Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 138, issue C, 2019

Scaling up sanitation: Evidence from an RCT in Indonesia pp. 1-16

Lisa Cameron, Susan Olivia and Manisha Shah

Irrigation dams, water and infant mortality: Evidence from South Africa pp. 17-40

Elizabeth Mettetal

Do children benefit from internet access? Experimental evidence from Peru pp. 41-56

Ofer Malamud, Santiago Cueto, Julian Cristia and Diether Beuermann

The internet and Chinese exports in the pre-ali baba era pp. 57-76

Ana Fernandes, Aaditya Mattoo, Huy Nguyen and Marc Schiffbauer

Heterogeneous impact dynamics of a rural business development program in Nicaragua pp. 77-98

Michael R. Carter, Emilia Tjernström and Patricia Toledo

The long-term impact of international migration on economic decision-making: Evidence from a migration lottery and lab-in-the-field experiments pp. 99-115

John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua and Steven Stillman

Workfare and infant health: Evidence from India's public works program pp. 116-134

Amalavoyal Chari, Peter Glick, Edward Okeke and Sinduja V. Srinivasan

Communal land and agricultural productivity pp. 135-152

Charles Gottlieb and Jan Grobovsek

The new economic case for migration restrictions: An assessment pp. 153-164

Michael Clemens and Lant Pritchett

Compulsory voting and TV news consumption pp. 165-179

Raphael Bruce and Rafael Lima

Women as decision makers in community forest management: Evidence from Nepal pp. 180-191

Marinella Leone

Banking crises and exports: Lessons from the past pp. 192-204

Leonardo Iacovone, Esteban Ferro, Mariana Pereira-López and Veronika Zavacka

Do asset transfers build household resilience? pp. 205-227

Lokendra Phadera, Hope Michelson, Alex Winter-Nelson and Peter Goldsmith

The shifting natural wealth of nations: The role of market orientation pp. 228-245

Rabah Arezki, Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Frederik Toscani

Wealth and inequality over eight centuries of British capitalism pp. 246-260

Jakob Madsen

State-community property-rights sharing in forests and its contributions to environmental outcomes: Evidence from Thailand's community forestry pp. 261-273

Thanyaporn Chankrajang

Vertical FDI and exchange rates over the business cycle: The welfare implications of openness to FDI pp. 274-293

Jiao Shi

Income timing and liquidity constraints: Evidence from a randomized field experiment pp. 294-308

Lasse Brune and Jason Kerwin

Volume 137, issue C, 2019

Economic growth in the long run pp. 1-35

Robert Tamura, Gerald Dwyer, John Devereux and Scott Baier

The surprising instability of export specializations pp. 36-65

Diego Daruich, William Easterly and Ariell Reshef

Quality, quantity, and spatial variation of price: Back to the bog pp. 66-77

John Gibson and Bonggeun Kim

Income hiding and informal redistribution: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Senegal pp. 78-92

Marie Boltz, Karine Marazyan and Paola Villar

Crop prices and the demand for titled land: Evidence from Uganda pp. 93-109

Viviana M.E. Perego

Short-term subsidies and seller type: A health products experiment in Uganda pp. 110-124

Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan, Margaret McConnell and Pia Raffler

What's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine: Field experiment on income concealing between spouses in India pp. 125-140

Carolina Castilla

Volume 136, issue C, 2019

Ex ante and ex post effects of hybrid index insurance in Bangladesh pp. 1-17

Ruth Hill, Neha Kumar, Nicholas Magnan, Simrin Makhija, Francesca de Nicola, David Spielman and Patrick Ward

Making an impact? The relevance of information on aid effectiveness for charitable giving. A laboratory experiment pp. 18-33

Laura Metzger and Isabel Günther

Family clans and public goods: Evidence from the New Village Beautification Project in South Korea pp. 34-50

Hyunjoo Yang

Affirmative action, education and gender: Evidence from India pp. 51-70

Guilhem Cassan

Vocational training programs and youth labor market outcomes: Evidence from Nepal pp. 71-110

Shubha Chakravarty, Mattias Lundberg, Plamen Nikolov and Juliane Zenker

Efficiency of region-wide catastrophic weather risk pools: Implications for African Risk Capacity insurance program pp. 111-118

Sebastain Awondo

Long-lasting income shocks and adaptations: Evidence from coral bleaching in Indonesia pp. 119-136

Pasita Chaijaroen

Maize and precolonial Africa pp. 137-150

Jevan Cherniwchan and Juan Moreno-Cruz

Spatially heterogeneous effects of a public works program pp. 151-167

Joshua D. Merfeld

Volume 135, issue C, 2018

Minimum Wage and Outward FDI from China pp. 1-19

Haichao Fan, Faqin Lin and Lixin Tang

Improving or disappearing: Firm-level adjustments to minimum wages in China pp. 20-42

Florian Mayneris, Sandra Poncet and Tao Zhang

Mobile money and risk sharing against village shocks pp. 43-58

Emma Riley

Quality and the Great Trade Collapse pp. 59-76

Natalie Chen and Luciana Juvenal

An adverse social welfare effect of a doubly gainful trade pp. 77-84

Oded Stark, Ewa Zawojska, Wilhelm Kohler and Krzysztof Szczygielski

Vehicle ownership restrictions and fertility in Beijing pp. 85-96

Antung A. Liu, Joshua Linn, Ping Qin and Jun Yang

Black Movement: Using discontinuities in admissions to study the effects of college quality and affirmative action pp. 97-116

Andrew Francis-Tan and Maria Tannuri-Pianto

Energy efficiency gains from importing intermediate inputs: Firm-level evidence from Indonesia pp. 117-141

Michele Imbruno and Tobias Ketterer

Women's schooling, fertility, and child health outcomes: Evidence from Uganda's free primary education program pp. 142-159

Anthony Keats

Branchless banking: Evaluating the doorstep delivery of financial services in rural India pp. 160-175

Anjini Kochar

Does improved storage technology promote modern input use and food security? Evidence from a randomized trial in Uganda pp. 176-198

Oluwatoba J. Omotilewa, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, John Herbert Ainembabazi and Gerald E. Shively

Measuring heterogeneity in preferences over the sex of children pp. 199-221

Johannes Norling

Beyond the Quantity–Quality tradeoff: Population control policy and human capital investment pp. 222-234

Xuebo Wang and Junsen Zhang

Subsidies versus mental accounting nudges: Harnessing mobile payment systems to improve sanitation pp. 235-254

Molly Lipscomb and Laura Schechter

Worth fighting for: Daughters improve their mothers' autonomy in South Asia pp. 255-271

Rachel Heath and Xu Tan

Estimating development resilience: A conditional moments-based approach pp. 272-284

Jennifer Denno Cissé and Christopher Barrett

Long-term effects of access to health care: Medical missions in colonial India pp. 285-303

Rossella Calvi and Federico G. Mantovanelli

Time use impacts of rural electrification: Longitudinal evidence from Guatemala pp. 304-317

Louise Grogan

The heterogeneous effect of information on student performance: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mexico pp. 318-348

Ciro Avitabile and Rafael De Hoyos

Cash transfers and labor supply: Evidence from a large-scale program in Iran pp. 349-367

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Mohammad H. Mostafavi-Dehzooei

The economics behind the math gender gap: Colombian evidence on the role of sample selection pp. 368-391

Juan Munoz-Morales

Antiretroviral drug access and behavior change pp. 392-411

Willa Friedman

Technology, offshoring and the rise of non-routine jobs pp. 412-432

Laurie S.M. Reijnders and Gaaitzen de Vries

The impact of U.S. deportation of criminals on gang development and education in El Salvador pp. 433-448

Priti Kalsi

Widows' land rights and agricultural investment pp. 449-460

Brian Dillon and Alessandra Voena

Aid and growth: evidence from firm-level data pp. 461-477

Lisa Chauvet and Helene Ehrhart

Political inclusion and educational investment: Estimates from a national policy experiment in India pp. 478-487

Stephen O'Connell

Agricultural productivity and the sectoral reallocation of labor in rural India pp. 488-503

Kyle Emerick

Labor scarcity, land tenure, and historical legacy: Evidence from Mexico pp. 504-516

Emily A. Sellars and Jennifer Alix-Garcia

Formal finance and informal safety nets of the poor: Evidence from a savings field experiment pp. 517-533

Jeffrey Flory

Strict duality and overlapping productivity distributions between formal and informal firms pp. 534-554

Jeffrey Allen, Shanthi Nataraj and Tyler Schipper

Skill premium, labor supply, and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America pp. 555-573

Manuel Fernandez Sierra and Julian Messina

Building resilience to natural disasters: An application to small developing states pp. 574-586

Ricardo Marto, Chris Papageorgiou and Vladimir Klyuev

Heterogeneous effects of economic integration agreements pp. 587-608

Scott Baier, Jeffrey Bergstrand and Matthew Clance