Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 162, issue C, 2023

Grandmothers and the gender gap in the Mexican labor market

Miguel Talamas Marcos

Immigration and violent crime: Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border

Brian Knight and Ana Tribin

Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision

Zahra Sharafi

Federal and state audits do not increase compliance with a grant program to improve municipal infrastructure: A pre-registered field experiment

Ana L. De La O, Pablo Fernández-Vázquez and Fernando Martel García

Impersonal trust in a Just and Unjust world: Evidence from an educational intervention

Sule Alan and Elif Kubilay

Skill bias, financial frictions, and selection into entrepreneurship

Ying Feng and Jie Ren

Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations

Lucia Corno and Alessandra Voena

Rural roads, agricultural extension, and productivity

Mesay Gebresilasse

Road expansion, allocative efficiency, and pro-competitive effect of transport infrastructure: Evidence from China

Mingqin Wu, Linhui Yu and Junsen Zhang

Efficient irrigation and water conservation: Evidence from South India

Ram Fishman, Xavier Gine and Hanan Jacoby

Armed groups: Competition and political violence

Martin Gassebner, Paul Schaudt and Melvin H.L. Wong

Labeled loans and human capital investments

Britta Augsburg, Bet Caeyers, Sara Giunti, Bansi Malde and Susanna Smets

Family companionship and elderly suicide: Evidence from the Chinese Lunar New Year

Hanming Fang, Ziteng Lei, Liguo Lin, Peng Zhang and Maigeng Zhou

Public sentiment in times of terror

Ashani Amarasinghe

Education and polygamy: Evidence from Cameroon

Pierre André and Yannick Dupraz

Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots

Emily Beam

Policy enforcement in the presence of organized crime: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro

Alexsandros Cavgias, Raphael Bruce and Luis Meloni

Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem

M. Mehrab Bakhtiar, Raymond Guiteras, James Levinsohn and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa

Dante Donati

To invest or not to invest in sanitation: The role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power

Britta Augsburg, Bansi Malde, Harriet Olorenshaw and Zaki Wahhaj

Do referrals improve the representation of women in mobile phone surveys?

Steven Glazerman, Karen A. Grépin, Valerie Mueller, Michael Rosenbaum and Nicole Wu

Consequences of a massive refugee influx on firm performance and market structure

Yusuf Emre Akgunduz, Yusuf Bağır, Seyit Cilasun and Murat Kırdar

Volume 161, issue C, 2023

The insights and illusions of consumption measurements

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai and Nandini Krishnan

Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys

Dahyeon Jeong, Shilpa Aggarwal, Jonathan Robinson, Naresh Kumar, Alan Spearot and David Sungho Park

Irrigation and the spatial pattern of local economic development in India

David Blakeslee, Aaditya Dar, Ram Fishman, Samreen Malik, Heitor Pellegrina and Karan Singh Bagavathinathan

No bulls: Experimental evidence on the impact of veterinarian ratings in Pakistan

Syed Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Khan and Arman Rezaee

Subjective risk belief function in the field: Evidence from cooking fuel choices and health in India

Hide-Fumi Yokoo, Toshi Arimura, Mriduchhanda Chattopadhyay and Hajime Katayama

Rethinking the Lebanese economic miracle: The extreme concentration of income and wealth in Lebanon, 2005–2014

Lydia Assouad

Measuring remittances

Giuseppe De Arcangelis, Alexander Fertig, Yuna Liang, Peter Srouji and Dean Yang

Tax revenue and mobile money in developing countries

Ablam Estel Apeti and Eyah Denise Edoh

Military investment and the rise of industrial clusters: Evidence from China’s self-strengthening movement

Shiyu Bo, Cong Liu and Yan Zhou

Program targeting with machine learning and mobile phone data: Evidence from an anti-poverty intervention in Afghanistan

Emily L. Aiken, Guadalupe Bedoya, Joshua E. Blumenstock and Aidan Coville

Delivery times in international competition: An empirical investigation

Andrea Ciani and Karsten Mau

Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia

Gashaw T. Abate, Alan de Brauw, Kalle Hirvonen and Abdulazize Wolle

The freedom to choose: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence on cash transfer restrictions

Jade Siu, Olivier Sterck and Cory Rodgers

He said, she said: The impact of gender and marriage perceptions on self and proxy reporting of labor

Ervin Dervisevic and Markus Goldstein

Firms and inequality when unemployment is high

Ihsaan Bassier

Sharing risk to avoid tragedy: Informal insurance and irrigation in village economies

Karol Mazur

Student loans: Credit constraints and higher education in South Africa

Marc Gurgand, Adrien Lorenceau and Thomas Melonio

Can school environmental education programs make children and parents more pro-environmental?

Marcela Jaime, César Salazar, Francisco Alpizar and Fredrik Carlsson

The dynamics of poverty targeting

Michael Hillebrecht, Stefan Klonner and Noraogo A. Pacere

Social stigma as a barrier to HIV testing: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Mozambique

Hang Yu

Experience in financial decision-making: Field evidence from Malawi

Xavier Gine and Jessica Goldberg

Macroeconomic outcomes in disaster-prone countries

Alessandro Cantelmo, Giovanni Melina and Chris Papageorgiou

Railways and cities in India

James Fenske, Namrata Kala and Jinlin Wei

Biased teachers and gender gap in learning outcomes: Evidence from India

Sonali Rakshit and Soham Sahoo

Lucky women in unlucky cohorts

Inés Berniell, Leonardo Gasparini, Mariana Marchionni and Mariana Viollaz

How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi

Francisco Campos, Markus Goldstein and David McKenzie

Incentives, penalties, and rural air pollution: Evidence from satellite data

Yongwei Nian

Volume 160, issue C, 2023

Early childhood exposure to health insurance and adolescent outcomes: Evidence from rural China

Wei Huang and Hong Liu

The short-lived effects of unconditional cash transfers to refugees

Onur Altindag and O’Connell, Stephen D.

Across a few prohibitive miles: The impact of the Anti-Poverty Relocation Program in China

Li Zhang, Lunyu Xie and Xinye Zheng

Unilateral divorce rights, domestic violence and women’s agency: Evidence from the Egyptian Khul reform

Viola Corradini and Giulia Buccione

Idiosyncratic shocks and aggregate fluctuations in an emerging market

Francesco Grigoli, Emiliano Luttini and Damiano Sandri

Are age-of-marriage laws enforced? Evidence from developing countries

Matthew Collin and Theodore Talbot

Manufacturing employment and women’s agency: Evidence from Lesotho 2004–2014

Louise Grogan

The deep roots of rebellion

Gaia Narciso and Battista Severgnini

The effect of traffic cameras on police effort: Evidence from India

Emily Conover, Daniel Kraynak and Prakarsh Singh

Sanitation and property tax compliance: Analyzing the social contract in Brazil

Evan Kresch, Mark Walker, Michael Best, Francois Gerard and Joana Naritomi

The effect of forest access on the market for fuelwood in India

Branko Bošković, Ujjayant Chakravorty, Martino Pelli and Anna Risch

Knowledge, stigma, and HIV testing: An analysis of a widespread HIV/AIDS program

Dean Yang, James Allen, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell and Hang Yu

Locking crops to unlock investment: Experimental evidence on warrantage in Burkina Faso

Clara Delavallade and Susan Godlonton

Production and persistence of criminal skills: Evidence from a high-crime context

Maria A. Escobar, Santiago Tobon and Martin Vanegas-Arias

Privatization of public goods: Evidence from the sanitation sector in Senegal

Joshua Deutschmann, Jared Gars, Jean-François Houde, Molly Lipscomb and Laura Schechter

Political uncertainty and the forms of state capture

Nathan Canen, Rafael Ch and Leonard Wantchekon

Religious leaders and rule of law

Sultan Mehmood and Avner Seror

The cost of fear: Impact of violence risk on child health during conflict

Augustin Tapsoba

Persuading voters to punish corrupt vote-buying candidates: Experimental evidence from a large-scale radio campaign in India

Laura Schechter and Srinivasan Vasudevan

Trade-induced competition and ownership dynamics

Qing Hu, Wenjing Li, Chen Lin and Lai Wei

Public health departments and the mortality transition in Latin America: Evidence from Puerto Rico

Brian Marein

Pains, guns and moves: The effect of the U.S. opioid epidemic on Mexican migration

Gianmarco Daniele, Marco Le Moglie and Federico Masera

The political impacts of land expropriation in China

Wenbiao Sha

The more the poorer? Resource sharing and scale economies in large families

Rossella Calvi, Jacob Penglase, Denni Tommasi and Alexander Wolf

Conflict and reciprocity: A study with Palestinian youths

Elisa Cavatorta, Daniel Zizzo and Yousef Daoud

Motivating bureaucrats with behavioral insights when state capacity is weak: Evidence from large-scale field experiments in Peru

Andrew Dustan, Juan Manuel Hernandez-Agramonte and Stanislao Maldonado

Financial market responses to a natural disaster: Evidence from credit networks and the Indian Ocean tsunami

Kristina Czura and Stefan Klonner

Understanding the effects of racial classification in Apartheid South Africa

Miquel Pellicer and Vimal Ranchhod

Weapons and war: The effect of arms transfers on internal conflict

Quentin Gallea

A hybrid approach to targeting social assistance

Lendie Follett and Heath Henderson