Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 150, issue C, 2021

Gender gaps in labor informality: The motherhood effect

Inés Berniell, Lucila Berniell, Dolores de la Mata, María Edo and Mariana Marchionni

Neighborhood quality and opposition to immigration: Evidence from German refugee shelters

Jakob Hennig

The globalization of refugee flows

Xavier Devictor, Quy-Toan Do and Andrei Levchenko

The impact of forced displacement on host communities: A review of the empirical literature in economics

Paolo Verme and Kirsten Schuettler

Female employment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee inflows to Turkey

Bilge Erten and Pinar Keskin

Supply variabilities in public workfares

Girish Bahal and Anand Shrivastava

How does delegating decisions to communities affect the provision and use of a public service? Evidence from a field experiment in Bangladesh

Malgosia Madajewicz, Anna Tompsett and Md. Ahasan Habib

The costs of “blue sky”: Environmental regulation, technology upgrading, and labor demand in China

Mengdi Liu, Ruipeng Tan and Bing Zhang

The long-term causal effect of U.S. bombing missions on economic development: Evidence from the Ho Chi Minh Trail and Xieng Khouang Province in Lao P.D.R

Takahiro Yamada and Hiroyuki Yamada

Does legal representation increase investment? Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya

Adam Aberra and Matthieu Chemin

Body and mind: Experimental evidence from women living with HIV

Patrick Lubega, Frances Nakakawa, Gaia Narciso, Carol Newman, Archileo N. Kaaya, Cissy Kityo and Gaston A. Tumuhimbise

The Effects of Chess Instruction on Academic and Non-cognitive Outcomes: Field Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country

Asad Islam, Wang-Sheng Lee and Aaron Nicholas

Need-based financing policies, college decision-making, and labor market behavior: Evidence from Jamaica

Nicholas Wright

A gravity analysis of refugee mobility using mobile phone data

Michel Beine, Luisito Bertinelli, Rana Cömertpay, Anastasia Litina and Jean-François Maystadt

Place-based preferential tax policy and industrial development: Evidence from India’s program on industrially backward districts

Rana Hasan, Yi Jiang and Radine Michelle Rafols

Boosting pension enrollment and household consumption by example: A field experiment on information provision

Chong-En Bai, Wei Chi, Tracy Xiao Liu, Chao Tang and Jian Xu

Divorce laws and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Mexico

Aixa García-Ramos

Do corporate income tax cuts decrease labor share? Regression discontinuity evidence from China

Bing Li, Chang Liu and Stephen Teng Sun

Exploitation of labor? Classical monopsony power and labor's share

Wyatt J. Brooks, Joseph Kaboski, Yao Li and Wei Qian

How do households adjust to tariff liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO accession

Mi Dai, Wei Huang and Yifan Zhang

Funding and financing infrastructure: The joint-use of public and private finance

Marianne Fay, David Martimort and Stephane Straub

Numeracy development in Africa: New evidence from a long-term perspective (1730–1970)

Gabriele Cappelli and Joerg Baten

Does insecure land tenure deter investment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Heather Huntington and Ajay Shenoy

The effect of refugees on native adolescents’ test scores: Quasi-experimental evidence from PISA

Semih Tumen

Stepping up during a crisis: The unintended effects of a noncontributory pension program during the Covid-19 pandemic

Nicolas Bottan, Bridget Hoffmann and Diego A. Vera-Cossio

Brothers or invaders? How crisis-driven migrants shape voting behavior

Sandra Rozo and Juan Vargas

Partisanship and local fiscal policy: Evidence from Brazilian cities

Raphael Gouvêa and Daniele Girardi

Can information influence the social insurance participation decision of China's rural migrants?

John Giles, Xin Meng, Sen Xue and Guochang Zhao

Volume 149, issue C, 2021

Here waits the bride? The effect of Ethiopia's child marriage law

Tamara McGavock

Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda

Moussa P. Blimpo and Todd Pugatch

Labour market reform and firm-level employment adjustment: Evidence from the hukou reform in China

Feicheng Wang, Chris Milner and Juliane Scheffel

Training the disadvantaged youth and labor market outcomes: Evidence from Bangladesh

Narayan Das

Historical instruments and contemporary endogenous regressors

Gregory Casey and Marc Klemp

Foreign demand, developing country exports, and CO2 emissions: Firm-level evidence from India

Geoffrey Barrows and Hélène Ollivier

Endogenous gender power: The two facets of empowerment

Victor Hiller and Nouhoum Touré

Say it like Goethe: Language learning facilities abroad and the self-selection of immigrants

Philipp Jaschke and Sekou Keita

Resources, conflict, and economic development in Africa

Achyuta Adhvaryu, James Fenske, Gaurav Khanna and Anant Nyshadham

It takes two: Experimental evidence on the determinants of technology diffusion

Morgan Hardy and Jamie McCasland

Contract employment as a worker discipline device

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Vidhya Soundararajan

Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where?

John Gibson, Susan Olivia, Geua Boe-Gibson and Chao Li

Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration

Cevat Giray Aksoy and Semih Tumen

Empowering refugees through cash and agriculture: A regression discontinuity design

Claire MacPherson and Olivier Sterck

Land grabs and labor in Cambodia

Sebastian Anti

The labor market effects of an educational expansion

David Jaume

Volume 148, issue C, 2021

How much can we remedy very low learning levels in rural parts of low-income countries? Impact and generalizability of a multi-pronged para-teacher intervention from a cluster-randomized trial in the Gambia

Alex Eble, Chris Frost, Alpha Camara, Baboucarr Bouy, Momodou Bah, Maitri Sivaraman, Pei-Tseng Jenny Hsieh, Chitra Jayanty, Tony Brady, Piotr Gawron, Stijn Vansteelandt, Peter Boone and Diana Elbourne

Response and adaptation of agriculture to climate change: Evidence from China

Shuai Chen and Binlei Gong

Conflict and risky health behavior: Evidence from Mexico's drug war

Shanthi Manian

Is a refugee crisis a housing crisis? Only if housing supply is unresponsive

Sandra Rozo and Micaela Sviatschi

Targeting humanitarian aid using administrative data: Model design and validation

Onur Altindag, Stephen O'Connell, Aytuğ Şaşmaz, Zeynep Balcıoğlu, Paola Cadoni, Matilda Jerneck and Aimee Kunze Foong

Designing unemployment insurance for developing countries

Fernando Cirelli, Emilio Espino and Juan Sanchez

Informal institutions and comparative advantage of South-based MNEs: Theory and evidence

Pao-Li Chang and Yuting Chen

Relief from usury: Impact of a self-help group lending program in rural India

Vivian Hoffmann, Vijayendra Rao, Vaishnavi Surendra and Upamanyu Datta

Things fall apart? Missions, institutions, and interpersonal trust

Dozie Okoye

An age profile perspective on two puzzles in global child health: The Indian Enigma & economic growth

Anaka Aiyar and Joseph Cummins

Public health insurance and pharmaceutical innovation: Evidence from China

Xuan Zhang and Huihua Nie

Misperceived quality: Fertilizer in Tanzania

Hope Michelson, Anna Fairbairn, Brenna Ellison, Annemie Maertens and Victor Manyong

The value of redistribution: Natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions

Jorge Agüero, Carlos Balcazar, Stanislao Maldonado and Hugo Ñopo

Sex, lies, and measurement: Consistency tests for indirect response survey methods

Erica Chuang, Pascaline Dupas, Elise Huillery and Juliette Seban