Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2009

Edited by M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 86, issue 2, 2008

Household bargaining over fertility: Theory and evidence from Malaysia pp. 215-241

Imran Rasul

Deforestation and the real exchange rate pp. 242-262

Jean-Louis Leslie Arcand, Patrick Guillaumont and Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney

Is migration a good substitute for education subsidies? pp. 263-276

Frédéric Docquier, Ousmane Faye and Pierre Pestieau

Roads out of poverty? Assessing the links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty reduction pp. 277-295

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Nihal Bayraktar and Karim El Aynaoui

Who benefits more from higher household consumption? The intra-household allocation of nutrients in China pp. 296-312

Eiji Mangyo

Debt ceiling and fiscal sustainability in Brazil: A quantile autoregression approach pp. 313-335

Luiz Renato Lima, Wagner Piazza Gaglianone and Raquel M.B. Sampaio

Job search and mobility in developing countries. Theory and policy implications pp. 336-355

Yves Zenou

Remittances, transaction costs, and informality pp. 356-366

Caroline Freund and Nikola Spatafora

Institutions and concentration pp. 367-394

Todd Mitton

Unequal opportunities and human capital formation pp. 395-413

Daniel Mejia and St-Pierre, Marc

Are financial development and corruption control substitutes in promoting growth? pp. 414-433

Christian Ahlin and Jiaren Pang

On the emergence of public education in land-rich economies pp. 434-446

Sebastian Galiani, Daniel Heymann, Carlos Darío Dabús and Fernando Tohmé

A note on redistributive fairness and economic reform pp. 447-452

Anna Rubinchik and Ruqu Wang

Volume 86, issue 1, 2008

Can micro-credit bring development? pp. 1-21

Christian Ahlin and Neville Jiang

Gross national happiness as an answer to the Easterlin Paradox? pp. 22-42

Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

Subjective welfare, isolation, and relative consumption pp. 43-60

Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi

Geography, health, and the pace of demo-economic development pp. 61-75

Holger Strulik

Schooling, wages and profits: Negative pecuniary externalities from schooling and their consequences for schooling investments pp. 76-95

Anjini Kochar

Public spending and outcomes: Does governance matter? pp. 96-111

Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Vinaya Swaroop

The tradeoff between growth and equity in decentralization policy: China's experience pp. 112-128

Baoyun Qiao, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Yongsheng Xu

Old-age benefits and retirement decisions of rural elderly in Brazil pp. 129-146

Irineu Evangelista de Carvalho Filho

Optimal collective contract without peer information or peer monitoring pp. 147-163

Arup Daripa

Child labor and schooling response to changes in coca production in rural Peru pp. 164-180

Ana C. Dammert

Financial structure and economic growth pp. 181-200

Prof. Kul B Luintel, Mosahid Khan, Philip Arestis and Konstantinos Theodoridis

Public sector motivation and development failures pp. 201-213

Rocco Macchiavello

Volume 85, issue 1-2, 2008

What causes firms to hide output? The determinants of informality pp. 1-27

Dabla-Norris, Era, Mark Gradstein and Gabriela Inchauste

Hedging sudden stops and precautionary contractions pp. 28-57

Ricardo J Caballero and Stavros Panageas

Cosigned vs. group loans pp. 58-80

Philip Bond and Ashok S. Rai

Reciprocated unilateralism in trade reforms with majority voting pp. 81-93

Pravin Krishna and Devashish Mitra

Improving quality versus increasing the quantity of schooling: Estimates of rates of return from rural Pakistan pp. 94-104

Jere Richard Behrman, David Ross and Richard Sabot

Is Spanish-only schooling responsible for the Puerto Rican language gap? pp. 105-128

Joshua Angrist, Aimee Chin and Ricardo Godoy

Trade costs and location of foreign firms in China pp. 129-149

Mary Amiti and Beata Smarzynska Javorcik

Migration and technological change in rural households: Complements or substitutes? pp. 150-175

Mariapia Mendola

Foreign direct investment and technology spillovers: Theory and evidence pp. 176-193

Zhiqiang Liu

To share or not to share: Does local participation matter for spillovers from foreign direct investment? pp. 194-217

Beata Smarzynska Javorcik and Mariana Spatareanu

Government ownership of banks, institutions, and financial development pp. 218-252

Svetlana Andrianova, Panicos Demetriades and Anja K. Shortland

A north-south model of intellectual property rights protection and skill accumulation pp. 253-281

Carmelo Pierpaolo Parello

Responding to the coffee crisis: What can we learn from price dynamics? pp. 282-311

Aashish Mehta and Jean-Paul Chavas

Inflation targeting in emerging economies: What do the data say? pp. 312-318

Carlos Eduardo S. Goncalves and Joao M. Salles

Monetary union in West Africa and asymmetric shocks: A dynamic structural factor model approach pp. 319-347

Romain Houssa

Erratum to "Can information alone change behavior? Response to arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh" [Journal of Development Economics 84 (2007) 731-754] pp. 349-347

Malgosia Madajewicz, Alexander Pfaff, Alexander van Geen, Joseph Graziano, Iftikhar Hussein, Hasina Momotaj, Roksana Sylvi and Habibul Ahsan

Volume 84, issue 2, 2007

How corruption hits people when they are down pp. 574-589

Jennifer Hunt

Health and the evolution of welfare across Brazilian municipalities pp. 590-608

Rodrigo R. Soares

Migration as an antidote to rent-seeking? pp. 609-630

Fabio Mariani

The Cultural Revolution and returns to schooling in China: Estimates based on twins pp. 631-639

Junsen Zhang, Liu, Pak-Wai and Linda Yung

IMF concern for reputation and conditional lending failure: Theory and empirics pp. 640-666

Silvia Marchesi and Laura Sabani

Fungibility and the flypaper effect of project aid: Micro-evidence for Vietnam pp. 667-685

Dominique van de Walle and Ren Mu

How does the impact of an HIV/AIDS information campaign vary with educational attainment? Evidence from rural Uganda pp. 686-714

Damien de Walque

Credit layering in informal financial markets pp. 715-730

Ghazala Mansuri

Can information alone change behavior? Response to arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh pp. 731-754

Malgosia Madajewicz, Alexander Pfaff, Alexander van Geen, Joseph Graziano, Iftikhar Hussein, Hasina Momotaj, Roksana Sylvi and Habibul Ahsan

Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument pp. 755-776

William Easterly

Age-differentiated minimum wages in developing countries pp. 777-797

Mauricio Larrain and Joaquin Poblete

Foreign equity trading and emerging market volatility: Evidence from Indonesia and Thailand pp. 798-811

Jianxin Wang

Volume 84, issue 1, 2007

Network effects and the dynamics of migration and inequality: Theory and evidence from Mexico pp. 1-24

David Mckenzie and Hillel Rapoport

Only income diverges: A neoclassical anomaly pp. 25-45

Kevin Grier and Robin Marie Grier

On the static and dynamic costs of trade restrictions for small developing countries pp. 46-60

Charles van Marrewijk and Koen G. Berden

Socioeconomic status or noise? Tradeoffs in the generation of school quality information pp. 61-75

Alejandra Mizala, Pilar Romaguera and Miguel Urquiola

Urbanization, informal sector, and development pp. 76-103

Kazuhiro Yuki

Revisiting the infant industry argument pp. 104-117

Philip Ulrich Sauré

Mortality risks, education and child labor pp. 118-137

Fernanda Estevan and Jean-Marie Baland

Effects of longevity and dependency rates on saving and growth: Evidence from a panel of cross countries pp. 138-154

Hongbin Li, Jie Zhang and Junsen Zhang

Are external shocks responsible for the instability of output in low-income countries? pp. 155-187

Claudio E. Raddatz

Effects of economic shocks on children's employment and schooling in Brazil pp. 188-214

Suzanne Duryea, David Lam and Deborah Levison

Financial liberalization, financial sector development and growth: Evidence from Malaysia pp. 215-233

James B. Ang and Warwick Mckibbin

Quality dualism pp. 234-250

Arup Banerji and Sanjay Jain

Persistent inequality: An explanation based on limited parental altruism pp. 251-270

Mausumi Das

Nonlinear economic growth: Some theory and cross-country evidence pp. 271-290

Davide Fiaschi and Andrea Mario Lavezzi

Nonlinearities and heterogeneity in environmental quality: An empirical analysis of deforestation pp. 291-309

Phu Nguyen Van and Théophile Thomas Azomahou

Evaluation of training in African enterprises pp. 310-329

Michael Rosholm, Helena Skyt Nielsen and Andrew Dabalen

Does poverty constrain deforestation? Econometric evidence from Peru pp. 330-349

Alix Peterson Zwane

Trade policy in a Ricardian model with a continuum of goods under nonhomothetic preferences pp. 350-377

Joachim Stibora and Albert de Vaal

Comparisons of real output and productivity of Chinese and Indian manufacturing, 1980-2002 pp. 378-416

Boon Liat Lee, D.S. Prasada Rao and William Shepherd

Trade unions vs. statistical discrimination: Theory and application to post-apartheid South Africa pp. 417-444

Azam, Jean-Paul and Sandrine Rospabe

Self-fulfilling prophecies in the quality ladders economy pp. 445-464

Guido Cozzi

Bribery, inefficiency, and bureaucratic delay pp. 465-486

Christian Ahlin and Pinaki Bose

Group-lending with sequential financing, contingent renewal and social capital pp. 487-506

Prabal Roy Chowdhury

Foreign aid and economic growth: The role of flexible labor supply pp. 507-533

Santanu Chatterjee and Stephen J Turnovsky

Reforms and confidence pp. 534-550

Pertti Haaparanta and Jukka Pirttilä

Can a raise in your wage make you worse off? A public goods perspective pp. 551-571

suman Ghosh and Alexander K. Karaivanov