Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

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Volume 98, issue 2, 2012

What makes growth sustained? pp. 149-166

Andrew Berg, Jonathan Ostry and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Growth miracles and failures in a Markov switching classification model of growth pp. 167-177

Monika Kerekes

Is inflation targeting a good remedy to control inflation? pp. 178-191

Helder de Mendonça and Gustavo Jose de Guimaraes e Souza

Risk taking under heterogenous revenue sharing pp. 192-202

Mohamed Belhaj and Frédéric Deroïan

Matching in community-based organizations pp. 203-219

Jean-Louis Arcand and Marcel Fafchamps

An instrumental variables approach to estimating tax revenue elasticities: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 220-227

Markus Brückner

Social contracts, markets and efficiency: Groundwater irrigation in North India pp. 228-237

A. Banerji, J.V. Meenakshi and Gauri Khanna

An aspect of variable population poverty comparisons pp. 238-241

Nicole Hassoun and S. Subramanian

Supply and quality choices in private child care markets: Evidence from São Paulo pp. 242-255

Paulo Bastos and Julian Cristia

AIDS mortality and its effect on the labor market: Evidence from South Africa pp. 256-269

Luke Chicoine

Job creation and job destruction in the presence of informal markets pp. 270-286

Mariano Bosch and Julen Esteban-Pretel

Volume 98, issue 1, 2012

Methods of household consumption measurement through surveys: Experimental results from Tanzania pp. 3-18

Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt, Jed Friedman and John Gibson

Improving consumption measurement and other survey data through CAPI: Evidence from a randomized experiment pp. 19-33

Bet Caeyers, Neil Chalmers and Joachim De Weerdt

Reliability of recall in agricultural data pp. 34-41

Kathleen Beegle, Calogero Carletto and Kristen Himelein

Can diaries help in improving agricultural production statistics? Evidence from Uganda pp. 42-50

Klaus Deininger, Calogero Carletto, Sara Savastano and James Muwonge

Using PDA consistency checks to increase the precision of profits and sales measurement in panels pp. 51-57

Marcel Fafchamps, David McKenzie, Simon Quinn and Christopher Woodruff

Measuring the return on household enterprise: What matters most for whom? pp. 58-70

Krislert Samphantharak and Robert Townsend

List randomization for sensitive behavior: An application for measuring use of loan proceeds pp. 71-75

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

The impact of recall periods on reported morbidity and health seeking behavior pp. 76-88

Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer and Carolina Sánchez-Paramo

Examining the reliability of self-reported data on school participation pp. 89-93

Sarah Baird and Berk Özler

A comparison of EPI sampling, probability sampling, and compact segment sampling methods for micro and small enterprises pp. 94-107

Li-Wei Chao, Helena Szrek, Karl Peltzer, Shandir Ramlagan, Peter Fleming, Rui Leite, Jesswill Magerman, Godfrey B. Ngwenya, Nuno Sousa Pereira and Jere Behrman

Cutting the costs of attrition: Results from the Indonesia Family Life Survey pp. 108-123

Duncan Thomas, Firman Witoelar, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Bondan Sikoki, John Strauss, Cecep Sumantri and Wayan Suriastini

Do household definitions matter in survey design? Results from a randomized survey experiment in Mali pp. 124-135

Lori Beaman and Andrew Dillon

Explaining variation in child labor statistics pp. 136-147

Andrew Dillon, Elena Bardasi, Kathleen Beegle and Pieter Serneels

Volume 97, issue 2, 2012

Do voters demand responsive governments? Evidence from Indian disaster relief pp. 167-181

Shawn Cole, Andrew Healy and Eric Werker

Using the law to change the custom pp. 182-200

Gani Aldashev, Imane Chaara, Jean-Philippe Platteau and Zaki Wahhaj

Financial constraints and occupational choice in Thai villages pp. 201-220

Alexander Karaivanov

Economic reform, voting, and local political intervention: Evidence from India pp. 221-231

Sharad Tandon

Health shocks and consumption smoothing in rural households: Does microcredit have a role to play? pp. 232-243

Asad Islam and Pushkar Maitra

Seasonality of income and poverty in Bangladesh pp. 244-256

Shahidur Khandker

Sudden stops, financial frictions, and labor market flows: Evidence from Latin America pp. 257-268

Francisco Gallego and José Tessada

Trade liberalization and unemployment: Theory and evidence from India pp. 269-280

Rana Hasan, Devashish Mitra, Priya Ranjan and Reshad Ahsan

Export sophistication and economic growth: Evidence from China pp. 281-292

Joachim Jarreau and Sandra Poncet

How product innovation in the North may immiserize the South pp. 293-304

Lilas Demmou

Foreign direct investment in services and manufacturing productivity: Evidence for Chile pp. 305-321

Ana Fernandes and Caroline Paunov

The political economy of linguistic cleavages pp. 322-338

Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín and Romain Wacziarg

Creative accounting or creative destruction? Firm-level productivity growth in Chinese manufacturing pp. 339-351

Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Yifan Zhang

Electricity provision and industrial development: Evidence from India pp. 352-367

Juan Pablo Rud

The myth of post-reform income stagnation: Evidence from Brazil and Mexico pp. 368-386

Irineu de Carvalho Filho and Marcos Chamon

Export surges pp. 387-395

Caroline Freund and Martha Denisse Pierola

Poverty, voracity, and growth pp. 396-403

Holger Strulik

Repayment performance in group lending: Evidence from Jordan pp. 404-414

Moh'd Al-Azzam, R. Carter Hill and Sudipta Sarangi

Risk and intertemporal substitution: Livestock portfolios and off-take among Kenyan pastoralists pp. 415-426

Travis Lybbert and John McPeak

Contagious development: Neighbor interactions in deforestation pp. 427-436

Juan Robalino and Alexander Pfaff

Do interest rates matter? Credit demand in the Dhaka slums pp. 437-449

Rajeev Dehejia, Heather Montgomery and Jonathan Morduch

Bank competition, financial reform, and institutions: The importance of being developed pp. 450-465

Manthos Delis

The impact of financial crises and tolerance for uncertainty pp. 466-480

Robert Inklaar and Jing Yang

Input-trade liberalization and firm export decisions: Evidence from Argentina pp. 481-493

Maria Bas

Estimating returns to education using twins in urban China pp. 494-504

Hongbin Li, Pak Wai Liu and Junsen Zhang

The impact of the Bolsa Escola/Familia conditional cash transfer program on enrollment, dropout rates and grade promotion in Brazil pp. 505-517

Paul Glewwe and Ana Lucia Kassouf

Volume 97, issue 1, 2012

The tyranny of international index rankings pp. 1-14

Bjørn Høyland, Karl Ove Moene and Fredrik Willumsen

Culture, caution, and trust pp. 15-23

Janice Boucher Breuer and John McDermott

Natural resource extraction and civil conflict pp. 24-31

Thorsten Janus

Testing the ‘brain gain’ hypothesis: Micro evidence from Cape Verde pp. 32-45

Catia Batista, Aitor Lacuesta and Pedro Vicente

Environmental regulation and trade openness in the presence of private mitigation pp. 46-57

Louis Hotte and Stanley Winer

The marginal cost of public funds and tax reform in Africa pp. 58-72

Emmanuelle Auriol and Michael Warlters

The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention: Changing the currents of trade pp. 73-87

Anna D'Souza

Informal employment in developing countries pp. 88-98

Isabel Günther and Andrey Launov

Stunting and selection effects of famine: A case study of the Great Chinese Famine pp. 99-111

Tue Gørgens, Xin Meng and Rhema Vaithianathan

The determinants of income in a Malthusian equilibrium pp. 112-117

Paul Sharp, Holger Strulik and Jacob Weisdorf

Peer effects in learning HIV results pp. 118-129

Susan Godlonton and Rebecca Thornton

The economic growth impact of natural disasters in developing countries: Evidence from hurricane strikes in the Central American and Caribbean regions pp. 130-141

Eric Strobl

Resource abundance, growth and welfare: A Schumpeterian perspective pp. 142-155

Pietro Peretto

Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico pp. 156-165

Carlo Alcaraz Pribaz, Daniel Chiquiar and Alejandrina Salcedo