Journal of Development Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Development Economics is 11. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
On the road: Access to transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China307
The costs of “blue sky”: Environmental regulation, technology upgrading, and labor demand in China166
Straw burning, PM2.5, and death: Evidence from China150
The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China143
Response and adaptation of agriculture to climate change: Evidence from China138
Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where?132
Greening through finance?131
The effect of air pollution on body weight and obesity: Evidence from China106
The impact of forced displacement on host communities: A review of the empirical literature in economics71
Common transport infrastructure: A quantitative model and estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative66
Mass media, information and demand for environmental quality: Evidence from the “Under the Dome”64
The effects of fuel standards on air pollution: Evidence from China62
Trade effects of the New Silk Road: A gravity analysis60
Rural road infrastructure & agricultural production: Evidence from India55
Fintech and household resilience to shocks: Evidence from digital loans in Kenya54
Expressways, GDP, and the environment: The case of China53
Blessing or burden? Impacts of refugees on businesses and the informal economy49
Cash transfers, polygamy, and intimate partner violence: Experimental evidence from Mali49
The price of gold: Dowry and death in India47
Here waits the bride? The effect of Ethiopia's child marriage law47
Close to the edge: High productivity at plot peripheries and the inverse size-productivity relationship46
The Belt and Road Initiative: Reshaping economic geography in Central Asia?45
The unintended impacts of agricultural fires: Human capital in China43
Services development and comparative advantage in manufacturing38
Give me your tired and your poor: Impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees38
Land quality, land rights, and indigenous poverty38
Gender gaps in labor informality: The motherhood effect37
Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India37
Foreign demand, developing country exports, and CO2 emissions: Firm-level evidence from India37
Exposure to open defecation can account for the Indian enigma of child height35
Import competition and firm innovation: Evidence from China35
Brothers or invaders? How crisis-driven migrants shape voting behavior33
Who wins, who loses? Understanding the spatially differentiated effects of the belt and road initiative33
Cooking that kills: Cleaner energy access, indoor air pollution, and health33
Short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification: Evidence from the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid33
Early-life deprivation and health outcomes in adulthood: Evidence from childhood hunger episodes of middle-aged and elderly Chinese33
Technology adoption, capital deepening, and international productivity differences31
Misperceived quality: Fertilizer in Tanzania31
Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin31
A Framework to Assess Debt Sustainability under the Belt and Road Initiative31
China's rising IQ (Innovation Quotient) and growth: Firm-level evidence31
Economic and psychological effects of health insurance and cash transfers: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Kenya31
Refugees' and irregular migrants’ self-selection into Europe30
The geography of linguistic diversity and the provision of public goods30
Geographic connectivity and cross-border investment: The Belts, Roads and Skies29
Heat, infant mortality, and adaptation: Evidence from India29
Costs and benefits of rural-urban migration: Evidence from India28
The new era of unconditional convergence28
Exploitation of labor? Classical monopsony power and labor's share28
Land and labor allocation under communal tenure: Theory and evidence from China27
The long-term consequences of China's “Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign in old age27
Labour market reform and firm-level employment adjustment: Evidence from the hukou reform in China27
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment26
The gold digger and the machine. Evidence on the distributive effect of the artisanal and industrial gold rushes in Burkina Faso25
Gender gaps in technology diffusion25
The effects of rural electrification in India: An instrumental variable approach at the household level24
Distance, trade, and income — The 1967 to 1975 closing of the Suez canal as a natural experiment24
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China24
Trade and agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from Africa24
Stepping up during a crisis: The unintended effects of a noncontributory pension program during the Covid-19 pandemic23
Under pressure: Women’s leadership during the COVID-19 crisis22
Female employment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee inflows to Turkey22
Exposure of belt and road economies to China trade shocks22
Across a few prohibitive miles: The impact of the Anti-Poverty Relocation Program in China22
Land use restrictions, misallocation in agriculture, and aggregate productivity in Vietnam21
Relief from usury: Impact of a self-help group lending program in rural India20
How effective is energy-efficient housing? Evidence from a field trial in Mexico20
Tractor vs. animal: Rural reforms and technology adoption in China20
Reconciling the conflicting narratives on poverty in China20
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states20
Trade liberalization, roads and firm productivity20
Things fall apart? Missions, institutions, and interpersonal trust19
Colonialism and female empowerment: A two-sided legacy19
Land market distortions and aggregate agricultural productivity: Evidence from Guatemala19
The effect of refugees on native adolescents’ test scores: Quasi-experimental evidence from PISA19
Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine19
Divorce laws and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Mexico19
The joint effects of information and financing constraints on technology adoption: Evidence from a field experiment in rural Tanzania19
The effect of marital endowments on domestic violence in India19
Top lights: Bright cities and their contribution to economic development18
Digital adoption, automation, and labor markets in developing countries18
Input quality and skills are complementary and increase output quality: Causal evidence from Ecuador’s trade liberalization18
Crop choice, trade costs, and agricultural productivity18
Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan18
The early bird catches the worm? School entry cutoff and the timing of births17
Does insecure land tenure deter investment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial17
Managing the spread of disease with mobile phone data17
Information, technology, and market rewards: Incentivizing aflatoxin control in Ghana17
Caveat utilitor: A comparative assessment of resilience measurement approaches17
Industrialization from scratch: The “Construction of Third Front” and local economic development in China's hinterland17
The effect of computer-assisted learning on students’ long-term development17
How do households adjust to tariff liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO accession17
Does informality facilitate inflation stability?17
Production efficiency and self-enforcement in value-added tax: Evidence from state-level reform in India17
Trade, productivity, and the spatial organization of agriculture: Evidence from Brazil17
Sex, lies, and measurement: Consistency tests for indirect response survey methods16
Funding and financing infrastructure: The joint-use of public and private finance16
What you import matters for productivity growth: Experience from Chinese manufacturing firms16
Healthcare at the beginning of life and child survival: Evidence from a cash transfer experiment in Nigeria16
Mandarins make markets: Leadership rotations and inter-provincial trade in China16
Rural transformation, inequality, and the origins of microfinance16
Do corporate income tax cuts decrease labor share? Regression discontinuity evidence from China16
Stigma or cushion? IMF programs and sovereign creditworthiness15
Refugee camps and deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa15
Trans-boundary air pollution spillovers: Physical transport and economic costs by distance15
Saving for dowry: Evidence from rural India15
Can information influence the social insurance participation decision of China's rural migrants?15
Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods15
Violence, psychological stress and educational performance during the “war on drugs” in Mexico15
Small firms and the pandemic: Evidence from Latin America15
Trade policy changes, tax evasion and Benford's law15
Resources, conflict, and economic development in Africa15
Can virtual replace in-person coaching? Experimental evidence on teacher professional development and student learning15
Testing willingness to pay elicitation mechanisms in the field: Evidence from Uganda15
Panel data and experimental design14
“Moving Umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China14
The short term impact of a productive asset transfer in families with child labor: Experimental evidence from the Philippines14
Place-based preferential tax policy and industrial development: Evidence from India’s program on industrially backward districts14
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys14
Gender-targeted job ads in the recruitment process: Facts from a Chinese job board14
Empowering refugees through cash and agriculture: A regression discontinuity design13
Mining and human capital accumulation: Evidence from the Colombian gold rush13
Infrastructure investment and growth in China: A quantitative assessment13
Keeping it in the family: Female inheritance, inmarriage, and the status of women13
Public health insurance and pharmaceutical innovation: Evidence from China13
Cash-plus: Poverty impacts of alternative transfer-based approaches13
A breath of fresh air: Raising awareness for clean fuel adoption13
Slums and pandemics12
Following the poppy trail: Origins and consequences of Mexican drug cartels12
Tax evasion and financial development under asymmetric information in credit markets12
The political economy of health epidemics: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak12
Experimental long-term effects of early-childhood and school-age exposure to a conditional cash transfer program12
Fertility and rural electrification in Bangladesh12
Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda12
Grain exports and the causes of China's Great Famine, 1959–1961: County-level evidence12
Is a refugee crisis a housing crisis? Only if housing supply is unresponsive12
Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration12
Competition and the racial wage gap: Evidence from Brazil12
Two and a half million Syrian refugees, tasks and capital intensity12
Experimental identification of asymmetric information: Evidence on crop insurance in the Philippines12
Measuring ethnic stratification and its effect on trust in Africa11
Can youth empowerment programs reduce violence against girls during the COVID-19 pandemic?11
An age profile perspective on two puzzles in global child health: The Indian Enigma & economic growth11
How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi11
Institutions, implementation, and program effectiveness: Evidence from a randomized evaluation of computer-assisted learning in rural China11
The long road to health: Healthcare utilization impacts of a road pavement policy in rural India11
Seeking the treated: The impact of mobile extension on farmer information exchange in India11
Neighborhood quality and opposition to immigration: Evidence from German refugee shelters11
A gravity analysis of refugee mobility using mobile phone data11
Texts don’t nudge: An adaptive trial to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in India11
Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor11
Can referral improve targeting? Evidence from an agricultural training experiment11
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia11
Hard to get: The scarcity of women and the competition for high-income men in urban China11
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