Journal of Development Economics

Article	Citations
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	326
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	145
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	99
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	85
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	71
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	71
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	68
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	63
Editorial Board	61
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	59
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	58
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	51
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	49
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	48
Communist propaganda and women’s status	48
Get in the Zone: The Risk-Adjusted Welfare Effects of Data-Driven vs. Administrative Borders for Index Insurance Zones	46
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	46
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	45
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	45
The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China	44
Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature	42
Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil	42
The impact of investment promotion on multinational production: Firm-level evidence	42
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	42
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	41

Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	41
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	40
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	39
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	39
Editorial Board	39
Grassland Certification, Grazing Behavior, and Ecological Consequences: Evidence from Pastoral China	37
Temporary migration for long-term investment	37
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	37
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	36
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
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	35
When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from waterborne illnesses	35
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	35
Consequences of a massive refugee influx on firm performance and market structure	33
Peaceful entry: Entrepreneurship dynamics during Colombia’s peace agreement	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	31
Does social capital positively influence loan performance even during a crisis?	31
A behavioral intervention to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay	31
Agricultural revolution and industrialization	30
Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño?	30
Welfare effects of an in-kind transfer program: Evidence from Mexico	30
Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China	30
Information and behavior: Evidence from fertilizer quantity recommendations in Bangladesh	29
Transportation infrastructure and deforestation in the Amazon	28
Externalities of the personality traits: The effect of peer personality on students’ mental health	27
Gains from market integration: Welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia	27
Corruption exposure, political trust, and immigrants	27
Distance, trade, and income — The 1967 to 1975 closing of the Suez canal as a natural experiment	27
The persistence of trade relocation from civil conflict	27
Agricultural trade and depletion of groundwater	26
Disrupted academic careers: The returns to time off after high school	25
Trouble with zero: The limits of subsidizing technology adoption	25
Subjective risk belief function in the field: Evidence from cooking fuel choices and health in India	25
Editorial Board	25
Relocation from China (with Chinese characteristics)	25
Ethno-regional favoritism and the political economy of school test scores	25
Curriculum and national identity: Evidence from the 1997 curriculum reform in Taiwan	24
Public pensions and family dynamics: Eldercare, child investment, and son preference in rural China	24
Does labor composition impact the transmission of monetary policy to output?	24
Agricultural composition and labor productivity	23
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment	23
Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine	23
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys	23
Social isolation induced negative emotions affect economic behavior: A natural experiment study	23
Better strategies for saving more: Evidence from three interventions in Chile	21
Internal migration and drug violence in Mexico	21
The seeds of misallocation: Fertilizer use and maize varietal misidentification in Ethiopia	21
Nonclassical measurement error and farmers’ response to information treatment	21
Vehicle exhaust standards and urban air quality in China	21

Endogenous labor migration and remittances: Macroeconomic and welfare consequences	21
What you do (not) get when expanding the net - Evidence from forced taxpayer registrations in South Africa	21
Does the gig economy discriminate against women? Evidence from physicians in China	21
The impact of female political leadership on gender attitudes: Evidence from Taiwan’s local councils	21
Cognitive and socioemotional skills in low-income countries: Measurement and associations with schooling and earnings	21
Multifaceted programs targeting women in fragile settings: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo	21
Improved menstrual health and the workplace: An RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers	20
Federal and state audits do not increase compliance with a grant program to improve municipal infrastructure: A pre-registered field experiment	20
Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality: Theory and evidence	20
Human capital affects religious identity: Causal evidence from Kenya	20
Immigration and occupational downgrading in Colombia	20
Sharing risk to avoid tragedy: Informal insurance and irrigation in village economies	19
Seeking the treated: The impact of mobile extension on farmer information exchange in India	19
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states	19
Spillovers in ICT adoption from formal to informal firms: Evidence from Zambia	19
Returns to quality in rural agricultural markets: Evidence from wheat markets in Ethiopia	19
Formal insurance and altruism networks	18
North Korean refugees’ implicit bias against South Korea predicts market earnings	18
A dynamic theory on clientelism and bureaucratic development	18
When regional policies fail: An evaluation of Indonesia’s Integrated Economic Development Zones	18
Impacts of industrial and entrepreneurial jobs on youth: 5-year experimental evidence on factory job offers and cash grants in Ethiopia	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
From wells to wealth? Government transfers and human capital	17
The impact of violence on the dynamics of migration: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution	17
Editorial Board	17
Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies	16
Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity	16
Occupational mismatch and market power	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
Voter-buying, politician selection, and public good provision in Brazil	15
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence	15
The housing quality, income, and human capital effects of subsidized homes in urban India	15
Promoting Innovative Startups: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Tunisia	15
Universal secondary education, schooling and women ’s empowerment: Evidence from Uganda	15
Responding to natural disasters: What do monthly remittance data tell us?	15
When do refugees return home? Evidence from Syrian displacement in Mashreq	15
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China	15
Jobs! Electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa	15
Editorial Board	15
“Moving Umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China	14
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition	14
Public sentiment in times of terror	14
Holi crimes: The impact of a public festivity on violence against women	14
The quiet revolution: Send-down movement and female empowerment in China	14
Parental responses to child disability: Gender differences and relative earnings	13
Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration	13
Place-based Policies and Household Wealth in Africa	13
Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia	13
Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability	13
Spatial inefficiencies in Africa’s trade network	13
A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa	13
The effects of expanding worker rights to children	13
Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes?	13
Bundled contracts and technological diffusion: Evidence from the Brazilian soybean boom	13
Do tax audits have a dynamic impact? Evidence from corporate income tax administrative data	13
Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo	13
Persistent yet ameliorable shocks to female entrepreneurship: Experimental evidence from Kenya	13
Types of communications technology and civil conflict	13
Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention	13
Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing	13
How distortive are turnover taxes? Evidence from China	13
Property rights, sick pay and effort supply	13
Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model	12
Behavioral consequences of religious schooling	12
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: The role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power	12
Religious leaders and rule of law	12
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports?	12
The power to protect: Household bargaining and female condom use	12
Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households	12
Labor market rigidity at home and multinational corporations’ flexible production reallocation abroad	12
Preprimary education and early childhood development: Evidence from government schools in rural Kenya	12
Delivery times in international competition: An empirical investigation	12
Does terrorism make people pessimistic? Evidence from a natural experiment	12
How good are livestock statistics in Africa? Can nudging and direct counting improve the quality of livestock asset data?	12
What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde	12
Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China	11
Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan	11
Road expansion, allocative efficiency, and pro-competitive effect of transport infrastructure: Evidence from China	11

Timing matters: The (very) long-run impacts of cash grants during a crisis	11
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s learning and wellbeing: Evidence from India	11
Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia	11
Refugees and foreign direct investment: Quasi-experimental evidence from US resettlements	11
Information and immigrant settlement	11
Introduction to the journal of development economics special issue on methods and measurement	11
Fighting violence against women: The role of female political representation	11
Blaming the wind? The impact of wind turbine on bird biodiversity	11