Economic Development and Cultural Change

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2018, volume 66, issue 4

Risky Income or Lumpy Investments? Evidence on Two Theories of Underspecialization pp. 629 - 671

Ajay Shenoy

Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited pp. 673 - 707

Esther Gehrke and Michael Grimm

Poverty, Aspirations, and the Economics of Hope pp. 709 - 753

Travis Lybbert and Bruce Wydick

As Good as the Networks They Keep? Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda pp. 755 - 792

Kathryn N. Vasilaky and Kenneth Leonard

Financial Education and Savings Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment among Low-Income Clients of Branchless Banking in India pp. 793 - 825

Margherita Calderone, Nathan Fiala, Florentina Mulaj, Santadarshan Sadhu and Leopold Sarr

Do Siblings Make Us Happy? pp. 827 - 840

Shun Wang and Weina Zhou

2018, volume 66, issue 3

Measuring Risk Preferences in Rural Ethiopia pp. 417 - 446

Ferdinand M. Vieider, Abebe Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Sahan Dissanayake, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Peter Martinsson and Alemu Mekonnen

Measuring Firm-Level Inefficiencies in the Ghanaian Manufacturing Sector pp. 447 - 487

Andrea Szabó

Women Are Walking and Waiting for Water: The Time Value of Public Water Supply pp. 489 - 517

Elena Gross, Isabel Günther and Youdi Schipper

Multidimensional Poverty Targeting pp. 519 - 554

Jean-Yves Duclos, Luca Tiberti and Abdelkrim Araar

Large Decrease in Child Stunting despite Limited Improvement in Children’s Food Intake: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh pp. 555 - 583

Monica Jain

Can Benefits from Malaria Eradication Be Increased? Evidence from Costa Rica pp. 585 - 628

Claudio Mora-García

2018, volume 66, issue 2

Son Preference and Gender-Biased Breastfeeding in Pakistan pp. 179 - 215

Naima Hafeez and Climent Quintana-Domeque

You’ll Be a Migrant, My Son: Accounting for Migrant Selection within the Household pp. 217 - 263

Isabelle Chort and Jean-Noël Senne

Targeting Technology to Increase Smallholder Profits and Conserve Resources: Experimental Provision of Laser Land-Leveling Services to Indian Farmers pp. 265 - 306

Travis Lybbert, Nicholas Magnan, David Spielman, Anil K. Bhargava and Kajal Gulati

Holy Cows or Cash Cows? The Economic Return to Livestock in Rural India pp. 307 - 330

Orazio Attanasio and Britta Augsburg

Election Outcomes and the Poor: Evidence from the Consumption of Scheduled Castes and Tribes in India pp. 331 - 382

Sharad Tandon

Education, Marriage, and Fertility: Long-Term Evidence from a Female Stipend Program in Bangladesh pp. 383 - 415

Youjin Hahn, Asadul Islam, Kanti Nuzhat, Russell Smyth and Hee-Seung Yang

2017, volume 66, issue 1

Women Political Leaders, Corruption, and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Program in India pp. 1 - 30

Farzana Afridi, Vegard Iversen and M. R. Sharan

Migrant Networks and Job Search: Evidence from Thailand pp. 113 - 146

Eik Swee

Impact of Internal Migration on Labor Market Outcomes of Native Males in Thailand pp. 147 - 177

Eliane El Badaoui, Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

From Darkness to Light: The Effect of Electrification in Ghana, 2000–2010 pp. 31 - 54

George Akpandjar and Carl Kitchens

Food Price Subsidies and Nutrition: Evidence from State Reforms to India’s Public Distribution System pp. 55 - 90

Prasad Krishnamurthy, Vikram Pathania and Sharad Tandon

Keeping Up with the Neighbors? Reference Groups in Ghana pp. 91 - 112

Erin C. Lentz

2017, volume 65, issue 4

Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism? pp. 583 - 618

Santosh Anagol, Alvin Etang and Dean Karlan

Reducing Adolescent Risky Behaviors in a High-Risk Context: The Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa pp. 619 - 652

Carolyn Heinrich, John Hoddinott and Michael Samson

Introduction to Symposium on Using the Young Lives Data to Study Child Poverty in Developing Countries pp. 653 - 656

Sofya Krutikova and Paul Glewwe

Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality: Parental Resources and Schooling Attainment and Children’s Human Capital in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam pp. 657 - 697

Jere Behrman, Whitney Schott, Subha Mani, Benjamin T. Crookston, Kirk Dearden, Le Thuc Duc, Lia C. H. Fernald and Aryeh D. Stein

Do Schools Reinforce or Reduce Learning Gaps between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students? Evidence from Vietnam and Peru pp. 699 - 739

Paul Glewwe, Sofya Krutikova and Caine Rolleston

Women’s Political Reservation, Early Childhood Development, and Learning in India pp. 741 - 766

Yuvraj Pathak and Karen Macours

Can the Major Public Works Policy Buffer Negative Shocks in Early Childhood? Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India pp. 767 - 804

Aparajita Dasgupta

2017, volume 65, issue 3

Immigration and the Labor Market Outcomes of Natives in Developing Countries: A Case Study of South Africa pp. 389 - 424

Nzinga Broussard

Export Taxes and Consumption: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire’s De Facto Partition pp. 425 - 456

Souleymane Soumahoro

Sibling Rivalry: Endowment and Intrahousehold Allocation in Gansu Province, China pp. 457 - 493

Jessica Leight

Does Raising Family Income Cause Better Child Health? Evidence from China pp. 495 - 520

Yi Chen, Xiaoyan Lei and Li-An Zhou

Access to Preprimary Education and Progression in Primary School: Evidence from Rural Guatemala pp. 521 - 547

Paulo Bastos, Nicolas L. Bottan and Julian Cristia

The Missing Transfers: Estimating Misreporting in Dyadic Data pp. 549 - 582

Margherita Comola and Marcel Fafchamps

2017, volume 65, issue 2

Monsoon Babies: Rainfall Shocks and Child Nutrition in Nepal pp. 167 - 188

Sailesh Tiwari, Hanan Jacoby and Emmanuel Skoufias

Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods pp. 189 - 221

David K. Evans and Anna Popova

CEO Incentives in Chinese State-Controlled Firms pp. 223 - 264

Xunan Feng and Anders Johansson

Child Labor and Learning pp. 265 - 296

Patrick M. Emerson, Vladimir Ponczek and André Souza

Centralized Deployment and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from Reforms in Rural China pp. 297 - 337

Li Han, Mingxing Liu and Xuehui An

Caste, Female Labor Supply, and the Gender Wage Gap in India: Boserup Revisited pp. 339 - 378

Kanika Mahajan and Bharat Ramaswami

2016, volume 65, issue 1

Payment Mechanisms and Antipoverty Programs: Evidence from a Mobile Money Cash Transfer Experiment in Niger pp. 1 - 37

Jenny C. Aker, Rachid Boumnijel, Amanda McClelland and Niall Tierney

Surface Water Quality and Infant Mortality in China pp. 119 - 139

Guojun He and Jeffrey Perloff

The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Chile pp. 141 - 166

Prashant Bharadwaj, Giacomo De Giorgi, David Hansen and Christopher Neilson

Social Transfers and Growth: Evidence from Luminosity Data pp. 39 - 61

Juan Villa

Risk Sharing and Internal Migration pp. 63 - 86

Joachim De Weerdt and Kalle Hirvonen

Risk Coping by Firms during the Crisis pp. 87 - 118

Stephane Guimbert and Remco Oostendorp

2016, volume 64, issue 4

Ethnic Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Formal Education in Nigeria pp. 603 - 660

Pritha Dev, Blessing U. Mberu and Roland Pongou

Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency: Agricultural Production in Polygynous Households pp. 661 - 696

Richard Akresh, Joyce Chen and Charity Moore

Can Subjective Questions on Economic Welfare Be Trusted? pp. 697 - 726

Martin Ravallion, Kristen Himelein and Kathleen Beegle

The Challenge of Measuring Hunger through Survey pp. 727 - 758

Joachim De Weerdt, Kathleen Beegle, Jed Friedman and John Gibson

Do Education and Health Conditions Matter in a Large Cash Transfer? Evidence from a Honduran Experiment pp. 759 - 793

Fiorella Benedetti, Pablo Ibarraran and Patrick McEwan

Industry Clustering and Financial Constraints: A Reinterpretation Based on Fixed Asset Liquidation pp. 795 - 821

Rui Mao

2016, volume 64, issue 3

Conflict Exposure and Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from the Football Field in Sierra Leone pp. 405 - 435

Francesco Cecchi, Koen Leuveld and Maarten Voors

Does Price Affect the Demand for Information about New Health Technologies? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria pp. 437 - 469

Edward N. Okeke, Amalavoyal Chari and Clement A. Adepiti

Precolonial Political Centralization and Contemporary Development in Uganda pp. 471 - 508

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Elliott Green

Gender, Race, and Heterogeneous Effects of Epidemic Malaria on Human Capital and Income pp. 509 - 543

Samantha Rawlings

Trust under the Prospect Theory and Quasi-Hyperbolic Preferences: A Field Experiment in Vietnam pp. 545 - 572

Quang Nguyen, Marie Claire Villeval and Hui Xu

Does Trade Credit Boost Firm Performance? pp. 573 - 602

Dongya Li, Yi Lu, Travis Ng and Jun Yang

2016, volume 64, issue 2

Facilitating Savings for Agriculture: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi pp. 187 - 220

Lasse Brune, Xavier Gine, Jessica Goldberg and Dean Yang

The Link between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India pp. 221 - 264

Rajeev Dehejia and Arvind Panagariya

Feeding Africa's Cities: The Case of the Supply Chain of Teff to Addis Ababa pp. 265 - 297

Bart Minten, Seneshaw Tamru, Ermias Engida and Tadesse Kuma

Who Is the Identifiable Victim? Caste and Charitable Giving in Modern India pp. 299 - 321

Ashwini Deshpande and Dean Spears

Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines pp. 323 - 368

Emily Beam, David McKenzie and Dean Yang

The Role of Education and Family Background in Marriage, Childbearing, and Labor Market Participation in Senegal pp. 369 - 403

Francesca Marchetta and David Sahn