Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications:

Economics

1. Peterman A, Wang J, Kamoto Sonke K, Steinert JI (2025). Social Safety Nets, Women’s Economic Achievements and Agency: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nature Human Behaviour, forthcoming. 

2. Ebert C, Steinert JI (2025). Violence against Women and the Substitution of Help Services in Times of Lockdown: Triangulation of Three Data Sources in Germany. Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization, 232, 106879.

3. Sternberg H, Steinert JI,  Buethe T (2024). Compliance in the Public versus the Private Realm: Economic Preferences, Institutional Trust, and COVID-19 Health Behavior. Health Economics, 1–65.

4. Steinert JI, Vasumati Satish R, Stips F, Vollmer S (2022). Commitment or Concealment? Impacts and Use of a Portable Saving Device: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Urban India. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 193, 367-398.

5. Steinert JI, Cluver LD, Meinck F, Nzima D, Doubt J (2020). Opening the Black Box: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Social and Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Changes in Financial Behaviour. Journal of Development Studies, 56(12), 2327–2348.

6. Steinert JI, Cluver LD, Meinck F, Doubt J, Vollmer S (2018). Household Economic Strengthening through Saving and Budgeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment in South Africa. Journal of Development Economics, 134, 443-466.  

7. Steinert JI,  Zenker J, Filipiak U, Movsisyan A, Shenderovich Y & Cluver LD. (2018). Do Saving Promotion Interventions Help Alleviate Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. World Development, 104, 238-256.   

Ethics

1. Kaplan L, Kuhnt J, Garcia-Hernandez A, Leininger J, Steinert JI (2025). Ethics and Equity: Addressing Violations of the Belmont Report principles for research staff. World Development Perspectives, 37, 100662.

2. Steinert JI (2021), Atika Nyarige D, Jacobi M, Kuhnt J, Kaplan L (2021). A  systematic review on ethical challenges of ‘field’ research in low-income and middle-income countries: respect, justice and beneficence for research staff? BMJ Global Health, 6, e005380.

3. Bangura I, Chakraborty A, Garcia-Hernandez A, Kaplan L, Kuhnt J,  Muhumad AA, Steinert JI, Tellez D (2022). Ethical failures in global health research: violations of Sustainable Development Goal 8, decent work for all. Lancet Global Health (Correspondence), 10(5), E619.

4. Kaplan L, Kuhnt J, Steinert JI* (2020). Do no harm? Field research in the Global South: Ethical challenges faced by research staff. World Development, 127, 104810. *authors contributed equally

Global/Public Health

1. Chatterji S, O’Connor J, Zane A, Steinert JI (2025). Economic Abuse in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, online first.

2. Shukla S, Kharade A, Böhret I, Jumaniyazova M, Meyer SR, Abejirinde IO, Shenderovich Y, Steinert JI (2025). How do gender transformative interventions reduce adolescent pregnancy in low-and middle-income countries: a realist synthesis. Journal of Global Health, 15, 04102.

3. Steinert JI, Shukla S, Vasumati Satish R (2024). Navigating distress: Exploring factors affecting adolescent girls' wellbeing during and after a violence-focused survey in Maharashtra, India. Child Abuse & Neglect, 152, 106779.

4. Steinert JI, Boehret I, Vasumati Satish R, Sharma S, Chatterji S (2023). “We don’t get money in our own hands”: Evidence from focus group discussions on economic abuse against women in two states of India. BMJ Global Health, 8, e012576.

5. Steinert JI, Prince H, Ezebuihe J, Shukla S (2023). Violence Against Adolescent Girls During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Quantitative Evidence From Rural and Urban Communities in Maharashtra, India. Journal of Adolescent Health, online first.

6. Steinert JI, Sternberg H, Prince H, Fasolo B, Galizzi M, Buethe T, Veltri GA (2022). COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Eight European Countries: Prevalence, Determinants and Heterogeneity. Science Advances, 8(17), eabm9825.

7. Steinert JI, Sternberg H, Veltri GA, Buethe T (2022). How should COVID-19 vaccines be distributed between the Global North and South: A Discrete Choice Experiment in Six European Countries. eLife, 11: e79819. 

8. Steinert JI, Shenderovich Y, Smith M, Zhou S, Toska E, Cluver L (2022). Economic wellbeing and associated mediating pathways to improved antiretroviral therapy adherence among adolescents living with HIV: A prospective cohort study in South Africa. JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, online first.

9. Suhr F, Steinert JI (2022). Epidemiology of floods in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of health outcomes. BMC Public Health,  22, 268.

10. Pantelic M, Steinert JI, Ayala G, Sprague L, Chang J, Morgan Thomas R, Nininahazwe C, Caswell G, Bach-Mortensen AM, Bourne A (2022). Addressing epistemic injustice in HIV research: A call for reporting guidelines on meaningful community engagement. JIAS, e25880.

11. Ebert C & Steinert JI (2021). Prevalence and risk factors of violence against women and children during COVID-19, Germany. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 99, 429–438.

12. Eggers del Campo I & Steinert JI (2020). The Effect of Female Economic Empowerment Interventions on the Risk of Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Trauma, Violence & Abuse, online first.

13. Steinert JI, Khan S, Mafara E, Wong C, Mlambo K, Hettema A, Walsh FJ, Lejeune C, Mazibuko S, Okello V, Ogbouji O, De Neve JW, Vollmer S, Baernighausen T, Geldsetzer P (2020). A stepped-wedge randomised trial on the impact of early ART initiation on HIV-patients’ economic outcomes in Eswatini. eLife, 9, e58487.

14. Cluver L, Shenderovich Y, Meinck F, Berezin M, Doubt J, Ward C, ParraCardona J, Lombard C, Lachman J, Wittesaelea C, Wessels I, Gardner F, Steinert JI (2020). Parenting, mental health and economic pathways to prevention of violence against children in South Africa. Social Science & Medicine, 262,  113194.

15. Redfern A, Cluver L, Casale M, Steinert JI (2019). Cost and cost-effectiveness of a parenting programme to prevent violence against adolescents in South Africa. BMJ Global Health, 4(3), e001147. 

16. Cluver LD, Meinck F, Steinert JI, et al. (2018). Parenting for Lifelong Health: A pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of a non-commercialised parenting programme for adolescents and their families in South Africa. BMJ Global Health, 3(1), e000539.  

17. Yakubovich AR, Stoeckl J, Murray J, Melendez-Torres GJ, Steinert JI, Glavin CEY, Humphreys DK (2018). Risk and protective factors for intimate partner violence against women: Systematic review and meta-analyses of prospective-longitudinal studies. American Journal of Public Health, e1–e11.