Publications

2025

• Working Paper

  Huisman, J., Martyr, R., Rott, R. & Smits, J. (2025). Projections of Climate Change Vulnerability along the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, 2020-2100. SocArXiv Papers.

• Working Paper

  Wildeman, J., Morsink, K. & Wagner, N. (2025). The effect of mobile internet on child marriage and teen pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa. GDL Working paper 25-101.

2024

• Working Paper

  Ebbers, A., Bergner, E. & Wagner, N. (2024). The effect of parental migration on children left behind: meta-analytical evidence on education and child labour. GDL Working paper 24-101.

• Publications

  Magbonde, K., Thiam , D. & Wagner, N. (2024). The economic impacts of rural water supply infrastructures in developing countries: Empirical evidence from Senegal. Environmental and Resource Economics, 87, 2571-2628, doi:10.1007/s10640-024-00897-4.

• Publications

  Schilpzand, R. & Smits, J. (2024). The Domestic Transition: Progress Towards Decent Living of Households in Low and Middle-Income Countries. Journal of International Development, 0, 1-23.

• Publications

  Crombach, L. & Smits, J. (2024). Understanding the Urban-Rural Fertility Divide in sub-Saharan Africa: The Critical Role of Social Isolation. Population, Space and Place, 30. e2801.

• Publications

  Smits, J. & Huisman, J. (2024). The GDL Vulnerability Index (GVI). Social Indicators Research, 174, 721-741.

• Publications

  Crombach, L. & Smits, J. (2024). The Subnational Corruption Database: Grand and petty corruption in 1,473 regions of 178 countries, 1995-2022. Scientific Data (Nature), 11, 686, doi:10.1038/s41597-024-03505-8.

• Publications

  Crombach, L. & Smits, J. (2024). Understanding the urban-rural fertility divide in sub-Saharan Africa: The critical role of social isolation. Population, Space and Place, e2801, doi:10.1002/psp.2801.

2023

• Publications

  Al Husein, N. & Wagner, N. (2023). Determinants of intended return migration among refugees: A comparison of Syrian refugees in Germany and Turkey. International Migration Review, 57(4), 1771-1805, doi:10.1177/01979183221142780.

• Publications

  Flomo, A.Z.B., Papyrakis, E. & Wagner, N. (2023). Evaluating the economic effects of the Ebola virus disease in Liberia: A Synthetic Control Approach. Journal of International Development, 35(6), 1478-1504, doi:10.1002/jid.3736.

• Publications

  Ongudi, S., Thiam , D. & Wagner, N. (2023). Public Transfers and Crowding-In and -Out of Private Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya. World Development Perspectives, 31, doi:10.1016/j.wdp.2023.100524.. 100524.

• Publications

  Pacheco Miranda, J. & Wagner, N. (2023). Long-term impacts of an early childhood shock on human capital: Evidence from the 1999 economic crisis in Ecuador. Health Economics, 32(11), 2460-2476, doi:10.1002/hec.4742.

• Publications

  Wildeman, J., Schrijner, S. & Smits, J. (2023). Fertility rates and social media usage in sub-Saharan Africa. Population, Space and Place, 29, doi:10.1002/psp.2635.

• Publications

  Wildeman, J., Smits, J. & Schrijner, S. (2023). Ethnic Variation in Fertility Preferences in Sub-Saharan Africa. Population Research and Policy Review, 42(4), 58, doi:10.1007/s11113-023-09804-z.

• Working Paper

  Smits, J. & Huisman, J. (2023). The GDL Climate Change Vulnerability Index (GVI). GDL Working paper 23-101.

2022

• Publications

  Ebbers, A. & Smits, J. (2022). Household and context-level determinants of birth registration in Sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS ONE, 17(4), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0265882.

2020

• Working Paper

  Ebbers, A. & Smits, J. (2020). Household and context-level determinants of birth registration in sub-Saharan Africa. GDL Working paper 20-102.

• Working Paper

  Crombach, L. & Smits, J. (2020). The demographic window of opportunity and economic growth at sub-national level in 91 developing countries. GDL Working paper 20-101.

• Blogs

  Smits, J. (2020). The Subnational Gender Development Index: Within-country variation in gender (in)equality revealed. UNDP-HDialog Blog.