engagement and teacher support in education: qualitative findings from process evaluations in two exceptional settings	2
Evaluating spillovers and cost-effectiveness of complementary agricultural and social protection interventions: evidence from Lesotho	2
Does citizen engagement improve development outcomes? A realist-informed systematic review of participation and accountability mechanisms	2
Prioritising job creation without undermining public works construction among road improvement projects in rural Nicaragua	2

Integrating research into policy sphere: evidence from Tanzania	2
Stuck in the middle school rut: can anything improve academic achievement in rural Chinese middle schools?	2
For real? Cash transfers’ effects on food consumption during price shocks in Kenya	2
Free delivery care and supply-side incentives in Nepal’s poorest districts: the effect on prenatal care and neonatal tetanus vaccinations	2
The effects of booster classes in protracted crisis settings: Evidence from Kenyan refugee camps	2
Returns to Interest-free Microcredit: evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Pakistan	2
Long-term and spillover effects of rice production training in Uganda	2
Vocational training for demobilized ex-combatants with disabilities in Rwanda	2
The long-term effect of a job training programme for youths in Peru	1
Assistance in chronic conflict areas: evidence from South Sudan	1
Supported cooperative groups and the economic performance of small farmers: evidence from Georgia	1
Cost-effectiveness analysis and joint public production of outputs for development: a preliminary framework	1
Malnutrition, stunting, development and evidence generation in Guatemala: a systematic review	1
Unconditional cash transfers and women’s labor supply in Pakistan	1
Effects of an e-reader intervention on literacy, numeracy and non-verbal reasoning among adolescent girls in Zambia: evidence from a randomised controlled trial	1
Book review for Ethics for Evaluation: Beyond ‘Doing No Harm’ to ‘Tackling Bad’ and ‘Doing Good’	1
Does psychological well-being mediate economic well-being? short-term evidence from a multifaceted program in the Philippines	1
Adolescent girls’ agency and their labour force participation: experimental evidence from rural Bangladesh	1
Does more schooling infrastructure affect literacy?	1
Savings and self-control: the effect of labelling	1
The impact of grants in combination with school-based management trainings on primary education: a cluster-randomized trial in Northern Nigeria	1
‘Craft for social good’: do on the job training of artisans’ impact on their vulnerability to poverty? Evidence from Kibera	1
Scaling education innovations in complex emergencies: a meta-evaluation of five process and three impact evaluations	1
Upping the game: adding costs to impacts an introduction to the special issue on costing in the field of development effectiveness	0
A checklist to guide sensitivity analyses and replications of impact evaluations	0
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	0
The economic and social impact of private investments: results of a programme to generate useful results while building research capacity	0
Benefit-cost analysis of iron fortification of rice in India: modelling potential economic gains from improving haemoglobin and averting anaemia	0
Improvements in schooling attainment through conditional cash transfers in Mexico	0
A booster to conditional cash transfer programme: experimental evidence on financial inclusion and livelihood enhancement project	0
Inadequate teacher content knowledge and what could be done about it: evidence from El Salvador	0
Challenges to groundnut value chain development: lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana	0
Implementation of graduation programs for alleviating rural poverty: an impact analysis in Paraguay	0
Improving access and quality of civic infrastructure and amenities: how effective are the different interventions? A synthesis of the findings from meta analysis studies	0
Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of light-touch aspirations interventions in rural Ethiopia	0
Facilitating real-time cost collection and evaluating cost-effectiveness in a multi-armed study with government partners in Ghana	0
More is more. Combined livelihood-education interventions and their effect on child labour in the agricultural sector	0
Mixed-methods impact evaluation in international development practice: distinguishing between quant-led and qual-led models	0
Table banking plus certified organic agriculture: an integrated microfinance approach to sustainable livelihoods	0
Impact evaluation and synthesis – how far are they being used in low- and middle-income countries?	0
The State of Cost-Effectiveness Guidance: Ten Best Resources for CEA in Impact Evaluations	0
How accurate are retrospective survey data? Evidence from rural Ethiopia	0
Aggregate development effectiveness and externally-valid extrapolation: a fourth principle for Agency-Wide Performance Measurement Systems?	0
Effectiveness of donor supported leadership development interventions intended to promote women’s leadership in health in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	0
Cost and cost-efficiency of unconditional cash transfers in Tahoua, Niger	0
Does livestock-crop diversification improve food and nutrition security? Evidence from Eastern Ethiopia	0
Edutainment and the prevention of under-age marriages: The evaluation of a television series designed to promote positive role models in Bangladesh	0
Does social protection reach those left behind: empirical evidence from Botswana using multidimensional poverty approaches	0
Improving microcredit and firm performance in Jamaica: a case study of the development bank of Jamaica	0
Do floodplain regulation projects increase vulnerability to poverty of resettlers? Recent evidence from downstream Yellow River, China	0

Enhancing food security through keyhole gardening in Lesotho	0
Providing academic opportunities to vulnerable adolescents: a randomised evaluation of privately managed tuition-free middle schools in Uruguay	0
Does the small business programme benefit self-employed workers? Evidence from Nicaragua	0
Towards improved and more transparent ethics in randomised controlled trials in development social science	0
Research transparency and reproducibility policies and programmes at the international initiative for impact evaluation	0
Editor’s note	0
Harnessing cost data to improve early grade reading: cost evidence from a large-scale literacy initiative in Pakistan	0
Correction	0
A sky view evaluation of the impact of mini-grid projects on progress towards SDG7	0
Policy equipoise and interventional superiority	0
A social network analysis to determine success factors of food security innovations in Tanzania	0
Editorial – TREE special issue	0
The trade-off between economic development and pandemic control: strategy identification and effect analysis	0
Self-selection versus population-based sampling for evaluation of an agronomy training program in Uganda	0
Are children substitutes for assets? Evidence from Bangladesh	0
Journal of Development Effectiveness Thank You to our Reviewers	0
Is repeated borrowing better at improving MSMEs’ performance and profitability? A PAMF-CI case study from cote d’Ivoire	0
Infections averted by a comprehensive HIV prevention intervention and its cost-effectiveness: a prospective cohort study of persons who inject drugs in Delhi, India	0
Impact of the Child-optimized Financial Education (COFE) curriculum among savings group participants in Uganda: A cluster randomised controlled trial	0
Impact of cash transfer on food accessibility and calorie-intake in Pakistan	0
Employer attitudes towards hiring university-educated refugees: evidence from Rwanda	0
Experimental evidence from a fodder shrub promotional effort among dairy farmers in Uganda	0
How do patent subsidies drive SMEs to patent? Evidence from China	0
Improving housing conditions: labelled loans in Kenya and Uganda	0
Do larger school grants improve educational attainment? Evidence from urban Mexico	0
Grow the pie, or have it? Using machine learning to impact heterogeneity in the Ultra-poor graduation model	0
Publisher’s Note	0
Thailand’s vocational training and upward mobility: impact heterogeneities and policy implications	0
Technical efficiency and technology gap in Kenya’s tea industry: accounting for farm heterogeneity	0
Surveyor physical and emotional well-being: learning from Indian context	0
Changing the logic in agricultural extension: evidence from a demand-driven extension programme in Kenya	0
Do conditional cash transfers improve antenatal care outcomes in Senegal? Combining non-experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations	0
Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning analytics for development effectiveness: a comprehensive approach to extract insights from project data	0