Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 142, issue C, 2020

Migration under liquidity constraints: Evidence from randomized credit access in China

Shu Cai

The unintended consequences of migration policy on origin-country labor market decisions

Caroline Theoharides

Taking the skill bias out of global migration

Costanza Biavaschi, Michał Burzyński, Benjamin Elsner and Joël Machado

Unequal migration and urbanisation gains in China

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Sylvie Démurger, Shi Li and Jianguo Wang

Migration and co-residence choices: Evidence from Mexico

Simone Bertoli and Elie Murard

Geography of skills and global inequality

Michał Burzyński, Christoph Deuster and Frédéric Docquier

Searching for a better life: Predicting international migration with online search keywords

Marcus Böhme, André Gröger and Tobias Stöhr

Reprint of: The long-term impact of international migration on economic decision-making: Evidence from a migration lottery and lab-in-the-field experiments

John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua and Steven Stillman

Volume 141, issue C, 2019

Polarization, foreign military intervention, and civil conflict

Suleiman Abu-Bader and Elena Ianchovichina

Early life shocks and mental health: The long-term effect of war in Vietnam

Saurabh Singhal

Conflict and counterinsurgency aid: Drawing sectoral distinctions

Travers Barclay Child

Education is forbidden: The effect of the Boko Haram conflict on education in North-East Nigeria

Eleonora Bertoni, Michele Di Maio, Vasco Molini and Roberto Nisticò

A matter of time: An impact evaluation of the Brazilian National Land Credit Program

Steven Helfand, Vilma H. Sielawa and Deepak Singhania

Do criminally accused politicians affect economic outcomes? Evidence from India

Nishith Prakash, Marc Rockmore and Yogesh Uppal

Predicting entrepreneurial success is hard: Evidence from a business plan competition in Nigeria

David McKenzie and Dario Sansone

Directed technological change & cross-country income differences: A quantitative analysis

Michal Jerzmanowski and Robert Tamura

Women's political participation and intrahousehold empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring

Olivier Bargain, Delphine Boutin and Hugues Champeaux

A new spin on an old debate: Errors in farmer-reported production and their implications for inverse scale - Productivity relationship in Uganda

Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic and David B. Lobell

Valuing the urban hukou in China: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design for housing prices

Yu Chen, Shaobin Shi and Yugang Tang

The effect of parental job loss on child school dropout: Evidence from the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Michele Di Maio and Roberto Nisticò

The impact of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Aceh’s long-term economic growth

Martin Philipp Heger and Eric Neumayer

Monetary incentives on inter-caste marriages in India: Theory and evidence

Ali Hortacsu, Sam Il Myoung Hwang and Divya Mathur

Preferential and multilateral liberalization: Evidence from Latin America’s use of tariffs, antidumping and safeguards

Patricia Tovar

Farewell to confucianism: The modernizing effect of dismantling China's imperial examination system

Ying Bai

Death scares: How potential work-migrants infer mortality rates from migrant deaths

Maheshwor Shrestha

Volume 140, issue C, 2019

Now or later? The allocation of the pot and the insurance motive in fixed roscas pp. 1-11

Jean-Marie Baland, Catherine Guirkinger and Renate Hartwig

Regression discontinuity analysis of Gavi's impact on vaccination rates pp. 12-25

Sarah Dykstra, Amanda Glassman, Charles Kenny and Justin Sandefur

The social lives of married women: Peer effects in female autonomy and investments in children pp. 26-43

Eeshani Kandpal and Kathy Baylis

African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance pp. 44-71

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Roland Hodler, Bradley C. Parks, Paul Raschky and Michael J. Tierney

Physician agency in China: Evidence from a drug-percentage incentive scheme pp. 72-89

Bingxiao Wu

The long-term determinants of female HIV infection in Africa: The slave trade, polygyny, and sexual behavior pp. 90-105

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

Do visas hinder international trade in goods? pp. 106-126

Camilo Umana-Dajud

Targeting poverty under complementarities: Evidence from Indonesia's unified targeting system pp. 127-144

Achmad Tohari, Christopher Parsons and Anu Rammohan

Non-neutral technology, firm heterogeneity, and labor demand pp. 145-168

Hongsong Zhang

When the money runs out: Do cash transfers have sustained effects on human capital accumulation? pp. 169-185

Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler

Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda pp. 186-202

Moussa Blimpo and Todd Pugatch

Size-dependent tax enforcement and compliance: Global evidence and aggregate implications pp. 203-222

Pierre Bachas, Roberto Fattal Jaef and Anders Jensen

The limits of meritocracy: Screening bureaucrats under imperfect verifiability pp. 223-241

Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Xiao Yu Wang and Shuang Zhang

The political economy of International Finance Corporation lending pp. 242-254

Axel Dreher, Valentin F. Lang and Katharina Richert

Regional market integration in East Africa: Local but no regional effects? pp. 255-268

Andreas Eberhard-Ruiz and Alexander Moradi

Liquidity constraints, informal institutions, and the adoption of weather insurance: A randomized controlled Trial in Ethiopia pp. 269-278

Temesgen Belissa, Erwin Bulte, Francesco Cecchi, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay and Robert Lensink

Exporting democratic practices: Evidence from a village governance intervention in Eastern Congo pp. 279-301

Macartan Humphreys, Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra and Peter Van der Windt

Credit and saving constraints in general equilibrium: A quantitative exploration pp. 302-319

Catalina Granda-Carvajal, Franz Hamann and Cesar Tamayo

New technology, better economy? The heterogeneous impact of colonial railroads in Nigeria pp. 320-354

Dozie Okoye, Roland Pongou and Tite Yokossi

Heterogeneous effects of imperfectly enforced minimum wages in low-wage labor markets pp. 355-374

Vidhya Soundararajan

Volume 139, issue C, 2019

Mines: The local wealth and health effects of mineral mining in developing countries pp. 1-16

Jan von der Goltz and Prabhat Barnwal

The effect of welfare payments on work: Regression discontinuity evidence from Ecuador pp. 17-27

Mariano Bosch and Norbert Schady

Intensive and extensive margins of mining and development: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 28-49

Nemera Mamo, Sambit Bhattacharyya and Alexander Moradi

The political economy of land reform enactments: New cross-national evidence (1900–2010) pp. 50-68

Prasad Bhattacharya, Devashish Mitra and Mehmet Ulubasoglu

Paying in pieces: A natural experiment on demand for life insurance under different payment schemes pp. 69-77

Jonathan Bauchet and Jonathan Morduch

Asymmetric non-separation and rural labor markets pp. 78-96

Brian Dillon, Peter Brummund and Germano Mwabu

Lifting the floor? Economic development, social protection and the developing World's poorest pp. 97-108

Juan Margitic and Martin Ravallion

How does intergenerational investment respond to changes in the marriage market? Evidence from China pp. 109-121

Li Han and Xinzheng Shi

The effect of wage subsidies on piece rate workers: Evidence from the Penny Per Pound program in Florida pp. 122-134

Hyejin Ku

The persistent effects of youth savings reminders: Experimental evidence from text-message campaigns in Colombia pp. 135-156

Catherine Rodriguez and Juan E. Saavedra

Agricultural extension, intra-household allocation and malaria pp. 157-170

Yao Pan and Saurabh Singhal

Correlated non-classical measurement errors, ‘Second best’ policy inference, and the inverse size-productivity relationship in agriculture pp. 171-184

Kibrom Abay, Gashaw Abate, Christopher Barrett and Tanguy Bernard

Monetary policy and bank lending in developing countries: Loan applications, rates, and real effects pp. 185-202

Charles Abuka, Ronnie K. Alinda, Camelia Minoiu, Jose-Luis Peydro and Andrea Presbitero

The impact of refugees on employment and wages in Jordan pp. 203-216

Belal Fallah, Caroline Krafft and Jackline Wahba

Market potential and economic development with non-homotheticity pp. 217-228

Dan Liu and Christopher Meissner

Should business groups be in finance? Evidence from Indian mutual funds pp. 229-248

Santosh Anagol and Ankur Pareek

School feeding and learning achievement: Evidence from India's midday meal program pp. 249-265

Tanika Chakraborty and Rajshri Jayaraman