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Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare is a research topic within Safety Research. Science Explorer counts 33k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the impact of interventions and policies related to child labor, education, and poverty reduction, particularly in the context of conditional cash transfers, school subsidies, and orphan care. It explores the effects of these interventions on household vulnerability, social protection, gender inequality, and primary education in low- and middle-income countries.

  • Conditional Cash Transfers
  • School Subsidies
  • Education Policies
  • Orphan Care
  • Poverty Reduction
  • Gender Inequality
  • AIDS Orphans
  • Household Vulnerability
  • Social Protection
  • Primary Education
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Which countries lead Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.2k and 875 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 India 875 works
  3. 3 South Africa 489 works
  4. 4 Nigeria 485 works
  5. 5 Kenya 469 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 413 works
  7. 7 China 382 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 279 works
  9. 9 Brazil 274 works
  10. 10 Ethiopia 264 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 23.3%India: 17.1%South Africa: 9.5%Nigeria: 9.5%6 others listed: 40.6%23%largest
United States1,191 · 23.3%India875 · 17.1%South Africa489 · 9.5%Nigeria485 · 9.5%6 others listed2,081 · 40.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare research, followed by University of South Africa and Kenyatta University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 61 works
  2. 2 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 59 works
  3. 3 Kenyatta UniversityKenya 53 works
  4. 4 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 51 works
  5. 5 University of GhanaGhana 49 works
  6. 6 University of NairobiKenya 47 works
  7. 7 Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 45 works
  8. 8 University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa 37 works
  9. 9 University of PretoriaSouth Africa 36 works
  10. 10 University of Cape TownSouth Africa 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare include Christopher J L Murray, Simon Iain Hay and Ali H. Mokdad.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  4. 4 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  5. 5 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  6. 6 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  8. 8 Stephen S Lim United States 294k citations
  9. 9 Rakhi Dandona United States 280k citations
  10. 10 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare?

The most cited paper in Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare is "Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data—or tears: An application to educational enrollments in states of India" (Deon Filmer, Lant H. Pritchett, 2001), with 5,262 citations. Next come "Resources, Agency, Achievements: Reflections on the Measurement of Women's Empowerment" (4,863) and "Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries" (3,673).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data—or tears: An application to educational enrollments in states of India Deon Filmer, Lant H. Pritchett · Demography Feb 2001 5,262
2 Resources, Agency, Achievements: Reflections on the Measurement of Women's Empowerment Naila Kabeer · Development and Change Jul 1999 4,863
3 Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries Sally Grantham‐McGregor, Yin Bun Cheung, Santiago Cueto et al. · The Lancet Open access 2007 3,673
4 Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children James J. Heckman · Science 30 Jun 2006 3,591
5 Women Empowerment and Economic Development Esther Duflo · Journal of Economic Literature Open access Dec 2012 2,932
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare research done?

The largest centres of Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare research in 2022-now are Nairobi (Kenya), Washington D.C. (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Pretoria (South Africa). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kakamega, Thika and Mwanza.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 NairobiKenya 229 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 138 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 132 works
  4. 4 PretoriaSouth Africa 117 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 112 works
  6. 6 BeijingChina 99 works
  7. 7 JohannesburgSouth Africa 88 works
  8. 8 Dar es SalaamTanzania 84 works
  9. 9 DhakaBangladesh 82 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 81 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KakamegaKE · 31.2 works77×
  2. ThikaKE · 32.1 works66×
  3. MwanzaTZ · 24.4 works61×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, University of Johannesburg and University of Ghana score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 15.13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OxfordLondon School of Hyg…University of Johann…University of Ghana
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 69.324.0%2.9×30 -15.5%
2University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 69.114.8%11.2×51 +32.3%
3University of GhanaGhana 69.114.3%26.2×49 +16.0%
4London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 67.616.9%17.3×20 -8.3%
5Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 66.413.0%26.4×45 +48.7%
6University of South AfricaSouth Africa 61.97.2%18.7×59 +84.3%
7London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 61.317.2%9.2×16 +27.7%
8University of GondarEthiopia 61.018.7%17.9×19 +19.8%
9Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 60.915.4%14.8×24 +24.1%
10University of Cape TownSouth Africa 60.89.8%13.6×35 +9.6%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, country by country

Is Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare0.037% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

Questions people ask

Who researches poverty and child welfare?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare research, followed by University of South Africa and Kenyatta University. By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.2k and 875 works in 2022-now).

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