Jessica Leight

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 718 citations indexed

About

Jessica Leight is a scholar working on Safety Research, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Jessica Leight has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 718 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Safety Research, 16 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 13 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Jessica Leight's work include Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (21 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (16 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (9 papers). Jessica Leight is often cited by papers focused on Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (21 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (16 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (9 papers). Jessica Leight collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ethiopia. Jessica Leight's co-authors include Bilge Erten, Tasso Adamopoulos, Diego Restuccia, Loren Brandt, Vandana Sharma, Fiona Tregenna, Negussie Deyessa, Rohini Pande, Martina Björkman Nyqvist and Nicholas Wilson and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Econometrica.

In The Last Decade

Jessica Leight

48 papers receiving 686 citations

Hit Papers

Misallocation, Selection, and Productivity: A Quantitativ... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 40 80 120
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Misallocation, Selection, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis With Panel Data From China
    2022 140 citations Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jessica Leight United States 15 202 145 137 134 123 54 718
Adriana Camacho Colombia 14 240 1.2× 242 1.7× 131 1.0× 180 1.3× 129 1.0× 33 855
S. R. Osmani United Kingdom 11 253 1.3× 176 1.2× 103 0.8× 71 0.5× 94 0.8× 31 655
Lucia Hanmer United Kingdom 11 255 1.3× 311 2.1× 111 0.8× 148 1.1× 35 0.3× 37 793
Chih Ming Tan United States 11 231 1.1× 161 1.1× 62 0.5× 74 0.6× 44 0.4× 44 609
Minh Cong Nguyen United States 11 122 0.6× 256 1.8× 124 0.9× 122 0.9× 58 0.5× 33 642
Tom Bundervoet United States 16 229 1.1× 300 2.1× 99 0.7× 283 2.1× 346 2.8× 49 956
Benu Bidani United States 8 311 1.5× 436 3.0× 59 0.4× 190 1.4× 141 1.1× 13 783
Ambar Narayan United States 16 320 1.6× 552 3.8× 64 0.5× 107 0.8× 121 1.0× 53 959
Pieter Serneels United Kingdom 19 402 2.0× 334 2.3× 220 1.6× 287 2.1× 88 0.7× 66 1.2k
Teguh Dartanto Indonesia 15 364 1.8× 269 1.9× 86 0.6× 96 0.7× 57 0.5× 73 967

Countries citing papers authored by Jessica Leight

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jessica Leight

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jessica Leight

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All Works

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Leight, Jessica, et al.. (2025). The effect of teacher training and community literacy programming on teacher and student outcomes. Journal of Development Economics. 178. 103578–103578.
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Leight, Jessica & Eric Mvukiyehe. (2025). Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Cash for Work: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Tunisia. The Journal of Development Studies. 61(6). 989–1014.
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Leight, Jessica, et al.. (2024). Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of light-touch aspirations interventions in rural Ethiopia. Journal of Development Effectiveness. 16(4). 485–498.
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Leight, Jessica & Yao Pan. (2024). Educational Responses to Local and Migration Destination Shocks: Evidence from China. The World Bank Economic Review. 39(4). 971–992. 1 indexed citations
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Leight, Jessica, et al.. (2023). COVID-19 school closures and mental health of adolescent students: Evidence from rural Mozambique. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 100203–100203. 5 indexed citations
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Leight, Jessica, Claire Cullen, Meghna Ranganathan, & Alexa R. Yakubovich. (2023). Effectiveness of community mobilisation and group-based interventions for preventing intimate partner violence against women in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Global Health. 13. 4115–4115. 9 indexed citations
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Leight, Jessica, Abdoulaye Pedehombga, Rasmané Ganaba, & Aulo Gelli. (2022). Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 100160–100160. 13 indexed citations
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Leight, Jessica, et al.. (2021). Short-term effects of the COVID-19 state of emergency on contraceptive access and utilization in Mozambique. PLoS ONE. 16(3). e0249195–e0249195. 18 indexed citations
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Leight, Jessica & Nicholas Wilson. (2021). Intimate partner violence and maternal health services utilization: evidence from 36 National Household Surveys. BMC Public Health. 21(1). 405–405. 22 indexed citations
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Leight, Jessica, et al.. (2021). 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. 155. 102776–102776. 8 indexed citations
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Leight, Jessica & Nicholas Wilson. (2019). Framing Flexible Spending Accounts: A Large‐Scale Field Experiment on Communicating the Return on Medical Savings Accounts. Health Economics. 29(2). 195–208. 2 indexed citations
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Brandt, Loren, Jessica Leight, Diego Restuccia, & Tasso Adamopoulos. (2017). Misallocation, Selection and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China. National Bureau of Economic Research. 1 indexed citations
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Sharma, Vandana, et al.. (2017). High maternal mortality in Jigawa State, Northern Nigeria estimated using the sisterhood method. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 17(1). 163–163. 22 indexed citations
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Sharma, Vandana, et al.. (2017). Illness recognition, decision-making, and care-seeking for maternal and newborn complications: a qualitative study in Jigawa State, Northern Nigeria. Journal of Health Population and Nutrition. 36(S1). 46–46. 18 indexed citations
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Besley, Timothy, Jessica Leight, Rohini Pande, & Vijayendra Rao. (2011). The Regulation of Land Markets: Evidence from Tenancy Reform in India. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 2 indexed citations

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