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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Impact evaluation and synthesis – how far are they being used in low- and middle-income countries?	17
Surveyor physical and emotional well-being: learning from Indian context	10
Cost and cost-efficiency of unconditional cash transfers in Tahoua, Niger	8
Do conditional cash transfers improve antenatal care outcomes in Senegal? Combining non-experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations	7
Mixed-methods impact evaluation in international development practice: distinguishing between quant-led and qual-led models	6
Editor’s note	5
Publisher’s Note	5
Experimental evidence from a fodder shrub promotional effort among dairy farmers in Uganda	4
Providing academic opportunities to vulnerable adolescents: a randomised evaluation of privately managed tuition-free middle schools in Uruguay	4
Long-term and spillover effects of rice production training in Uganda	4
Community-based natural resource management: an effective tool to reduce poverty and inequality?	4
Implementation of graduation programs for alleviating rural poverty: an impact analysis in Paraguay	3
Are children substitutes for assets? Evidence from Bangladesh	3
The power of narratives: edutainment’s impact on knowledge and behaviour change in faecal sludge management in Urban India	3
A checklist to guide sensitivity analyses and replications of impact evaluations	3
The persistent effects of school meals on multidimensional human capital: evidence from rural China	3
Journal of Development Effectiveness Thank You to our Reviewers	2
Self-selection versus population-based sampling for evaluation of an agronomy training program in Uganda	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
More is more. Combined livelihood-education interventions and their effect on child labour in the agricultural sector	2
Does livestock-crop diversification improve food and nutrition security? Evidence from Eastern Ethiopia	2
Upping the game: adding costs to impacts an introduction to the special issue on costing in the field of development effectiveness	2
A social network analysis to determine success factors of food security innovations in Tanzania	2
Subsidized loans and firms’ employment outcomes: evidence from a province in Iran	2

Does citizen engagement improve development outcomes? A realist-informed systematic review of participation and accountability mechanisms	2
Impact of the Child-optimized Financial Education (COFE) curriculum among savings group participants in Uganda: A cluster randomised controlled trial	2
Population aging, pensions, and vulnerability to multidimensional poverty	2
Effectiveness of donor supported leadership development interventions intended to promote women’s leadership in health in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	2
Does the small business programme benefit self-employed workers? Evidence from Nicaragua	2
Edutainment and the prevention of under-age marriages: The evaluation of a television series designed to promote positive role models in Bangladesh	2
The State of Cost-Effectiveness Guidance: Ten Best Resources for CEA in Impact Evaluations	1
Do producer organisations promote environmental sustainability through organic soil investments? Evidence from Cameroon	1
Scaling education innovations in complex emergencies: a meta-evaluation of five process and three impact evaluations	1
Social housing and crime reduction: evidence from Malaysia’s People’s Housing Project	1
The effectiveness of industrial policy in developing countries: causal evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing firms	1
The trade-off between economic development and pandemic control: strategy identification and effect analysis	1
The long-term effect of a job training programme for youths in Peru	1
Measuring non-monetary poverty in the coffee heartlands of Laos and Rwanda: comparing MPI and EDI frameworks	1
The effects of booster classes in protracted crisis settings: Evidence from Kenyan refugee camps	1
The economic and social impact of private investments: results of a programme to generate useful results while building research capacity	1
Does social protection reach those left behind: empirical evidence from Botswana using multidimensional poverty approaches	1
The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India	1
Adolescent girls’ agency and their labour force participation: experimental evidence from rural Bangladesh	1
Rural–urban analysis of parental time poverty and child over-nutrition in ghana	1
The impact of savings-led microfinance on the lives of refugees	0
Harnessing cost data to improve early grade reading: cost evidence from a large-scale literacy initiative in Pakistan	0
Using social media for agricultural information dissemination: the role of informant-recipient homogeneity	0
The impact of Sri lanka’s school-based management programme on teachers’ pedagogical practices and student learning: evidence from a randomised controlled trial	0
Improving housing conditions: labelled loans in Kenya and Uganda	0
Improvements in schooling attainment through conditional cash transfers in Mexico	0
Book review for Ethics for Evaluation: Beyond ‘Doing No Harm’ to ‘Tackling Bad’ and ‘Doing Good’	0
The effects of development assistance on sexual and reproductive health services in low- and lower-middle-income countries: a cross-country panel data analysis	0
How accurate are retrospective survey data? Evidence from rural Ethiopia	0
Challenges to groundnut value chain development: lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana	0
Improving reading proficiency in early childhood education classrooms: evidence from Liberia	0
The mitigation effects of irrigation rehabilitation on climate variability and water scarcity: evidence from a randomised experiment in the Philippines	0
Hospital construction and emergency waiting time: evidence from Nicaragua	0
Towards improved and more transparent ethics in randomised controlled trials in development social science	0
Improving microcredit and firm performance in Jamaica: a case study of the development bank of Jamaica	0
Table banking plus certified organic agriculture: an integrated microfinance approach to sustainable livelihoods	0
Addressing selection bias while estimating aggregate development effectiveness: can we obtain externally valid estimates at portfolio level?	0
Policy equipoise and interventional superiority	0
A sky view evaluation of the impact of mini-grid projects on progress towards SDG7	0
Thailand’s vocational training and upward mobility: impact heterogeneities and policy implications	0
Inadequate teacher content knowledge and what could be done about it: evidence from El Salvador	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
Facilitating real-time cost collection and evaluating cost-effectiveness in a multi-armed study with government partners in Ghana	0
Unconditional cash transfers and women’s labor supply in Pakistan	0
For real? Cash transfers’ effects on food consumption during price shocks in Kenya	0
Benefit-cost analysis of iron fortification of rice in India: modelling potential economic gains from improving haemoglobin and averting anaemia	0
Does more schooling infrastructure affect literacy?	0
Impact of cash transfer on food accessibility and calorie-intake in Pakistan	0
Cost-effectiveness analysis and joint public production of outputs for development: a preliminary framework	0
Editorial – TREE special issue	0

Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of light-touch aspirations interventions in rural Ethiopia	0
Stuck in the middle school rut: can anything improve academic achievement in rural Chinese middle schools?	0
How do patent subsidies drive SMEs to patent? Evidence from China	0
Country selectivity: project-level evidence on need and effectiveness	0
Changing the logic in agricultural extension: evidence from a demand-driven extension programme in Kenya	0
Comprehensive social protection programming: what is the potential for improving sanitation outcomes?	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
Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning analytics for development effectiveness: a comprehensive approach to extract insights from project data	0
Evaluating spillovers and cost-effectiveness of complementary agricultural and social protection interventions: evidence from Lesotho	0
Impact of access to electricity on the well-being of rural households in Senegal	0
Technical efficiency and technology gap in Kenya’s tea industry: accounting for farm heterogeneity	0
Savings and self-control: the effect of labelling	0
Grow the pie, or have it? Using machine learning to impact heterogeneity in the Ultra-poor graduation model	0
Improved access to safe water: effects on adult health and time allocation in rural Zambia	0
Supported cooperative groups and the economic performance of small farmers: evidence from Georgia	0
Impact of internship programs offered by public employment service on labour market indicators in sub-Saharan Africa	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
‘Craft for social good’: do on the job training of artisans’ impact on their vulnerability to poverty? Evidence from Kibera	0
Building community engagement and teacher support in education: qualitative findings from process evaluations in two exceptional settings	0
A booster to conditional cash transfer programme: experimental evidence on financial inclusion and livelihood enhancement project	0
Employer attitudes towards hiring university-educated refugees: evidence from Rwanda	0
Aggregation models in agricultural value chains of staple crops and their potential application for biofortification: a scoping review	0
The impact of grants in combination with school-based management trainings on primary education: a cluster-randomized trial in Northern Nigeria	0