Benjamin Kaylor Davis

Institution: United Nations

Primary Field: Development (weighted toward more recent publications)

First Publication: 2001

Most Recent: 2025

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.02: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	A (2x)	B (1x)	C (½x)	Total	Percentile
Last 5 Years	0.00	1.14	0.00	1.14	36%
Last 10 Years	2.15	2.99	1.18	6.33	78%
All Time	2.15	7.14	3.74	13.03	90%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 32

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 15.70

Publications (32)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2025	Reassessing transformation pathways: Global trends in rural household farm and non-farm livelihood strategies with a spotlight on Sub-Saharan Africa	World Development	B	5
2022	Mediation analysis of the impact of the Zimbabwe Harmonized Social Cash Transfer Programme on food security and nutrition	Food Policy	B	5
2022	Cash transfers’ role in improving livelihood diversification strategies and well-being: short- and medium-term evidence from Zimbabwe	World Development	B	6
2020	Stuck exchange: Can cash transfers push smallholders out of autarky?	Journal of International Trade & Economic Development	C	4
2020	Heterogeneous impacts of cash transfers on farm profitability. Evidence from a randomised study in Lesotho	European Review of Agricultural Economics	B	4
2019	Causal pathways of the productive impacts of cash transfers: Experimental evidence from Lesotho	World Development	B	3
2019	The Household and Individual‐Level Productive Impacts of Cash Transfer Programs in Sub‐Saharan Africa	American Journal of Agricultural Economics	A	3
2019	Shaping Cash Transfer Impacts Through ‘Soft-Conditions’: Evidence from Lesotho	Journal of African Economies	C	4
2018	Can unconditional cash transfers raise long-term living standards? Evidence from Zambia	Journal of Development Economics	A	5
2018	How Differences in Cash Transfer Sizes Affect Work Allocation Decisions: Evidence from Cross‐Country Comparisons in SSA	Labour	C	4
2018	One Plus One can be Greater than Two: Evaluating Synergies of Development Programmes in Malawi	Journal of Development Studies	C	6
2018	Myth-Busting? Confronting Six Common Perceptions about Unconditional Cash Transfers as a Poverty Reduction Strategy in Africa	World Bank Research Observer	C	7
2017	Are African households (not) leaving agriculture? Patterns of households’ income sources in rural Sub-Saharan Africa	Food Policy	B	3
2017	Learning About Labour Impacts of Cash Transfers in Zambia	Journal of African Economies	C	9
2015	Effects of treatment beyond the treated: a general equilibrium impact evaluation of Lesotho's cash grants program	Agricultural Economics	C	4
2014	Cash Transfer Programme, Productive Activities and Labour Supply: Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Kenya	Journal of Development Studies	C	5
2013	Cash transfer programs and agricultural production: the case of Malawi	Agricultural Economics	C	4
2011	Assessing the impact of migration on food and nutrition security	Food Policy	B	4
2010	A Cross-Country Comparison of Rural Income Generating Activities	World Development	B	9
2010	Globalization and Smallholders: The Adoption, Diffusion, and Welfare Impact of Non-Traditional Export Crops in Guatemala	World Development	B	4
2010	Patterns of Rural Development: A Cross‐Country Comparison using Microeconomic Data	Journal of Agricultural Economics	B	5
2010	Migration, Transfers and Economic Decision Making among Agricultural Households: an Introduction	Journal of Development Studies	C	3
2010	The Vanishing Farms? The Impact of International Migration on Albanian Family Farming	Journal of Development Studies	C	4
2009	Assets, Activities and Rural Income Generation: Evidence from a Multicountry Analysis	World Development	B	8
2009	Rural Income Generating Activities: Whatever Happened to the Institutional Vacuum? Evidence from Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Vietnam	World Development	B	5
2009	Opening Up Pandora's Box: The Effect of Gender Targeting and Conditionality on Household Spending Behavior in Mexico's Progresa Program	World Development	B	4
2009	Corrigendum to "Opening Up Pandora's Box: The Effect of Gender Targeting and Conditionality on Household Spending Behavior in Mexico's Progresa Program" [World Development 37 (2009) 1129-1142]	World Development	B	4
2009	Rural nonfarm employment and farming: household‐level linkages	Agricultural Economics	C	4
2009	Does nonagricultural labor relax farmers’ credit constraints? Evidence from longitudinal data for Vietnam	Agricultural Economics	C	2
2001	Targeting the Poor in Mexico: An Evaluation of the Selection of Households into PROGRESA	World Development	B	3
2001	Cash Transfer Programs with Income Multipliers: PROCAMPO in Mexico	World Development	B	3
2001	Gender, Networks and Mexico-US Migration	Journal of Development Studies	C	2