Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2018

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 132, issue C, 2018

Unit roots, flexible trends, and the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis pp. 1-17

Diego Winkelried

Agricultural reforms and production in China: Changes in provincial production function and productivity in 1978–2015 pp. 18-31

Binlei Gong

Trading frictions in Indian village economies pp. 32-56

Kyle Emerick

Formalization without certification? Experimental evidence on property rights and investment pp. 57-74

Markus Goldstein, Kenneth Houngbedji, Florence Kondylis, Michael O'Sullivan and Harris Selod

International import competition and the decision to migrate: Evidence from Mexico pp. 75-87

Kaveh Majlesi and Gaia Narciso

Migration and development: Dissecting the anatomy of the mobility transition pp. 88-101

Thu Hien Dao, Frédéric Docquier, Chris Parsons and Giovanni Peri

One more resource curse: Dutch disease and export concentration pp. 102-114

Dany Bahar and Miguel Santos

Ethnic favoritism: An axiom of politics? pp. 115-129

Giacomo De Luca, Roland Hodler, Paul Raschky and Michele Valsecchi

Using spatial factor analysis to measure human development pp. 130-149

Qihua Qiu, Jaesang Sung, Will Davis and Rusty Tchernis

Volume 131, issue C, 2018

Temptation in vote-selling: Evidence from a field experiment in the Philippines pp. 1-14

Allen Hicken, Stephen Leider, Nico Ravanilla and Dean Yang

Violence, psychological trauma, and risk attitudes: Evidence from victims of violence in Colombia pp. 15-27

Andres Moya

Does feedback matter? Evidence from agricultural services pp. 28-41

Maria Jones and Florence Kondylis

Productivity in piece-rate labor markets: Evidence from rural Malawi pp. 42-61

Raymond P. Guiteras and B. Kelsey Jack

Building connections: Political corruption and road construction in India pp. 62-78

Jonathan Lehne, Jacob N. Shapiro and Oliver Vanden Eynde

Race to safety: Political competition, neighborhood effects, and coal mine deaths in China pp. 79-95

Xiangyu Shi and Tianyang Xi

Income shocks, contraceptive use, and timing of fertility pp. 96-103

Shamma Adeeb Alam and Claus Pörtner

Religious riots and electoral politics in India pp. 104-122

Sriya Iyer and Anand Shrivastava

Ties that bind: Network redistributive pressure and economic decisions in village economies pp. 123-131

Salvatore Di Falco, Francesco Feri, Paolo Pin and Xavier Vollenweider

The impact of internal displacement on destination communities: Evidence from the Colombian conflict pp. 132-150

Juan Morales

Volume 130, issue C, 2018

Room for discretion? Biased decision-making in international financial institutions pp. 1-16

Valentin F. Lang and Andrea Presbitero

The long-term effects of American Indian boarding schools pp. 17-32

Matthew Gregg

Abolishing user fees, fertility choice, and educational attainment pp. 33-44

Takahiro Ito and Shinsuke Tanaka

The role of trade in structural transformation pp. 45-65

Marc Teignier

Do refugee camps help or hurt hosts? The case of Kakuma, Kenya pp. 66-83

Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Sarah Walker, Anne Bartlett, Harun Onder and Apurva Sanghi

Land productivity and plot size: Is measurement error driving the inverse relationship? pp. 84-98

Sam Desiere and Dean Jolliffe

The effect of commuting costs and transport subsidies on informality rates pp. 99-112

Ana Moreno-Monroy and Héctor M. Posada

Income inequality, poverty, and the liquidity of stock markets pp. 113-126

Benjamin Blau

The distributional effects of capital account liberalization pp. 127-144

Davide Furceri and Prakash Loungani

Price and control elasticities of demand for savings pp. 145-159

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

Not your average job: Measuring farm labor in Tanzania pp. 160-172

Vellore Arthi, Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and Amparo Palacios-López

Regional development through place-based policies: Evidence from a spatial discontinuity pp. 173-189

Ajay Shenoy

A theory-based living standards index for measuring poverty in developing countries pp. 190-202

Diana K.L. Ngo

Capital misallocation in China: Financial frictions or policy distortions? pp. 203-223

Guiying Wu

Female migration: A way out of discrimination? pp. 224-241

Ilse Ruyssen and Sara Salomone

Volume 129, issue C, 2017

Savings defaults and payment delays for cash transfers: Field experimental evidence from Malawi pp. 1-13

Lasse Brune, Xavier Gine, Jessica Goldberg and Dean Yang

Cash transfers and index insurance: A comparative impact analysis from northern Kenya pp. 14-28

Nathaniel Jensen, Christopher Barrett and Andrew G. Mude

Political participation in a violent society: The impact of lynching on voter turnout in the post-Reconstruction South pp. 29-46

Daniel Jones, Werner Troesken and Randall Walsh

Multilingualism and public goods provision: An experiment in two languages in Uganda pp. 47-57

Paul Clist and Arjan Verschoor

Adverse selection in asset markets: Theory and evidence from the Indian market for cows pp. 58-72

Santosh Anagol

Volume 128, issue C, 2017

Direct and indirect effects of Malawi's public works program on food security pp. 1-23

Kathleen Beegle, Emanuela Galasso and Jessica Goldberg

Does group inclusion hurt financial inclusion? Evidence from ultra-poor members of Ugandan savings groups pp. 24-48

Alfredo Burlando and Andrea Canidio

Endogenous enforcement institutions pp. 49-64

Gani Aldashev and Giorgio Zanarone

Market failures and misallocation pp. 65-80

Ajay Shenoy

Volume 127, issue C, 2017

The effect of violent crime on the human capital accumulation of young adults pp. 1-12

Ryan Brown and Andrea Velásquez

Population density, fertility, and demographic convergence in developing countries pp. 13-24

David de la Croix and Paula Gobbi

Employment and firm heterogeneity, capital allocation, and countercyclical labor market policies pp. 25-41

Brendan Epstein and Alan Finkelstein Shapiro

The causal effect of maternal age at marriage on child wellbeing: Evidence from India pp. 42-55

Amalavoyal Chari, Rachel Heath, Annemie Maertens and Freeha Fatima

Turnout, political preferences and information: Experimental evidence from Peru pp. 56-71

Gianmarco León

Joint-liability with endogenously asymmetric group loan contracts pp. 72-90

Francesco Carli and Burak R. Uras

From mine to coast: Transport infrastructure and the direction of trade in developing countries pp. 91-108

Roberto Bonfatti and Steven Poelhekke

Intra-household resource allocation and familial ties pp. 109-132

Harounan Kazianga and Zaki Wahhaj

Fertilizing growth: Agricultural inputs and their effects in economic development pp. 133-152

John McArthur and Gordon C. McCord

The effects of financial development on foreign direct investment pp. 153-168

Rodolphe Desbordes and Shang-Jin Wei

Home ownership as status competition: Some theory and evidence pp. 169-186

Shang-Jin Wei, Xiaobo Zhang and Yin Liu

Endogenous time horizon and behavioral poverty trap: Theory and evidence from Mozambique pp. 187-208

Rachid Laajaj

The legacy of natural disasters: The intergenerational impact of 100 years of disasters in Latin America pp. 209-233

Germán Daniel Caruso

The fish is the friend of matriliny: Reef density and matrilineal inheritance pp. 234-249

Ariel BenYishay, Pauline Grosjean and Joe Vecci

Resource shocks and human capital stocks – Brain drain or brain gain? pp. 250-268

Daniel Steinberg

No toilet no bride? Intrahousehold bargaining in male-skewed marriage markets in India pp. 269-282

Yaniv Stopnitzky

Product cycle, contractibility, and global sourcing pp. 283-296

Xiaoping Chen, Yi Lu and Lianming Zhu

The economics of early warfare over land pp. 297-305

Gregory Dow, Leanna Mitchell and Clyde G. Reed

Financing smallholder agriculture: An experiment with agent-intermediated microloans in India pp. 306-337

Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta and Sujata Visaria

Jewish communities and city growth in preindustrial Europe pp. 339-354

Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama

The long-run effects of missionary orders in Mexico pp. 355-378

Maria Waldinger

Anonymity, efficiency wages and technological progress pp. 379-394

Stephen Broadberry, Sayantan Ghosal and Eugenio Proto

Religious co-option in autocracy: A theory inspired by history pp. 395-412

Emmanuelle Auriol and Jean-Philippe Platteau

Colonization and changing social structure: Evidence from Kazakhstan pp. 413-430

Gani Aldashev and Catherine Guirkinger

Reputational Consequences of Labor Coercion: Evidence from Assam's Tea Plantations pp. 431-439

Bishnupriya Gupta and Anand V. Swamy

Colonial legacy, polarization and linguistic disenfranchisement: The case of the Sri Lankan War pp. 440-448

Paul Castañeda Dower, Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber

Clash of civilizations and the impact of cultural differences on trade pp. 449-458

Gunes Gokmen

Income concentration in British India, 1885–1946 pp. 459-469

Facundo Alvaredo, Augustin Bergeron and Guilhem Cassan