Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 156, issue C, 2022

Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia

Hailemariam Ayalew, Jordan Chamberlin and Carol Newman

Intranational trade costs, product scope and productivity: Evidence from India's Golden Quadrilateral project

Ama Abeberese and Mary Chen

Agricultural trade and depletion of groundwater

Sheetal Sekhri

Impacts of industrial and entrepreneurial jobs on youth: 5-year experimental evidence on factory job offers and cash grants in Ethiopia

Christopher Blattman, Stefan Dercon and Simon Franklin

Linguistic diversity, official language choice and human capital

David D. Laitin and Rajesh Ramachandran

Trade, productivity, and the spatial organization of agriculture: Evidence from Brazil

Heitor Pellegrina

Refugees and foreign direct investment: Quasi-experimental evidence from US resettlements

Anna-Maria Mayda, Christopher Parsons, Han Pham and Pierre-Louis Vézina

Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets

Devesh Rustagi and Markus Kroell

Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Jacobus Cilliers, Marie-Hélène Cloutier and Deon Filmer

Identifying psychological trauma among Syrian refugee children for early intervention: Analyzing digitized drawings using machine learning

Sarah Baird, Raphael Panlilio, Jennifer Seager, Stephanie Smith and Bruce Wydick

Disrupted academic careers: The returns to time off after high school

Nicolás de Roux and Evan Riehl

Disbursing emergency relief through utilities: Evidence from Ghana

Susanna Berkouwer, Pierre E. Biscaye, Steven Puller and Catherine D. Wolfram

The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China

Shuai Chen, Paulina Oliva and Peng Zhang

Large multiproduct exporters across rich and poor countries: Theory and evidence

Luca Macedoni

Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment

Natalie Bau, Gaurav Khanna, Corinne Low, Manisha Shah, Sreyashi Sharmin and Alessandra Voena

Pay for performance schemes and manufacturing worker productivity: Evidence from a kinked design in China

Xiqian Cai, Wei Jiang, Hong Song and Huihua Xie

Persuasive agenda-setting: Rodrigo Duterte’s inauguration speech and drugs in the Philippines

Michael Jetter and Teresa Molina

Aspirations and financial decisions: Experimental evidence from the Philippines

David McKenzie, Aakash Mohpal and Dean Yang

Car restriction policies and housing markets

Xueying Lyu

Volume 155, issue C, 2022

The joint effects of information and financing constraints on technology adoption: Evidence from a field experiment in rural Tanzania

Aurélie P. Harou, Malgosia Madajewicz, Hope Michelson, Cheryl A. Palm, Nyambilila Amuri, Christopher Magomba, Johnson M. Semoka, Kevin Tschirhart and Ray Weil

Big fish in thin markets: Competing with the middlemen to increase market access in the Amazon

Viva Ona Bartkus, Wyatt Brooks, Joseph Kaboski and Carolyn Pelnik

Small firms and the pandemic: Evidence from Latin America

Maria Elena Guerrero-Amezaga, John Humphries, Christopher Neilson, Naomi Shimberg and Gabriel Ulyssea

How light is too light touch: The effect of a short training-based intervention on household poultry production in Burkina Faso

Jessica Leight, Josué Awonon, Abdoulaye Pedehombga, Rasmané Ganaba and Aulo Gelli

Productivity, non-compliance and the minimum wage

Eliane El Badaoui and Frank Walsh

Social protection amidst social upheaval: Examining the impact of a multi-faceted program for ultra-poor households in Yemen

Lasse Brune, Dean Karlan, Sikandra Kurdi and Christopher Udry

Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor

Abhijit Banerjee, Dean Karlan, Robert Osei, Hannah Trachtman and Christopher Udry

Endogenous inclusion in the Demographic and Health Survey anthropometric sample: Implications for studying height within households

Dean Spears, Diane Coffey and Jere Behrman

Hot Days, the ability to Work and climate resilience: Evidence from a representative sample of 42,152 Indian households

Anthony Heyes and Soodeh Saberian

Land market distortions and aggregate agricultural productivity: Evidence from Guatemala

Gerardo Britos, Manuel Hernandez, Miguel Robles and Danilo Trupkin

The role of food preferences in determining diet quality for Tanzanian consumers

Ellen McCullough, Chen Zhen, Soye Shin, Meichen Lu and Joanne Arsenault

Import competition and vertical integration: Evidence from India

Joel Stiebale and Dev Vencappa

When do refugees return home? Evidence from Syrian displacement in Mashreq

Lori Beaman, Harun Onder and Stefanie Onder

The impact of cash transfers on Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Evidence from a multidimensional regression discontinuity design

Nisreen Salti, Jad Chaaban, Wael Moussa, Alexandra Irani, Rima Al Mokdad, Zeina Jamaluddine and Hala Ghattas

Refugee inflows, surplus farm labor, and crop marketization in rural Africa

Shunsuke Tsuda

Trans-boundary air pollution spillovers: Physical transport and economic costs by distance

Shihe Fu, V. Viard and Peng Zhang

Restricted access: How the internet can be used to promote reading and learning

Laura Derksen, Catherine Michaud-Leclerc and Pedro C.L. Souza

Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895

Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Markus Lampe, Pablo Martinelli and Paul Sharp

Can virtual replace in-person coaching? Experimental evidence on teacher professional development and student learning

Jacobus Cilliers, Brahm Fleisch, Janeli Kotze, Nompumelelo Mohohlwane, Stephen Taylor and Tsegofatso Thulare

Does terrorism make people pessimistic? Evidence from a natural experiment

Shiqi Guo and Jiafu An

Financial access and women's role in household decisions: Empirical evidence from India's National Rural Livelihoods project

Anjini Kochar, Closepet Nagabhushana, Ritwik Sarkar, Rohan Shah and Geeta Singh

Volume 154, issue C, 2022

Intellectual property regimes and wage inequality

Sourav Bhattacharya, Pavel Chakraborty and Chirantan Chatterjee

Malaria and Chinese economic activities in Africa

Matteo Cervellati, Elena Esposito, Uwe Sunde and Song Yuan

Risk management in border inspection

Russell Hillberry, Bilgehan Karabay and Shawn Tan

Cheap talk and coordination in the lab and in the field: Collective commercialization in Senegal

Kodjo Aflagah, Tanguy Bernard and Angelino Viceisza

Saving for dowry: Evidence from rural India

S Anukriti, Sungoh Kwon and Nishith Prakash

Leverage and productivity

Huiyu Li

Welfare effects of an in-kind transfer program: Evidence from Mexico

Federico Tagliati

Equality of opportunity and human capital accumulation: Motivational effect of a nationwide scholarship in Colombia

Rachid Laajaj, Andres Moya and Fabio Sanchez Torres

Neighborhood violence, poverty, and psychological well-being

Mo Alloush and Jeffrey Bloem

Groups in conflict: Private and public prizes

Laura Mayoral and Debraj Ray

Under pressure: Women’s leadership during the COVID-19 crisis

Raphael Bruce, Alexsandros Cavgias, Luis Meloni and Mário Remígio

Network adoption subsidies: A digital evaluation of a rural mobile phone program in Rwanda

Daniel Björkegren and Burak Ceyhun Karaca

Impact of financial development on outsourcing and aggregate productivity

Yan Liang

Liquidity crises, liquidity lines and sovereign risk

Yasin Onder

Information and behavioral responses during a pandemic: Evidence from delays in Covid-19 death reports

Emilio Gutierrez, Adrian Rubli and Tiago Tavares

Direct vs indirect management training: Experimental evidence from schools in Mexico

Mauricio Romero, Juan Bedoya, Monica Yanez-Pagans, Marcela Silveyra and Rafael De Hoyos

Relative power: Explaining the effects of food and cash transfers on allocative behaviour in rural Nepalese households

Helen Harris-Fry, Naomi M. Saville, Puskar Paudel, Dharma S. Manandhar, Mario Cortina-Borja and Jolene Skordis