Jessica Leight

Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

1201 Eye St, NW,

Washington, DC 20005

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

10

DOWNLOADS

766

TOTAL CITATIONS

5

Scholarly Papers (10)

1.

Lessons for Covid-19 Vaccination from Eight Federal Government Direct Communication Evaluations

Behavioral Science & Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Dec 2021
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Management, University of Warwick, MDRC, Office of Evaluation Sciences, U.S. General Services Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dartmouth College, Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Yale University - Institute for Global Health, Office of Evaluation Sciences, U.S. General Services Administration, Northeastern University, University of Memphis, The Policy Lab at Brown University and U.S. General Services Administration
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vaccination, randomized controlled trial, communications, government evaluation

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The Impact of an Integrated Value Chain Intervention on Household Poultry Production in Burkina Faso: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1919
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 11 May 2020
Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute, AfricSanté, AfricSanté, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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poultry, livestock production, gender, women, empowerment, nutrition, child nutrition, value chains, poultry feeding, households, intervention, diet, livestock

3.

Using a List Experiment to Measure Intimate Partner Violence: Cautionary Evidence from Ethiopia

IFPRI Discussion Paper 2094
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Mar 2022
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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ETHIOPIA, EAST AFRICA, AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA, AFRICA, domestic violence, measurement, rural communities, intimate partner violence (IPV), list experiments

4.

Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Cash for Work Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Tunisia

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 14 Aug 2023
Eric Mvukiyehe and Jessica Leight
Duke University and Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Public works, Labor supply, economic welfare, non-material outcomes, Tunisia

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Understanding the Role of Different Program Components of a Nutrition Sensitive Intervention in Mediating Impact: Applying Causal Mediation Analysis to Experimental Evidence From Burkina Faso

IFPRI Discussion Paper 2072
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Feb 2022
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Tufts University and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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poultry production, gender, structural equation modeling

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The Effects of FDI Liberalization on Structural Transformation and Demographic Change: Evidence from China

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Oct 2023
Bilge Erten, Jessica Leight and Lianming Zhu
Northeastern University, Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Osaka University
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FDI liberalization, structural change, labor reallocation, demographic transition, fertility

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Aspiring to More? New Evidence on the Effect of a Light-touch Aspirations Intervention in Rural Ethiopia

IFPRI Discussion Paper 2070
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Dec 2021
Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), World Vision Ethiopia, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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ETHIOPIA, EAST AFRICA, AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA, AFRICA, rural areas, education, investment, poverty reduction, social safety nets, aspirations, educational investments

8.

Advancing the Agency of Adolescent Girls

NBER Working Paper No. w27513
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2023
Eric V. Edmonds, Benjamin Feigenberg and Jessica Leight
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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COVID-19 School Closures and Mental Health of Adolescent Students: Evidence from Rural Mozambique

IFPRI Discussion Paper 2075
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Jan 2022
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo and Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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MOZAMBIQUE, SOUTHERN AFRICA, AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA, AFRICA, Coronavirus, coronavirus disease, Coronavirinae, COVID-19, mental health, rural areas, adolescents, students, school closures

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Predictors of Discordance and Concordance in Reporting of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Large Sample of Rural Ethiopian Couples

IFPRI Discussion Paper 2103
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Mar 2022
Jessica Leight, Negussie Deyessa and Vandana Sharma
Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Addis Ababa University and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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ETHIOPIA, EAST AFRICA, AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA, AFRICA, domestic violence, measurement, rural communities, gender, intimate partner violence (IPV), discordance