Journal of Development Economics

Article	Citations
Using technology to prevent fraud in high stakes national school examinations: Evidence from Indonesia	231
Shortening the path to productive investment: Evidence from input fairs and cash transfers in Malawi	228
Is the glass half full or half empty? Examining the impact of Swatch Bharat interventions on sanitation and hygiene in rural Punjab, India	202
Economic development and known natural resource endowment: Discovery rate differentials of oil	189
Reconciling the conflicting narratives on poverty in China	96
Discrimination against migrants and its determinants: Evidence from a Multi-Purpose Field Experiment in the Housing Rental Market	94
Latin American pride: Labor market outcomes of sexual minorities in Brazil	82
Editorial Board	63
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	57
Attenuating measurement errors in agricultural productivity analysis by combining objective and self-reported survey data	55
Editorial Board	47
Transnational terrorism and the internet	47
Editorial Board	45
Editorial Board	45
Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors	43
Say it like Goethe: Language learning facilities abroad and the self-selection of immigrants	42
Aspirations and financial decisions: Experimental evidence from the Philippines	41
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	41
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	41
Public sentiment in times of terror	41
Editorial Board	41
Circle of fortune: The long-term impact of Western customs institution in China	38
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	37
Lucky women in unlucky cohorts	37
Marriage markets and the rise of dowry in India	35

Long Live friendship? The long-term impact of Soviet aid on Sino-Russian trade	33
Trust, violence, and coca	32
Economic shocks and infant health: Evidence from a trade reform in Brazil	31
Income inequality under colonial rule. Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920–1960	31
Asset transfers and anti-poverty programs: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	31
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	31
Idiosyncratic shocks and aggregate fluctuations in an emerging market	30
Do referrals improve the representation of women in mobile phone surveys?	29
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence	28
When do refugees return home? Evidence from Syrian displacement in Mashreq	28
Can political parties improve minority wellbeing? Evidence from India’s “Silent Revolution”	28
Intergenerational mobility around the world: A new database	28
Mistaking noise for bias	27
Exposure to transit migration: Public attitudes and entrepreneurship	27
Measuring social unrest using media reports	27
Public governance versus corporate governance: Evidence from oil drilling in forests	26
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	26
Political uncertainty and the forms of state capture	25
Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce “backway” migration from The Gambia?	24
On the market failure of “missing pioneers”	24
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	24
Group lending with covariate risk	23
Labeled loans and human capital investments	23
A structural estimation of the return to infrastructure investment in China	23
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	23
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	23
Land grabs and labor in Cambodia	23
The health costs of dirty energy: Evidence from the capacity market in Colombia	22
Migration from developing countries: Selection, income elasticity, and Simpson’s paradox	22
From bilateral trade to centralized markets: A search model for commodity exchanges in Africa	22
The long-run costs of highly competitive exams for government jobs	22
Communist propaganda and women’s status	21
Farming output, concentration, and market access: Evidence from the 19th-century American railroad expansion	21
The housing quality, income, and human capital effects of subsidized homes in urban India	21
Can information correct optimistic wage expectations? Evidence from Mozambican job-seekers	21
Breaking the silence – Group discussions and the adoption of menstrual health technologies	21
High-skilled services and development in China	21
Land allocation and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from the 2007 reform in China	21
The political economy of health epidemics: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak	20
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition	20
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	20
The Protective Role of Index Insurance in the Experience of Violent Conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia∗	19
Training microentrepreneurs over Zoom: Experimental evidence from Mexico	18
Jobs! Electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa	18
Exposure to collective gender-based violence causes intimate partner violence	18
Active learning improves financial education: Experimental evidence from Uganda	18
Tariff overhang and aid: Theory and empirics	18
Children on the move: Progressive redistribution of humanitarian cash transfers among refugees	17
“Moving Umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China	17
Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia	16

The welfare effects of India’s rural employment guarantee	16
Female employment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee inflows to Turkey	16
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	16
Go with the wind: Spatial impacts of environmental regulations on economic activities in China	16
Extreme heat and rural household adaptation: Evidence from Northeast China	15
Cover more for less: Targeted drug coverage, chronic disease management, and medical spending	15
The quiet revolution: Send-down movement and female empowerment in China	15
The costs of “blue sky”: Environmental regulation, technology upgrading, and labor demand in China	15
Import competition, labor market regulations, and firm outsourcing	15
Land titling, human capital misallocation, and agricultural productivity in China	15
A hybrid approach to targeting social assistance	15
The deforestation effects of trade and agricultural productivity in Brazil	15
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	15
How distortive are turnover taxes? Evidence from China	15
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	14
Foreign direct investment and knowledge diffusion in poor locations	14
What is the optimal locus of control for social assistance programs? Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia	14
Network adoption subsidies: A digital evaluation of a rural mobile phone program in Rwanda	13
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia	13
Learning effects of conditional cash transfers: The role of class size and composition	13
Small firms and the pandemic: Evidence from Latin America	13
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	13
Incentives, penalties, and rural air pollution: Evidence from satellite data	13
Identifying communication spillovers in lab-in-the-field experiments	13
Adapting to climate change accounting for individual beliefs	13
Groups in conflict: Private and public prizes	13
Editorial Board	12
Need-based financing policies, college decision-making, and labor market behavior: Evidence from Jamaica	12
Export capacity constraints and distortions	12
Military investment and the rise of industrial clusters: Evidence from China’s self-strengthening movement	12
Editorial Board	12
Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia	12
The labor market effects of an educational expansion	12
Endogenous inclusion in the Demographic and Health Survey anthropometric sample: Implications for studying height within households	12
A gravity analysis of refugee mobility using mobile phone data	12
The deep roots of rebellion	12
How light is too light touch: The effect of a short training-based intervention on household poultry production in Burkina Faso	12
Last corrupt deed before retirement? Evidence from a lower middle-income country	12
Parental investment, school choice, and the persistent benefits of an early childhood intervention	12
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	12
Spousal communication and information sharing: Evidence from migrants and their spouses	11
Changing local customs: The long run impacts of Christian missions on female genital cutting in Africa	11
Immigration and violent crime: Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border	11
Measuring time use in rural India: Design and validation of a low-cost survey module	11
The nutritional cost of beef bans in India	11
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	11
Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo	11
Editorial Board	11
No bulls: Experimental evidence on the impact of veterinarian ratings in Pakistan	11
Supporting early childhood development remotely: Experimental evidence from SMS messages	11
Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability	11
Bundled contracts and technological diffusion: Evidence from the Brazilian soybean boom	11
The consequences of health mandates on infant health: Evidence from a smoking-ban regulation	11
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	10
FDI inflows and export quality: Domestic competition and within-firm adjustment	10
Social distancing and COVID-19 under violence: Evidence from Colombia	10
Macroeconomic outcomes in disaster-prone countries	10
The effectiveness of entry deregulation: Novel evidence from removing minimum capital requirements	10
Medication against conflict	10
Types of communications technology and civil conflict	10
Do tax audits have a dynamic impact? Evidence from corporate income tax administrative data	10
Risk, arbitrage, and spatial price relationships: Insights from China's hog market under the African Swine Fever	10
Editorial Board	10
Employment effects of minimum wages in a dual economy: Evidence from Thailand	10
IMF programs and economic growth: A meta-analysis	10
Quantifying welfare effects in the presence of externalities: An ex-ante evaluation of sanitation interventions	9
Program targeting with machine learning and mobile phone data: Evidence from an anti-poverty intervention in Afghanistan	9
Building networks: Investigating the quid pro quo between local politicians & developers	9
Are age-of-marriage laws enforced? Evidence from developing countries	9
Saving for dowry: Evidence from rural India	9
Place-based preferential tax policy and industrial development: Evidence from India’s program on industrially backward districts	9
Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil	9
Can housing booms elevate financing costs of financial institutions?	9
Mass persuasion and the ideological origins of the Chinese Cultural Revolution	9
Student loans: Credit constraints and higher education in South Africa	9
Marriage outcomes of displaced women	9
Here waits the bride? The effect of Ethiopia's child marriage law	9
Labour market reform and firm-level employment adjustment: Evidence from the hukou reform in China	9
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	9
Editorial Board	9

Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing	9
Direct vs indirect management training: Experimental evidence from schools in Mexico	9
Foreign demand, developing country exports, and CO2 emissions: Firm-level evidence from India	9
Evidence on designing sanitation interventions	9
The more the poorer? Resource sharing and scale economies in large families	9
Trans-boundary air pollution spillovers: Physical transport and economic costs by distance	9