Journal of Development Economics

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Volume 87, issue 2, 2008

On the distribution of education and democracy pp. 179-190

Amparo Castello-Climent

Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition? pp. 191-209

Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

A theory of racial diversity, segregation, and productivity pp. 210-226

Chad Sparber

Constitutions and the resource curse pp. 227-246

Jørgen Andersen and Silje Aslaksen

The effect of reporting errors on the cross-country relationship between inequality and crime pp. 247-254

John Gibson and Bonggeun Kim

Brain waste? Educated immigrants in the US labor market pp. 255-269

Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Neagu Constantinescu and Çaglar Özden

The quality effect: Does financial liberalization improve the allocation of capital? pp. 270-282

Abdul Abiad, Nienke Oomes and Kenichi Ueda

Political connections, financing and firm performance: Evidence from Chinese private firms pp. 283-299

Hongbin Li, Lingsheng Meng, Qian Wang and Li-An Zhou

The growth-inequality association: Government ideology matters pp. 300-308

Christian Bjørnskov

Trade, regulations, and income pp. 309-321

Caroline Freund and Bineswaree Bolaky

Clientelism and aid pp. 322-332

Georges Casamatta and Charles Vellutini

Tolerance for uncertainty and the growth of informationally opaque industries pp. 333-353

Rocco Huang

Volume 87, issue 1, 2008

What determines foreign aid? The donors' perspective pp. 1-13

Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein

The importance of being informed: Experimental evidence on demand for environmental quality pp. 14-28

Jyotsna Jalan and E. Somanathan

The political economy of seigniorage pp. 29-50

Ari Aisen and Francisco Veiga

Assortative matching, adverse selection, and group lending pp. 51-56

Joel M. Guttman

Does female schooling reduce fertility? Evidence from Nigeria pp. 57-75

Una Osili and Bridget Long

Temporary shocks and offshoring: The role of external economies and firm heterogeneity pp. 76-84

Devashish Mitra and Priya Ranjan

Tari[ff]-tax reforms and market access pp. 85-91

Udo Kreickemeier and Pascalis Raimondos

An exploration of the positive effect of inequality on common property forests pp. 92-105

Jennifer Alix-Garcia

Does the use of imported intermediates increase productivity? Plant-level evidence pp. 106-118

Hiroyuki Kasahara and Joel Rodrigue

Political economy of income distribution dynamics pp. 119-139

Lei Zhang

CPI bias and real living standards in Russia during the transition pp. 140-160

John Gibson, Steven Stillman and Trinh Le

Engel's law, Petty's law, and agglomeration pp. 161-177

Yasusada Murata

Volume 86, issue 2, 2008

Household bargaining over fertility: Theory and evidence from Malaysia pp. 215-241

Imran Rasul

Deforestation and the real exchange rate pp. 242-262

Jean-Louis Arcand, Patrick Guillaumont and Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney

Is migration a good substitute for education subsidies? pp. 263-276

Frédéric Docquier, Ousmane Faye and Pierre Pestieau

Roads out of poverty? Assessing the links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty reduction pp. 277-295

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Nihal Bayraktar and Karim El Aynaoui

Who benefits more from higher household consumption? The intra-household allocation of nutrients in China pp. 296-312

Eiji Mangyo

Debt ceiling and fiscal sustainability in Brazil: A quantile autoregression approach pp. 313-335

Luiz Lima, Wagner Gaglianone and Raquel M.B. Sampaio

Job search and mobility in developing countries. Theory and policy implications pp. 336-355

Yves Zenou

Remittances, transaction costs, and informality pp. 356-366

Caroline Freund and Nikola Spatafora

Institutions and concentration pp. 367-394

Todd Mitton

Unequal opportunities and human capital formation pp. 395-413

Daniel Mejia and Marc St-Pierre

Are financial development and corruption control substitutes in promoting growth? pp. 414-433

Christian Ahlin and Jiaren Pang

On the emergence of public education in land-rich economies pp. 434-446

Sebastian Galiani, Daniel Heymann, Carlos Dabús and Fernando Tohmé

A note on redistributive fairness and economic reform pp. 447-452

Anna Rubinchik and Ruqu Wang

Volume 86, issue 1, 2008

Can micro-credit bring development? pp. 1-21

Christian Ahlin and Neville Jiang

Gross national happiness as an answer to the Easterlin Paradox? pp. 22-42

Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

Subjective welfare, isolation, and relative consumption pp. 43-60

Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi

Geography, health, and the pace of demo-economic development pp. 61-75

Holger Strulik

Schooling, wages and profits: Negative pecuniary externalities from schooling and their consequences for schooling investments pp. 76-95

Anjini Kochar

Public spending and outcomes: Does governance matter? pp. 96-111

Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Vinaya Swaroop

The tradeoff between growth and equity in decentralization policy: China's experience pp. 112-128

Baoyun Qiao, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Yongsheng Xu

Old-age benefits and retirement decisions of rural elderly in Brazil pp. 129-146

Irineu de Carvalho Filho

Optimal collective contract without peer information or peer monitoring pp. 147-163

Arup Daripa

Child labor and schooling response to changes in coca production in rural Peru pp. 164-180

Ana Dammert

Financial structure and economic growth pp. 181-200

Kul Luintel, Mosahid Khan, Philip Arestis and Konstantinos Theodoridis

Public sector motivation and development failures pp. 201-213

Rocco Macchiavello

Volume 85, issue 1-2, 2008

What causes firms to hide output? The determinants of informality pp. 1-27

Era Dabla-Norris, Mark Gradstein and Gabriela Inchauste

Hedging sudden stops and precautionary contractions pp. 28-57

Ricardo Caballero and Stavros Panageas

Cosigned vs. group loans pp. 58-80

Philip Bond and Ashok Rai

Reciprocated unilateralism in trade reforms with majority voting pp. 81-93

Pravin Krishna and Devashish Mitra

Improving quality versus increasing the quantity of schooling: Estimates of rates of return from rural Pakistan pp. 94-104

Jere Behrman, David Ross and Richard Sabot

Is Spanish-only schooling responsible for the Puerto Rican language gap? pp. 105-128

Joshua Angrist, Aimee Chin and Ricardo Godoy

Trade costs and location of foreign firms in China pp. 129-149

Mary Amiti and Beata Javorcik

Migration and technological change in rural households: Complements or substitutes? pp. 150-175

Mariapia Mendola

Foreign direct investment and technology spillovers: Theory and evidence pp. 176-193

Zhiqiang Liu

To share or not to share: Does local participation matter for spillovers from foreign direct investment? pp. 194-217

Beata Javorcik and Mariana Spatareanu

Government ownership of banks, institutions, and financial development pp. 218-252

Svetlana Andrianova, Panicos Demetriades and Anja Shortland

A north-south model of intellectual property rights protection and skill accumulation pp. 253-281

Carmelo Parello

Responding to the coffee crisis: What can we learn from price dynamics? pp. 282-311

Aashish Mehta and Jean-Paul Chavas

Inflation targeting in emerging economies: What do the data say? pp. 312-318

Carlos Goncalves and Joao M. Salles

Monetary union in West Africa and asymmetric shocks: A dynamic structural factor model approach pp. 319-347

Romain Houssa

Erratum to "Can information alone change behavior? Response to arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh" [Journal of Development Economics 84 (2007) 731-754] pp. 349-347

Malgosia Madajewicz, Alexander Pfaff, Alexander van Geen, Joseph Graziano, Iftikhar Hussein, Hasina Momotaj, Roksana Sylvi and Habibul Ahsan