World Development

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Volume 147, issue C, 2021

Fish or steel? New evidence on the environment-economy trade-off in developing Vietnam

Quynh Nguyen and Edmund Malesky

Political liberalization and human development: Dynamic effects of political regime change on infant mortality across three centuries (1800-2015)

Susumu Annaka and Masaaki Higashijima

Does competitive scarcity affect the speed of resource extraction? A common-pool resource lab-in-the-field experiment on land use in northern Namibia

Nils Christian Hoenow and Michael Kirk

Protecting girls from droughts with social safety nets

Jagori Chatterjee and Joshua D. Merfeld

Water access in global South cities: The challenges of intermittency and affordability

Victoria A. Beard and Diana Mitlin

Land property rights and household take-up of development programs: Evidence from land certification program in Ethiopia

Birhanu Addisu Adamie

Improving the measurement of rural women's employment: Global momentum and survey priorities

Gayatri B. Koolwal

Wealthy, healthy and green: Are we there yet?

Hong Son Nghiem, Bach Tran, Clifford Afoakwah, Joshua Byrnes and Paul Scuffham

Epidemics, pandemics, and social conflict: Lessons from the past and possible scenarios for COVID-19

Remi Jedwab, Amjad Khan, Jason Russ and Esha D. Zaveri

Institutional bricolage and the (Re)shaping of communal land tenure arrangements: Two contrasting cases in upland and lowland Northeastern Laos

Diana Suhardiman and Natalia Scurrah

Revisiting China’s supermarket revolution: Complementarity and co-evolution between traditional and modern food outlets

Yuan Yuan, Zhenzhong Si, Taiyang Zhong, Xianjin Huang and Jonathan Crush

Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China

Xuwen Gao, Xinjie Shi and Shile Fang

The Multidimensional Indicator of Extractives-based Development (MINDEX): A new approach to measuring resource wealth and dependence

Amir Lebdioui

Social protection and multidimensional poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru

Liyousew Borga and D’Ambrosio, Conchita

Do financial crises increase income inequality?

Cristina Bodea, Christian Houle and Hyunwoo Kim

Conflict exposure and food consumption pathways during and after conflict: Evidence from Northern Uganda

Annet Adong, Lukas Kornher, Oliver Kirui and Joachim von Braun

Relationship between water and sanitation and maternal health: Evidence from Indonesia

Lisa Cameron, Claire Chase and Diana Contreras Suarez

Leaders’ distributional & efficiency effects in collective responses to policy: Lab-in-field experiments with small-scale gold miners in Colombia

Luz A. Rodriguez, Maria Vélez and Alexander Pfaff

Normalizing necessity? Support networks and racial inequality in Namibia

Annalena Oppel

Minimum wage compliance and household welfare: An analysis of over 1500 minimum wages in India

Kashif Mansoor and Donal O'Neill

Investment impacts of gendered land rights in customary tenure systems: Substantive and methodological insights from Malawi

Klaus Deininger, Fang Xia, Talip Kilic and Heather Moylan

Hyper-elites and network: Capturing the powerful upper tail in Madagascar

Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud and Linda Rua

Achieving peaceful climate change adaptation through transformative governance

Hanna Leonardsson, Annica Kronsell, Erik Andersson, Anders Burman, Ruy Blanes, Karen Da Costa, Malin Hasselskog, Olga Stepanova and Joakim Öjendal

Volume 146, issue C, 2021

Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan

Osama Sajid and Leah E.M. Bevis

The welfare costs of uncertainty: Cross-country evidence

Kine Josefine Aurland-Bredesen

Are women emancipating? Evidence from marriage, divorce and remarriage in Rural Northern Burkina Faso☆

Catherine Guirkinger, Jérémie Gross and Jean-Philippe Platteau

What do test scores really capture? Evidence from a large-scale student assessment in Mexico

Rafael De Hoyos, Ricardo Estrada and María José Vargas

Can weak ties create social capital? Evidence from Self-Help Groups in rural India

Ashwini Deshpande and Shantanu Khanna

Electrification and cooking fuel choice in rural India

Ridhima Gupta and Martino Pelli

Majoritarian politics and hate crimes against religious minorities: Evidence from India, 2009–2018

Deepankar Basu

How village leaders in rural Amazonia create bonding, bridging, and linking social capital configurations to achieve development goals, and why they are so difficult to maintain over time

Mason Clay Mathews

Monitoring health services delivery: Evidence from civil conflict in Nepal

Nirmal Raut and Ryuichi Tanaka

Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India

Ritanjan Das, Subhasish Dey and Ranjita Neogi

Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) lay of the land: Impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights

Talip Kilic, Heather Moylan and Gayatri Koolwal

Coping with climate shocks: The complex role of livestock portfolios

Alejandro Acosta, Francesco Nicolli and Panagiotis Karfakis

Deliberate displacement during conflict: Evidence from Colombia

Antonella Bandiera

Can decentralization lower poverty? Cambodia’s Commune and Sangkat Fund

Ny Boret, Kishore Gawande and Daniel P. Kobb

Alternative routes to the institutionalisation of social transfers in sub-Saharan Africa: Political survival strategies and transnational policy coalitions

Tom Lavers and Sam Hickey

The timing and aggressiveness of early government response to COVID-19: Political systems, societal culture, and more

Michael Nelson

The role of gender in agent banking: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Richard Chamboko, Robert Cull, Xavier Gine, Soren Heitmann, Fabian Reitzug and Morne Van Der Westhuizen

Is landownership a ladder out of poverty?

Laurent Cellarier

Air pollution and academic performance: Evidence from India

Uttara Balakrishnan and Magda Tsaneva

Lives and livelihoods: Estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic

Benoît Decerf, Francisco Ferreira, Daniel G. Mahler and Olivier Sterck

Out of sight, out of mind? Terror in the home country, family reunification options, and the well-being of refugees

Sekou Keita and Paul Schewe

Scaling up agriculture? The dynamics of land transfer in inland China

Sarah Rogers, Brooke Wilmsen, Xiao Han, Zoe Ju-Han Wang, Yuefang Duan, Jun He, Jie Li, Wanlong Lin and Christine Wong

The politics of labour relations in global production networks: Collective action, industrial parks, and local conflict in the Ethiopian apparel sector

Carlos Oya and Florian Schaefer

Challenges faced by smallholders in achieving sustainable palm oil certification in Indonesia

John D. Watts, Katryn Pasaribu, Silvia Irawan, Luca Tacconi, Heni Martanila, Cokorda Gde Wisnu Wiratama, Fauzan Kemal Musthofa, Bernadinus Steni Sugiarto and Utami Putri Manvi

Conflict and health: Building on the role of infrastructure

Shanna A. Kirschner and Amelia B. Finaret

From targeted private benefits to public goods: Land, distributive politics and changing political conditions in Colombia

Allison L. Benson

Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas

Vitor M. Dias, Pedro Paulo de Miranda Araújo Soares, Eduardo S. Brondizio and Sandra Helena Ribeiro Cruz

When armed groups refuse to carry out election violence: Evidence from Nigeria

Megan Turnbull

Enforcing government policies: The role of state-owned enterprise in China’s one child policy

Hua Cheng, Yuanyuan Ma, Shusen Qi and Lixin Xu

Self-help groups as platforms for development: The role of social capital

Carly Nichols

In a network of lines that intersect: The socio-economic development impact of marine resource management and conservation in Southeast Asia

Marco Haenssgen, Jessica Savage, Godwin Yeboah, Nutcha Charoenboon and Sorn Srenh

The power of the collective empowers women: Evidence from self-help groups in India

Neha Kumar, Kalyani Raghunathan, Alejandra Arrieta, Amir Jilani and Shinjini Pandey

Patronage or policy? The politics of property rights formalization in Kenya

Alex Dyzenhaus

Contesting large-scale land acquisitions in the Global South

Jan Sändig

Conserving the Cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil protects the soy economy from damaging warming

Rafaela Flach, Gabriel Abrahão, Benjamin Bryant, Marluce Scarabello, Aline C. Soterroni, Fernando M. Ramos, Hugo Valin, Michael Obersteiner and Avery S. Cohn

A revisit of farm size and productivity: Empirical evidence from a wide range of farm sizes in Nigeria

Oluwatoba J. Omotilewa, Thomas Jayne, Milu Muyanga, Adebayo B. Aromolaran, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie and Titus Awokuse

The effect of parental migration on the schooling of children left behind in rural Cambodia

Francesca Marchetta and Sokcheng Sim

Experts and resource users split over solutions to peatland fires

Jacob Phelps, Aiora Zabala, Willy Daeli and Rachel Carmenta

How does governance mediate links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation? Results from a systematic mapping and thematic synthesis of literature

Fiona Nunan, Mary Menton, Constance L. McDermott, Mark Huxham and Kate Schreckenberg

Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies

Mary Kay Gugerty, George E. Mitchell and Francisco J. Santamarina

Is conventional wisdom about resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from transparency reporting

Eric Adebayo, Addisu A. Lashitew and Eric Werker

Multichain strategies and economic upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from Kenyan horticulture

Giovanni Pasquali, Aarti Krishnan and Matthew Alford

Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature

Sacha Ruzzante, Ricardo Labarta and Amy Bilton

How land tenure and labor relations mediate charcoal’s environmental footprint in Zambia: Implications for sustainable energy transitions

Johanne Pelletier, Boniface Hamalambo, Anne Trainor and Christopher Barrett

A multidimensional perspective on child labor in the value chain: The case of the cocoa value chain in West Africa

Milande Busquet, Niels Bosma and Harry Hummels

Knowledge gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean and economic development

Pablo Jarrín-V, Fander Falconí, Pedro Cango and Jesus Ramos-Martin

Falling price induced diversification strategies and rural inequality: Evidence of smallholder rubber farmers

Shaoze Jin, Shi Min, Jikun Huang and Hermann Waibel

Impact of agricultural extension services on the adoption of improved wheat variety in Ethiopia: A cluster randomized controlled trial

Asresu Yitayew, Awudu Abdulai, Yigezu A. Yigezu, Tilaye T. Deneke and Girma Kassie

Democracy, hybrid regimes, and inequality: The divergent effects of contestation and inclusiveness

Mathew Y.H. Wong

The color of water: The contributions of green and blue water to agricultural productivity in the Western Brazilian Amazon

Jill Caviglia-Harris, Trent Biggs, Elvino Ferreira, Daniel W. Harris, Katrina Mullan and Erin O. Sills

Fossil fuels, stranded assets and COVID-19: Imagining an inclusive & transformative recovery

Arthur Rempel and Joyeeta Gupta

Down and up the “U” – A synthetic cohort (panel) analysis of female labor force participation in Turkey, 1988–2013

İnsan Tunalı, Murat Kırdar and Meltem Dayioglu

From criminals to citizens: The applicability of Bolivia’s community-based coca control policy to Peru

Thomas Grisaffi, Linda Farthing, Kathryn Ledebur, Maritza Paredes and Alvaro Pastor

A scoping review of the development resilience literature: Theory, methods and evidence

Christopher Barrett, Kate Ghezzi-Kopel, John Hoddinott, Nima Homami, Elizabeth Tennant, Joanna Upton and Tong Wu

The long-term impact of the Vietnam War on agricultural productivity

Samuelson Appau, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Russell Smyth and Trong-Anh Trinh

Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico

Anja Nygren

The benefits and limitations of agricultural input cooperatives in Zambia

Jordan Blekking, Nicolas Gatti, Kurt Waldman, Tom Evans and Kathy Baylis

Changing livelihoods at India’s rural–urban transition

Chetan Choithani, Robbin Jan van Duijne and Jan Nijman

Leveraging social protection to advance climate-smart agriculture: An empirical analysis of the impacts of Malawi’s Social Action Fund (MASAF) on farmers’ adoption decisions and welfare outcomes

Antonio Scognamillo and Nicholas Sitko

Innovation, gender, and labour productivity: Small and medium enterprises in Vietnam

Ngoc Hoang, Daehoon Nahm and Michael Dobbie

Encouraging technology adoption using ICTs and farm trials in Senegal: Lessons for gender equity and scaled impact

Rachel C. Voss, Tony Jansen, Bacary Mané and Carol Shennan

Disentangling ecosystem services preferences and values

Marleen S. Schutter, Christina C. Hicks, Jacob Phelps and Clara Belmont

Designing for empowerment impact in agricultural development projects: Experimental evidence from the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project in Bangladesh

Agnes Quisumbing, Akhter Ahmed, John Hoddinott, Audrey Pereira and Shalini Roy