Journal of Development Economics

Article	Citations
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	344
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	109
The national-integration effect of compulsory education: Evidence from Chinese minorities	94
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	79
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	77
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	75
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	72
Editorial Board	71
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	66
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	59
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	56
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	53
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	52
Communist propaganda and women’s status	51
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	48
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	48
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	47
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	47
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	47
Temporary migration for long-term investment	47
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	46
Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature	43
The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China	43
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	42
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	42

Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	42
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	41
Editorial Board	41
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	40
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	39
Solving coordination failures: Collective land transfer rights and rural entrepreneurship	38
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	38
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	37
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	36
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	35
Corrigendum to “How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi” J. Dev. Econ. 146 (2020) 102522	34
A behavioral intervention to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay	33
Does social capital positively influence loan performance even during a crisis?	31
Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño?	31
Information and behavioral responses during a pandemic: Evidence from delays in Covid-19 death reports	31
Welfare effects of an in-kind transfer program: Evidence from Mexico	30
Transportation infrastructure and deforestation in the Amazon	30
Peaceful entry: Entrepreneurship dynamics during Colombia’s peace agreement	30
Gains from market integration: Welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia	30
Agricultural revolution and industrialization	29
Information and behavior: Evidence from fertilizer quantity recommendations in Bangladesh	29
Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China	29
Consequences of a massive refugee influx on firm performance and market structure	29
When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from waterborne illnesses	29
Editorial to special issue on migration and development	28
The persistence of trade relocation from civil conflict	28
Does labor composition impact the transmission of monetary policy to output?	27
Ethno-regional favoritism and the political economy of school test scores	27
Editorial Board	27
Trouble with zero: The limits of subsidizing technology adoption	26
The mismeasure of weather: Using earth observation data for estimation of socioeconomic outcomes	26
Disrupted academic careers: The returns to time off after high school	26
Subjective risk belief function in the field: Evidence from cooking fuel choices and health in India	25
Corruption exposure, political trust, and immigrants	25
Public pensions and family dynamics: Eldercare, child investment, and son preference in rural China	25
Agricultural composition and labor productivity	25
Does the gig economy discriminate against women? Evidence from physicians in China	25
Curriculum and national identity: Evidence from the 1997 curriculum reform in Taiwan	24
Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine	23
Industrial policy in a new era: Government venture capital in the US–China trade war	23
Agricultural trade and depletion of groundwater	23
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment	23
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys	23
Relocation from China (with Chinese characteristics)	23
Multifaceted programs targeting women in fragile settings: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo	22
Better strategies for saving more: Evidence from three interventions in Chile	22
Vehicle exhaust standards and urban air quality in China	22
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states	22
Federal and state audits do not increase compliance with a grant program to improve municipal infrastructure: A pre-registered field experiment	21
Human capital affects religious identity: Causal evidence from Kenya	21

Returns to quality in rural agricultural markets: Evidence from wheat markets in Ethiopia	20
Spillovers in ICT adoption from formal to informal firms: Evidence from Zambia	20
What you do (not) get when expanding the net - Evidence from forced taxpayer registrations in South Africa	20
The impact of female political leadership on gender attitudes: Evidence from Taiwan’s local councils	19
Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality: Theory and evidence	19
Immigration and occupational downgrading in Colombia	19
Endogenous labor migration and remittances: Macroeconomic and welfare consequences	19
Sharing risk to avoid tragedy: Informal insurance and irrigation in village economies	19
Improved menstrual health and the workplace: An RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers	19
Cognitive and socioemotional skills in low-income countries: Measurement and associations with schooling and earnings	19
The seeds of misallocation: Fertilizer use and maize varietal misidentification in Ethiopia	19
Internal migration and drug violence in Mexico	19
Nonclassical measurement error and farmers’ response to information treatment	19
The limits of hegemony: U.S. banks and Chilean firms in the Cold War	18
A dynamic theory on clientelism and bureaucratic development	18
Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina	18
Formal insurance and altruism networks	18
Occupational mismatch and market power	18
North Korean refugees’ implicit bias against South Korea predicts market earnings	18
Impacts of industrial and entrepreneurial jobs on youth: 5-year experimental evidence on factory job offers and cash grants in Ethiopia	17
Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies	17
When regional policies fail: An evaluation of Indonesia’s Integrated Economic Development Zones	17
The impact of violence on the dynamics of migration: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution	17
From wells to wealth? Government transfers and human capital	17
Driving while hungry: The effect of fasting on traffic accidents	16
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China	16
Universal secondary education, schooling and women ’s empowerment: Evidence from Uganda	16
The quiet revolution: Send-down movement and female empowerment in China	16
Identifying psychological trauma among Syrian refugee children for early intervention: Analyzing digitized drawings using machine learning	16
Digital connectivity and firm participation in foreign markets: An exporter-based bilateral analysis	16
Editorial Board	16
Holi crimes: The impact of a public festivity on violence against women	16
Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity	16
Voter-buying, politician selection, and public good provision in Brazil	16
Persistent yet ameliorable shocks to female entrepreneurship: Experimental evidence from Kenya	16
Public sentiment in times of terror	15
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence	15
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition	15
When do refugees return home? Evidence from Syrian displacement in Mashreq	15
Parental responses to child disability: Gender differences and relative earnings	15
Jobs! Electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa	15
The effects of expanding worker rights to children	15
Responding to natural disasters: What do monthly remittance data tell us?	15
Promoting Innovative Startups: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Tunisia	15
Beyond poverty reduction: Evidence from a multifaceted program on poverty, nutrition and child development	14
Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes?	14
Spatial inefficiencies in Africa’s trade network	14
Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention	14
Types of communications technology and civil conflict	14
Place-based Policies and Household Wealth in Africa	14
Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing	14
The effect of teacher training and community literacy programming on teacher and student outcomes	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
Do tax audits have a dynamic impact? Evidence from corporate income tax administrative data	13
How distortive are turnover taxes? Evidence from China	13
Refugees and foreign direct investment: Quasi-experimental evidence from US resettlements	13
How good are livestock statistics in Africa? Can nudging and direct counting improve the quality of livestock asset data?	13
Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo	13
Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability	13
Bundled contracts and technological diffusion: Evidence from the Brazilian soybean boom	13
Fighting violence against women: The role of female political representation	13
Property rights, sick pay and effort supply	13
Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration	13
Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households	13
Blaming the wind? The impact of wind turbine on bird biodiversity	13
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
Religious leaders and rule of law	12
Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China	12
Does terrorism make people pessimistic? Evidence from a natural experiment	12
Behavioral consequences of religious schooling	12
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s learning and wellbeing: Evidence from India	12
Delivery times in international competition: An empirical investigation	12
Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan	12
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports?	12
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: The role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power	12
Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model	12
Labor market rigidity at home and multinational corporations’ flexible production reallocation abroad	12
Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia	12

Road expansion, allocative efficiency, and pro-competitive effect of transport infrastructure: Evidence from China	11
Editorial Board	11
Keeping an eye on the villain: Assessing the impact of surveillance cameras on crime	11
Cash transfers and micro-enterprise performance: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya	11
Health, wealth, or equity? Trade-offs from households’ allocative decisions	11
TV in times of political uncertainty: Evidence from the 2017 elections in Kenya	11
Information and immigrant settlement	11
Tradition and mortality: Evidence from twin infanticide in Africa	11
Editorial Board	11
Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence: Evidence from India	11
A two-wave death story: fentanyl overdoses in the US, bullets in Mexico	11
Shipwrecked by rents	11
Corruption and extremism	11
Timing matters: The (very) long-run impacts of cash grants during a crisis	11
Learning by searching: Spatial mismatches and imperfect information in Southern labor markets	11
Social protection amidst social upheaval: Examining the impact of a multi-faceted program for ultra-poor households in Yemen	10
Neighborhood violence, poverty, and psychological well-being	10
Editorial Board	10
Trade-induced competition and ownership dynamics	10
In-group competition for incentives	10
Using satellites and phones to evaluate and promote agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from smallholder farms in India	10
The agricultural productivity gap: Informality matters	10
Trade, policy, and economic development in the digital economy	10
Large multiproduct exporters across rich and poor countries: Theory and evidence	10
Who benefits from job training programs? Evidence from a high-dosage program in Brazil	10
Wider economic benefits of transport corridors: Evidence from international development organizations	10
Hairdressers and well-being: Local services provision and mental health first response	10
Multiplying multi-plants: A new and consequential phenomenon	10
Elite persistence in Sierra Leone: What can names tell us?	10
Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship in colonial India	10
Equality of opportunity and human capital accumulation: Motivational effect of a nationwide scholarship in Colombia	9
Cheap talk and coordination in the lab and in the field: Collective commercialization in Senegal	9
Competition in household human capital investments: Strength, motivations and consequences	9
Global Mobile Inventors	9
Policy enforcement in the presence of organized crime: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro	9
Weapons and war: The effect of arms transfers on internal conflict	9
Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor	9
Multi-product firms and misallocation	9
Property rights, factor allocation and household welfare: Experimental evidence from a land titling program in India	9
Motivating volunteer health workers in an African capital city	9
Migration and the epidemiological approach: Time and self-selection into foreign ancestries matter	9
Manufacturing employment and women’s agency: Evidence from Lesotho 2004–2014	9
Global universal basic skills: Current deficits and implications for world development	9
Slums and pandemics	9
Car restriction policies and housing markets	9
From drains to bridges: The role of internationally mobile PhD students in linking non-mobile with foreign scientists	9
Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem	9
A mother’s voice: Impacts of spousal communication training on child health investments	9
International risk sharing for food staples	9
Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia	8
Migration from developing countries: Selection, income elasticity, and Simpson’s paradox	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
Good from Far, Far from Good: The impacts of the 2016 female labor reform in Iran	8
The political impacts of land expropriation in China	8
Pollution-induced trips: Evidence from flight and train bookings in China	8
Editorial Board	8
Intergenerational mobility around the world: A new database	8
Active learning improves financial education: Experimental evidence from Uganda	8
Internal migration and labor market adjustments in the presence of non-wage compensation	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
High temperature, power rationing, and firm performance	8
Fracking, farmers, and rural electrification in India	8
Police autonomy, data-driven strategies, and violence: Evidence from Brazil’s policing reform	8
Agricultural modernization and redistributive conflict	8
Extreme heat and rural household adaptation: Evidence from Northeast China	8
The deforestation effects of trade and agricultural productivity in Brazil	8
Idiosyncratic shocks and aggregate fluctuations in an emerging market	8
Shortening the path to productive investment: Evidence from input fairs and cash transfers in Malawi	8
Early childhood exposure to health insurance and adolescent outcomes: Evidence from rural China	8
Quota removal, destination-specific export shocks, and skill acquisition in China	8
Financial market imperfections, informality and government spending multipliers	8
Learning to use trade agreements	7
Road infrastructure and skill premium: Evidence from Indian manufacturing	7
Gender composition, social context, and academic performance in high-stakes examinations	7
When the levee breaks: The impact of floods on educational outcomes in China	7
A hybrid approach to targeting social assistance	7
Adapting to climate change accounting for individual beliefs	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
Immigration and violent crime: Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border	7
Training microentrepreneurs over Zoom: Experimental evidence from Mexico	7
Medication against conflict	7
Employment effects of minimum wages in a dual economy: Evidence from Thailand	7
Inside the black box of child penalties: Unpaid work and household structure	7
Program targeting with machine learning and mobile phone data: Evidence from an anti-poverty intervention in Afghanistan	7
Risk, arbitrage, and spatial price relationships: Insights from China's hog market under the African Swine Fever	7
What is the optimal locus of control for social assistance programs? Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia	7
The protective role of index insurance in the experience of violent conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia	7
Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce “backway” migration from The Gambia?	7
Export capacity constraints and distortions	7
Trade liberalization and quality upgrading: Third-country effects	7
Across a few prohibitive miles: The impact of the Anti-Poverty Relocation Program in China	7
On the effects of wildfires on poverty in Bolivia	7
Poverty mapping in the age of machine learning	7