Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2019

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Volume 136, issue C, 2019

Ex ante and ex post effects of hybrid index insurance in Bangladesh pp. 1-17

Ruth Hill, Neha Kumar, Nicholas Magnan, Simrin Makhija, Francesca de Nicola, David J. Spielman and Patrick S. Ward

Making an impact? The relevance of information on aid effectiveness for charitable giving. A laboratory experiment pp. 18-33

Laura Metzger and Isabel Günther

Family clans and public goods: Evidence from the New Village Beautification Project in South Korea pp. 34-50

Hyunjoo Yang

Affirmative action, education and gender: Evidence from India pp. 51-70

Guilhem Cassan

Vocational training programs and youth labor market outcomes: Evidence from Nepal pp. 71-110

Shubha Chakravarty, Mattias Lundberg, Plamen Nikolov and Juliane Zenker

Efficiency of region-wide catastrophic weather risk pools: Implications for African Risk Capacity insurance program pp. 111-118

Sebastain N. Awondo

Long-lasting income shocks and adaptations: Evidence from coral bleaching in Indonesia pp. 119-136

Pasita Chaijaroen

Maize and precolonial Africa pp. 137-150

Jevan Cherniwchan and Moreno-Cruz, Juan

Spatially heterogeneous effects of a public works program pp. 151-167

Joshua D. Merfeld

Volume 135, issue C, 2018

Minimum Wage and Outward FDI from China pp. 1-19

Haichao Fan, Faqin Lin and Lixin Tang

Improving or disappearing: Firm-level adjustments to minimum wages in China pp. 20-42

Florian Mayneris, Sandra Poncet and Tao Zhang

Mobile money and risk sharing against village shocks pp. 43-58

Emma Riley

Quality and the Great Trade Collapse pp. 59-76

Natalie Chen and Luciana Juvenal

An adverse social welfare effect of a doubly gainful trade pp. 77-84

Oded Stark, Ewa Zawojska, Wilhelm Kohler and Krzysztof Szczygielski

Vehicle ownership restrictions and fertility in Beijing pp. 85-96

Antung A. Liu, Joshua Linn, Ping Qin and Jun Yang

Black Movement: Using discontinuities in admissions to study the effects of college quality and affirmative action pp. 97-116

Francis-Tan, Andrew and Tannuri-Pianto, Maria

Energy efficiency gains from importing intermediate inputs: Firm-level evidence from Indonesia pp. 117-141

Michele Imbruno and Tobias D. Ketterer

Women's schooling, fertility, and child health outcomes: Evidence from Uganda's free primary education program pp. 142-159

Anthony Keats

Branchless banking: Evaluating the doorstep delivery of financial services in rural India pp. 160-175

Anjini Kochar

Does improved storage technology promote modern input use and food security? Evidence from a randomized trial in Uganda pp. 176-198

Oluwatoba J. Omotilewa, Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob, John Herbert Ainembabazi and Gerald E. Shively

Measuring heterogeneity in preferences over the sex of children pp. 199-221

Johannes Norling

Beyond the Quantity–Quality tradeoff: Population control policy and human capital investment pp. 222-234

Xuebo Wang and Junsen Zhang

Subsidies versus mental accounting nudges: Harnessing mobile payment systems to improve sanitation pp. 235-254

Molly Lipscomb and Laura Schechter

Worth fighting for: Daughters improve their mothers' autonomy in South Asia pp. 255-271

Rachel Heath and Xu Tan

Estimating development resilience: A conditional moments-based approach pp. 272-284

Jennifer Denno Cissé and Christopher Barrett

Long-term effects of access to health care: Medical missions in colonial India pp. 285-303

Rossella Calvi and Federico G. Mantovanelli

Time use impacts of rural electrification: Longitudinal evidence from Guatemala pp. 304-317

Louise Grogan

The heterogeneous effect of information on student performance: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mexico pp. 318-348

Ciro Avitabile and Rafael De Hoyos

Cash transfers and labor supply: Evidence from a large-scale program in Iran pp. 349-367

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Mostafavi-Dehzooei, Mohammad H.

The economics behind the math gender gap: Colombian evidence on the role of sample selection pp. 368-391

Juan Munoz

Antiretroviral drug access and behavior change pp. 392-411

Willa Friedman

Technology, offshoring and the rise of non-routine jobs pp. 412-432

Laurie S.M. Reijnders and Gaaitzen de Vries

The impact of U.S. deportation of criminals on gang development and education in El Salvador pp. 433-448

Priti Kalsi

Widows' land rights and agricultural investment pp. 449-460

Brian Dillon and Alessandra Voena

Aid and growth: evidence from firm-level data pp. 461-477

Lisa Chauvet and Helene Ehrhart

Political inclusion and educational investment: Estimates from a national policy experiment in India pp. 478-487

Stephen D. O'Connell

Agricultural productivity and the sectoral reallocation of labor in rural India pp. 488-503

Kyle Emerick

Labor scarcity, land tenure, and historical legacy: Evidence from Mexico pp. 504-516

Emily A. Sellars and Alix-Garcia, Jennifer

Formal finance and informal safety nets of the poor: Evidence from a savings field experiment pp. 517-533

Jeffrey A. Flory

Strict duality and overlapping productivity distributions between formal and informal firms pp. 534-554

Jeffrey Allen, Shanthi Nataraj and Tyler Schipper

Skill premium, labor supply, and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America pp. 555-573

Manuel Fernandez Sierra and Julian Messina

Building resilience to natural disasters: An application to small developing states pp. 574-586

Ricardo Marto, Chris Papageorgiou and Vladimir Klyuev

Heterogeneous effects of economic integration agreements pp. 587-608

Scott L. Baier, Jeffrey H. Bergstrand and Matthew Clance

Volume 134, issue C, 2018

Grain today, gain tomorrow: Evidence from a storage experiment with savings clubs in Kenya pp. 1-15

Shilpa Aggarwal, Eilin Francis and Jonathan Robinson

Institution shocks and economic outcomes: Allende's election, Pinochet's coup and the Santiago stock market pp. 16-27

Daniele Girardi and Samuel Bowles

Do lower taxes reduce informality? Evidence from Brazil pp. 28-49

Rudi Rocha, Gabriel Ulyssea and Laísa Rachter

Foreign aid and growth: A Sp P-VAR analysis using satellite sub-national data for Uganda pp. 50-67

Andrea Civelli, Andrew Horowitz and Arilton Teixeira

The impact of packaging and messaging on adherence to malaria treatment: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda pp. 68-95

Jessica Cohen and Indrani Saran

Does the form of delivering incentives in conditional cash transfers matter over a decade later? pp. 96-108

Andrés Ham and Hope Michelson

A poor means test? Econometric targeting in Africa pp. 109-124

Caitlin Brown, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

Out of the Shadows? Revisiting the impact of the Brazilian SIMPLES program on firms’ formalization rates pp. 125-132

Caio Piza

Audit risk and rent extraction: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in Brazil pp. 133-149

Yves Zamboni and Stephan Litschig

Power outages and firm performance in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 150-159

Matthew A. Cole, Robert Elliott, Giovanni Occhiali and Eric Strobl

Direct and indirect effects of trade liberalization: Evidence from Chile pp. 160-175

Andrea Linarello

Assessing the degree of international consumption risk sharing pp. 176-190

Constantino Hevia and Luis Servén

Do welfare programs work in weak states? Why? Evidence from a maternity support program in India pp. 191-208

Prabhat Ghosh and Anjini Kochar

Commercialization and the decline of joint liability microcredit pp. 209-225

Jonathan de Quidt, Thiemo Fetzer and Maitreesh Ghatak

Migrant self-selection: Anthropometric evidence from the mass migration of Italians to the United States, 1907–1925 pp. 226-247

Yannay Spitzer and Ariell Zimran

Financial frictions and the rule of law pp. 248-271

Ashantha Ranasinghe and Diego Restuccia

What's different about monetary policy transmission in remittance-dependent countries? pp. 272-288

Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Christian Hubert Ebeke and Anne Oeking

Unexpected guests: The impact of internal displacement inflows on rental prices in Colombian host cities pp. 289-309

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin and Rafael J. Santos

Openness, specialization, and the external vulnerability of developing countries pp. 310-328

Luis-Diego Barrot, César Calderón and Luis Servén

Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America: A new database pp. 329-349

Guido Neidhöfer, Joaquín Serrano and Leonardo Gasparini

The consumption, income, and wealth of the poorest: An empirical analysis of economic inequality in rural and urban Sub-Saharan Africa for macroeconomists pp. 350-371

Leandro De Magalhães and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis

Family networks and school choice pp. 372-391

Andrew Dustan

The distributional consequences of trade liberalization: Consumption tariff versus investment tariff reduction pp. 392-415

Stephen J Turnovsky and Jorge Rojas-Vallejos

A theory on the evolution of religious norms and economic prohibition pp. 416-427

Avner Seror

Noncooperative decision making in the household: Evidence from Malawi pp. 428-442

Selma Walther

Household economic strengthening through financial and psychosocial programming: Evidence from a field experiment in South Africa pp. 443-466

Janina Isabel Steinert, Lucie Dale Cluver, Franziska Meinck, Jenny Doubt and Sebastian Vollmer

Why are adult women missing? Son preference and maternal survival in India pp. 467-484

Annamaria Milazzo