Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2027

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 184, issue C, 2027

Southern roots abroad: The long-run impact of the Confederate migration to Brazil

João Tampellini

Monitoring and delivering: Evidence from dropout rates in Brazil

Bruno Kömel

Adult children's human capital accumulation and parents' risky behaviors: Evidence from the higher education expansion in China

Cong Li, Feng Liu, Linlin Wu and Ruofei Xu

The youth dividend: Political impacts of demographic transitions

Rédha Chaba, Michael T. Dorsch, Victor Hiller and Paul Maarek

Formalized employee search and labor demand

Lukas Hensel, Tsegay Tekleselassie and Marc Witte

The Green Revolution and individualism: Evidence from Indonesia

Yeonha Jung, Uyseok Lee and Gedeon Lim

Money and gender: Proxy respondents and the mismeasurement of income in surveys

Ricardo Estrada, Daniela Goyheix and María Lombardi

Suing the leviathan: The effect of trans-regional jurisdiction reform on corporate investment

Jiayi Geng, Yinyi Jiao, Ke, Jinjun (Ricky), Meiting Lu and Yaowen Shan

From catastrophe to culture: The role of historical disasters in shaping long-term orientation

Meng Liu, Jun Wang, James B. Ang and Per G. Fredriksson

Who drives inequality?

Domenico Moramarco and Olivier Sterck

Self-medication under uncertainty: Insights on drug quality and consumer behavior in Burkina Faso

Renate Hartwig, Moumouni Koala, Lena Merkel, Salfo Ouedraogo and Fadima Yaya Bocoum

Property rights and market frictions: Evidence from the universe of land dispute files in China

Jiong Zhu

Exploitation vs. Exploration: How knowledge spillovers shape healthcare practices and innovation

Yinan Liu, Chen Lin, Zixiao Li and Jing Zhang

When wages rise, quality falls: Minimum wages and the hidden trade-off in competitive e-commerce markets

Xinyu Liu, Han Xiao and Songqing Jin

Household consumption and savings over the life cycle: The roles of demographics and durables

Neha Bairoliya, Areendam Chanda, Jingyi Fang and Fang Yang

The effect of disaster relief on climate adaptation: Evidence from floods in Pakistan

Muhammad Bin Khalid and Martin Mattsson

Building infrastructure and cohesion through locally embedded institutions: Evidence from a field experiment in War-torn Eastern Congo

Eric Mvukiyehe, Julie Bousquet and Marijke Verpoorten

Expected foreign military intervention and demand for state-building: Evidence from Mali

Alessandro Belmonte, Désirée Teobaldelli and Davide Ticchi

Career guidance and investments in education: Experimental evidence from Cambodia

Esther Gehrke, Friederike Lenel and Claudia Schupp

Dual-track in the family: How spousal state employment fuels entrepreneurship

Wenchao Li, Yifan Lin, Junjian Yi and Haochen Zhang

The political economy of regional development: Evidence from the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno

Tancredi Buscemi and Giulia Romani

Refugee immigration and natives’ fertility

Aya Aboulhosn, Cevat Giray Aksoy and Berkay Ozcan

Migration incentives and elderly health: Evidence from the Hukou reforms in China

Wei Huang, Hai Huang, Haotian Zhang and Wei Zheng

The long shadow of typhoons: Prenatal exposure and adult mental health

Yu-Ting Huang, Elaine M. Liu, Jin-Tan Liu and Tzu-Yin Hazel Tseng

Reciprocity and state capacity: Evidence from a national pollution control reform in China

Yu Luo, Yongwei Nian and Ming-ang Zhang

Supporting learning in and out of school: Experimental evidence from India

Martina Björkman Nyqvist and Andrea Guariso

Is drug-related violence fueling emigration from Central America?

Leonardo Bonilla-Mejía, Jessica Bracco, Andrés Ham and Leonardo Peñaloza-Pacheco

The power of words: Adult literacy campaign and intergenerational transmission of human capital

Shuo Chen, Zhuoer Lin, Xian Xu and Yanfei Yin

Turning Inward and/or Outward: Which socioemotional skills pay for agribusiness entrepreneurs in Nigeria?

Smita Das, Clara Delavallade, Ayodele Fashogbon and Sreelakshmi Papineni

Race-to-the-bottom dynamics in industrial land pricing: Asymmetric effects of China’s 2009 price floor adjustment policy

Ran Tao, Jialin Yu and Zhejin Zhao

Road to resilience: Floods, highways and Indian informal manufacturing

Dixit Poudel and Munisamy Gopinath

The economic gains from breaking boundaries: Reformulating index insurance zones to maximize lower tail dependence

Enrique Estefania-Salazar, Michael R. Carter, Eva Iglesias and Alvaro Escribano

Picking winners: Local land allocation and bottom-up industrial policy in China

Wenjia Tian, Zhi Wang and Qinghua Zhang

Volume 183, issue C, 2026

The spread of (mis)information: A social media experiment in Pakistan

Sarojini Hirshleifer, Mustafa Naseem, Agha Ali Raza and Arman Rezaee

Forecasting long-run causal effects

David Rhys Bernard, Mark Himmelstein, Ezra Karger and Philipp Schoenegger

Labor market competition and inequality

Jose Garcia-Louzao and Alessandro Ruggieri

Who bears the cost: Financial frictions and labor markdown

Ming Li, Yao Amber Li and Zehao Li

The forsaken road: Reassessing living standards following the Cuban Revolution and the American embargo

João Pedro Bastos, Vincent Geloso and Jamie Bologna Pavlik

Government demand and firm growth

Bernard Hoekman, Marco Sanfilippo, Filippo Santi and Rohit Ticku

Texting parents about early child development: Behavioral changes and unintended social effects

Oscar Barrera Rodríguez, Karen Macours, Patrick Premand and Renos Vakis

Right-sizing incentives

Edward N. Okeke and Isa S. Abubakar

Non-normal Empirical Bayes prediction of local welfare

Chris Elbers and Roy van der Weide

Large-scale land acquisitions in Ethiopia: Impacts on agricultural productivity and deforestation

Workineh Asmare Kassie, Yeshwas Admasu, Dagim Belay, Solomon Zena Walelign and Jipeng Zhang

Housing wealth, family relationship and mental health: Evidence from China

Fenghang Li and Shenglong Liu

The benefits of public transit to households: Evidence from India

Palak Suri and Maureen Cropper

Local and spillover effects of trade on structural transformation: Evidence from Brazil

Mateo Hoyos, José Alejandro Coronado and Guilherme Klein Martins

From rents to results: China’s anti-corruption reforms and the effectiveness of aid to Africa

Yiran Du, Kai Feng and Gang Xu

Corrigendum to ‘The phantom menace in agriculture: How lagged droughts distort input decisions and create environmental deadweight loss’ [J. Dev. Econ. 182, 2026, 103781]

Dingqiang Sun, Xueting Qie and Kaixing Huang

Is high-speed internet detrimental for early childhood development? Evidence from a countrywide program

Karina Colombo and Elisa Failache

The complementary role of information and contraceptive access in teen pregnancy

Sevin Kaytan, Stwarth Piedra-Bonilla and Tom Zohar

The lasting effects of early childhood interventions: The National Vaccination Commando Program in Burkina Faso

Richard Daramola, Md Shahadath Hossain, Harounan Kazianga and Karim Nchare

Making information actionable: Experimental evidence from Kenyan courts

Matthieu Chemin, Daniel L. Chen, Vincenzo Di Maro, Paul Kimalu, Momanyi Mokaya and Manuel Ramos-Maqueda

Social learning in agriculture: A scalable farmer-to-farmer extension approach for dairy farmers

Luc Behaghel, Jérémie Gignoux and Karen Macours

Evaluating the environmental and economic implications of curbing transboundary pollution: Evidence from China

Zeyang Zhang, Yuanyi Xu, Dunhu Chang, Dingding Shao and Xin Wang

Political empowerment and marital practices

Priyama Majumdar

Time-of-day effects on disclosure of intimate partner violence

Katherine Theiss

The effects of immigration on agricultural development

David Escamilla-Guerrero, Andrea Papadia and Ariell Zimran

The power of electricity: Small hydropower and girls’ education

Yichen Luo and Chuanhao Tian

The mental health impact for adolescents ageing out of South Africa’s child support grant

Tsepang Khumalo, Ronelle Burger and Marisa von Fintel

Chronic depression, child development and human capital among the forcibly displaced: Evidence from Syrian refugees

Emma C. Smith

Foreign direct investment, global value chains, and labor rights: No race-to-the-bottom?

Hyejoon Im and John McLaren

More power outages, more CO2 emissions: Evidence from self-generation in China's manufacturing firms

Panbing Wan, Mian Yang and Bing Zhang

Son preference, intergenerational household dynamics, and women’s mental health in India

S. Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Shahadat Hossain and Mahesh Karra

Educational mobility across multiple generations in Indonesia

Sarah Cattan, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna, Jan Stuhler and Po Yin Wong

The expenditure elasticity for food and calories: Evidence from unconditional cash transfers in Kenya

Ingvild Almås, Johannes Haushofer and Anders Kjelsrud

The match between ‘She’ and ‘Her’: Performance gains from gender match in higher education

Md Amzad Hossain

The effectiveness of entry deregulation: Quasi-experimental evidence from China's export compulsory inspection deregulation

Zhiqing Yang, Zhiyuan Zhu, Peiyao Liu and Lianfa Luo

Securing power, compromising climate: Evidence from drought shocks in China

Jing Cao, Rong Ma and Yu Zhang