Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2026

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 179, issue C, 2026

Trade policy and exporters’ resilience: Evidence from Indonesia

Massimiliano Calì, Simón Caicedo Graciano, Devaki Ghose, Angella Faith Montfaucon and Michele Ruta

Unveiling the Cosmic Race: Skin tone and intergenerational economic disparities in Latin America and the Caribbean

L. Guillermo Woo-Mora

Air pollution and manufacturing productivity: Understanding the roles of technology and adaptation

Jamie Hansen-Lewis

Anti-corruption shocks, political incentives, and regional economic development in a developmental state

Zhenyu Shen, Ruichao Si and Gang Xu

Mining policy reform and civil conflict: Evidence from Myanmar

Nan Sandi

Unreliable firms: Evidence from Rwanda

Vishan Gandhi Nigam and Brandon Joel Tan

The effects of nutrition support on behavioral outcomes and labor productivity

Seollee Park and Hyuncheol Bryant Kim

Input substitution in electricity generation and industrial production: Evidence from India

Raavi Aggarwal

Irrigation infrastructure and satellite-measured land cultivation impacts: Evidence from the Senegal river valley

Abdoulaye Cisse, Alain de Janvry, Joel Ferguson, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Samba Mbaye, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Mame Mor Anta Syll

Allocative implications of government investment in private sector

Lili Lian and Jingyi Zhang

Digitalization as a double-edged sword: Winning services and losing manufacturing in India

Yutong Chen

Pedaling to wellness: The impact of dockless bike-sharing services on physical and mental health in China

Xun Li and Congling Xia

Empowering women through radio: Evidence from Occupied Japan

Yoko Okuyama

Food price variation and passthrough among retail firms in rural and urban Tanzania

Jessica Rudder

Gender differences in judicial decisions under incomplete information: Evidence from child support cases

Roberto Asmat and Lajos Kossuth

Effects of emigration on labor markets in migrant origin areas: Evidence from internal migration in Indonesia

David H. Buller and Marieke Kleemans

Place-based affirmative action in college admission and educational attainment

Liqiu Zhao, Yongming Luo and Li Li

Inter-group contact and national identity: Evidence from Hong Kong and Macau students in the mainland of China

Zehui Li, Haoye Liao, Sen Ma, Junjie Qiu and Sen Xue

Does ancestry shape access to education? Evidence from surnames in Colombia

Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri and Andrés Álvarez

Who benefits from public services? Novel evidence and implications for inequality measurement

Amory Gethin

Persistent effects of universities on local industrial growth: Evidence from China's policy-induced college relocation in the 1950s

Jianyong Fan, Wei Tang and Feng Zhang

Left over or opting out? Squeeze, mismatch and surplus in Chinese marriage markets

Pauline Rossi and Yun Xiao

Judicial institution and innovation: Evidence from China's intellectual property courts reform

Liyang Wan, Qian Wan, Zichao Yang and Ying Zhao

The effectiveness of carbon emission trading system: Evidence from China's regional markets

Yue Li and Jing Zhao

The HIPC initiative and China’s emergence as a lender: post hoc or propter hoc?

Tito Cordella, Maia Cufre and Andrea F. Presbitero

Migration and sources of discrimination in a social context: Experimental evidence from 15 Latin American countries

Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez, Gwen-Jirō Clochard, Helmut Dietl and Juan Cruz Duhalde

Pollution reduction effects of new transregional power transmission systems: Evidence from ultra-high-voltage projects of China

Shenggang Ren, Li Zhao, Peng Zhang and Caiquan Bai

Weather shocks, recall error and health

Annika Herr, Soschia Karimi and Julian Wichert

Complementing business training with access to finance: Evidence from SMEs in Kenya

Anik Ashraf and Elizabeth Lyons

High-speed railroads and local agricultural development

Xiaoguang Chen, Binlei Gong, Zhilong Qin and Xiaoli Wang

Impact evaluations in data-scarce environments: The case of stress-tolerant rice varieties in Bangladesh

Jeffrey D. Michler, Dewan Abdullah Al Rafi, Jonathan Giezendanner, Anna Josephson, Valerien O. Pede and Elizabeth Tellman

Seasonality, academic calendar and school dropouts in South Asia

Seiro Ito and Abu S. Shonchoy

Caste identity and teachers’ biased expectations: Evidence from Bihar, India

Ritwik Banerjee, Satarupa Mitra, Soham Sahoo and Ashmita Gupta

Holy cows and spilled milk: The impact of religious missions on firm-level productivity

Jeanet Sinding Bentzen, Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Paul Sharp, Christian Volmar Skovsgaard and Christian Vedel

Public good or public bad? Nation-building and Indigenous institutions

Aldo Elizalde, Eduardo Hidalgo, Nayeli Salgado and Sotiris Kampanelis

Rural pension, factor reallocation and agricultural productivity: Evidence from China

Shouhan Dai, Binlei Gong, Peinan Hu and Xiaoyun Wei

Urbanization and educational attainment: Evidence from Africa

Raoul van Maarseveen

Causal Inference with Predicted Outcomes: Correcting prediction error bias in satellite-based impact evaluation

Johanne Pelletier, Mira Korb, Solomon Alemu, Manex B. Yonis, Travis J. Lybbert and Matthieu Stigler

Income shocks and mortality of low-wage workers: Evidence from wage allowances in Brazil

Caio Pedro Castro and Raphael Corbi

Social protection and social distancing during the pandemic: Mobile money transfers in Ghana

Dean Karlan, Matt Lowe, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Benjamin N. Roth and Christopher Udry

Awakening latent human capital: Economic opening up and entrepreneurship in 19th century China

Li Duan and Xiaoming Zhang

The decision-makers we become: Early education and the decision-making of boys and girls

Leandro S. Carvalho, Joana Cardim, Pedro Carneiro and Damien de Walque

Using free remotely sensed data to assess war-induced damage to agricultural cultivation: Evidence from Ukraine

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Nataliia Kussul, Andrii Shelestov, Leonid Shumilo and Guido Lemoine

Unlocking young women’s potential? The impact of a low-cost career guidance program

Ankush Asri, Viola Asri and Anke Hoeffler

The consumption side of trade shocks: Inequality dynamics and luxury imports

Vinicius Curti Cícero and Laura Heras-Recuero

Stimulating local economies through central transfers: A natural experiment from Ecuador

Leonardo Sánchez-Aragón, Gonzalo E. Sánchez and Wladimir Zanoni

Digital revitalization or useless effort? Public e-commerce support and local specialty sales

Xintong Han, Jan Victor Dee, Shaojia Wang and Kefan Chen

Protecting the vulnerable: How migrant regularization reduces crime and empowers women

Ana María Ibáñez, Sandra V. Rozo, Dany Bahar and María José Urbina

Two birds, one stone: Responses of agriculture to water pollution regulation

Binlei Gong, Haoyang Li, Liguo Lin, Hanxiang Ling and Wei Sun

Does social identity constrain rural entrepreneurship? Evidence on the role of financial inclusion

Sandhya Garg, Samarth Gupta and Sushanta Mallick

Bittersweet: Grandparenting and elderly mental health in the two-child policy era

Dapeng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou and Bingjin Xue

Downstream impacts of mines on agriculture in Africa

Lukas Vashold, Gustav Pirich, Maximilian Heinze and Nikolas Kuschnig

Narrowing or widening the gender gap in market and domestic work? The impact of workweek reduction reform in China

Ang Sun, Wei Sun, Wang Xiang, Huili Zhang and Junsen Zhang

Do bilateral labor agreements increase migration? Global evidence from 1960 to 2020

Maheshwor Shrestha, Heidi Kaila, Cha’ngom, Narcisse and Samik Adhikari

Endogenous migration restrictions and population aging in China

Zhu Chen, Jipeng Zhang and Kang Zhou

Right to stay? Long-run experimental evidence on land formalization and widows’ tenure security in Benin

Ioana Botea, Markus Goldstein, Kenneth Houngbedji, Florence Kondylis, O’Sullivan, Michael and Harris Selod

Grassland certification, grazing behavior, and ecological consequences: Evidence from pastoral China

Xinjie Shi, Bingyu Huangfu, Yan Zhang, Peinan Hu and Xuwen Gao

Social isolation induced negative emotions affect economic behavior: A natural experiment study

Shan Jin, Tiancheng Liu, Zepeng Sun and Xiaomeng Zhang

Environmental regulation, induced innovation, and greener transition: Firm-level evidence

Manho Kang, Jaerim Choi and Sunghoon Chung

Externalities of the personality traits: The effect of peer personality on students’ mental health

Liping Chen, Jiada Lin and Zhifeng Wang

Nutrition demand, subsistence farming, and agricultural productivity

Stepan Gordeev

Can a light-touch graduation model enhance livelihood outcomes? Evidence from Ethiopia

Jessica Leight, Daniel Gilligan, Melissa Hidrobo, Harold Alderman and Michael Mulford

Turning up the heat: Extreme heat and labor implications in West Africa

Martin Paul Tabe-Ojong, Ange T. Kakpo and Jourdain C. Lokossou

A structural analysis of firms’ transition from informality to formality in Nigeria

Idossou Marius Adom

Intertemporal risk pooling in village economies

Marcel Fafchamps and Aditya Shrinivas

Diffusion in social networks: Experimental evidence on information sharing vs persuasion

Marcel Fafchamps, Asad Islam, Debayan Pakrashi and Denni Tommasi

Remote tutoring in Latin America

Facundo Albornoz, Gonzalo Almeyda Torres, María Lombardi, Victoria Oubiña and Pablo Zoido Lobaton

Children’s say in the household

Ömer F. Sözbir

User-centered approaches to contraceptive counseling: Experimental evidence from urban Malawi

Mahesh Karra and Kexin Zhang

Dynamic, high-resolution poverty measurement in data-scarce environments

Zhuo Zheng, Timothy Wu, Richard Lee, David Newhouse, Talip Kilic, Marshall Burke, Stefano Ermon and David B. Lobell

Electoral politics over automation in a dual economy

Jaideep Roy and Bibhas Saha