Economic Development and Cultural Change

1969 - 2022

From University of Chicago Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Journals Division ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Track citations for all items by RSS feed
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 71, issue 1, 2022

Learning from Unincentivized and Incentivized Communication: A Randomized Controlled Trial in India pp. 1 - 38

Yonas Alem and Eugenie Dugoua

Preschool Availability and Women’s Employment: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 39 - 61

Daniel Halim, Hillary C. Johnson and Elizaveta Perova

Computers and Discretion: Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Experiments pp. 63 - 109

Alberto Chong, Daniel Velásquez and Monica Yanez-Pagans

Shortening Supply Chains: Experimental Evidence from Fruit and Vegetable Vendors in Bogota pp. 111 - 149

Leonardo Iacovone and David McKenzie

Business Training and Mentoring: Experimental Evidence from Women-Owned Microenterprises in Ethiopia pp. 151 - 183

Mohammed Mehrab Bakhtiar, Gautam Bastian and Markus Goldstein

Home-Based Enterprises: Experimental Evidence on Female Preferences from Pakistan pp. 185 - 221

Farah Said, Mahreen Mahmud, Giovanna d’Adda and Azam Chaudhry

Internal Migration and Crime in Brazil pp. 223 - 259

Eva-Maria Egger

Medium-Term Impact of the Elimination of School Fees on Girls’ Education in Benin, West Africa pp. 261 - 294

Mafaizath Fatoke Dato

Access to Credit and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China pp. 295 - 331

Ni Qin and Dongmin Kong

The Effect of Pension Income on Land Transfers: Evidence from Rural China pp. 333 - 371

Jiong Zhu, Songqing Jin, Zhong Tang and Titus Awokuse

Volume 70, issue 4, 2022

Media-Reported Violence and Female Labor Supply pp. 1337 - 1365

Zahra Siddique

Paying for Digital Information: Assessing Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for a Digital Agriculture and Nutrition Service in Ghana pp. 1367 - 1402

Melissa Hidrobo, Giordano Palloni, Daniel O. Gilligan, Jenny C. Aker and Natasha Ledlie

Does an Increasing Minimum Wage Reduce Formal Sector Employment? Evidence from Brazil pp. 1403 - 1437

Fernando Saltiel and Sergio Urzúa

Dependence or Constraints? Cash Transfers and Labor Supply pp. 1439 - 1477

Diego A. Vera-Cossio

Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from the Gambia pp. 1479 - 1529

Moussa P. Blimpo, Pedro Carneiro, Pamela Jervis and Todd Pugatch

Can Facebook Ads and Email Messages Increase Fiscal Capacity? Experimental Evidence from Venezuela pp. 1531 - 1563

Jorge Gallego and Federico Ortega

Measuring Violence against Women with Experimental Methods pp. 1565 - 1590

Jorge Agüero and Veronica Frisancho

Spillovers of Community-Based Health Interventions on Consumption Smoothing pp. 1591 - 1629

Bansi Malde and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

Teacher Performance Pay and Student Learning: Evidence from a Nationwide Program in Peru pp. 1631 - 1669

Cristina Bellés-Obrero and María Lombardi

Volume 70, issue 3, 2022

A Structural Model of Informality with Constrained Entrepreneurship pp. 941 - 980

Pierre Nguimkeu

The Scarring Effects of College Education Deprivation during China’s Cultural Revolution pp. 981 - 1016

Hongbin Li and Lingsheng Meng

Fertility Responses to Schooling Costs: Evidence from Uganda’s Universal Primary Education Policy pp. 1017 - 1039

Alfredo Burlando and Edward Bbaale

Here Comes the Rain Again: Productivity Shocks, Educational Investments, and Child Work pp. 1041 - 1063

Christophe Nordman, Smriti Sharma and Naveen Sunder

Overconfidence and Risk Taking in the Field: Evidence from Ethiopian Farmers pp. 1065 - 1102

Toman Barsbai, Ulrich Schmidt and Ulrike Zirpel

The Puzzle of Falling Happiness despite Rising Income in Rural China: Eleven Hypotheses pp. 1103 - 1131

John Knight, Bianjing Ma and Ramani Gunatilaka

Cross-Age Tutoring: Experimental Evidence from Kenya pp. 1133 - 1157

Mauricio Romero, Lisa Chen and Noriko Magari

After the Flood: Migration and Remittances as Coping Strategies of Rural Bangladeshi Households pp. 1159 - 1195

Gianna Claudia Giannelli and Eugenia Canessa

The Effect of Personalized Feedback on Small Enterprises’ Finances in Uganda pp. 1197 - 1227

Antonia Grohmann, Lukas Menkhoff and Helke Seitz

Moving toward a Better Future? Migration and Children’s Health and Education pp. 1229 - 1293

Lara Cockx

Inequality in the Quality of Health Services: Wealth, Content of Care, and the Price of Antenatal Consultations in the Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 1295 - 1336

Günther Fink, Eeshani Kandpal and Gil Shapira

Volume 70, issue 2, 2022

Government Antipoverty Programming and Intimate Partner Violence in Ghana pp. 529 - 566

Amber Peterman, Elsa Valli and Tia Palermo

Helping Us or Helping Them? What Makes Foreign Aid Popular with Donor Publics? pp. 567 - 586

Terence Wood and Christopher Hoy

Tax Compliance in Rwanda: Evidence from a Message Field Experiment pp. 587 - 623

Giulia Mascagni and Christopher Nell

Household Responses to Cash Transfers pp. 625 - 652

Bram De Rock, Tom Potoms and Denni Tommasi

Spillover Effects of Girls’ Empowerment on Brothers’ Competitiveness: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Uganda pp. 653 - 670

Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Kenneth Leonard, Joao Montalvao and Kathryn Vasilaky

The Winter’s Tale: Season of Birth Impacts on Children in China pp. 671 - 728

Pushkar Maitra, Nidhiya Menon and Chau Tran

The Effects of Storage Technology and Training on Postharvest Losses, Practices, and Sales: Evidence from Small-Scale Farms in Tanzania pp. 729 - 761

Martin Julius Chegere, Håkan Eggert and Måns Söderbom

Targeting Using Differential Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 763 - 790

Yubraj Acharya and Jiyoon Kim

Information, Knowledge, and Behavior: Evaluating Alternative Methods of Delivering School Information to Parents pp. 791 - 822

Pedro Cerdan-Infantes, Deon Filmer and Santoso

Guilt and Prosocial Behavior: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 823 - 833

Masahiro Shoji

Insecure Land Tenure, Social Protection, and Resource Misallocation: Evidence from China’s Agricultural Sector pp. 835 - 863

Meilin Ma

(Un)Conditional Love in the Time of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Effect of the Peruvian JUNTOS Program on Spousal Abuse pp. 865 - 899

Juan Jose Diaz and Victor Saldarriaga

Pushing Welfare: Encouraging Awareness and Uptake of Social Benefits in South India pp. 901 - 939

Erlend Berg, D. Rajasekhar and R. Manjula

Volume 70, issue 1, 2021

Working Hard or Hardly Working: Health Worker Effort and Health Outcomes pp. 1 - 39

Edward N. Okeke

Money or Management? A Field Experiment on Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Rural Pakistan pp. 41 - 86

Xavier Gine and Ghazala Mansuri

Durable Ownership, Time Allocation, and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China’s “Home Appliances to the Countryside” Rebate pp. 87 - 127

Ishani Tewari and Yabin Wang

Stay in the Game: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Sports and Life Skills Program for Vulnerable Youth in Liberia pp. 129 - 158

Lori Beaman, Sylvan Herskowitz, Niall Keleher and Jeremy Magruder

Estimating the Impact of Sterilization under a Government Campaign Using Contaminated Treatment Data pp. 159 - 202

Tanya Byker and Italo A. Gutierrez

The Impact of No-Fault Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Mexico pp. 203 - 236

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco and Jacob Penglase

Rule-of-Thumb Instructions to Improve Fertilizer Management: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 237 - 281

Mahnaz Islam and Sabrin Beg

Motherhood and Gender Wage Differentials within a Chinese Firm pp. 283 - 320

Yi Chen, Hong Zhang and Li-An Zhou

Intellectual Property Use and Firm Performance: The Case of Chile pp. 321 - 357

Carsten Fink, Bronwyn Hall and Christian Helmers

Minimum Wage and Women’s Decision-Making Power within Households: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 359 - 414

Jin Ho Kim and Benjamin D. Williams

Justice Delayed Is Growth Denied: The Effect of Slow Courts on Relationship-Specific Industries in India pp. 415 - 451

Amrit Amirapu

The Long-Run and Gender-Equalizing Impacts of School Access: Evidence from the First Indochina War pp. 453 - 484

Hai-Anh Dang, Trung X. Hoang and Ha Nguyen

Estimating the Effects of Educational System Consolidation: The Case of China’s Rural School Closure Initiative pp. 485 - 528

Emily Hannum, Xiaoying Liu and Fan Wang