Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 94, issue 2, 2011

Measuring subjective expectations in developing countries: A critical review and new evidence pp. 151-163

Adeline Delavande, Xavier Gine and David McKenzie

Corruption and local democratization in Indonesia: The role of Islamic parties pp. 164-180

J. Vernon Henderson and Ari Kuncoro

Aggregate infrastructure capital stock and long-run growth: Evidence from Finnish data pp. 181-191

Jani Luoto

Political regimes and foreign intervention pp. 192-201

Toke Aidt and Facundo Albornoz

Illusory revenues: Import tariffs in resource-rich and aid-rich economies pp. 202-206

Paul Collier and Anthony Venables

The role of importers and exporters in the determination of the U.S. tariff preferences granted to Latin America pp. 207-219

Peri Silva

The impact of exchange rate volatility on plant-level investment: Evidence from Colombia pp. 220-230

Ivan Kandilov and Asli Leblebicioglu

Migrant networks and foreign direct investment pp. 231-241

Beata Javorcik, Çaglar Özden, Mariana Spatareanu and Ileana Neagu Constantinescu

Income and bargaining effects on education and health in Brazil pp. 242-253

Vladimir Ponczek

Pursuing efficiency while maintaining outreach: Bank privatization in Tanzania pp. 254-261

Robert Cull and Connor P. Spreng

Does formality improve micro-firm performance? Evidence from the Brazilian SIMPLES program pp. 262-276

Pablo Fajnzylber, William Maloney and Gabriel Montes-Rojas

Does political competition lessen ethnic discrimination? Evidence from Sri Lanka pp. 277-289

Iffath A. Sharif

Volume 94, issue 1, 2011

Women as agents of change: Female income and mobility in India pp. 1-17

Nancy Luke and Kaivan Munshi

The impact of oil prices on an oil-importing developing economy pp. 18-29

Stefan Schubert and Stephen J Turnovsky

Group insurance and lending with endogenous social collateral pp. 30-40

Beatrix Paal and Thomas Wiseman

The human capital consequences of civil war: Evidence from Guatemala pp. 41-61

Rubiana Chamarbagwala and Hilcías Morán

Fungibility and the impact of development assistance: Evidence from Vietnam's health sector pp. 62-73

Adam Wagstaff

A healthier start: The effect of conditional cash transfers on neonatal and infant mortality in rural Mexico pp. 74-85

Tania Barham

Economic transition, higher education and worker productivity in China pp. 86-94

Belton Fleisher, Yifan Hu, Haizheng Li and Seonghoon Kim

The elusive costs of sovereign defaults pp. 95-105

Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Ugo Panizza

Aid, Dutch disease, and manufacturing growth pp. 106-118

Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian

Impacts of the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia on livestock and tree holdings of rural households pp. 119-126

Camilla Andersson, Alemu Mekonnen and Jesper Stage

BOT projects: Incentives and efficiency pp. 127-138

Larry Qiu and Susheng Wang

Asymmetric effects of financial development on South-South and South-North trade: Panel data evidence from emerging markets pp. 139-149

Firat Demir and Omar S. Dahi

Volume 93, issue 2, 2010

Development through synergistic reforms pp. 153-161

James Rauch

Vertical integration and investor protection in developing countries pp. 162-172

Rocco Macchiavello

The supply- and demand-side impacts of credit market information pp. 173-188

Alain de Janvry, Craig McIntosh and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Maturity mismatch and financial crises: Evidence from emerging market corporations pp. 189-205

Hoyt Bleakley and Kevin Cowan

Financial factors and the margins of trade: Evidence from cross-country firm-level data pp. 206-217

Nicolas Berman and Jérôme Héricourt

Foreign direct investment and host country policies: A rationale for using ownership restrictions pp. 218-225

Bilgehan Karabay

Using the Hawthorne effect to examine the gap between a doctor's best possible practice and actual performance pp. 226-234

Kenneth Leonard and Melkiory C. Masatu

Conflict displacement and labor market outcomes in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina pp. 235-248

Florence Kondylis

A survey-based choice experiment on coca cultivation pp. 249-263

Marcela Ibanez and Fredrik Carlsson

Decentralizing development: Allocating public goods via competition pp. 264-274

Larry Chavis

The determinants and impact of telecommunications reforms in developing countries pp. 275-286

Farid Gasmi and Laura Recuero Virto

Fiscal inertia, donor credibility, and the monetary management of aid surges pp. 287-298

Edward F. Buffie, Stephen O'Connell and Christopher Adam

Volume 93, issue 1, 2010

The optimal sequencing of carrots pp. 1-6

Jennifer L. Steele

Fatal fluctuations? Cyclicality in infant mortality in India pp. 7-19

Sonia Bhalotra

Poverty reduction without economic growth?: Explaining Brazil's poverty dynamics, 1985-2004 pp. 20-36

Francisco Ferreira, Phillippe G. Leite and Martin Ravallion

The Indian growth miracle and endogenous growth pp. 37-48

Jakob Madsen, Shishir Saxena and James Ang

Property rights protection and corporate R&D: Evidence from China pp. 49-62

Chen Lin, Ping Lin and Frank Song

Entrepreneurial drain under moral hazard: A high-yield sector curse? pp. 63-70

Carlo Perroni and Eugenio Proto

Inheritance patterns in migration-prone communities of the Peruvian Highlands pp. 71-87

Tatiana Goetghebuer and Jean-Philippe Platteau

Competition and inter-firm credit: Theory and evidence from firm-level data in Indonesia pp. 88-108

Kyle Hyndman and Giovanni Serio

Do unemployment benefits promote or hinder job reallocation? pp. 109-125

Tito Boeri and Mario Macis

Managerial ability and capital flows pp. 126-136

Andre Silva

The composition of growth matters for poverty alleviation pp. 137-151

Norman Loayza and Claudio Raddatz

Volume 92, issue 2, 2010

North-South trade with increasing product variety pp. 97-106

Peter Gustafsson and Paul Segerstrom

Competition in bureaucracy and corruption pp. 107-114

Mikhail Drugov

Do elites benefit from democracy and foreign aid in developing countries? pp. 115-124

Christian Bjørnskov

Financial market participation and the developing country business cycle pp. 125-137

Hüseyin Özbilgin

The value added tax: Its causes and consequences pp. 138-151

Michael Keen and Ben Lockwood

Child welfare programs and child nutrition: Evidence from a mandated school meal program in India pp. 152-165

Farzana Afridi

Elections, exchange rates and reform in Latin America pp. 166-174

Rodolfo Cermeño, Robin Grier and Kevin Grier

India shining and Bharat drowning: Comparing two Indian states to the worldwide distribution in mathematics achievement pp. 175-187

Jishnu Das and Tristan Zajonc

The impact of piped water provision on infant mortality in Brazil: A quantile panel data approach pp. 188-200

Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, Shakeeb Khan and Christopher Timmins

Beyond the average effects: The distributional impacts of export promotion programs in developing countries pp. 201-214

Christian Volpe Martincus and Jeronimo Carballo

Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China pp. 215-231

Belton Fleisher, Haizheng Li and Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao

A century of economic growth in Latin America pp. 232-243

Pablo Astorga

Volume 92, issue 1, 2010

The welfare costs of unreliable water service pp. 1-12

Brian Baisa, Lucas Davis, Stephen Salant and William Wilcox

Intellectual property rights, multinational firms and economic growth pp. 13-27

Elias Dinopoulos and Paul Segerstrom

Does oil corrupt? Evidence from a natural experiment in West Africa pp. 28-38

Pedro Vicente

Electoral manipulation via voter-friendly spending: Theory and evidence pp. 39-52

Allan Drazen and Marcela Eslava

How responsive is body weight to transitory income changes? Evidence from rural Tanzania pp. 53-61

Niklas Bengtsson

Remittances and temporary migration pp. 62-70

Christian Dustmann and Josep Mestres

Do external interventions work? The case of trade reform conditions in IMF supported programs pp. 71-81

Shang-Jin Wei and Zhiwei Zhang

Causal effects of sex preference on sex-blind and sex-selective child avoidance and substitution across birth years: Evidence from the Japanese year of the fire horse pp. 82-95

Chris Rohlfs, Alexander Reed and Hiroyuki Yamada