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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 32 Citations 5,595 119 World Ranking 5269 National Ranking 48

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Poverty
  • Macroeconomics
  • Economic growth

His primary scientific interests are in Labour economics, Developing country, Welfare, Cash and Public economics. His research integrates issues of Agricultural productivity, Demographic economics and Development economics in his study of Developing country. His work on Cash transfers as part of his general Cash study is frequently connected to Multiple, thereby bridging the divide between different branches of science.

He interconnects Child labour and Social protection in the investigation of issues within Cash transfers. His Public economics research incorporates elements of Endogeneity, Poverty and Asset. His Poverty study incorporates themes from Consumption and Economic cost.

His most cited work include:

  • Targeting the Poor in Mexico: An Evaluation of the Selection of Households into PROGRESA (220 citations)
  • A Cross-Country Comparison of Rural Income Generating Activities (202 citations)
  • Cash Transfer Programs with Income Multipliers: PROCAMPO in Mexico (183 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Cash, Cash transfers, Poverty, Development economics and Economic growth. His Cash research includes elements of Production, Economic impact analysis, Public economics and Food security. His biological study deals with issues like Labour economics, which deal with fields such as Panel data and Income distribution.

His Poverty research includes themes of Developing country, Consumption and Livelihood. His studies deal with areas such as Productivity, Rural development and Human migration as well as Development economics. He focuses mostly in the field of Economic growth, narrowing it down to matters related to Socioeconomics and, in some cases, Difference in differences.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Cash (35.90%)
  • Cash transfers (30.77%)
  • Poverty (29.06%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2020)?

  • Cash transfers (30.77%)
  • Cash (35.90%)
  • Impact evaluation (18.80%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Benjamin Davis focuses on Cash transfers, Cash, Impact evaluation, Economic growth and Social protection. His study in Cash transfers is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Natural resource economics, Agricultural productivity, Labour economics and Demographic economics. His Cash research includes elements of Development economics, Public economics, Food security and Livelihood.

Benjamin Davis interconnects Poverty, Actuarial science and Weather risk in the investigation of issues within Public economics. His work in Food security covers topics such as Consumption which are related to areas like Developing country. His study in Economic growth is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Food prices and Difference in differences.

Between 2015 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • Are African Households (Not) Leaving Agriculture? : Patterns of Households’ Income Sources in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa (77 citations)
  • From Evidence to Action: The Story of Cash Transfers and Impact Evaluation in Sub Saharan Africa (44 citations)
  • The interaction between social protection and agriculture: A review of evidence (37 citations)

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Best Publications

A Cross-Country Comparison of Rural Income Generating Activities

Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters;Gero Carletto;Katia Covarrubias.
World Development (2010)

466 Citations

Cash Transfer Programs with Income Multipliers: PROCAMPO in Mexico

Elisabeth Sadoulet;Alain de Janvry;Benjamin Davis.
World Development (2001)

424 Citations

Targeting the Poor in Mexico: An Evaluation of the Selection of Households into PROGRESA

Emmanuel Skoufias;Benjamin Davis;Sergio de la Vega.
World Development (2001)

340 Citations

Assets, Activities and Rural Income Generation: Evidence from a Multicountry Analysis

Paul Winters;Benjamin Davis;Gero Carletto;Katia Covarrubias.
World Development (2009)

257 Citations

Domestic and international migration from rural Mexico: Disaggregating the effects of network structure and composition

Benjamin Davis;Guy Stecklov;Paul Winters.
Population Studies-a Journal of Demography (2002)

243 Citations

Are African Households (Not) Leaving Agriculture? : Patterns of Households’ Income Sources in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa

Benjamin K. Davis;Stefania Di Giuseppe;Alberto Zezza.
Food Policy (2017)

228 Citations

Do conditional cash transfers influence migration? A study using experimental data from the Mexican PROGRESA program.

Guy Stecklov;Paul Winters;Marco Stampini;Benjamin Davis.
Demography (2005)

203 Citations

From protection to production: productive impacts of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer scheme

Katia Covarrubias;Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters.
Journal of Development Effectiveness (2012)

190 Citations

Assets, Activities and Income Generation in Rural Mexico: Factoring in Social and Public Capital

Paul C. Winters;Benjamin Davis;Leonardo Corral.
Agricultural Economics (2002)

186 Citations

Rural Income Generating Activities : A Cross Country Comparison

Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters;Gero Carletto;Katia Covarrubias.
Research Papers in Economics (2007)

174 Citations

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