Journal of Development Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Development Economics is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times149
Do bilateral labor agreements increase migration? Global evidence from 1960 to 2020114
Participatory teaching improves learning outcomes: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania109
Flexible contracting and quality upgrading under market volatility: Experimental evidence from Senegal97
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision92
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations89
Get in the zone: The risk-adjusted welfare effects of data-driven vs. administrative borders for index insurance zones81
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China76
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations76
The emergence of the poverty-mental health gradient: Evidence from the great Pakistan earthquake of 200573
Demonetization and under-reporting of economic activity: Evidence from real estate71
The national-integration effect of compulsory education: Evidence from Chinese minorities70
On the right track? Railroads, industrial development, and distributional effects in historical China69
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?65
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi60
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa59
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots58
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting55
Communist propaganda and women’s status53
The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China51
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania49
The impact of investment promotion on multinational production: Firm-level evidence46
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico46
Large firms and the intensive margin of labor informality evidence from an enforcement intervention in Peru45
Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature45
Editorial Board44
Caste identity and teachers’ biased expectations: Evidence from Bihar, India43
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving42
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India40
Temporary migration for long-term investment40
The art of not being chocked: Environmental awareness, residents' responses and land transactions in China40
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high40
Climate policies, labor markets, and macroeconomic outcomes in emerging economies38
Grassland certification, grazing behavior, and ecological consequences: Evidence from pastoral China35
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors34
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China34
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys33
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India33
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism32
Solving coordination failures: Collective land transfer rights and rural entrepreneurship32
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones32
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor31
When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from waterborne illnesses31
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh31
Awakening latent human capital: Economic opening up and entrepreneurship in 19th century China31
Corrigendum to “How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi” J. Dev. Econ. 146 (2020) 10252230
Does social capital positively influence loan performance even during a crisis?30
User-centered approaches to contraceptive counseling: Experimental evidence from urban Malawi30
A behavioral intervention to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay30
Labor market consequences of homicides: A gender perspective from Mexico30
Agricultural revolution and industrialization29
Consequences of a massive refugee influx on firm performance and market structure29
Externalities of the personality traits: The effect of peer personality on students’ mental health28
Rural pension, factor reallocation and agricultural productivity: Evidence from China28
Did the Cold War produce development clusters in Africa?28
Gains from market integration: Welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia27
It will rain: The effect of information on flood preparedness in urban Mozambique27
Suing the Leviathan: The Effect of Trans-Regional Jurisdiction Reform on Corporate Investment27
C'est la vie!: Mixed impacts of an edutainment television series in West Africa27
Information and behavior: Evidence from fertilizer quantity recommendations in Bangladesh26
Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño?26
Peaceful entry: Entrepreneurship dynamics during Colombia’s peace agreement26
Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China25
Trade policy and exporters’ resilience: Evidence from Indonesia25
Turning up the heat: Extreme heat and labor implications in West Africa25
Corruption exposure, political trust, and immigrants24
Trouble with zero: The limits of subsidizing technology adoption24
Editorial Board24
Transportation infrastructure and deforestation in the Amazon24
Editorial to special issue on migration and development24
Food price variation and passthrough among retail firms in rural and urban Tanzania23
Number one girl: Female top scorers and peer academic performance in junior high schools23
Subjective risk belief function in the field: Evidence from cooking fuel choices and health in India23
Ethno-regional favoritism and the political economy of school test scores23
Unveiling the Cosmic Race: Skin tone and intergenerational economic disparities in Latin America and the Caribbean23
Social isolation induced negative emotions affect economic behavior: A natural experiment study22
Does labor composition impact the transmission of monetary policy to output?22
The persistence of trade relocation from civil conflict22
Agricultural composition and labor productivity22
The mismeasure of weather: Using earth observation data for estimation of socioeconomic outcomes21
Public pensions and family dynamics: Eldercare, child investment, and son preference in rural China21
Industrial policy in a new era: Government venture capital in the US–China trade war20
Place-based affirmative action in college admission and educational attainment20
Does the gig economy discriminate against women? Evidence from physicians in China20
Relocation from China (with Chinese characteristics)20
Nonclassical measurement error and farmers’ response to information treatment19
Federal and state audits do not increase compliance with a grant program to improve municipal infrastructure: A pre-registered field experiment19
Curriculum and national identity: Evidence from the 1997 curriculum reform in Taiwan19
What you do (not) get when expanding the net - Evidence from forced taxpayer registrations in South Africa19
Empowering women through radio: Evidence from Occupied Japan19
Public good or public bad? Nation-building and Indigenous institutions19
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys19
Sharing risk to avoid tragedy: Informal insurance and irrigation in village economies19
Weather or climate? A new perspective on temperature shocks19
Racial self-classification, group consciousness, and public employment representation19
Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality: Theory and evidence19
Endogenous labor migration and remittances: Macroeconomic and welfare consequences18
Social protection and social distancing during the pandemic: Mobile money transfers in Ghana18
The seeds of misallocation: Fertilizer use and maize varietal misidentification in Ethiopia18
The impact of female political leadership on gender attitudes: Evidence from Taiwan’s local councils18
Internal migration and drug violence in Mexico18
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states18
Cognitive and socioemotional skills in low-income countries: Measurement and associations with schooling and earnings18
Vehicle exhaust standards and urban air quality in China18
Multifaceted programs targeting women in fragile settings: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo18
Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina17
Immigration and occupational downgrading in Colombia17
Better strategies for saving more: Evidence from three interventions in Chile17
Improved menstrual health and the workplace: An RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers17
Human capital affects religious identity: Causal evidence from Kenya17
Seasonality, academic calendar and school dropouts in South Asia17
Returns to quality in rural agricultural markets: Evidence from wheat markets in Ethiopia17
A dynamic theory on clientelism and bureaucratic development17
Spillovers in ICT adoption from formal to informal firms: Evidence from Zambia17
Formal insurance and altruism networks17
From wells to wealth? Government transfers and human capital16
The limits of hegemony: U.S. banks and Chilean firms in the Cold War16
Occupational mismatch and market power16
Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity16
The impact of violence on the dynamics of migration: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution16
Digital connectivity and firm participation in foreign markets: An exporter-based bilateral analysis16
Foreign technology and informal employment: Evidence from Mexico16
When regional policies fail: An evaluation of Indonesia’s Integrated Economic Development Zones15
Editorial Board15
Two birds, one stone: Responses of agriculture to water pollution regulation15
Foreign interventions and community cohesion in times of conflict15
Driving while hungry: The effect of fasting on traffic accidents15
North Korean refugees’ implicit bias against South Korea predicts market earnings15
Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies15
Voter-buying, politician selection, and public good provision in Brazil14
Public sentiment in times of terror14
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence14
Gender differences in judicial decisions under incomplete information: Evidence from child support cases14
Promoting Innovative Startups: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Tunisia14
Persistent yet ameliorable shocks to female entrepreneurship: Experimental evidence from Kenya14
Holi crimes: The impact of a public festivity on violence against women14
Universal secondary education, schooling and women ’s empowerment: Evidence from Uganda14
Resource booms, revenue sharing, and growth14
The decision-makers we become: Early education and the decision-making of boys and girls13
Parental responses to child disability: Gender differences and relative earnings13
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition13
Jobs! Electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa13
Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention13
Beyond poverty reduction: Evidence from a multifaceted program on poverty, nutrition and child development13
Violence against journalists and freedom of the press: Evidence from Mexico13
Chat over coffee? Diffusion of agronomic practices and market spillovers in Rwanda13
The effects of expanding worker rights to children13
How distortive are turnover taxes? Evidence from China13
Property rights, sick pay and effort supply13
Responding to natural disasters: What do monthly remittance data tell us?13
The quiet revolution: Send-down movement and female empowerment in China13
A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa13
Do tax audits have a dynamic impact? Evidence from corporate income tax administrative data13
Types of communications technology and civil conflict12
What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde12
Spatial inefficiencies in Africa’s trade network12
Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes?12
Exploitation vs. Exploration: How knowledge spillovers shape healthcare practices and innovation12
Feeling the same heat? Urban–rural inequalities in adapting to extreme temperatures via electricity consumption12
Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability12
Who benefits from a maternity leave extension? Evidence from Chile12
Bundled contracts and technological diffusion: Evidence from the Brazilian soybean boom12
Trafficking as choice? Evidence from Nigeria12
Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo12
Unintended consequences of sanitation investment: Negative externalities on water quality and health in India12
The effect of teacher training and community literacy programming on teacher and student outcomes12
Place-based Policies and Household Wealth in Africa12
Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing12
Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration12
Retraction notice to “Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence: Evidence from India” [J. Dev. Econ. 157 (2022) 102872]11
Labor market rigidity at home and multinational corporations’ flexible production reallocation abroad11
Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan11
Religious leaders and rule of law11
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s learning and wellbeing: Evidence from India11
Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households11
Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia11
Behavioral consequences of religious schooling11
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports?11
How good are livestock statistics in Africa? Can nudging and direct counting improve the quality of livestock asset data?11
The effect of reminders for self-set goals on productivity11
Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China11
Introduction to the journal of development economics special issue on methods and measurement11
Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model11
Preprimary education and early childhood development: Evidence from government schools in rural Kenya10
Road expansion, allocative efficiency, and pro-competitive effect of transport infrastructure: Evidence from China10
Remote tutoring in Latin America10
Shipwrecked by rents10
Health, wealth, or equity? Trade-offs from households’ allocative decisions10
Delivery times in international competition: An empirical investigation10
A two-wave death story: fentanyl overdoses in the US, bullets in Mexico10
Blaming the wind? The impact of wind turbine on bird biodiversity10
Corruption and extremism10
Editorial Board10
Fighting violence against women: The role of female political representation10
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: The role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power10
Improving childhood immunization through maternal support: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Pakistan10
Tradition and mortality: Evidence from twin infanticide in Africa10
Keeping an eye on the villain: Assessing the impact of surveillance cameras on crime10
Information and immigrant settlement10
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