Journal of Development Economics

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	281
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	267
Communist propaganda and women’s status	249
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	117
Female employment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee inflows to Turkey	103
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	102
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	83
Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors	76
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	68
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	62
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	62
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	61
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	54
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	53
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	52
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	51
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	50
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	50
Temporary migration for long-term investment	49
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	47
Editorial Board	42
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	42
Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil	40
Editorial Board	40
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	38

Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	38
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	38
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	38
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	37
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	37
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	36
Information and behavioral responses during a pandemic: Evidence from delays in Covid-19 death reports	35
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	35
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	35
Welfare effects of an in-kind transfer program: Evidence from Mexico	35
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	35
Agricultural revolution and industrialization	34
Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China	34
When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from waterborne illnesses	34
Stepping up during a crisis: The unintended effects of a noncontributory pension program during the Covid-19 pandemic	34
Does social capital positively influence loan performance even during a crisis?	33
Editorial Board	32
Peaceful entry: Entrepreneurship dynamics during Colombia’s peace agreement	32
Distance, trade, and income — The 1967 to 1975 closing of the Suez canal as a natural experiment	32
Corrigendum to “How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi” J. Dev. Econ. 146 (2020) 102522	31
Body and mind: Experimental evidence from women living with HIV	30
Consequences of a massive refugee influx on firm performance and market structure	30
Information and behavior: Evidence from fertilizer quantity recommendations in Bangladesh	30
Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño?	29
A behavioral intervention to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay	29
Disrupted academic careers: The returns to time off after high school	28
Editorial Board	28
Ethno-regional favoritism and the political economy of school test scores	28
Agricultural trade and depletion of groundwater	28
Gains from market integration: Welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia	28
Does the gig economy discriminate against women? Evidence from physicians in China	27
Curriculum and national identity: Evidence from the 1997 curriculum reform in Taiwan	27
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment	26
Trouble with zero: The limits of subsidizing technology adoption	26
Corruption exposure, political trust, and immigrants	26
Public pensions and family dynamics: Eldercare, child investment, and son preference in rural China	26
The persistence of trade relocation from civil conflict	26
Agricultural composition and labor productivity	26
Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine	25
Does labor composition impact the transmission of monetary policy to output?	25
Subjective risk belief function in the field: Evidence from cooking fuel choices and health in India	25
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys	25
The seeds of misallocation: Fertilizer use and maize varietal misidentification in Ethiopia	24
Human capital affects religious identity: Causal evidence from Kenya	24
Internal migration and drug violence in Mexico	24
Federal and state audits do not increase compliance with a grant program to improve municipal infrastructure: A pre-registered field experiment	24
Vehicle exhaust standards and urban air quality in China	23
Nonclassical measurement error and farmers’ response to information treatment	23
Cognitive and socioemotional skills in low-income countries: Measurement and associations with schooling and earnings	23
Better strategies for saving more: Evidence from three interventions in Chile	23

Endogenous labor migration and remittances: Macroeconomic and welfare consequences	22
Multifaceted programs targeting women in fragile settings: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo	22
Returns to quality in rural agricultural markets: Evidence from wheat markets in Ethiopia	22
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states	22
Sharing risk to avoid tragedy: Informal insurance and irrigation in village economies	21
What you do (not) get when expanding the net - Evidence from forced taxpayer registrations in South Africa	21
Immigration and occupational downgrading in Colombia	21
Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality: Theory and evidence	21
Improved menstrual health and the workplace: An RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers	20
Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity	20
The impact of female political leadership on gender attitudes: Evidence from Taiwan’s local councils	20
Seeking the treated: The impact of mobile extension on farmer information exchange in India	20
Contingent determinants	19
Editorial Board	19
A dynamic theory on clientelism and bureaucratic development	19
The limits of hegemony: U.S. banks and Chilean firms in the Cold War	18
Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies	18
From wells to wealth? Government transfers and human capital	18
Formal insurance and altruism networks	18
Identifying psychological trauma among Syrian refugee children for early intervention: Analyzing digitized drawings using machine learning	18
North Korean refugees’ implicit bias against South Korea predicts market earnings	18
Driving while hungry: The effect of fasting on traffic accidents	18
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China	18
Editorial Board	17
On the market failure of “missing pioneers”	17
When do refugees return home? Evidence from Syrian displacement in Mashreq	17
Responding to natural disasters: What do monthly remittance data tell us?	17
Impacts of industrial and entrepreneurial jobs on youth: 5-year experimental evidence on factory job offers and cash grants in Ethiopia	17
Universal secondary education, schooling and women ’s empowerment: Evidence from Uganda	17
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition	16
Parental responses to child disability: Gender differences and relative earnings	16
The quiet revolution: Send-down movement and female empowerment in China	16
Public sentiment in times of terror	16
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence	16
“Moving Umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China	16
The housing quality, income, and human capital effects of subsidized homes in urban India	16
Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration	15
Types of communications technology and civil conflict	15
Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo	15
Marriage outcomes of displaced women	15
Jobs! Electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa	15
The effects of expanding worker rights to children	15
How distortive are turnover taxes? Evidence from China	15
Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability	14
Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia	14
A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa	14
Exploitation of labor? Classical monopsony power and labor's share	14
A gravity analysis of refugee mobility using mobile phone data	14
Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention	14
Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes?	14
Do tax audits have a dynamic impact? Evidence from corporate income tax administrative data	14
Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing	14
Bundled contracts and technological diffusion: Evidence from the Brazilian soybean boom	14
Spatial inefficiencies in Africa’s trade network	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	13
Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia	13
Behavioral consequences of religious schooling	13
Religious leaders and rule of law	13
What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde	13
Delivery times in international competition: An empirical investigation	13
Refugees and foreign direct investment: Quasi-experimental evidence from US resettlements	12
Refugee camps and deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa	12
Does terrorism make people pessimistic? Evidence from a natural experiment	12
Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model	12
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s learning and wellbeing: Evidence from India	12
Introduction to the journal of development economics special issue on methods and measurement	12
Fighting violence against women: The role of female political representation	12
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports?	12
The power to protect: Household bargaining and female condom use	12
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: The role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power	12
Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan	12
Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China	12
Editorial Board	11
Road expansion, allocative efficiency, and pro-competitive effect of transport infrastructure: Evidence from China	11
Information and immigrant settlement	11
Social protection amidst social upheaval: Examining the impact of a multi-faceted program for ultra-poor households in Yemen	11
Numeracy development in Africa: New evidence from a long-term perspective (1730–1970)	11
Wider economic benefits of transport corridors: Evidence from international development organizations	11
TV in times of political uncertainty: Evidence from the 2017 elections in Kenya	11

Colonialism and female empowerment: A two-sided legacy	11
Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence: Evidence from India	11
Tradition and mortality: Evidence from twin infanticide in Africa	11
Shipwrecked by rents	11
The “miseries” of sex imbalance: Evidence using subjective well-being data	11
Cash transfers and micro-enterprise performance: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya	11