Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 175, issue C, 2025

Meritocracy in a bureaucracy

Shan Aman-Rana

Leader value added: Assessing the growth contribution of individual national leaders

William Easterly and Steven Pennings

Timing matters: The (very) long-run impacts of cash grants during a crisis

Nathan Fiala, Julian Rose, Filder Aryemo and Jörg Ankel-Peters

The impact of COVID-19 on formal firms: Lessons from administrative tax data

Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Pablo Garriga and Camille Semelet

How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?

Yutong Chen, Gaurav Chiplunkar, Sheetal Sekhri, Anirban Sen and Aaditeshwar Seth

Climate change response: Input adjustment in agriculture

Sebastián Figari

The impact of digital technology on worker tasks: Do labor policies matter?

Rita K. Almeida, Carlos H.L. Corseuil and Jennifer P. Poole

Who benefits from job training programs? Evidence from a high-dosage program in Brazil

Daniel Da Mata, Rodrigo Oliveira and Diana Silva

Estimating impact with surveys versus digital traces: Evidence from randomized cash transfers in Togo

Emily Aiken, Suzanne Bellue, Joshua E. Blumenstock, Dean Karlan and Christopher Udry

Understanding the effects of group composition by risk for violence. Experimental evidence from El Salvador

Lelys Dinarte-Diaz

Does perceived labor market competition increase prejudice between refugees and their local hosts? Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia

Julie Bousquet, Anna Gasten, Mark Marvin Kadigo, Jean-François Maystadt and Colette Salemi

Missing repayments on haze days: Evidence from China

Jianwen Li, Keyang Li and Yuan Ren

Compliance and accountability-seeking: Evidence from a field experiment in Argentina

Krzysztof Krakowski and Lucas Ronconi

On the effects of wildfires on poverty in Bolivia

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Alejandro Puerta-Cuartas and Andrey Ramos

The role of market frictions in demand for prepaid electricity

Megan Lang

Dismantling a market for stolen goods: Evidence from the regulation of junkyards in Brazil

Andre Mancha

Too much of a good thing: Accelerated growth and crime

Rodrigo R. Soares and Danilo Souza

Do index insurance programs live up to their promises? Aggregating evidence from multiple experiments

Pauline Castaing and Jules Gazeaud

Volume 174, issue C, 2025

Temporary migration for long-term investment

Laurent Bossavie, Joseph-Simon Görlach, Çaglar Özden and He Wang

Demand for “Safe Space”: Avoiding harassment and complying with norms

Florence Kondylis, Arianna Legovini, Kate Vyborny, Astrid Zwager and Luiza Andrade

Road infrastructure and skill premium: Evidence from Indian manufacturing

Santanu Chatterjee, Thomas Lebesmuehlbacher and Abhinav Narayanan

Relaxing multiple agricultural productivity constraints at scale

Joshua Deutschmann, Maya Duru, Kim Siegal and Emilia Tjernström

The elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled labor in developing countries: A directed technical change perspective

Alberto Behar

Economic shocks, gender, and populism: Evidence from Brazil

Laura Barros and Manuel Santos Silva

Responding to natural disasters: What do monthly remittance data tell us?

Giulia Bettin, Amadou Jallow and Alberto Zazzaro

Going the distance: Hybrid vocational training for women in Nepal

Sarah Janzen, Nicholas Magnan, Conner Mullally, Shruti Sharma and Bhola Shrestha

Farm profits, prices and household behavior

Daniel LaFave, Evan Peet and Duncan Thomas

Learning to use trade agreements

Kala Krishna, Carlos Salamanca, Yuta Suzuki and Christian Volpe Martincus

Local knowledge, formal evidence, and policy decisions

Eva Vivalt, Aidan Coville and Sampada Kc

Identity conflict, ethnocentrism and social cohesion

Matteo Sestito

Too fast, too furious? Digital credit delivery speed and repayment rates

Alfredo Burlando, Michael A. Kuhn and Silvia Prina

Measuring racial bias in employment services in Colombia

Suzanne Duryea, Jaime Millán-Quijano, Judith Morrison and Yanira Oviedo

A dynamic theory on clientelism and bureaucratic development

Nobuhiro Mizuno and Ryosuke Okazawa

The power of children in energy conservation: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Yuan Wang, Huayu Xu, Xiaoguang Xu and Yongmei Zhou

Corruption exposure, political trust, and immigrants

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Barry Eichengreen, Anastasia Litina, Cem Özgüzel and Chan Yu

FDI in Côte d’Ivoire: Are local firms better off?

Osaretin Olurotimi, Jeremy Foltz and Nouhoum Traore

Dynamic responses to smoking bans: Evidence from young adults in a developing country

Camila Steffens and Paula Carvalho Pereda

How Do Immigrants Promote Exports?

Gianluca Orefice, Hillel Rapoport and Gianluca Santoni

Loose knots: Strong versus weak commitments to save for education in Uganda

Dean Karlan and Leigh L. Linden

The protective role of index insurance in the experience of violent conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia

Tekalign Gutu Sakketa, Dan Maggio and John McPeak

Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico

Mizuhiro Suzuki

Beyond the records: Data quality and COVID-19 vaccination progress in low- and middle-income countries

Yannick Markhof, Philip Wollburg and Alberto Zezza

When the levee breaks: The impact of floods on educational outcomes in China

Zenghe Huang and Xiaofang Dong

The impact of female political leadership on gender attitudes: Evidence from Taiwan’s local councils

Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Yu-Hsin Ho, Matthew Yi-Hsiu Lee and Jin-Tan Liu

Do employers discriminate against married women? Evidence from a field experiment in Egypt

Caroline Krafft

The uneven reach of the state: A novel approach to mapping local state presence

Gustav Agneman, Christoffer Cappelen, Kasper Brandt and David Sjöberg

In search of the holy grail: Post-intervention effects of an unconditional cash transfer program in Zambia

Sudhanshu Handa, Gelson Tembo, Luisa Natali and Averi Chakrabarti

Multiplying multi-plants: A new and consequential phenomenon

Abhishek Anand, Arvind Subramanian and Naveen Thomas

Is crime a “root cause” of Central American emigration? Evidence from El Salvador

Kaleb Abreha, Trinity Johnson and Raymond Robertson

The power of dialogue: Forced displacement and social integration amid an Islamist insurgency in Mozambique

Henrique Pita Barros

Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election

Philip Keefer and Razvan Vlaicu

Underemployment of college graduates: is doing anything better than doing nothing?

Michel Armel Ndayikeza

Parental responses to child disability: Gender differences and relative earnings

T. Terry Cheung, Kamhon Kan and Tzu-Ting Yang

Probing the limits of mobile phone metadata for poverty prediction and impact evaluation

Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas, Joshua E. Blumenstock, Travis J. Lybbert and Daniel Putman

Universal secondary education, schooling and women ’s empowerment: Evidence from Uganda

Douglas Kazibwe and Jinhu Li

Labor intensity, market structure, and the effect of economic activities on civil conflict

Benjamin Crost, Joseph H. Felter and Yoko Yamasaki

Estimating the direct and indirect effects of improved seed adoption on yields: Evidence from DNA-fingerprinting, crop cuts, and self-reporting in Ethiopia

Nina Jovanovic and Jacob Ricker-Gilbert

From fields to factories: Special economic zones, foreign direct investment, and labour markets in Vietnam

Tevin Tafese, Jann Lay and Van Tran

The long shadow of conflict on human capital: Intergenerational evidence from Peru

Alessandra Hidalgo-Aréstegui, Catherine Porter, Alan Sánchez and Saurabh Singhal

Can SMS interventions increase vaccination? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya

Kevin Carney, Leah R. Rosenzweig, Wendy N. Wong, Florence Akech, James Otieno and Elisa M. Maffioli

Language training, refugees' healthcare integration, and the next generation's health

Thang Dang

Foreign banks and firms’ export dynamics: Evidence from China’s banking reform

Ana Fernandes and Jing-Lin Duanmu