World Development

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Volume 142, issue C, 2021

Switching it up: The effect of energy price reforms in Oman

Juergen Amann, Nicola Cantore, Massimiliano Calì, Valentin Todorov and Charles Fang Chin Cheng

The effect of the Universal Primary Education program on consumption and on the employment sector: Evidence from Tanzania

Esther Delesalle

Like father, like son, like mother, like daughter: Intergenerational transmission of intrahousehold gender attitudes in Ethiopia

Jessica Leight

The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu

E. Reboul, Isabelle Guérin and Christophe Nordman

Can transparency and accountability programs improve health? Experimental evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania

Jean Arkedis, Jessica Creighton, Akshay Dixit, Archon Fung, Stephen Kosack, Dan Levy and Courtney Tolmie

The social costs of titling land: Evidence from Uganda

William Gochberg

“If we move, it moves with us:” Physical distancing in Africa during COVID-19

Clara Bicalho, Melina R. Platas and Leah R. Rosenzweig

Institutional complexity, management practices, and firm productivity

Valerie J. Karplus, Thomas Geissmann and Da Zhang

Why are boys falling behind? Explaining gender gaps in school attainment in Sri Lanka

Rozana Himaz and Harsha Aturupane

A case study of improved cookstoves and clean fuel use by selected Nigerian Households

Innocent Onah, Anthony Nyong and Kuje Haruna Ayuba

Better to be indirect? Testing the accuracy and cost-savings of indirect surveys

Jennifer M. Alix-Garcia, Katharine Sims and Laura Costica

Butterflies, organized crime, and “sad trees”: A critique of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve Program in a context of rural violence

Columba Gonzalez-Duarte

Paternal mortality, early marriages, and marital trajectories in Senegal

Paola Villar

Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America

Olivier Bargain and Ulugbek Aminjonov

Pathways to stronger futures? The role of social protection in reducing psychological risk factors for child development in Haiti

Keetie Roelen and Amrita Saha

More logistics, less aid: Humanitarian-business partnerships and sustainability in the refugee camp

Elisa Pascucci

Local interest group activity and environmental degradation in authoritarian regimes

Ruth D. Carlitz and Marina Povitkina

Drug trafficking in the Tarahumara region, northern Mexico: An analysis of racism and dispossession

Fatima del Rocio Valdivia and Juan Okowí

Sustainability superheroes? For-profit narratives of “doing good” in the era of the SDGs

Mette Fog Olwig

Life between the city and the village: Scaling analysis of service access in Indian urban slums

Anand Sahasranaman and Luís M.A. Bettencourt

Does FDI promote entrepreneurial activities? A meta-analysis

Sanghyun Hong, W. Reed, Bifei Tian, Tingting Wu and Gen Chen

Would community conservation initiatives benefit from external financial oversight? A framed field experiment in Namibia’s communal conservancies

Jane Turpie and Gwyneth Letley

When top-down meets bottom-up: Local officials and selective responsiveness within fiscal policymaking in China

Tianguang Meng and Zheng Su

The mediated effects of urban proximity on collective action in the commons: Theory and evidence from China

Yahua Wang, Sicheng Chen and Eduardo Araral

Migration, labor and women’s empowerment: Evidence from an agricultural value chain in Bangladesh

Alan de Brauw, Berber Kramer and Mike Murphy

The effectiveness of protected areas in the context of decentralization

Daniela A. Miteva and Subhrendu Pattanayak

Gender composition of management groups in a conservation agreement framework: Experimental evidence for mangrove use in the Colombian Pacific

Yady Barrero-Amórtegui and Jorge Maldonado

Explaining success on community forestry through a lens of environmental justice: Local justice norms and practices in China

Jun He, Adrian Martin, Rong Lang and Nicole Gross-Camp

Water scarcity & procedural justice in Honduras: Community-based management meets market-based policy

Tara Grillos, Alan Zarychta and Jami Nelson Nuñez

Preferences for traditional and formal sector justice institutions to address land disputes in rural Mali

Matthew S. Winters and Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz

Institutional benefit pathways in development

Vijay Ramprasad

Examining multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6–2015/16: Insights and oversights of the headcount ratio

Sabina Alkire, Christian Oldiges and Usha Kanagaratnam

Which farms feed the world and has farmland become more concentrated?

Sarah K. Lowder, Marco Sánchez Cantillo and Raffaele Bertini

Logics of appropriateness: Explaining Chinese Financial Institutions’ weak supervision of overseas financing

Xue Gong

Volume 141, issue C, 2021

Managing the Belt and Road: Agency and development in Cambodia and Myanmar

Linda Calabrese and Yue Cao

Spending or saving? Female empowerment and financial decisions in a matrilineal society

Ute Rink and Laura Barros

Stigma, Trust, and procedural integrity: Covid-19 testing in Malawi

Karen E. Ferree, Adam S. Harris, Boniface Dulani, Kristen Kao, Ellen Lust and Erica Metheney

Self-employment and migration

Samuele Giambra and David McKenzie

The impact of an extension of workers’ health insurance on formal employment: Evidence from Ecuador

Andrea Molina-Vera

China’s investments in renewable energy in Africa: Creating co-benefits or just cashing-in?

Rasmus Lema, Padmasai Lakshmi Bhamidipati, Cecilia Gregersen, Ulrich Elmer Hansen and Julian Kirchherr

Dark and bright spots in the shadow of the pandemic: Rural livelihoods, social vulnerability, and local governance in India and Nepal

Divya Gupta, Harry Fischer, Suchita Shrestha, Syed Shoaib Ali, Ashwini Chhatre, Kamal Devkota, Forrest Fleischman, Dil B. Khatri and Pushpendra Rana

South-South humanitarianism: The case of Covid-organics in Tanzania

Lisa Ann Richey, Line Engbo Gissel, Opportuna L. Kweka, Pernille Bærendtsen, Peter Kragelund, Herbert Qambalo Hambati and Asubisye Mwamfupe

Unanticipated events, perceptions, and household labor allocation in Zimbabwe

Anna Josephson and Gerald E. Shively

The impact of decentralized decision-making on student outcomes and teacher quality: Evidence from Colombia

Gregory Elacqua, Isabela Munevar, Fabio Sanchez Torres and Humberto Santos

Investigating the existence of entry barriers in rural non-farm sector (RNFS) employment in India: A theoretical modelling and an empirical analysis

Anviksha Drall and Sabuj Kumar Mandal

Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?

Siri Eriksen, E. Lisa F. Schipper, Morgan Scoville-Simonds, Katharine Vincent, Hans Nicolai Adam, Nick Brooks, Brian Harding, Dil Khatri, Lutgart Lenaerts, Diana Liverman, Megan Mills-Novoa, Marianne Mosberg, Synne Movik, Benard Muok, Andrea Nightingale, Hemant Ojha, Linda Sygna, Marcus Taylor, Coleen Vogel and Jennifer Joy West

Agricultural land acquisitions unlikely to address the food security needs of African countries

Altaaf Mechiche-Alami, Jihad Yagoubi and Kimberly A. Nicholas

Pay for performance for prenatal care and newborn health: Evidence from a developing country

María Laura Alzúa and Noemi Katzkowicz

Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda and Yemen

Amber Peterman, Benjamin Schwab, Shalini Roy, Melissa Hidrobo and Daniel Gilligan

Adaptive governance along Chinese-financed BRI railroad megaprojects in East Africa

Maria Adele Carrai

The redistributive effects of pandemics: Evidence on the Spanish flu

Sergi Basco, Jordi Domenech and Joan Rosés

An empirical assessment of the effects of electricity access on food security

Chiara Candelise, Donatella Saccone and Elena Vallino

Power to which people? Explaining how electrification targets voters across party rotations in Ghana

Ryan C. Briggs

Mobile money and healthcare use: Evidence from East Africa

Haseeb Ahmed and Benjamin Cowan

The elusive quest for additionality

Patrick Carter, Nicolas Van de Sijpe and Raphael Calel

Does inequality-adjusted human development reduce the impact of natural disasters? A gendered perspective

Joyita Roy Chowdhury, Yashobanta Parida and Prarthna Agarwal Goel

What is the state made of? Coca, roads, and the materiality of state formation in the frontier

Isabel Peñaranda Currie, Silvia Otero-Bahamon and Simón Uribe

Fractal urbanism: City size and residential segregation in India

Naveen Bharathi, Deepak Malghan, Sumit Mishra and Andaleeb Rahman

Governance and learning in global, regional, and local value chains: The IT enabled services industry in South Africa

Charlotte Keijser, Rene Belderbos and Micheline Goedhuys

COVID-19 and small enterprises in the food supply chain: Early impacts and implications for longer-term food system resilience in low- and middle-income countries

Stella Nordhagen, Uduak Igbeka, Hannah Rowlands, Ritta Sabbas Shine, Emily Heneghan and Jonathan Tench

Health inequality and the 1918 influenza in South Africa

Johan Fourie and Jonathan Jayes

The nature of peace: How environmental regulation can cause conflicts

Nicolas Hubert

“Before cardamom, we used to face hardship”: Analyzing agricultural commercialization effects in Nepal through a local concept of the Good Life

Marie-Luise Matthys, Sushant Acharya and Sanjaya Khatri

Specialization in food production affects global food security and food systems sustainability

Mercedes Campi, Marco Duenas and Giorgio Fagiolo

Climate risk, culture and the Covid-19 mortality: A cross-country analysis

Aydin Ozkan, Gulcin Ozkan, Abdullah Yalaman and Yilmaz Yildiz

Drivers of collective action and role of conflict in Kenyan fisheries co-management

Michael Murunga, Stefan Partelow and Annette Breckwoldt

After the project is over: Measuring longer-term impacts of a food safety intervention in Senegal

Laura Leavens, Jonathan Bauchet and Jacob Ricker-Gilbert

Seasonal droughts and the risk of childhood undernutrition in Ethiopia

Anna Dimitrova

Mixed records, complexity, and ethnic voting in African elections

Karen E. Ferree, Clark C. Gibson and James D. Long