Economic Development and Cultural Change

1969 - 2025

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Volume 74, issue 1, 2025

Informal Contracts in an Incomplete Market: The Price of Milk in Paraguay pp. 1 - 36

Laura Schechter, Guanming Shi and Mizuhiro Suzuki

Alcohol Prohibition and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from an Indian State pp. 37 - 84

Mayank Dixit and Subhankar Mukherjee

Flooding the Brains: Natural Disasters, Student Outcomes, and the Urban-Rural Gap in Human Capital pp. 85 - 115

Juan Munoz-Morales

Welfare Effects of Digital Credit: A Randomized Evaluation in Nigeria pp. 117 - 140

Daniel Björkegren, Joshua E. Blumenstock, Omowunmi Folajimi-Senjobi, Jacqueline Mauro and Suraj R. Nair

Women’s Work, Social Norms, and the Marriage Market pp. 141 - 179

Farzana Afridi, Abhishek Arora, Diva Dhar and Kanika Mahajan

The Hidden Cost of Prenatal Heat Stress Exposure: Evidence on Psychological Well-Being in China pp. 181 - 211

Jiaowei Gong, Xiaoyu Li, Yinghao Pan and Yang Zhang

Cash for Votes: Evidence from India pp. 213 - 239

Anirban Mitra and Shabana Mitra

Decollectivization and Child Adoption in Rural China pp. 241 - 276

Shukang Xiao and Pinghan Liang

Fertility Responses to Granting Legal Status: Evidence from Venezuelan Forced Migrants in Colombia pp. 277 - 303

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Ana María Ibáñez, Sandra V. Rozo and Salvador Traettino

Miracle Seeds: Biased Expectations, Complementary Input Use, and the Dynamics of Smallholder Technology Adoption pp. 305 - 334

Caroline Miehe, Leocardia Nabwire, Robert Sparrow, David Spielman and Bjorn Van Campenhout

Locus of Control and Economic Decision-Making: A Field Experiment in Odisha, India pp. 335 - 378

Cecilia Ahsan Jansson, Vikram Patil, Joseph Vecci, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil and Yashodha

Volume 73, issue 4, 2025

When You Can’t Afford to Wait for a Job: The Role of Time Discounting for Own-Account Workers in Developing Countries pp. 1605 - 1657

Thiago Scarelli and David N. Margolis

Encouraging Digital Financial Technology Adoption during a Crisis: Experimental Evidence from Ghana pp. 1659 - 1684

Emma Riley and Abu Shonchoy

Between Sticky Floors and Glass Ceilings: Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality by Gender and Race in Brazil pp. 1685 - 1719

Laura Barros and Manuel Santos Silva

Cash Transfers, Gender Norms, and Women’s Control over Decision-Making in Egypt pp. 1721 - 1760

Hoda El-Enbaby, Daniel O. Gilligan, Naureen Karachiwalla, Yumna Kassim and Sikandra Kurdi

Rebuilding Irrigation Infrastructure and Institutions: Evidence from Afghanistan pp. 1761 - 1796

Ariel BenYishay, Carey Glenn, Seth Goodman and Rachel Trichler

Norm-Shifting Interventions and Beliefs about Gender Norms in Paraguay pp. 1797 - 1834

Sonia Laszlo, Carolina de Miranda, Franque Grimard, Tania Insfrán, Thomas Kokossou, Laura Morínigo and Jim Warnick

Can Conditional Cash Transfers Alter the Effectiveness of Other Human Capital Development Policies? pp. 1835 - 1880

Diether W. Beuermann Mendoza, Andrea Ramos Bonilla and Marco Stampini

Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China pp. 1881 - 1921

Jinyang Yang and Xi Chen

When Money Can’t Buy Political Love: Lab Experiments on Vote Buying in Ghana and Uganda pp. 1923 - 1943

Dominic Burbidge, Nic Cheeseman and Amma Panin

Teacher Gender and Parenting Style: Evidence from Junior High Schools in China pp. 1945 - 1981

Xuezheng Qin, Anqi Wang and Haochen Zhang

Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China pp. 1983 - 2027

Liugang Sheng and Dennis Yang

Identity Economics and Intrahousehold Bargaining pp. 2029 - 2062

Sandeep Mohapatra and Leo Simon

Property Tax Compliance in Tanzania: Can Nudges Help? pp. 2063 - 2103

Matthew Collin, Vincenzo Di Maro, David K. Evans and Fredrick Manang

The Effect of COVID-19 on Poverty-Alleviated Households: Evidence from J City, China pp. 2105 - 2130

Xun Li, Yiduo Li, Yuankun Li and Rigoberto Lopez

Job Training, English Language Skills, and Employability: Evidence from an Experiment in Urban India pp. 2131 - 2156

Prashant Loyalka, Dinsha Mistree, Robert Fairlie and Saurabh Khanna

Volume 73, issue 3, 2025

Can Investment Incentives Crowd Out Innovation? Evidence from China pp. 1023 - 1072

Shaowei Ke, Yao Lu, Xinzheng Shi and Yeqing Zhang

Monitoring Corruption: Can Top-Down Monitoring Crowd Out Grassroots Participation? pp. 1073 - 1108

Robert Gonzalez, Matthew Harvey and Foteini Tzachrista

The Long-Run Effect of Migration on Firms’ Trade: Evidence from China pp. 1109 - 1143

Anna Baiardi and Christina Ammon

Elite College Education and Social Mobility in China pp. 1145 - 1186

Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li and Lingsheng Meng

Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash Transfer Programs Work for Children? Experimental Evidence from Myanmar pp. 1187 - 1220

Erica Field and Elisa M. Maffioli

From Hospitality to Hostility: Impact of the Rohingya Refugee Influx on the Sentiments of Host Communities pp. 1221 - 1249

Yuki Higuchi, Keisaku Higashida, Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain, Mohammad Sujauddin, Ryo Takahashi and Kenta Tanaka

Aid Projects and Firm Performance pp. 1251 - 1295

Silvia Marchesi, Tania Masi and Saumik Paul

Economic Development and Environmental Conservation: Evidence from Ecotourism pp. 1297 - 1324

Santiago Saavedra

Regionalism and Tribal Insecurity in India pp. 1325 - 1364

Sacha Kapoor and Arvind Magesan

Effect of a Management Intervention on Firm Performance and Quality Defects pp. 1365 - 1408

Mahvish Faran and Karl Taylor

Relaxing Credit and Information Constraints: Five-Year Experimental Evidence from Tanzanian Agriculture pp. 1409 - 1437

Abdulrazzak Tamim, Aurélie P. Harou, Marshall Burke, David Lobell, Malgosia Madajewicz, Christopher Magomba, Hope Michelson, Cheryl A. Palm and Jiani Xue

Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan pp. 1439 - 1474

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Khan and Arman Rezaee

Motivating Public Sector Employees: Public Good Contributions in Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority pp. 1475 - 1499

George Joseph, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Sanjay Pahuja, Yi Rong Hoo and Tewodros Tebekew

Understanding Child Sex Trafficking by Use of Victim-Level Data pp. 1501 - 1526

Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Maria Kuecken, Eliana La Ferrara and Elsa Artadi

Social Status and Egalitarianism in Non-Lineage-Based, Agrarian Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of Funeral Attendance pp. 1527 - 1557

Abigail Barr and Mattea Stein

Scalable Nutrition Interventions in a Graduation Model Program: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 1559 - 1604

Harold Alderman, Daniel O. Gilligan, Jessica Leight, Tigist Mamo, Michael Mulford and Heleene Tambet

Volume 73, issue 2, 2025

Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance pp. 523 - 578

Lukas Wellner, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C. Parks and Austin Strange

National Institutions and Self-Insurance pp. 579 - 606

Raphael Godefroy and Joshua Lewis

Gendered Barriers to Formal Health-Care Utilization: Modeling Health-Care Demand in a Low-Resource Setting pp. 607 - 649

Elisa Cavatorta, Wendy Janssens and Alice Mesnard

How and Why the Gender Pension Gap in Urban China Decreased between 1988 and 2018 pp. 651 - 678

Björn Gustafsson, Peng Zhan and Hanrui Jia

Import Tariff Liberalization and Child Labor: Evidence from China pp. 679 - 715

Kaihao Liu, Xuefang Wang and Tingru Zhang

Understanding Regional Price Convergence Clubs in China pp. 717 - 747

Marina Glushenkova

When Do Gender Quotas Change Policy? Evidence from Household Toilet Provision in India pp. 749 - 779

Sugat Chaturvedi, Sabyasachi Das and Kanika Mahajan

Discrimination against Women in Hiring pp. 781 - 809

Adam Osman, Jamin D. Speer and Andrew Weaver

Attrition in Randomized Controlled Trials: Using Tracking Information to Correct Bias pp. 811 - 834

Teresa Molina-Millán and Karen Macours

Does Better Parental Education Improve Child Health Outcomes? Evidence from the Compulsory Schooling Law in China pp. 835 - 873

Jingwei Huang

Can Role Models Influence Female Students’ Decision to Participate in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 875 - 907

Christina A. Martini and Viviana Urueña

The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in Brazil: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis pp. 909 - 940

Renato Herdeiro, Alison Pablo Oliveira and Naercio Menezes-Filho

The Power of the Anticorruption Campaign: Evidence from Cigarette and Alcohol Consumption in China pp. 941 - 977

Xiaobing Wang, Xinyu Liu, Yanjun Ren, Futoshi Yamauchi and Jikun Huang

Hukou Status and Children’s Education in China pp. 979 - 1021

Yue Sun, Liqiu Zhao and Zhong Zhao

Volume 73, issue 1, 2024

COVID-19, Job Loss, and Intimate Partner Violence in Peru pp. 1 - 35

Jorge Agüero, Erica Field, Ignacio Rodriguez Hurtado and Javier Romero

The Leaky Bucket: Transition Costs from Cash to Deposits in a Mexican Transfer Program pp. 37 - 59

Fernanda Marquez-Padilla and Susan Parker

Lottery Wins and Employment in a Low-Income Country: Impacts and Mechanisms pp. 61 - 86

Cuong Nguyen and Tung Phung

Judicial Presence and Rent Extraction pp. 87 - 126

Stephan Litschig and Yves Zamboni

Culture, Intrahousehold Distribution, and Individual Poverty pp. 127 - 165

Ulugbek Aminjonov, Maira Colacce, Olivier Bargain and Luca Tiberti

Addressing Gender-Based Segregation through Information: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Republic of Congo pp. 167 - 193

Marine Gassier, Léa Rouanet and Lacina Traore

A Pandemic Crossing the Border: The Impact of COVID-19 in the US on the Mexican Labor Market pp. 195 - 219

Irvin Rojas and Jisang Yu

Correcting Misperceptions about Support for Social Distancing to Combat COVID-19 pp. 221 - 242

James Allen, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell, Tanya Rosenblat, Dean Yang and Hang Yu

Health Certification in Sex Markets: A Field Experiment in Dakar, Senegal pp. 243 - 272

Shanthi Manian

Short-Run Impacts of Reducing Water Collection Times on Time Use, Well-Being, and Education in Rural Kenya pp. 273 - 306

Joseph Cook, Jane Kabubo-Mariara and Peter Kimuyu

The Effect of Manager Gender and Performance Feedback: Experimental Evidence from India pp. 307 - 338

Martin Abel and Daniel Buchman

Employer Learning and the Dynamics of Returns to Universities: Evidence from Chinese Elite Education during University Expansion pp. 339 - 379

Sylvie Démurger, Eric Hanushek and Lei Zhang

Richer and Healthier? Social Pensions and Unhealthy Consumption Behavior in China pp. 381 - 422

Xiaobing Wang, Xinyuan Lei, Yanjun Ren and Jianyu Yu

Psychology, Soft Skills, or Cash? Evidence on Marginal Investments pp. 423 - 450

Megan Lang, Edward Soule and Catherine H. Tinsley

Do Women Council Members Allocate More Public Goods? Evidence from Rural India pp. 451 - 486

Yuko Mori, D. Rajasekhar, R. Manjula, Takashi Kurosaki and Jun Goto

Mothers’ Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation pp. 487 - 522

Alison Andrew, Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Jere Behrman, Monimalika Day, Pamela Jervis, Costas Meghir and Angus Phimister