Review of Development Economics

1997 - 2021

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Volume 25, issue 1, 2021

The economic challenges and opportunities of urbanization and migration in China pp. 3-5

Roman Matousek and Chunchao Wang

International migration of entrepreneurs and the emergence of economic development traps pp. 6-22

Zhaobin Fan and Sajid Anwar

The gender wage gap among China’s rural–urban migrants pp. 23-47

Yan Wu, Janneke Pieters and Nico Heerink

Family ties and employment behavior: The role of financial intermediaries pp. 48-75

Wenyuan Liu and Ting Ren

Housing price, talent movement, and innovation output: Evidence from Chinese cities pp. 76-103

Xiongbin Lin, Ting Ren, Hao Wu and Youzhi Xiao

An appreciation of Professor Stephan Klasen and his contribution to development economics pp. 104-115

Sophia Kan and Simon Lange

Evaluating universal primary education in Uganda: School fee abolition and educational outcomes pp. 116-147

Sophia Kan and Stephan Klasen

Empowerment and intimate partner violence: Domestic abuse when household income is uncertain pp. 148-162

Erwin Bulte and Robert Lensink

Can individuals’ beliefs help us understand nonadherence to malaria test results? Evidence from rural Kenya pp. 163-182

Elisa Maria Maffioli, Wendy Prudhomme O’Meara, Elizabeth L. Turner and Manoj Mohanan

Remittances and rural credit markets: Evidence from Senegal pp. 183-199

Linguère Mously Mbaye

Shedding light on the convergence debate: Using luminosity data to investigate economic convergence in Ecuador pp. 200-227

Sarah Carrington and Pablo Jiménez‐Ayora

Working conditions and factory survival: Evidence from better factories Cambodia pp. 228-254

Raymond Robertson, Drusilla Brown and Rajeev Dehejia

Class or caste? A study on the role of caste and wealth status in school choice decision pp. 255-276

Sukanta Bhattacharya, Aparajita Dasgupta, Kumarjit Mandal and Anirban Mukherjee

Educational growth: An analysis of distribution among Brazilian municipalities pp. 277-292

Laura Desirée Vernier Fujita and Izete Pengo Bagolin

National income and trust pp. 293-314

Markus Brückner, Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein

Inflation and income distribution in Central America, Mexico, Panama, and the Dominican Republic pp. 315-339

Carlos Garcimartín, Jhonatan Astudillo and André Martínez Fritscher

Fiscal policy and economic activity in South Asia pp. 340-358

Robert Beyer and Lazar Milivojevic

Rethinking the aid–growth relationship: A network approach pp. 359-380

Andrew W. Horowitz, Raja Kali and Hongwei Song

Natural resources, technological progress, and economic modernization pp. 381-404

Elkhan Richard Sadik‐Zada

The effects of international remittances on expenditure patterns of the left‐behind households in Sub‐Saharan Africa pp. 405-429

Joseph B. Ajefu and Joseph O. Ogebe

The impacts of China’s exchange rate regime reform in 2005: A counterfactual analysis pp. 430-448

Zaichao Du, Jie Li and Pei Pei

Democracy in the neighborhood and foreign direct investment pp. 449-477

Mehmet Pinar and Thanasis Stengos

What explains trade costs? Institutional quality and other determinants pp. 478-499

Yulin Hou, Yun Wang and Wenjun Xue

Malnutrition in the shadow of economic growth pp. 500-514

Hamid Beladi, Sugata Marjit, Reza Oladi and Lei Yang

Volume 24, issue 4, 2020

“Not everything is lost”: The role of education during adolescence to mitigate the effects of the early experience of poverty pp. 1193-1195

Marta Favara and Anke Hoeffler

Survey attrition after 15 years of tracking children in four developing countries: The Young Lives study pp. 1196-1216

Alan Sanchez and Javier Escobal

Understanding teenage fertility in Peru: An analysis using longitudinal data pp. 1217-1236

Marta Favara, Pablo Lavado and Alan Sanchez

Outsmarting your parents: Being a first‐generation learner in developing countries pp. 1237-1255

María José Ogando Portela and Paul Atherton

Revisiting the contribution of schools to cognitive gaps: Evidence from Peru pp. 1256-1278

Juan Castro

Long‐run effects of teachers in developing countries pp. 1279-1299

Lee Crawfurd and Caine Rolleston

“Eat, my child.” Obesity among children in developing countries: Evidence from South Africa pp. 1300-1311

Dimitrios Minos

Relative economic status and mental health among Chinese adults: Evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study pp. 1312-1332

Qin Zhou, Xuezheng Qin and Gordon G. Liu

Education and wage inequality before and during the fiscal crisis: A quantile regression analysis for Greece 2006–2016 pp. 1333-1364

Michael Chletsos and Stelios Roupakias

Do you really need it? Educational mismatch and earnings in Ghana pp. 1365-1392

Christian K. Darko and Kennedy K. Abrokwa

Long‐run productivity trends: A global update with a global index pp. 1393-1412

Jens J. Krüger

Measuring inclusive growth experiences: Five criteria for productive employment pp. 1413-1429

Anders Oskar Kjøller‐Hansen and Lena Sperling

Balanced versus unbalanced growth: Revisiting the forgotten debate with new empirics pp. 1430-1446

Xiao Jiang, Jose Caraballo‐Cueto and Chau Nguyen

Fertility decisions of families in an intergenerational exchange model pp. 1447-1462

Akira Yakita

Is the devil in the shadow? The effect of institutional quality on income pp. 1463-1483

Israt Jahan, Jamie Bologna Pavlik and Ryan Blake Williams

Business operations, contestability, bureaucratic holdup, and bribe solicitations pp. 1484-1510

Rajeev Goel, Ummad Mazhar and James W. Saunoris

Aggregate and heterogeneous sectoral growth effects of foreign direct investment in Egypt pp. 1511-1528

Hilary Ingham, Robert Read and Shimaa Elkomy

Inflation targeting in low‐income countries: Does IT work? pp. 1529-1550

Atsuyoshi Morozumi, Michael Bleaney and Zakari Mumuni

The big push to a knowledge‐based economy with intellectual property rights protection pp. 1551-1559

Hideaki Uchida

The impacts of farmland expropriation on Vietnam’s rural households pp. 1560-1582

Kien Le and My Nguyen

Spillovers from transport infrastructures onto firm productivity: An analytical and empirical study pp. 1583-1609

Zheming Liu, Bin Li, Saixing Zeng and Hongquan Chen

Casting a shadow: Productivity of formal firms and informality pp. 1610-1630

Mohammad Amin and Cedric Okou

Volume 24, issue 3, 2020

Heterogeneity in entrepreneurship in developing countries: Risk, credit, and migration and the entrepreneurial propensity of youth and women pp. 713-725

Dileni Gunewardena and Abdoulaye Seck

The interaction effect of gender and ethnicity in loan approval: A Bayesian estimation with data from a laboratory field experiment pp. 726-749

Rolando Gonzales Martínez, Gabriela Aguilera‐Lizarazu, Andrea Rojas‐Hosse and Patricia Aranda Blanco

Beyond technical skills training: The impact of credit counseling on the entrepreneurial behavior of Ugandan youth pp. 750-765

María Laura Alzúa, Maria Josefina Baez, Samuel Galiwango, Daniel Joloba, Benjamin Kachero, Maria Adelaida Lopera, Juliet Ssekandi and Zeridah Zigiti

Risk tolerance, gender, and entrepreneurship: The Palestinian case pp. 766-789

Yousef S. Daoud, Shaker Sarsour, Ruba Shanti and Sanaa Kamal

Internal migration and youth entrepreneurship in the Democratic Republic of the Congo pp. 790-814

Alain Kikandi Kiuma, Abdelkrim Araar and Christian Kamala Kaghoma

Gender, entrepreneurship and food security in Niger pp. 815-830

Sènakpon Fidèle Ange Dedehouanou and Abdelkrim Araar

The relationship among enterprise clustering, prices, and productivity in Ethiopia’s manufacturing sector pp. 831-854

Eyerusalem Siba, Mans Soderbom, Arne Bigsten and Mulu Gebreeyesus

Nutrient consumption in India: Evidence from a village study pp. 855-877

Indranil Dutta, Shruti Kapoor and Prasanta K. Pattanaik

Age at marriage, social norms, and female education in Nepal pp. 878-909

Saqib Jafarey, Ram Mainali and Gabriel Montes‐Rojas

Do interest rate controls work? Evidence from Kenya pp. 910-926

C. Emre Alper, Benedict Clements, Niko Hobdari and Rafel Moya Porcel

“Opt out” or kept out? The effect of stigma, structure, selection, and sector on the labor force participation of married women in India pp. 927-948

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Debasish Nandy and Suddhasil Siddhanta

Life expectancy and economic development: Evidence from microdata pp. 949-972

Belgi Turan

Does women’s participation in agricultural technology adoption decisions affect the adoption of climate‐smart agriculture? Insights from Indo‐Gangetic Plains of India pp. 973-990

Jeetendra Prakash Aryal, Cathy R. Farnworth, Ritika Khurana, Srabashi Ray, Tek B. Sapkota and Dil Rahut

Impact of remittances on household health care expenditure: Evidence from the Nepal Living Standards Survey pp. 991-1008

Kul Kapri and Stuti Jha

Impact of remittances on male and female labor force participation patterns in Africa: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Ghana pp. 1009-1026

Edward Asiedu and Nurokinan Chimbar

Distortions to agricultural incentives: Evidence from Nigerian value chains pp. 1027-1045

Simla Tokgoz, Summer Allen, Fahd Majeed, Bas Paris, Olajide Adeola and Evans Osabuohien

Do vertical spillovers differ by investors’ productivity? Theory and evidence from Vietnam pp. 1046-1072

Bin Ni and Hayato Kato

Market access and regional dispersion of human capital accumulation in Turkey pp. 1073-1101

Burhan Karahasan and Fırat Bilgel

Are developing countries accumulating sufficient total factor productivity to sustain their economic growth and job creation? Empirical evidence from the Middle East and North Africa region pp. 1102-1127

Mohamad Ahmad Abou Hamia

Policy impact assessment in developing countries using Social Accounting Matrices: The Kenya SAM 2014 pp. 1128-1149

Alfredo Mainar, Pierre Boulanger, Hasan Dudu and Emanuele Ferrari

Farmer organizations and maize productivity in rural Burkina Faso: The effects of the diversion strategy on cotton input loans pp. 1150-1166

Salimata Traore

Occupational attainment and stratification in China: The interactive effects of social networks and the hukou system pp. 1167-1192

Zhongda Li, Jianhao Lin and Lu Liu

Volume 24, issue 2, 2020

Social identity and perceived income adequacy pp. 339-361

Deepti Goel and Ashwini Deshpande

Searching for religious discrimination among childcare workers pp. 362-382

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani and Prakarsh Singh

Labor protection laws and the drain on productivity: Evidence from India pp. 383-401

Daniel Schwab

New general theory of economic development: Innovative growth and distribution pp. 402-423

Yong‐Shik Lee

Will elders provide for their grandchildren? Unconditional cash transfers and educational expenditures in Bolivia pp. 424-447

Gustavo Canavire‐Bacarreza, Alberto Chong, Fernando Ríos‐Avila and Mónica Yáñez‐Pagans

Technological complexity and economic development pp. 448-470

Daniel Nepelski and Giuditta De Prato

Export revenue and quality: Firm‐level evidence from developing countries pp. 471-484

Asier Minondo

Drug‐related violence and the decline in the number of Mexican cross‐border workers pp. 485-502

Pedro P. Orraca‐Romano and Eunice D. Vargas‐Valle

Impact of Internet use on economic well‐being of rural households: Evidence from China pp. 503-523

Wanglin Ma, Peng Nie, Pei Zhang and Alan Renwick

Cereal production, undernourishment, and food insecurity in South Asia pp. 524-545

Mazhar Mughal and Charlotte Fontan Sers

Shared renewable resources and gains from trade under technology standards pp. 546-568

Yasuhiro Takarada, Weijia Dong and Takeshi Ogawa

Adoption and use of mobile banking by low‐income individuals in Senegal pp. 569-588

François Seck Fall, Luis Orozco and Al-mouksit Akim

Government consumption, government debt and economic growth pp. 589-605

Shahrzad Ghourchian and Hakan Yilmazkuday

Intra‐household bargaining power and household expenditure allocation: Evidence from Iran pp. 606-627

Bharati Basu and Pushkar Maitra

Wagner’s Law and Fiscal Illusion: An analysis of state government finances in Brazil pp. 628-643

Pedro Henrique Martins Prado and Cleomar Gomes da Silva

Modern sector development: The role of exports and institutions in developing countries pp. 644-667

Thomas Gries and Rainer Grundmann

The relationship between pollution abatement costs and environmental regulation: Evidence from the Chinese industrial sector pp. 668-690

Masayuki Shimizu

Growth decomposition bias when accounting for heterogeneous regimes: Evidence from China pp. 691-711

Guanchun Liu, Shichang Ma, Chien-Chiang Lee and Ming Xu

Volume 24, issue 1, 2020

The effects of remittances, foreign direct investment, and foreign aid on economic growth: An empirical analysis pp. 1-30

Graham Bird and Yongseok Choi

Agricultural productivity, the real effective exchange rate, and structural change: Some evidence from Africa pp. 31-44

Richard Grabowski and Sharmistha Self

Designing effective transfers: Lessons from India’s school meal program pp. 45-61

Farzana Afridi, Bidisha Barooah and Rohini Somanathan

Improving police integrity in Uganda: Impact assessment of the police accountability and reform project pp. 62-83

Natascha Wagner, Wil Hout and Rose Namara

Mobile money, risk sharing, and educational investment: Panel evidence from rural Uganda pp. 84-105

Rayner Tabetando and Tomoya Matsumoto

A wait‐and‐see approach to investments: Do elections play a role? pp. 106-124

Daniel A. Kanyam

Informality, innovation, and aggregate productivity growth pp. 125-143

Tyler Schipper

Analysis on demand‐ and supply‐side responses during the expansion of health insurance coverage in Vietnam: Challenges and policy implications toward universal health coverage pp. 144-166

Midori Matsushima, Hiroyuki Yamada and Yasuharu Shimamura

Risk aversion, cooperative membership, and path dependences of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia pp. 167-187

Alemayehu Molla, Joost Beuving and Ruerd Ruben

Distortions in oil contract allocation and environmental damage in the presence of corruption pp. 188-208

Henry O. Akaeze

Oil shocks and fiscal policy procyclicality in Angola: Assessing the role of asymmetries and institutions pp. 209-237

Alexandre Ernesto da Costa António and Antonio Rodriguez‐Gil

Taking down the wall: Transition and inequality pp. 238-253

Serhan Cevik and Carolina Correa‐Caro

Efficiency‐adjusted public capital, capital grants, and growth pp. 254-268

Ernesto Crivelli

The scarring effects of youth joblessness in Sri Lanka pp. 269-287

Murali Kuchibhotla, Peter Orazem and Sanjana Ravi

U.S. R&D internationalization in less‐developed countries: Determinants and insights from Brazil, China, and India pp. 288-315

Tulio Chiarini, Thiago Caliari, Pablo Felipe Bittencourt and Marcia Rapini

Does high‐speed rail connection really promote local economy? Evidence from China’s Yangtze River Delta pp. 316-338

Yanyan Gao, Shunfeng Song, Jun Sun and Leizhen Zang