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Volume 33, issue 3, 2019

The Contribution of Increased Equity to the Estimated Social Benefits from a Transfer Program: An Illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades pp. 535-550

Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman and Afia Tasneem

Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures pp. 551-572

Gaurav Datt

Finding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Poverty: Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia pp. 573-597

Adama Bah, Samuel Bazzi, Sudarno Sumarto and Julia Tobias

The Role of Social Ties in Factor Allocation pp. 598-621

Ulrik Beck, Benedikte Bjerge and Marcel Fafchamps

Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-Up: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria pp. 622-642

Ryoko Sato and Yoshito Takasaki

Impact of Free Trade Agreement Use on Import Prices pp. 643-660

Kazunobu Hayakawa, Nuttawut Laksanapanyakul, Hiroshi Mukunoki and Shujiro Urata

Borrowing for Growth: Big Pushes and Debt Sustainability in Low-Income Countries pp. 661-689

Luis-Felipe Zanna, Edward F Buffie, Rafael Portillo, Andrew Berg and Catherine Pattillo

Can Grants to Consortia Spur Innovation and Science-Industry Collaboration? Regression- Discontinuity Evidence from Poland pp. 690-716

Miriam Bruhn and David McKenzie

Redistribution and Group Participation: Experimental Evidence from Africa and the UK pp. 717-735

Marcel Fafchamps and Ruth Hill

The Effects of Health Insurance within Families: Experimental Evidence from Nicaragua pp. 736-749

Anne Fitzpatrick and Rebecca Thornton

Costs and Benefits of Land Fragmentation: Evidence from Rwanda pp. 750-771

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Loraine Ronchi

Importing and Firm Productivity in Ethiopian Manufacturing pp. 772-792

Kaleb Girma Abreha

Volume 33, issue 2, 2019

Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets: Evidence from Firm Surveys in 90 Developing Countries pp. 287-309

Stephen Knack, Nataliya Biletska and Kanishka Kacker

Biased Policy Professionals pp. 310-327

Sheheryar Banuri, Stefan Dercon and Varun Gauri

When Rebels Attack: Quantifying the Impacts of Capturing Territory from the Government in Yemen pp. 328-352

Sharad Tandon

Product Standards and Firms’ Export Decisions pp. 353-374

Ana Fernandes, Esteban Ferro and John Wilson

Income Mobility, Income Risk, and Welfare pp. 375-393

Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna and William Maloney

Cash Transfers and Health: Evidence from Tanzania pp. 394-412

David Evans, Brian Holtemeyer and Katrina Kosec

An Employment Guarantee as Risk Insurance? Assessing the Effects of the NREGS on Agricultural Production Decisions pp. 413-435

Esther Gehrke

Can Solar Lanterns Improve Youth Academic Performance? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 436-460

Yuya Kudo, Abu Shonchoy and Kazushi Takahashi

Energy-Saving Effects of Progressive Pricing and Free CFL Bulb Distribution Program: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 461-478

Atsushi Iimi, Raihan Elahi, Rahul Kitchlu and Peter Costolanski

Public Mosquito Abatement: A Cluster Randomized Experiment pp. 479-497

Josselin Thuilliez and Yves Dumont

Gender-Neutral Inheritance Laws, Family Structure, and Women’s Status in India pp. 498-515

Sulagna Mookerjee

The More Stringent, the Better? Rationing Car Use in Bogotá with Moderate and Drastic Restrictions pp. 516-534

Jorge A Bonilla

Volume 33, issue 1, 2019

Agriculture, Aid, and Economic Growth in Africa pp. 1-20

John McArthur and Jeffrey D Sachs

Optimal Climate Policy and the Future of World Economic Development pp. 21-40

Mark Budolfson, Francis Dennig, Marc Fleurbaey, Noah Scovronick, Asher Siebert, Dean Spears and Fabian Wagner

Cofinancing in Environment and Development: Evidence from the Global Environment Facility pp. 41-62

Matthew Kotchen and Neeraj Kumar Negi

Targeting Ultra-Poor Households in Honduras and Peru pp. 63-94

Dean Karlan and Bram Thuysbaert

Re-evaluating Microfinance: Evidence from Propensity Score Matching pp. 95-115

Inna Cintina and Inessa Love

Neighborhood Effects in Integrated Social Policies pp. 116-139

Matteo Bobba and Jérémie Gignoux

Dynamics of Child Development: Analysis of a Longitudinal Cohort in a Very Low Income Country pp. 140-159

Emanuela Galasso, Ann Weber and Lia C H Fernald

What Drives Local Food Prices? Evidence from the Tanzanian Maize Market pp. 160-184

John Baffes, Varun Kshirsagar and Donald Mitchell

Financial Constraints and Girls’ Secondary Education: Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia pp. 185-208

Moussa Blimpo, Ousman Gajigo and Todd Pugatch

The Risk of Polygamy and Wives’ Saving Behavior pp. 209-230

Marie Boltz and Isabelle Chort

The Impact of the Arab Spring on the Tunisian Economy pp. 231-258

Samer Matta, Simon Appleton and Michael Bleaney

“Sex in Marriage Is a Divine Gift”? Evidence on the Quantity-Quality Trade-off from the Manila Contraceptive Ban pp. 259-285

Christelle Dumas and Arnaud Lefranc

Volume 32, issue 3, 2018

Inequality is Bad for Growth of the Poor (but Not for That of the Rich) pp. 507-530

Roy van der Weide and Branko Milanovic

Retooling Poverty Targeting Using Out-of-Sample Validation and Machine Learning pp. 531-550

Linden McBride and Austin Nichols

Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee: The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh pp. 551-569

Megan Sheahan, Yanyan Liu, Christopher Barrett and Sudha Narayanan

Better Knowledge Need Not Affect Behavior: A Randomized Evaluation of the Demand for Lottery Tickets in Rural Thailand pp. 570-583

Juliane Zenker, Andreas Wagener and Sebastian Vollmer

Dictators Walking the Mogadishu Line: How Men Become Monsters and Monsters Become Men pp. 584-609

Shaun Larcom, Mare Sarr and Tim Willems

Why Is China Investing in Africa? Evidence from the Firm Level pp. 610-632

Wenjie Chen, David Dollar and Heiwai Tang

Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? Evidence from Jordan pp. 633-655

Ragui Assaad and Mohamed Saleh

Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment pp. 656-675

Marcel Fafchamps and Simon Quinn

Food Prices and Poverty pp. 676-691

Derek Headey

Dynamics of Demand for Rainfall Index Insurance: Evidence from a Commercial Product in India pp. 692-708

Daniel Stein

Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America pp. 709-726

Luca Gambetti and Julian Messina

Shoeing the Children: The Impact of the TOMS Shoe Donation Program in Rural El Salvador pp. 727-751

Bruce Wydick, Elizabeth Katz, Flor Calvo, Felipe Gutierrez and Brendan Janet

Volume 32, issue 2, 2018

The Microfinance Business Model: Enduring Subsidy and Modest Profit pp. 221-244

Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch

The Short-Run Impact of Import Bans on Poverty: The Case of Nigeria (2008–2012) pp. 245-267

Andrew Dabalen and Nga Thi Viet Nguyen

Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth: The Impact of UN Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid pp. 268-286

Axel Dreher, Vera Eichenauer and Kai Gehring

Determinants of Productivity and Structural Change in a Large Commercial Farm Environment: Evidence from Ukraine pp. 287-306

Klaus Deininger, Denys Nizalov and Sudhir Singh

Career Choices and the Evolution of the College Gender Gap pp. 307-333

Martín Rossi and Christian Ruzzier

Trains, Trade, and Transaction Costs: How Does Domestic Trade by Rail Affect Market Prices of Malawi Agricultural Commodities? pp. 334-356

Wouter Zant

Who Benefited from Burundi’s Demobilization Program? pp. 357-382

Olivia D’Aoust, Olivier Sterck and Philip Verwimp

What Type of Finance Matters for Growth? Bayesian Model Averaging Evidence pp. 383-409

Iftekhar Hasan, Roman Horvath and Jan Mares

If It Pays, It Stays: Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control? pp. 410-427

Richard Sedlmayr

Top Incomes and the Measurement of Inequality in Egypt pp. 428-455

Vladimir Hlasny and Paolo Verme

Environmental Shocks and Sustainability in Microfinance: Evidence from the Great Famine of Ireland pp. 456-481

Tyler Beck Goodspeed

What Is the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff When Maintaining Wells in Rural Haiti? pp. 482-504

Dionissi Aliprantis

Volume 32, issue 1, 2018

Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China pp. 1-18

Alan de Brauw and John Giles

The Impact of the Syrian Refugee Crisis on Firm Entry and Performance in Turkey pp. 19-40

Yusuf Emre Akgunduz, Marcel van den Berg and Wolter Hassink

Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology pp. 41-63

Ernest Miguelez

The Impact of Rural Pensions in China on Labor Migration pp. 64-84

Karen Eggleston, Ang Sun and Zhaoguo Zhan

When the Cat’s Away The Effects of Spousal Migration on Investments on Children pp. 85-108

Lucia Rizzica

Can Parental Migration Reduce Petty Corruption in Education? pp. 109-126

Lisa Sofie Höckel, Manuel Santos Silva and Tobias Stöhr

The Long-term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery pp. 127-147

John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua and Steven Stillman

Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows pp. 148-162

Maurice Kugler, Oren Levintal and Hillel Rapoport

Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns pp. 163-182

William Kerr

How and Why Does Immigration Affect Crime? Evidence from Malaysia pp. 183-202

Caglar Ozden, Mauro Testaverde and Mathis Wagner

Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 203-219

Catia Batista and Gaia Narciso