Dr. Denise Hörner
Dr. Denise Hörner has been working as an evaluator in the Civil Society and Human Rights department at DEval since September 2022. In this role, she has focused, inter alia, on rigorous impact evaluations in development cooperation (DC) and is currently working on civil society DC.
Prior to joining DEval, she was a research associate at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at the University of Göttingen, where she completed her PhD in 2020 as part of the research training group "GlobalFood". In her dissertation, she used a randomized controlled trial in close cooperation with GIZ to examine the effects of agricultural extension approaches on the adoption of sustainable soil management practices, and implications for productivity and welfare of rural households in Ethiopia.
She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (BA Socioeconomics, MA Development Economics). Denise gained further experience in DC through consulting activities for GIZ, her involvement with Oikocredit Förderkreis Bayern e.V., and with non-governmental organizations in Ecuador and the Philippines.
Key Qualifications
- Thematic focus
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Smallholder agriculture, rural development and food security
Civil Society
- Methodological focus
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Rigorous impact evaluation methods (Experimental und quasi-experimental designs)
Collection and analysis of quantitative (household) data sets
Evidence syntheses
- Regional focus
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Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America
Evaluations and Projects
Publications
- Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Evaluation of the Development-Policy Area of Intervention
- Sexuelle und reproduktive Gesundheit und Rechte. Evaluierung des entwicklungspolitischen Aktionsfeldes
- Policy Brief: Cash Transfers and Cash Plus Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- The Effects of Cash Transfers and Cash Plus Programs on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Rapid Evidence Review
- Cash Transfers and Cash Plus Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence Gap Map
Selected Publications
Hörner, D., Bouguen, A., Frölich, M., und M. Wollni (2022). Knowledge and adoption of complex agricultural technologies: Evidence from an extension experiment. The World Bank Economic Review 36(1): 68-90. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhab025
Hörner, D. und M. Wollni (2022). Does integrated soil fertility management increase returns to land and labor? Plot-level evidence from Ethiopia. Agricultural Economics 53(3): 337-355. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12699
Hörner, D. und M. Wollni (2021). Integrated soil fertility management and household welfare in Ethiopia. Food Policy 100: 102022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.102022
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