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Volume 35, issue 4, 2021

Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? pp. 829-844

Kurt Annen and Stephen Knack

Development Research at High Geographic Resolution: An Analysis of Night-Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India Using the SHRUG Open Data Platform pp. 845-871

Sam Asher, Tobias Lunt, Ryu Matsuura and Paul Novosad

Gender Bias in Agricultural Child Labor: Evidence from Survey Design Experiments pp. 872-891

Jose Galdo, Ana Dammert and Degnet Abebaw Ejigie

Efficiency, Legitimacy, and Impacts of Targeting Methods: Evidence from an Experiment in Niger pp. 892-920

Patrick Premand and Pascale Schnitzer

Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers: Evidence from BRAC’s Graduation Program in Bangladesh pp. 921-949

Selim Gulesci

Effects of a Multi-Faceted Education Program on Enrollment, Learning and Gender Equity: Evidence from India pp. 950-968

Clara Delavallade, Alan Griffith and Rebecca Thornton

Do Community Water Sources Provide Safe Drinking Water? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Rural Bangladesh pp. 969-998

Serena Cocciolo, Selene Ghisolfi, Md Ahasan Habib, S M A Rashid and Anna Tompsett

Assessing Opportunities for Solar Lanterns to Improve Educational Outcomes in Off-Grid Rural Areas: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial pp. 999-1018

Ognen Stojanovski, Mark C Thurber, Frank A Wolak, George Muwowo and Kat Harrison

Secondary Schools and Teenage Childbearing: Evidence from the School Expansion in Brazilian Municipalities pp. 1019-1037

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner and Jesse Matheson

Headship and Poverty in Africa pp. 1038-1056

Caitlin Brown and Dominique van de Walle

Caloric Intake and Energy Expenditures in India pp. 1057-1075

Shari Eli and Nicholas Li

Mobilizing P2P Diffusion for New Agricultural Practices: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 1076-1101

Marcel Fafchamps, Asad Islam, Mohammad Malek and Debayan Pakrashi

Capital Allocation in Developing Countries pp. 1102-1121

Joel David, Venky Venkateswaran, Ana Paula Cusolito and Tatiana Didier

Volume 35, issue 3, 2021

The Price Elasticity of African Elephant Poaching pp. 545-562

Quy-Toan Do, Andrei Levchenko, Lin Ma, Julian Blanc, Holly Dublin and Tom Milliken

Household Impacts of Tariffs: Data and Results from Agricultural Trade Protection pp. 563-585

Erhan Artuc, Guido Porto and Bob Rijkers

Booms, Busts, and Household Enterprise: Evidence from Coffee Farmers in Tanzania pp. 586-603

Achyuta Adhvaryu, Namrata Kala and Anant Nyshadham

Measuring Farm Labor: Survey Experimental Evidence from Ghana pp. 604-634

Isis Gaddis, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Janneke Pieters

Measuring Employment: Experimental Evidence from Urban Ghana pp. 635-651

Rachel Heath, Ghazala Mansuri, Bob Rijkers, William Seitz and Dhiraj Sharma

Productivity and Health: Physical Activity as a Measure of Effort pp. 652-680

Oladele Akogun, Andrew Dillon, Jed Friedman, Ashesh Prasann and Pieter Serneels

Early-Life Access to a Basic Health Care Program and Adult Outcomes in Indonesia pp. 681-704

Md Nazmul Ahsan, Rakesh Banerjee and Riddhi Maharaj

School Uniforms, Short-Run Participation, and Long-Run Outcomes: Evidence from Kenya pp. 705-719

David Evans and Mũthoni Ngatia

Demand-Driven Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Mongolia pp. 720-744

María Laura Alzúa, Soyolmaa Batbekh, Altantsetseg Batchuluun, Bayarmaa Dalkhjav and Jose Galdo

Changing Gambling Behavior through Experiential Learning pp. 745-763

Martin Abel, Shawn Cole and Bilal Zia

Demand for Information on Environmental Health Risk, Mode of Delivery, and Behavioral Change: Evidence from Sonargaon, Bangladesh pp. 764-792

Alessandro Tarozzi, Ricardo Maertens, Kazi Matin Ahmed and Alexander van Geen

Assessing Deprivation with an Ordinal Variable: Theory and Application to Sanitation Deprivation in Bangladesh pp. 793-811

Suman Seth and Gaston Yalonetzky

Does Greater Regulatory Burden Lead to More Corruption? Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries pp. 812-828

Mohammad Amin and Yew Chong Soh

Volume 35, issue 2, 2021

Religion and Sanitation Practices pp. 287-302

Anjali Adukia, Marcella Alsan, Kim Babiarz, Jeremy D Goldhaber-Fiebert and Lea Prince

What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh pp. 303-327

Minhaj Mahmud, Italo A Gutierrez, Krishna B Kumar and Shanthi Nataraj

The Profits of Wisdom: The Impact of a Business Support Program in Tanzania pp. 328-347

Elena Bardasi, Marine Gassier, Markus Goldstein and Alaka Holla

Estimating Treatment Effects with Big Data When Take-up is Low: An Application to Financial Education pp. 348-375

Gabriel Lara Ibarra, David McKenzie and Claudia Ruiz-Ortega

Increasing Financial Inclusion in the Muslim World: Evidence from an Islamic Finance Marketing Experiment pp. 376-397

Dean Karlan, Adam Osman and Nour Shammout

Beneficiary Views on Cash and In-Kind Payments: Evidence from Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme pp. 398-413

Kalle Hirvonen and John Hoddinott

Inequality, Poverty, and the Intra-Household Allocation of Consumption in Senegal pp. 414-435

Philippe De Vreyer and Sylvie Lambert

Mitigation of Long-Term Human Capital Losses from Natural Disasters: Evidence from the Philippines pp. 436-460

Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Ava Cas

Intimate Partner Violence: The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women pp. 461-479

Sonia Bhalotra, Uma Kambhampati, Samantha Rawlings and Zahra Siddique

Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women’s Access to the Labor Market: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 480-498

Luke Chicoine

Teaching with the Test: Experimental Evidence on Diagnostic Feedback and Capacity Building for Public Schools in Argentina pp. 499-520

Rafael de Hoyos, Alejandro J Ganimian and Peter A Holland

Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks pp. 521-543

Chiara Broccolini, Giulia Lotti, Alessandro Maffioli, Andrea Presbitero and Rodolfo Stucchi

Volume 35, issue 1, 2021

Productivity Losses and Firm Responses to Electricity Shortages: Evidence from Ghana pp. 1-18

Ama Abeberese, Charles Godfred Ackah and Patrick Asuming

Lights Off, Lights On: The Effects of Electricity Shortages on Small Firms pp. 19-33

Morgan Hardy and Jamie McCasland

Trade Effects of Customs Reform: Evidence from Albania pp. 34-57

Ana Margarida Fernandes, Russell Hillberry and Alejandra Mendoza Alcántara

Latent Trade Diversification and Its Relevance for Macroeconomic Stability pp. 58-91

Daniel Lederman, Samuel Pienknagura and Diego Rojas

Markups, Market Imperfections, and Trade Openness: Evidence from Ghana pp. 92-116

Kaku Attah Damoah

Twenty Years of Wage Inequality in Latin America pp. 117-147

Julian Messina and Joana Silva

Paying More for Less: Why Don’t Households in Tanzania Take Advantage of Bulk Discounts? pp. 148-179

Brian Dillon, Joachim De Weerdt and Ted O’Donoghue

Societal Poverty: A Relative and Relevant Measure pp. 180-206

Dean Jolliffe and Espen Prydz

The Role of Historical Christian Missions in the Location of World Bank Aid in Africa pp. 207-233

Matteo Alpino and Eivind Hammersmark

Minimum Age Regulation and Child Labor: New Evidence from Brazil pp. 234-260

Olivier Bargain and Delphine Boutin

Changing Pedagogy to Improve Skills in Preschools: Experimental Evidence from Peru pp. 261-286

Francisco Gallego, Emma Naslund-Hadley and Mariana Alfonso

Volume 34, issue Supplement_1, 2020

The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and Opportunities to Expand Access to and Use of Financial Services* pp. S2-S8

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, Saniya Ansar and Jake Hess

Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination pp. S9-S13

Xiaowen Dong, Eaman Jahani, Alfredo J Morales, Burçin Bozkaya, Bruno Lepri and Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

The Impact of Information Sharing on the Use of Collateral versus Guarantees pp. S14-S19

Ralph De Haas and Matteo Millone

Linguistic Fractionalization and Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. S20-S25

Joseph Gomes

Predicting Dynamic Patterns of Short-Term Movement pp. S26-S34

Sveta Milusheva

Representativity and Networked Interference in Data-Rich Field Experiments: A Large-Scale RCT in Rural Mexico pp. S35-S39

Alejandro Noriega and Alex Pentland

Measuring Regional Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Surveys vs. GIS pp. S40-S45

Boris Gershman and Diego Rivera

Geography, Climate, and Genes in Development Studies pp. S46-S51

Robert Klitgaard, Johannes Fedderke and Valerio Napolioni

Public Investment Choices by Local and Central Governments pp. S52-S57

Katrina Kosec and Tewodaj Mogues

Economic Transformation in Africa from the Bottom Up: New Evidence from Tanzania pp. S58-S62

Xinshen Diao, Josaphat Kweka, Margaret McMillan and Zara Qureshi

Is There a Cost-Effective Means of Training Microenterprises? pp. S63-S67

Wyatt Brooks, Kevin Donovan and Terence R Johnson

Medium-Run Impacts of Management Training in Garment Clusters pp. S68-S71

Yuki Higuchi, Edwin Mhede, Vu Nam and Tetsushi Sonobe

Is Informal Redistribution Costly? Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Senegal pp. S72-S78

Marie Boltz, Karine Marazyan and Paola Villar

Comparing Costs of Living across World Cities pp. S79-S88

Shohei Nakamura, Rawaa Harati, Somik V Lall, Yuri M Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, William Vigil Oliver, Marko Olavi Rissanen and Mizuki Yamanaka

The ABCDE of Big Data: Assessing Biases in Call-Detail Records for Development Estimates pp. S89-S97

Gabriel Pestre, Emmanuel Letouzé and Emilio Zagheni

Volume 34, issue 3

Conceptual Aspects of Global Value Chains pp. 551-574

Pol Antràs

Mine, Yours or Ours? The Efficiency of Household Investment Decisions: An Experimental Approach pp. 575-596

Anandi Mani

Cash Transfers and Management Advice for Agriculture: Evidence from Senegal pp. 597-617

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton

Behavior Revealed in Mobile Phone Usage Predicts Credit Repayment pp. 618-634

Daniel Björkegren and Darrell Grissen

Can Medium-Resolution Satellite Imagery Measure Economic Activity at Small Geographies? Evidence from Landsat in Vietnam pp. 635-653

Ran Goldblatt, Kilian Heilmann and Yonatan Vaizman

Be Wary of Those Who Ask: A Randomized Experiment on the Size and Determinants of the Enumerator Effect pp. 654-669

Michele Di Maio and Nathan Fiala

Cash Transfers, Microentrepreneurial Activity, and Child Work: Evidence from Malawi and Zambia pp. 670-697

Jacobus de Hoop, Valeria Groppo and Sudhanshu Handa

Multigenerational Effects of Education Reform: Mother’s Education and Children’s Human Capital in Nepal pp. 698-729

Vinish Shrestha and Rashesh Shrestha

Free Primary Education, Timing of Fertility, and Total Fertility pp. 730-748

Tihtina Zenebe Gebre

Exploring Recipient Preferences and Allocation Mechanisms in the Distribution of Development Aid pp. 749-766

Jeremy Shapiro

Narrow Incumbent Victories and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines pp. 767-789

Benjamin Crost, Joseph H Felter, Hani Mansour and Daniel I Rees

Are Less Developed Countries More Exposed to Multinational Tax Avoidance? Method and Evidence from Micro-Data pp. 790-809

Niels Johannesen, Thomas Tørsløv and Ludvig Wier

Do Weak Institutions Prolong Crises? On the Identification, Characteristics, and Duration of Declines during Economic Slumps pp. 810-832

Richard Bluhm, Denis de Crombrugghe and Adam Szirmai

Volume 34, issue 2, 2020

Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico pp. 259-283

Sarra Ben Yahmed and Pamela Bombarda

Persistent Misallocation and the Returns to Education in Mexico pp. 284-311

Santiago Levy and Luis Lopez-Calva

Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity: Revisiting the Evidence pp. 312-331

Véronique Gille

Exploring the Heterogeneous Effects of Export Promotion pp. 332-350

Marcelo Olarreaga, Stefan Sperlich and Virginie Trachsel

Informed Trading in Business Groups pp. 351-370

Alvaro Pedraza

Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers’ Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia pp. 371-392

Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan and Martín Valdivia

Training to Teach Science: Experimental Evidence from Argentina pp. 393-417

Facundo Albornoz, María Victoria Anauati, Melina Furman, Mariana Luzuriaga, María Eugenia Podestá and Inés Taylor

Call Me Maybe: Experimental Evidence on Frequency and Medium Effects in Microenterprise Surveys pp. 418-443

Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin and Simon Quinn

Saving Water with a Nudge (or Two): Evidence from Costa Rica on the Effectiveness and Limits of Low-Cost Behavioral Interventions on Water Use pp. 444-463

Juan Jose Miranda, Saugato Datta and Laura Zoratto

The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Expansion on Mothers’ Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence in Turkey pp. 464-484

Selim Gulesci, Erik Meyersson and Sofia Trommlerová

Is Predicted Data a Viable Alternative to Real Data? pp. 485-508

Tomoki Fujii and Roy van der Weide

Migration and Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa pp. 509-532

Jan David Bakker, Christopher Parsons and Ferdinand Rauch

How Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions: A Natural Experiment in Jordan pp. 533-549

Alex Nowrasteh, Andrew Forrester and Cole Blondin

Volume 34, issue 1, 2020

Get Rich or Die Tryin’: Perceived Earnings, Perceived Mortality Rates, and Migration Decisions of Potential Work Migrants from Nepal pp. 1-27

Maheshwor Shrestha

The Origins and Dynamics of Export Superstars pp. 28-47

Caroline Freund and Martha Denisse Pierola

Do Poor Countries Really Need More IT? pp. 48-62

Maya Eden and Paul Gaggl

Urbanization and Child Nutritional Outcomes pp. 63-74

Mulubrhan Amare, Channing Arndt, Kibrom Abay and Todd Benson

Taxing the Good? Distortions, Misallocation, and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 75-100

Xavier Cirera, Roberto Fattal-Jaef and Hibret Maemir

Does E-Government Improve Government Capacity? Evidence from Tax Compliance Costs, Tax Revenue, and Public Procurement Competitiveness pp. 101-120

Anna Kochanova, Zahid Hasnain and Bradley Larson

The Global Trade Slowdown: Cyclical or Structural? pp. 121-142

Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo and Michele Ruta

The Geography of NGO Activism against Multinational Corporations pp. 143-163

Sophie Hatte and Pamina Koenig

The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education pp. 164-178

Tianshu Li and Sheetal Sekhri

Early Rainfall Shocks and Later-Life Outcomes: Evidence from Colombia pp. 179-209

Bladimir Carrillo

The Impact of Positive Agricultural Income Shocks on Rural Chinese Households pp. 210-231

Jessica Leight

Development and the Labor Share pp. 232-257

Paul Maarek and Elsa Orgiazzi