Journal of Development Economics

Article	Citations
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	377
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	132
The national-integration effect of compulsory education: Evidence from Chinese minorities	115
Do bilateral labor agreements increase migration? Global evidence from 1960 to 2020	99
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	94
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	93
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	86
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	83
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	74
Get in the zone: The risk-adjusted welfare effects of data-driven vs. administrative borders for index insurance zones	69
Flexible contracting and quality upgrading under market volatility: Experimental evidence from Senegal	65
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	62
Participatory teaching improves learning outcomes: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania	62
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	61
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	61
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	61
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	59
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	55
Communist propaganda and women’s status	54
The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China	52
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	50
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	48
The impact of investment promotion on multinational production: Firm-level evidence	47
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	47
Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature	46

Large firms and the intensive margin of labor informality evidence from an enforcement intervention in Peru	45
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	44
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	44
Editorial Board	42
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	40
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	39
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	39
Caste identity and teachers’ biased expectations: Evidence from Bihar, India	38
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	38
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	37
Grassland certification, grazing behavior, and ecological consequences: Evidence from pastoral China	37
Temporary migration for long-term investment	34
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	34
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	33
When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from waterborne illnesses	32
Solving coordination failures: Collective land transfer rights and rural entrepreneurship	32
Does social capital positively influence loan performance even during a crisis?	32
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	32
Labor market consequences of homicides: A gender perspective from Mexico	31
Agricultural revolution and industrialization	30
Corrigendum to “How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi” J. Dev. Econ. 146 (2020) 102522	30
User-centered approaches to contraceptive counseling: Experimental evidence from urban Malawi	30
Peaceful entry: Entrepreneurship dynamics during Colombia’s peace agreement	30
Externalities of the personality traits: The effect of peer personality on students’ mental health	29
Awakening latent human capital: Economic opening up and entrepreneurship in 19th century China	29
Transportation infrastructure and deforestation in the Amazon	29
Consequences of a massive refugee influx on firm performance and market structure	28
Rural pension, factor reallocation and agricultural productivity: Evidence from China	28
Gains from market integration: Welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia	28
Trade policy and exporters’ resilience: Evidence from Indonesia	28
A behavioral intervention to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay	27
Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño?	27
Turning up the heat: Extreme heat and labor implications in West Africa	26
Editorial to special issue on migration and development	26
Information and behavior: Evidence from fertilizer quantity recommendations in Bangladesh	26
Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China	26
Subjective risk belief function in the field: Evidence from cooking fuel choices and health in India	25
Editorial Board	25
Disrupted academic careers: The returns to time off after high school	25
Does labor composition impact the transmission of monetary policy to output?	24
Ethno-regional favoritism and the political economy of school test scores	24
Food price variation and passthrough among retail firms in rural and urban Tanzania	23
Trouble with zero: The limits of subsidizing technology adoption	23
Agricultural trade and depletion of groundwater	23
Place-based affirmative action in college admission and educational attainment	23
Social isolation induced negative emotions affect economic behavior: A natural experiment study	23
Public pensions and family dynamics: Eldercare, child investment, and son preference in rural China	23
Industrial policy in a new era: Government venture capital in the US–China trade war	23
Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine	22
Unveiling the Cosmic Race: Skin tone and intergenerational economic disparities in Latin America and the Caribbean	22

Corruption exposure, political trust, and immigrants	22
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment	21
Curriculum and national identity: Evidence from the 1997 curriculum reform in Taiwan	21
Agricultural composition and labor productivity	21
Does the gig economy discriminate against women? Evidence from physicians in China	21
The mismeasure of weather: Using earth observation data for estimation of socioeconomic outcomes	20
Returns to quality in rural agricultural markets: Evidence from wheat markets in Ethiopia	20
The persistence of trade relocation from civil conflict	20
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys	20
Internal migration and drug violence in Mexico	20
Relocation from China (with Chinese characteristics)	20
Seasonality, academic calendar and school dropouts in South Asia	20
Empowering women through radio: Evidence from Occupied Japan	19
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states	19
Endogenous labor migration and remittances: Macroeconomic and welfare consequences	19
The seeds of misallocation: Fertilizer use and maize varietal misidentification in Ethiopia	19
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
Nonclassical measurement error and farmers’ response to information treatment	19
Human capital affects religious identity: Causal evidence from Kenya	18
What you do (not) get when expanding the net - Evidence from forced taxpayer registrations in South Africa	18
Sharing risk to avoid tragedy: Informal insurance and irrigation in village economies	18
Racial self-classification, group consciousness, and public employment representation	18
Spillovers in ICT adoption from formal to informal firms: Evidence from Zambia	18
The impact of female political leadership on gender attitudes: Evidence from Taiwan’s local councils	18
Social protection and social distancing during the pandemic: Mobile money transfers in Ghana	17
Improved menstrual health and the workplace: An RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers	17
A dynamic theory on clientelism and bureaucratic development	17
Public good or public bad? Nation-building and Indigenous institutions	17
Better strategies for saving more: Evidence from three interventions in Chile	17
Immigration and occupational downgrading in Colombia	17
Vehicle exhaust standards and urban air quality in China	17
Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality: Theory and evidence	17
Federal and state audits do not increase compliance with a grant program to improve municipal infrastructure: A pre-registered field experiment	17
Digital connectivity and firm participation in foreign markets: An exporter-based bilateral analysis	16
Impacts of industrial and entrepreneurial jobs on youth: 5-year experimental evidence on factory job offers and cash grants in Ethiopia	16
The impact of violence on the dynamics of migration: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution	16
From wells to wealth? Government transfers and human capital	16
The limits of hegemony: U.S. banks and Chilean firms in the Cold War	16
Formal insurance and altruism networks	16
Driving while hungry: The effect of fasting on traffic accidents	16
When regional policies fail: An evaluation of Indonesia’s Integrated Economic Development Zones	16
Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies	15
Foreign technology and informal employment: Evidence from Mexico	15
Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina	15
North Korean refugees’ implicit bias against South Korea predicts market earnings	15
Identifying psychological trauma among Syrian refugee children for early intervention: Analyzing digitized drawings using machine learning	15
Occupational mismatch and market power	15
Two birds, one stone: Responses of agriculture to water pollution regulation	15
Holi crimes: The impact of a public festivity on violence against women	14
The quiet revolution: Send-down movement and female empowerment in China	14
Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity	14
Public sentiment in times of terror	14
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence	14
Voter-buying, politician selection, and public good provision in Brazil	14
Responding to natural disasters: What do monthly remittance data tell us?	14
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China	14
Editorial Board	14
Parental responses to child disability: Gender differences and relative earnings	14
Promoting Innovative Startups: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Tunisia	14
Persistent yet ameliorable shocks to female entrepreneurship: Experimental evidence from Kenya	14
Universal secondary education, schooling and women ’s empowerment: Evidence from Uganda	14
Gender differences in judicial decisions under incomplete information: Evidence from child support cases	14
The spread of (mis)information: A social media experiment in Pakistan	13
The effects of expanding worker rights to children	13
Do tax audits have a dynamic impact? Evidence from corporate income tax administrative data	13
What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde	13
The effect of teacher training and community literacy programming on teacher and student outcomes	13
Jobs! Electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa	13
Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo	13
Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration	13
Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing	13
Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes?	13
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition	13
The decision-makers we become: Early education and the decision-making of boys and girls	13
Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention	13
Feeling the same heat? Urban–rural inequalities in adapting to extreme temperatures via electricity consumption	13
Types of communications technology and civil conflict	12
Behavioral consequences of religious schooling	12
Refugees and foreign direct investment: Quasi-experimental evidence from US resettlements	12

Place-based Policies and Household Wealth in Africa	12
How distortive are turnover taxes? Evidence from China	12
Property rights, sick pay and effort supply	12
Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan	12
Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia	12
Bundled contracts and technological diffusion: Evidence from the Brazilian soybean boom	12
A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa	12
Labor market rigidity at home and multinational corporations’ flexible production reallocation abroad	12
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s learning and wellbeing: Evidence from India	12
Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability	12
Beyond poverty reduction: Evidence from a multifaceted program on poverty, nutrition and child development	12
Spatial inefficiencies in Africa’s trade network	12
Preprimary education and early childhood development: Evidence from government schools in rural Kenya	11
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: The role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power	11
Retraction notice to “Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence: Evidence from India” [J. Dev. Econ. 157 (2022) 102872]	11
Fighting violence against women: The role of female political representation	11
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports?	11
Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households	11
Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China	11
Road expansion, allocative efficiency, and pro-competitive effect of transport infrastructure: Evidence from China	11
A two-wave death story: fentanyl overdoses in the US, bullets in Mexico	11
Introduction to the journal of development economics special issue on methods and measurement	11
Delivery times in international competition: An empirical investigation	11
Religious leaders and rule of law	11
Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model	11
Blaming the wind? The impact of wind turbine on bird biodiversity	11
How good are livestock statistics in Africa? Can nudging and direct counting improve the quality of livestock asset data?	11
Tradition and mortality: Evidence from twin infanticide in Africa	10
Health, wealth, or equity? Trade-offs from households’ allocative decisions	10
RETRACTED: Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence: Evidence from India	10
Cash transfers and micro-enterprise performance: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya	10
Learning by searching: Spatial mismatches and imperfect information in Southern labor markets	10
TV in times of political uncertainty: Evidence from the 2017 elections in Kenya	10
Editorial Board	10
Using satellites and phones to evaluate and promote agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from smallholder farms in India	10
Wider economic benefits of transport corridors: Evidence from international development organizations	10
Information and immigrant settlement	10
Remote tutoring in Latin America	10
Corruption and extremism	10
Timing matters: The (very) long-run impacts of cash grants during a crisis	10
Keeping an eye on the villain: Assessing the impact of surveillance cameras on crime	10
Access to digital credit for smallholder farmers: Experimental evidence from Ghana	10
Shipwrecked by rents	9
Who benefits from job training programs? Evidence from a high-dosage program in Brazil	9
Multiplying multi-plants: A new and consequential phenomenon	9
Hairdressers and well-being: Local services provision and mental health first response	9
Judicial institution and innovation: Evidence from China's intellectual property courts reform	9
Trade, policy, and economic development in the digital economy	9
Elite persistence in Sierra Leone: What can names tell us?	9
The agricultural productivity gap: Informality matters	9
Right to stay? Long-run experimental evidence on land formalization and widows’ tenure security in Benin	9
When the fire ends: Straw burning, regulation, and pollution substitution	9
Global universal basic skills: Current deficits and implications for world development	9
Editorial Board	9
Trade-induced competition and ownership dynamics	9
Large multiproduct exporters across rich and poor countries: Theory and evidence	9
Narrowing or widening the gender gap in market and domestic work? The impact of workweek reduction reform in China	9
Car restriction policies and housing markets	8
In-group competition for incentives	8
Multi-product firms and misallocation	8
Urbanization and educational attainment: Evidence from Africa	8
‘Made in Dignity’: The redistributive impact of Fair Trade	8
From drains to bridges: The role of internationally mobile PhD students in linking non-mobile with foreign scientists	8
Pollution-induced trips: Evidence from flight and train bookings in China	8
Financial market imperfections, informality and government spending multipliers	8
NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico	8
Competition in household human capital investments: Strength, motivations and consequences	8
Left over or opting out? Squeeze, mismatch and surplus in Chinese marriage markets	8
Where has all the dynamism gone? Productivity growth in China’s manufacturing sector, 1998–2013	8
Persistent effects of universities on local industrial growth: Evidence from China's policy-induced college relocation in the 1950s	8
Fracking, farmers, and rural electrification in India	8
Connected national capital: Corporations in colonial and independent Egypt	8
Policy enforcement in the presence of organized crime: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro	8
Global Mobile Inventors	8
Property rights, factor allocation and household welfare: Experimental evidence from a land titling program in India	8
Slums and pandemics	8
The HIPC initiative and China’s emergence as a lender: post hoc or propter hoc?	8
Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship in colonial India	8
International risk sharing for food staples	8
Migration and the epidemiological approach: Time and self-selection into foreign ancestries matter	8
Raising grievances to the state: The political economic effects of anti-corruption crackdowns on labor activism in China	8
A mother’s voice: Impacts of spousal communication training on child health investments	8
Motivating volunteer health workers in an African capital city	8
Training microentrepreneurs over Zoom: Experimental evidence from Mexico	7
Intergenerational mobility around the world: A new database	7
Long Live friendship? The long-term impact of Soviet aid on Sino-Russian trade	7
Risk, arbitrage, and spatial price relationships: Insights from China's hog market under the African Swine Fever	7
The protective role of index insurance in the experience of violent conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia	7
The deforestation effects of trade and agricultural productivity in Brazil	7
When the levee breaks: The impact of floods on educational outcomes in China	7
Migration from developing countries: Selection, income elasticity, and Simpson’s paradox	7
Idiosyncratic shocks and aggregate fluctuations in an emerging market	7
Extreme heat and rural household adaptation: Evidence from Northeast China	7
Unlocking young women’s potential? The impact of a low-cost career guidance program	7
Can a light-touch graduation model enhance livelihood outcomes? Evidence from Ethiopia	7