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Volume 37, issue 3, 2023

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

Muhammad Farhan Majid and Jere R 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 36, issue 4, 2022

Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981–2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism? (Top Wealth Shares in the UK over More than a Century) pp. 803-834

Thomas Piketty and Li Yang

Nowcasting Global Poverty (Why Is Growth in Developing Countries So Hard to Measure?) pp. 835-856

Daniel Gerszon Mahler, R Andrés Castañeda Aguilar and David Newhouse

Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing among Strangers (Changing Saving and Investment Behavior: The Impact of Financial Literacy Training and Reminders on Micro-Businesses) pp. 857-888

Catia Batista, Marcel Fafchamps and Pedro Vicente

Telescoping Error in Recalled Food Consumption: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Ethiopia (Video-Based Behavioral Change Communication to Change Consumption Patterns: Experimental Evidence from Urban Ethiopia) pp. 889-908

Gashaw T Abate, Alan de Brauw, John Gibson, Kalle Hirvonen and Abdulazize Wolle

Direct Shock Experience vs. Tangential Shock Exposure: Indirect Effects of Flood Shocks on Well-Being and Preferences (Well-Being Effects of Extreme Weather Events in the US) pp. 909-933

Wiebke Stein and Reinhard Weisser

The Lasting Labor-Market Effects of Cash Transfers: Evidence from South Africa’s Child Support Grant (Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City) pp. 934-954

Alessandro Tondini

Fertility Following Natural Disasters and Epidemics in Africa (Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Migration: A Survey of the Empirical Evidence) pp. 955-971

Johannes Norling

The Timing of Elections and Neonatal Mortality: Evidence from India (Fiscal Transparency, Elections and Public Employment: Evidence from the OECD) pp. 972-998

Shampa Bhattacharjee

Roads and Jobs in Ethiopia (When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?”) pp. 999-1020

Matteo Fiorini and Marco Sanfilippo

Volume 36, issue 3, 2022

Investment Treaties, Local Institutions and Policies in the Global Land Rush pp. 559-582

Sebastian Anti

The Role of Income Inequality for Poverty Reduction pp. 583-604

Katy Bergstrom

Unambiguous Trends Combining Absolute and Relative Income Poverty: New Results and Global Application pp. 605-628

Benoît Decerf and Mery Ferrando

What Do Local Government Education Managers Do to Boost Learning Outcomes? pp. 629-645

Jacobus Cilliers, Eric Dunford and James Habyarimana

Structural Reforms and Labor Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Intra or Inter-Reallocation Channel? pp. 646-669

Maty Konte, Wilfried A Kouamé and Emmanuel B Mensah

Jobs and Productivity Growth in Global Value Chains: New Evidence for Twenty-five Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 670-686

Stefan Pahl, Marcel P Timmer, Reitze Gouma and Pieter J Woltjer

Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data pp. 687-708

Piotr Lewandowski, Albert Park, Wojciech Hardy, Yang Du and Saier Wu

Child Labor under Cash and In-Kind Transfers pp. 709-733

Federico Tagliati

Mobile Money and Economic Activity: Evidence from Kenya★ pp. 734-756

Raissa Fabregas and Tite Yokossi

Food Inflation and Child Health pp. 757-773

Andinet Woldemichael, Daniel Kidane and Abebe Abebe

Do Smaller Local Governments Bring Citizens More? Evidence from Direct Elections in Indonesia pp. 774-799

Deepak Singhania

Corrigendum to: Structural Reforms and Labor Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Intra or Inter-Reallocation Channel? pp. 800-800

Maty Konte, Wilfried A Kouamé and Emmanuel B Mensah

Erratum to: Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data pp. 801-801

Piotr Lewandowski, Albert Park, Wojciech Hardy, Yang Du and Saier Wu

Volume 36, issue 2, 2022

The Intergenerational Effects of Economic Sanctions pp. 269-304

Safoura Moeeni

The Pass-Through of International Commodity Price Shocks to Producers’ Welfare: Evidence from Ethiopian Coffee Farmers pp. 305-328

Hundanol A Kebede

Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation: Cross-Country Evidence pp. 329-360

Ana Margarida Fernandes, Hiau Looi Kee and Deborah Winkler

The Macroeconomy After Tariffs pp. 361-381

Davide Furceri, Swarnali Hannan, Jonathan Ostry and Andrew Rose

Poverty from Space: Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery for Estimating Economic Well-being pp. 382-412

Ryan Engstrom, Jonathan Hersh and David Newhouse

Consumption Subaggregates Should Not Be Used to Measure Poverty pp. 413-432

Luc Christiaensen, Ethan Ligon and Thomas Pave Sohnesen

How Important Is Temptation Spending? Maybe Less than We Thought pp. 433-454

Lasse Brune, Jason Kerwin and Qingxiao Li

Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez’s Venezuela pp. 455-487

Brian Knight and Ana Tribin

Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India: Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program pp. 488-513

David Blakeslee, Ritam Chaurey, Ram Fishman and Samreen Malik

A Tale of Two Programs: Assessing Treatment and Control in NREGA Studies pp. 514-532

Girish Bahal

Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation: Evidence from Asia pp. 533-558

Liming Chen, Rana Hasan and Yi Jiang

Volume 36, issue 1, 2022

Local Water Quality, Diarrheal Disease, and the Unintended Consequences of Soda Taxes pp. 1-18

Emilio Gutierrez and Adrian Rubli

Wealth Inequality in South Africa, 1993–2017 pp. 19-36

Aroop Chatterjee, Léo Czajka and Amory Gethin

Labor Market Experience and Falling Earnings Inequality in Brazil: 1995–2012 pp. 37-67

Francisco Ferreira, Sergio Firpo and Julian Messina

Knowledge and Adoption of Complex Agricultural Technologies: Evidence from an Extension Experiment pp. 68-90

Denise Hörner, Adrien Bouguen, Markus Frölich and Meike Wollni

The Demand for Advice: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 91-113

Dominik Naeher and Matthias Schündeln

The Spillover Impact of Index Insurance on Agricultural Investment by Cotton Farmers in Burkina Faso pp. 114-140

Quentin Stoeffler, Michael Carter, Catherine Guirkinger and Wouter Gelade

Unfolding Trade Effect in Two Margins of Informality. The Peruvian Case pp. 141-170

Camila Cisneros-Acevedo

Oil Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Nigeria pp. 171-197

Arinze Nwokolo

Does Local Female Political Representation Empower Women to Run for Higher Office? Evidence from State and National Legislatures in India pp. 198-218

Ryan Brown, Hani Mansour and Stephen D O’Connell

Decomposing Learning Inequalities in East Africa: How Much Does Sorting Matter? pp. 219-243

Paul Anand, Jere Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang and Sam Jones

What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions That Do Not Focus on Girls pp. 244-267

David K Evans and Fei Yuan