Journal of Development Economics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Development Economics is 35. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board281
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations267
Communist propaganda and women’s status249
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China117
Female employment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee inflows to Turkey103
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania102
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision83
Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors76
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots68
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country62
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting62
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets61
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations54
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi53
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times52
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–189551
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa50
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico50
Temporary migration for long-term investment49
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India47
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism42
Editorial Board42
Editorial Board40
Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil40
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving38
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China38
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors38
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania38
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India37
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high37
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones36
Information and behavioral responses during a pandemic: Evidence from delays in Covid-19 death reports35
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh35
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys35
Welfare effects of an in-kind transfer program: Evidence from Mexico35
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor35
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