Review of Development Economics

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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 Siqueira 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

Volume 23, issue 4, 2019

Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability‐search cost dynamics pp. 1477-1519

Joyce J. Chen, Katrina Kosec and Valerie Mueller

Migration decisions under ambiguity: Migration distance effects revisited pp. 1520-1539

Sung Soo Lim

Remittances and healthcare expenditure: Human capital investment or responses to shocks? Evidence from Peru pp. 1540-1561

Gabriella Berloffa and Sara Giunti

Impact of nontariff measures on firms in Tunisia pp. 1562-1579

Leila Baghdadi, Sonia Ben Kheder and Hassen Arouri

Who justifies attacks on civilians? Analysis of attitudes toward terrorism based on value surveys pp. 1580-1603

Youssouf Kiendrebeogo and Elena Ianchovichina

Is corruption a greater burden for registered MSEs? Evidence from Zambia pp. 1604-1623

George Clarke

Moving to safety and staying in school: The effects of violence on enrollment decisions in Mexico pp. 1624-1658

Fernanda Márquez‐Padilla, Francisco Pérez‐Arce and Carlos Rodríguez‐Castelán

The impacts of trade and self‐sufficiency policies on heterogeneous rice farms in Malaysia pp. 1659-1673

Roslina Binti Ali, Jeff Luckstead, Alvaro Durand‐Morat and Eric J. Wailes

Transitions across labor market states including formal/informal division in Egypt pp. 1674-1695

Aysıt Tansel and Zeynel Ozdemir

Manufacturing growth accelerations in developing countries pp. 1696-1724

Nobuya Haraguchi, Bruno Martorano, Marco Sanfilippo and Anirudh Shingal

Foreign entrants and domestic entrepreneurship: Evidence from Vietnam pp. 1725-1747

Chih‐Hai Yang

Persistence and determinants of income inequality: The Brazilian case pp. 1748-1767

Diogo Signor, Jongsung Kim and Edinaldo Tebaldi

The chosen fortunate in the urbanization process in China? Evidence from a geographic regression discontinuity study pp. 1768-1787

Xiuyan Liu, Jiangnan Zeng and Qiyao Zhou

Urban bias and wage inequality pp. 1788-1799

Jiancai Pi and Yanwei Fan

Dirty hands on troubled waters: Sanitation, access to water and child health in Ethiopia pp. 1800-1817

Wondimu S. Manalew and Vidhura Tennekoon

Cross‐country evidence on the determinants of inclusive growth episodes pp. 1818-1839

Joao Jalles and Luiz de Mello

Determinants of youth not in education, employment or training: Evidence from Sri Lanka pp. 1840-1862

Ashani Abayasekara and Neluka Gunasekara

Rural credit and the time allocation of agricultural households: The case of PRONAF in Brazil pp. 1863-1890

Regis Ely, Rafael Parfitt, André Carraro and Felipe Ribeiro

Does public‐sector employment fully crowd out private‐sector employment? pp. 1891-1925

Alberto Behar and Junghwan Mok

Welfare effects of energy subsidy reform in developing countries pp. 1926-1944

Loek Groot and Thijs Oostveen

Volume 23, issue 3, 2019

Fragility and development in Africa: An introduction pp. 1067-1072

Anke Hoeffler

The anatomy of fragile states in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Understanding the interrelationship between fragility and indicators of wellbeing pp. 1073-1100

Andy McKay and Erik Thorbecke

Macroeconomic consequences of state fragility in sub‐Saharan Africa pp. 1101-1140

Chuku Chuku and Kenneth Onye

The effects of fragility and financial inequalities on inclusive growth in African countries pp. 1141-1176

Babajide Fowowe and Oludele Folarin

Exporting to fragile states in Africa: Firm‐level evidence pp. 1177-1201

Peter Wankuru Chacha and Lawrence Edwards

Growth in fragile states in Africa: Conflict and post‐conflict capital accumulation pp. 1202-1219

Janvier D. Nkurunziza

Costs of civil war and fragile states in Africa pp. 1220-1237

John Dunne and Nan Tian

Post‐conflict stabilization in Africa pp. 1238-1259

Anke Hoeffler

Counting the uncounted: The consequences of children's domestic chores for health and education in Ethiopia pp. 1260-1281

Yonatan Dinku, David Fielding and Murat Genç

Does participation in global value chains extend export duration? pp. 1282-1308

Xuechang Zhu, Bin Liu and Qian Wei

Is the model “loans‐plus‐savings” better for microfinance in Eastern Europe and Central Asia? A propensity score matching comparison pp. 1309-1330

Knar Khachatryan, Vardan Baghdasaryan and Valentina Hartarska

Convergence clustering in the Chinese provinces: New evidence from several macroeconomic indicators pp. 1331-1346

Giray Gözgör, Chi Keung Lau and Zhou Lu

Sign here, please! On developing countries’ market access conditions in regional trade agreements pp. 1347-1367

Frederik Stender

Subjective well‐being and political participation: Empirical evidence from Ghana pp. 1368-1386

Iddisah Sulemana and Elijah Agyapong

Capital market integration and gender inequality pp. 1387-1413

Mizuki Komura and Hikaru Ogawa

Industrial development in Malaysia and Singapore: Empirical analysis with multiple‐cone Heckscher–Ohlin Model pp. 1414-1431

Kensuke Suzuki and Yasuhiro Doi

Human capital and the re‐employment of retrenchment labor in urban China pp. 1432-1458

Yunling Liang and Li Yu

Capital account flows, consumption ratios and the middle‐income trap pp. 1459-1476

Daping Zhao, Sajid Anwar and W. Robert J. Alexander

Volume 23, issue 2, 2019

Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after apartheid pp. 553-576

Carlos Gradín

Positive versus negative incentives for loan repayment in microfinance: A game theory approach pp. 577-597

Thomas Brihaye, Julie De Pril, Marc Labie and Anaïs Périlleux

Using paradata to collect better survey data: Evidence from a household survey in Tanzania pp. 598-618

Johanna Choumert‐Nkolo, Henry Cust and Callum Taylor

The health consequences of hazardous and nonhazardous child labor pp. 619-639

Alberto Posso

Using sparse categorical principal components to estimate asset indices: new methods with an application to rural southeast asia pp. 640-662

Giovanni Maria Merola and Bob Baulch

Persistence of cities: Evidence from China pp. 663-676

Fan Duan and Bulent Unel

Productivity spillovers through backward linkages: The role of the origin of investors and absorptive capacity of domestic firms pp. 677-701

Ousmanou Njikam and Roland Rostant Njiteu Leudjou

Redistributive pensions in the developing world pp. 702-726

Achim Kemmerling and Michael Neugart

Timing and duration of paternal migration and the educational attainment of left‐behind children: Evidence from rural China pp. 727-744

Sophie Xuefei Wang

Industrial structure and economic performance: The role of productive public expenditure pp. 745-759

Cheng‐wei Chang

Cities, slums, and child nutrition in Bangladesh pp. 760-781

Dhushyanth Raju, Kyoung Yang Kim, Quynh Thu Nguyen and Ramesh Govindaraj

Untangling gender differentiated food security gaps in Bhutan: An application of exogenous switching treatment regression pp. 782-802

Jeetendra Prakash Aryal, Khondoker Mottaleb and Dil Rahut

Religious polarization, religious conflicts and individual financial satisfaction: Evidence from India pp. 803-829

Matteo Migheli

Oil booms and inequality in Iran pp. 830-859

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan and Tim Krieger

Microfinance and income inequality: New macrolevel evidence pp. 860-876

Maricruz Lacalle‐Calderon, Jose Larru, Silvia Rico Garrido and Manuel Perez‐Trujillo

Ukraine's unconsidered losses from the annexation of Crimea: What should we account for in the DCFTA forecasts? pp. 877-901

Zoryana Olekseyuk and Hannah Schürenberg‐Frosch

Addiction to debt forgiveness in developing countries: Consequences and who gets picked? pp. 902-921

Leanora Alecia Brown and Jorge Martinez‐Vazquez

The eye of the beholder. Reconsidering the notions of pro‐poor growth and progressivity, with an application to Vietnam pp. 922-939

Guido Erreygers and Thi Kim Thanh Bui

International migration, foreign direct investment, and development stage in developing economies pp. 940-956

Ei Ei Phyo, Hideaki Goto and Makoto Kakinaka

Explaining the effect of financial development on the quality of property rights pp. 957-974

Chandramouli Banerjee, Niloy Bose and Chitralekha Rath

Married women's labor supply and economic development: Evidence from Sri Lankan household data pp. 975-999

Prathi Seneviratne

Sri Lankan households a decade after the Indian Ocean tsunami pp. 1000-1026

Diana De Alwis and Ilan Noy

Love conditionally: The ownership structure and bribery behavior of Chinese firms pp. 1027-1049

Ruohan Wu, Zheng Jiang and Huimin Shi

Education stock and its implication for income inequality: The case of Asian economies pp. 1050-1066

Noman Arshed, Awais Anwar, Muhammad Shahid Hassan and Samra Bukhari

Volume 23, issue 1, 2019

Structural change: Pace, patterns and determinants pp. 1-32

Pedro M. G. Martins

Structural transformation and its relevance for economic growth in Sub‐Saharan Africa pp. 33-53

Matthias Busse, Ceren Erdogan and Henning Mühlen

Is it better to be mixed in group lending? pp. 54-71

Francesco Reito

The determinants of entrepreneurship gender gaps: A cross‐country analysis pp. 72-101

David Cuberes, Sadia Priyanka and Marc Teignier

Poverty changes in Manaus: Legacy of a Brazilian free trade zone? pp. 102-130

Marta Castilho, Marta Menéndez and Aude Sztulman

Land rental markets and rural poverty dynamics in Northern Ethiopia: Panel data evidence using survival models pp. 131-154

Hosaena Ghebru and Stein Holden

The impact of sustained attention on labor market outcomes: The case of Ghana pp. 155-171

Chih Ming Tan and Dhanushka Thamarapani

Adoption and impact of improved maize varieties on maize yields: Evidence from central Cameroon pp. 172-188

Guy Martial Takam‐Fongang, Cyrille Bergaly Kamdem and Gilles Quentin Kane

Social networks near and far: The role of bonding and bridging social capital for assets of the rural poor pp. 189-210

Tewodaj Mogues

Afro‐descendants in Peru: Do beauty and race matter in the labor market? pp. 211-230

Francisco Galarza and Gustavo Yamada

General budget support as an aid instrument—impact on economic growth pp. 231-255

Kaisa Alavuotunki and Susanna Sandström

Consumption, habit formation, and savings: Evidence from a rural household panel survey pp. 256-274

Aditya Khanal, Ashok Mishra and S Nedumaran

Like father like son? Revisiting the role of parental education in estimating returns to education in China pp. 275-292

Binlei Gong

Micro‐impacts of the Brazilian Regional Development Funds: Does lending size matter? pp. 293-313

Guilherme Resende Oliveira, Guilherme Mendes Resende, Diego Firmino Costa da Silva and Caio Nogueira Gonçalves

Distress financing of out‐of‐pocket health expenditure in India pp. 314-330

Shivendra Sangar, Varun Dutt and Ramna Thakur

Population growth and the transfer paradox in an overlapping generations model pp. 331-347

Kojun Hamada, Tsuyoshi Shinozaki and Mitsuyoshi Yanagihara

Residential segregation and educational attainment of children from regional migrant families in China pp. 348-375

Xiangjun Ma and Yean Zhou

China's export tax rebate and the duration of firm export spells pp. 376-394

Sajid Anwar, Beibei Hu, Yuying Jin and Kai Wang

Productivity, capital intensity, and ISO 14001 adoption: Theory and evidence pp. 395-414

Bin Ni

Does a foreign degree pay? The return to foreign education in China pp. 415-434

Mengmeng Guo, Yaxin Zhang and Jingjing Ye

Are free trade agreements good for the environment? A panel data analysis pp. 435-453

Mehdi Nemati, Wuyang Hu and Michael Reed

The apparel industry in the post‐Multifiber Arrangement environment: A review pp. 454-474

M. S. Alam, E. A. Selvanathan, S. Selvanathan and Md Saddam Hossain

Domestic agricultural value chain development and pro‐poor growth: A computable general equilibrium microsimulation application for the Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 475-500

Christian Samen Otchia

Intergenerational transmission of education in China: New evidence from the Chinese Cultural Revolution pp. 501-527

Yanbin Chen, Yumei Guo, Jingyi Huang and Yang Song

Income inequality among minority farmers in China: Does social capital have a role? pp. 528-551

Lin Liu, Krishna Paudel, Guanghao Li and Ming Lei