Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Volume 67, issue 4, 2019

The Puzzle of Open Defecation in Rural India: Evidence from a Novel Measure of Caste Attitudes in a Nationally Representative Survey pp. 725 - 755

Dean Spears and Amit Thorat

Coping with Intrahousehold Job Separation in South Africa’s Labor Market pp. 757 - 798

Zoë M. McLaren

All in the Family: Bequest Motives in Rural Tanzania pp. 799 - 831

Ayala Wineman and Lenis Liverpool-Tasie

The Lion’s Share: An Experimental Analysis of Polygamy in Northern Nigeria pp. 833 - 861

Alistair Munro, Bereket Kebede, Marcela Tarazona and Arjan Verschoor

Risk as Impediment to Privatization? The Role of Collective Fields in Extended Agricultural Households pp. 863 - 905

Matthieu Delpierre, Catherine Guirkinger and Jean-Philippe Platteau

The Effect of Nonpersonnel Resources on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from South Africa pp. 907 - 934

Miquel Pellicer and Patrizio Piraino

Self-Governance and Punishment: An Experimental Study among Namibian Forest Users pp. 935 - 967

Björn Vollan, Michael Pröpper, Andreas Landmann and Loukas Balafoutas

Early Childhood during Indonesia's Wildfires: Health Outcomes and Long-Run Schooling Achievements pp. 969 - 1003

Maria Lo Bue

Volume 67, issue 3, 2019

Education Quality and Returns to Schooling: Evidence from Migrants in Brazil pp. 439 - 459

Luiz Brotherhood, Pedro Ferreira and Cezar Santos

Price Controls in Liberia pp. 461 - 491

John Spray and Eric Werker

Voodoo, Vaccines, and Bed Nets pp. 493 - 535

Nik Stoop, Marijke Verpoorten and Koen Deconinck

Socially Disadvantaged Groups and Microfinance in India pp. 537 - 569

Jean-Marie Baland, Rohini Somanathan and Lore Vandewalle

Can Secondary Jobs Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Unanticipated Wage Arrears pp. 571 - 594

Alexander Danzer

Land Measurement Bias and Its Empirical Implications: Evidence from a Validation Exercise pp. 595 - 624

Andrew Dillon, Sydney Gourlay, Kevin McGee and Gbemisola Oseni

Intrahousehold Nutritional Inequities in Rural Bangladesh pp. 625 - 657

Anna D’Souza and Sharad Tandon

Effects of Decentralized Health-Care Financing on Maternal Care in Indonesia pp. 659 - 686

Renate Hartwig, Robert Sparrow, Sri Budiyati, Athia Yumna, Nila Warda, Asep Suryahadi and Arjun Bedi

Women’s Worth: Trade, Female Income, and Fertility in India pp. 687 - 724

S Anukriti and Todd J. Kumler

Volume 67, issue 2, 2019

A Teacher Unlike Me: Social Distance, Learning, and Intergenerational Mobility in Developing Countries pp. 225 - 271

Naureen Karachiwalla

Price and Nonprice Information Frictions in Regional Arbitrage: The Case of Rice Traders in Antananarivo, Madagascar pp. 273 - 313

Yutaka Arimoto, Hisaki Kono, Tsilavo Ralandison, Takeshi Sakurai and Kazushi Takahashi

Are There Social Returns to Education in Developing Countries? Evidence from Indonesia pp. 315 - 332

Radhika Joshi, Chetan Subramanian and Shailender Swaminathan

From Rebellion to Electoral Violence: Evidence from Burundi pp. 333 - 368

Andrea Colombo, Olivia D'Aoust and Olivier Sterck

The Externalities of a Deforestation Control Policy in Infant Health: Evidence from Brazil pp. 369 - 400

Bladimir Carrillo, Danyelle Branco, Juan Trujillo and João E. Lima

Patrilocal Residence and Women's Social Status: Evidence from South Asia pp. 401 - 438

Umair Khalil and Sulagna Mookerjee

Volume 67, issue 1, 2018

Does the Risk of Poverty Reduce Happiness? pp. 1 - 28

Stefano A. Caria and Paolo Falco

World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public-Sector Governance pp. 29 - 54

Lodewijk Smets and Stephen Knack

Effect of Environmental Decentralization on Polluting Firms in India pp. 55 - 94

Stefania Lovo

Household Responses to Food Subsidies: Evidence from India pp. 95 - 129

Tara Kaul

Poverty Dynamics in India between 2004 and 2012: Insights from Longitudinal Analysis Using Synthetic Panel Data pp. 131 - 170

Hai-Anh Dang and Peter Lanjouw

Effects of High School Closure on Education and Labor Market Outcomes in Rural China pp. 171 - 191

Shuang Zhang

Minimum Wage and Productivity: Evidence from Chilean Manufacturing Plants pp. 193 - 224

Roberto Alvarez and Rodrigo Fuentes

Volume 66, issue 4, 2018

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

Volume 66, issue 3, 2018

Measuring Risk Preferences in Rural Ethiopia pp. 417 - 446

Ferdinand 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 Szabo

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

Volume 66, issue 2, 2018

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, Asad Islam, Kanti Nuzhat, Russell Smyth and Hee-Seung Yang

Volume 66, issue 1, 2017

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

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

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