Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 145, issue C, 2020

On the road: Access to transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Nancy Qian

Banker my neighbour: Matching and financial intermediation in savings groups

Rachel Cassidy and Marcel Fafchamps

The effect of air pollution on body weight and obesity: Evidence from China

Olivier Deschenes, Huixia Wang, Si Wang and Peng Zhang

Tax evasion and financial development under asymmetric information in credit markets

Jang-Ting Guo and Fu-Sheng Hung

Export price shocks and rural labor markets: The role of labor market distortions

Alexander Danzer and Robert Grundke

Land use restrictions, misallocation in agriculture, and aggregate productivity in Vietnam

Kien Le

Returns to work, child labor and schooling: The income vs. price effects

Jie Bai and Yukun Wang

Straw burning, PM2.5, and death: Evidence from China

Guojun He, Tong Liu and Maigeng Zhou

Two and a half million Syrian refugees, tasks and capital intensity

Yusuf Emre Akgunduz and Huzeyfe Torun

Mining and human capital accumulation: Evidence from the Colombian gold rush

Leonardo Bonilla Mejia

Are spousal labor supplies substitutes? evidence from the workweek reduction policy in China

Yueyuan Ma and Xinzheng Shi

Exposure of belt and road economies to China trade shocks

Paulo Bastos

Earnings inequality and China's preferential lending policy

Chong-En Bai, Qing Liu and Wen Yao

Expressways, GDP, and the environment: The case of China

Guojun He, Yang Xie and Bing Zhang

Volume 144, issue C, 2020

Cash-plus: Poverty impacts of alternative transfer-based approaches

Richard Sedlmayr, Anuj Shah and Munshi Sulaiman

Economic and psychological effects of health insurance and cash transfers: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Kenya

Johannes Haushofer, Matthieu Chemin, Chaning Jang and Justin Abraham

Decentralized delivery of financial education: Experimental evidence from Rwanda

Emmanuel Hakizimfura, Douglas Randall and Bilal Zia

Experimental identification of asymmetric information: Evidence on crop insurance in the Philippines

Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson

Implementation and effects of India's national school-based iron supplementation program

James Berry, Saurabh Mehta, Priya Mukherjee, Hannah Ruebeck and Gauri Shastry

Can referral improve targeting? Evidence from an agricultural training experiment

Marcel Fafchamps, Asad Islam, Mohammad Malek and Debayan Pakrashi

Land titles and violent conflict in rural Mexico

Paul Castañeda Dower and Tobias Pfutze

Services development and comparative advantage in manufacturing

Xuepeng Liu, Aaditya Mattoo, Zhi Wang and Shang-Jin Wei

Trade and agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from Africa

Obie Porteous

Hard to get: The scarcity of women and the competition for high-income men in urban China

David Ong, Yu (Alan) Yang and Junsen Zhang

When financial incentives backfire: Evidence from a community health worker experiment in Uganda

Zachary Wagner, John Bosco Asiimwe and David Levine

The Belt and Road Initiative: Reshaping economic geography in Central Asia?

Julia Bird, Mathilde Lebrand and Anthony Venables

Extractive resource policy and civil conflict: Evidence from mining reform in the Philippines

Benjamin Crost and Joseph H. Felter

Buy as you need: Nutrition and food storage imperfections

Jeremie Gross, Catherine Guirkinger and Jean-Philippe Platteau

Using social connections and financial incentives to solve coordination failure: A quasi-field experiment in India's manufacturing sector

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sherry Xin Li and Swati Sharma

The long-run influence of institutions governing trade: Evidence from smuggling ports in colonial Mexico

Daphne Alvarez-Villa and Jenny Guardado

Trade policy changes, tax evasion and Benford's law

Banu Demir and Beata Javorcik

Holding on? Ethnic divisions, political institutions and the duration of economic declines

Richard Bluhm and Kaj Thomsson

Panel data and experimental design

Fiona Burlig, Louis Preonas and Matt Woerman

Production efficiency and self-enforcement in value-added tax: Evidence from state-level reform in India

Mohammad Hoseini and Océane Briand

Volume 143, issue C, 2020

The geography of linguistic diversity and the provision of public goods

Klaus Desmet, Joseph Gomes and Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín

Violence, psychological stress and educational performance during the “war on drugs” in Mexico

Maren M. Michaelsen and Paola Salardi

The price of gold: Dowry and death in India

Sonia Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty and Selim Gulesci

Heat, infant mortality, and adaptation: Evidence from India

Rakesh Banerjee and Riddhi Maharaj

Close to the edge: High productivity at plot peripheries and the inverse size-productivity relationship

Leah EM. Bevis and Christopher Barrett

The Lazarus drug: the impact of antiretroviral therapy on economic growth

Anna Tompsett

Fertility and rural electrification in Bangladesh

Tomoki Fujii and Abu Shonchoy

How public information affects asymmetrically informed lenders: Evidence from a credit registry reform

Ali Choudhary and Anil K. Jain

The early bird catches the worm? School entry cutoff and the timing of births

Cheng Huang, Shiying Zhang and Qingguo Zhao

How effective is energy-efficient housing? Evidence from a field trial in Mexico

Lucas Davis, Sebastian Martinez and Bibiana Taboada

Experimental long-term effects of early-childhood and school-age exposure to a conditional cash transfer program

Teresa Molina Millán, Karen Macours, John Maluccio and Luis Tejerina

Can large, untargeted conditional cash transfers increase urban high school graduation rates? Evidence from Mexico City's Prepa Sí

Andrew Dustan

Technology adoption, capital deepening, and international productivity differences

Chaoran Chen

Cash transfers, polygamy, and intimate partner violence: Experimental evidence from Mali

Rachel Heath, Melissa Hidrobo and Shalini Roy

Land quality, land rights, and indigenous poverty

Bryan Leonard, Dominic Parker and Terry L. Anderson

Failure of frequent assessment: An evaluation of India’s continuous and comprehensive evaluation program

James Berry, Harini Kannan, Shobhini Mukherji and Marc Shotland

Mass media, information and demand for environmental quality: Evidence from the “Under the Dome”

Meng Tu, Bing Zhang, Jianhua Xu and Fangwen Lu

The effect of marital endowments on domestic violence in India

Seetha Menon

Improving child welfare in middle income countries: The unintended consequence of a pro-homemaker divorce law and wait time to divorce

Misty Heggeness

Aiming high and falling low: The SADA-Northern Ghana Millennium Village Project

Edoardo Masset, Jorge García-Hombrados and Arnab Acharya

The gold digger and the machine. Evidence on the distributive effect of the artisanal and industrial gold rushes in Burkina Faso

Remi Bazillier and Victoire Girard

Gender gaps in technology diffusion

Ariel BenYishay, Maria Jones, Florence Kondylis and Ahmed Mobarak

Rural transformation, inequality, and the origins of microfinance

Marvin Suesse and Nikolaus Wolf

Early-life deprivation and health outcomes in adulthood: Evidence from childhood hunger episodes of middle-aged and elderly Chinese

Hanxiao Cui, James Smith and Yaohui Zhao

Following the poppy trail: Origins and consequences of Mexican drug cartels

Tommy Murphy and Martín Rossi

Short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification: Evidence from the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid

Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

The long reach of cotton in the US South: Tenant farming, mechanization, and low-skill manufacturing

Yeonha Jung

Healthcare at the beginning of life and child survival: Evidence from a cash transfer experiment in Nigeria

Edward N. Okeke and Isa S. Abubakar

Common transport infrastructure: A quantitative model and estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative

François de Soyres, Alen Mulabdic and Michele Ruta