Bruce Wydick

Institution: University of San Francisco

Primary Field: Development (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://sites.google.com/a/usfca.edu/wydick/

First Publication: 1999

Most Recent: 2026

RePEc ID: pwy16 ↗

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	S (4x)	A (2x)	B (1x)	C (½x)	Total	Percentile
Last 5 Years	0.00	0.81	2.69	0.34	3.83	74%
Last 10 Years	0.00	2.15	5.18	0.34	7.67	82%
All Time	2.69	5.18	11.30	2.35	21.53	94%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 24

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 19.27

Publications (24)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2026	Hope Walks: The Impact of Clubfoot Treatment on Human Flourishing in Ethiopia	Health Economics	B	3
2023	All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten? Evidence from the Philippines	Economic Development & Cultural Change	B	2
2022	Aspirational hope, dairy farming practices, and milk production: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Bolivia	World Development	B	4
2022	Hope theory: rainbows in the mind	Oxford Economic Papers	C	3
2022	Identifying psychological trauma among Syrian refugee children for early intervention: Analyzing digitized drawings using machine learning	Journal of Development Economics	A	5
2021	Developing educational and vocational aspirations through international child sponsorship: Evidence from Kenya, Indonesia, and Mexico	World Development	B	4
2019	Raising achievement among microentrepreneurs: An experimental test of goals, incentives, and support groups in Medellin, Colombia	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	5
2018	Developing Hope among Impoverished Children: Using Child Self-Portraits to Measure Poverty Program Impacts	Journal of Human Resources	A	3
2018	Poverty, Aspirations, and the Economics of Hope	Economic Development & Cultural Change	B	2
2018	Shoeing the Children: The Impact of the TOMS Shoe Donation Program in Rural El Salvador	World Bank Economic Review	B	5
2017	Does Child Sponsorship Pay off in Adulthood? An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth	World Bank Economic Review	B	3
2015	Measuring Microfinance: Assessing the Conflict between Practitioners and Researchers with Evidence from Nepal	World Development	B	3
2014	Got milk? The impact of Heifer International’s livestock donation programs in Rwanda on nutritional outcomes	Food Policy	B	5
2013	Does International Child Sponsorship Work? A Six-Country Study of Impacts on Adult Life Outcomes	Journal of Political Economy	S	3
2013	Keeping the doctor away: Experimental evidence on investment in preventative health products	Journal of Development Economics	A	4
2011	The Economics of Parenting, Self‐esteem and Academic Performance: Theory and a Test	Economica	C	2
2011	Microfinance and Home Improvement: Using Retrospective Panel Data to Measure Program Effects on Fundamental Events	World Development	B	3
2011	Social Networks, Neighborhood Effects, and Credit Access: Evidence from Rural Guatemala	World Development	B	3
2010	Does social capital matter? Evidence from a five-country group lending experiment	Oxford Economic Papers	C	2
2007	Grandma was Right: Why Cohabitation Undermines Relational Satisfaction, But Is Increasing Anyway	Kyklos	C	1
2007	Credit Information Systems in Less Developed Countries: A Test with Microfinance in Guatemala	Economic Development & Cultural Change	B	3
2005	Competition and microfinance	Journal of Development Economics	A	2
2001	Microenterprise Lending to Female Entrepreneurs: Sacrificing Economic Growth for Poverty Alleviation?	World Development	B	2
1999	The Effect of Microenterprise Lending on Child Schooling in Guatemala.	Economic Development & Cultural Change	B	1