Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 147, issue C, 2020

Mandarins make markets: Leadership rotations and inter-provincial trade in China

Junyan Jiang and Yuan Mei

Land and labor allocation under communal tenure: Theory and evidence from China

Xiaoxue Zhao

The legacy effect of unexploded bombs on educational attainment in Laos

Shiqi Guo

Election cycles in public credit: Credit provision and default rates in Pakistan

Naseem Faraz and Marc Rockmore

The shrinking advantage of market potential

Marius Brülhart, Klaus Desmet and Gian-Paolo Klinke

On the economic effects of Indigenous institutions: Evidence from Mexico

Aldo Elizalde

Gender-targeted job ads in the recruitment process: Facts from a Chinese job board

Peter Kuhn, Kailing Shen and Shuo Zhang

Distorted quality signals in school markets

José Ignacio Cuesta, Felipe González and Cristian Larroulet Philippi

Preparing for genocide: Quasi-experimental evidence from Rwanda

Evelina Bonnier, Jonas Poulsen, Thorsten Rogall and Miri Stryjan

Informing and inquiring: Experimental evidence on reducing traffic violations

Jinan Zhang, Jeffrey Perloff and Fangwen Lu

Kompromat: A theory of blackmail as a system of governance

James P. Choy

Tractor vs. animal: Rural reforms and technology adoption in China

Shuo Chen and Xiaohuan Lan

Does trade cause capital to flow? Evidence from historical rainfall

Sebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Nikolsko–Rzhevskyy, Alex and Jun Hee Kwak

Labor market impacts and responses: The economic consequences of a marine environmental disaster

Trung Hoang, Duong Le, Ha Nguyen and Nguyen Vuong

Land reform and human capital development: Evidence from Peru

Michael Albertus, Mauricio Espinoza Hermoza and Ricardo Fort

Cooking that kills: Cleaner energy access, indoor air pollution, and health

Imelda Imelda

Marriage squeeze, marriage age and the household savings rate in China

Guangyu Nie

Managing the spread of disease with mobile phone data

Sveta Milusheva

The unintended impacts of agricultural fires: Human capital in China

Joshua Graff Zivin, Tong Liu, Yingquan Song, Qu Tang and Peng Zhang

China's rising IQ (Innovation Quotient) and growth: Firm-level evidence

Jing Fang, Hui He and Nan Li

Volume 146, issue C, 2020

Improving learning outcomes through information provision: Experimental evidence from Indian villages

Farzana Afridi, Bidisha Barooah and Rohini Somanathan

Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India

Sonia Bhalotra, Rachel Brulé and Sanchari Roy

Exposure to open defecation can account for the Indian enigma of child height

Dean Spears

Performance bonuses in the public sector: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India

Prakarsh Singh and William Masters

Changing the climate for banking: The economic effects of credit in a climate-vulnerable area

Daniel Da Mata and Guilherme Resende

Trade effects of the New Silk Road: A gravity analysis

Suprabha Baniya, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta

Geographic connectivity and cross-border investment: The Belts, Roads and Skies

Maggie Chen and Chuanhao Lin

Costs and benefits of rural-urban migration: Evidence from India

Clément Imbert and John Papp

Measuring ethnic stratification and its effect on trust in Africa

Roland Hodler, Sorawoot Srisuma, Alberto Vesperoni and Noémie Zurlinden

Effects of temporary corporate income tax cuts: Evidence from Vietnam

Anh Pham

The short term impact of a productive asset transfer in families with child labor: Experimental evidence from the Philippines

Eric Edmonds and Caroline Theoharides

Institutions, implementation, and program effectiveness: Evidence from a randomized evaluation of computer-assisted learning in rural China

Di Mo, Yu Bai, Yaojiang Shi, Cody Abbey, Linxiu Zhang, Scott Rozelle and Prashant Loyalka

The effects of fuel standards on air pollution: Evidence from China

Pei Li, Yi Lu and Jin Wang

Demand for insurance and within-kin-group marriages: Evidence from a West-African country

Rozenn Hotte and Karine Marazyan

Blessing or burden? Impacts of refugees on businesses and the informal economy

Onur Altindag, Ozan Bakis and Sandra Rozo

Tax competition between developed, emerging, and developing countries – Same same but different?

Mohammed Mardan and Michael Stimmelmayr

Who marries whom in a surging housing market?☆

Ang Sun and Qinghua Zhang

The cross-spousal effect of education on health

Rufei Guo, Lin Lin, Junjian Yi and Junsen Zhang

Markups and misallocation with evidence from exchange rate shocks

Ariel Weinberger

A Framework to Assess Debt Sustainability under the Belt and Road Initiative

Luca Bandiera and Vasileios Tsiropoulos

Who wins, who loses? Understanding the spatially differentiated effects of the belt and road initiative

Somik V. Lall and Mathilde Lebrand

Credit lines in microcredit: Short-term evidence from a randomized controlled trial in India

Fernando M. Aragón, Alexander Karaivanov and Karuna Krishnaswamy

Does informality facilitate inflation stability?

Enrique Alberola and Carlos Urrutia

Fiscal capacity in “post”-conflict states: Evidence from trade on Congo river

Ola Olsson, Maria Eriksson Baaz and Peter Martinsson

Stigma or cushion? IMF programs and sovereign creditworthiness

Kai Gehring and Valentin Lang

Controlling tuberculosis? Evidence from the first community-wide health experiment

Karen Clay, Peter Juul Egedesø, Casper Hansen, Peter Jensen and Avery Calkins

Frontiers, warfare and economic geography: The case of Spain

Daniel Oto-Peralías

The effects of elite public colleges on primary and secondary schooling markets in India

Maulik Jagnani and Gaurav Khanna

Grain exports and the causes of China's Great Famine, 1959–1961: County-level evidence

Hiroyuki Kasahara and Bingjing Li

The impact of ethnic segregation on schooling outcomes in Mandate Palestine

Laura Panza

Demand heterogeneity for index-based insurance: The case for flexible products

Francisco Ceballos and Miguel Robles

National or sub-national parties: Does party geographic scope matter?

Alexey Makarin, Ricardo Piqué and Fernando Aragon

Crop choice, trade costs, and agricultural productivity

Alberto Rivera-Padilla

Time horizon of government and public goods investment: Evidence from Japan

Junichi Yamasaki

Competition and the racial wage gap: Evidence from Brazil

Guilherme Hirata and Rodrigo Soares

The effects of rural electrification in India: An instrumental variable approach at the household level

Daniel Robert Thomas, S.P. Harish, Ryan Kennedy and Johannes Urpelainen

The value of discretion: Price-caps and public service delivery

Florian Blum

How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi

Brigitte Seim, Ryan Jablonski and Johan Ahlbäck

Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Khan and Arman Rezaee

Land division: A lab-in-the-field bargaining experiment

Margarita Gafaro and César Mantilla