Economic Development and Cultural Change

Papers
(The median citation count of Economic Development and Cultural Change is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Elite College Education and Social Mobility in China45
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Money or Management? A Field Experiment on Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Rural Pakistan29
Education, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation: Evidence from School Construction in Malian Villages25
Are Employment Protection Laws for Persons with Disabilities Effective in a Developing Country?25
Why Guarantee Employment? Evidence from a Large Indian Public-Works Program25
The Salience of Information: Evidence from a Health Information Campaign in Rural China23
Cross-Age Tutoring: Experimental Evidence from Kenya22
Internal Migration and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia20
Alcohol Ban and Crime: The ABCs of the Bihar Prohibition17
FERTILITY RESPONSES TO GRANTING LEGAL STATUS: EVIDENCE FROM FORCED VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS IN COLOMBIA15
Helping Us or Helping Them? What Makes Foreign Aid Popular with Donor Publics?14
Developing Textbooks to Improve Math Learning in Primary Education: Empirical Evidence from El Salvador14
The Unintended Consequences of Deportations: Evidence from Firm Behavior in El Salvador13
Attrition in Randomized Controlled Trials: Using Tracking Information to Correct Bias13
Guilt and Prosocial Behavior: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Bangladesh13
Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar12
Political Connections, Competition, and Innovation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Chinese Firms12
Internal Migration and Crime in Brazil12
Stay in the Game: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Sports and Life Skills Program for Vulnerable Youth in Liberia11
The Impact of No-Fault Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Mexico10
Improving Hygiene and Sanitation through Parental Skill Training10
Soil Endowments and Intra-Household Distribution of Consumption in India: A Structural Approach10
The Winter’s Tale: Season of Birth Impacts on Children in China10
Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash Transfer Programs Work for Children? Experimental Evidence from Myanmar9
Sir! I’d Rather Go to School, Sir!9
Industrial Gold Mining and Female Empowerment9
Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India: Evidence from Night-Lights Data8
Rebuilding Irrigation Infrastructure and Institutions: Evidence from Afghanistan8
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The Impact of an Adult Education Program for Mothers: Evidence from India8
Personalized Information as a Tool to Improve Pension Savings: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Chile8
Norm-Shifting Interventions and Beliefs about Gender Norms in Paraguay8
(Un)Conditional Love in the Time of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Effect of the Peruvian JUNTOS Program on Spousal Abuse8
The Power of the Anticorruption Campaign: Evidence from Cigarette and Alcohol Consumption in China8
Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan8
The Role of Mothers-in-Law in Determining Women’s Work: Evidence from India7
Cash for Votes: Evidence from India7
Understanding Child Sex Trafficking by Use of Victim-Level Data7
Heterogeneous Firms under Regional Temperature Shocks: Exit and Reallocation, with Evidence from Indonesia7
Income, Psychological Well-Being, and the Dynamics of Poverty7
Effect of a Management Intervention on Firm Performance and Quality Defects6
Motherhood and Women’s Self-Employment: Theory and Evidence from Nigeria6
Working Hard or Hardly Working: Health Worker Effort and Health Outcomes6
Culture, Intrahousehold Distribution, and Individual Poverty6
Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia6
Information, Knowledge, and Behavior: Evaluating Alternative Methods of Delivering School Information to Parents6
Mobilizing Parents at Home and at School: An Experiment on Primary Education in Angola6
Where Ideas Come From: Experimenting on “The Spirit of Capitalism” in Medieval China5
Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force: Evidence from a Role Model Intervention in Pakistan5
When the Identity of the Perpetrator Matters: The Heterogeneous Legacies of the Civil Conflict on Social Capital in Peru5
From Hospitality to Hostility: Impact of the Rohingya Refugee Influx on the Sentiments of Host Communities5
Cash Transfers, Gender Norms, and Women’s Control over Decision-Making in Egypt5
Short-Run Impacts of Reducing Water Collection Times on Time Use, Well-Being, and Education in Rural Kenya5
Relaxing Credit and Information Constraints: Five-Year Experimental Evidence from Tanzanian Agriculture5
Labor Market Information and Parental Attitudes toward Women Working Outside the Home: Experimental Evidence from Rural Pakistan5
Growing Pains: Timing of In Utero Rainfall Shocks and Child Growth in Rural Rwanda5
Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China4
Incentives to Improve Government Agricultural Extension Agent Performance: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh4
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Farm Size and Productivity: The Role of Family Labor4
Informal Contracts in an Incomplete Market: The Price of Milk in Paraguay4
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Justice Delayed Is Growth Denied: The Effect of Slow Courts on Relationship-Specific Industries in India4
COVID-19, Crises and Women's Control of Resources: Evidence from Mexico4
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Pushing Welfare: Encouraging Awareness and Uptake of Social Benefits in South India4
Marital “Mismatch” from Changes in Women’s Litigant Rights3
The Effect of Pension Income on Land Transfers: Evidence from Rural China3
The Rule of Law, Collective Action, and Growth: Micro Evidence from Perú3
Motherhood and Gender Wage Differentials within a Chinese Firm3
COVID-19 and Food Security in Ethiopia: Do Social Protection Programs Protect?3
Migration, marriage, and counterfactual spouses3
Targeting High School Scholarships to the Poor: The Impact of a Program in Mexico3
When Do Gender Quotas Change Policy? Evidence from Household Toilet Provision in India3
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Computers and Discretion: Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Experiments3
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How Well Do Worker Cooperatives Perform in Manufacturing? Evidence from a Large Low-Income Country3
Hukou or son? Access to urban citizenship and sex selection of migrants in China3
Study for Nothing? Gender and Access to Higher Education in a Developing Country3
The Hidden Cost of Prenatal Heat Stress Exposure: Evidence on Psychological Well-Being in China3
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Effort and Social Comparison: Experimental Evidence from Uganda3
Incentivizing Quantity and Quality of Care: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation of Performance-Based Financing in the Health Sector in Tajikistan3
Can Role Models Influence Female Students’ Decision to Participate in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Field Experiment3
Redistribution, Rent-Seeking, and the Welfare Impact of a Universal Basic Income in India3
Minimum Wage and Women’s Decision-Making Power within Households: Evidence from Indonesia2
Estimating the Demand for Business Training: Evidence from Jamaica2
Fighting the Learning Crisis in Developing Countries: A Randomized Experiment of Self-Learning at the Right Level2
Tax Compliance in Rwanda: Evidence from a Message Field Experiment2
The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early-Childhood Development: Short- and Long-Run Evidence from Nepal2
The Long-Run Effect of Migration on Firms’ Trade: Evidence from China2
Government Antipoverty Programming and Intimate Partner Violence in Ghana2
Property Tax Compliance in Tanzania: Can Nudges Help?2
Distributive Implications for Governing Party Constituencies: Evidence from Bangladesh2
Bridging the Savings Gap: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi2
Up before Dawn: Experimental Evidence from a Cross-Border Trader Training at the DRC-Rwanda Border2
Decollectivization and Child Adoption in Rural China2
Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China2
Retention Effects of Employee Stock Options: Evidence from Bunching at Vesting Dates2
Lottery Wins and Employment in a Low-Income Country: Impacts and Mechanisms2
Income Tax Payers Are Not All the Same: A Behavioral Letter Experiment in Eswatini2
When Money Can’t Buy Political Love: Lab Experiments on Vote Buying in Ghana and Uganda2
Crime, Income, and Inequality: Nonlinearities under Extreme Inequality in South Africa2
Using Communications Technology to Promote Democratic Participation: Experimental Evidence from South Africa2
Good Intentions Gone Bad? The Dodd-Frank Act and Conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes Region2
Spillovers of Community-Based Health Interventions on Consumption Smoothing2
Can Bridging the Learning Gap Improve Test Scores On A Key National Exam? Evidence From A Remedial Education Program in Indian Secondary Schools2
Isolating the “Tech” from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer-Assisted Learning in China2
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Worker Turnover and Job Reallocation: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data2
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Import Tariff Liberalization and Child Labor: Evidence from China2
Land Reform and Child Health in the Kyrgyz Republic1
Paying for Digital Information: Assessing Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for a Digital Agriculture and Nutrition Service in Ghana1
Shortening Supply Chains: Experimental Evidence from Fruit and Vegetable Vendors in Bogota1
After the Flood: Migration and Remittances as Coping Strategies of Rural Bangladeshi Households1
Teacher Gender and Parenting Style: Evidence from Junior High Schools in China1
Saving Lives Through Technology: Mobile Phones and Infant Mortality1
The Leaky Bucket: Transition Costs from Cash to Deposits in a Mexican Transfer Program1
Teacher Performance Pay and Student Learning: Evidence from a Nationwide Program in Peru1
Mothers’ Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation1
Intellectual Property Use and Firm Performance: The Case of Chile1
Community-Wide Support for Primary Students to Improve Foundational Literacy and Numeracy: Empirical Evidence from Madagascar1
Monitoring Corruption: Can Top-Down Monitoring Crowd Out Grassroots Participation?1
When Private Beats Public: A Flexible Value-Added Model with Tanzanian School Switchers1
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Media-Reported Violence and Female Labor Supply1
Are Educated Candidates Less Corrupt Bureaucrats? Evidence from Randomized Audits in Brazil1
Cash Transfers and Women’s Agency: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP Program1
Women’s Empowerment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Multidimensional Policy in India1
Estimating the Impact of Sterilization under a Government Campaign Using Contaminated Treatment Data1
The Impact of Being Surveyed on the Adoption of Agricultural Technology1
Hukou Status and Children’s Education in China1
Narrow Paths Out of Poverty and Educational Demand: Evidence from Dominican Baseball1
Do Labor Market Interventions Incentivize Technology Adoption? Unexpected Impacts of the World’s Largest Rural Poverty Program1
Foreword by the Guest Editors1
Can Investment Incentives Crowd Out Innovation? Evidence from China1
Alcohol Prohibition and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from an Indian State1
Spillover Effects of Girls’ Empowerment on Brothers’ Competitiveness: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Uganda1
Correcting Misperceptions about Support for Social Distancing to Combat COVID-191
Identity Economics and Intrahousehold Bargaining1
The Effect of Personalized Feedback on Small Enterprises’ Finances in Uganda1
A Structural Model of Informality with Constrained Entrepreneurship1
Early-Life Rainfall and Long-Term Human Capital Accumulation of African Women1
Stay at Home with Grandma, Mom Is Going to Work: The Impact of Grandmothers’ Retirement on Mothers’ Labor Decisions1
The Effect of Manager Gender and Performance Feedback: Experimental Evidence from India1
A Resource-Rich Neighbor Is a Misfortune: The Spatial Distribution of the Resource Curse in Brazil1
Judicial Presence and Rent Extraction1
Competition on Agricultural Markets and Quality of Smallholder Supply: The Role of Relational Contracting and Input Provision by Traders1
Welfare Effects of Digital Credit: A Randomized Evaluation in Nigeria1
Locus of Control and Economic Decision-Making: A Field Experiment in Odisha, India.1
What Is the Price of Freedom? Estimating Women’s Willingness to Pay for Job Schedule Flexibility1
Short-Term Effects of Cash Assistance for Migrants and Refugees in Colombia1
Understanding Regional Price Convergence Clubs in China1
Does a Productivity Bonus Pay Off? The Effects of Teacher-Incentive Pay on Student Achievement in Brazilian Schools1
The Scarring Effects of College Education Deprivation during China’s Cultural Revolution1
The Long-Term Effects of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Work1
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