Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 171, issue C, 2024

Information frictions, belief updating and internal migration: Evidence from Ghana and Uganda

Sarah Frohnweiler, Bernd Beber and Cara Ebert

Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes?

Loreto Cox, Sylvia Eyzaguirre, Francisco A. Gallego and Maximiliano García

Evidence on designing sanitation interventions

Britta Augsburg, Andrew Foster, Terence Johnson and Molly Lipscomb

Passing the message: Peer outreach about COVID-19 precautions in Zambia

Alfredo Burlando, Pradeep Chintagunta, Jessica Goldberg, Melissa Graboyes, Peter Hangoma, Dean Karlan, Mario Macis and Silvia Prina

Spatial inefficiencies in Africa’s trade network

Tilman Graff

In-group competition for incentives

Michael Olabisi, Mywish Maredia, Jiawen Liu, Toyin Ajibade and Hakeem Ajeigbe

College opportunity and teen fertility: Evidence from Ser Pilo Paga in Colombia

Michael D. Bloem and Jesús Villero

Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies

Liming Chen, Rana Hasan, Yi Jiang and Andrii Parkhomenko

How important are matching frictions in the labor market? Experimental & non-experimental evidence from a large Indian firm

Abhijit Banerjee and Gaurav Chiplunkar

The long-run costs of highly competitive exams for government jobs

Kunal Mangal

How distortive are turnover taxes? Evidence from China

Jing Xing, Katarzyna Bilicka, Xipei Hou and Sepideh Raei

Elite persistence in Sierra Leone: What can names tell us?

Yannick Dupraz and Rebecca Simson

Internal migration and drug violence in Mexico

Lorenzo Aldeco Leo, Andrés Jurado and Aurora A. Ramírez-Álvarez

Formal insurance and altruism networks

Tizié Bene, Yann Bramoullé and Frédéric Deroïan

Returns to quality in rural agricultural markets: Evidence from wheat markets in Ethiopia

Jérémy Do Nascimento Miguel

Preprimary education and early childhood development: Evidence from government schools in rural Kenya

Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Lia C.H. Fernald and Heather A. Knauer

Childhood migration and educational attainment: Evidence from Indonesia

Hanna Schwank

Roads, competition, and the informal sector

Elena Perra, Marco Sanfilippo and Asha Sundaram

Pollution-induced trips: Evidence from flight and train bookings in China

Ruochen Dai, Dongmei Guo, Yajie Han and Yu Qin

Communist propaganda and women’s status

Ruoyu Qian

Measuring sex-selective abortion: How many women abort?

Aditi Dimri, Véronique Gille and Philipp Ketz

When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from waterborne illnesses

Francisca M. Antman and James Flynn

Supporting small firms in a fragile context: Comparing matching and cash grants in Burkina Faso

Michael Grimm, Sidiki Soubeiga and Michael Weber

Allocating labor across small firms: Experimental evidence on information constraints

Morgan Hardy, Seongyoon Kim, Jamie McCasland, Andreas Menzel and Marc Witte

Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving

Sanghamitra Warrier Mukherjee, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Marshall Burke and Edward Miguel

Corrigendum to Medication against conflict [Journal of Development Economics (2024) Volume 170, September 2024, 103306]

Andrea Berlanda, Matteo Cervellati, Elena Esposito, Dominic Rohner and Uwe Sunde

Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model

Rainald Borck and Peter Mulder

The seeds of misallocation: Fertilizer use and maize varietal misidentification in Ethiopia

Nils Bohr, Tim Deisemann, Douglas Gollin, Frédéric Kosmowski and Travis J. Lybbert

A Farewell to Arms: Paramilitaries Demobilization, Political Competition and Public Goods in Colombia

Felipe Coy

Land allocation and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from the 2007 reform in China

Wenjia Tian, Zhi Wang and Qinghua Zhang

How accurate is a poverty map based on remote sensing data? An application to Malawi

Roy van der Weide, Brian Blankespoor, Chris Elbers and Peter Lanjouw

Trade liberalization, labor market power, and misallocation across firms: Evidence from China's WTO accession

Enze Xie, Mingzhi (Jimmy) Xu and Miaojie Yu

Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania

Martin J. Chegere, Paolo Falco and Andreas Menzel

Forced migration and local economic development: Evidence from postwar Hungary

Daniel Borbely and Ross Mckenzie

The enduring trauma: How officials' childhood famine experiences affect year-end spending surge

Xing Chen, Peng Zhang, Ping Zhang and Andong Zhuge

Global Mobile Inventors

Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ernest Miguelez and Sara Signorelli

Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China

Wei Huang, Mi Luo, Yuqi Ta and Boxian Wang

Migration from developing countries: Selection, income elasticity, and Simpson’s paradox

Michael Clemens and Mariapia Mendola

Bribery, plant size and size dependent distortions

M Nazim Tamkoc

Volume 170, issue C, 2024

When a strike strikes twice: Massive student mobilizations and teenage pregnancy in Chile

Pablo A. Celhay, Emilio Depetris-Chauvin and Cristina Riquelme

Shortening the path to productive investment: Evidence from input fairs and cash transfers in Malawi

Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, Jonathan Robinson and Alan Spearot

Economic development and known natural resource endowment: Discovery rate differentials of oil

Jonas Hamang

Women’s access to school, educational attainment, and fertility: Evidence from Jordan

Hongliang Zhang and Ragui Assaad

Do tax audits have a dynamic impact? Evidence from corporate income tax administrative data

Christos Kotsogiannis, Luca Salvadori, John Karangwa and Theonille Mukamana

FDI inflows and export quality: Domestic competition and within-firm adjustment

Qing Liu, Larry D. Qiu and Chaoqun Zhan

Environmental externalities and free-riding in the household

B. Kelsey Jack, Seema Jayachandran, Flavio Malagutti and Sarojini Rao

Is the glass half full or half empty? Examining the impact of Swatch Bharat interventions on sanitation and hygiene in rural Punjab, India

Saubhik Deb, George Joseph, Luis Alberto Andrés and Jonathan Grabinsky Zabludovsky

Political connections and misallocation of procurement contracts: Evidence from Ecuador

Felipe Brugués, Javier Brugués and Samuele Giambra

Introduction to the journal of development economics special issue on methods and measurement

Kathleen Beegle, Andrew Dillon, Dean Karlan and Christopher Udry

The effectiveness of entry deregulation: Novel evidence from removing minimum capital requirements

Hua Cheng, Siying Ding and Yongzheng Liu

Information and immigrant settlement

Toman Barsbai, Victoria Licuanan, Andreas Steinmayr, Erwin Tiongson and Dean Yang

Medication against conflict

Andrea Berlanda, Matteo Cervellati, Elena Esposito, Dominic Rohner and Uwe Sunde

Using technology to prevent fraud in high stakes national school examinations: Evidence from Indonesia

Emilie Berkhout, Menno Pradhan, Rahmawati,, Daniel Suryadarma and Arya Swarnata

Fracking, farmers, and rural electrification in India

T. Robert Fetter and Faraz Usmani

In someone else’s shoes: Reducing prejudice through perspective taking

Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc and Sandra V. Rozo

Big hits in export growth

Melise Jaud, Olivier Cadot, Anne-Célia Disdier and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann

Types of communications technology and civil conflict

Tushar Bharati, Michael Jetter and Muhammad Nauman Malik

Social distancing and COVID-19 under violence: Evidence from Colombia

Diego A. Martin and Dario A. Romero

The welfare effects of mobile broadband internet: Evidence from Nigeria

Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Takaaki Masaki, Xavier Pedrós, Tobias Pfutze, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán and Hernan Winkler

Altruism in governance: Insights from randomized training for Pakistan's junior ministers

Sultan Mehmood, Shaheen Naseer and Daniel L. Chen