Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 164, issue C, 2023

Exposure to collective gender-based violence causes intimate partner violence

Wolfgang Stojetz and Tilman Brück

Quantifying welfare effects in the presence of externalities: An ex-ante evaluation of sanitation interventions

Sanghmitra Gautam

Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo

J. Andrew Harris and Peter van der Windt

Price information, inter-village networks, and “bargaining spillovers”: Experimental evidence from Ghana

Emilia Soldani, Nicole Hildebrandt, Yaw Nyarko and Giorgia Romagnoli

Measuring time use in rural India: Design and validation of a low-cost survey module

Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Elena Stacy and Charity Troyer Moore

Learning by searching: Spatial mismatches and imperfect information in Southern labor markets

Abhijit Banerjee and Sandra Sequeira

A global map of amenities: Public goods, ethnic divisions and decentralization

André Seidel

Live tutoring calls did not improve learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone

Lee Crawfurd, David K. Evans, Susannah Hares and Justin Sandefur

Marriage markets and the rise of dowry in India

Gaurav Chiplunkar and Jeffrey Weaver

The health costs of dirty energy: Evidence from the capacity market in Colombia

Achyuta Adhvaryu, Teresa Molina, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicolas Torres

Long Live friendship? The long-term impact of Soviet aid on Sino-Russian trade

Zhi-An Hu, Jinghong Li and Zhuo Nie

Transnational terrorism and the internet

Quy-Toan Do, Nicolas Gomez-Parra and Bob Rijkers

Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration: Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology

Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ina Ganguli and Patrick Gaulé

In-kind transfers, marketization costs and household specialization: Evidence from Indian farmers

Nicholas Li

Refugees and the education of host populations: Evidence from the Syrian inflow to Jordan

Ragui Assaad, Thomas Ginn and Mohamed Saleh

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s learning and wellbeing: Evidence from India

Andrea Guariso and Martina Björkman Nyqvist

Fertility and polygyny: Experimental evidence from Burkina Faso

D’Exelle, Ben, Aurélia Lépine, Richard Bakyono and Ludovic D.G. Tapsoba

Trade, policy, and economic development in the digital economy

Peter Herman and Sarah Oliver

Nonclassical measurement error and farmers’ response to information treatment

Kibrom A. Abay, Christopher Barrett, Talip Kilic, Heather Moylan, John Ilukor and Wilbert Drazi Vundru

Information Bypass: Using Low-cost technological innovations to curb leakages in welfare programs

Sisir Debnath, Mrithyunjayan Nilayamgode and Sheetal Sekhri

Building networks: Investigating the quid pro quo between local politicians & developers

Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi and Alexander Tabarrok

Go with the wind: Spatial impacts of environmental regulations on economic activities in China

Tingting Xie and Ye Yuan

Fighting violence against women: The role of female political representation

Alena Bochenkova, Paolo Buonanno and Sergio Galletta

Marriage payments and wives’ welfare: All you need is love

Rozenn Hotte and Sylvie Lambert

Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition

Davide Del Prete, Michele Di Maio and Aminur Rahman

Can technology improve the classroom experience in primary education? An African experiment on a worldwide program

Joana Cardim, Teresa Molina-Millán and Pedro Vicente

Multifaceted programs targeting women in fragile settings: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Manuela Angelucci, Rachel Heath and Eva Noble

Volume 163, issue C, 2023

Pumps, prosperity and household power: Experimental evidence on irrigation pumps and smallholder farmers in Kenya

Julian Dyer and Jeremy Shapiro

Impact of self- or social-regarding health messages: Experimental evidence based on antibiotics purchases

Daixin He, Fangwen Lu and Jianan Yang

Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations

Daniel Rodriguez-Segura and Beth E. Schueler

Public governance versus corporate governance: Evidence from oil drilling in forests

James Cust, Torfinn Harding, Hanna Krings and Alexis Rivera-Ballesteros

Circle of fortune: The long-term impact of Western customs institution in China

Gan Jin

Irrigation and gender roles

Per Fredriksson and Satyendra Kumar Gupta

Curriculum and national identity: Evidence from the 1997 curriculum reform in Taiwan

Wei-Lin Chen, Ming-Jen Lin and Tzu-Ting Yang

Information, migration, and the value of clean air

Xuwen Gao, Ran Song and Christopher Timmins

Competition and corruption: Highway corruption in West Africa

Jeremy Foltz and Kangli Li

Transparency, governance, and water and sanitation: Experimental evidence from schools in rural Bangladesh

Umrbek Allakulov, Serena Cocciolo, Binayak Das, Md. Ahasan Habib, Lovisa Rambjer and Anna Tompsett

The lesser shades of labor coercion: The impact of seigneurial tenure in nineteenth-century Quebec

Vincent Geloso, Vadim Kufenko and Alex P. Arsenault-Morin

Sanitation and marriage markets in India: Evidence from the Total Sanitation Campaign

Britta Augsburg, Juan P. Baquero, Sanghmitra Gautam and Paul Rodriguez-Lesmes

Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China

Chuantao Cui and Leona Shao-Zhi Li

Tradition and mortality: Evidence from twin infanticide in Africa

James Fenske and Shizhuo Wang

Evolution of risk aversion over five years after a major natural disaster

Nicholas Ingwersen, Elizabeth Frankenberg and Duncan Thomas

Motivating volunteer health workers in an African capital city

Mattia Fracchia, Teresa Molina-Millán and Pedro Vicente

Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan1

Syedah Ahmad, Robert Lensink and Annika Mueller

The macroeconomics of pandemics around the world: Lives versus livelihoods revisited

Ingvild Almås, Tessa Bold, Tillmann von Carnap, Selene Ghisolfi and Justin Sandefur

The women-empowering effect of higher education

Ahmed Elsayed and Alina Shirshikova

Multi-product firms and misallocation

Wenya Wang and Ei Yang

Financial market imperfections, informality and government spending multipliers

Alok Kumar

The nutritional cost of beef bans in India

Aparajita Dasgupta, Farhan Majid and Wafa Orman

Which price is right? A comparison of three standard approaches to measuring prices

Anne Fitzpatrick

The effects of international scrutiny on manufacturing workers: Evidence from the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh

Laurent Bossavie, Yoonyoung Cho and Rachel Heath

Countering misinformation on social media through educational interventions: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Pakistan

Ayesha Ali and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi

The fruits (and vegetables) of crime: Protection from theft and agricultural development

Julian Dyer

Endogenous labor migration and remittances: Macroeconomic and welfare consequences

Sokchea Lim, Akm Morshed and Stephen J. Turnovsky

Human capital investment under exit options: Evidence from a natural quasi-experiment

Satish Chand and Michael Clemens