Journal of Development Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Development Studies is 0. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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How Many and Which Women Own Land in India? Inter-gender and Intra-gender Gaps37
Smallholder Farmers’ Dissatisfaction with Contract Schemes in Spite of Economic Benefits: Issues of Mistrust and Lack of Transparency35
The Gender-Differential Effect of Financial Inclusion on Household Financial Resilience31
Digitally Down to the Countryside: Fintech and Rural Development in China31
Ethnic Diversity and Food Insecurity: Evidence from Ghana27
Does Agricultural Commercialisation Increase Asset and Livestock Accumulation on Smallholder Farms in Ethiopia?26
Does the Internet Reduce Gender Gaps? The Case of Jordan21
Quality of Sub-national Government and Regional Development in Africa21
Mobile Money, Financial Inclusion, and Unmet Opportunities: Evidence from Uganda21
Confronting the Wall of Patriarchy: Does Participatory Intrahousehold Decision Making Empower Women in Agricultural Households?19
The Labour Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador17
A New Green Revolution (GR) or Neoliberal Entrenchment in Agri-food Systems? Exploring Narratives Around Digital Agriculture (DA), Food Systems, and Development in Sub-Sahara Africa16
A Decolonial Approach to Innovation? Building Paths Towards Buen Vivir15
The Learning Trap in Late Industrialisation: Local Firms and Capability Building in Ethiopia’s Apparel Export Industry15
Regional Labour Informality in Colombia and a Proposal for a Differential Minimum Wage14
The Impact of Academic Freedom on Democracy in Africa14
Spillover Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Export Sophistication: Evidence from Chinese Domestic Manufacturing Firms14
Knowing Versus Doing: Protective Health Behaviour Against COVID-19 in Aceh, Indonesia13
Microfinance and Small Business Development in a Transitional Economy: Insights from Borrowers’ Relations with Microfinance Organisations in Kazakhstan13
Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use, and Learning Loss during COVID-1912
Population Ethics and the Prospects for Fertility Policy as Climate Mitigation Policy11
What Sustains Informality? A Study of the Interactions between Formal and Informal Sector Firms11
Refugee-Host Proximity and Market Creation in Uganda11
Unemployment and Household Spending in Rural and Urban India: Evidence from Panel Data11
The Chinese are Here: Import Penetration and Firm Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa11
Building Resilience through Social Protection: Evidence from Malawi11
The Effects of Domestic and International Remittances on Food Insecurity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries11
Taxing Informality: Compliance and Policy Preferences in Urban Zambia11
The Beneficial Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution: Evidence from Vietnam11
Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship: India’s Informal Sector Firms11
Global Governance Meets Local Land Tenure: International Codes of Conduct for Responsible Land Investments in Uganda10
Structural Change and Welfare: A Micro Panel Data Evidence from Ghana10
Informality and Firm Performance in Myanmar10
Dynamics and Determinants of Participation in Integrated Aquaculture–Agriculture Value Chain: Evidence from a Panel Data Analysis of Indigenous Smallholders in Bangladesh10
Informal Short-term Borrowings and Small and Medium Enterprises’ Performance in a Credit Crunch: Evidence from Vietnam9
Rural Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition: A Framework Linking Food, Health and Institutions9
Gender and Productivity Differentials in Smallholder Groundnut Farming in Malawi: Accounting for Technology Differences9
Recovery for Development: A Multi-Dimensional, Practice-Oriented Framework for Transformative Change Post-Disaster9
Son Preference and Human Capital Investment among China’s Rural-urban Migrant Households9
High Reliability Knowledge Networks: Responding to Animal Diseases in a Pastoral Area of Northern Kenya9
The Unintended Side-Effects of a Major Development Strategy: Commercialization of Smallholder Production and Women Empowerment in Uganda9
The Party-Police Nexus in Bangladesh9
Four Decades of Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa9
Understanding Difference to Build Bridges among Stakeholders: Perceptions of Participation in Four Multi-stakeholder Forums in the Peruvian Amazon8
Caste Discrimination in Provision of Public Schools in Rural India8
Servicification of Manufacturing in Global Value Chains: Upgrading of Local Suppliers of Embedded Services in the South African Market for Wind Turbines8
Intra-household Efficiency in Extended Family Households: Evidence from Rural India8
Climate Finance Coordination From the Global to the Local: Norm Localization and the Politics of Climate Finance Coordination in Zambia8
Who is Likely to Benefit from Public and Private Sector Investments in Farmer-led Irrigation Development? Evidence from Ethiopia8
Ethnic Diversity and Informal Work in Ghana8
Defying the Odds: Remittances during the COVID-19 Pandemic8
Young Lives, Interrupted: Short-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries8
Political Connections Reduce Job Creation: Firm-level Evidence from Lebanon7
Aid and Local Growth in Malawi7
Technological Catch-up to the National and Regional Frontier: Firm-level Evidence for India7
Poverty Trap or Means to Escape Poverty? Empirical Evidence on the Role of Environmental Income in Rural Nepal7
Polygynous Family Structure and Child Undernutrition in Nigeria7
Evaluating Water- and Health-related Development Projects: A Cross-project and Micro-based Approach7
Conditioning Factors for Re-election and Incumbency Advantage after a Natural Disaster: Evidence from a Large-scale Earthquake7
The Plus in Credit-Plus-Technical Assistance: Evidence from a Rural Microcredit Programme in Bolivia7
Does Export Experience Improve Firms’ Productivity? Evidence from Indonesia7
Stimulating Innovations for Sustainable Agricultural Practices among Smallholder Farmers: Persistence of Intervention Matters7
Can Education Reduce Violent Crime? Evidence from Mexico before and after the Drug War Onset7
Unravelling the Linkage between Food Security, Poverty Reduction, and Education for Sustainable Development7
The Toxification of Population Discourse. A Genealogical Study7
Relationality and Economic Empowerment: The Role of Men in Supporting and Undermining Women’s Pathways7
The International Political Economy of the Middle-income Trap6
Built to Last: Sustainability of Early Childhood Education Services in Rural Indonesia6
Health Consequences of Patriarchal Kinship System for the Elderly: Evidence from India6
Women’s Inheritance Rights and Child Health Outcomes in India6
Electric Pumps, Groundwater, Agriculture and Water Buyers: Evidence from West Bengal6
Trust to Pay? Tax Morale and Trust in Africa6
Defending Civic Space: When are Campaigns against Repressive Laws Successful?6
Scale and Sustainability: The Impact of a Women’s Self-Help Group Program on Household Economic Well-Being in India6
Optimism Bias and World Bank Project Performance6
Just a Piece of Paper? Domestic Standards Certification and Small Firm Growth in Viet Nam6
Spatial Internet Spillovers in Manufacturing6
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India6
Risk Aversion and Gender Gaps in Technology Adoption by Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia6
A Decade Since Busan: Towards Legitimacy or a ‘New Tyranny’ of Global Development Partnership?6
Oil Palm Contract Farming in Brazil: Labour Constraints and Inclusivity Challenges6
Raising Aspirations of Boys and Girls through Role Models: Evidence from a Field Experiment6
Foreign Direct Investment & Petty Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Analysis at the Local Level5
Picking Up the Pieces: Social Capital, Psycho-Social Support and Livelihood Recovery of Displaced Populations in Northeast Nigeria5
The Afterlives of International Development Interventions: A Site-Specific Ethnographic Approach5
Weather Shocks, Coping Strategies and Household Well-being: Evidence from Rural Mauritania5
The Effect of Childbirth on Women’s Formal Labour Market Trajectories: Evidence from Uruguayan Administrative Data5
Latin American Brotherhood? Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution5
Hunger and Health: Reexamining the Impact of Household Food Insecurity on Child Malnutrition in India5
The Impact of Better Access to Improved Water Sources on Health, Schooling, and Water Collection of Girls and Boys in Rural Zambia5
Human Development by Gender and National Culture: A Comparative Analysis5
Do Anti-Corruption Messages Improve Public Service Delivery? Insights from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Burundi5
Rwanda’s Agricultural Transformation Revisited: Stagnating Food Production, Systematic Overestimation, and a Flawed Performance Contract System5
Adolescent Girls’ Safety In and Out of School: Evidence on Physical and Sexual Violence from Across Sub-Saharan Africa5
Addressing Declining Female Labor Force Participation in India: Does Political Empowerment Make a Difference?5
Partnerships for Universal Health Coverage in Myanmar: Power and Politics within ‘Immunisation Encounters’ in Kayah State and Kayin State4
Changing Climate, Changing Food Consumption? Impact of Weather Shocks on Nutrition in Malawi4
Colonial Origins of Comparative Development in Ghana4
Aid for Trade and Trade in Services4
The Long-Term Labor Market Effect of Drought Exposure: Evidence from Nigeria4
Chinese vs. US Trade in an Emerging Country: The Impact of Trade Openness in Chile4
Job Quality and Labour Market Transitions: Evidence from Mexican Informal and Formal Workers4
The Health Cost of Autocratization4
Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan4
Bleeding at the Margins: Understanding Period Poverty among SC and ST Women Using Decomposition Analysis4
Can Immigration Explain Why Ethnic Diversity is Negatively Associated with Common Property Management?4
Intervening in Cash Crop Value Chains for Improved Nutrition: Evidence from Rural Sierra Leone4
Can a Multipronged Strategy of “Soft” Interventions Surmount Structural Barriers for Financial Inclusion? Evidence From the Unbanked in Papua New Guinea4
Impact of Air Pollution on Mental Health in India4
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Poverty: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Mexico4
The Good Life in the Face of Climate Change: Understanding Complexities of a Well-being Framework through the Experience of Pastoral Women4
Global Value Chains and Local Inter-Industry Linkages: South Africa’s Participation in the Automotive GVC4
Expanding Social Protection Coverage with Humanitarian Aid: Lessons on Targeting and Transfer Values from Ethiopia4
The Long-Term Evolution of Income Polarisation in China, 1995-20184
Hiding or Pleasing: Spousal Disagreement Among Ugandan Maize Farmers3
Beyond Experience and Capital. Is there a Return to Return Migration?3
Heterogeneous Effects of Forced Migration on the Female Labor Market: The Venezuelan Exodus in Colombia3
Who Gets the Goodies? Overlapping Interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh3
The Politics of Taxation and Tax Reform in Times of Crisis: Covid-19 and Attitudes towards Taxation in Sierra Leone3
Natural Disasters and Changing Risk Preferences: Long-Run Field Evidence from Indonesia3
Mobilising Private Funding of Development Finance3
Echo Effects of Health Shocks: The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal and Early-Life Malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward Famine in China3
Do Cooperatives Improve Female Miners’ Outcomes? A Case Study of Rwanda3
Coal Plants, Air Pollution and Anaemia: Evidence from India3
Beyond the Formal-Informal Dichotomy: Towards Accommodating Diverse Milk-Collection Practices in the Economic Middle of Kenya’s Dairy Sector3
Anglo-Chinese Capitalism in Hong Kong and Singapore: Origins, Reproduction & Divergence3
Assessing the Transformative Potential of Extractive Sector Transparency Initiatives: Evidence from Local Oil Revenue Management in Indonesia3
Precarization or Protection? The Role of Trade and Labour Policies on Informality3
Can Risk Perception Alter Son Preference? Evidence from Gender-Imbalanced Rural China3
Stronger Food and Nutrition Security Impacts from More Intense Project Participation: Evidence from a Multi-Country Intervention Program3
The Long-term Effects of Violent Conflict on Women’s Intra-Household Decision-Making Power3
Fixes and Flux: Frontier Brokers, Political Settlements and Post-War Politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka3
Encouraging Community Action Against Teacher Absenteeism: A Mass Media Experiment in Rural Uganda3
Does it (Re)pay to be Female? Considering Gender in Microfinance Loan Officer-Client Pairs3
Public Safety for Women: Is Regulation of Social Drinking Spaces Effective?3
Class Coalitions and Social Protection: The Labouring Classes and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Eastern India3
Hydropower Hegemony: Examining Civil Society Opposition to Dams in Cambodia3
Inequality of Opportunity in Mexico and its Regions: A Data-Driven Approach3
The Tax Side of the Pandemic: Shifts in Compliance Attitudes and Perceptions in Rwanda3
Agricultural Production Diversity and Child Nutritional Outcomes in Rural Myanmar3
Financial Sector Development and the Preference for Informal Remittance Channels: Evidence from Bangladesh3
Smallholders’ Personal Networks in Access to Agricultural Markets: A Case of African Leafy Vegetables Commercialisation in Kenya3
Women’s Higher Education, Assortative Mating, and Empowerment: Long-Term Evidence from College Enrollment Expansion in South Korea3
Who’s your Neighbour? Social Influences on Domestic Violence3
Public Work and Private Violence2
How Social Assistance Affects Subjective Wellbeing: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan2
The Gendered Impact of Rural Road Improvement on Schooling Decisions and Youth Employment in Morocco2
COVID-19 and Sub-Saharan Africa Firms: Impact and Coping Strategies2
Infant Mortality and Desired Fertility: The Case of the Free Health Care Initiative in Sierra Leone2
Markets, States or Transnational Networks? Explaining Technology Leverage by Latecomer Firms in Industrializing Countries2
The Role of Political Connections in COVID Policy Response: Effectiveness of Firm-Level Government Support in Egypt2
Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Tanzania: Why Women Care about Disclosure2
Informal Worker Access to Formal Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Kenya and Tanzania2
Informality and Pension Reforms in Bolivia: The Case ofRenta Dignidad2
Inequality of Educational Opportunity and Time-Varying Circumstances: Longitudinal Evidence from Peru2
Assessing Community Readiness for Payments for Ecosystem Service Schemes for Tropical Primary Forest Protection in the Democratic Republic of Congo2
Increasing Access to Formal Agricultural Credit: The Role of Rural Producer Organisations2
Social Spillovers of Parental Absence: The Classroom Peer Effects of ‘Left-behind’ Children on Household Human Capital Investments in Rural China2
Gender and Willingness to Pay for Insured Loans: Empirical Evidence from Ghana2
The Skills Space in Informal Work: Insights from Bangalore Slums2
Decentralisation in School Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from India2
Does Proximity to Expressways Improve Manufacturing Productivity? Evidence from Chinese Firms2
Reflecting on an Integrated Approach to Understanding Pathways for Socially Inclusive Agricultural Intensification2
From Economic Integration to Near Elimination: The Economic Consequences of Isolation2
The Sounds of Development: Musical Representation as A(nother) Source of Development Knowledge2
School, Shocks, and Safety Nets: Can Conditional Cash Transfers Protect Human Capital Investments during Rainfall Shocks?2
Government Transfers to Parents and Population Policy in a Global Perspective: An Economic Demographic Perspective2
Guanxi and Moral Articulation: Strategies of Corruption During China’s Anti-Corruption Drive2
Do Bureaucrats Contribute to the Resource Curse? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in New Oil States2
How Does Fertility Affect Female Employment? Evidence from Albania2
Picking Losers: How Career Incentives Undermine Industrial Policy in Chinese Cities2
Early-Life Shocks and Childhood Social Programs: Evidence of Catch-Up in Brazil2
Urban Amazonians use Fishing as a Strategy for Coping with Food Insecurity2
Why Should we Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation2
Mental and Physical Health Effect of Rural-Urban Migration in South Africa: A Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluation Study2
Does the Landowner’s Gender Affect Self-Cultivation and Farm Productivity? An Analysis for India2
Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism2
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty2
The Changing Faces of Farmer-Led Irrigation: Lessons from Dynamic Irrigation Trajectories in Kenya and Zimbabwe2
Imagining the Kenyan Commons: The Stakes of State Control Over Land in the Formulation of the Community Land Act (2011-2016)2
Occupational Preferences of Skilled Workers in the Presence of a Large Development Sector2
The Effects of the Temporary Protection on Firm Performances: Evidence from the Steel Industry in Vietnam2
Introduction: What Sustains Informality?2
Drivers of SME Resilience in Southeast Asia during COVID-192
Climate Change and Educational Attainment: The Role of Human Mobility2
Educational Inequality and the Poverty Trap in Teacher Recruitment2
Do Social Investments by Mining Companies Harm Citizen-State Relations? Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso2
The Intergenerational Impacts of War: Bombings and Child Labour in Vietnam2
Contextualizing Individual-Level Asset Data Collection: Evidence from Household Surveys2
Cereal Prices and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia2
Contract Farming as a Last-resort Option to Finance Rice Cultivation in Senegal2
Female Early Marriage and Son Preference in Pakistan1
Canada’s Small INGOs: Growth Aspirations, Strategies, and Constraints1
Invisible China: How the Urban–Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise1
The Welfare Effects of Land Reform: Lessons from Yunnan, China1
Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty: Correlation, Mismatches, and a Combined Approach1
Multiplying Siblings: Exploring the Trade-off Between Family Size and Child Education in Rural Bangladesh1
Conflict and Poverty in Afghanistan’s Transition1
Livestock as a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review1
Identifying the COVID-19 Transmission Channels on Poverty and Food Security in Refugee-Hosting Districts of Uganda1
Risk Compensation and HIV Therapy: A Field Experiment in South Africa1
Premature Deindustrialisation and Income Inequality Dynamics: Evidence from Middle-Income Economies1
Does Community-Based Adaptation Enhance Social Capital? Evidence from Senegal and Mali1
China and the WTO: Why Multilateralism Matters1
Deals and Development: The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes1
Red Tape Reduction, More New Firms? Saving Time and Money: Evidence from an Ecuadorian Reform1
Economic Performance of Fiscal anti-Poverty Funds in China1
Addressing Non-response Bias in Surveys of Wealthy Households in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Strategies and Implementation1
Visible Consumption, Income Inequality and Social Comparisons. Evidence from Four Latin American Countries1
The Linkage between School Autonomy and Inequality in Achievement in 69 Countries: Does Development Level Matter?1
Community Health Educators and Maternal Health: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria1
Effects of Monetary Policy on Food Inequality in India1
Becoming ‘Mother-Activists’: Deconstructing the Boundaries of the ‘Ghar’ and ‘Bahir’ in Shaheen Bagh, India1
Land Tenure and Agricultural Investment: Do Ugandan Polygynous Households Comport with Theory?1
Smoothing the Way or Stirring the Pot: The Impact of Foreign Aid Shocks on Conflict in Recipient Countries1
Agriculture Production and Transport Connectivity: Evidence from Mozambique1
Household Gender Roles and Slow-Onset Environmental Change in Morocco: A Barrier or Driver to Develop Migration Aspirations?1
The Impact of Foreign Aid on Local Development: A Grid Cell Analysis1
The Expansive Corridor: Testing Acemoglu and Robinson (2019)1
Ethnicity and Risk Sharing Network Formation: Evidence from Rural Vietnam1
Political Violence and Oil in Africa: The Case of Nigeria1
China, Africa, and the future of the Internet1
Do Large Estates Benefit Smallholder Neighbours? Evidence from Malawi1
Innovation is the Answer! But is Development the Question? Assessing Innovation Against the Capabilities Approach to Development1
Plugging the Welfare Gap: The Role of Kinship Transfers in South Africa1
Business Licencing Reform and Gender Equality: Evidence from Indonesia1
Choices and Constraints: The Nature of Informal Employment in Urban Mexico1
Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia1
Persistent Agricultural Shocks and Child Poverty1
Import Tariff Liberalization, Employment, and Gender in Ethiopia1
Understanding Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Collaborative Governance Challenges in Sabah’s (Malaysian Borneo) Jurisdictional Approach1
Why Communities Participate in Malaria Elimination Projects: Case Studies from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia1
Power and Informality in Urban Africa, Ethnographic Perspectives1
Exports and New Products in China – A Generalised Propensity Score Approach with Firm-to-Firm Spillovers1
Infrastructure-Driven Development: The Local Social Impact of a Large Hydropower Plant in the Amazon1
Self-Help, Natality and ‘Civic Growth’1
Unearned Inequality and Biased Distributional Preferences: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in Ghana1
Fringe Benefits, Self-Selection, and the Public/Private Compensation Differential1
How is Adolescents’ Time Allocation Associated with their Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy? Evidence from Four Developing Countries1
Disease Eradication, Infant Mortality, and Fertility Response: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India1
Long-term Well-being among Survivors of the Rwandan and Cambodian Genocides1
The Welfare Effects of Social Assistance Programs for Women in India1
Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa1
Impact of Intergovernmental Transfers on Household Multidimensional Well-Being1
Introduction: Population and Ethics: Difficult Questions, Global Challenges1
Re-visiting the Conditional Cash Transfer in India through the Partial Identification Approach1
The Impact of Road Development on Household Welfare in Rural Papua New Guinea1
Climate Urbanism: Towards a Critical Research Agenda1
Cash for Coolers or Sustainable Lighting? Assessing Different Components of a Large-Scale Energy Efficiency Program in Mexico1
Trust in Providers of Domestic Water: A Comparison of the Public Utility and Informal Vendors in Dar Es Salaam1
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