Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 153, issue C, 2021

Fintech and household resilience to shocks: Evidence from digital loans in Kenya

Tavneet Suri, Prashant Bharadwaj and William Jack

Distance, trade, and income — The 1967 to 1975 closing of the Suez canal as a natural experiment

James Feyrer

Subsidies for technology adoption: Experimental evidence from rural Cameroon

Niccolò F. Meriggi, Erwin Bulte and Ahmed Mobarak

Reconciling the conflicting narratives on poverty in China

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

Trade liberalization, roads and firm productivity

Matteo Fiorini, Marco Sanfilippo and Asha Sundaram

Seeking the treated: The impact of mobile extension on farmer information exchange in India

A. Nilesh Fernando

Keeping it in the family: Female inheritance, inmarriage, and the status of women

Duman Bahrami-Rad

Can youth empowerment programs reduce violence against girls during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Selim Gulesci, Puente–Beccar, Manuela and Diego Ubfal

“Moving Umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China

Xiangyu Shi, Tianyang Xi, Xiaobo Zhang and Yifan Zhang

Can community service grants foster social and economic integration for youth? A randomized trial in Kazakhstan

Syon Bhanot, Benjamin Crost, Jessica Leight, Eric Mvukiyehe and Bauyrzhan Yedgenov

Borrower leakage from costly screening: Evidence from SME lending in Peru

Irani Arráiz, Miriam Bruhn, Benjamin N. Roth, Claudia Ruiz-Ortega and Rodolfo Stucchi

Collective action in games as in life: Experimental evidence from canal cleaning in Haiti

Abbie Turiansky

Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia

Hendrik W. Kruse, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Leila Baghdadi

Mass persuasion and the ideological origins of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Susan Ou and Heyu Xiong

Children on the move: Progressive redistribution of humanitarian cash transfers among refugees

Berk Özler, Çiğdem Çelik, Scott Cunningham, P. Facundo Cuevas and Luca Parisotto

The housing quality, income, and human capital effects of subsidized homes in urban India

Tanu Kumar

Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods

Kate Ambler, Sylvan Herskowitz and Mywish Maredia

Environmental effects of development programs: Experimental evidence from West African dryland forests

Simon Heß, Dany Jaimovich and Matthias Schündeln

IMF programs and economic growth: A meta-analysis

Hippolyte Balima and Anna Sokolova

Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil

André F. Danelon, Humberto F.S. Spolador and Subal Kumbhakar

The power to protect: Household bargaining and female condom use

Rachel Cassidy, Marije Groot Bruinderink, Wendy Janssens and Karlijn Morsink

Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity

Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras and Lakshmi Iyer

Texts don’t nudge: An adaptive trial to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in India

Girija Bahety, Sebastian Bauhoff, Dev Patel and James Potter

Volume 152, issue C, 2021

A structural estimation of the return to infrastructure investment in China

Guiying Wu, Qu Feng and Zhifeng Wang

Does trade cause detrimental specialization in developing economies? Evidence from countries south of the Suez Canal

Michiel Gerritse

What you import matters for productivity growth: Experience from Chinese manufacturing firms

Jiawei Mo, Larry Qiu, Hongsong Zhang and Xiaoyu Dong

Deadly discrimination: Implications of “missing girls” for workplace safety

Zhibo Tan, Shang-Jin Wei and Xiaobo Zhang

The effect of teacher strikes on parents

David Jaume and Alexander Willén

Income inequality under colonial rule. Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920–1960

Facundo Alvaredo, Denis Cogneau and Thomas Piketty

Refugees' and irregular migrants’ self-selection into Europe

Cevat Giray Aksoy and Panu Poutvaara

Refugee camps and deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Colette Salemi

Greening through finance?

Haichao Fan, Yuchao Peng, Huanhuan Wang and Zhiwei Xu

Marriage outcomes of displaced women

Frances Lu, Sameem Siddiqui and Prashant Bharadwaj

Rural road infrastructure & agricultural production: Evidence from India

Yogita Shamdasani

The new era of unconditional convergence

Dev Patel, Justin Sandefur and Arvind Subramanian

Ethnic switching: Longitudinal evidence on prevalence, correlates, and implications for measuring ethnic segregation

Robbert Rademakers and André van Hoorn

Industrialization from scratch: The “Construction of Third Front” and local economic development in China's hinterland

Jingting Fan and Ben Zou

(Mis)information and anxiety: Evidence from a randomized Covid-19 information campaign

D Sadish, Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham

Testing willingness to pay elicitation mechanisms in the field: Evidence from Uganda

Konrad B. Burchardi, Jonathan de Quidt, Selim Gulesci, Benedetta Lerva and Stefano Tripodi

Story of the hurricane: Government, NGOs, and the difference in disaster relief targeting

Benjamin Fitch-Fleischmann and Evan Kresch

Segregation and internal mobility of Syrian refugees in Turkey: Evidence from mobile phone data

Simone Bertoli, Caglar Ozden and Michael Packard

On the market failure of “missing pioneers”

Shang-Jin Wei, Ziru Wei and Jianhuan Xu

Volume 151, issue C, 2021

Information, technology, and market rewards: Incentivizing aflatoxin control in Ghana

Nicholas Magnan, Vivian Hoffmann, Nelson Opoku, Gissele Gajate Garrido and Daniel Akwasi Kanyam

How productive is public investment? Evidence from formal and informal production in India

Santanu Chatterjee, Thomas Lebesmuehlbacher and Abhinav Narayanan

Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin

Aminou Arouna, Jeffrey Michler and Jourdain C. Lokossou

The “miseries” of sex imbalance: Evidence using subjective well-being data

Wenchao Li

Did the war on terror deter ungoverned spaces? Not in Africa

Mitch Downey

Endogenous weights and multidimensional poverty: A cautionary tale

Indranil Dutta, Ricardo Nogales and Gaston Yalonetzky

Import competition and firm innovation: Evidence from China

Qing Liu, Ruosi Lu, Yi Lu and Tuan Anh Luong

The political economy of health epidemics: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak

Elisa M. Maffioli

Give me your tired and your poor: Impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees

Dany Bahar, Ana Ibáñez and Sandra Rozo

Discrimination from below: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia

Shibiru Ayalew, Shanthi Manian and Ketki Sheth

Contingent determinants

Robbert Maseland

Measuring the unmeasured: Aggregating, anchoring, and adjusting to estimate small business performance

Stephen J. Anderson, Christy Lazicky and Bilal Zia

Digital adoption, automation, and labor markets in developing countries

Alan Finkelstein Shapiro and Federico Mandelman

Welfare rationales for conditionality of cash transfers

Dilip Mookherjee and Stefan Napel

The long-term consequences of China's “Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign in old age

Yi Chen and Hanming Fang

Information, get-out-the-vote messages, and peer influence: Causal effects on political behavior in Mozambique

Matilde Grácio and Pedro Vicente

Colonialism and female empowerment: A two-sided legacy

Eleonora Guarnieri and Helmut Rainer

The long road to health: Healthcare utilization impacts of a road pavement policy in rural India

Shilpa Aggarwal

Input quality and skills are complementary and increase output quality: Causal evidence from Ecuador’s trade liberalization

Maria Bas and Caroline Paunov

Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors

Felipe González, Pablo Muñoz and Mounu Prem

Doing business in China: Parental background and government intervention determine who owns busines

Ruixue Jia, Xiaohuan Lan and Gerard Padró i Miquel

High-skilled services and development in China

Lei Fang and Berthold Herrendorf

Last corrupt deed before retirement? Evidence from a lower middle-income country

Cuong Nguyen

A breath of fresh air: Raising awareness for clean fuel adoption

Farzana Afridi, Sisir Debnath and E. Somanathan