Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 121, issue C, 2016

Born free pp. 1-10

Nils-Petter Lagerlof

Follow the money not the cash: Comparing methods for identifying consumption and investment responses to a liquidity shock pp. 11-23

Dean Karlan, Adam Osman and Jonathan Zinman

Preferences and the home bias in trade pp. 24-37

Mitchell Morey

Natural resources, decentralization, and risk sharing: Can resource booms unify nations? pp. 38-55

Fidel Perez-Sebastian and Ohad Raveh

Local political business cycles: Evidence from Philippine municipalities pp. 56-62

Julien Labonne

Informal monitoring and enforcement mechanisms in public service delivery: Evidence from the public distribution system in India pp. 63-78

Sriniketh Nagavarapu and Sheetal Sekhri

Election cycles in natural resource rents: Empirical evidence pp. 79-93

Jeroen Klomp and Jakob de Haan

Does product complexity matter for firms' output volatility? pp. 94-109

Daniela Maggioni, Alessia Lo Turco and Mauro Gallegati

The impact of US sanctions on poverty pp. 110-119

Matthias Neuenkirch and Florian Neumeier

On sweatshop jobs and decent work pp. 120-134

Nancy Chau

Landownership concentration and the expansion of education pp. 135-152

Francesco Cinnirella and Erik Hornung

With a little help from my friends: Global electioneering and World Bank lending pp. 153-165

Erasmus Kersting and Christopher Kilby

Informal sector, regulatory compliance, and leakage pp. 166-176

Soham Baksi and Pinaki Bose

Unexceptional exporter performance in China? The role of processing trade pp. 177-189

Mi Dai, Madhura Maitra and Miaojie Yu

A theory of interactions between MFIs and informal lenders pp. 191-200

Dilip Mookherjee and A. Motta

Optimal (partial) group liability in microfinance lending pp. 201-216

Treb Allen

Group lending without joint liability pp. 217-236

Jonathan de Quidt, Thiemo Fetzer and Maitreesh Ghatak

Dynamic microlending under adverse selection: Can it rival group lending? pp. 237-257

Christian Ahlin and Brian Waters

Microcredit and adjustment to environmental shock: Evidence from the Great Famine in Ireland pp. 258-277

Tyler Beck Goodspeed

Volume 120, issue C, 2016

The value of children: Inter-generational support, fertility, and human capital pp. 1-16

Jaqueline Oliveira

Too much and too fast? Public investment scaling-up and absorptive capacity pp. 17-31

Andrea Presbitero

Do job fairs matter? Experimental evidence on the impact of job-fair attendance pp. 32-40

Emily Beam

The effect of saving on risk attitudes and intertemporal choices pp. 41-52

Leandro Carvalho, Silvia Prina and Justin Sydnor

Divorce, abortion, and the child sex ratio: The impact of divorce reform in China pp. 53-69

Ang Sun and Yaohui Zhao

Impact of Village Savings and Loan Associations: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial pp. 70-85

Christopher Ksoll, Helene Lilleør, Jonas Lønborg and Ole Dahl Rasmussen

Islam, inequality and pre-industrial comparative development pp. 86-98

Stelios Michalopoulos, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo

Measuring the measurement error: A method to qualitatively validate survey data pp. 99-112

Christopher Blattman, Julian Jamison, Tricia Koroknay-Palicz, Katherine Rodrigues and Margaret Sheridan

Sons as widowhood insurance: Evidence from Senegal pp. 113-127

Sylvie Lambert and Pauline Rossi

Income inequality and violent crime: Evidence from Mexico's drug war pp. 128-143

Ted Enamorado, Luis Lopez-Calva, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán and Hernan Winkler

Current account norms in natural resource rich and capital scarce economies pp. 144-156

Juliana D. Araujo, Bin Grace Li, Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro and Luis-Felipe Zanna

Airtime transfers and mobile communications: Evidence in the aftermath of natural disasters pp. 157-181

Joshua Blumenstock, Nathan Eagle and Marcel Fafchamps

Witchcraft beliefs and the erosion of social capital: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond pp. 182-208

Boris Gershman

Emigration and democracy pp. 209-223

Frédéric Docquier, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Hillel Rapoport and Maurice Schiff

Volume 119, issue C, 2016

Insuring health or insuring wealth? An experimental evaluation of health insurance in rural Cambodia pp. 1-15

David Levine, Rachel Polimeni and Ian Ramage

Violence and birth outcomes: Evidence from homicides in Brazil pp. 16-33

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner and Marco Manacorda

Labor market opportunities and women's decision making power within households pp. 34-47

Kaveh Majlesi

Comparative advantage, international trade, and fertility pp. 48-66

Quy-Toan Do, Andrei Levchenko and Claudio Raddatz

How do shocks to domestic factors affect real exchange rates of Asian developing countries? pp. 67-85

Taya Dumrongrittikul and Heather Anderson

Current account dynamics, real exchange rate adjustment, and the exchange rate regime in emerging-market economies pp. 86-99

Olivier Gervais, Lawrence Schembri and Lena Suchanek

Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants' quality? pp. 100-109

Simone Bertoli, Vianney Dequiedt and Yves Zenou

The poor get poorer: Tracking relative poverty in India using a durables-based mixture model pp. 110-120

Sudeshna Maitra

Exporter behavior, country size and stage of development: Evidence from the exporter dynamics database pp. 121-137

Ana Fernandes, Caroline Freund and Martha Denisse Pierola

Volume 118, issue C, 2016

Petro populism pp. 1-12

Egil Matsen, Gisle Natvik and Ragnar Torvik

Macroinsurance for microenterprises: A randomized experiment in post-revolution Egypt pp. 13-25

Matthew Groh and David McKenzie

Benefit in the wake of disaster: Long-run effects of earthquakes on welfare in rural Indonesia pp. 26-44

Jérémie Gignoux and Marta Menéndez

Expanding export variety: The role of institutional reforms in developing countries pp. 45-58

Liugang Sheng and Dennis Yang

Where and how index insurance can boost the adoption of improved agricultural technologies pp. 59-71

Michael Carter, Lan Cheng and Alexandros Sarris

Long-run impacts of land regulation: Evidence from tenancy reform in India pp. 72-87

Timothy Besley, Jessica Leight, Rohini Pande and Vijayendra Rao

The wealth of subnations: Geography, institutions, and within-country development pp. 88-111

Todd Mitton

Does a ban on informal health providers save lives? Evidence from Malawi pp. 112-132

Susan Godlonton and Edward N. Okeke

The heavy plow and the agricultural revolution in Medieval Europe pp. 133-149

Thomas Andersen, Peter Jensen and Christian Skovsgaard

How general are time preferences? Eliciting good-specific discount rates pp. 150-170

Diego Ubfal

Conditional cash transfers, civil conflict and insurgent influence: Experimental evidence from the Philippines pp. 171-182

Benjamin Crost, Joseph H. Felter and Patrick B. Johnston

Capital imports composition, complementarities, and the skill premium in developing countries pp. 183-206

Ohad Raveh and Ariell Reshef

Legalize, tax, and deter: Optimal enforcement policies for corruptible officials pp. 207-215

Alfredo Burlando and Alberto Motta

Corruption's asymmetric impacts on firm innovation pp. 216-231

Caroline Paunov

Domestic road infrastructure and international trade: Evidence from Turkey pp. 232-244

A. Kerem Coşar and Banu Demir

Entrepreneurship versus joblessness: Explaining the rise in self-employment pp. 245-265

Paolo Falco and Luke Haywood

Does foreign aid harm political institutions? pp. 266-281

Sam Jones and Finn Tarp

Is informal risk-sharing less effective for the poor? Risk externalities and moral hazard in mutual insurance pp. 282-297

Matthieu Delpierre, Bertrand Verheyden and Stéphanie Weynants