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Volume 38, issue 4, 2024

Positioning in Global Value Chains: World Map and Indicators, a New Dataset Available for GVC Analyses pp. 669-690

Michele Mancini, Pierluigi Montalbano, S Nenci and D Vurchio

Deep Trade Agreements and Firm Ownership in GVCs pp. 691-707

Peter Egger and Gerard Masllorens

Is There a Bright Side to the China Syndrome? Rising Export Opportunities and Life Satisfaction in China pp. 708-740

Matthieu Crozet, Laura Hering and Sandra Poncet

Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor pp. 741-771

Pavel Chakraborty, Rahul Singh and Vidhya Soundararajan

Documenting Decentralization: Empirical Evidence on Administrative Unit Proliferation from Uganda pp. 772-795

Isabelle Cohen

Village Fairness Norms and Land-Rental Markets pp. 796-823

Kwabena Krah, Annemie Maertens, Wezi Mhango, Hope Michelson and Vesall Nourani

Group Incentives for the Public Good: A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment pp. 824-845

Carol Newman, Tara Mitchell, Marcus Holmlund and Chloë Fernandez

Public Child Care Provision: Unraveling the Consequences of Implementation Variations for Women's Time Allocation pp. 846-860

Catherine Mata

Measuring the Size of the “Third Pillar”: A Global Dataset pp. 861-873

Fritz Schiltz, Kelsey J MacKay and Philippe Vandekerckhove

Volume 38, issue 3, 2024

How Much Are Government Jobs in Developing Countries Worth? pp. 443-465

Kunal Mangal

Crime and Gender Segregation: Evidence from the Bogota “Pico y Genero” Lockdown pp. 466-482

Brian Knight, Maria Mercedes Ponce de Leon and Ana Tribin

Infrastructure and Structural Change in Africa pp. 483-513

Matias Herrera Dappe and Mathilde Lebrand

Religious Leaders’ Compliance with State Authority: Experimental Evidence from COVID-19 in Pakistan pp. 514-534

Kate Vyborny

Effect of Moderate and Radical Rules on High-Caste Behavior and Norms in India pp. 535-557

Pavitra Govindan

Job Loss and Household Labor Supply Adjustments in Developing Countries: Evidence from Argentina pp. 558-579

Matías Ciaschi and Guido Neidhöfer

Heuristics on Call: The Impact of Mobile-Phone-Based Business-Management Advice pp. 580-597

Shawn Cole, Mukta Joshiideas and Antoinette Schoar

The Causal Effect of Early Marriage on Women's Bargaining Power: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 598-624

Salauddin Tauseef and Farha Deba Sufian

Addressing Social Desirability Bias When Measuring Child Labor Use: An Application to Cocoa Farms in Côte d’Ivoire pp. 625-646

Marine Jouvin

Making Data Count: Estimating a Poverty Trend for Nigeria between 2009 and 2019 pp. 647-668

Jonathan Lain, Marta Schoch and Tara Vishwanath

Volume 38, issue 2, 2024

Removing Barriers to Entry in Medicine: Evidence from Pakistan pp. 209-228

Fatima Aqeel

Agricultural Productivity and Land Inequality: Evidence from the Philippines pp. 229-250

Ludovic Bequet

Allocative Efficiency between and within the Formal and Informal Manufacturing Sectors in Zimbabwe pp. 251-273

Godfrey Kamutando and Lawrence Edwards

Catch-Up Growth and Inter-industry Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Trade Data pp. 274-295

Marijn A Bolhuis

Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Program pp. 296-318

Richard Freund, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter and Jere Behrman

The Rise in Women’s Labor-Force Participation in Mexico—Supply vs. Demand Factors pp. 319-350

Sonia Bhalotra and Manuel Fernández

The Short- and Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban pp. 351-370

Caio Piza, André Portela Souza, Patrick M Emerson and Vivian Amorim

Social Protection amid a Crisis: New Evidence from South Africa’s Older Person’s Grant pp. 371-393

Mo Alloush, Jeffrey R Bloem and J G Malacarne

Digital Training for Micro-Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala pp. 394-421

Alejandro Estefan, Martina Improta, Romina Ordoñez and Paul Winters

How Much Does the Food Insecurity Experience Scale Overlap with Poor Food Consumption and Monetary Poverty? Evidence from West Africa pp. 422-442

Jonathan Lain, Sharad Tandon and Tara Vishwanath

Volume 38, issue 1, 2024

Infrastructure Quality and FDI Inflows: Evidence from the Arrival of High-Speed Internet in Africa pp. 1-23

Justice Tei Mensah and Nouhoum Traore

Import Uncertainty and Export Dynamics pp. 24-50

Mariana Vijil, Laurent Wagner and Martha Tesfaye Woldemichael

Employment Mismatches Drive Expectational Earnings Errors among Mozambican Graduates pp. 51-73

Sam Jones, Ricardo Santos and Gimelgo Xirinda

Public Pre-Primary and Maternal Employment in Algeria: Evidence from a Natural Experiment pp. 74-94

Caroline Krafft and Moundir Lassassi

Shifting Attitudes towards Domestic Violence: The Impact of Primary Education on Women’s Marital Outcomes in Benin pp. 95-116

Sarah Deschênes and Rozenn Hotte

Raising the Age of Marriage Entry and Child's Nutrition Intake? Evidence from the Reform of Ethiopia's Family Law pp. 117-138

Uchenna Efobi

C-Sections, Obesity, and Healthcare Specialization: Evidence from Mexico pp. 139-160

Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Fernanda Marquez-Padilla and Silvia Prina

Labor Market and Macroeconomic Dynamics in Latin America amid COVID: The Role of Digital-Adoption Policies pp. 161-184

Alan Finkelstein Shapiro, Victoria Nuguer and Santiago Novoa Gomez

Filling the “Decency Gap”? Donors’ Reaction to US Policy on International Family Planning Aid pp. 185-207

Nathalie Ferrière

Volume 37, issue 4, 2023

The Social Protection Engel Curve pp. 519-548

Michael Lokshin, Martin Ravallion and Iván Torre

Measuring Inequality Using Geospatial Data pp. 549-569

Jaqueson Galimberti, Stefan Pichler and Regina Pleninger

Subsistence Farming and Factor Misallocation: Evidence from Ugandan Agriculture pp. 570-598

Bruno Morando

Female Education and Brideprice: Evidence from Primary Education Reform in Uganda pp. 599-619

Masaru Nagashima and Chikako Yamauchi

Nudging Payment Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Pay-as-You-Go Off-Grid Electricity pp. 620-639

Jacopo Bonan, Giovanna d’Adda, Mahreen Mahmud and Farah Said

Long-Term Effects of an Education Stipend Program on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 640-658

Raisa Sara and Sadia Priyanka

Mind the Gap: Schooling, Informality, and Fiscal Externalities in Nepal pp. 659-674

Hoyt Bleakley and Bhanu Gupta

The Combined Role of Subsidy and Discussion Intervention in the Demand for a Stigmatized Product pp. 675-705

Vinish Shrestha and Rashesh Shrestha

Volume 37, issue 3, 2023

Minimum Wages around Birth and Child Health pp. 351-365

Muhammad Farhan Majid and Jere Behrman

The Economic Impact of Deepening Trade Agreements pp. 366-388

Lionel Fontagné, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta and Gianluca Santoni

The Effects of Community Health Worker Visits and Primary Care Subsidies on Health Behavior and Health Outcomes for Children in Urban Mali pp. 389-408

Mark Dean and Anja Sautmann

Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence from Colombia pp. 409-436

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Adriana Kugler and Mikko Silliman

Taking Cover: Human Capital Accumulation in the Presence of Shocks and Health Insurance pp. 437-459

Paulino Font-Gilabert

Domestically “Flying Geese”: Regional Manufacturing Investment Flows within China pp. 460-478

Jialiang Zhang and Xiaobo Zhang

Technology and the Task Content of Jobs across the Development Spectrum pp. 479-493

Julieta Caunedo, Elisa Keller and Yongseok Shin

Reducing Delay in Payments in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from an Information Dissemination Intervention pp. 494-517

Upasak Das, Amartya Paul and Mohit Sharma

Volume 37, issue 2, 2023

The Learning Crisis of Developing Country Elites: Lessons from PISA-D pp. 177-204

Lant Pritchett and Martina Viarengo

Do Women Contribute More Effort than Men to a Real Public Good? pp. 205-220

Ingela Alger, Laura Juarez, Miriam Juarez and Josepa Miquel-Florensa

Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania pp. 221-234

David K Evans and Katrina Kosec

Mobile Broadband, Poverty, and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania pp. 235-256

Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Takaaki Masaki, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán and Viviane Sanfelice

The Labor-Supply Consequences of Having a Child in China pp. 257-282

Shing-Yi Wang

Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women’s Time in Home Production pp. 283-304

Farzana Afridi, Sisir Debnath, Taryn Dinkelman and Komal Sareen

Trade Shocks, Population Growth, and Migration pp. 305-330

Sofía Fernández Guerrico

The Double Dividend of a Joint Tariff and VAT Reform: Evidence from Iran pp. 331-349

Kowsar Yousefi and Mohammad Vesal

Volume 37, issue 1, 2023

Women Legislators in Africa and Foreign Aid pp. 1-23

Kurt Annen and Henrietta A Asiamah

Class Size and Learning: Has India Spent Too Much on Reducing Class Size? pp. 24-48

Sandip Datta and Geeta Kingdon

Method Matters: The Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence pp. 49-73

Claire Cullen

Legal Bans, Female Genital Cutting, and Education: Evidence from Senegal pp. 74-92

Jorge García-Hombrados and Edgar Salgado

The Distribution of Effort: Physical Activity, Gender Roles, and Bargaining Power in an Agrarian Setting pp. 93-111

Jed Friedman, Isis Gaddis, Talip Kilic, Antonio Martuscelli, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Alberto Zezza

Gender Differences in Informal Labor-Market Resilience pp. 112-126

Morgan Hardy, Erin Litzow, Jamie McCasland and Gisella Kagy

Syrian Refugee Inflows, Health-Care Access, and Childhood Vaccination in Turkey pp. 127-146

Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin, Miray Omurtak and Ilhan Ozen

Refugees and Housing: Evidence from the Mortgage Market pp. 147-176

Yusuf Emre Akgunduz, Yavuz Selim Hacıhasanoğlu and Fatih Yilmaz