Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

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Volume 106, issue C, 2014

The welfare implications of services liberalization in a developing country pp. 1-14

Nizar Jouini and Nooman Rebei

School feeding programs, intrahousehold allocation and the nutrition of siblings: Evidence from a randomized trial in rural Burkina Faso pp. 15-34

Harounan Kazianga, Damien de Walque and Harold Alderman

Spatial inequality and development — Is there an inverted-U relationship? pp. 35-51

Christian Lessmann

How accurate are recall data? Evidence from coastal India pp. 52-65

Francesca de Nicola and Xavier Gine

Financial development, international capital flows, and aggregate output pp. 66-77

Juergen von Hagen and Haiping Zhang

Is sex like driving? HIV prevention and risk compensation pp. 78-91

Nicholas Wilson, Wentao Xiong and Christine L. Mattson

Was this time different?: Fiscal policy in commodity republics pp. 92-106

Luis Cespedes and Andrés Velasco

Household allocations and endogenous information: The case of split migrants in Kenya pp. 108-117

Joost de Laat

Making up people—The effect of identity on performance in a modernizing society pp. 118-131

Karla Hoff and Priyanka Pandey

Offering rainfall insurance to informal insurance groups: Evidence from a field experiment in Ethiopia pp. 132-143

Stefan Dercon, Ruth Hill, Daniel Clarke, Ingo Outes-Leon and Alemayehu Taffesse

Excessive public employment and rent-seeking traps pp. 144-155

Esteban Jaimovich and Juan Pablo Rud

Insurance coverage and agency problems in doctor prescriptions: Evidence from a field experiment in China pp. 156-167

Fangwen Lu

Growing their own: Unobservable quality and the value of self-provisioning pp. 168-178

Vivian Hoffmann and Ken Mwithirwa Gatobu

Men, women, and machines: How trade impacts gender inequality pp. 179-193

Chinhui Juhn, Gergely Ujhelyi and Carolina Villegas-Sanchez

Political foundations of the resource curse: A simplification and a comment pp. 194-198

James Robinson, Ragnar Torvik and Thierry Verdier

Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka pp. 199-210

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

Microenterprise growth and the flypaper effect: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana pp. 211-226

Marcel Fafchamps, David McKenzie, Simon Quinn and Christopher Woodruff

The demand for insurance against common shocks pp. 227-238

Alain de Janvry, Vianney Dequiedt and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Stage-dependent intellectual property rights pp. 239-249

Angus Chu, Guido Cozzi and Silvia Galli

Elite capture through information distortion: A theoretical essay pp. 250-263

Jean-Philippe Platteau, Vincent Somville and Zaki Wahhaj

Volume 105, issue C, 2013

Institutions and the long-run impact of early development pp. 1-18

James Ang

Export emergence of differentiated goods from developing countries: Export pioneers and business practices in Argentina pp. 19-35

Alejandro Artopoulos, Daniel Friel and Juan Hallak

Respect, responsibility, and development pp. 36-47

Janice Boucher Breuer and John McDermott

Pre-marital confinement of women: A signaling and matching approach pp. 48-63

Birendra Rai and Kunal Sengupta

Preference based vs. market based discrimination: Implications for gender differentials in child labor and schooling pp. 64-68

Alok Kumar

Too many mothers-in-law? pp. 69-76

Yuk-Shing Cheng and Kim-Sau Chung

The dual policy in the dual economy—The political economy of urban bias in dictatorial regimes pp. 77-85

Abdulaziz Shifa

Micro-finance competition: Motivated micro-lenders, double-dipping and default pp. 86-102

Brishti Guha and Prabal Roy Chowdhury

Decentralization, political competition and corruption pp. 103-111

Facundo Albornoz and Antonio Cabrales

U.S. and them: The Geography of Academic Research pp. 112-130

Jishnu Das, Quy-Toan Do, Karen Shaines and Sowmya Srikant

Repayment incentives and the distribution of gains from group lending pp. 131-139

Jean-Marie Baland, Rohini Somanathan and Zaki Wahhaj

Should developing countries undervalue their currencies? pp. 140-151

Marcel Schröder

The rise and fall of (Chinese) African apparel exports pp. 152-163

Lorenzo Rotunno, Pierre-Louis Vézina and Zheng Wang

Income uncertainty and household savings in China pp. 164-177

Marcos Chamon, Kai Liu and Eswar Prasad

Trade and thy neighbor's war pp. 178-195

Mahvash Qureshi

Keeping the doctor away: Experimental evidence on investment in preventative health products pp. 196-210

Jennifer Meredith, Jonathan Robinson, Sarah Walker and Bruce Wydick

The political economy of project preparation: An empirical analysis of World Bank projects pp. 211-225

Christopher Kilby

Living longer: The effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program on elderly mortality pp. 226-236

Tania Barham and Jacob Rowberry

Income shocks and gender gaps in education: Evidence from Uganda pp. 237-253

Martina Björkman-Nyqvist

Exogenous volatility and the size of government in developing countries pp. 254-266

Markus Brückner and Mark Gradstein

International competition and industrial evolution: Evidence from the impact of Chinese competition on Mexican maquiladoras pp. 267-287

Hale Utar and Luis B. Torres Ruiz

Good countries or good projects? Macro and micro correlates of World Bank project performance pp. 288-302

Cevdet Denizer, Daniel Kaufmann and Aart Kraay

Mass education or a minority well educated elite in the process of growth: The case of India pp. 303-320

Amparo Castello-Climent and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

Volume 104, issue C, 2013

Interactive dynamics between natural and man-made assets: The impact of external shocks pp. 1-15

Ramon Lopez and Maurice Schiff

Stated social behavior and revealed actions: Evidence from six Latin American countries pp. 16-33

Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Alberto Chong and Hugo Ñopo

Revealed objective functions of Microfinance Institutions: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 34-55

Mir M. Salim

The effects of financial development in the short and long run: Theory and evidence from India pp. 56-72

Scott Fulford

The local electoral impacts of conditional cash transfers pp. 73-88

Julien Labonne

Inflation dynamics and food prices in Ethiopia pp. 89-106

Dick Durevall, Josef Loening and Yohannes Ayalew Birru

Inequality of opportunity and growth pp. 107-122

Gustavo Marrero and Juan Rodríguez

Do IT service centers promote school enrollment? Evidence from India pp. 123-135

Emily Oster and Bryce Steinberg

Welfare consequences of food prices increases: Evidence from rural Mexico pp. 136-151

Orazio Attanasio, Vincenzo Di Maro, Valérie Lechene and David Phillips

Tax avoidance through re-imports: The case of redundant trade pp. 152-164

Xuepeng Liu

Agricultural productivity, structural change, and economic growth in post-reform China pp. 165-180

Kang Hua Cao and Javier Birchenall

A new data set of educational attainment in the world, 1950–2010 pp. 184-198

Robert Barro and Jong-Wha Lee

The contribution of schooling in development accounting: Results from a nonparametric upper bound pp. 199-211

Francesco Caselli and Antonio Ciccone

Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? Panel estimates from PISA pp. 212-232

Eric Hanushek, Susanne Link and Ludger Woessmann

The political economy of educational content and development: Lessons from history pp. 233-244

Davide Cantoni and Noam Yuchtman

Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes: Evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese twins pp. 245-260

Mark Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang