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Jessica Leight

Global rank #5083 94%

Institution: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Primary Field: Development (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://econ.williams.edu/people/jl14

First Publication: 2016

Most Recent: 2026

RePEc ID: ple706 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.50 2.88 3.08 0.00 10.86
Last 10 Years 0.50 4.56 9.12 0.00 20.24
All Time 0.50 4.56 9.12 0.00 20.24

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 18
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 14.24

Publications (18)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2026 The effect of teacher training and community literacy programming on teacher and student outcomes Journal of Development Economics A 5
2025 Men can cook: Effectiveness of a men’s engagement intervention to change attitudes and behaviors in rural Ethiopia World Development B 6
2025 Scalable Nutrition Interventions in a Graduation Model Program: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia Economic Development & Cultural Change B 6
2023 Advancing the Agency of Adolescent Girls Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
2022 Misallocation, Selection, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis With Panel Data From China Econometrica S 4
2022 The role of poultry transfers in diet diversity: A cluster randomized intent to treat analysis Food Policy B 5
2022 How light is too light touch: The effect of a short training-based intervention on household poultry production in Burkina Faso Journal of Development Economics A 5
2021 Can community service grants foster social and economic integration for youth? A randomized trial in Kazakhstan Journal of Development Economics A 5
2021 Exporting Out of Agriculture: The Impact of WTO Accession on Structural Transformation in China Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2021 Like father, like son, like mother, like daughter: Intergenerational transmission of intrahousehold gender attitudes in Ethiopia World Development B 1
2020 Value for money? Vote-buying and politician accountability Journal of Public Economics A 4
2020 Comment on “The effect of migration policy on growth, structural change, and regional inequality in China”, by Hao, Sun, Tombe and Zhu Journal of Monetary Economics A 1
2020 The Impact of Positive Agricultural Income Shocks on Rural Chinese Households World Bank Economic Review B 1
2020 Maternal Education, Parental Investment, and Noncognitive Characteristics in Rural China Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2020 Framing Flexible Spending Accounts: A Large‐Scale Field Experiment on Communicating the Return on Medical Savings Accounts Health Economics B 2
2019 Trade liberalization and local labor market adjustment in South Africa Journal of International Economics A 3
2017 Sibling Rivalry: Endowment and Intrahousehold Allocation in Gansu Province, China Economic Development & Cultural Change B 1
2016 Long-run impacts of land regulation: Evidence from tenancy reform in India Journal of Development Economics A 4