Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Volume 71, issue 4, 2023

What Is the Price of Freedom? Estimating Women’s Willingness to Pay for Job Schedule Flexibility pp. 1179 - 1211

Monserrat Bustelo, Ana Diaz Escobar, Jeanne Lafortune, Claudia Piras, Luz Magdalena Salas and José Tessada

A Resource-Rich Neighbor Is a Misfortune: The Spatial Distribution of the Resource Curse in Brazil pp. 1213 - 1247

Phoebe W. Ishak and Pierre-Guillaume Méon

Worker Turnover and Job Reallocation: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data pp. 1249 - 1277

Admasu Shiferaw and Måns Söderbom

Foreword by the Guest Editors pp. 1279 - 1281

David McKenzie, Çağlar Özden and Hillel Rapoport

Syrian Refugees and the Migration Dynamics of Jordanians: Moving In or Moving Out? pp. 1283 - 1330

Nelly Elmallakh and Jackline Wahba

The Unintended Consequences of Deportations: Evidence from Firm Behavior in El Salvador pp. 1331 - 1358

Antonella Bandiera, Lelys Dinarte Diaz, Sandra V. Rozo, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, María Micaela Sviatschi and Hernan Winkler

Left Behind but Not Immobile: Living Arrangements of Mexican Transnational Households pp. 1359 - 1395

Simone Bertoli, Elsa Gautrain and Elie Murard

Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia pp. 1397 - 1426

Patricia Cortés, Semiray Kasoolu and Carolina Pan

Volume 71, issue 3, 2023

Political Connections, Competition, and Innovation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Chinese Firms pp. 819 - 862

Lei Cheng and Zhimin Li

Up before Dawn: Experimental Evidence from a Cross-Border Trader Training at the DRC-Rwanda Border pp. 863 - 901

Kevin Croke, María Elena García Mora, Markus Goldstein, Edouard Mensah and Michael O’Sullivan

What Do Parents Want? Parental Spousal Preferences in China pp. 903 - 939

Eva Raiber, Weiwei Ren, Jeanne Bovet, Paul Seabright and Charlotte Wang

The Impact of Being Surveyed on the Adoption of Agricultural Technology pp. 941 - 962

Mark Treurniet

Bridging the Savings Gap: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi pp. 963 - 1002

Jeffrey A. Flory

Motherhood and Women’s Self-Employment: Theory and Evidence from Nigeria pp. 1003 - 1055

Jean-Louis Bago and Sylvain E. Dessy

Are Employment Protection Laws for Persons with Disabilities Effective in a Developing Country? pp. 1057 - 1092

Michael Palmer and Jenny Williams

When the Identity of the Perpetrator Matters: The Heterogeneous Legacies of the Civil Conflict on Social Capital in Peru pp. 1093 - 1148

Eduardo Malásquez and Edgar Salgado Chavez

Large Means-Tested Pensions with Informal Labor Markets: Evidence from South Africa pp. 1149 - 1178

Paul Dutronc-Postel and Alessandro Tondini

Volume 71, issue 2, 2023

COVID-19 and Food Security in Ethiopia: Do Social Protection Programs Protect? pp. 373 - 402

Kibrom A. Abay, Guush Berhane, John Hoddinott and Kibrom Tafere

Conflict and the Formation of Political Beliefs in Africa pp. 403 - 442

Achyuta Adhvaryu and James Fenske

The Role of Conflict in Sex Discrimination: The Case of Missing Girls pp. 443 - 484

Astghik Mavisakalyan and Anna Minasyan

Income Improves Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from South Africa pp. 485 - 517

Mo Alloush and Stephen Wu

Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar pp. 519 - 565

Teresa Molina and Mari Tanaka

Do Labor Market Interventions Incentivize Technology Adoption? Unexpected Impacts of the World’s Largest Rural Poverty Program pp. 567 - 620

Anil K. Bhargava

Good Intentions Gone Bad? The Dodd-Frank Act and Conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes Region pp. 621 - 666

Jeffrey Bloem

Incentivizing Quantity and Quality of Care: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation of Performance-Based Financing in the Health Sector in Tajikistan pp. 667 - 707

Tashrik Ahmed, Aneesa Arur, Damien de Walque and Gil Shapira

The Impact of an Adult Education Program for Mothers: Evidence from India pp. 709 - 751

Ashwini Deshpande, Christopher Ksoll, Annemie Maertens and Vinitha Varghese

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten? Evidence from the Philippines pp. 753 - 791

Jeffrey Bloem and Bruce Wydick

Growing Pains: Timing of In Utero Rainfall Shocks and Child Growth in Rural Rwanda pp. 793 - 818

Jarrad Farris, Maria Porter, Songqing Jin and Mywish K. Maredia

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

M. 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 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 Urzua

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 Maria 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