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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Education, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation: Evidence from School Construction in Malian Villages36
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Why Guarantee Employment? Evidence from a Large Indian Public-Works Program26
Elite College Education and Social Mobility in China22
Are Employment Protection Laws for Persons with Disabilities Effective in a Developing Country?22
Money or Management? A Field Experiment on Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Rural Pakistan21
The Salience of Information: Evidence from a Health Information Campaign in Rural China20
Cross-Age Tutoring: Experimental Evidence from Kenya20
Alcohol Ban and Crime: The ABCs of the Bihar Prohibition15
Internal Migration and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia13
FERTILITY RESPONSES TO GRANTING LEGAL STATUS: EVIDENCE FROM FORCED VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS IN COLOMBIA12
Internal Migration and Crime in Brazil12
Developing Textbooks to Improve Math Learning in Primary Education: Empirical Evidence from El Salvador12
Guilt and Prosocial Behavior: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Bangladesh11
Helping Us or Helping Them? What Makes Foreign Aid Popular with Donor Publics?11
Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar11
The Unintended Consequences of Deportations: Evidence from Firm Behavior in El Salvador11
Political Connections, Competition, and Innovation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Chinese Firms10
Attrition in Randomized Controlled Trials: Using Tracking Information to Correct Bias10
The Winter’s Tale: Season of Birth Impacts on Children in China9
Stay in the Game: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Sports and Life Skills Program for Vulnerable Youth in Liberia9
The Impact of No-Fault Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Mexico8
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Improving Hygiene and Sanitation through Parental Skill Training8
Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India: Evidence from Night-Lights Data8
Soil Endowments and Intra-Household Distribution of Consumption in India: A Structural Approach8
Rebuilding Irrigation Infrastructure and Institutions: Evidence from Afghanistan8
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Norm Shifting Interventions and Beliefs about Gender Norms in Paraguay7
Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash Transfer Programs Work for Children? Experimental Evidence from Myanmar7
Cash for Votes: Evidence from India7
(Un)Conditional Love in the Time of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Effect of the Peruvian JUNTOS Program on Spousal Abuse7
The Impact of an Adult Education Program for Mothers: Evidence from India7
Industrial Gold Mining and Female Empowerment7
Personalized Information as a Tool to Improve Pension Savings: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Chile6
Mobilizing Parents at Home and at School: An Experiment on Primary Education in Angola6
The Role of Mothers-in-Law in Determining Women’s Work: Evidence from India6
Heterogeneous Firms under Regional Temperature Shocks: Exit and Reallocation, with Evidence from Indonesia6
Understanding Child Sex Trafficking by Use of Victim-Level Data6
Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan6
The Power of the Anticorruption Campaign: Evidence from Cigarette and Alcohol Consumption in China6
Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia6
Income, Psychological Well-Being, and the Dynamics of Poverty5
Motherhood and Women’s Self-Employment: Theory and Evidence from Nigeria5
Where Ideas Come From: Experimenting on “The Spirit of Capitalism” in Medieval China5
Information, Knowledge, and Behavior: Evaluating Alternative Methods of Delivering School Information to Parents5
Leveraging the Lottery for Financial Inclusion: Lotto-Linked Savings Accounts in Haiti5
Cash Transfers, Gender Norms, and Women’s Control over Decision-Making in Egypt5
From Hospitality to Hostility: Impact of the Rohingya Refugee Influx on the Sentiments of Host Communities5
Effect of a Management Intervention on Firm Performance and Quality Defects5
Working Hard or Hardly Working: Health Worker Effort and Health Outcomes5
Growing Pains: Timing of In Utero Rainfall Shocks and Child Growth in Rural Rwanda5
Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force: Evidence from a Role Model Intervention in Pakistan5
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 Pakistan4
Culture, Intrahousehold Distribution, and Individual Poverty4
When the Identity of the Perpetrator Matters: The Heterogeneous Legacies of the Civil Conflict on Social Capital in Peru4
Short-Run Impacts of Reducing Water Collection Times on Time Use, Well-Being, and Education in Rural Kenya4
Justice Delayed Is Growth Denied: The Effect of Slow Courts on Relationship-Specific Industries in India4
Informal Contracts in an Incomplete Market: The Price of Milk in Paraguay4
Pushing Welfare: Encouraging Awareness and Uptake of Social Benefits in South India3
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Marital “Mismatch” from Changes in Women’s Litigant Rights3
Labor Market Shocks and Youths’ Time Allocation in Egypt: Where Does Women’s Empowerment Come In?3
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Incentivizing Quantity and Quality of Care: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation of Performance-Based Financing in the Health Sector in Tajikistan3
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Motherhood and Gender Wage Differentials within a Chinese Firm3
The Effect of Pension Income on Land Transfers: Evidence from Rural China3
The hidden cost of prenatal heat stress exposure: Evidence on psychological well-being in China3
Negative Investment in China: Financing Constraints and Restructuring versus Growth3
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Farm Size and Productivity: The Role of Family Labor3
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Incentives to Improve Government Agricultural Extension Agent Performance: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh3
Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China3
When Do Gender Quotas Change Policy? Evidence from Household Toilet Provision in India3
Computers and Discretion: Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Experiments3
Study for Nothing? Gender and Access to Higher Education in a Developing Country3
Minimum Wage and Women’s Decision-Making Power within Households: Evidence from Indonesia2
Good Intentions Gone Bad? The Dodd-Frank Act and Conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes Region2
Worker Turnover and Job Reallocation: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data2
Can Role Models Influence Female Students’ Decision to Participate in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Field Experiment2
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Tax Compliance in Rwanda: Evidence from a Message Field Experiment2
Bridging the Savings Gap: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi2
Estimating the Demand for Business Training: Evidence from Jamaica2
Up before Dawn: Experimental Evidence from a Cross-Border Trader Training at the DRC-Rwanda Border2
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Crime, Income, and Inequality: Nonlinearities under Extreme Inequality in South Africa2
How Well Do Worker Cooperatives Perform in Manufacturing? Evidence from a Large Low-Income Country2
Targeting High School Scholarships to the Poor: The Impact of a Program in Mexico2
COVID-19 and Food Security in Ethiopia: Do Social Protection Programs Protect?2
The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early-Childhood Development: Short- and Long-Run Evidence from Nepal2
Fighting the Learning Crisis in Developing Countries: A Randomized Experiment of Self-Learning at the Right Level2
Lottery Wins and Employment in a Low-Income Country: Impacts and Mechanisms2
Spillovers of Community-Based Health Interventions on Consumption Smoothing2
Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China2
Isolating the “Tech” from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer-Assisted Learning in China2
Effort and Social Comparison: Experimental Evidence from Uganda2
Decollectivization and Child Adoption in Rural China2
Do Labor Market Interventions Incentivize Technology Adoption? Unexpected Impacts of the World’s Largest Rural Poverty Program1
What Is the Price of Freedom? Estimating Women’s Willingness to Pay for Job Schedule Flexibility1
Government Antipoverty Programming and Intimate Partner Violence in Ghana1
Cash Transfers and Women’s Agency: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP Program1
Using Communications Technology to Promote Democratic Participation: Experimental Evidence from South Africa1
Income Tax Payers Are Not All the Same: A Behavioral Letter Experiment in Eswatini1
A Resource-Rich Neighbor Is a Misfortune: The Spatial Distribution of the Resource Curse in Brazil1
Media-Reported Violence and Female Labor Supply1
Correcting Misperceptions about Support for Social Distancing to Combat COVID-191
Intellectual Property Use and Firm Performance: The Case of Chile1
A Structural Model of Informality with Constrained Entrepreneurship1
Mothers’ Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation1
Judicial Presence and Rent Extraction1
Welfare Impacts of Digital Credit:Welfare Impacts of Digital Credit: A Randomized Evaluation in Nigeria1
Shortening Supply Chains: Experimental Evidence from Fruit and Vegetable Vendors in Bogota1
Teacher Performance Pay and Student Learning: Evidence from a Nationwide Program in Peru1
Identity Economics and Intra-household Bargaining1
When Money Can’t Buy Political Love: Lab Experiments on Vote Buying in Ghana and Uganda1
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The Long-Run Effect of Migration on Firms’ Trade: Evidence from China1
Does Education Affect Time Preference? Evidence from Indonesia1
Women’s Empowerment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Multidimensional Policy in India1
The Effect of Manager Gender and Performance Feedback: Experimental Evidence from India1
Can Investment Incentives Crowd Out Innovation? Evidence from China1
The Demand for Health Insurance in a Poor Economy: Evidence from Burkina Faso1
Locus of Control and Economic Decision-Making: A Field Experiment in Odisha, India.1
Teacher Gender and Parenting Style: Evidence from Junior High Schools in China1
The Impact of Being Surveyed on the Adoption of Agricultural Technology1
Estimating the Impact of Sterilization under a Government Campaign Using Contaminated Treatment Data1
Land Reform and Child Health in the Kyrgyz Republic1
Foreword by the Guest Editors1
When Private Beats Public: A Flexible Value-Added Model with Tanzanian School Switchers1
Import Tariff Liberalization and Child Labor: Evidence from China1
Property Tax Compliance in Tanzania: Can Nudges Help?1
Stay at Home with Grandma, Mom Is Going to Work: The Impact of Grandmothers’ Retirement on Mothers’ Labor Decisions1
The Scarring Effects of College Education Deprivation during China’s Cultural Revolution1
Does a Productivity Bonus Pay Off? The Effects of Teacher-Incentive Pay on Student Achievement in Brazilian Schools1
The Effect of Personalized Feedback on Small Enterprises’ Finances in Uganda1
After the Flood: Migration and Remittances as Coping Strategies of Rural Bangladeshi Households1
Competition on Agricultural Markets and Quality of Smallholder Supply: The Role of Relational Contracting and Input Provision by Traders1
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The Leaky Bucket: Transition Costs from Cash to Deposits in a Mexican Transfer Program1
Are Educated Candidates Less Corrupt Bureaucrats? Evidence from Randomized Audits in Brazil1
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