Journal of Development Studies

1995 - 2025

Current editor(s): Howard White, Oliver Morrissey and Ken Shadlen

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Volume 56, issue 12, 2020

Transparent for Whom? Dissemination of Information on Ghana’s Petroleum and Mining Revenue Management pp. 2135-2153

Päivi Lujala, Christa Brunnschweiler and Ishmael Edjekumhene

State Engagement with Farmer-led Irrigation Development: Symbolic Irrigation Modernisation and Disturbed Development Trajectories in Tanzania pp. 2154-2168

Chris de Bont and Gert Jan Veldwisch

The Mitigating Impact of Land Tenure Security on Drought-Induced Food Insecurity: Evidence from Rural Malawi pp. 2169-2193

Joseph B. Ajefu and Olukorede Abiona

The Role of Social Capital in Risk-Taking Decisions under Joint Liability Lending pp. 2194-2211

Richard A. Gallenstein, Jon Einar Flatnes and Abdoul G. Sam

Evaluating Program Impact on Resilience: Evidence from Lesotho’s Child Grants Programme pp. 2212-2234

Marco d’Errico, Alessandra Garbero, Marco Letta and Paul Winters

Child Labour, Gender and Vulnerable Employment in Adulthood. Evidence for Tanzania pp. 2235-2250

Sara Burrone and Gianna Claudia Giannelli

Mental Health Impacts of Child Labour: Evidence from Vietnam and India pp. 2251-2265

Trong-Anh Trinh

Remittance Inflows and Export Complexity: New Evidence from Developing and Emerging Countries pp. 2266-2292

Mohamed Saadi

Disability and Job Constraint in Post Civil War Cambodia pp. 2293-2307

Xuehui Han, John Dagsvik and Yuan Cheng

Linguistic Fragmentation at the Micro-Level: Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s) in a Multilinguistic Society pp. 2308-2326

Alisher Aldashev and Alexander Danzer

Opening the Black Box: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Social and Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Changes in Financial Behaviour pp. 2327-2348

Janina I. Steinert, Lucie D. Cluver, Franziska Meinck, Divane Nzima and Jenny Doubt

The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development pp. 2349-2350

David Booth

Volume 56, issue 11, 2020

Negotiating Informality– Ambiguity, Intermediation, and a Patchwork of Outcomes in Slums of Bengaluru pp. 1983-1999

Anirudh Krishna, Emily Rains and Erik Wibbels

Regional Migration, Insurance and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Nicaragua pp. 2000-2029

Teresa Molina Millán

More than Just Fishing: The Formation of Livelihood Strategies in an Urban Fishing Community in Mangaluru, India pp. 2030-2044

Alin Kadfak

Sustainability of the Economic Benefit of Bt Cotton in China: Results from Household Surveys pp. 2045-2060

Fangbin Qiao and Jikun Huang

Effects of Household Shocks on Risk Preferences and Loss Aversion: Evidence from Upland Smallholders of South East Asia pp. 2061-2078

Frederik Sagemüller and Oliver Musshoff

Can Insurance Payouts Prevent a Poverty Trap? Evidence from Randomised Experiments in Northern Kenya pp. 2079-2096

Yuma Noritomo and Kazushi Takahashi

Evidence of the Impact of Children’s Household Chores and Market Labour on Learning from School Census Data in Brazil pp. 2097-2112

Ana Lucia Kassouf, Luca Tiberti and Marcos Garcias

Proxy Means Testing Vulnerability to Measurement Errors? pp. 2113-2133

Jules Gazeaud

Volume 56, issue 10, 2020

The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India: A Review pp. 1795-1817

Geeta Kingdon

Social Protection, Household Size, and Its Determinants: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 1818-1837

John Hoddinott and Tseday J. Mekasha

Rural Roads, Poverty, and Resilience: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 1838-1855

Shohei Nakamura, Tom Bundervoet and Mohammed Nuru

Conflict-Risk and Agricultural Portfolios: Evidence from Northern Uganda pp. 1856-1876

Marc Rockmore

A ‘Private-sector Success Story’? Uncovering the Role of Politics and the State in Kenya’s Horticultural Export Sector pp. 1877-1893

Matthew Tyce

Smallholder Farmer Risk Preferences in Northern Ghana:Evidence from a Controlled Field Experiment pp. 1894-1908

Francis H. Kemeze, Mario J. Miranda, John Kuwornu and Henry Anim-Somuah

Productivity Shocks and Repayment Behavior in Rural Credit Markets: A Framed Field Experiment pp. 1909-1926

Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Lenis Saweda Liverpool-Tasie and Robert Shupp

Labour Market Participation of Women in Rural Bangladesh: The Role of Microfinance pp. 1927-1946

Asad Islam and Debayan Pakrashi

Does Microcredit Improve Rural Households’ Social Network? Evidence from Vietnam pp. 1947-1963

Chung Thanh Phan, Sizhong Sun, Zhang-Yue Zhou and Rabiul Beg

A Distributional Analysis of Artisanal and Industrial Wage Levels and Expenditure in the Congolese Mining Sector pp. 1964-1979

Ben Radley

Inclusive Dualism: Labour Intensive Development, Decent Work and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa pp. 1980-1981

Haroon Bhorat

Volume 56, issue 9, 2020

Methodologies and Perspectives in Research on Labour Relations in Global Agricultural Production Networks: A Review pp. 1615-1637

Evans Appiah Kissi and Christian Herzig

Double Dividends and Mixed Blessings: Structural Transformation, Income Inequality and Employment Dynamics pp. 1638-1642

Kunal Sen, Andy Sumner and Arief Yusuf

Was Kuznets Right? New Evidence on the Relationship between Structural Transformation and Inequality pp. 1643-1662

Cinar Baymul and Kunal Sen

Population Dynamics, Urbanisation without Growth, and the Rise of Megacities pp. 1663-1682

David Castells-Quintana and Hugh Wenban-Smith

Do Global Value Chains Enhance Economic Upgrading? A Long View pp. 1683-1705

Stefan Pahl and Marcel Timmer

Educational Homogamy, Positive Assortative Mating and Income Inequality in South Africa: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis pp. 1706-1724

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

The Impact of Microcredit Loans on School Enrolment in Bangladesh pp. 1725-1744

John Kandulu, Sarah Wheeler, Alec Zuo and Nicholas Sim

Gold Mining and Education: A Long-run Resource Curse in Africa? pp. 1745-1762

Pelle Ahlerup, Thushyanthan Baskaran and Arne Bigsten

The Importance of Reliability and Construct Validity in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: An Illustration Using the Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America (MPI-LA) pp. 1763-1783

Héctor E. Nájera Catalán and David Gordon

The Importance of Reliability in the Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America (MPI-LA) pp. 1784-1789

Maria Emma Santos and Pablo Villatoro

Reply to Santos and Colleagues ‘The Importance of Reliability in the Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America (MPI-LA)’ pp. 1790-1794

David Gordon and Héctor E. Nájera Catalán

Volume 56, issue 8, 2020

How Do Legal Strategies Advance Social Accountability? Evaluating Mechanisms in Colombia pp. 1437-1454

Veronica Herrera and Lindsay Mayka

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Competitive Business Environment pp. 1455-1472

Carol Newman, John Rand, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifkovic

Educational Opportunities in Indonesia: Are Factors Outside Individual Responsibility Persistent Over Time? pp. 1473-1488

Rajius Idzalika and Maria Lo Bue

Land Rights and Technology Adoption: Improved Rice Varieties in Vietnam pp. 1489-1507

Linh Nguyen

Does an Economics Education Produce Technocratic Paternalists? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania pp. 1508-1522

Ivar Kolstad, Arne Wiig and Odd Fjeldstad

Impact of Second-Parent Migration on Student Academic Performance in Northwest China and its Implications pp. 1523-1540

Yu Bai, Michael Neubauer, Tong Ru, Yaojiang Shi, Kaleigh Kenny and Scott Rozelle

Honor among Chiefs: An Experiment on Monitoring and Diversion Among Traditional Leaders in Malawi pp. 1541-1557

Elizabeth Carlson and Brigitte Seim

Can Wage Subsidies Boost Employment in the Wake of an Economic Crisis? Evidence from Mexico pp. 1558-1577

Miriam Bruhn

Development Aid, Drought, and Coping Capacity pp. 1578-1593

Siri Aas Rustad, Elisabeth Lio Rosvold and Halvard Buhaug

Identifying Human Recognition Deprived Women: Evidence from Malawi and Peru pp. 1594-1614

Ebelechukwu Maduekwe, Walter Timo de Vries and Gertrud Buchenrieder, neé Schrieder

Volume 56, issue 7, 2020

Latecomer Economies and National Digital Policy: An Industrial Policy Perspective pp. 1247-1262

Christopher Foster and Shamel Azmeh

Letting Luck Decide: Government Procurement and the Growth of Small Firms pp. 1263-1276

Milenko Fadic

Integrated Graduation Program and its Effect on Women and Household Economic Well-being: Findings from a Randomised Controlled Trial in Burkina Faso pp. 1277-1294

Leyla Karimli, Bijetri Bose and Njeri Kagotho

Participation and Compliance in Tension: Developing Women-led Yarn Spinning Businesses in Tajikistan pp. 1295-1308

Liba Brent

The Gendered Nature of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Stove Adoption and Use in Rural India pp. 1309-1329

Carlos F. Gould and Johannes Urpelainen

Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana pp. 1330-1348

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Derick Bowen and Klaus Deininger

Catching Up with the ‘Core’: The Nature of the Agricultural Machinery Sector and Challenges for Chinese Manufacturers pp. 1349-1366

M.T. Safdar and Terry van Gevelt

Lighten the Burden: Assessing the Impact of a for-Poor-Students Cash Transfer Program on Spending Behaviour pp. 1367-1383

Arif Anindita and Gumilang Sahadewo

The Effect of Compulsory Preschool Education on Maternal Labour Supply pp. 1384-1407

Hanbyul Ryu

You Can(’t) Always Get the Job You Want: Employment Preferences in the Peruvian Horticultural Export Chain pp. 1408-1429

Monica Schuster, Liesbet Vranken and Miet Maertens

State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil pp. 1430-1431

Elize Massard da Fonseca

List of Referees 2019 pp. 1432-1436

The Editors

Volume 56, issue 6, 2020

Does Aid Promote Electoral Integrity? pp. 1067-1094

Luca J. Uberti and David Jackson

Gender and Forced Labour: Understanding the Links in Global Cocoa Supply Chains pp. 1095-1117

Genevieve LeBaron and Ellie Gore

Social Investment and Smallholder Coca Cultivation in Colombia pp. 1118-1140

Eleonora Davalos and Liliana M. Dávalos

How Effective is Multiple Certification in Improving the Economic Conditions of Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Colombia’s Coffee Belt pp. 1141-1160

Thomas Dietz, Andrea Estrella Chong, Janina Grabs and Bernard Kilian

Repaying Microcredit Loans: A Natural Experiment on Liability Structure pp. 1161-1176

Mahreen Mahmud

The Urban Food Question in the Context of Inequality and Dietary Change: A Study of Schoolchildren in Accra pp. 1177-1189

Sara Stevano, Deborah Johnston and Emmanuel Codjoe

Does Non-farm Income Affect Food Security? Evidence from India pp. 1190-1209

Andaleeb Rahman and Sumit Mishra

What does it Mean to Make a ‘Joint’ Decision? Unpacking Intra-household Decision Making in Agriculture: Implications for Policy and Practice pp. 1210-1229

Mariola Acosta, Margit van Wessel, Severine van Bommel, Edidah L. Ampaire, Jennifer Twyman, Laurence Jassogne and Peter H. Feindt

‘That Child Support Grant Gives Me Powers’ – Exploring Social and Relational Aspects of Cash Transfers in South Africa in Times of Livelihood Change pp. 1230-1244

Stefan Granlund and Tessa Hochfeld

The Creation of the Human Development Approach pp. 1245-1246

Juan Telleria

Volume 56, issue 5, 2020

Emotional Numbing and Lessons Learned after a Violent Conflict – Experimental Evidence from Ambon, Indonesia pp. 859-873

Katharina Werner and Johann Graf Lambsdorff

The Long-Term Impacts of Violent Conflicts on Human Capital: US Bombing and, Education, Earnings, Health, Fertility and Marriage in Cambodia pp. 874-889

Chan Hang Saing and Harounan Kazianga

An Empirical Examination of Sustainability of Women’s Empowerment Using Panel Data from India pp. 890-906

Sonia Akter and Namrata Chindarkar

Flies without Borders: Lessons from Chennai on Improving India’s Municipal Public Health Services pp. 907-928

Monica Das Gupta, Rajib Dasgupta, P. Kugananthan, Vijayendra Rao, T. V. Somanathan and K. N. Tewari

Impact of the NREGS on Children’s Intellectual Human Capital pp. 929-945

Subha Mani, Jere Behrman, Sheikh Galab and Prudhvikar Reddy

Emigration and Rising Wages in Myanmar: Evidence from Mon State pp. 946-963

Mateusz Filipski, Hak Lim Lee, Aung Hein and Ulrike Nischan

Health and Well-being of Young People in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Life Course Impacts pp. 964-983

Fiona Carmichael, Christian K. Darko and Nicholas Vasilakos

The Philippines’ Roll-on/Roll-off Policy and its Impact on Household Income pp. 984-998

Kris Francisco and Makoto Tanaka

Against the Odds: Why Some Children Fare Well in the Face of Adversity pp. 999-1016

Gina Crivello and Virginia Morrow

Can Community Resettlement be Considered a Resilient Move? Insights from a Slow-Onset Disaster in the Colombian Andes pp. 1017-1029

Reidar Staupe-Delgado

Intra-Household Labour Allocation, Migration, and Remittances in Rural El Salvador pp. 1030-1047

Pablo Acosta

Intertemporal Choice and Income Regularity: Non-Fungibility in the Timing of Income among Kenyan Farmers pp. 1048-1064

Berber Kramer and David Kunst

Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform, and Development pp. 1065-1066

Per F. Andersson

Volume 56, issue 4, 2020

The Political Economy of the Middle Income Trap: The Challenges of Advancing Innovation Capabilities in Latin America, Asia and Beyond pp. 651-656

Nahee Kang and Eva Paus

Innovation Strategies Matter: Latin America’s Middle-Income Trap Meets China and Globalisation pp. 657-679

Eva Paus

Technical Education in the Middle Income Trap: Building Coalitions for Skill Formation pp. 680-697

Richard Doner and Ben Ross Schneider

Global Value Chains, Contract Manufacturers, and the Middle-Income Trap: The Electronics Industry in Malaysia pp. 698-716

Gale Raj-Reichert

Science and Technology Policies and the Middle-Income Trap: Lessons from Vietnam pp. 717-731

Robyn Klingler-Vidra and Robert Wade

Protection of Capitalism as a Regime of Rationality: A Historical Institutionalist Rereading of Modern Turkey’s Industrial Relations pp. 732-747

Didem Özkiziltan

The United States, Bilateral Debt-for-Nature Swaps, and Forest Loss: A Cross-National Analysis pp. 748-764

Jamie M. Sommer, Michael Restivo and John M. Shandra

Organisational Efficiency or Bureaucratic Quagmire: Do Quality-At-Entry Assessments Improve Project Performance? pp. 765-781

Leonardo R. Corral and Nancy McCarthy

Relational Contracts and Smallholder Farmers’ Entry, Stay and Exit, in Kenyan Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Export Value Chain pp. 782-797

Fredrick Ajwang

Early Childhood Nutrition, Parental Growth Perceptions and Educational Aspirations in Rural Burkina Faso pp. 798-816

Wenbo Zou, Travis Lybbert, Stephen Vosti and Souheila Abbeddou

Spillovers and Path Dependences in the Chinese Manufacturing Industry: A Firm-Level Analysis pp. 817-839

Ming He and Barnabé Walheer

The Impact of Internal Migration on the Health of Rural Migrants: Evidence from Longitudinal Data in China pp. 840-855

Haiyang Lu, Ivan Kandilov and Rong Zhu

The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent pp. 856-857

Laurie A. Buonanno

Volume 56, issue 3, 2020

Linked-in by FDI: The Role of Firm-Level Relationships for Knowledge Transfers in Africa and Asia pp. 451-468

Carol Newman, John Page, John Rand, Abebe Abebe, Mans Soderbom and Finn Tarp

Knowledge Spillovers through Labour Mobility: An Employer–Employee Analysis pp. 469-488

Victoria Castillo, Lucas Figal Garone, Alessandro Maffioli, Sofia Rojo and Rodolfo Stucchi

Will Skill-Based Immigration Policies Lead to Lower Remittances? An Analysis of the Relations between Education, Sponsorship, and Remittances pp. 489-508

Sankar Mukhopadhyay and Miaomiao Zou

Testing Statebuilding’s ‘Missing Link’: Effects of Government Communications in Colombia pp. 509-526

Enzo Nussio, Miguel García-Sánchez, Ben Oppenheim and Sebastián Pantoja-Barrios

Do Conditionalities Increase Support for Government Transfers? pp. 527-544

Cesar Zucco, Juan Pablo Luna and O. Gokce Baykal

Social Pensions and Child Health in Rural China pp. 545-559

Xiaodong Zheng, Xiangming Fang and Derek S. Brown

Diversify More or Less? Household Income Generation Strategies and Food Security in Rural Nigeria pp. 560-577

Sènakpon F. A. Dedehouanou and John McPeak

Parental Nutrition Knowledge, Iron Deficiency, and Child Anaemia in Rural China pp. 578-595

Qiran Zhao and Xiaohua Yu

Multinationals and Modernisation of Domestic Value Chains in Africa: Case Studies from Ethiopia pp. 596-612

Delelegne A. Tefera, Jos Bijman and Maja A. Slingerland

Hedonic Adaptation to Treatment: Evidence from a Medical Intervention pp. 613-629

Marta Barazzetta, Simon Appleton and Trudy Owens

Conspicuous Daughters: Exogamy, Marriage Expenditures, and Son Preference in India pp. 630-647

Marie-Claire Robitaille

The Democracy Development Machine: Neoliberalism, Radical Pessimism and Authoritarian Populism in Mayan Guatemala pp. 648-649

Keisha Maloney

Volume 56, issue 2, 2020

Urban Informality as a Site of Critical Analysis pp. 223-238

Nicola Banks, Melanie Lombard and Diana Mitlin

Waste, Social Order, and Physical Disorder in Small-Town India pp. 239-258

Barbara Harriss-White

Informality as Experimentation: Water Utilities’ Strategies for Cost Recovery and their Consequences for Universal Access pp. 259-277

Diana Mitlin and Anna Walnycki

Political Informality: Deals, Trust Networks, and the Negotiation of Value in the Urban Realm pp. 278-294

Tom Goodfellow

Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia pp. 295-313

Raymond Robertson, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Yevgeniya Savchenko

Does Lengthening the School Day Increase School Value-Added? Evidence from a Mid-Income Country pp. 314-335

Francisco Cabrera-Hernandez

Quota-Based Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Impact on Other Backward Classes in India pp. 336-360

Rakesh Basant and Gitanjali Sen

Can Education Unlock Scale? The Demand Impact of Educational Games on a Large-Scale Unsubsidised Index Insurance Programme in Ethiopia pp. 361-383

Kathryn Vasilaky, Rahel Diro, Michael Norton, Geoff McCarney and Daniel Osgood

Improving Maternal Health Care in a Post Conflict Setting: Evidence from Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh pp. 384-400

Muhammad Badiuzzaman, Syed Mansoob Murshed and Matthias Rieger

Modelling Under-Five Mortality through Multilevel Structured Additive Regression with Varying Coefficients for Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 401-430

Kenneth Harttgen, Stefan Lang, Judith Santer and Johannes Seiler

Linking Social Protection Schemes: The Joint Effects of a Public Works and a Health Insurance Programme in Ethiopia pp. 431-448

Zemzem Shigute, Christoph Strupat, Francesco Burchi, Getnet Alemu and Arjun Bedi

Aid Power and Politics pp. 449-450

Maryna Rabinovych

Volume 56, issue 1, 2020

State Structure, Societal Organisation, and Technology Policy: A Comparison of Three Asian Countries pp. 1-25

Xiaoke Zhang

Do the Lessons From Micro-Conflict Literature Transfer to High Crime Areas?: Examining Mexico’s War on Drugs pp. 26-44

Muhammad Nasir, Marc Rockmore and Chih Ming Tan

Kinship, Caste, and Health: Illness and Treatment in Upland Orissa pp. 45-62

Clive Bell and Susanne van Dillen

How Does Female Education Reduce Adolescent Pregnancy and Improve Child Health?: Evidence from Uganda’s Universal Primary Education for Fully Treated Cohorts pp. 63-86

Kazuya Masuda and Chikako Yamauchi

Are Recent Improvements in Healthcare Utilisation and Under-Five Mortality Inclusive in Kenya? Evidence Based on Selected Indicators from the Demographic and Health Surveys pp. 87-111

Katalin Buzasi and Thu Hien Vu

Stigma and Labour Market Outcomes: Sex Work and Domestic Work in India pp. 112-128

Neha Hui and Uma Kambhampati

On the Joint Consumption and Labour Supply Effects of Migration on those Left Behind pp. 129-150

Elie Murard

Improving Financial Inclusion through the Delivery of Cash Transfer Programmes: The Case of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera Programme pp. 151-168

Serena Masino and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

Software Adoption, Employment Composition, and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms pp. 169-185

Rita Almeida, Ana Fernandes and Mariana Viollaz

Business ‘Power of Presence’: Foreign Capital, Industry Practices, and Politics of Sustainable Development in Zambian Agriculture pp. 186-204

S. Manda, A. Tallontire and A. J. Dougill

Election or Disaster Support? pp. 205-220

Jeroen Klomp

How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics pp. 221-222

Michael Lipton