Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 166, issue C, 2024

Peaceful entry: Entrepreneurship dynamics during Colombia’s peace agreement

Carolina Bernal, Mounu Prem, Juan Vargas and Mónica Ortiz

Immigration and occupational downgrading in Colombia

Jeremy Lebow

Intergenerational mobility around the world: A new database

Roy van der Weide, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Ambar Narayan and Rakesh Gupta

The long-term welfare effects of colonial institutions: Evidence from Central India

Marco Colleoni

Evaluating the impact of general versus vocational education on labor market outcomes in Egypt by means of a regression discontinuity design

Johanna Kemper and Ursula Renold

Improved menstrual health and the workplace: An RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers

Kristina Czura, Andreas Menzel and Martina Miotto

Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Bohdan Kukharskyy and Gérard Roland

How do digital platforms affect employment and job search? Evidence from India

Erin M. Kelley, Christopher Ksoll and Jeremy Magruder

Illegal markets and contemporary slavery: Evidence from the mahogany trade in the Amazon

Daniel Araujo, Yuri Barreto, Danny Castro and Robson Tigre

School electrification and academic outcomes in rural Kenya

Josephat Koima

TV in times of political uncertainty: Evidence from the 2017 elections in Kenya

Elisa Mougin

Changing local customs: The long run impacts of Christian missions on female genital cutting in Africa

Heather Congdon Fors, Ann-Sofie Isaksson and Annika Lindskog

Helping families help themselves: The (Un)intended impacts of a digital parenting program

Sofia Amaral, Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, Patricio Dominguez and Santiago Perez-Vincent

Asset transfers and anti-poverty programs: Experimental evidence from Tanzania

Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh, Berk Özler and Utz Pape

Fertility and delayed migration: How son preference protects young girls against mother–child separation

Zibin Huang, Xu Jiang and Ang Sun

Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality: Theory and evidence

Sanjit Dhami, Mengxing Wei and Pavan Mamidi

Economic shocks and infant health: Evidence from a trade reform in Brazil

Carlos Charris, Danyelle Branco and Bladimir Carrillo

Learning effects of conditional cash transfers: The role of class size and composition

Jules Gazeaud and Claire Ricard

Information and behavior: Evidence from fertilizer quantity recommendations in Bangladesh

Sabrin Beg, Mahnaz Islam and Khandker Wahedur Rahman

Adaptation to temperature extremes in Chinese agriculture, 1981 to 2010

Di Wang, Peng Zhang, Shuai Chen and Ning Zhang

Respondent biases in agricultural household surveys

Andrew Dillon and Edouard Mensah

Does survey mode matter? Comparing in-person and phone agricultural surveys in India

Ellen Anderson, Travis Lybbert, Ashish Shenoy, Rupika Singh and Daniel Stein

Risk, arbitrage, and spatial price relationships: Insights from China's hog market under the African Swine Fever

Meilin Ma, Michael S. Delgado and H. Holly Wang

Supporting early childhood development remotely: Experimental evidence from SMS messages

Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte, Olga Namen, Emma Näslund-Hadley and Maria Loreto Biehl

Providing procedural knowledge: A field experiment to encourage resource conservation in Namibia

Sebastian Tonke

The dual role of insurance in input use: Mitigating risk versus curtailing incentives

Davide Pietrobon

Winning and losing the resource lottery: Governance after uncertain oil discoveries

Erik S. Katovich

Global universal basic skills: Current deficits and implications for world development

Sarah Gust, Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

From wells to wealth? Government transfers and human capital

Julio Acuna, Lenin Balza and Nicolas Gomez-Parra

The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism

Lionel Fontagné and Michela Limardi

Optimal Infrastructure after Trade Reform in India

Priyam Verma

Tariff overhang and aid: Theory and empirics

Oliver Lorz and Susanna Thede

Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China

Anthony Howell

The limits of hegemony: U.S. banks and Chilean firms in the Cold War

Felipe Aldunate, Felipe González and Mounu Prem

Volume 165, issue C, 2023

How do policymakers update their beliefs?

Eva Vivalt and Aidan Coville

Demand, supply and long-term adoption: Evidence from a storage technology in West Africa

Jenny C. Aker, Brian Dillon and C. Jamilah Welch

Liquid milk: Savings, insurance and side-selling in cooperatives

Xin Geng, Wendy Janssens and Berber Kramer

Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity

Julia Berazneva, Annemie Maertens, Wezi Mhango and Hope Michelson

Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability

Elif Kubilay, Eva Raiber, Lisa Spantig, Jana Cahlíková and Lucy Kaaria

Spousal communication and information sharing: Evidence from migrants and their spouses

Obeid Ur Rehman

Quota removal, destination-specific export shocks, and skill acquisition in China

Junsen Zhang and Kang Zhou

On track or not? Projecting the global Multidimensional Poverty Index

Sabina Alkire, Ricardo Nogales, Natalie Quinn and Nicolai Suppa

Ethno-regional favoritism and the political economy of school test scores

Philip Verwimp

Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce “backway” migration from The Gambia?

Tijan L. Bah, Catia Batista, Flore Gubert and David McKenzie

Bundled contracts and technological diffusion: Evidence from the Brazilian soybean boom

Guilherme DePaula

Land titling, human capital misallocation, and agricultural productivity in China

Shouying Liu, Sen Ma, Lijuan Yin and Jiong Zhu

Parental investment, school choice, and the persistent benefits of an early childhood intervention

Lei Wang, Yiwei Qian, Nele Warrinnier, Orazio Attanasio, Scott Rozelle and Sean Sylvia

Now, Later, or Never? Evidence of the effect of weather shocks on female genital cutting in Sub-Saharan Africa

Tamara McGavock and Lindsey Novak

With or without him? Experimental evidence on cash grants and gender-sensitive trainings in Tunisia

Jules Gazeaud, Nausheen Khan, Eric Mvukiyehe and Olivier Sterck

Mitigating agricultural fires with carrot or stick? Evidence from China

Jing Cao and Rong Ma