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Volume 29, issue suppl_1, 2015

Development Economics and Method: A Quarter Century of ABCDE pp. S2-S8

Kaushik Basu and Andrew Foster

When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming pp. S9-S24

Amrita Ahuja, Sarah Baird, Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel and Shawn Powers

How Business Community Institutions Can Help Fight Corruption pp. S25-S47

Avinash Dixit

Why Haven't Global Markets Reduced Inequality in Emerging Economies? pp. S48-S52

Eric Maskin

Financial Crises, Development, and Growth: A Long-term Perspective pp. S53-S76

Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart

Theories of Poverty Traps and Anti-Poverty Policies pp. S77-S105

Maitreesh Ghatak

Reducing Information Asymmetries in the Youth Labor Market of Jordan with Psychometrics and Skill Based Tests pp. S106-S117

Matthew Groh, David McKenzie and Tara Vishwanath

The Role of Effort for Self-Insurance and Its Consequences for the Wealth Distribution pp. S118-S125

Andres Zambrano

Unemployment Insurance in the Presence of an Informal Sector pp. S126-S134

David Bardey, Fernando Jaramillo and Ximena Peña

Gone for Good? Subsidies with Export Share Requirements in China: 2002–13 pp. S135-S144

Fabrice Defever and Alejandro Riaño

World Price Shocks, Income, and Democratization pp. S145-S154

Benjamin Zissimos

Determinants of Trade Policy: Insights from a Structural Gravity Model pp. S155-S163

Joachim Jarreau

Impact of Ethiopia's Community Based Health Insurance on Household Economic Welfare pp. S164-S173

Zelalem Yilma, Anagaw Mebratie, Robert Sparrow, Marleen Dekker, Getnet Alemu and Arjun Bedi

Policy-Making and the Adaptability of Informal Institutions pp. S174-S181

Xiao Yu Wang

Scope of Economic Incentives and Abatement Technologies to Regulate a Natural System's Resilience in a General Equilibrium Model pp. S182-S191

David Tobón Orozco, Carlos Molina and Carlos Vasco Correa

Overcoming Obstacles: The Internet's Contribution to Firm Development pp. S192-S204

Caroline Paunov and Valentina Rollo

Causality between FDI and Financial Market Development: Evidence from Emerging Markets pp. S205-S216

Issouf Soumaré and Fulbert Tchana Tchana

Causal Interaction and External Validity: Obstacles to the Policy Relevance of Randomized Evaluations pp. S217-S225

Sean Muller

Will Video Kill the Radio Star? Assessing the Potential of Targeted Exposure to Role Models through Video pp. S226-S237

Tanguy Bernard, Stefan Dercon, Kate Orkin and Alemayehu Taffesse

Culture in Development pp. S238-S246

Shankha Chakraborty, Jon C. Thompson and Etienne B. Yehoue

Selection into Migration within a Household Model: Evidence from Senegal pp. S247-S256

Isabelle Chort and Jean-Noël Senne

Rural and Urban Migrants in India: 1983–2008 pp. S257-S270

Viktoria Hnatkovska and Amartya Lahiri

Editors' Introduction pp. S1

Kaushik Basu and Andrew Foster

Volume 29, issue 3, 2015

How Bank Competition Affects Firms' Access to Finance pp. 413-448

Inessa Love and Maria Martinez Peria

What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India? pp. 449-478

Stephan Klasen and Janneke Pieters

Institutional Investors and Long-Term Investment: Evidence from Chile pp. 479-522

Luis Opazo, Claudio Raddatz and Sergio Schmukler

Trade and Cities pp. 523-549

Cem Karayalcin and Hakan Yilmazkuday

Exchange Rate Volatility, Financial Constraints, and Trade: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Firms pp. 550-578

Jérôme Héricourt and Sandra Poncet

Product Relatedness and Firm Exports in China pp. 579-605

Sandra Poncet and Felipe Starosta de Waldemar

Managing Quantity, Quality, and Timing in Indian Cane Sugar Production: Ex Post Marketing Permits or Ex Ante Production Contracts? pp. 606-630

Sandhyarani Patlolla, Rachael Goodhue and Richard J. Sexton

Volume 29, issue 2, 2015

What Drives the Global "Land Rush"? pp. 207-233

Rabah Arezki, Klaus Deininger and Harris Selod

Gender and Public Goods Provision in Tamil Nadu's Village Governments pp. 234-261

Kiran Gajwani and Xiaobo Zhang

Mobile Phone Coverage and Producer Markets: Evidence from West Africa pp. 262-292

Jenny C. Aker and Marcel Fafchamps

Can Free Provision Reduce Demand for Public Services? Evidence from Kenyan Education pp. 293-326

Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu and Justin Sandefur

North-South Standards Harmonization and International Trade pp. 327-352

Anne-Célia Disdier, Lionel Fontagné and Olivier Cadot

Do Infrastructure Reforms Reduce the Effect of Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 353-384

Liam Wren-Lewis

The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets. Evidence from Uganda pp. 385-412

Eric Strobl and Marie-Anne Valfort

Volume 29, issue 1, 2015

Powering Up Developing Countries through Integration? pp. 1-40

Emmanuelle Auriol and Sara Biancini

Development at the Border: Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors pp. 41-71

Denis Cogneau, Sandrine Mesplé-Somps and Gilles Spielvogel

Optimal Food Price Stabilization in a Small Open Developing Country pp. 72-101

Christophe Gouel and Sebastien Jean

Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy Responses to the 2008 Crisis pp. 102-128

Kishore Gawande, Bernard Hoekman and Yue Cui

Fiscal Responses after Catastrophes and the Enabling Role of Financial Development pp. 129-149

Martin Melecký and Claudio Raddatz

Chinese Firms' Entry to Export Markets: The Role of Foreign Export Spillovers pp. 150-179

Florian Mayneris and Sandra Poncet

(Ineffective) Messages to Encourage Recycling: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Peru pp. 180-206

Alberto Chong, Dean Karlan, Jeremy Shapiro and Jonathan Zinman

Volume 28, issue 3, 2014

Can We Trust Shoestring Evaluations? pp. 413-431

Martin Ravallion

Evaluation of Development Programs: Randomized Controlled Trials or Regressions? pp. 432-445

Chris Elbers and Jan Willem Gunning

Effects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment pp. 446-466

Adriana Camacho, Emily Conover and Alejandro Hoyos Suarez

Can Conditional Cash Transfers Compensate for a Father's Absence? pp. 467-491

Emla Fitzsimons and Alice Mesnard

Collective Action and Community Development: Evidence from Self-Help Groups in Rural India pp. 492-524

Raj Desai and Shareen Joshi

Excluding the Rural Population: The Impact of Public Expenditure on Child Malnutrition in Peru pp. 525-544

Gissele Gajate-Garrido

Is Small Better? A Comparison of the Effect of Large and Small Dams on Cropland Productivity in South Africa pp. 545-576

Elodie Blanc and Eric Strobl

Volume 28, issue 2, 2014

Economic Development as Opportunity Equalization pp. 189-209

John Roemer

The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity pp. 210-246

Francisco Ferreira and Jérémie Gignoux

Economic Growth and Equality of Opportunity pp. 247-281

Vito Peragine, Flaviana Palmisano and Paolo Brunori

Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation: Mexico's Oportunidades Program pp. 282-310

Dirk Van de gaer, Joost Vandenbossche and José Luis Figueroa

Armed Conflict, Gender, and Schooling pp. 311-319

Mayra Buvinić, Monica Das Gupta and Olga Shemyakina

Short- and Long-Term Impact of Violence on Education: The Case of Timor Leste pp. 320-353

Patricia Justino, Marinella Leone and Paola Salardi

Education and Civil Conflict in Nepal pp. 354-383

Christine Valente

Schooling, Violent Conflict, and Gender in Burundi pp. 384-411

Philip Verwimp and Jan Van Bavel

Volume 28, issue 1, 2014

How Can Safety Nets Contribute to Economic Growth? pp. 1-20

Harold Alderman and Ruslan Yemtsov

Political Reforms and Public Policy: Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies pp. 21-47

Alessandro Olper, Jan Falkowski and Johan Swinnen

Food Security and Storage in the Middle East and North Africa pp. 48-73

Donald Larson, Julian Lampietti, Christophe Gouel, Carlo Cafiero and John Roberts

Preferential Market Access Design: Evidence and Lessons from African Apparel Exports to the United States and the European Union pp. 74-98

Jaime de Melo and Alberto Portugal-Perez

Network Proximity and Business Practices in African Manufacturing pp. 99-129

Marcel Fafchamps and Mans Soderbom

The Impact of Financial Literacy Training for Migrants pp. 130-161

John Gibson, David McKenzie and Bilal Zia

Policy Barriers to International Trade in Services: Evidence from a New Database pp. 162-188

Ingo Borchert, Batshur Gootiiz and Aaditya Mattoo