Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 169, issue C, 2024

Improving smallholder agriculture via video-based group extension

Tushi Baul, Dean Karlan, Kentaro Toyama and Kathryn Vasilaky

Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India

Bhaskar Chakravorty, Wiji Arulampalam, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Clément Imbert and Roland Rathelot

Does the gig economy discriminate against women? Evidence from physicians in China

Yutong Chen

North Korean refugees’ implicit bias against South Korea predicts market earnings

Syngjoo Choi, Kyu Sup Hahn, Byung-Yeon Kim, Eungik Lee, Jungmin Lee and Sokbae Lee

Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia

Yoshito Takasaki

Is online job training for all? Experimental evidence on the effects of a Coursera program in Costa Rica

Rafael Novella, David Rosas-Shady and Richard Freund

Adapting to climate change accounting for individual beliefs

Guglielmo Zappalà

Volume 168, issue C, 2024

Cognitive and socioemotional skills in low-income countries: Measurement and associations with schooling and earnings

Alice Danon, Jishnu Das, Andreas de Barros and Deon Filmer

Employment effects of minimum wages in a dual economy: Evidence from Thailand

Saisawat Samutpradit

Shipwrecked by rents

Fernando Arteaga, Desiree Desierto and Mark Koyama

Thermal stress and financial distress: Extreme temperatures and firms’ loan defaults in Mexico

Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, Emilio Gutierrez, David Heres, David Jaume and Martin Tobal

Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India

Vigyan D. Ratnoo

Robots and export quality

Timothy DeStefano and Jonathan Timmis

Attenuating measurement errors in agricultural productivity analysis by combining objective and self-reported survey data

Ismael Yacoubou Djima and Talip Kilic

Gains from market integration: Welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia

Hundanol Kebede

Driving while hungry: The effect of fasting on traffic accidents

Ahmet Gulek

Time for tea: Measuring discounting for money and consumption without the utility confound

Mohammed Abdellaoui, Emmanuel Kemel, Amma Panin and Ferdinand M. Vieider

Gender violence, enforcement, and human capital: Evidence from women’s justice centers in Peru

Maria Micaela Sviatschi and Iva Trako

A mother’s voice: Impacts of spousal communication training on child health investments

Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Seema Jayachandran and Céline Zipfel

Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys

Lise Masselus and Nathan Fiala

Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: Evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program

Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün, Murat Kırdar, Murat Koyuncu and Quentin Stoeffler

Market timing, farmer expectations, and liquidity constraints

Rui Albuquerque, Bruno de Araujo, Luis Brandao-Marques, Gerivasia Mosse, Pippy de Vletter and Helder Zavale

Contracting, market access and deforestation

Ryan Abman and Clark Lundberg

The agricultural wage gap within rural villages

Ceren Baysan, Manzoor H. Dar, Kyle Emerick, Zhimin Li and Elisabeth Sadoulet

English language requirement and educational inequality: Evidence from 16 million college applicants in China

Hongbin Li, Lingsheng Meng, Kai Mu and Shaoda Wang

Import competition, labor market regulations, and firm outsourcing

Pavel Chakraborty, Devashish Mitra and Asha Sundaram

Volume 167, issue C, 2024

The consequences of health mandates on infant health: Evidence from a smoking-ban regulation

Daniel Da Mata and Pedro Drugowick

Inter-regional barriers and economic growth: Evidence from China

Yi Han and Mingqin Wu

Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones

Chuanmin Zhao and Xi Qu

Accountability failure in isolated areas: The cost of remoteness from the capital city

Sandro Provenzano

Human capital affects religious identity: Causal evidence from Kenya

Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Edward Miguel

Trust, violence, and coca

Melissa Rubio-Ramos

The deforestation effects of trade and agricultural productivity in Brazil

Igor Carreira, Francisco Costa and João Paulo Pessoa

Migration and resource misallocation in China

Xiaolu Li, Lin Ma and Yang Tang

Mothers at peace: International peacebuilding and post-conflict fertility

Vincenzo Bove, Jessica Di Salvatore, Leandro Elia and Roberto Nisticò

Discrimination against migrants and its determinants: Evidence from a Multi-Purpose Field Experiment in the Housing Rental Market

Wladimir Zanoni and Lina Díaz

Is the phone mightier than the virus? Cellphone access and epidemic containment efforts

Robert Gonzalez and Elisa M. Maffioli

Health policy, price regulation, and innovation: Evidence from China’s vaccine industry

Hao Geng and Ce Matthew Shi

Can housing booms elevate financing costs of financial institutions?

Chao Ma and Shuoxun Zhang

Jobs! Electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa

Justice Tei Mensah

Cash transfers and micro-enterprise performance: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya

Antonia Delius and Olivier Sterck

Better together? Student's benefits of educational market integration

Claudio Allende, Juan Diego Luksic and Nicolas Navarrete H

Does electrification cause industrial development? Grid expansion and firm turnover in Indonesia

Dana Kassem

The demography of the great migration in China

Rufei Guo, Junsen Zhang and Minghai Zhou

Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain

Philipp Herkenhoff, Sebastian Krautheim, Finn Semrau and Frauke Steglich

Behavioral consequences of religious schooling

Abu Siddique

Property rights, factor allocation and household welfare: Experimental evidence from a land titling program in India

Arjunan Subramanian and Parmod Kumar

Latin American pride: Labor market outcomes of sexual minorities in Brazil

João Tampellini

Does labor composition impact the transmission of monetary policy to output?

Raja Reddy Bujunoori, Nithin Mannil and Prasanna Tantri

Estimating seed demand in the presence of market frictions: Evidence from an auction experiment in Nigeria

Tesfamicheal Wossen, David Spielman, Arega D. Alene and Tahirou Abdoulaye

Extreme heat and rural household adaptation: Evidence from Northeast China

Xiaomeng Cui and Qu Tang

Training microentrepreneurs over Zoom: Experimental evidence from Mexico

Elwyn Davies, Peter Deffebach, Leonardo Iacovone and David McKenzie

Climate change, cropland adjustments, and food security: Evidence from China

Xiaomeng Cui and Zheng Zhong

Wealth and charitable giving – Evidence from an Ethiopian lottery

Andreas Kotsadam and Vincent Somville

Misallocation, Productivity and Development with Endogenous Production Techniques

Burak Uras and Ping Wang