Literature

[tmadon]

Please add new references to the Wiki!

Articles on altimetrics, tracing the impact of scientific publications through social media, etc.

Publication metrics:
http://pear.accc.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2874/2570
http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
http://arxiv.org/html/1203.4745v1
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006022

Twitter:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/meet.14504701201/full
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0064841
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3278109/
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katrin_Weller/publication/228405783_Citation_Analysis_in_Twitter._Approaches_for_Defining_and_Measuring_Information_Flows_within_Tweets_during_Scientific_Conferences/links/02e7e51d16aec47490000000.pdf

Other web media/services:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157711000393
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157709000777
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.5611v1

[tmadon]

Here are a couple of guidelines for systematic review of academic studies in the social sciences. Most of them focus on heath outcomes, although they can be applied to studies of economic outcomes.

(1) PRISMA-P is the most comprehensive guideline for systematic review of intervention studies. It includes both review protocols and reporting checklists. A detailed guideline (with explanations of each step in the review protocol) is here:
http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7647.long

You probably don't want to read the whole article, but I'd skim the abstract, intro & TOC.

(2) The Cochrane Collaboration has produced a handbook with detailed guidelines for systematic reviews: http://handbook.cochrane.org/

(3) A more detailed description of how to define/limit search terms in a systematic review is here:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0260691712000664

[tmadon]

Conditional & Unconditional Cash Transfers

The Economist: a quick read
Review of schooling outcomes for UCTs/CCTs
Results for Development Review
World Bank Volume on CCTs
History of Cash Transfers

[renai33]

For Econlit, we can use search terms like
"conditional cash transfer* AND (impact OR evaluation).
To find seminal work, we would probably need to include papers from 1997 to present.