Journal of Development Studies

Article	Citations
Economic Benefits of Empowering Women in Agriculture: Assumptions and Evidence	49
What Drives Female Labour Force Participation? Comparable Micro-level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies	44
The Rhetoric and Reality of Localisation: Refugee-Led Organisations in Humanitarian Governance	42
Remittance Inflows and Export Complexity: New Evidence from Developing and Emerging Countries	41
Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap	38
How Many and Which Women Own Land in India? Inter-gender and Intra-gender Gaps	30
Smallholder Farmers’ Dissatisfaction with Contract Schemes in Spite of Economic Benefits: Issues of Mistrust and Lack of Transparency	30
Digitally Down to the Countryside: Fintech and Rural Development in China	26
Theoretical Underpinnings and Meta-analysis of the Effects of Cash Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	25
Aspirations, Poverty, and Education. Evidence from India	24
Somewhere in between Towns, Markets and Jobs – Agricultural Intensification in the Rural–Urban Interface	24
Youth and Adult Agrifood System Employment in Developing Regions: Rural (Peri-urban to Hinterland) vs. Urban	23
Building a Social Contract? Understanding Tax Morale in Nigeria	20
The Gender-Differential Effect of Financial Inclusion on Household Financial Resilience	20
Does Agricultural Commercialisation Increase Asset and Livestock Accumulation on Smallholder Farms in Ethiopia?	19
Ethnic Diversity and Food Insecurity: Evidence from Ghana	19
Quality of Sub-national Government and Regional Development in Africa	17
Landscapes of opportunity: patterns of young people’s engagement with the rural economy in sub-Saharan Africa	17
Mental Health Impacts of Child Labour: Evidence from Vietnam and India	15
Confronting the Wall of Patriarchy: Does Participatory Intrahousehold Decision Making Empower Women in Agricultural Households?	15
Mobile Money, Financial Inclusion, and Unmet Opportunities: Evidence from Uganda	15
International Development Buzzwords: Understanding Their Use Among Donors, NGOs, and Academics	15
The Learning Trap in Late Industrialisation: Local Firms and Capability Building in Ethiopia’s Apparel Export Industry	14
Herbicide Induced Hunger? Conservation Agriculture, Ganyu Labour and Rural Poverty in Central Malawi	14
Rural Youth Inclusion, Empowerment, and Participation	14

The Mitigating Impact of Land Tenure Security on Drought-Induced Food Insecurity: Evidence from Rural Malawi	14
Economic Viability of Large-scale Irrigation Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa: What if Mwea Irrigation Scheme Were Constructed as a Brand-new Scheme?	13
Evaluating Program Impact on Resilience: Evidence from Lesotho’s Child Grants Programme	13
Factor Market Activity and the Inverse Farm Size-Productivity Relationship in Tanzania	12
Effects of Credit ‘Plus’ on Poverty Reduction in Ghana	12
The Impact of Academic Freedom on Democracy in Africa	12
Does the Internet Reduce Gender Gaps? The Case of Jordan	12
Regional Labour Informality in Colombia and a Proposal for a Differential Minimum Wage	12
Transparent for Whom? Dissemination of Information on Ghana’s Petroleum and Mining Revenue Management	12
Continuity and Change: Performing Gender in Rural Tanzania	12
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 Africa	11
The Chinese are Here: Import Penetration and Firm Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa	11
Intellectual Property Rights and Agricultural Development: Evidence from a Worldwide Index of IPRs in Agriculture (1961-2018)	11
Knowing Versus Doing: Protective Health Behaviour Against COVID-19 in Aceh, Indonesia	11
Informality and Firm Performance in Myanmar	10
Dynamics and Determinants of Participation in Integrated Aquaculture–Agriculture Value Chain: Evidence from a Panel Data Analysis of Indigenous Smallholders in Bangladesh	10
Unemployment and Household Spending in Rural and Urban India: Evidence from Panel Data	10
The Beneficial Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution: Evidence from Vietnam	10
Spillover Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Export Sophistication: Evidence from Chinese Domestic Manufacturing Firms	10
The Labour Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador	10
Child Labour, Gender and Vulnerable Employment in Adulthood. Evidence for Tanzania	10
Population Ethics and the Prospects for Fertility Policy as Climate Mitigation Policy	9
Microfinance and Small Business Development in a Transitional Economy: Insights from Borrowers’ Relations with Microfinance Organisations in Kazakhstan	9
Rural Youth Welfare along the Rural-urban Gradient: An Empirical Analysis across the Developing World	9
Building Resilience through Social Protection: Evidence from Malawi	9
The Effects of Domestic and International Remittances on Food Insecurity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	9
Taxing Informality: Compliance and Policy Preferences in Urban Zambia	9
Refugee-Host Proximity and Market Creation in Uganda	9
Gender and Productivity Differentials in Smallholder Groundnut Farming in Malawi: Accounting for Technology Differences	9
Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use, and Learning Loss during COVID-19	8
Who is Likely to Benefit from Public and Private Sector Investments in Farmer-led Irrigation Development? Evidence from Ethiopia	8
Intra-household Efficiency in Extended Family Households: Evidence from Rural India	8
Rural Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition: A Framework Linking Food, Health and Institutions	8
Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: Level, Inequality, Progress, and Impact on Productivity and Efficiency	8
A Decolonial Approach to Innovation? Building Paths Towards Buen Vivir	8
Social Capital Encourages Disaster Evacuation: Evidence from a Cyclone in Bangladesh	7
Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship: India’s Informal Sector Firms	7
Four Decades of Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa	7
The Party-Police Nexus in Bangladesh	7
Global Governance Meets Local Land Tenure: International Codes of Conduct for Responsible Land Investments in Uganda	7
Technological Catch-up to the National and Regional Frontier: Firm-level Evidence for India	7
Polygynous Family Structure and Child Undernutrition in Nigeria	7
Youth Inclusion in Rural Transformation	7
Son Preference and Human Capital Investment among China’s Rural-urban Migrant Households	7
Structural Transformation and Gendered Transitions to Adulthood among Rural Youth: Cross-National Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries	7
Can Education Reduce Violent Crime? Evidence from Mexico before and after the Drug War Onset	6
Unravelling the Linkage between Food Security, Poverty Reduction, and Education for Sustainable Development	6
Conditioning Factors for Re-election and Incumbency Advantage after a Natural Disaster: Evidence from a Large-scale Earthquake	6
Lasting Impact of Early Life Interventions: Evidence from India’s Integrated Child Development Services	6
Does Export Experience Improve Firms’ Productivity? Evidence from Indonesia	6

Informal Short-term Borrowings and Small and Medium Enterprises’ Performance in a Credit Crunch: Evidence from Vietnam	6
Raising Aspirations of Boys and Girls through Role Models: Evidence from a Field Experiment	6
Spatial Internet Spillovers in Manufacturing	6
Electric Pumps, Groundwater, Agriculture and Water Buyers: Evidence from West Bengal	6
Young Lives, Interrupted: Short-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	6
Poverty Trap or Means to Escape Poverty? Empirical Evidence on the Role of Environmental Income in Rural Nepal	6
Understanding Difference to Build Bridges among Stakeholders: Perceptions of Participation in Four Multi-stakeholder Forums in the Peruvian Amazon	6
The Anxious and the Climbers: Ambivalent Attitudes towards Democracy among South Africa’s Middle Class	6
Caste Discrimination in Provision of Public Schools in Rural India	6
Partners or Rivals? Exploring the Relationship between Men’s and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh	6
Servicification of Manufacturing in Global Value Chains: Upgrading of Local Suppliers of Embedded Services in the South African Market for Wind Turbines	6
The Effects of Chinese Imports on Female Workers in the Brazilian Manufacturing Sector	6
Ethnic Diversity and Informal Work in Ghana	5
Diversification is in the Detail: Accounting for Crop System Heterogeneity to Inform Diversification Policies in Malawi and Zambia	5
Recovery for Development: A Multi-Dimensional, Practice-Oriented Framework for Transformative Change Post-Disaster	5
Defending Civic Space: When are Campaigns against Repressive Laws Successful?	5
Which Wheel Gets the Grease? Constituent Agency and Sub-national World Bank Aid Allocation	5
State Engagement with Farmer-led Irrigation Development: Symbolic Irrigation Modernisation and Disturbed Development Trajectories in Tanzania	5
Human Development by Gender and National Culture: A Comparative Analysis	5
Women’s Inheritance Rights and Child Health Outcomes in India	5
Defying the Odds: Remittances during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
School Quality and Peer Effects: Explaining Differences in Academic Performance between China’s Migrant and Rural Students	5
The Impact of Better Access to Improved Water Sources on Health, Schooling, and Water Collection of Girls and Boys in Rural Zambia	5
Evaluating Water- and Health-related Development Projects: A Cross-project and Micro-based Approach	5
Optimism Bias and World Bank Project Performance	5
Just a Piece of Paper? Domestic Standards Certification and Small Firm Growth in Viet Nam	5
What Sustains Informality? A Study of the Interactions between Formal and Informal Sector Firms	5
High Reliability Knowledge Networks: Responding to Animal Diseases in a Pastoral Area of Northern Kenya	5
A Decade Since Busan: Towards Legitimacy or a ‘New Tyranny’ of Global Development Partnership?	5
Relationality and Economic Empowerment: The Role of Men in Supporting and Undermining Women’s Pathways	5
Structural Change and Welfare: A Micro Panel Data Evidence from Ghana	4
Aid for Trade and Trade in Services	4
Health Consequences of Patriarchal Kinship System for the Elderly: Evidence from India	4
Intervening in Cash Crop Value Chains for Improved Nutrition: Evidence from Rural Sierra Leone	4
Tensions between Formal and Informal Water Providers: Receptivity toward Mechanised Boreholes in the Sunyani West District, Ghana	4
Trust to Pay? Tax Morale and Trust in Africa	4
Hunger and Health: Reexamining the Impact of Household Food Insecurity on Child Malnutrition in India	4
The Role of Social Capital in Risk-Taking Decisions under Joint Liability Lending	4
Addressing Declining Female Labor Force Participation in India: Does Political Empowerment Make a Difference?	4
The Effect of Labour-Demand Shocks on Women’s Participation in the Labor Force: Evidence from Palestine	4
Aid and Local Growth in Malawi	4
The Effect of Childbirth on Women’s Formal Labour Market Trajectories: Evidence from Uruguayan Administrative Data	4
Climate Finance Coordination From the Global to the Local: Norm Localization and the Politics of Climate Finance Coordination in Zambia	4
The Plus in Credit-Plus-Technical Assistance: Evidence from a Rural Microcredit Programme in Bolivia	4
Disability and Job Constraint in Post Civil War Cambodia	4
Risk Aversion and Gender Gaps in Technology Adoption by Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia	4
Stimulating Innovations for Sustainable Agricultural Practices among Smallholder Farmers: Persistence of Intervention Matters	4
Political Connections Reduce Job Creation: Firm-level Evidence from Lebanon	4
Diversity Deficit and Scale-Flip	4
Efficiency and Status in Polygynous Pastoralist Households	4
Linguistic Fragmentation at the Micro-Level: Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s) in a Multilinguistic Society	3
Reflecting on an Integrated Approach to Understanding Pathways for Socially Inclusive Agricultural Intensification	3
Agricultural Production Diversity and Child Nutritional Outcomes in Rural Myanmar	3
Fixes and Flux: Frontier Brokers, Political Settlements and Post-War Politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka	3
Latin American Brotherhood? Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution	3
Smallholders’ Personal Networks in Access to Agricultural Markets: A Case of African Leafy Vegetables Commercialisation in Kenya	3
Can a Multipronged Strategy of “Soft” Interventions Surmount Structural Barriers for Financial Inclusion? Evidence From the Unbanked in Papua New Guinea	3
Women’s Higher Education, Assortative Mating, and Empowerment: Long-Term Evidence from College Enrollment Expansion in South Korea	3
Oil Palm Contract Farming in Brazil: Labour Constraints and Inclusivity Challenges	3
Weak Street-level Enforcement of Tax Laws: The Role of Tax Collectors’ Persistent but Broken Public Service Expectations	3
Anglo-Chinese Capitalism in Hong Kong and Singapore: Origins, Reproduction & Divergence	3
Changing Climate, Changing Food Consumption? Impact of Weather Shocks on Nutrition in Malawi	3
The Health Cost of Autocratization	3
He Has Gone to a Better Place, but She Has Not: Health Status of Hindu Widows in India	3
Foreign Direct Investment, Product Sophistication, and the Demand for Skilled and Unskilled Labor in Chilean Manufacturing	3
The Toxification of Population Discourse. A Genealogical Study	3
Echo Effects of Health Shocks: The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal and Early-Life Malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward Famine in China	3
Global Value Chains and Local Inter-Industry Linkages: South Africa’s Participation in the Automotive GVC	3
Does it (Re)pay to be Female? Considering Gender in Microfinance Loan Officer-Client Pairs	3
Encouraging Community Action Against Teacher Absenteeism: A Mass Media Experiment in Rural Uganda	3
Coal Plants, Air Pollution and Anaemia: Evidence from India	3
Incorporating Aspects of Institutionalist Theory into GPN Analysis: The Case of Brazilian Oil	3
The Unintended Side-Effects of a Major Development Strategy: Commercialization of Smallholder Production and Women Empowerment in Uganda	3
Do Anti-Corruption Messages Improve Public Service Delivery? Insights from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Burundi	3
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Poverty: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Mexico	3
The International Political Economy of the Middle-income Trap	3
Unintended Spillovers of Targeted Health Insurance on Intra-household Resource Allocations	3
The Good Life in the Face of Climate Change: Understanding Complexities of a Well-being Framework through the Experience of Pastoral Women	3
Rwanda’s Agricultural Transformation Revisited: Stagnating Food Production, Systematic Overestimation, and a Flawed Performance Contract System	3
Mobilising Private Funding of Development Finance	3

Adolescent Girls’ Safety In and Out of School: Evidence on Physical and Sexual Violence from Across Sub-Saharan Africa	3
Hiding or Pleasing: Spousal Disagreement Among Ugandan Maize Farmers	3
Can Immigration Explain Why Ethnic Diversity is Negatively Associated with Common Property Management?	3
Who’s your Neighbour? Social Influences on Domestic Violence	3
Weather Shocks, Coping Strategies and Household Well-being: Evidence from Rural Mauritania	3
Impact of Air Pollution on Mental Health in India	3
Partnerships for Universal Health Coverage in Myanmar: Power and Politics within ‘Immunisation Encounters’ in Kayah State and Kayin State	3
Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan	3
Introduction: What Sustains Informality?	2
Financial Sector Development and the Preference for Informal Remittance Channels: Evidence from Bangladesh	2
Chinese vs. US Trade in an Emerging Country: The Impact of Trade Openness in Chile	2
The Afterlives of International Development Interventions: A Site-Specific Ethnographic Approach	2
Contract Farming as a Last-resort Option to Finance Rice Cultivation in Senegal	2
The Long-Term Labor Market Effect of Drought Exposure: Evidence from Nigeria	2
Contestable Credit Markets and Household Welfare: Panel Data Evidence from Ethiopia	2
Picking Losers: How Career Incentives Undermine Industrial Policy in Chinese Cities	2
Who Gets the Goodies? Overlapping Interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh	2
Do Cooperatives Improve Female Miners’ Outcomes? A Case Study of Rwanda	2
Mobilizing for Entitlement: A Randomised Evaluation of a Homestead Land Rights Initiative in Bihar, India	2
Mental and Physical Health Effect of Rural-Urban Migration in South Africa: A Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluation Study	2
Does Proximity to Expressways Improve Manufacturing Productivity? Evidence from Chinese Firms	2
The Tax Side of the Pandemic: Shifts in Compliance Attitudes and Perceptions in Rwanda	2
The Sounds of Development: Musical Representation as A(nother) Source of Development Knowledge	2
Precarization or Protection? The Role of Trade and Labour Policies on Informality	2
The Role of Political Connections in COVID Policy Response: Effectiveness of Firm-Level Government Support in Egypt	2
The Long-Term Evolution of Income Polarisation in China, 1995-2018	2
Climate Change and Educational Attainment: The Role of Human Mobility	2
Colonial Origins of Comparative Development in Ghana	2
Heterogeneous Effects of Forced Migration on the Female Labor Market: The Venezuelan Exodus in Colombia	2
Informality and Pension Reforms in Bolivia: The Case ofRenta Dignidad	2
Beyond Experience and Capital. Is there a Return to Return Migration?	2
Expanding Social Protection Coverage with Humanitarian Aid: Lessons on Targeting and Transfer Values from Ethiopia	2
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty	2
Do Social Investments by Mining Companies Harm Citizen-State Relations? Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso	2
Gender and Willingness to Pay for Insured Loans: Empirical Evidence from Ghana	2
The Gendered Impact of Rural Road Improvement on Schooling Decisions and Youth Employment in Morocco	2
From Economic Integration to Near Elimination: The Economic Consequences of Isolation	2
Natural Disasters and Changing Risk Preferences: Long-Run Field Evidence from Indonesia	2
Occupational Preferences of Skilled Workers in the Presence of a Large Development Sector	2
Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Tanzania: Why Women Care about Disclosure	2
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 Perspective	2
Job Quality and Labour Market Transitions: Evidence from Mexican Informal and Formal Workers	2
The Long-term Effects of Violent Conflict on Women’s Intra-Household Decision-Making Power	2
Class Coalitions and Social Protection: The Labouring Classes and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Eastern India	2
Urban Amazonians use Fishing as a Strategy for Coping with Food Insecurity	2
Public Safety for Women: Is Regulation of Social Drinking Spaces Effective?	2
Scale and Sustainability: The Impact of a Women’s Self-Help Group Program on Household Economic Well-Being in India	2
Communal Property Rights and Deforestation	2
Contextualizing Individual-Level Asset Data Collection: Evidence from Household Surveys	2
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India	2
Picking Up the Pieces: Social Capital, Psycho-Social Support and Livelihood Recovery of Displaced Populations in Northeast Nigeria	2
Infant Mortality and Desired Fertility: The Case of the Free Health Care Initiative in Sierra Leone	2
Built to Last: Sustainability of Early Childhood Education Services in Rural Indonesia	2
Bleeding at the Margins: Understanding Period Poverty among SC and ST Women Using Decomposition Analysis	2
Power and Informality in Urban Africa, Ethnographic Perspectives	1
COVID-19 and Sub-Saharan Africa Firms: Impact and Coping Strategies	1
Stronger Food and Nutrition Security Impacts from More Intense Project Participation: Evidence from a Multi-Country Intervention Program	1
Political Violence and Oil in Africa: The Case of Nigeria	1
Imagining the Kenyan Commons: The Stakes of State Control Over Land in the Formulation of the Community Land Act (2011-2016)	1
Long-term Well-being among Survivors of the Rwandan and Cambodian Genocides	1
Why Communities Participate in Malaria Elimination Projects: Case Studies from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia	1
Effects of Monetary Policy on Food Inequality in India	1
School Fees and Rebel Demobilization: Evidence from Uganda	1
Exports and New Products in China – A Generalised Propensity Score Approach with Firm-to-Firm Spillovers	1
Hydropower Hegemony: Examining Civil Society Opposition to Dams in Cambodia	1
Disease Eradication, Infant Mortality, and Fertility Response: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India	1
How Social Assistance Affects Subjective Wellbeing: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan	1
Risk Compensation and HIV Therapy: A Field Experiment in South Africa	1
Can Risk Perception Alter Son Preference? Evidence from Gender-Imbalanced Rural China	1
How is Adolescents’ Time Allocation Associated with their Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy? Evidence from Four Developing Countries	1
Innovation is the Answer! But is Development the Question? Assessing Innovation Against the Capabilities Approach to Development	1
Red Tape Reduction, More New Firms? Saving Time and Money: Evidence from an Ecuadorian Reform	1
Inequality of Opportunity in Mexico and its Regions: A Data-Driven Approach	1
The Welfare Effects of Land Reform: Lessons from Yunnan, China	1
Canada’s Small INGOs: Growth Aspirations, Strategies, and Constraints	1
The Linkage between School Autonomy and Inequality in Achievement in 69 Countries: Does Development Level Matter?	1
Introduction: Population and Ethics: Difficult Questions, Global Challenges	1
An Evaluation of the Policy Response to Drought in the City of São Paulo, Brazil: An Election Cycle Interpretation of Effectiveness	1
Understanding Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Collaborative Governance Challenges in Sabah’s (Malaysian Borneo) Jurisdictional Approach	1
Assessing Community Readiness for Payments for Ecosystem Service Schemes for Tropical Primary Forest Protection in the Democratic Republic of Congo	1
Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism	1
The Politics of Taxation and Tax Reform in Times of Crisis: Covid-19 and Attitudes towards Taxation in Sierra Leone	1
Identifying the COVID-19 Transmission Channels on Poverty and Food Security in Refugee-Hosting Districts of Uganda	1
Impact of Intergovernmental Transfers on Household Multidimensional Well-Being	1
Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa	1
China and the WTO: Why Multilateralism Matters	1
Agriculture Production and Transport Connectivity: Evidence from Mozambique	1
Import Tariff Liberalization, Employment, and Gender in Ethiopia	1
Deals and Development: The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes	1
Trust in Providers of Domestic Water: A Comparison of the Public Utility and Informal Vendors in Dar Es Salaam	1
Choices and Constraints: The Nature of Informal Employment in Urban Mexico	1
Guanxi and Moral Articulation: Strategies of Corruption During China’s Anti-Corruption Drive	1
Public Work and Private Violence	1
Ethnicity and Risk Sharing Network Formation: Evidence from Rural Vietnam	1