Journal of Development Economics

Article	Citations
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	136
Do bilateral labor agreements increase migration? Global evidence from 1960 to 2020	121
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	101
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	97
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	94
Participatory teaching improves learning outcomes: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania	91
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	85
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	77
Get in the zone: The risk-adjusted welfare effects of data-driven vs. administrative borders for index insurance zones	75
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	68
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	65
Communist propaganda and women’s status	64
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	64
The emergence of the poverty-mental health gradient: Evidence from the great Pakistan earthquake of 2005	63
Demonetization and under-reporting of economic activity: Evidence from real estate	63
Flexible contracting and quality upgrading under market volatility: Experimental evidence from Senegal	63
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	57
The national-integration effect of compulsory education: Evidence from Chinese minorities	56
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	54
The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China	53
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	51
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	51
The impact of investment promotion on multinational production: Firm-level evidence	50
Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature	49
Large firms and the intensive margin of labor informality evidence from an enforcement intervention in Peru	47

Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	40
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	40
Editorial Board	40
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	39
Solving coordination failures: Collective land transfer rights and rural entrepreneurship	39
Caste identity and teachers’ biased expectations: Evidence from Bihar, India	39
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	38
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	37
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	37
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	34
Temporary migration for long-term investment	33
The art of not being chocked: Environmental awareness, residents' responses and land transactions in China	33
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	33
Climate policies, labor markets, and macroeconomic outcomes in emerging economies	32
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	32
Grassland certification, grazing behavior, and ecological consequences: Evidence from pastoral China	32
Does social capital positively influence loan performance even during a crisis?	31
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	31
When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from waterborne illnesses	31
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	31
User-centered approaches to contraceptive counseling: Experimental evidence from urban Malawi	30
Awakening latent human capital: Economic opening up and entrepreneurship in 19th century China	30
Labor market consequences of homicides: A gender perspective from Mexico	30
Rural pension, factor reallocation and agricultural productivity: Evidence from China	30
Externalities of the personality traits: The effect of peer personality on students’ mental health	30
Transportation infrastructure and deforestation in the Amazon	30
Peaceful entry: Entrepreneurship dynamics during Colombia’s peace agreement	29
Trade policy and exporters’ resilience: Evidence from Indonesia	29
Corrigendum to “How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi” J. Dev. Econ. 146 (2020) 102522	28
A behavioral intervention to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay	28
Agricultural revolution and industrialization	27
Did the Cold War produce development clusters in Africa?	26
C'est la vie!: Mixed impacts of an edutainment television series in West Africa	26
It will rain: The effect of information on flood preparedness in urban Mozambique	26
Information and behavior: Evidence from fertilizer quantity recommendations in Bangladesh	25
Turning up the heat: Extreme heat and labor implications in West Africa	25
Gains from market integration: Welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia	25
Trouble with zero: The limits of subsidizing technology adoption	24
Consequences of a massive refugee influx on firm performance and market structure	24
Editorial to special issue on migration and development	24
Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China	24
Place-based affirmative action in college admission and educational attainment	24
Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño?	24
Editorial Board	23
Ethno-regional favoritism and the political economy of school test scores	23
Curriculum and national identity: Evidence from the 1997 curriculum reform in Taiwan	23
The persistence of trade relocation from civil conflict	22
Food price variation and passthrough among retail firms in rural and urban Tanzania	22
Relocation from China (with Chinese characteristics)	22
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys	21

Social isolation induced negative emotions affect economic behavior: A natural experiment study	21
Does labor composition impact the transmission of monetary policy to output?	21
Industrial policy in a new era: Government venture capital in the US–China trade war	21
Does the gig economy discriminate against women? Evidence from physicians in China	21
Subjective risk belief function in the field: Evidence from cooking fuel choices and health in India	21
Agricultural composition and labor productivity	21
Unveiling the Cosmic Race: Skin tone and intergenerational economic disparities in Latin America and the Caribbean	21
Corruption exposure, political trust, and immigrants	21
The mismeasure of weather: Using earth observation data for estimation of socioeconomic outcomes	21
The seeds of misallocation: Fertilizer use and maize varietal misidentification in Ethiopia	20
Internal migration and drug violence in Mexico	20
Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine	20
Seasonality, academic calendar and school dropouts in South Asia	20
Number one girl: Female top scorers and peer academic performance in junior high schools	20
Empowering women through radio: Evidence from Occupied Japan	20
Public pensions and family dynamics: Eldercare, child investment, and son preference in rural China	20
Spillovers in ICT adoption from formal to informal firms: Evidence from Zambia	19
Racial self-classification, group consciousness, and public employment representation	18
Cognitive and socioemotional skills in low-income countries: Measurement and associations with schooling and earnings	18
Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality: Theory and evidence	18
Human capital affects religious identity: Causal evidence from Kenya	18
What you do (not) get when expanding the net - Evidence from forced taxpayer registrations in South Africa	18
Social protection and social distancing during the pandemic: Mobile money transfers in Ghana	18
Nonclassical measurement error and farmers’ response to information treatment	18
Public good or public bad? Nation-building and Indigenous institutions	18
The impact of female political leadership on gender attitudes: Evidence from Taiwan’s local councils	18
Federal and state audits do not increase compliance with a grant program to improve municipal infrastructure: A pre-registered field experiment	17
Better strategies for saving more: Evidence from three interventions in Chile	17
Immigration and occupational downgrading in Colombia	17
Returns to quality in rural agricultural markets: Evidence from wheat markets in Ethiopia	17
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states	17
Vehicle exhaust standards and urban air quality in China	17
Improved menstrual health and the workplace: An RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers	17
Sharing risk to avoid tragedy: Informal insurance and irrigation in village economies	17
Endogenous labor migration and remittances: Macroeconomic and welfare consequences	17
A dynamic theory on clientelism and bureaucratic development	16
When regional policies fail: An evaluation of Indonesia’s Integrated Economic Development Zones	16
Weather or climate? A new perspective on temperature shocks	16
Formal insurance and altruism networks	16
Multifaceted programs targeting women in fragile settings: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo	16
The limits of hegemony: U.S. banks and Chilean firms in the Cold War	16
Occupational mismatch and market power	15
Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina	15
Digital connectivity and firm participation in foreign markets: An exporter-based bilateral analysis	15
From wells to wealth? Government transfers and human capital	15
Driving while hungry: The effect of fasting on traffic accidents	15
Foreign technology and informal employment: Evidence from Mexico	14
Foreign interventions and community cohesion in times of conflict	14
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China	14
Gender differences in judicial decisions under incomplete information: Evidence from child support cases	14
North Korean refugees’ implicit bias against South Korea predicts market earnings	14
Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies	14
Persistent yet ameliorable shocks to female entrepreneurship: Experimental evidence from Kenya	14
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence	14
Two birds, one stone: Responses of agriculture to water pollution regulation	14
Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity	14
The impact of violence on the dynamics of migration: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution	14
Holi crimes: The impact of a public festivity on violence against women	14
Editorial Board	14
Promoting Innovative Startups: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Tunisia	13
Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo	13
The decision-makers we become: Early education and the decision-making of boys and girls	13
Resource booms, revenue sharing, and growth	13
Responding to natural disasters: What do monthly remittance data tell us?	13
Parental responses to child disability: Gender differences and relative earnings	13
Jobs! Electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa	13
Violence against journalists and freedom of the press: Evidence from Mexico	13
The effects of expanding worker rights to children	13
Chat over coffee? Diffusion of agronomic practices and market spillovers in Rwanda	13
The spread of (mis)information: A social media experiment in Pakistan	13
Voter-buying, politician selection, and public good provision in Brazil	13
The quiet revolution: Send-down movement and female empowerment in China	13
Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention	13
Universal secondary education, schooling and women ’s empowerment: Evidence from Uganda	13
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition	13
Public sentiment in times of terror	13
The effect of teacher training and community literacy programming on teacher and student outcomes	12
Bundled contracts and technological diffusion: Evidence from the Brazilian soybean boom	12
A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa	12
Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing	12

Spatial inefficiencies in Africa’s trade network	12
Beyond poverty reduction: Evidence from a multifaceted program on poverty, nutrition and child development	12
Property rights, sick pay and effort supply	12
Feeling the same heat? Urban–rural inequalities in adapting to extreme temperatures via electricity consumption	12
How distortive are turnover taxes? Evidence from China	12
Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability	12
Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes?	11
Do tax audits have a dynamic impact? Evidence from corporate income tax administrative data	11
Delivery times in international competition: An empirical investigation	11
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 abroad	11
Types of communications technology and civil conflict	11
Place-based Policies and Household Wealth in Africa	11
Behavioral consequences of religious schooling	11
Religious leaders and rule of law	11
What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde	11
Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration	11
Unintended consequences of sanitation investment: Negative externalities on water quality and health in India	11
Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan	11
Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households	11
How good are livestock statistics in Africa? Can nudging and direct counting improve the quality of livestock asset data?	10
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: The role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power	10
Trafficking as choice? Evidence from Nigeria	10
Road expansion, allocative efficiency, and pro-competitive effect of transport infrastructure: Evidence from China	10
Learning by searching: Spatial mismatches and imperfect information in Southern labor markets	10
Introduction to the journal of development economics special issue on methods and measurement	10
Preprimary education and early childhood development: Evidence from government schools in rural Kenya	10
Remote tutoring in Latin America	10
Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model	10
The effect of reminders for self-set goals on productivity	10
Improving childhood immunization through maternal support: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Pakistan	10
Blaming the wind? The impact of wind turbine on bird biodiversity	10
Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia	10
Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China	10
Fighting violence against women: The role of female political representation	10
Who benefits from a maternity leave extension? Evidence from Chile	10
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s learning and wellbeing: Evidence from India	10
A two-wave death story: fentanyl overdoses in the US, bullets in Mexico	10
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports?	10