Journal of Development Economics

Article	Citations
On the road: Access to transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China	307
The costs of “blue sky”: Environmental regulation, technology upgrading, and labor demand in China	166
Straw burning, PM2.5, and death: Evidence from China	150
The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China	143
Response and adaptation of agriculture to climate change: Evidence from China	138
Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where?	132
Greening through finance?	131
The effect of air pollution on body weight and obesity: Evidence from China	106
The impact of forced displacement on host communities: A review of the empirical literature in economics	71
Common transport infrastructure: A quantitative model and estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative	66
Mass media, information and demand for environmental quality: Evidence from the “Under the Dome”	64
The effects of fuel standards on air pollution: Evidence from China	62
Trade effects of the New Silk Road: A gravity analysis	60
Rural road infrastructure & agricultural production: Evidence from India	55
Fintech and household resilience to shocks: Evidence from digital loans in Kenya	54
Expressways, GDP, and the environment: The case of China	53
Blessing or burden? Impacts of refugees on businesses and the informal economy	49
Cash transfers, polygamy, and intimate partner violence: Experimental evidence from Mali	49
The price of gold: Dowry and death in India	47
Here waits the bride? The effect of Ethiopia's child marriage law	47
Close to the edge: High productivity at plot peripheries and the inverse size-productivity relationship	46
The Belt and Road Initiative: Reshaping economic geography in Central Asia?	45
The unintended impacts of agricultural fires: Human capital in China	43
Services development and comparative advantage in manufacturing	38
Give me your tired and your poor: Impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees	38

Land quality, land rights, and indigenous poverty	38
Gender gaps in labor informality: The motherhood effect	37
Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India	37
Foreign demand, developing country exports, and CO2 emissions: Firm-level evidence from India	37
Exposure to open defecation can account for the Indian enigma of child height	35
Import competition and firm innovation: Evidence from China	35
Brothers or invaders? How crisis-driven migrants shape voting behavior	33
Who wins, who loses? Understanding the spatially differentiated effects of the belt and road initiative	33
Cooking that kills: Cleaner energy access, indoor air pollution, and health	33
Short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification: Evidence from the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid	33
Early-life deprivation and health outcomes in adulthood: Evidence from childhood hunger episodes of middle-aged and elderly Chinese	33
Technology adoption, capital deepening, and international productivity differences	31
Misperceived quality: Fertilizer in Tanzania	31
Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin	31
A Framework to Assess Debt Sustainability under the Belt and Road Initiative	31
China's rising IQ (Innovation Quotient) and growth: Firm-level evidence	31
Economic and psychological effects of health insurance and cash transfers: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Kenya	31
Refugees' and irregular migrants’ self-selection into Europe	30
The geography of linguistic diversity and the provision of public goods	30
Geographic connectivity and cross-border investment: The Belts, Roads and Skies	29
Heat, infant mortality, and adaptation: Evidence from India	29
Costs and benefits of rural-urban migration: Evidence from India	28
The new era of unconditional convergence	28
Exploitation of labor? Classical monopsony power and labor's share	28
Land and labor allocation under communal tenure: Theory and evidence from China	27
The long-term consequences of China's “Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign in old age	27
Labour market reform and firm-level employment adjustment: Evidence from the hukou reform in China	27
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment	26
The gold digger and the machine. Evidence on the distributive effect of the artisanal and industrial gold rushes in Burkina Faso	25
Gender gaps in technology diffusion	25
The effects of rural electrification in India: An instrumental variable approach at the household level	24
Distance, trade, and income — The 1967 to 1975 closing of the Suez canal as a natural experiment	24
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China	24
Trade and agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from Africa	24
Stepping up during a crisis: The unintended effects of a noncontributory pension program during the Covid-19 pandemic	23
Under pressure: Women’s leadership during the COVID-19 crisis	22
Female employment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee inflows to Turkey	22
Exposure of belt and road economies to China trade shocks	22
Across a few prohibitive miles: The impact of the Anti-Poverty Relocation Program in China	22
Land use restrictions, misallocation in agriculture, and aggregate productivity in Vietnam	21
Relief from usury: Impact of a self-help group lending program in rural India	20
How effective is energy-efficient housing? Evidence from a field trial in Mexico	20
Tractor vs. animal: Rural reforms and technology adoption in China	20
Reconciling the conflicting narratives on poverty in China	20
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states	20
Trade liberalization, roads and firm productivity	20
Things fall apart? Missions, institutions, and interpersonal trust	19
Colonialism and female empowerment: A two-sided legacy	19
Land market distortions and aggregate agricultural productivity: Evidence from Guatemala	19
The effect of refugees on native adolescents’ test scores: Quasi-experimental evidence from PISA	19

Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine	19
Divorce laws and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Mexico	19
The joint effects of information and financing constraints on technology adoption: Evidence from a field experiment in rural Tanzania	19
The effect of marital endowments on domestic violence in India	19
Top lights: Bright cities and their contribution to economic development	18
Digital adoption, automation, and labor markets in developing countries	18
Input quality and skills are complementary and increase output quality: Causal evidence from Ecuador’s trade liberalization	18
Crop choice, trade costs, and agricultural productivity	18
Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan	18
Industrialization from scratch: The “Construction of Third Front” and local economic development in China's hinterland	17
Does insecure land tenure deter investment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial	17
The effect of computer-assisted learning on students’ long-term development	17
Does informality facilitate inflation stability?	17
Trade, productivity, and the spatial organization of agriculture: Evidence from Brazil	17
Caveat utilitor: A comparative assessment of resilience measurement approaches	17
The early bird catches the worm? School entry cutoff and the timing of births	17
Managing the spread of disease with mobile phone data	17
How do households adjust to tariff liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO accession	17
Information, technology, and market rewards: Incentivizing aflatoxin control in Ghana	17
Production efficiency and self-enforcement in value-added tax: Evidence from state-level reform in India	17
What you import matters for productivity growth: Experience from Chinese manufacturing firms	16
Healthcare at the beginning of life and child survival: Evidence from a cash transfer experiment in Nigeria	16
Mandarins make markets: Leadership rotations and inter-provincial trade in China	16
Rural transformation, inequality, and the origins of microfinance	16
Do corporate income tax cuts decrease labor share? Regression discontinuity evidence from China	16
Sex, lies, and measurement: Consistency tests for indirect response survey methods	16
Funding and financing infrastructure: The joint-use of public and private finance	16
Can information influence the social insurance participation decision of China's rural migrants?	15
Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods	15
Violence, psychological stress and educational performance during the “war on drugs” in Mexico	15
Small firms and the pandemic: Evidence from Latin America	15
Trade policy changes, tax evasion and Benford's law	15
Resources, conflict, and economic development in Africa	15
Can virtual replace in-person coaching? Experimental evidence on teacher professional development and student learning	15
Testing willingness to pay elicitation mechanisms in the field: Evidence from Uganda	15
Stigma or cushion? IMF programs and sovereign creditworthiness	15
Refugee camps and deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa	15
Trans-boundary air pollution spillovers: Physical transport and economic costs by distance	15
Saving for dowry: Evidence from rural India	15
Place-based preferential tax policy and industrial development: Evidence from India’s program on industrially backward districts	14
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys	14
Gender-targeted job ads in the recruitment process: Facts from a Chinese job board	14
Panel data and experimental design	14
“Moving Umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China	14
The short term impact of a productive asset transfer in families with child labor: Experimental evidence from the Philippines	14
Keeping it in the family: Female inheritance, inmarriage, and the status of women	13
Public health insurance and pharmaceutical innovation: Evidence from China	13
Cash-plus: Poverty impacts of alternative transfer-based approaches	13
A breath of fresh air: Raising awareness for clean fuel adoption	13
Empowering refugees through cash and agriculture: A regression discontinuity design	13
Mining and human capital accumulation: Evidence from the Colombian gold rush	13
Infrastructure investment and growth in China: A quantitative assessment	13
Experimental long-term effects of early-childhood and school-age exposure to a conditional cash transfer program	12
Fertility and rural electrification in Bangladesh	12
Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda	12
Grain exports and the causes of China's Great Famine, 1959–1961: County-level evidence	12
Is a refugee crisis a housing crisis? Only if housing supply is unresponsive	12
Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration	12
Competition and the racial wage gap: Evidence from Brazil	12
Two and a half million Syrian refugees, tasks and capital intensity	12
Experimental identification of asymmetric information: Evidence on crop insurance in the Philippines	12
Slums and pandemics	12
Following the poppy trail: Origins and consequences of Mexican drug cartels	12
Tax evasion and financial development under asymmetric information in credit markets	12
The political economy of health epidemics: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak	12
Seeking the treated: The impact of mobile extension on farmer information exchange in India	11
Neighborhood quality and opposition to immigration: Evidence from German refugee shelters	11
A gravity analysis of refugee mobility using mobile phone data	11
Texts don’t nudge: An adaptive trial to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in India	11
Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor	11
Can referral improve targeting? Evidence from an agricultural training experiment	11
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia	11
Hard to get: The scarcity of women and the competition for high-income men in urban China	11
Measuring ethnic stratification and its effect on trust in Africa	11
Can youth empowerment programs reduce violence against girls during the COVID-19 pandemic?	11
An age profile perspective on two puzzles in global child health: The Indian Enigma & economic growth	11
How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi	11
Institutions, implementation, and program effectiveness: Evidence from a randomized evaluation of computer-assisted learning in rural China	11
The long road to health: Healthcare utilization impacts of a road pavement policy in rural India	11
Labor market impacts and responses: The economic consequences of a marine environmental disaster	10

Intellectual property regimes and wage inequality	10
Discrimination from below: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia	10
Tax revenue and mobile money in developing countries	10
How much can we remedy very low learning levels in rural parts of low-income countries? Impact and generalizability of a multi-pronged para-teacher intervention from a cluster-randomized trial in the	10
The value of redistribution: Natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions	10
Privacy protection, measurement error, and the integration of remote sensing and socioeconomic survey data	10
Land reform and human capital development: Evidence from Peru	10
Using social connections and financial incentives to solve coordination failure: A quasi-field experiment in India's manufacturing sector	10
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	10
Demand heterogeneity for index-based insurance: The case for flexible products	10
Segregation and internal mobility of Syrian refugees in Turkey: Evidence from mobile phone data	10
The Lazarus drug: the impact of antiretroviral therapy on economic growth	10
Children on the move: Progressive redistribution of humanitarian cash transfers among refugees	10
Income inequality under colonial rule. Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920–1960	10
Incentives, penalties, and rural air pollution: Evidence from satellite data	9
A structural estimation of the return to infrastructure investment in China	9
Malaria and Chinese economic activities in Africa	9
The globalization of refugee flows	9
Wider economic benefits of transport corridors: Evidence from international development organizations	9
How productive is public investment? Evidence from formal and informal production in India	9
Endogenous weights and multidimensional poverty: A cautionary tale	9
Frontiers, warfare and economic geography: The case of Spain	9
Land grabs and labor in Cambodia	9
Environmental effects of development programs: Experimental evidence from West African dryland forests	9
Misperceiving and misreporting input quality: Implications for input use and productivity	9
How does delegating decisions to communities affect the provision and use of a public service? Evidence from a field experiment in Bangladesh	9
Land titles and violent conflict in rural Mexico	9
Changing the climate for banking: The economic effects of credit in a climate-vulnerable area	9
Agricultural revolution and industrialization	9
Improving child welfare in middle income countries: The unintended consequence of a pro-homemaker divorce law and wait time to divorce	9
Who marries whom in a surging housing market?☆	9
Aspirations and financial decisions: Experimental evidence from the Philippines	9
Doing business in China: Parental background and government intervention determine who owns busines	9
Endogenous gender power: The two facets of empowerment	9
Partisanship and local fiscal policy: Evidence from Brazilian cities	9
Financial access and women's role in household decisions: Empirical evidence from India's National Rural Livelihoods project	9
Markups and misallocation with evidence from exchange rate shocks	8
Foreign direct investment and knowledge diffusion in poor locations	8
Exposure to transit migration: Public attitudes and entrepreneurship	8
Equality of opportunity and human capital accumulation: Motivational effect of a nationwide scholarship in Colombia	8
Distorted quality signals in school markets	8
Contract employment as a worker discipline device	8
Network adoption subsidies: A digital evaluation of a rural mobile phone program in Rwanda	8
High-skilled services and development in China	8
Neighborhood violence, poverty, and psychological well-being	8
Agricultural composition and labor productivity	8
The role of food preferences in determining diet quality for Tanzanian consumers	8
Endogenous inclusion in the Demographic and Health Survey anthropometric sample: Implications for studying height within households	8
Cash transfers as a response to COVID-19: Experimental evidence from Kenya	8
Relative power: Explaining the effects of food and cash transfers on allocative behaviour in rural Nepalese households	7
Hot Days, the ability to Work and climate resilience: Evidence from a representative sample of 42,152 Indian households	7
Last corrupt deed before retirement? Evidence from a lower middle-income country	7
Improving learning outcomes through information provision: Experimental evidence from Indian villages	7
Effects of temporary corporate income tax cuts: Evidence from Vietnam	7
Extractive resource policy and civil conflict: Evidence from mining reform in the Philippines	7
Deadly discrimination: Implications of “missing girls” for workplace safety	7
Information and behavioral responses during a pandemic: Evidence from delays in Covid-19 death reports	7
IMF programs and economic growth: A meta-analysis	7
Marriage squeeze, marriage age and the household savings rate in China	7
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	7
The political impacts of land expropriation in China	7
Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence: Evidence from India	7
Refugees and foreign direct investment: Quasi-experimental evidence from US resettlements	7
When financial incentives backfire: Evidence from a community health worker experiment in Uganda	7
The housing quality, income, and human capital effects of subsidized homes in urban India	7
Measuring social unrest using media reports	7
Leverage and productivity	6
How public information affects asymmetrically informed lenders: Evidence from a credit registry reform	6
Performance bonuses in the public sector: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India	6
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	6
Contingent determinants	6
Protecting infants from natural disasters: The case of vitamin A supplementation and a tornado in Bangladesh	6
Does legal representation increase investment? Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya	6
Restricted access: How the internet can be used to promote reading and learning	6
Returns to work, child labor and schooling: The income vs. price effects	6
Preparing for genocide: Quasi-experimental evidence from Rwanda	6
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	6
Subsidies for technology adoption: Experimental evidence from rural Cameroon	6
Early childhood exposure to health insurance and adolescent outcomes: Evidence from rural China	6
Implementation and effects of India's national school-based iron supplementation program	6
Targeting humanitarian aid using administrative data: Model design and validation	6
Does terrorism make people pessimistic? Evidence from a natural experiment	6
The long-run influence of institutions governing trade: Evidence from smuggling ports in colonial Mexico	6
Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia	6
Using household grants to benchmark the cost effectiveness of a USAID workforce readiness program	6
Aiming high and falling low: The SADA-Northern Ghana Millennium Village Project	6
Export price shocks and rural labor markets: The role of labor market distortions	6
Failure of frequent assessment: An evaluation of India’s continuous and comprehensive evaluation program	5
Credit lines in microcredit: Short-term evidence from a randomized controlled trial in India	5
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	5
Land titling, human capital misallocation, and agricultural productivity in China	5
Holding on? Ethnic divisions, political institutions and the duration of economic declines	5
Irrigation and the spatial pattern of local economic development in India	5
Can large, untargeted conditional cash transfers increase urban high school graduation rates? Evidence from Mexico City's Prepa Sí	5
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence	5