Journal of Development Effectiveness

2009 - 2025

Current editor(s): Howard White

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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 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

Volume 13, issue 4, 2021

Malnutrition, stunting, development and evidence generation in Guatemala: a systematic review pp. 343-359

Borja Rivero Jiménez, David Conde Caballero, Cecilia Pedret Massanet, Luis López-Lago Ortiz, Miguel A García Arias and Lorenzo Mariano Juárez

Vocational training for demobilized ex-combatants with disabilities in Rwanda pp. 360-384

Kengo Igei, Kana Takio, Keitaro Aoyagi and Yoshito Takasaki

Fostering social mobility. The case of the Bono de Desarrollo Humano in Ecuador pp. 385-404

Andrés Mideros and Franziska Gassmann

Do larger school grants improve educational attainment? Evidence from urban Mexico pp. 405-423

M. Caridad Araujo, M. Adelaida Martinez, Sebastian Martinez, Michelle Perez and Mario Sanchez

Integrating research into policy sphere: evidence from Tanzania pp. 424-436

Goodluck Charles

Volume 13, issue 3, 2021

Effects of an e-reader intervention on literacy, numeracy and non-verbal reasoning among adolescent girls in Zambia: evidence from a randomised controlled trial pp. 247-275

Barbara S. Mensch, Nicole Haberland, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Jean Digitale, Natalie Jackson-Hachonda, Nachela Chelwa, Pamela Nyirenda, Erica Chuang, Lisa Polen, Stephanie R. Psaki, Nkomba Kayeyi and Michael T. Mbizvo

The effect of gender targeting of food transfers on child nutritional status: experimental evidence from the Bolivian amazon pp. 276-291

Jonathan Bauchet, Eduardo Undurraga, Ariela Zycherman, Jere Behrman, William Leonard and Ricardo Godoy

Does psychological well-being mediate economic well-being? short-term evidence from a multifaceted program in the Philippines pp. 292-308

Jeffrey Bloem and Rashmita Gandhe

Do floodplain regulation projects increase vulnerability to poverty of resettlers? Recent evidence from downstream Yellow River, China pp. 309-328

Xu Zhao, Yinlan Chen and Yuefang Duan

How neighbours influence commercial health insurance purchase: evidence from 2451 rural households in west China pp. 329-341

Kefei Han and Jing Tan

Volume 13, issue 2, 2021

Aggregate development effectiveness and externally-valid extrapolation: a fourth principle for Agency-Wide Performance Measurement Systems? pp. 117-144

Alessandra Garbero

Assistance in chronic conflict areas: evidence from South Sudan pp. 145-165

Marco d’Errico, Oscar Ngesa and Rebecca Pietrelli

Economic shocks and risky sexual behaviours in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the literature pp. 166-203

Henry Cust, Harriet Jones, Tim Powell-Jackson, Aurélia Lépine and Rosalba Radice

Impact of interactive radio programming on agricultural technology adoption and crop diversification in Malawi pp. 204-223

Catherine Ragasa, Diston Mzungu, Kenan Kalagho and Cynthia Kazembe

Prioritising job creation without undermining public works construction among road improvement projects in rural Nicaragua pp. 224-245

Seth Garz and Elizaveta Perova

Correction pp. 246-246

The Editors

Volume 13, issue 1, 2021

Improving learning by improving vision: evidence from two randomized controlled trials of providing vision care in China pp. 1-26

Xiaochen Ma, Huan Wang, Yaojiang Shi, Sean Sylvia, Lei Wang, Yiwei Qian and Scott Rozelle

Assessing cost-effectiveness with equity of a programme targeting marginalised girls in secondary schools in Tanzania pp. 28-46

Ricardo Sabates, Pauline Rose, Benjamin Alcott and Marcos Delprato

Credit cards issued by non-financial companies: an alternative tool for financial inclusion and economic development? pp. 47-83

Viviane Azevedo, Lucas Figal Garone, Alessandro Maffioli and Liliana Olarte Rodriguez

Applying wrapper-based variable selection techniques to predict MFIs profitability: evidence from Peru pp. 84-99

Fabio Pietrapiana, José Manuel Feria-Dominguez and Alicia Troncoso

Free delivery care and supply-side incentives in Nepal’s poorest districts: the effect on prenatal care and neonatal tetanus vaccinations pp. 100-115

Sujita Pandey and Angela Daley

Volume 12, issue 4, 2020

Mothers’ education and the effectiveness of nutrition programmes: evidence from a matched cross-sectional study in rural Bangladesh pp. 279-297

Thomas Hoop, Shelby Fallon, Fakir Md Yunus, Sabeth Munrat, Saira Parveen Jolly, Farzana Sehrin, Bachera Aktar, Ruhina Binta A Ghani and Joshua Sennett

Re-evaluating the early child stimulation programme in Bangladesh: evidence from the partial identification approach pp. 298-322

Toshiaki Aizawa

Building resilience in Somalia; evidence from field data collection pp. 323-340

Amin Malik, Marco d’Errico, Danvers Omolo and Benjamin Gichane

The implications of demographic change and ageing for social protection in sub-Saharan Africa: insights from Rwanda pp. 341-360

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Emily Wylde, Isabella Aboderin and Martina Ulrichs

Examining the interactive growth effect of development aid and institutional quality in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 361-376

Mehmet Balcilar, Berkan Tokar and Godwin Olasehinde-Williams

Volume 12, issue 2, 2020

Impact of improved common bean varieties on household food security on adopters in Tanzania pp. 89-108

Emmanuel Letaa, Enid Katungi, Catherine Kabungo and Agness A. Ndunguru

Enduring El Niño: impact of market access programmes on livelihood outcomes during drought conditions in Haiti pp. 109-132

Brock Boleman

Does cooperative membership matter for women’s empowerment? Evidence from South Indian dairy producers pp. 133-150

Carla Dohmwirth and Ziming Liu

Business training for women entrepreneurs in the Kyrgyz Republic: evidence from a randomised controlled trial pp. 151-163

Alberto Chong and Irene Velez

Does the expanded eligibility of conditional cash transfers enhance healthcare use among socio-economically disadvantaged mothers in India? pp. 164-186

Toshiaki Aizawa

Volume 12, issue 1, 2020

An examination of a temperament-based intervention in selected early childhood institutions in Jamaica pp. 1-13

Loraine D. Cook and Garth Lipps

More evidence on the relationship between cash transfers and child height pp. 14-37

Averi Chakrabarti, Sudhanshu Handa, Luisa Natali, David Seidenfeld and Gelson Tembo

Informal associations, shocks, and household food consumption: panel data estimation from rural Nigeria pp. 38-53

Uchenna Efobi, Scholastica Ngozi Atata and Joseph Ajefu

Human capital returns to cash transfers in Uganda: does it matter in the long run? pp. 54-73

Stephan Dietrich, Daniele Malerba, Armando Barrientos, Franziska Gassmann, Pierre Mohnen and Nyasha Tirivayi

Evaluating anti-corruption agencies: learning from the Caribbean pp. 74-88

Elizabeth David-Barrett, Aoife Murray, Johanna Polvi and Richard Burge