Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2026

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

From Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 182, issue C, 2026

Chat over coffee? Diffusion of agronomic practices and market spillovers in Rwanda

Esther Duflo, Daniel Keniston, Tavneet Suri and Céline Zipfel

C'est la vie!: Mixed impacts of an edutainment television series in West Africa

Malick Dione, Jessica Heckert, Melissa Hidrobo, Agnes Le Port, Amber Peterman and Moustapha Seye

Foreign interventions and community cohesion in times of conflict

Sarah Langlotz

Polygamy, co-wives’ complementarities, and intrahousehold inequality

Ana Reynoso

The art of not being chocked: Environmental awareness, residents' responses and land transactions in China

Wei Zou and Pinghan Liang

Trade, storage, and climate extremes: Theory and evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Charlotte Janssens

Who benefits from a maternity leave extension? Evidence from Chile

Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero

Moving up the ranks: Conscription and intergenerational mobility

Diego Ramos-Toro and Juan Pedro Ronconi

Violence and black markets: Evidence from the Niger Delta conflict

Jonah Matthew Rexer and Even Soltvedt Hvinden

From childhood abduction to adulthood: Enduring consequences for women in Uganda

Alessandra Cassar, Eeshani Kandpal, Miranda Lambert, Christine Mbabazi Mpyangu and Danila Serra

Love thy neighbour? Violent armed conflict and trust: Evidence from Ethiopia

Richard Freund and Marta Favara

Violence against journalists and freedom of the press: Evidence from Mexico

José A. Jurado and Juan Morales

Did the Cold War produce development clusters in Africa?

Paul Castañeda Dower, Gunes Gokmen, Michel Le Breton and Shlomo Weber

Corrigendum to ‘Place-based affirmative action in college admission and educational attainment’ [J. Develop. Econ. 179, February 2026, 103624]

Liqiu Zhao, Yongming Luo and Li Li

The impact of public-private partnership health plans on private insurance

Hui Ding, Xintong Wang and Xian Xu

The phantom menace in agriculture: How lagged droughts distort input decisions and create environmental deadweight loss

Dingqiang Sun, Xueting Qie and Kaixing Huang

Climate policies, labor markets, and macroeconomic outcomes in emerging economies

Alan Finkelstein Shapiro and Victoria Nuguer

Demonetization and under-reporting of economic activity: Evidence from real estate

Santosh Anagol, Vimal Balasubramaniam, Tarun Ramadorai and Antoine Uettwiller

Parental mental health and the economic preferences of the next generation

Alexander Bertermann and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

Firm capacity underutilization and the measurement of productivity

Hundanol Kebede and Margaret S. McMillan

It will rain: The effect of information on flood preparedness in urban Mozambique

Stefan Leeffers

Retraction notice to “Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence: Evidence from India” [J. Dev. Econ. 157 (2022) 102872]

Felix L. Friedt and Aidan Toner-Rodgers

Academic freedom and creativity: An empirical investigation

Di Sima

Does restricting access to credit affect learning outcomes? Evidence from a regulatory shock to microfinance in India

Muneer Kalliyil and Soham Sahoo

Landmine clearance and economic development: Evidence from multispectral satellite imagery, nighttime lights, and conflict events in Afghanistan

Ariel BenYishay, Rachel Sayers, Kunwar Singh, Christian Baehr and Madeleine Walker

Minimum wages, low-wage workers, and compliance under imperfect enforcement

Nicolás González-Pampillón and Javier Vázquez-Grenno

Unintended consequences of sanitation investment: Negative externalities on water quality and health in India

Kazuki Motohashi

Product quality, the scope of export destinations and skill demand for sustainable development: An investigation for China

Zhuangxiong Yu, Yang Yang, Jiemiao Dong and Pundarik Mukhopadhaya

The emergence of the poverty-mental health gradient: Evidence from the great Pakistan earthquake of 2005

Tahir Andrabi, Benjamin Daniels and Jishnu Das

Desired fertility, realized fertility and the effects of China's Universal Two-Child Policy∗

Hanming Fang and Chang Liu

Estimating how much children work: Questionnaires versus time use diaries

Juana Lamote de Grignon Pérez, Wenbin Wang, Tanay Kasyap, Matthew Henglong Luo and Jialu Tang

The stalled quiet revolution: Population control, skewed sex ratios, and the widening gender gap in labor force participation

Zihao Chen, Yawen Ding and Xu Tian

Family Rules: Nepotism in the Mexican Judiciary

Pablo Brassiolo, Ricardo Estrada, Gustavo Fajardo and Julian Martinez-Correa

Winning hearts after tying hands: The political impact of land titling reform in China

Zhi-An Hu, Zhuo Nie and Jiaqi Zhao

Number one girl: Female top scorers and peer academic performance in junior high schools

Xuezheng Qin, Yingfei Wang and Haochen Zhang

Contract enforcement in a stateless economy

Sultan Mehmood, Georgii Marinichev, Sajwaar Khalid, Daniel Chen and Margarita Kudaeva

Raising the bar: An inclusive global poverty line

Lant Pritchett and Martina Viarengo

The limits of local laws in global supply chains: Cutting ties or “edutrading” procurement partners?

Hendrik Keilbach, Michael Koetter, Melina Ludolph and Fabian Woebbeking

Ancestral irrigation and collective climate action

Trung Vu and James B. Ang

Does irrigation reduce migration intentions after drought? Evidence from West Africa

Alix Debray, Lucile Dehouck, Katrin Millock and Ilse Ruyssen

Under pressure: Global evidence on conflict and firms

Emanuele Brancati, Michele Di Maio, Roberta Gatti and Asif M. Islam

Improving childhood immunization through maternal support: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Pakistan

Adeline Delavande, Areeba Shahab, Javed Younas and Basit Zafar

Trafficking as choice? Evidence from Nigeria

Tamara Bogatzki and Daniel Meierrieks

Moving to opportunity for polluting: Intra-city evidence from China’s land market

Shiyu Bo, Fan Zhang and Hongjia Zhu

Resource booms, revenue sharing, and growth

Margaret E. Brehm, Paul A. Brehm, Alecia Cassidy and Traviss Cassidy

Restricting video games in China: Effects on time use, educational achievement, and health

Zhejian Wang

Women political leaders as agents of environmental change

Inés Berniell, Mariana Marchionni, Julián Pedrazzi and Mariana Viollaz

Weather or climate? A new perspective on temperature shocks

Nooman Rebei

Winsorizing and trimming in RCTs

Till Wicker

Domestic outsourcing and employment security

Naijia Guo, Duoxi Li and Michael B. Wong

Organized crime, local politicians, and state capacity

Seung-hun Lee

The political consequences of vaccines: Quasi-experimental evidence from eligibility rules

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin and Felipe González

Targeting social assistance in fragile settings: An experiment in community-based targeting

Kibrom A. Abay, Guush Berhane, Daniel O. Gilligan, Kibrom Tafere and Alemayehu Taffesse

The effect of reminders for self-set goals on productivity

Martin Abel, Tomoko Harigaya, Michael Kremer and Jessica Zhu

Temporary acceleration or long-term change? Experimental evidence on female empowerment and intimate partner violence in urban Liberia

David Sungho Park

Addressing weak links in government implementation at scale: Experimental evidence from a school governance reform in Tanzania

Jacobus Cilliers and James Habyarimana

Adjustment without accumulation: Evidence on capital formation from IMF programs

Daniel Rinner, Kevin P. Gallagher and Rebecca Ray

The effect of export market access on labor market power: Firm-level evidence from Vietnam

Trang Hoang, Devashish Mitra and Hoang Pham

On the right track? Railroads, industrial development, and distributional effects in historical China

Shiyu Bo, Ting Chen, Cong Liu and Yan Zhou

From trade protectionism to legal protectionism: How the Trump trade war harms US firms in China

Shiyu Bo and Wen Liu

Quality upgrading and productivity gains from domestic market access changes in India

Sang Hoon Kong

Digital skills for better jobs: Experimental evidence from a bootcamp training program in Peru

Rafael Novella, Richard Freund and David Rosas-Shady