Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 103, issue C, 2013

A race to the bottom in labor standards? An empirical investigation pp. 1-14

Ronald Davies and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

Local financial development and firm performance: Evidence from Morocco pp. 15-28

Marcel Fafchamps and Matthias Schündeln

Trend shocks and economic development pp. 29-42

Claude Francis Naoussi and Fabien Tripier

Can provision of free school uniforms harm attendance? Evidence from Ecuador pp. 43-51

Diana Hidalgo, Mercedes Onofa, Hessel Oosterbeek and Juan Ponce

Risk attitudes and economic well-being in Latin America pp. 52-61

Juan-Camilo Cardenas and Jeffrey Carpenter

Missing public funds and targeting performance: Evidence from an anti-poverty transfer program in Indonesia pp. 62-76

Daniel Suryadarma and Chikako Yamauchi

Economic shocks and civil conflict: Evidence from foreign interest rate movements pp. 77-89

Peter Hull and Masami Imai

How big are the gains from international financial integration? pp. 90-98

Indrit Hoxha, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Dietrich Vollrath

Social distance and trust: Experimental evidence from a slum in Cairo pp. 99-106

Christine Binzel and Dietmar Fehr

Fiscal decentralization, endogenous policies, and foreign direct investment: Theory and evidence from China and India pp. 107-123

Yong Wang

Contracting institutions and ownership structure in international joint ventures pp. 124-132

Ari Van Assche and Galina A. Schwartz

Geography, non-homotheticity, and industrialization: A quantitative analysis pp. 133-153

Holger Breinlich and Alejandro Cunat

Corruption and product market competition: An empirical investigation pp. 154-166

Michael Alexeev and Yunah Song

The political economy of rural property rights and the persistence of the dual economy pp. 167-181

Leopoldo Fergusson

Understanding different migrant selection patterns in rural and urban Mexico pp. 182-201

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

Risk preferences and pesticide use by cotton farmers in China pp. 202-215

Elaine Liu and Jikun Huang

Does a legal ban on sex-selective abortions improve child sex ratios? Evidence from a policy change in India pp. 216-228

Arindam Nandi and Anil Deolalikar

Absorbing a windfall of foreign exchange: Dutch disease dynamics pp. 229-243

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Anthony Venables

Language, ethnicity and intrafirm trade pp. 244-253

Peter Debaere, Hongshik Lee and Joonhyung Lee

Fact or artifact: The impact of measurement errors on the farm size–productivity relationship pp. 254-261

Calogero Carletto, Sara Savastano and Alberto Zezza

Providing quality infrastructure in rural villages: The case of rural roads in China pp. 262-274

Ho Lun Wong, Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang and Scott Rozelle

A tale of two species: Revisiting the effect of registration reform on informal business owners in Mexico pp. 275-283

Miriam Bruhn

Keep your friends close: The effect of local social networks on child human capital outcomes pp. 284-298

Sarah Adelman

Ethnic cleansing or resource struggle in Darfur? An empirical analysis pp. 299-312

Ola Olsson and Eyerusalem Siba

School markets: The impact of information approximating schools' effectiveness pp. 313-335

Alejandra Mizala and Miguel Urquiola

Optimal fiscal policy and different degrees of access to international capital markets pp. 336-352

Karlygash Kuralbayeva

Test-Mex: Estimating the effects of school year length on student performance in Mexico pp. 353-361

Jorge Agüero and Trinidad Beleche

Volume 102, issue C, 2013

Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the age of mass migration pp. 2-14

Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan and Katherine Eriksson

Brain drain and development traps pp. 15-22

Jean-Pascal Benassy and Elise Brezis

The Making of Modern America: Migratory Flows in the Age of Mass Migration pp. 23-47

Oriana Bandiera, Imran Rasul and Martina Viarengo

Media exposure and internal migration — Evidence from Indonesia pp. 48-61

Lidia Farre and Francesco Fasani

International migration, imperfect information, and brain drain pp. 62-78

Vianney Dequiedt and Yves Zenou

Multilateral resistance to migration pp. 79-100

Simone Bertoli and Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

Wages and health worker retention: Evidence from public sector wage reforms in Ghana pp. 101-115

James Antwi and David Phillips

A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: Do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad? pp. 116-127

David McKenzie, John Gibson and Steven Stillman

Monetary and exchange rate policy under remittance fluctuations pp. 128-147

Federico Mandelman

Volume 101, issue C, 2013

Migration networks as a response to financial constraints: Onset, and endogenous dynamics pp. 1-7

Oded Stark and Marcin Jakubek

Funding microfinance under asymmetric information pp. 8-15

Suman Ghosh and Eric Van Tassel

Primary commodity prices: Co-movements, common factors and fundamentals pp. 16-26

Joseph Byrne, Giorgio Fazio and Norbert Fiess

Political violence and social networks: Experimental evidence from a Nigerian election pp. 27-48

Marcel Fafchamps and Pedro Vicente

The one-child policy: A macroeconomic analysis pp. 49-62

Pei-Ju Liao

Development (paradigm) failures pp. 63-74

Roland Hodler and Axel Dreher

Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions pp. 75-91

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Francesc Ortega

Effective labor regulation and microeconomic flexibility pp. 92-104

Ricardo Caballero, Kevin Cowan, Eduardo Engel and Alejandro Micco

Macro-hedging for commodity exporters pp. 105-116

Eduardo Borensztein, Olivier Jeanne and Damiano Sandri

International migration, imperfect information, and brain drain pp. 117-132

Vianney Dequiedt and Yves Zenou

The economic impact of Special Economic Zones: Evidence from Chinese municipalities pp. 133-147

Jin Wang

Education's role in China's structural transformation pp. 148-166

Soohyung Lee and Benjamin Malin

Financial development and the underground economy pp. 167-178

Salvatore Capasso and Tullio Jappelli

Limits of floating exchange rates: The role of foreign currency debt and import structure pp. 179-194

Pascal Towbin and Sebastian Weber

Are poor people credit-constrained or myopic? Evidence from a South African panel pp. 195-205

Erlend Berg

Oligarchic land ownership, entrepreneurship, and economic development pp. 206-215

Josef Falkinger and Volker Grossmann

Growth networks pp. 216-227

Raja Kali, Javier Reyes, Joshua McGee and Stuart Shirrell

Tribal heterogeneity and the allocation of publicly provided goods: Evidence from Yemen pp. 228-232

Daniel Egel

Fear of appreciation pp. 233-247

Eduardo Levy-Yeyati, Federico Sturzenegger and Pablo Gluzmann

The Dutch disease and the technological gap pp. 248-255

Reda Cherif

Boom–bust cycle, asymmetrical fiscal response and the Dutch disease pp. 256-267

Rabah Arezki and Kareem Ismail

Endogenous emergence of credit markets: Contracting in response to a new technology in Ghana pp. 268-283

Rahul Deb and Tavneet Suri

Success and failure of African exporters pp. 284-296

Olivier Cadot, Leonardo Iacovone, Martha Denisse Pierola and Ferdinand Rauch

Spatial spillovers in the development of institutions pp. 297-315

Harry H. Kelejian, Peter Murrell and Oleksandr Shepotylo

Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems pp. 316-329

Stephen Knack