Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 177, issue C, 2025

Corruption and extremism

Attila Gáspár, Tommaso Giommoni, Massimo Morelli and Antonio Nicolò

Hairdressers and well-being: Local services provision and mental health first response

Björn Nilsson and Clémence Pougué Biyong

Agricultural modernization and redistributive conflict

Stefano Falcone and Michele Rosenberg

Property rights, sick pay and effort supply

Pablo Blanchard, Gabriel Burdin and Andrés Dean

Internal migration and labor market adjustments in the presence of non-wage compensation

Raphael Corbi, Tiago Ferraz and Renata Narita

Fertility outcomes and parental well-being in later life: Evidence from India

Bilal Ahmad Bhat, Esha Chatterjee and Sounak Thakur

Occupational mismatch and market power

Felipe Balmaceda

Promoting Innovative Startups: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Tunisia

Nadia Ali, Massimiliano Cali and Bob Rijkers

Price and prejudice: Gender discrimination in online marketplaces

Sher Afghan Asad, Husnain Fateh Ahmad and Hadia Majid

Holi crimes: The impact of a public festivity on violence against women

Rubén Poblete-Cazenave and Claudia Martínez V.

Global income poverty measurement with preference heterogeneity: Theory and application

Benoit Decerf, Mery Ferrando and Natalie Naïri Quinn

Improving school leadership in Rwanda

Simeon Lauterbach, Lee Crawfurd, Jocelyne C. Kirezi, Aimable Nsabimana and Jef Peeraer

Persistent yet ameliorable shocks to female entrepreneurship: Experimental evidence from Kenya

Francisco Campos, Maria Hernandez-de-Benito, Julian C. Jamison, Abla Safir and Bilal Zia

Trade liberalization and quality upgrading: Third-country effects

Deniz Atalar

Spillovers in ICT adoption from formal to informal firms: Evidence from Zambia

Filip Jolevski, Gaurav Nayyar, Regina Pleninger and Shu Yu

Violent conflict and parochial trust: Lab-in-the-field and survey evidence

Katharina Werner and Ahmed Skali

Digital connectivity and firm participation in foreign markets: An exporter-based bilateral analysis

Michele Imbruno, Joël Cariolle and Jaime de Melo

Transportation infrastructure and deforestation in the Amazon

Rafael Araujo, Juliano Assunção and Arthur Bragança

Health, wealth, or equity? Trade-offs from households’ allocative decisions

Helen Harris-Fry and Mario Cortina-Borja

Why is female labor force participation declining in China? A perspective from urban commuting

Shenglong Liu, Xingyu Pan, Yuanyuan Wan, Xiaoming Zhang and Shaojie Zhou

Regulating manufacturing FDI: Local labor market responses to a protectionist policy in Indonesia

Esther Gehrke, Robert Genthner and Krisztina Kis-Katos

The colonial legacy in India: How persistent are the effects of historical institutions?

Lakshmi Iyer and Coleson Weir

From drains to bridges: The role of internationally mobile PhD students in linking non-mobile with foreign scientists

Rodrigo Ito, Diego Chavarro, Tommaso Ciarli, Robin Cowan and Fabiana Visentin

Volume 176, issue C, 2025

Using satellites and phones to evaluate and promote agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from smallholder farms in India

Shawn Cole, Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna

Therapy, mental health, and human capital accumulation among adolescent girls in Uganda

Sarah Baird, Berk Özler, Dell’Aira, Chiara, Luca Parisotto and Danish Us-Salam

Weather shocks, infant mortality, and adaptation: Experimental evidence from Uganda

Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Tillmann von Carnap, Andrea Guariso and Jakob Svensson

What one thinks, what one says and what one does: Male justifications and practices of gender-based violence in Mali

Olivia Bertelli, Thomas Calvo, Emmanuelle Lavallée, Marion Mercier and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

Place-based Policies and Household Wealth in Africa

Matthew Amalitinga Abagna, Cecília Hornok and Alina Mulyukova

Enforcing compliance with labor regulations and firm outcomes: Evidence from Brazil

Thaline do Prado, Marcelo Santos and Bernardus Van Doornik

Peer learning and technology adoption in a digital farmer-to-farmer network

Violet Lasdun, Aurélie P. Harou, Chris Magomba and Davíd Guereña

The firm-pay gender gap and formal sector churn over the life cycle

Ihsaan Bassier and Leila Gautham

Escaping from hardship, searching for comfort: Climate matching in refugees’ destination choices

Jose Morales-Arilla, Diego Martin and Alvaro Morales

Labor market rigidity at home and multinational corporations’ flexible production reallocation abroad

JaeBin Ahn, Jaerim Choi and Sunghoon Chung

When regional policies fail: An evaluation of Indonesia’s Integrated Economic Development Zones

Alexander D. Rothenberg, Yao Wang and Amalavoyal Chari

Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times

Francisco Gallego, Oswaldo Molina and Christopher A. Neilson

Migration and the epidemiological approach: Time and self-selection into foreign ancestries matter

Simone Bertoli, Melchior Clerc, Jordan Loper and Èric Roca Fernández

The deeper roots of human capital formation and economic development in Southeast Asia, 1900–2000

Alexandra M. de Pleijt and Ewout Frankema

Voter-buying, politician selection, and public good provision in Brazil

Ridwan Mohammad Karim

Making the most of coresident data: Credible evidence on intergenerational mobility with sibling correlation

Md. Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang and Forhad Shilpi

Gender composition, social context, and academic performance in high-stakes examinations

Hai Huang, Wei Huang, Xinzheng Shi and Ming-ang Zhang

Relocation from China (with Chinese characteristics)

Jason Garred and Song Yuan

Incentives and endorsement for technology adoption: Evidence from mobile banking in Ghana

Emma Riley, Abu S. Shonchoy and Robert Darko Osei

Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households

Jeffrey R. Bloem, Amy Damon, David C. Francis and Harrison Mitchell

Evaluating the labor supply implications of a cash transfer program: Evidence from China

Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo, Mingda Cheng and Shuai Chen

Quality signaling and demand for renewable energy technology: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Aidan Coville, Joshua Graff Zivin, Arndt Reichert and Ann-Kristin Reitmann

The impact of violence on the dynamics of migration: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution

David Escamilla-Guerrero, Edward Kosack and Zachary Ward

Enforcement spillovers under different networks: The case of quotas for persons with disabilities in Brazil

Samuel Berlinski and Jessica Gagete-Miranda

The agricultural and economic impacts of massive water diversion

Guangbo Huang, Chong Liu, Tianyang Xi, Huayu Xu and Wei You

From heat to high-tech: How innovation responds to climate change

Xianling Long and Zhiqiang Wang

Housing costs and real income differences across Chinese cities

Ziyang Chen, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Sylvie Démurger and Xiuyan Liu

Mitigating the health impact of a famine: Evidence from the 1985 Ethiopian emergency food aid

Salvatore Di Falco and Kyungbo Han

How good are livestock statistics in Africa? Can nudging and direct counting improve the quality of livestock asset data?

Kibrom A. Abay, Hailemariam Ayalew, Zelalem Terfa, Joseph Karugia and Clemens Breisinger

The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China

Fangjing Zha and Di Zhou

High temperature, power rationing, and firm performance

Xinya Hao, Yongying Huang and Lin Zhang

Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature

Philip Verwimp, Silke Goubin, Patricia Justino and Tilman Brück