Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 79, issue 2, 2006

Editorial pp. v-v

Timothy Besley and Mark Rosenzweig

Subcontractors for tractors: Theory and evidence on flexible specialization, supplier selection, and contracting pp. 273-302

Tahir Andrabi, Maitreesh Ghatak and Asim Khwaja

Pro-poor targeting and accountability of local governments in West Bengal pp. 303-327

Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

Guard labor pp. 328-348

Arjun Jayadev and Samuel Bowles

Can conditional cash transfer programs serve as safety nets in keeping children at school and from working when exposed to shocks? pp. 349-373

Alain de Janvry, Frederico Finan, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Renos Vakis

Child labor, urban proximity, and household composition pp. 374-397

Marcel Fafchamps and Jackline Wahba

Bargaining power and enforcement in credit markets pp. 398-412

Garance Genicot and Debraj Ray

Consumption smoothing? Livestock, insurance and drought in rural Burkina Faso pp. 413-446

Harounan Kazianga and Christopher Udry

Political foundations of the resource curse pp. 447-468

James Robinson, Ragnar Torvik and Thierry Verdier

Intermediation by aid agencies pp. 469-491

Colin Rowat and Paul Seabright

Volume 79, issue 1, 2006

The desire for land: Strategic lending with adverse selection pp. 1-25

Clive Bell and Gerhard Clemenz

Human capital and economic development pp. 26-72

Robert Tamura

Motives for household private transfers in Burkina Faso pp. 73-117

Harounan Kazianga

The demand for primary schooling in Madagascar: Price, quality, and the choice between public and private providers pp. 118-145

Peter Glick and David Sahn

On the prevalence of trends in primary commodity prices pp. 146-167

Neil Kellard and Mark Wohar

Inflation before and after central bank independence: The case of Colombia pp. 168-182

Jesus Otero and Manuel Ramirez

Financial globalization and debt maturity in emerging economies pp. 183-207

Sergio Schmukler and Esteban Vesperoni

Revisiting the interest rate-exchange rate nexus: a Markov-switching approach pp. 208-224

Shiu-Sheng Chen

Sudden stops and the Mexican wave: Currency crises, capital flow reversals and output loss in emerging markets pp. 225-248

Michael Hutchison and Ilan Noy

Samaritan agents? On the strategic delegation of aid policy pp. 249-263

Rune Hagen

Introducing uncertainty into Baland and Robinson's model of child labour pp. 264-272

William Pouliot

Volume 78, issue 2, 2005

Competition and microfinance pp. 271-298

Craig McIntosh and Bruce Wydick

Informal sector: The credit market channel pp. 299-321

Stephane Straub

Credit rationing and capital accumulation with investment and consumption loans revisited pp. 322-347

Fu-Sheng Hung

Which doctor? Combining vignettes and item response to measure clinical competence pp. 348-383

Jishnu Das and Jeffrey Hammer

Can redistributing teachers across schools raise educational attainment? Evidence from Operation Blackboard in India pp. 384-405

Aimee Chin

Increasing returns and market efficiency in agricultural trade pp. 406-442

Marcel Fafchamps, Eleni Gabre-Madhin and Bart Minten

Density, social networks and job search methods: Theory and application to Egypt pp. 443-473

Jackline Wahba and Yves Zenou

Intellectual property rights and innovation in developing countries pp. 474-493

Yongmin Chen and Thitima Puttitanun

Optimal Dutch disease pp. 494-515

Egil Matsen and Ragnar Torvik

Inflation and income inequality: A shopping-time approach pp. 516-528

Rubens Cysne, Wilfredo Maldonado and Paulo Monteiro

International trade, economic growth and intellectual property rights: A panel data study of developed and developing countries pp. 529-547

Patricia Higino Schneider

Volume 78, issue 1, 2005

The perversity of preferences: GSP and developing country trade policies, 1976-2000 pp. 1-21

Caglar Ozden and Eric Reinhardt

The big push, industrialization and international trade: The role of exports pp. 22-48

Vitor Trindade

Testing for trends in the terms of trade between primary commodities and manufactured goods pp. 49-59

George P. Zanias

The transition to a globalized economy: Poverty, human capital and the informal sector in a structuralist CGE model pp. 60-94

Bill Gibson

Investment, devaluation, and foreign currency exposure: The case of Mexico pp. 95-113

Mark Aguiar

Private sector involvement in the resolution of financial crises: How do markets react? pp. 114-132

Peter Tillmann

Bank privatization in Argentina: A model of political constraints and differential outcomes pp. 133-155

George Clarke and Robert Cull

Tax base variability and procyclical fiscal policy in developing countries pp. 156-190

Ernesto Talvi and Carlos Vegh

Intergenerational transfers and demographic transition pp. 191-214

Keith Blackburn and Giam Pietro Cipriani

Self-selection among undocumented immigrants from Mexico pp. 215-240

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

The potential of land rental markets in the process of economic development: Evidence from China pp. 241-270

Klaus Deininger and Songqing Jin

Volume 77, issue 2, 2005

An economic profile of peasant perpetrators of genocide: Micro-level evidence from Rwanda pp. 297-323

Philip Verwimp

Crime induced poverty traps pp. 325-340

Halvor Mehlum, Karl Ove Moene and Ragnar Torvik

Private enforcement and social efficiency pp. 341-366

James Anderson and Oriana Bandiera

Property rights, mobile capital, and comparative advantage pp. 367-387

Larry Karp

Parental human capital investment and old-age transfers from children: Is it a loan contract or reciprocity for Indonesian families? pp. 389-414

Lakshmi Raut and Lien H. Tran

Group-lending: Sequential financing, lender monitoring and joint liability pp. 415-439

Prabal Roy Chowdhury

The influence of capital controls on long run growth: Where and how much? pp. 441-466

Areendam Chanda

Opposition to FDI and financial shocks pp. 467-476

Joshua Aizenman

Foreign direct investment and international trade in a continuum Ricardian trade model pp. 477-501

Leonard K. Cheng, Larry Qiu and Guofu Tan

Foreign economic aid; should donors cooperate? pp. 503-515

Gaute Torsvik

The 'appropriate technology' explanation of productivity growth differentials: An empirical approach pp. 517-531

Bart Los and Marcel Timmer

Do more open economies have bigger governments? Another look pp. 533-551

John Garen and Kathleen Trask

Does Africa grow slower than Asia, Latin America and the Middle East? Evidence from a new data-based classification method pp. 553-570

Richard Paap, Philip Hans Franses and Dick van Dijk

Volume 77, issue 1, 2005

Assets at marriage in rural Ethiopia pp. 1-25

Marcel Fafchamps and Agnes Quisumbing

Measuring the poverty reduction potential of land in rural Mexico pp. 27-51

Frederico Finan, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry

Poverty-dominant program reforms: the role of targeting and allocation rules pp. 53-73

Jean-Yves Duclos, Paul Makdissi and Quentin Wodon

Agricultural sector and industrial agglomeration pp. 75-106

Pierre Picard and Dao-Zhi Zeng

AIDS crisis and growth pp. 107-124

Paul Corrigan, Gerhard Glomm and Fabio Mendez

Trade, capital accumulation and structural unemployment: an empirical study of the Singapore economy pp. 125-152

Hiau Looi Kee and Hian Hoon

Obsolescence and modernization in the growth process pp. 153-171

Raouf Boucekkine, Fernando del Río and Omar Licandro

Endogenous growth and the emergence of equity finance pp. 173-188

Niloy Bose

One reason countries pay their debts: renegotiation and international trade pp. 189-206

Andrew Rose

Trade, foreign direct investment or acquisition: Optimal entry modes for multinationals pp. 207-228

Theo Eicher and Jong Woo Kang

Inflation, openness, and exchange-rate regimes: The quest for short-term commitment pp. 229-249

Laura Alfaro

Brain drain and economic growth: theory and evidence: a comment pp. 251-256

Noriyoshi Hemmi

Why Mexico's regional income convergence broke down pp. 257-275

Daniel Chiquiar

Revenue-increasing and welfare-enhancing reform of taxes on exports pp. 277-292

M. Shahe Emran

The IMF and its critics: reform of global financial architecture pp. 293-296

Joseph Joyce