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
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	55
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
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
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	44
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	44
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	42
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	41
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	41
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	40
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	39
Temporary migration for long-term investment	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
Does social capital positively influence loan performance even during a crisis?	33
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
Agricultural revolution and industrialization	31
Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China	30
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
Editorial Board	29
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
The persistence of trade relocation from civil conflict	28
Corruption exposure, political trust, and immigrants	28
Public pensions and family dynamics: Eldercare, child investment, and son preference in rural China	27
Disrupted academic careers: The returns to time off after high school	27
Trouble with zero: The limits of subsidizing technology adoption	27
Editorial to special issue on migration and development	26
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment	26
Relocation from China (with Chinese characteristics)	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
The seeds of misallocation: Fertilizer use and maize varietal misidentification in Ethiopia	21
Endogenous labor migration and remittances: Macroeconomic and welfare consequences	21
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
Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality: Theory and evidence	20
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
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
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
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China	18
Editorial Board	18
North Korean refugees’ implicit bias against South Korea predicts market earnings	18
Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity	18
Formal insurance and altruism networks	18
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
Driving while hungry: The effect of fasting on traffic accidents	17
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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
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