Journal of Development Economics

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	305
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	276
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	136
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	118
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	89
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	78
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	64
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	63
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	62
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	61
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	56
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	55
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	55
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	55
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	48
Communist propaganda and women’s status	47
Editorial Board	46
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	44
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	44
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	42
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	41
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	41
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	40
Temporary migration for long-term investment	39
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	39

Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	38
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	38
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	37
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	37
The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China	37
Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil	36
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	36
Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature	36
Consequences of a massive refugee influx on firm performance and market structure	35
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	35
Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño?	34
Welfare effects of an in-kind transfer program: Evidence from Mexico	34
Peaceful entry: Entrepreneurship dynamics during Colombia’s peace agreement	34
When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from waterborne illnesses	33
A behavioral intervention to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay	33
Corrigendum to “How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi” J. Dev. Econ. 146 (2020) 102522	33
Does social capital positively influence loan performance even during a crisis?	33
Agricultural revolution and industrialization	31
Distance, trade, and income — The 1967 to 1975 closing of the Suez canal as a natural experiment	30
Information and behavior: Evidence from fertilizer quantity recommendations in Bangladesh	30
Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China	30
Gains from market integration: Welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia	29
Ethno-regional favoritism and the political economy of school test scores	29
Information and behavioral responses during a pandemic: Evidence from delays in Covid-19 death reports	29
Editorial Board	29
Corruption exposure, political trust, and immigrants	28
The persistence of trade relocation from civil conflict	28
Disrupted academic careers: The returns to time off after high school	27
Trouble with zero: The limits of subsidizing technology adoption	27
Public pensions and family dynamics: Eldercare, child investment, and son preference in rural China	27
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment	26
Relocation from China (with Chinese characteristics)	26
Editorial to special issue on migration and development	26
Unveiling the Cosmic Race: Skin tone and intergenerational economic disparities in Latin America and the Caribbean	25
Curriculum and national identity: Evidence from the 1997 curriculum reform in Taiwan	25
Does labor composition impact the transmission of monetary policy to output?	25
Does the gig economy discriminate against women? Evidence from physicians in China	25
Agricultural trade and depletion of groundwater	25
Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine	24
Agricultural composition and labor productivity	24
Subjective risk belief function in the field: Evidence from cooking fuel choices and health in India	24
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys	24
Better strategies for saving more: Evidence from three interventions in Chile	23
What you do (not) get when expanding the net - Evidence from forced taxpayer registrations in South Africa	22
Internal migration and drug violence in Mexico	22
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states	22
Human capital affects religious identity: Causal evidence from Kenya	22
Improved menstrual health and the workplace: An RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers	21
Vehicle exhaust standards and urban air quality in China	21
Returns to quality in rural agricultural markets: Evidence from wheat markets in Ethiopia	21

Sharing risk to avoid tragedy: Informal insurance and irrigation in village economies	21
The seeds of misallocation: Fertilizer use and maize varietal misidentification in Ethiopia	21
Endogenous labor migration and remittances: Macroeconomic and welfare consequences	21
Nonclassical measurement error and farmers’ response to information treatment	20
The impact of female political leadership on gender attitudes: Evidence from Taiwan’s local councils	20
Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality: Theory and evidence	20
Cognitive and socioemotional skills in low-income countries: Measurement and associations with schooling and earnings	19
Multifaceted programs targeting women in fragile settings: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo	19
Immigration and occupational downgrading in Colombia	19
Seeking the treated: The impact of mobile extension on farmer information exchange in India	19
Federal and state audits do not increase compliance with a grant program to improve municipal infrastructure: A pre-registered field experiment	19
A dynamic theory on clientelism and bureaucratic development	19
Editorial Board	18
Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity	18
Formal insurance and altruism networks	18
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China	18
North Korean refugees’ implicit bias against South Korea predicts market earnings	18
Driving while hungry: The effect of fasting on traffic accidents	17
Impacts of industrial and entrepreneurial jobs on youth: 5-year experimental evidence on factory job offers and cash grants in Ethiopia	17
From wells to wealth? Government transfers and human capital	17
The limits of hegemony: U.S. banks and Chilean firms in the Cold War	17
Editorial Board	16
Identifying psychological trauma among Syrian refugee children for early intervention: Analyzing digitized drawings using machine learning	16
When regional policies fail: An evaluation of Indonesia’s Integrated Economic Development Zones	16
Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies	16
The impact of violence on the dynamics of migration: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution	16
Voter-buying, politician selection, and public good provision in Brazil	15
The housing quality, income, and human capital effects of subsidized homes in urban India	15
Jobs! Electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa	15
“Moving Umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China	15
Public sentiment in times of terror	15
Parental responses to child disability: Gender differences and relative earnings	15
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence	15
When do refugees return home? Evidence from Syrian displacement in Mashreq	15
The effects of expanding worker rights to children	15
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition	15
Universal secondary education, schooling and women ’s empowerment: Evidence from Uganda	15
On the market failure of “missing pioneers”	15
Responding to natural disasters: What do monthly remittance data tell us?	15
The quiet revolution: Send-down movement and female empowerment in China	15
Marriage outcomes of displaced women	14
Bundled contracts and technological diffusion: Evidence from the Brazilian soybean boom	14
Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes?	14
Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention	14
Types of communications technology and civil conflict	14
A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa	14
What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde	14
How distortive are turnover taxes? Evidence from China	14
Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing	13
Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia	13
Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo	13
Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability	13
Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration	13
Spatial inefficiencies in Africa’s trade network	13
Place-based Policies and Household Wealth in Africa	13
Do tax audits have a dynamic impact? Evidence from corporate income tax administrative data	13
Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia	12
Labor market rigidity at home and multinational corporations’ flexible production reallocation abroad	12
Delivery times in international competition: An empirical investigation	12
Religious leaders and rule of law	12
Refugee camps and deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa	12
Behavioral consequences of religious schooling	12
How good are livestock statistics in Africa? Can nudging and direct counting improve the quality of livestock asset data?	12
Preprimary education and early childhood development: Evidence from government schools in rural Kenya	12
Introduction to the journal of development economics special issue on methods and measurement	12
Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China	12
The power to protect: Household bargaining and female condom use	12
Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households	12
Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan	12
Fighting violence against women: The role of female political representation	12
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports?	11
Editorial Board	11
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: The role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power	11
Does terrorism make people pessimistic? Evidence from a natural experiment	11
Timing matters: The (very) long-run impacts of cash grants during a crisis	11
Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model	11
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s learning and wellbeing: Evidence from India	11
Blaming the wind? The impact of wind turbine on bird biodiversity	11
Refugees and foreign direct investment: Quasi-experimental evidence from US resettlements	11
Road expansion, allocative efficiency, and pro-competitive effect of transport infrastructure: Evidence from China	11

TV in times of political uncertainty: Evidence from the 2017 elections in Kenya	10
Wider economic benefits of transport corridors: Evidence from international development organizations	10
Using satellites and phones to evaluate and promote agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from smallholder farms in India	10
Large multiproduct exporters across rich and poor countries: Theory and evidence	10
Neighborhood violence, poverty, and psychological well-being	10
Editorial Board	10
Cheap talk and coordination in the lab and in the field: Collective commercialization in Senegal	10
Cash transfers and micro-enterprise performance: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya	10
Information and immigrant settlement	10
Shipwrecked by rents	10
Trade, policy, and economic development in the digital economy	10
Elite persistence in Sierra Leone: What can names tell us?	10
Multiplying multi-plants: A new and consequential phenomenon	10
Who benefits from job training programs? Evidence from a high-dosage program in Brazil	10
Social protection amidst social upheaval: Examining the impact of a multi-faceted program for ultra-poor households in Yemen	10
Tradition and mortality: Evidence from twin infanticide in Africa	10
Learning by searching: Spatial mismatches and imperfect information in Southern labor markets	10
Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence: Evidence from India	10
Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods	10
In-group competition for incentives	10
Slums and pandemics	10
Global universal basic skills: Current deficits and implications for world development	9
Multi-product firms and misallocation	9
Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship in colonial India	9
Manufacturing employment and women’s agency: Evidence from Lesotho 2004–2014	9
Financial market imperfections, informality and government spending multipliers	9
Property rights, factor allocation and household welfare: Experimental evidence from a land titling program in India	9
Segregation and internal mobility of Syrian refugees in Turkey: Evidence from mobile phone data	9
Equality of opportunity and human capital accumulation: Motivational effect of a nationwide scholarship in Colombia	9
Competition in household human capital investments: Strength, motivations and consequences	9
Motivating volunteer health workers in an African capital city	9
Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor	9
Car restriction policies and housing markets	9
Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity	9
Trade-induced competition and ownership dynamics	9
Borrower leakage from costly screening: Evidence from SME lending in Peru	9
International risk sharing for food staples	9
Editorial Board	8
Idiosyncratic shocks and aggregate fluctuations in an emerging market	8
The political impacts of land expropriation in China	8
Global Mobile Inventors	8
Fracking, farmers, and rural electrification in India	8
Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem	8
Pollution-induced trips: Evidence from flight and train bookings in China	8
Is the glass half full or half empty? Examining the impact of Swatch Bharat interventions on sanitation and hygiene in rural Punjab, India	8
Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce “backway” migration from The Gambia?	8
A mother’s voice: Impacts of spousal communication training on child health investments	8
Policy enforcement in the presence of organized crime: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro	8
High temperature, power rationing, and firm performance	8
Texts don’t nudge: An adaptive trial to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in India	8
Early childhood exposure to health insurance and adolescent outcomes: Evidence from rural China	8
Long Live friendship? The long-term impact of Soviet aid on Sino-Russian trade	8
Discrimination against migrants and its determinants: Evidence from a Multi-Purpose Field Experiment in the Housing Rental Market	8
Quota removal, destination-specific export shocks, and skill acquisition in China	8
Weapons and war: The effect of arms transfers on internal conflict	8
Migration and the epidemiological approach: Time and self-selection into foreign ancestries matter	8
Active learning improves financial education: Experimental evidence from Uganda	8
Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia	7
Shortening the path to productive investment: Evidence from input fairs and cash transfers in Malawi	7
Gender composition, social context, and academic performance in high-stakes examinations	7
Export capacity constraints and distortions	7
On the effects of wildfires on poverty in Bolivia	7
Risk, arbitrage, and spatial price relationships: Insights from China's hog market under the African Swine Fever	7
Testing willingness to pay elicitation mechanisms in the field: Evidence from Uganda	7
Employment effects of minimum wages in a dual economy: Evidence from Thailand	7
The deforestation effects of trade and agricultural productivity in Brazil	7
Intergenerational mobility around the world: A new database	7
The protective role of index insurance in the experience of violent conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia	7
Immigration and violent crime: Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border	7
Across a few prohibitive miles: The impact of the Anti-Poverty Relocation Program in China	7
When the levee breaks: The impact of floods on educational outcomes in China	7
Saving for dowry: Evidence from rural India	7
What is the optimal locus of control for social assistance programs? Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia	7
Road infrastructure and skill premium: Evidence from Indian manufacturing	7
Migration from developing countries: Selection, income elasticity, and Simpson’s paradox	7
Extreme heat and rural household adaptation: Evidence from Northeast China	7
A hybrid approach to targeting social assistance	7
Are age-of-marriage laws enforced? Evidence from developing countries	7
Mitigating the health impact of a famine: Evidence from the 1985 Ethiopian emergency food aid	7
Poverty mapping in the age of machine learning	7
Program targeting with machine learning and mobile phone data: Evidence from an anti-poverty intervention in Afghanistan	7
Medication against conflict	7
Adapting to climate change accounting for individual beliefs	7
Learning to use trade agreements	7
Training microentrepreneurs over Zoom: Experimental evidence from Mexico	7
The short-lived effects of unconditional cash transfers to refugees	6
Armed groups: Competition and political violence	6
Economic shocks, gender, and populism: Evidence from Brazil	6
Disbursing emergency relief through utilities: Evidence from Ghana	6
Transparency, governance, and water and sanitation: Experimental evidence from schools in rural Bangladesh	6
Estimating poverty for India after 2011 using private-sector survey data	6
Motivating bureaucrats with behavioral insights when state capacity is weak: Evidence from large-scale field experiments in Peru	6
Misallocation, Productivity and Development with Endogenous Production Techniques	6
Education and polygamy: Evidence from Cameroon	6
Local knowledge, formal evidence, and policy decisions	6