Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Volume 69, issue 4, 2021

The Demand for Health Insurance in a Poor Economy: Evidence from Burkina Faso pp. 1273 - 1300

Michael Hillebrecht, Stefan Klonner, Rainer Sauerborn, Alie Sié and Aurélia Souares

Social Insurance in an Aging Population: Impacts of a Government Transfer Program in South Korea pp. 1301 - 1322

Kanghyock Koh and Hyunjoo Yang

Leveraging the Lottery for Financial Inclusion: Lotto-Linked Savings Accounts in Haiti pp. 1323 - 1349

Felipe Dizon and Travis Lybbert

Incomplete Information and Product Quality in Rural Markets: Evidence from an Experimental Auction for Maize in Senegal pp. 1351 - 1377

Stacy Prieto, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Jonathan Bauchet and Moussa Sall

Benefits and Unintended Consequences of Gender Segregation in Public Transportation: Evidence from Mexico City’s Subway System pp. 1379 - 1410

Arturo Aguilar Esteva, Emilio Gutierrez and Paula Soto Villagrán

Negative Investment in China: Financing Constraints and Restructuring versus Growth pp. 1411 - 1449

Sai Ding, Alessandra Guariglia, John Knight and Junhong Yang

Does Education Affect Time Preference? Evidence from Indonesia pp. 1451 - 1499

Dawoon Jung, Tushar Bharati and Seungwoo Chin

Labor Market Shocks and Youths’ Time Allocation in Egypt: Where Does Women’s Empowerment Come In? pp. 1501 - 1540

Marion Dovis, Patricia Augier and Clémentine Sadania

Volume 69, issue 3, 2021

Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: What Do the Data Show? pp. 903 - 950

Sambit Bhattacharyya and Nemera Mamo

Nutrition, Religion, and Widowhood in Nigeria pp. 951 - 1001

Annamaria Milazzo and Dominique van de Walle

Employee Referral, Social Proximity, and Worker Discipline: Theory and Suggestive Evidence from India pp. 1003 - 1030

Amrita Dhillon, Vegard Iversen and Gaute Torsvik

Do Banks and Microfinance Institutions Compete? Microevidence from Madagascar pp. 1031 - 1070

Pierrick Baraton and Florian Leon

Entrepreneurship during an Economic Crisis: Evidence from Rural Thailand pp. 1071 - 1113

Tenzin Yindok

Financial Incentives, Efforts, and Performances in the Health Sector: Experimental Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 1115 - 1164

Elise Huillery and Juliette Seban

Old-Age Pensions in a Lower Middle-Income Country: Economic or Psychological Effects? pp. 1165 - 1202

Cuong Nguyen

The Impact of a Universal Health Coverage Scheme on Precautionary Savings: Evidence from Thailand pp. 1203 - 1237

Koichi Ushijima

The Role of Information in Agricultural Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rice Farmers in Uganda pp. 1239 - 1272

Bjorn Van Campenhout

Volume 69, issue 2, 2021

The Performance of State-Owned Enterprises: New Evidence from the China Employer-Employee Survey pp. 513 - 540

Hong Cheng, Hongbin Li and Tang Li

Did Progresa Reduce Inequality of Opportunity for School Reenrollment? pp. 541 - 567

José Luis Figueroa and Dirk Van de gaer

Can Compulsory Schooling Reduce Language-Based Educational Gaps? Evidence from a Policy Change in Paraguay pp. 569 - 589

Lyliana Gayoso de Ervin

Can Small Incentives Have Large Payoffs? Health Impacts of a Cash Transfer Program in Bolivia pp. 591 - 621

Pablo Celhay, Julia Johannsen, Sebastian Martinez and Cecilia Vidal

Increasing Trust in Bankers to Enhance Savings: Experimental Evidence from India pp. 623 - 644

Rahul Mehrotra, Vincent Somville and Lore Vandewalle

The Productivity Gaps of Female-Owned Firms: Evidence from Ethiopian Census Data pp. 645 - 683

Dennis Essers, Kelbesa Megersa and Marco Sanfilippo

Improving Maternal Health Using Incentives for Mothers and Health Care Workers: Evidence from India pp. 685 - 725

Sisir Debnath

Livestock as a Buffer Stock in Poorly Integrated Markets pp. 727 - 764

Simon Lange and Malte Reimers

He Says, She Says: Spousal Disagreement in Survey Measures of Bargaining Power pp. 765 - 788

Kate Ambler, Cheryl Doss, Caitlin Kieran and Simone Passarelli

Do Better-Performing Nongovernmental Organizations Report More Accurately? Evidence from Financial Accounts in Uganda pp. 789 - 828

Canh Dang, Ronelle Burger and Trudy Owens

Floods and Spillovers: Households after the 2011 Great Flood in Thailand pp. 829 - 868

Ilan Noy, Cuong Nguyen and Pooja Patel

The Economic Effects of International Administrations: The Cases of Kosovo and East Timor pp. 869 - 901

Diego Winkelried and César Urquizo Ubillús

Volume 69, issue 1, 2020

Structural Experimentation to Distinguish between Models of Risk Sharing with Frictions in Rural Paraguay pp. 1 - 50

Ethan Ligon and Laura Schechter

When Patients Diagnose: The Effect of Patient Beliefs and Information on Provider Behavior pp. 51 - 72

Anne Fitzpatrick

Child Labor and Schooling Decisions among Self-Help Group Members in Rural India pp. 73 - 105

Jean-Marie Baland, Timothée Demont and Rohini Somanathan

Do Informal Transfers Induce Lower Efforts? Evidence from Lab-in-the-Field Experiments in Rural Mexico pp. 107 - 171

Ingela Alger, Laura Juarez, Miriam Juarez and Josepa Miquel-Florensa

Health Seeking amid Violence: Evidence from the Philippines pp. 173 - 212

Teresa Molina

Maternal Education, Parental Investment, and Noncognitive Characteristics in Rural China pp. 213 - 251

Jessica Leight and Elaine Liu

The Effects of Education on Financial Outcomes: Evidence from Kenya pp. 253 - 289

Kehinde Ajayi and Phillip Ross

The Impact of a National Early Childhood Development Program on Future Schooling Attainment: Evidence from Integrated Child Development Services in India pp. 291 - 316

Arindam Nandi, Jere Behrman and Ramanan Laxminarayan

Reverting to Informality: Unregistered Property Transactions and the Erosion of the Titling Reform in Peru pp. 317 - 334

Italo Gutierrez and Oswaldo Molina

Conflict, Educational Attainment, and Structural Transformation: La Violencia in Colombia pp. 335 - 371

Leopoldo Fergusson, Ana Ibáñez and Juan Riano

Financial Education and Financial Access for Transnational Households: Field Experimental Evidence from the Philippines pp. 373 - 404

Paolo Abarcar, Rashmi Barua and Dean Yang

The Impact of Access to Health Facilities on Maternal Care Use, Travel Patterns, and Health Status: Evidence from Longitudinal Data from Uganda pp. 405 - 451

Fredrick Manang and Chikako Yamauchi

Superstition, Fertility, and Interethnic Spillovers: Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia pp. 453 - 483

Emily Beam and Slesh A. Shrestha

The Impact of a Large-Scale Poverty-Targeted Cash Transfer Program on Intertemporal Choice pp. 485 - 512

Sudhanshu Handa, David Seidenfeld and Gelson Tembo

Volume 68, issue 4, 2020

Impacts of a Large-Scale Agricultural Training Program in Armenia pp. 1103 - 1129

Randall Blair, Kenneth Fortson, Joanne Lee and Anu Rangarajan

Calamity, Conflict, and Cash Transfers: How Violence Affects Access to Aid in Pakistan pp. 1131 - 1184

Yashodhan Ghorpade

Consumption and Time-Use Effects of India’s Employment Guarantee and Women’s Participation pp. 1185 - 1231

Bipasha Maity

The Effects of Noncontributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well-Being pp. 1233 - 1255

Rosangela Bando, Sebastian Galiani and Paul Gertler

Remittances, Child Labor, and Schooling: Evidence from Colombia pp. 1257 - 1293

Andres Cuadros-Menaca and Arya Gaduh

The Impact of a Permanent Income Shock on the Situation of Women in the Household: The Case of a Pension Reform in Argentina pp. 1295 - 1343

Inés Berniell, Dolores de la Mata and Matilde Machado

Can Positive Psychology Improve Psychological Well-Being and Economic Decision-Making? Experimental Evidence from Kenya pp. 1345 - 1376

Victoria Baranov, Johannes Haushofer and Chaning Jang

Volume 68, issue 3, 2020

Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Result in More Patient Choices and Increased Educational Aspirations? pp. 729 - 761

Diana Contreras Suarez and Lisa Cameron

Productivity Shocks and Child Labor: The Role of Credit and Agricultural Labor Markets pp. 763 - 812

Christelle Dumas

Measuring Chronic Hunger from Diet Snapshots pp. 813 - 838

John Gibson

Roads, Participation in Markets, and Benefits to Agricultural Households: Evidence from the Topography-Based Highway Network in Nepal pp. 839 - 864

Slesh Shrestha

Impact of the Juntos Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Nutritional and Cognitive Outcomes in Peru: Comparison between Younger and Older Initial Exposure pp. 865 - 897

Alan Sanchez, Guido Meléndez and Jere Behrman

Tribe or Title? The Effect of Coethnic Neighbors on the Demand for Formal Property Rights in a Tanzanian Slum pp. 899 - 945

Matthew Collin

Technical Efficiency of Bacillus thuringiensis Cotton in China: Results from Household Surveys pp. 947 - 963

Fangbin Qiao and Jikun Huang

From Agricultural Experiment Station to Farm: The Impact of the Promotion of a New Technology on Farmers’ Yields in Ethiopia pp. 965 - 1007

Joachim Vandercasteelen, Mekdim Dereje, Bart Minten and Alemayehu Taffesse

Efficiency of Decisions under Membership Heterogeneity and Government Regulations: Insights from Farmer Cooperatives in China pp. 1009 - 1040

Meilin Ma and Heng Zhu

Reading Fiction and Economic Preferences of Rural Youth in Burkina Faso pp. 1041 - 1079

Michael Kevane

Can ABC Lead to Sustained 123? The Medium-Term Effects of a Technology-Enhanced Adult Education Program pp. 1081 - 1102

Jenny C. Aker and Christopher Ksoll

Volume 68, issue 2, 2020

Seeing Is Believing: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Eyeglasses on Academic Performance, Aspirations, and Dropout among Junior High School Students in Rural China pp. 335 - 355

Jingchun Nie, Xiaopeng Pang, Lei Wang, Scott Rozelle and Sean Sylvia

A Community-Based Program Promotes Sanitation pp. 357 - 390

María Laura Alzúa, Habiba Djebbari and Amy J. Pickering

The Relative Returns to Education, Experience, and Attractiveness for Young Workers pp. 391 - 428

Emily Beam, Joshua Hyman and Caroline Theoharides

The Impact of Public-Private Partnerships on Private School Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda pp. 429 - 469

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Pierre De Galbert, James Habyarimana and Shwetlena Sabarwal

Employment Exposure: Employment and Wage Effects in Urban Malawi pp. 471 - 506

Susan Godlonton

Business Literacy and Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Mexico pp. 507 - 540

Gabriela Calderon, Jesse Cunha and Giacomo De Giorgi

Cash and Ballots: Conditional Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior pp. 541 - 566

Emily Conover, Román A. Zárate, Adriana Camacho and Javier Baez

Voting and Peer Effects: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique pp. 567 - 605

Marcel Fafchamps, Ana Vaz and Pedro Vicente

Demand for Complementary Financial and Technological Tools for Managing Drought Risk pp. 607 - 653

Patrick Ward, David Ortega, David Spielman, Neha Kumar and Sumedha Minocha

Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Technology Licensing in Developing Countries: An Empirical Investigation pp. 655 - 698

Elisabetta Gentile

Resource Abundance and Education pp. 699 - 727

Frederik Noack

Volume 68, issue 1, 2019

Gender Discrimination and Social Identity: Evidence from Urban Pakistan pp. 1 - 40

Adeline Delavande and Basit Zafar

How Far Does a Big Push Really Push? Long-Term Effects of an Asset Transfer Program on Employment Trajectories pp. 41 - 62

Farzana A. Misha, Wameq Raza, Jinnat Ara and Ellen van de Poel

Facilitating Worker Mobility: A Randomized Information Intervention among Migrant Workers in Singapore pp. 63 - 91

Slesh Shrestha and Dean Yang

Peer Effects on Vaccination Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Rural Nigeria pp. 93 - 129

Ryoko Sato and Yoshito Takasaki

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China pp. 131 - 164

John Giles, Albert Park and Meiyan Wang

Asymmetric Information in Microinsurance Markets: Experimental Evidence from Mexico pp. 165 - 188

Jonathan Bauchet, Amy Damon and Brian Hunter

Women’s Inheritance Rights and Bargaining Power: Evidence from Kenya pp. 189 - 238

Mariaflavia Harari

The Legacy of Colonial Language Policies and Their Impact on Student Learning: Evidence from an Experimental Program in Cameroon pp. 239 - 272

David D. Laitin, Rajesh Ramachandran and Stephen L. Walter

Improving Intergroup Relations through Actual and Imagined Contact: Field Experiments with Malawian Shopkeepers and Chinese Migrants pp. 273 - 303

Jun Gu, Annika Mueller, Ingrid Nielsen, Jason Shachat and Russell Smyth

Estimating Farm Production Parameters with Measurement Error in Land Area pp. 305 - 334

Alex Cohen