Journal of Development Effectiveness

2009 - 2023

Current editor(s): Howard White

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Volume 15, issue 4, 2023

The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India pp. 353-372

Sharvari Patwardhan and Luca Tasciotti

Experimental evidence from a fodder shrub promotional effort among dairy farmers in Uganda pp. 373-388

Karl Hughes, Judith Beatrice Auma Oduol, Hilda Kegode, Joan Kimaiyo and Kai Mausch

Are children substitutes for assets? Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 389-405

Ummul Ruthbah

Improving housing conditions: labelled loans in Kenya and Uganda pp. 406-437

Amreen Choda, Annekathrin Schoofs and Noel Verrinder

Does more schooling infrastructure affect literacy? pp. 438-452

Chitra Jogani

Do producer organisations promote environmental sustainability through organic soil investments? Evidence from Cameroon pp. 453-475

Martin Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong

Effectiveness of donor supported leadership development interventions intended to promote women’s leadership in health in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review pp. 476-488

Sethunya Matenge, I Nyoman Sutarsa and Emily Lancsar

Volume 15, issue 3, 2023

Scaling education innovations in complex emergencies: a meta-evaluation of five process and three impact evaluations pp. 269-286

Thomas Hoop, Andrea Coombes, Hannah Ring, Kelsey Hunt, Victoria Rothbard and Chinmaya Holla

The effects of booster classes in protracted crisis settings: Evidence from Kenyan refugee camps pp. 287-301

Andrew Brudevold-Newman, Thomas Hoop, Chinmaya Holla, Darius Isaboke, Timothy Kinoti, Hannah Ring and Victoria Rothbard

Building community engagement and teacher support in education: qualitative findings from process evaluations in two exceptional settings pp. 302-319

Andrea Coombes and Oriana Ponta

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 pp. 320-341

Felicity L Brown, Alawia I Farag, Faiza Hussein Abd Alla, Kate Radford, Laura Miller, Koen Neijenhuijs, Hester Stubbé, Thomas Hoop, Ahmed Abdullatif Abbadi, Jasmine S. Turner, Andrea Jetten and Mark J.D. Jordans

Employer attitudes towards hiring university-educated refugees: evidence from Rwanda pp. 342-352

Thomas Hoop, Andrea Coombes and Chinmaya Holla

Volume 15, issue 2, 2023

Editor’s note pp. 147-147

Emmanuel Jimenez

Impact evaluation and synthesis – how far are they being used in low- and middle-income countries? pp. 148-164

Richard Manning, Ian Goldman and Gonzalo Hernández Licona

Table banking plus certified organic agriculture: an integrated microfinance approach to sustainable livelihoods pp. 165-182

Vincent Canwat and Stephen Onakuse

Impact of the Child-optimized Financial Education (COFE) curriculum among savings group participants in Uganda: A cluster randomised controlled trial pp. 183-195

Eunsoo Timothy Kim, Yunji Zhou, Levicatus Mugenyi, Margaret Lillie, John Kato Bbosa, Collins Agaba, Andrew Mijumbi Ojok, John Hembling, Godfrey Kalemera Ruhangawebare, Carrie Miller, Thomas K. Shaw, Benjamin S. Allen, Joseph R. Egger, John A. Gallis and Joy Noel Baumgartner

The effectiveness of industrial policy in developing countries: causal evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing firms pp. 196-222

Tewodros Makonnen Gebrewolde and James Rockey

Improving microcredit and firm performance in Jamaica: a case study of the development bank of Jamaica pp. 223-239

Jacob Novignon

A social network analysis to determine success factors of food security innovations in Tanzania pp. 240-263

Ernestine Mefor, Barbara Schröter, Frieder Graef and Estephania Delgadillo

Book review for Ethics for Evaluation: Beyond ‘Doing No Harm’ to ‘Tackling Bad’ and ‘Doing Good’ pp. 264-268

Jennifer Sturdy

Volume 15, issue 1, 2023

Upping the game: adding costs to impacts an introduction to the special issue on costing in the field of development effectiveness pp. 1-4

Marie Gaarder and Johannes F. Linn

The State of Cost-Effectiveness Guidance: Ten Best Resources for CEA in Impact Evaluations pp. 5-16

Douglas Glandon, Sam Fishman, Caitlin Tulloch, Radhika Bhula, Grace Morgan, Shahana Hirji and Liz Brown

Cost-effectiveness analysis and joint public production of outputs for development: a preliminary framework pp. 17-30

Arnab Acharya, Douglas Glandon, Jane Hammaker and Edoardo Masset

Facilitating real-time cost collection and evaluating cost-effectiveness in a multi-armed study with government partners in Ghana pp. 31-42

Shahana Hirji, Bethany Park, Edward Tsinigo, Sabrin Beg, Anne Fitzpatrick and Adrienne Lucas

Harnessing cost data to improve early grade reading: cost evidence from a large-scale literacy initiative in Pakistan pp. 43-76

Erin Byrne, Caitlin Tulloch, Naeem Sohail and Silvia Diazgranados Ferráns

Infections averted by a comprehensive HIV prevention intervention and its cost-effectiveness: a prospective cohort study of persons who inject drugs in Delhi, India pp. 77-90

Lopamudra Ray Saraswati, Aparajita Dasgupta, Indrani Gupta, Julie Pulerwitz and Avina Sarna

Benefit-cost analysis of iron fortification of rice in India: modelling potential economic gains from improving haemoglobin and averting anaemia pp. 91-110

Lubina Fatimah Qureshy, Harold Alderman and Navneet Manchanda

Cost and cost-efficiency of unconditional cash transfers in Tahoua, Niger pp. 111-123

Lani Trenouth, Victoria L. Sibson, Carlos S. Grijalva-Eternod, Kate Golden and Chloe Puett

Evaluating spillovers and cost-effectiveness of complementary agricultural and social protection interventions: evidence from Lesotho pp. 124-144

Silvio Daidone, Justin Kagin, Noemi Pace, Ervin Prifti and J.Edward Taylor

Reviewer Summary for Journal of Development Effectiveness pp. 145-146

The Editors

Volume 14, issue 4, 2022

The impact of Sri lanka’s school-based management programme on teachers’ pedagogical practices and student learning: evidence from a randomised controlled trial pp. 285-305

Harsha Aturupane, Paul Glewwe, Tomoko Utsumi, Suzanne Wisniewski and Mari Shojo

Stuck in the middle school rut: can anything improve academic achievement in rural Chinese middle schools? pp. 306-339

Fei Qin, Huanmin Hu, Prashant Loyalka, Sarah-Eve Dill and Scott Rozelle

Providing academic opportunities to vulnerable adolescents: a randomised evaluation of privately managed tuition-free middle schools in Uruguay pp. 340-379

Ana Balsa, Alejandro Cid and Ana Laura Zardo

Thailand’s vocational training and upward mobility: impact heterogeneities and policy implications pp. 380-394

Patima Chongcharoentanawat, Franziska Gassmann and Pierre Mohnen

Long-term and spillover effects of rice production training in Uganda pp. 395-415

Yoko Kijima

Measuring non-monetary poverty in the coffee heartlands of Laos and Rwanda: comparing MPI and EDI frameworks pp. 416-447

Patrick Illien, Eliud Birachi, Maliphone Douangphachanh, Saithong Phommavong, Christoph Bader and Sabin Bieri

Volume 14, issue 3, 2022

The impact of grants in combination with school-based management trainings on primary education: a cluster-randomized trial in Northern Nigeria pp. 189-208

Sophie Ochmann, Kehinde Elijah Owolabi, Folake Olatunji-David, Niyi Okunlola and Sebastian Vollmer

Savings and self-control: the effect of labelling pp. 209-227

Luz Magdalena Salas

Improvements in schooling attainment through conditional cash transfers in Mexico pp. 228-245

Araceli Ortega–Díaz, Miguel Székely and Ivonne Acevedo

Unconditional cash transfers and women’s labor supply in Pakistan pp. 246-264

Hadia Majid and Syeda Warda Riaz

Do conditional cash transfers improve antenatal care outcomes in Senegal? Combining non-experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations pp. 265-284

Frieda Vandeninden and Fabienne Fecher

Volume 14, issue 2, 2022

Returns to Interest-free Microcredit: evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Pakistan pp. 93-107

Maazullah Khan and Arjun Bedi

The impact of an integrated value chain intervention on household poultry production in Burkina Faso: evidence from a randomized controlled trial pp. 108-124

Jessica Leight, Josué Awonon, Abdoulaye Pedehombga, Rasmané Ganaba, Elena Martinez, Jessica Heckert and Aulo Gelli

Interest rate caps on microcredit: evidence from a natural experiment in Bolivia pp. 125-142

María Roa García, Alejandra Villegas and Ignacio Garrón

The impacts of rainfall shocks on birth weight in Vietnam pp. 143-159

Kien Le and My Nguyen

For real? Cash transfers’ effects on food consumption during price shocks in Kenya pp. 160-188

Stephan Dietrich and Georg Schmerzeck

Volume 14, issue 1, 2022

The economic and social impact of private investments: results of a programme to generate useful results while building research capacity pp. 1-3

Pierre Jacquet, Emmanuel Jimenez and Debora Revoltella

The effect of internet services on child education outcomes: evidence from poa! Internet in Kenya pp. 4-18

Charles Okyere

Is repeated borrowing better at improving MSMEs’ performance and profitability? A PAMF-CI case study from cote d’Ivoire pp. 19-33

Gloria Uwingabiye and Guylaine Nouwoue

Microfinance loans, women’s economic empowerment, and poverty: a case study of Baobab Microfinance Company pp. 34-55

Edgar F.A Cooke and Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah

Mobile money demand in utility bill payments: A WTP estimate from Ethiopia pp. 56-75

Yesuf Awel and Eleni Yitbarek

‘Craft for social good’: do on the job training of artisans’ impact on their vulnerability to poverty? Evidence from Kibera pp. 76-91

Soazic Elise Wang Sonne and Timothy Kinoti