Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 134, issue C, 2018

Grain today, gain tomorrow: Evidence from a storage experiment with savings clubs in Kenya pp. 1-15

Shilpa Aggarwal, Eilin Francis and Jonathan Robinson

Institution shocks and economic outcomes: Allende's election, Pinochet's coup and the Santiago stock market pp. 16-27

Daniele Girardi and Samuel Bowles

Do lower taxes reduce informality? Evidence from Brazil pp. 28-49

Rudi Rocha, Gabriel Ulyssea and Laísa Rachter

Foreign aid and growth: A Sp P-VAR analysis using satellite sub-national data for Uganda pp. 50-67

Andrea Civelli, Andrew Horowitz and Arilton Teixeira

The impact of packaging and messaging on adherence to malaria treatment: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda pp. 68-95

Jessica Cohen and Indrani Saran

Does the form of delivering incentives in conditional cash transfers matter over a decade later? pp. 96-108

Andrés Ham and Hope Michelson

A poor means test? Econometric targeting in Africa pp. 109-124

Caitlin Brown, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

Out of the Shadows? Revisiting the impact of the Brazilian SIMPLES program on firms’ formalization rates pp. 125-132

Caio Piza

Audit risk and rent extraction: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in Brazil pp. 133-149

Yves Zamboni and Stephan Litschig

Power outages and firm performance in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 150-159

Matthew Cole, Robert Elliott, Giovanni Occhiali and Eric Strobl

Direct and indirect effects of trade liberalization: Evidence from Chile pp. 160-175

Andrea Linarello

Assessing the degree of international consumption risk sharing pp. 176-190

Constantino Hevia and Luis Servén

Do welfare programs work in weak states? Why? Evidence from a maternity support program in India pp. 191-208

Prabhat Ghosh and Anjini Kochar

Commercialization and the decline of joint liability microcredit pp. 209-225

Jonathan de Quidt, Thiemo Fetzer and Maitreesh Ghatak

Migrant self-selection: Anthropometric evidence from the mass migration of Italians to the United States, 1907–1925 pp. 226-247

Yannay Spitzer and Ariell Zimran

Financial frictions and the rule of law pp. 248-271

Ashantha Ranasinghe and Diego Restuccia

What's different about monetary policy transmission in remittance-dependent countries? pp. 272-288

Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Christian Hubert Ebeke and Anne Oeking

Unexpected guests: The impact of internal displacement inflows on rental prices in Colombian host cities pp. 289-309

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin and Rafael J. Santos

Openness, specialization, and the external vulnerability of developing countries pp. 310-328

Luis-Diego Barrot, César Calderón and Luis Servén

Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America: A new database pp. 329-349

Guido Neidhöfer, Joaquín Serrano and Leonardo Gasparini

The consumption, income, and wealth of the poorest: An empirical analysis of economic inequality in rural and urban Sub-Saharan Africa for macroeconomists pp. 350-371

Leandro de Magalhaes and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis

Family networks and school choice pp. 372-391

Andrew Dustan

The distributional consequences of trade liberalization: Consumption tariff versus investment tariff reduction pp. 392-415

Stephen J Turnovsky and Jorge Rojas-Vallejos

A theory on the evolution of religious norms and economic prohibition pp. 416-427

Avner Seror

Noncooperative decision making in the household: Evidence from Malawi pp. 428-442

Selma Walther

Household economic strengthening through financial and psychosocial programming: Evidence from a field experiment in South Africa pp. 443-466

Janina Steinert, Lucie Dale Cluver, Franziska Meinck, Jenny Doubt and Sebastian Vollmer

Why are adult women missing? Son preference and maternal survival in India pp. 467-484

Annamaria Milazzo

Volume 133, issue C, 2018

Indirect political budget cycles: Evidence from Chilean municipalities pp. 1-14

Alejandro Corvalan, Paulo Cox and Rodrigo Osorio

Do non-monetary prices target the poor? Evidence from a field experiment in India pp. 15-32

Bridget Hoffmann

The international credit channel of U.S. monetary policy transmission to developing countries: Evidence from trade data pp. 33-41

Shu Lin and Haichun Ye

Can unconditional cash transfers raise long-term living standards? Evidence from Zambia pp. 42-65

Sudhanshu Handa, Luisa Natali, David Seidenfeld, Gelson Tembo and Benjamin Davis

Remittances and the informal economy pp. 66-83

Santanu Chatterjee and Stephen J Turnovsky

Career concerns and multitasking local bureaucrats: Evidence of a target-based performance evaluation system in China pp. 84-101

Yvonne Chen, Pei Li and Yi Lu

Structural transformation, marketization, and household production around the world pp. 102-126

Benjamin Bridgman, Georg Duernecker and Berthold Herrendorf

Can iron-fortified salt control anemia? Evidence from two experiments in rural Bihar pp. 127-146

Abhijit Banerjee, Sharon Barnhardt and Esther Duflo

Diffusion of agricultural information within social networks: Evidence on gender inequalities from Mali pp. 147-161

Lori Beaman and Andrew Dillon

Payment instruments, finance and development pp. 162-186

Thorsten Beck, Haki Pamuk, Ravindra Ramrattan and Burak Uras

Self-control and the rise and fall of factory discipline pp. 187-200

Victor Hiller

Government spending effects in low-income countries pp. 201-219

Wenyi Shen, Shu-Chun Yang and Luis-Felipe Zanna

Investment-cash flow sensitivities and capital misallocation pp. 220-230

Chanbora Ek and Guiying Wu

Subnational diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from a new dataset pp. 231-263

Boris Gershman and Diego Rivera

Abatement expenditures, technology choice, and environmental performance: Evidence from firm responses to import competition in Mexico pp. 264-274

Emilio Gutierrez and Kensuke Teshima

Saving more in groups: Field experimental evidence from Chile pp. 275-294

Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier and Dina Pomeranz

On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies pp. 295-305

Kurt Annen and Stephen Knack

Can environmental policy reduce infant mortality? Evidence from the Ganga Pollution Cases pp. 306-325

Quy-Toan Do, Shareen Joshi and Samuel Stolper

Gender quotas in development programming: Null results from a field experiment in Congo pp. 326-345

Peter Van der Windt, Macartan Humphreys and Raul Sanchez de la Sierra

Labor force participation, interest rate shocks, and unemployment dynamics in emerging economies pp. 346-374

Alan Finkelstein Shapiro

Do rural roads create pathways out of poverty? Evidence from India pp. 375-395

Shilpa Aggarwal

Trade, informal employment and labor adjustment costs pp. 396-414

Javier Arias, Erhan Artuc, Daniel Lederman and Diego Rojas

The long-term health benefits of receiving treatment from qualified midwives at birth pp. 415-433

Volha Lazuka

A theory of regional conflict complexes pp. 434-447

Arthur Silve and Thierry Verdier

Combining pre-school teacher training with parenting education: A cluster-randomized controlled trial pp. 448-467

Berk Özler, Lia C.H. Fernald, Patricia Kariger, Christin McConnell, Michelle Neuman and Eduardo Fraga