Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 113, issue C, 2015

Giving kids a head start: The impact and mechanisms of early commitment of financial aid on poor students in rural China pp. 1-15

Hongmei Yi, Yingquan Song, Chengfang Liu, Xiaoting Huang, Linxiu Zhang, Yunli Bai, Baoping Ren, Yaojiang Shi, Prashant Loyalka, James Chu and Scott Rozelle

Private school effects in urban and rural India: Panel estimates at primary and secondary school ages pp. 16-32

Abhijeet Singh

Business training plus for female entrepreneurship? Short and medium-term experimental evidence from Peru pp. 33-51

Martín Valdivia

Don't tell on me: Experimental evidence of asymmetric information in transnational households pp. 52-69

Kate Ambler

Volume 112, issue C, 2015

Learning during a crisis: The SARS epidemic in Taiwan pp. 1-18

Daniel Bennett, Chun-Fang Chiang and Anup Malani

Climate and the slave trade pp. 19-32

James Fenske and Namrata Kala

The role of the informal sector in the early careers of less-educated workers pp. 33-55

Javier Cano-Urbina

Local intermediate inputs and the shared supplier spillovers of foreign direct investment pp. 56-71

Hiau Looi Kee

Water scarcity and birth outcomes in the Brazilian semiarid pp. 72-91

Rudi Rocha and Rodrigo Soares

Volume 111, issue C, 2014

The effects of exporting on wages: An evaluation using the 1999 Brazilian exchange rate devaluation pp. 1-16

Bruno César Araújo and Lourenco Paz

International trade, the gender wage gap and female labor force participation pp. 17-33

Philip Sauré and Hosny Zoabi

Brothers, household financial markets and savings rate in China pp. 34-47

Weina Zhou

The economic consequences of AIDS mortality in South Africa pp. 48-60

Cally Ardington, Till Bärnighausen, Anne Case and Alicia Menendez

Measuring risk attitudes among Mozambican farmers pp. 61-74

Alan de Brauw and Patrick Eozenou

The impact of National Health Insurance on birth outcomes: A natural experiment in Taiwan pp. 75-91

Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman and Jin-Tan Liu

Naturally negative: The growth effects of natural disasters pp. 92-106

Gabriel Felbermayr and Jasmin Gröschl

Government spending cyclicality: Evidence from transitory and persistent shocks in developing countries pp. 107-116

Markus Brückner and Mark Gradstein

Monetary policy and bank lending rates in low-income countries: Heterogeneous panel estimates pp. 117-131

Prachi Mishra, Peter Montiel, Peter Pedroni and Antonio Spilimbergo

Can cultural norms reduce conflicts? Confucianism and peasant rebellions in Qing China pp. 132-149

James Kung and Chicheng Ma

Walk the line: Conflict, state capacity and the political dynamics of reform pp. 150-166

Sanjay Jain, Sumon Majumdar and Sharun Mukand

Sequential lending with dynamic joint liability in micro-finance pp. 167-180

Shyamal Chowdhury, Prabal Roy Chowdhury and Kunal Sengupta

Does parental absence reduce cognitive achievements? Evidence from rural China pp. 181-195

Hongliang Zhang, Jere Behrman, C. Simon Fan, Xiangdong Wei and Junsen Zhang

You get what you pay for: Schooling incentives and child labor pp. 196-211

Eric Edmonds and Maheshwor Shrestha

Dowry deaths: Response to weather variability in India pp. 212-223

Sheetal Sekhri and Adam Storeygard

When did the dollar overtake sterling as the leading international currency? Evidence from the bond markets pp. 225-245

Livia Chitu, Barry Eichengreen and Arnaud Mehl

Oil price stabilization and global welfare pp. 246-260

Qing Liu, Kang Shi, Zhouheng Wu and Juanyi Xu

Emerging economies, trade policy, and macroeconomic shocks pp. 261-273

Chad Bown and Meredith Crowley

Volume 110, issue C, 2014

Acute morbidity and labor outcomes in Mexico: Testing the role of labor contracts as an income smoothing mechanism pp. 1-12

Federico H. Gutierrez

Nudging to use: Achieving safe water behaviors in Kenya and Bangladesh pp. 13-21

Jill Luoto, David Levine, Jeff Albert and Stephen Luby

Entrepreneurship policy and globalization pp. 22-38

Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson and Robin Douhan

Addressing antibiotic abuse in China: An experimental audit study pp. 39-51

Janet Currie, Wanchuan Lin and Juanjuan Meng

Out-migration, wealth constraints, and the quality of local amenities pp. 52-63

Christian Dustmann and Anna Okatenko

Civil war and U.S. foreign influence pp. 64-78

Facundo Albornoz and Esther Hauk

From Beijing to Bentonville: Do multinational retailers link markets? pp. 79-92

Keith Head, Ran Jing and Deborah Swenson

Bank privatization, finance, and growth pp. 93-106

Daniel Berkowitz, Mark Hoekstra and Koen Schoors

Institutions and financial frictions: Estimating with structural restrictions on firm value and investment pp. 107-122

Stijn Claessens, Kenichi Ueda and Yishay Yafeh

Potatoes, milk, and the Old World population boom pp. 123-138

Justin Cook

Do giant oilfield discoveries fuel internal armed conflicts? pp. 139-157

Yu-Hsiang Lei and Guy Michaels

Cultural change, risk-taking behavior and implications for economic development pp. 158-169

Mariko Klasing

Evolution of land distribution in West Bengal 1967–2004: Role of land reform and demographic changes pp. 171-190

Pranab Bardhan, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee and Francisco Pino

Property rights, land liquidity, and internal migration pp. 191-215

Eugenia Chernina, Paul Castañeda Dower and Andrei Markevich

Are land reforms granting complete property rights politically risky? Electoral outcomes of Mexico's certification program pp. 216-225

Alain de Janvry, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Trees, tenure and conflict: Rubber in colonial Benin pp. 226-238

James Fenske

Contractual structure in agriculture with endogenous matching pp. 239-249

Maitreesh Ghatak and Alexander Karaivanov

Poverty and land redistribution pp. 250-261

Malcolm Keswell and Michael Carter

Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa: Pilot evidence from Rwanda pp. 262-275

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Markus Goldstein

Land property rights and international migration: Evidence from Mexico pp. 276-290

Michele Valsecchi

Political connections and land-related investment in rural Vietnam pp. 291-302

Thomas Markussen and Finn Tarp

Land acquisition for industrialization and compensation of displaced farmers pp. 303-312

Maitreesh Ghatak and Dilip Mookherjee

Disease control, demographic change and institutional development in Africa pp. 313-326

Harounan Kazianga, William Masters and Margaret McMillan

Intergenerational mobility and interpersonal inequality in an African economy pp. 327-344

Sylvie Lambert, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle