Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 173, issue C, 2025

On the properties of the two main types of global poverty lines

Benoit Decerf

What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde

Catia Batista, David M. Costa, Pedro Freitas, Gonçalo Lima and Ana B. Reis

Early maternity and paternity. Effects on educational trajectories

Matías Berthelon, Dante Contreras, Diana Kruger and María Isidora Palma

Better strategies for saving more: Evidence from three interventions in Chile

Abhijit Banerjee, Martínez A. Claudia and Esteban Puentes

Labor market effects of bounds on domestic outsourcing

Bruno Jiménez and Silvio Rendon

The local human capital costs of oil exploitation

Lenin H. Balza, Camilo De Los Rios, Raul Jimenez Mori and Osmel Manzano

Volume 172, issue C, 2025

Are students really biased against female professors? — Experimental evidence from India

Puneet Arora and Moumita Roy

Do entrepreneurial skills unlock opportunities for online freelancing? Experimental evidence from El Salvador

Maria Victoria Fazio, Richard Freund and Rafael Novella

Aid allocation with optimal monitoring: Theory and policy

François Bourguignon and Jean-Philippe Platteau

Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention

Mylène Lagarde and Carlos Riumallo Herl

Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China

Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir, Corina Mommaerts and Yu Zheng

Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño?

Maria Bas and Caroline Paunov

The abolition of People’s Communes and fertility decline in rural China

Shuo Chen and Bin Xie

The persistence of trade relocation from civil conflict

Tobias Korn and Henry Stemmler

Poverty mapping in the age of machine learning

Paul Corral, Heath Henderson and Sandra Segovia

Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration

Yumi Koh, Jing Li, Yifan Wu, Junjian Yi and Hanzhe Zhang

The quiet revolution: Send-down movement and female empowerment in China

Chong Liu, Wenyi Lu and Ye Yuan

The transition to direct mayoral elections in clientelistic environments: Causal public spending and service delivery effects

Blane Lewis and Sarah Dong

Robots as guardians: Industrial automation and workplace safety in China

Wei Luo, Lixin Tang, Yaxin Yang and Xianqiang Zou

How to improve education outcomes most efficiently? A review of the evidence using a unified metric

Noam Angrist, David K. Evans, Deon Filmer, Rachel Glennerster, Halsey Rogers and Shwetlena Sabarwal

Electricity and female employment: Evidence from Tajikistan’s winter energy crisis

Adrian Poignant

Does social capital positively influence loan performance even during a crisis?

Sumit Agarwal, Prasanna Tantri and Nitin Vishen

Combining survey and census data for improved poverty prediction using semi-supervised deep learning

Damien Échevin, Guy Fotso, Yacine Bouroubi, Harold Coulombe and Qing Li

Estimating poverty for India after 2011 using private-sector survey data

Sutirtha Sinha Roy and Roy van der Weide

Vehicle exhaust standards and urban air quality in China

Li Shu, Chunhua Wang and Wei Wang

What you do (not) get when expanding the net - Evidence from forced taxpayer registrations in South Africa

Collen Lediga, Nadine Riedel and Kristina Strohmaier

The effects of expanding worker rights to children

Leah Lakdawala, Diana Martínez Heredia and Diego Vera-Cossio

Public pensions and family dynamics: Eldercare, child investment, and son preference in rural China

Naijia Guo, Wei Huang and Ruixin Wang

Discretion, talent allocation, and governance performance: Evidence from China’s imperial bureaucracy

Kevin Zhengcheng Liu and Xiaoming Zhang

Ethnic diversity and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from refugee-hosting areas

Luisito Bertinelli, Rana Cömertpay and Jean-François Maystadt

A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa

Amina Ebrahim and Jukka Pirttilä

Shooting a moving target: Evaluating targeting tools for social programs when income fluctuates

Diether W. Beuermann, Bridget Hoffmann, Marco Stampini, David L. Vargas and Diego Vera-Cossio

Corrigendum to ‘Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor’ [J. Dev. Econ., 155 (2022) 102781]

Abhijit Banerjee, Dean Karlan, Robert Osei, Hannah Trachtman and Christopher Udry

How does progressivity impact tax morale? Experimental evidence across developing countries

Christopher Hoy

Cover more for less: Targeted drug coverage, chronic disease management, and medical spending

Julie Shi, Wanyu Yang and Ye Yuan

Corrigendum to “Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China” [J. Dev. Econ. 166, (January 2024), 103211]

Anthony Howell

Blaming the wind? The impact of wind turbine on bird biodiversity

Lina Meng, Pengfei Liu, Yinggang Zhou and Yingdan Mei

E-invoicing, tax audits and VAT compliance

Christos Kotsogiannis, Luca Salvadori, John Karangwa and Innocente Murasi

A tale of framing and screening: How health messaging and house screening affect malaria transmission in Ethiopia

Solomon Balew, Erwin Bulte, Zewdu Abro, Abebe Asale, Clifford Mutero and Menale Kassie

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