Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

From Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 126, issue C, 2017

Seeing is believing- can increasing the number of female leaders reduce sex selection in rural India? pp. 1-18

Priti Kalsi

Childhood health and the wantedness of male and female children pp. 19-32

Giordano Palloni

Subsidies with export share requirements in China pp. 33-51

Fabrice Defever and Alejandro Riaño

Extended families and child well-being pp. 52-65

Daniel LaFave and Duncan Thomas

1807: Economic shocks, conflict and the slave trade pp. 66-76

James Fenske and Namrata Kala

Be patient when measuring hyperbolic discounting: Stationarity, time consistency and time invariance in a field experiment pp. 77-90

Wendy Janssens, Berber Kramer and Lisette Swart

Health, Enterprise, and Labor Complementarity in the Household pp. 91-111

Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham

The persistent effects of novelty-seeking traits on comparative economic development pp. 112-126

Erkan Gören

Childcare effects on maternal employment: Evidence from Chile pp. 127-137

Claudia Martínez A. and Marcela Perticara

Transnational insurgents: Evidence from Colombia's FARC at the border with Chávez's Venezuela pp. 138-153

Luis Martinez

Trade and labor reallocation with heterogeneous enforcement of labor regulations pp. 154-166

Rita Almeida and Jennifer Poole

Financial development, income inequality, and the redistributive effects of monetary policy pp. 167-189

Edgar A. Ghossoub and Robert R. Reed

Fertility at work: Children and women's labor market outcomes in urban Ghana pp. 190-214

Rachel Heath

Poverty traps, convergence, and the dynamics of household income pp. 215-230

Raj Arunachalam and Ajay Shenoy

Compulsory licensing and innovation – Historical evidence from German patents after WWI pp. 231-242

Joerg Baten, Nicola Bianchi and Petra Moser

Volume 125, issue C, 2017

Seeing is believing? Evidence from an extension network experiment pp. 1-20

Florence Kondylis, Valerie Mueller and Jessica Zhu

Roads, exports and employment: Evidence from a developing country pp. 21-39

Christian Volpe Martincus, Jeronimo Carballo and Ana Cusolito

Natural disasters and labor markets pp. 40-58

Martina Kirchberger

WTO accession and tariff evasion pp. 59-71

Beata Javorcik and Gaia Narciso

Trade to aid: EU's temporary tariff waivers for flood-hit Pakistan pp. 70-88

Juyoung Cheong, Do Won Kwak and Haishan Yuan

Daughters, dowries, deliveries: The effect of marital payments on fertility choices in India pp. 89-104

Marco Alfano

Volume 124, issue C, 2017

The devil is in the details: The successes and limitations of bureaucratic reform in India pp. 1-21

Iqbal Dhaliwal and Rema Hanna

Pre-colonial institutions and socioeconomic development: The case of Latin America pp. 22-40

Luis Angeles and Aldo Elizalde

All in the family: State capture in Tunisia pp. 41-59

Bob Rijkers, Caroline Freund and Antonio Nucifora

Has climate change driven urbanization in Africa? pp. 60-82

J. Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard and Uwe Deichmann

Do disaster experience and knowledge affect insurance take-up decisions? pp. 83-94

Jing Cai and Changcheng Song

Terrorism risk and democratic preferences in Pakistan pp. 95-106

Faiz Rehman and Paolo Vanin

China as number one? Evidence from China's most recent patenting surge pp. 107-119

Albert G.Z. Hu, Peng Zhang and Lijing Zhao

Guns and butter? Fighting violence with the promise of development pp. 120-141

Gaurav Khanna and Laura Zimmermann

The welfare gains from macro-insurance against natural disasters pp. 142-156

Eduardo Borensztein, Eduardo Cavallo and Olivier Jeanne

Social capital, conflict and welfare pp. 157-167

Colin Jennings and Santiago Sánchez-Pagés

Civil conflict, domestic violence and intra-household bargaining in post-genocide Rwanda pp. 168-198

Giulia La Mattina

Direct democracy and resource allocation: Experimental evidence from Afghanistan pp. 199-213

Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia and Ruben Enikolopov

The impact of reduced incidence of malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases on global population pp. 214-228

Elizabeth Gooch

Volume 123, issue C, 2016

Income inequality and the quality of public services: A developing country perspective pp. 1-17

Sukanta Bhattacharya, Sarani Saha and Sarmila Banerjee

Does flattening government improve economic performance? Evidence from China pp. 18-37

Pei Li, Yi Lu and Jin Wang

The economic consequences of mutual help in extended families pp. 38-56

Jean-Marie Baland, Isabelle Bonjean, Catherine Guirkinger and Roberta Ziparo

Mass media effects on non-governmental organizations pp. 57-72

Mathieu Couttenier and Sophie Hatte

Does environmental regulation drive away inbound foreign direct investment? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China pp. 73-85

Xiqian Cai, Yi Lu, Mingqin Wu and Linhui Yu

Do land revenue windfalls create a political resource curse? Evidence from China pp. 86-106

Ting Chen and James Kung

Small price incentives increase women's access to land titles in Tanzania pp. 107-122

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Matthew Collin, Klaus Deininger, Stefan Dercon, Justin Sandefur and Andrew Zeitlin

Volume 122, issue C, 2016

The long-run effects of treated water on education: The rural drinking water program in China pp. 1-15

Jing Zhang and Lixin Xu

Favoritism pp. 16-27

Yann Bramoullé and Sanjeev Goyal

What happens when a woman wins an election? Evidence from close races in Brazil pp. 28-45

Fernanda Brollo and Ugo antonio Troiano

Does firm ownership structure matter? Evidence from sugar mills in India pp. 46-62

Sandip Sukhtankar

Can a poverty-reducing and progressive tax and transfer system hurt the poor? pp. 63-75

Sean Higgins and Nora Lustig

The return of the prodigy son: Do return migrants make better leaders? pp. 76-91

Marion Mercier

Foreign employees as channel for technology transfer: Evidence from MNC's subsidiaries in Mexico pp. 92-112

Estefania Santacreu-Vasut and Kensuke Teshima

Nutrition, information and household behavior: Experimental evidence from Malawi pp. 113-126

Emla Fitzsimons, Bansi Malde, Alice Mesnard and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

The migration response to increasing temperatures pp. 127-146

Cristina Cattaneo and Giovanni Peri

Human capital in the long run pp. 147-169

Jong-Wha Lee and Hanol Lee

A better vision for development: Eyeglasses and academic performance in rural primary schools in China pp. 170-182

Paul Glewwe, Albert Park and Meng Zhao

Optimal fiscal management of commodity price shocks pp. 183-196

Pierre-Richard Agénor

Long-run cultural divergence: Evidence from the Neolithic Revolution pp. 197-213

Ola Olsson and Christopher Paik

Inequality, neighbourhoods and welfare of the poor pp. 214-228

Namrata Gulati and Tridip Ray