Journal of Development Economics

Article	Citations
The costs of “blue sky”: Environmental regulation, technology upgrading, and labor demand in China	217
The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China	209
Greening through finance?	194
Response and adaptation of agriculture to climate change: Evidence from China	186
Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where?	182
Fintech and household resilience to shocks: Evidence from digital loans in Kenya	83
The impact of forced displacement on host communities: A review of the empirical literature in economics	82
Rural road infrastructure & agricultural production: Evidence from India	70
Gender gaps in labor informality: The motherhood effect	57
Import competition and firm innovation: Evidence from China	56
Here waits the bride? The effect of Ethiopia's child marriage law	55
The unintended impacts of agricultural fires: Human capital in China	53
Give me your tired and your poor: Impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees	47
Foreign demand, developing country exports, and CO2 emissions: Firm-level evidence from India	47
Brothers or invaders? How crisis-driven migrants shape voting behavior	45
Cooking that kills: Cleaner energy access, indoor air pollution, and health	45
The long-term consequences of China's “Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign in old age	45
China's rising IQ (Innovation Quotient) and growth: Firm-level evidence	44
Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin	42
Labour market reform and firm-level employment adjustment: Evidence from the hukou reform in China	41
The new era of unconditional convergence	41
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China	39
Refugees' and irregular migrants’ self-selection into Europe	39
Exploitation of labor? Classical monopsony power and labor's share	38
Across a few prohibitive miles: The impact of the Anti-Poverty Relocation Program in China	38

Misperceived quality: Fertilizer in Tanzania	36
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment	35
Tax revenue and mobile money in developing countries	35
Land and labor allocation under communal tenure: Theory and evidence from China	34
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys	33
Distance, trade, and income — The 1967 to 1975 closing of the Suez canal as a natural experiment	33
Under pressure: Women’s leadership during the COVID-19 crisis	32
How do households adjust to tariff liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO accession	29
Trade liberalization, roads and firm productivity	29
Top lights: Bright cities and their contribution to economic development	29
What you import matters for productivity growth: Experience from Chinese manufacturing firms	28
Stepping up during a crisis: The unintended effects of a noncontributory pension program during the Covid-19 pandemic	28
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states	27
“Moving Umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China	27
Colonialism and female empowerment: A two-sided legacy	27
Female employment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee inflows to Turkey	27
Land market distortions and aggregate agricultural productivity: Evidence from Guatemala	27
Reconciling the conflicting narratives on poverty in China	27
The joint effects of information and financing constraints on technology adoption: Evidence from a field experiment in rural Tanzania	26
Tractor vs. animal: Rural reforms and technology adoption in China	26
Do corporate income tax cuts decrease labor share? Regression discontinuity evidence from China	26
Infrastructure investment and growth in China: A quantitative assessment	25
Mandarins make markets: Leadership rotations and inter-provincial trade in China	25
The effect of computer-assisted learning on students’ long-term development	24
Input quality and skills are complementary and increase output quality: Causal evidence from Ecuador’s trade liberalization	23
Digital adoption, automation, and labor markets in developing countries	23
Industrialization from scratch: The “Construction of Third Front” and local economic development in China's hinterland	23
Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods	23
Caveat utilitor: A comparative assessment of resilience measurement approaches	23
Relief from usury: Impact of a self-help group lending program in rural India	23
Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine	23
Small firms and the pandemic: Evidence from Latin America	23
Things fall apart? Missions, institutions, and interpersonal trust	22
Divorce laws and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Mexico	22
Information, technology, and market rewards: Incentivizing aflatoxin control in Ghana	22
Place-based preferential tax policy and industrial development: Evidence from India’s program on industrially backward districts	22
Does insecure land tenure deter investment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial	22
Funding and financing infrastructure: The joint-use of public and private finance	22
Trans-boundary air pollution spillovers: Physical transport and economic costs by distance	21
Saving for dowry: Evidence from rural India	21
Texts don’t nudge: An adaptive trial to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in India	20
Testing willingness to pay elicitation mechanisms in the field: Evidence from Uganda	20
Trade, productivity, and the spatial organization of agriculture: Evidence from Brazil	20
The effect of refugees on native adolescents’ test scores: Quasi-experimental evidence from PISA	20
Sex, lies, and measurement: Consistency tests for indirect response survey methods	19
Resources, conflict, and economic development in Africa	19
Empowering refugees through cash and agriculture: A regression discontinuity design	19
Privacy protection, measurement error, and the integration of remote sensing and socioeconomic survey data	18
Refugee camps and deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa	18
Can information influence the social insurance participation decision of China's rural migrants?	17

Keeping it in the family: Female inheritance, inmarriage, and the status of women	17
The long road to health: Healthcare utilization impacts of a road pavement policy in rural India	17
Managing the spread of disease with mobile phone data	17
Can virtual replace in-person coaching? Experimental evidence on teacher professional development and student learning	16
Go with the wind: Spatial impacts of environmental regulations on economic activities in China	16
The political impacts of land expropriation in China	16
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia	16
The political economy of health epidemics: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak	16
A breath of fresh air: Raising awareness for clean fuel adoption	16
Foreign direct investment and knowledge diffusion in poor locations	16
Gender-targeted job ads in the recruitment process: Facts from a Chinese job board	16
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	15
Early childhood exposure to health insurance and adolescent outcomes: Evidence from rural China	15
Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence: Evidence from India	15
Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda	15
Slums and pandemics	15
Agricultural revolution and industrialization	15
Financial access and women's role in household decisions: Empirical evidence from India's National Rural Livelihoods project	15
Children on the move: Progressive redistribution of humanitarian cash transfers among refugees	15
Trade, policy, and economic development in the digital economy	15
Hot Days, the ability to Work and climate resilience: Evidence from a representative sample of 42,152 Indian households	15
Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia	14
An age profile perspective on two puzzles in global child health: The Indian Enigma & economic growth	14
Land reform and human capital development: Evidence from Peru	14
Measuring social unrest using media reports	14
Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China	14
Land titling, human capital misallocation, and agricultural productivity in China	14
Is a refugee crisis a housing crisis? Only if housing supply is unresponsive	14
Intellectual property regimes and wage inequality	14
Public health insurance and pharmaceutical innovation: Evidence from China	14
Labor market impacts and responses: The economic consequences of a marine environmental disaster	13
Doing business in China: Parental background and government intervention determine who owns busines	13
Cash transfers as a response to COVID-19: Experimental evidence from Kenya	13
Incentives, penalties, and rural air pollution: Evidence from satellite data	13
Adaptation to temperature extremes in Chinese agriculture, 1981 to 2010	13
Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration	13
Seeking the treated: The impact of mobile extension on farmer information exchange in India	13
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	13
Climate change, cropland adjustments, and food security: Evidence from China	13
Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor	13
A gravity analysis of refugee mobility using mobile phone data	13
Discrimination from below: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia	12
How productive is public investment? Evidence from formal and informal production in India	12
Restricted access: How the internet can be used to promote reading and learning	12
Land grabs and labor in Cambodia	12
Can youth empowerment programs reduce violence against girls during the COVID-19 pandemic?	12
How does delegating decisions to communities affect the provision and use of a public service? Evidence from a field experiment in Bangladesh	12
The role of food preferences in determining diet quality for Tanzanian consumers	12
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	12
Endogenous gender power: The two facets of empowerment	12
Neighborhood quality and opposition to immigration: Evidence from German refugee shelters	12
Macroeconomic outcomes in disaster-prone countries	12
Aspirations and financial decisions: Experimental evidence from the Philippines	12
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	11
Environmental effects of development programs: Experimental evidence from West African dryland forests	11
Neighborhood violence, poverty, and psychological well-being	11
Endogenous weights and multidimensional poverty: A cautionary tale	11
High-skilled services and development in China	11
The legacy effect of unexploded bombs on educational attainment in Laos	11
Subsidies for technology adoption: Experimental evidence from rural Cameroon	11
The value of redistribution: Natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions	11
Rural roads, agricultural extension, and productivity	11
Does terrorism make people pessimistic? Evidence from a natural experiment	11
A structural estimation of the return to infrastructure investment in China	11
Income inequality under colonial rule. Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920–1960	11
The globalization of refugee flows	11
Distorted quality signals in school markets	11
Partisanship and local fiscal policy: Evidence from Brazilian cities	11
Efficient irrigation and water conservation: Evidence from South India	11
Using household grants to benchmark the cost effectiveness of a USAID workforce readiness program	10
Segregation and internal mobility of Syrian refugees in Turkey: Evidence from mobile phone data	10
Agricultural composition and labor productivity	10
Network adoption subsidies: A digital evaluation of a rural mobile phone program in Rwanda	10
Competition in household human capital investments: Strength, motivations and consequences	10
Productivity, non-compliance and the minimum wage	10
Wider economic benefits of transport corridors: Evidence from international development organizations	10
Railways and cities in India	10
Equality of opportunity and human capital accumulation: Motivational effect of a nationwide scholarship in Colombia	10
Misperceiving and misreporting input quality: Implications for input use and productivity	10
IMF programs and economic growth: A meta-analysis	10

Training the disadvantaged youth and labor market outcomes: Evidence from Bangladesh	9
Endogenous inclusion in the Demographic and Health Survey anthropometric sample: Implications for studying height within households	9
The housing quality, income, and human capital effects of subsidized homes in urban India	9
Malaria and Chinese economic activities in Africa	9
Numeracy development in Africa: New evidence from a long-term perspective (1730–1970)	9
The dirty business of eliminating open defecation: The effect of village sanitation on child height from field experiments in four countries	9
Refugees and foreign direct investment: Quasi-experimental evidence from US resettlements	9
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	9
Exposure to transit migration: Public attitudes and entrepreneurship	9
Relative power: Explaining the effects of food and cash transfers on allocative behaviour in rural Nepalese households	9
Learning by searching: Spatial mismatches and imperfect information in Southern labor markets	9
Contract employment as a worker discipline device	9
Information and behavioral responses during a pandemic: Evidence from delays in Covid-19 death reports	9
Active learning improves financial education: Experimental evidence from Uganda	9
Sanitation and property tax compliance: Analyzing the social contract in Brazil	9
How do policymakers update their beliefs?	9
Leverage and productivity	9
Historical instruments and contemporary endogenous regressors	8
Live tutoring calls did not improve learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone	8
Farming output, concentration, and market access: Evidence from the 19th-century American railroad expansion	8
Robots and export quality	8
Social protection amidst social upheaval: Examining the impact of a multi-faceted program for ultra-poor households in Yemen	8
Intranational trade costs, product scope and productivity: Evidence from India's Golden Quadrilateral project	8
The lesser shades of labor coercion: The impact of seigneurial tenure in nineteenth-century Quebec	8
Irrigation and the spatial pattern of local economic development in India	8
The long-term causal effect of U.S. bombing missions on economic development: Evidence from the Ho Chi Minh Trail and Xieng Khouang Province in Lao P.D.R	8
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	8
Deadly discrimination: Implications of “missing girls” for workplace safety	8
Thermal stress and financial distress: Extreme temperatures and firms’ loan defaults in Mexico	8
Information, migration, and the value of clean air	8
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	8
Program targeting with machine learning and mobile phone data: Evidence from an anti-poverty intervention in Afghanistan	8
(Mis)information and anxiety: Evidence from a randomized Covid-19 information campaign	8
Can school environmental education programs make children and parents more pro-environmental?	8
Countering misinformation on social media through educational interventions: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Pakistan	8
Index insurance and basis risk: A reconsideration	7
Does legal representation increase investment? Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya	7
Agricultural trade and depletion of groundwater	7
The impact of cash transfers on Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Evidence from a multidimensional regression discontinuity design	7
Last corrupt deed before retirement? Evidence from a lower middle-income country	7
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	7
Grandmothers and the gender gap in the Mexican labor market	7
Impacts of industrial and entrepreneurial jobs on youth: 5-year experimental evidence on factory job offers and cash grants in Ethiopia	7
On track or not? Projecting the global Multidimensional Poverty Index	7
Biased teachers and gender gap in learning outcomes: Evidence from India	7
Inter-regional barriers and economic growth: Evidence from China	7
The welfare effects of India’s rural employment guarantee	7
When do refugees return home? Evidence from Syrian displacement in Mashreq	7
Protecting infants from natural disasters: The case of vitamin A supplementation and a tornado in Bangladesh	7
Contingent determinants	7
The short-lived effects of unconditional cash transfers to refugees	7
When nature calls back: Sustaining behavioral change in rural Pakistan	7
Parental investment, school choice, and the persistent benefits of an early childhood intervention	7
Jobs! Electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa	7
Marriage squeeze, marriage age and the household savings rate in China	7
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	6
Large multiproduct exporters across rich and poor countries: Theory and evidence	6
Welfare rationales for conditionality of cash transfers	6
Ethnic switching: Longitudinal evidence on prevalence, correlates, and implications for measuring ethnic segregation	6
What do jobseekers want? Comparing methods to estimate reservation wages and the value of job attributes	6
Are age-of-marriage laws enforced? Evidence from developing countries	6
Preparing for genocide: Quasi-experimental evidence from Rwanda	6
Labeled loans and human capital investments	6
The cost of fear: Impact of violence risk on child health during conflict	6
Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity	6
Targeting humanitarian aid using administrative data: Model design and validation	6
Population displacement and urban conflict: Global evidence from more than 3300 flood events	6
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: The role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power	6
Direct vs indirect management training: Experimental evidence from schools in Mexico	6
Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia	6
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	6
It takes two: Experimental evidence on the determinants of technology diffusion	6
Measuring remittances	6
Disbursing emergency relief through utilities: Evidence from Ghana	6
Road expansion, allocative efficiency, and pro-competitive effect of transport infrastructure: Evidence from China	6
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	6
Quantifying welfare effects in the presence of externalities: An ex-ante evaluation of sanitation interventions	6
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition	6
How light is too light touch: The effect of a short training-based intervention on household poultry production in Burkina Faso	5
Public governance versus corporate governance: Evidence from oil drilling in forests	5
Do referrals improve the representation of women in mobile phone surveys?	5
Can information correct optimistic wage expectations? Evidence from Mozambican job-seekers	5
On the economic effects of Indigenous institutions: Evidence from Mexico	5
Knowledge, stigma, and HIV testing: An analysis of a widespread HIV/AIDS program	5
Informal institutions and comparative advantage of South-based MNEs: Theory and evidence	5
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence	5
Marriage markets and the rise of dowry in India	5
Social stigma as a barrier to HIV testing: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Mozambique	5
Import competition and vertical integration: Evidence from India	5
The more the poorer? Resource sharing and scale economies in large families	5
Group lending with covariate risk	5
Intergenerational mobility around the world: A new database	5
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	5
The “miseries” of sex imbalance: Evidence using subjective well-being data	5
Collective action in games as in life: Experimental evidence from canal cleaning in Haiti	5