Journal of Development Economics

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Volume 96, issue 2, 2011

Consumption risk, technology adoption and poverty traps: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 159-173

Stefan Dercon and Luc Christiaensen

Search, migration, and urban land use: The case of transportation policies pp. 174-187

Yves Zenou

Reputation, group structure and social tensions pp. 188-199

Dominic Rohner

The intergenerational effects of paternal migration on schooling and work: What can we learn from children's time allocations? pp. 200-208

Francisca Antman

The Neolithic Revolution from a price-theoretic perspective pp. 209-219

Ricardo Andrés Guzmán and Jacob Weisdorf

The unbalanced growth hypothesis and the role of the state: The case of China's state-owned enterprises pp. 220-238

Carsten Holz

The (evolving) role of agriculture in poverty reduction--An empirical perspective pp. 239-254

Luc Christiaensen, Lionel Demery and Jesper Kuhl

Do remittances promote financial development? pp. 255-264

Reena Aggarwal, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Maria Soledad Martínez Pería

The redistributive effects of political reservation for minorities: Evidence from India pp. 265-277

Aimee Chin and Nishith Prakash

Measuring the incentives to learn in Colombia using new quantile regression approaches pp. 278-288

Carlos Lamarche

Growth, income distribution, and fiscal policy volatility pp. 289-313

Jaejoon Woo

Industrial de-licensing, trade liberalization, and skill upgrading in India pp. 314-336

Rubiana Chamarbagwala and Gunjan Sharma

Persistent poverty and informal credit pp. 337-347

Paulo Santos and Christopher Barrett

Do community-driven development projects enhance social capital? Evidence from the Philippines pp. 348-358

Julien Labonne and Robert S. Chase

Must conditional cash transfer programs be conditioned to be effective? The impact of conditioning transfers on school enrollment in Mexico pp. 359-370

Alan de Brauw and John Hoddinott

The role of extensive and intensive margins and export growth pp. 371-379

Tibor Besedes and Thomas Prusa

Do formula-based intergovernmental transfer mechanisms eliminate politically motivated targeting? Evidence from Ghana pp. 380-390

Afua Banful

Civil wars beyond their borders: The human capital and health consequences of hosting refugees pp. 391-408

Javier Baez

Errors in self-reported earnings: The role of previous earnings volatility and individual characteristics pp. 409-421

Randall Akee

Household inequality, social welfare, and trade pp. 422-431

Joseph Francois and Hugo Rojas-Romagosa

The distributional impact of large dams: Evidence from cropland productivity in Africa pp. 432-450

Eric Strobl and Robert O. Strobl

Law, trade, and development pp. 451-460

Johannes Moenius and Daniel Berkowitz

Urban growth and uninsured rural risk: Booming towns in bust times pp. 461-475

Steven Poelhekke

Volume 96, issue 1, 2011

The long-run impact of bombing Vietnam pp. 1-15

Edward Miguel and Gérard Roland

Access to capital in rural Thailand: An estimated model of formal vs. informal credit pp. 16-29

Xavier Gine

Rent-seeking distortions and fiscal procyclicality pp. 30-46

Ethan Ilzetzki

Sectoral differentiation, allocation of talent, and financial development pp. 47-60

Esteban Jaimovich

HIV and fertility revisited pp. 61-65

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Belgi Turan

Land tenure differences and investment in land improvement measures: Theoretical and empirical analyses pp. 66-78

Awudu Abdulai, Victor Owusu and Renan Goetz

Internal finance and growth: Microeconometric evidence on Chinese firms pp. 79-94

Alessandra Guariglia, Xiaoxuan Liu and Lina Song

The influence of the mother's power on her child's labor in Mexico pp. 95-105

Iliana Reggio

Almost random: Evaluating a large-scale randomized nutrition program in the presence of crossover pp. 106-114

Sebastian Linnemayr and Harold Alderman

Trade liberalization, antidumping, and safeguards: Evidence from India's tariff reform pp. 115-125

Chad Bown and Patricia Tovar

Does it matter where you come from? Vertical spillovers from foreign direct investment and the origin of investors pp. 126-138

Beata Javorcik and Mariana Spatareanu

Positional spending and status seeking in rural China pp. 139-149

Phil Brown, Erwin Bulte and Xiaobo Zhang

Does more cash in conditional cash transfer programs always lead to larger impacts on school attendance? pp. 150-157

Deon Filmer and Norbert Schady

Volume 95, issue 2, 2011

Where does microfinance flourish? Microfinance institution performance in macroeconomic context pp. 105-120

Christian Ahlin, Jocelyn Lin and Michael Maio

Schooling as a lottery: Racial differences in school advancement in urban South Africa pp. 121-136

David Lam, Cally Ardington and Murray Leibbrandt

Land tenure and investment incentives: Evidence from West Africa pp. 137-156

James Fenske

Price, unit value, and quality demanded pp. 157-169

Christopher McKelvey

Can census data alone signal heterogeneity in the estimation of poverty maps? pp. 170-185

Alessandro Tarozzi

The effect of armed conflict on accumulation of schooling: Results from Tajikistan pp. 186-200

Olga Shemyakina

Bankruptcy costs, liability dollarization, and vulnerability to sudden stops pp. 201-211

Uluc Aysun and Adam Honig

Common factors in Latin America's business cycles pp. 212-228

Marco Aiolfi, Luis Catão and Allan Timmermann

Remittances and banking sector breadth and depth: Evidence from Mexico pp. 229-241

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Ernesto López Córdova, María Soledad Martínez Pería and Christopher Woodruff

A reexamination of trends in primary commodity prices pp. 242-251

Atanu Ghoshray

The formation and evolution of childhood skill acquisition: Evidence from India pp. 252-266

Christian Helmers and Manasa Patnam

Volume 95, issue 1, 2011

Preface for Symposium on Globalization and the Brain Drain in the Journal of Development Economics, 2010 pp. 1-3

Jagdish Bhagwati

The brain drain and the world distribution of income pp. 4-17

Andrew Mountford and Hillel Rapoport

The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest: Evidence from the Pacific pp. 18-29

John Gibson and David McKenzie

Diasporas pp. 30-41

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Çaglar Özden

Income maximization and the selection and sorting of international migrants pp. 42-57

Jeffrey Grogger and Gordon Hanson

Return migration, human capital accumulation and the brain drain pp. 58-67

Christian Dustmann, Itzik Fadlon and Yoram Weiss

Brain-drain taxes for non-benevolent governments pp. 68-76

John Douglas Wilson

Bidding for brains: Intellectual property rights and the international migration of knowledge workers pp. 77-87

Carol McAusland and Peter Kuhn

Does international mobility of high-skilled workers aggravate between-country inequality? pp. 88-94

Volker Grossmann and David Stadelmann

Developing science: Scientific performance and brain drains in the developing world pp. 95-104

Bruce Weinberg