Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Volume 65, issue 4, 2017

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

Volume 65, issue 3, 2017

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 Bottan and Julian Cristia

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

Margherita Comola and Marcel Fafchamps

Volume 65, issue 2, 2017

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 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

Volume 65, issue 1, 2016

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

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

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

Volume 64, issue 4, 2016

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

Volume 64, issue 3, 2016

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

Volume 64, issue 2, 2016

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

Volume 64, issue 1, 2015

Nature's Call: Impacts of Sanitation Choices in Orissa, India pp. 1 - 29

Katherine L. Dickinson, Sumeet R. Patil, Subhrendu Pattanayak, Christine Poulos and Jui-Hen Yang

Contraceptive Supply and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from Ghana pp. 31 - 69

Kelly Jones

A Model of Nongovernmental Organization Regulation with an Application to Uganda pp. 71 - 111

Ronelle Burger, Indraneel Dasgupta and Trudy Owens

Civil War and Political Participation: Evidence from Uganda pp. 113 - 141

Giacomo De Luca and Marijke Verpoorten

Battle of the Sexes: How Sex Ratios Affect Female Bargaining Power pp. 143 - 161

Erwin Bulte, Qin Tu and John List

Abortion Legalization, Sex Selection, and Female University Enrollment in Taiwan pp. 163 - 185

Priti Kalsi

Volume 63, issue 4, 2015

Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery: Spending Your Donations pp. 617 - 664

J. Vernon Henderson and Yong Suk Lee

HIV Testing, Behavior Change, and the Transition to Adulthood in Malawi pp. 665 - 684

Kathleen Beegle, Michelle Poulin and Gil Shapira

The Effects of a Noncontributory Pension Program on Labor Force Participation: The Case of 70 y Más in Mexico pp. 685 - 713

Laura Juarez and Tobias Pfutze

Referral and Job Performance: Evidence from the Ghana Colonial Army pp. 715 - 751

Marcel Fafchamps and Alexander Moradi

Teaching the Language of Wider Communication, Minority Students, and Overall Educational Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Qinghai Province, China pp. 753 - 776

Fang Lai, Linxiu Zhang, Qinghe Qu, Xiao Hu, Yaojiang Shi, Matthew Boswell and Scott Rozelle

What Happened to Kobe? A Reassessment of the Impact of the 1995 Earthquake in Japan pp. 777 - 812

William duPont Iv and Ilan Noy

Volume 63, issue 3, 2015

Bolsa Família and Household Labor Supply pp. 423 - 457

Alan de Brauw, Daniel Gilligan, John Hoddinott and Shalini Roy

Social Interaction Effects and Connection to Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rural Ethiopia pp. 459 - 484

Tanguy Bernard and Maximo Torero

Fathers' Employment and Sons' Stature: The Long-Run Effects of a Positive Regional Employment Shock in South Africa's Mining Industry pp. 485 - 514

Martine Mariotti

Taxation and Political Mobilization: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh pp. 515 - 549

Sharad Tandon

Railways and the Local Economy: Evidence from Qingzang Railway pp. 551 - 588

Yang Wang and Binzhen Wu

Health Outcomes for Children Born to Teen Mothers in Cape Town, South Africa pp. 589 - 616

Nicola Branson, Cally Ardington and Murray Leibbrandt

Volume 63, issue 2, 2015

Unintended Consequences of Women's Inheritance Rights on Female Mortality in India pp. 223 - 248

Daniel Rosenblum

The Impact of Land Mines on Child Health: Evidence from Angola pp. 249 - 279

Jean-Louis Arcand, Aude-Sophie Rodella and Matthias Rieger

Early Childbearing, Human Capital Attainment, and Mortality Risk: Evidence from a Longitudinal Demographic Surveillance Area in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa pp. 281 - 317

Cally Ardington, Alicia Menendez and Tinofa Mutevedzi

The Han-Minority Achievement Gap, Language, and Returns to Schools in Rural China pp. 319 - 359

Yunfan Yang, Huan Wang, Linxiu Zhang, Sean Sylvia, Renfu Luo, Yaojiang Shi, Wei Wang and Scott Rozelle

Off-Farm Labor Supply and Correlated Shocks: New Theoretical Insights and Evidence from Malawi pp. 361 - 391

Ralitza Dimova, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Katharina Michaelowa and Anke Weber

The Impacts of Building Elite High Schools for Students from Disadvantaged Areas pp. 393 - 422

Prashant Loyalka, Jianguo Wei, Yingquan Song, Weiping Zhong and James Chu

Volume 63, issue 1, 2014

Can Social Protection Work in Africa? The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme pp. 1 - 26

Guush Berhane, Daniel Gilligan, John Hoddinott, Neha Kumar and Alemayehu Taffesse

Learning (or Not) in Health-Seeking Behavior: Evidence from Rural Tanzania pp. 27 - 72

Lucia Corno

Education and Household Welfare pp. 73 - 115

Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi

The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data pp. 117 - 153

Olivier Bargain and Prudence Kwenda

Private Sector Participation and Performance of Urban Water Utilities in China pp. 155 - 189

Yi Jiang and Xiaoting Zheng

Air Pollution and Respiratory Ailments among Children in Urban India: Exploring Causality pp. 191 - 222

Arkadipta Ghosh and Arnab Mukherji