Review of Development Economics

Article	Citations
Digital inclusive finance and urban innovation: Evidence from China	81
Do personal remittances influence economic growth in South Asia? A panel analysis	33
Internet use and consumption diversity: Evidence from rural China	28
Rural development in the digital age: Does information and communication technology adoption contribute to credit access and income growth in rural China?	22
Adoption of agricultural technologies among rice farmers in Benin	20
Has the information and communication technology sector become the engine of China’s economic growth?	19
The effect of export composition on energy demand: A fresh evidence in the context of economic complexity	19
Mechanization services, factor allocation, and farm efficiency: Evidence from China†	18
Disparities in regional productivity, capital accumulation, and efficiency across Indonesia: A club convergence approach	17
Understanding poverty dynamics and vulnerability in Tanzania: 2012–2018	17
Income inequality and economic growth: A re‐examination of theory and evidence	15
Financial inclusion and education: An empirical study of financial inclusion in the face of the pandemic emergency due to Covid‐19 in Latin America and the Caribbean	15
Gender gap and access to finance: A cross‐country analysis	14
Impact of global value chains on total factor productivity: The case of Indian manufacturing	14
Does agricultural trade liberalization increase obesity in developing countries?	13
Reducing farmers' poverty vulnerability in China: The role of digital financial inclusion	13
Gendered effects of sanctions on manufacturing employment: Evidence from Iran	13
Impacts of management training on workers: Evidence from Central America and the Caribbean region	13
Poverty in India in the face of Covid‐19: Diagnosis and prospects*	13
Poverty and vulnerability in Mozambique: An analysis of dynamics and correlates in light of the Covid‐19 crisis using synthetic panels	13
Internet use and agricultural productivity in rural Vietnam	13
Corruption and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean	13
Political instability and youths unemployment in sub‐Saharan Africa	12
Smallholder farmers’ perception of climate change and drivers of adaptation in agriculture: A case study in Guinea	12
On the financial literacy, indebtedness, and wealth of Colombian households	12

New insight into decoupling carbon emissions from economic growth: Do financialization, human capital, and energy security risk matter?	12
Innovation‐adjusted economic complexity and growth: Do patent flows reveal enhanced economic capabilities?	12
Productivity determinants in the construction sector in emerging country: New evidence from Ecuadorian firms	11
Drought and social conflict in rural Zimbabwe: Does the burden fall on women and girls?	11
How climate change leads to emigration: Conditional and long‐run effects	11
Overcoming digital poverty traps in rural Asia	11
Technology adoption and the middle‐income trap: Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia	11
Smartphone use, off‐farm employment, and women's decision‐making power: Evidence from rural China	10
An introduction to rural and agricultural development in the digital age	10
Is the demographic dividend diminishing in China? Evidence from population aging and economic growth during 1990–2015	9
Aid for Trade, export product diversification, and foreign direct investment	9
Urban segregation and consumption inequality: Does hukou conversion matter in China?	9
Can microcredit reduce vulnerability to poverty? Evidence from rural Vietnam	9
Investigating the well‐being implications of mobile money access and usage from a multidimensional perspective	9
The distributional effects of government spending shocks in developing economies	8
Growing up in the Iran–Iraq war and preferences for strong defense	8
Dynamic correlation between crude oil and agricultural futures markets	8
Profit sharing, industrial upgrading, and global supply chains: Theory and evidence	8
Hand pollination, mass spraying, and hybrid seedlings: Do these technologies affect the welfare of smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana?	8
Constructing synthetic panels for the purpose of studying poverty dynamics: A primer	8
Inclusive growth in the face of increasing urbanization: What experience for African countries?	8
Is maternal employment detrimental to children’s nutritional status? Evidence from Bangladesh	8
Gender inequality, corruption, and economic development	8
Impact of mobile payment adoption on household expenditures and subjective well‐being	8
Severity of the COVID‐19 pandemic in India	7
Does manager education play a role in the productivity of informal firms in developing economies? Evidence from firm‐level surveys	7
Within‐family inequalities in human capital accumulation in India	7
The economic cost of conflict: Evidence from South Sudan	7
Climate change and spatial agricultural development in Turkey	7
Urban poverty, growth, and inequality: A needed paradigm shift?	7
Narrowing the gender digital divide in Pakistan: Mobile phone ownership and female labor force participation	7
The long‐term impact of education on dietary diversity among women in Zimbabwe	7
The impact of conflict on the exchange rate of developing economies	7
Free to escape? Economic freedoms, growth and poverty traps	7
Redistribution and efficiency: An empirical analysis of the relevant trade‐offs of welfare state fiscal policies	7
Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan	7
The role of resource reallocation in promoting total factor productivity growth: Insights from China’s agricultural sector	7
Microfinance and poverty reduction: Evidence from Djibouti	7
Risk preference and child labor: Econometric evidence	7
Do farmers get a greater return from selling their agricultural products through e‐commerce?	7
Structural changes and economic landscape of the Indian economy: 2000‐2019	7
Economic openness, government efficiency, and urbanization	7
Foreign direct investment, informality and technology transfer	6
FDI and spillovers: New evidence from Malaysia’s manufacturing sector	6
Analyzing vulnerability to poverty and assessing the role of universal public works and food security programs to reduce it: Evidence from an eastern Indian state	6
Military spending and sustainable development	6
Son‐biased fertility stopping, birth spacing, and child nutritional status in Pakistan	6
Modeling the dynamics of oil and agricultural commodity price nexus in linear and nonlinear frameworks: A case of emerging economy	6
Income inequality among agricultural households in India: A regression‐based decomposition analysis	6
Environmental regulation and foreign direct investment attractiveness: Evidence from China provinces	6

Earnings gap between men and women in the informal labor market in Cameroon	6
Remittances and rural credit markets: Evidence from Senegal	6
Poverty and vulnerability transitions in Myanmar: An analysis using synthetic panels	6
Understanding poverty dynamics in Ethiopia: Implications for the likely impact of COVID‐19	6
Challenges in water and sanitation services: Do natural disasters make matters worse?	6
What effect does development aid have on productivity in recipient countries?	6
Agglomeration and innovation effort: A longitudinal study on small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Vietnam	5
Exchange rate uncertainty and foreign direct investment in Africa: Does financial development matter?	5
Is specialization a strategy to improve farm efficiency in northwest China?	5
Poverty, vulnerability and Covid‐19: Introduction and overview	5
Smartphone‐based agricultural extension services and farm incomes: Evidence from Zhejiang Province in China	5
The trade openness–gender wage differential nexus: Household‐level evidence from Ghana	5
Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia: The gravity model	5
Resource rents and environmental pollution in developing countries: Does the quality of institutions matter?	5
The impact of Nepal's earthquake on the health status of rural children	5
Pandemics and technology engagement: New evidence from m‐Health intervention during COVID‐19 in India	5
Can proactive fiscal policy achieve the goal of “Beyond Keynesianism”?	5
An empirical analysis of Colombia's trade liberalization process and its effect on the equilibrium of its structural trade deficit	5
Distance of doing business and outward foreign direct investment: An empirical study of China	5
Economic growth takeoffs and the extensive and intensive margins of trade	5
Social networks and internal migration in China: A spatial autoregressive model	5
Outsmarting your parents: Being a first‐generation learner in developing countries	5
Welfare impact of asymmetric price transmission on rice consumers in Bangladesh	5
Effects of housing demolition on labor supply: Evidence from China	5
Does combining traditional and information and communications technology–based extension methods improve agricultural outcomes? Evidence from field experiments in Mali	5
The impact of rent seeking on social infrastructure and productivity	5
Agricultural productivity‐environmental sustainability nexus through the lens of digitalization and energy intensity in BRICS countries	5
The perils of embedded experiments	4
Conditional cash transfers tools to combat child labor: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Costa Rica	4
Government spending and the exchange rate: Exploring this relationship in Mexico using a cointegrated system of equations	4
Some questions of ethics in randomized controlled trials	4
Urban household consumption in China: Price, income, and demographic effects	4
Joint effects of exporting and outward FDI on firm‐level capital investment in India	4
Trade liberalization, export quality, and three dimensions of wage inequality*	4
Terrorism and inbound tourism in Egypt: Economy‐wide and distributional impacts	4
Linguistic distance and economic development: A cross‐country analysis	4
Child labor, social capital, and economic development*	4
Race‐based affirmative action for higher education in Brazil: Impact assessment on performance, time, and delay in completion*	4
Estimating the link between trade uncertainty, pandemic uncertainty and food price stability in Togo: New evidence for an asymmetric analysis	4
Pollution permits, green taxes, and the environmental poverty trap	4
To obey or not to obey? Can game theory explain human behavior in the context of coronavirus disease?	4
Does intrahousehold bargaining power enhance women's marital satisfaction? A perspective from two competing forces in China	4
Contract farming, community effect, and farmer valuation of biofortified crop varieties in China: The case of high‐zinc wheat	4
Formalization of manufacturing firms in Bangladesh	4
Grading foreign aid agencies: Best practices across traditional and emerging donors	4
The impact of minimum wages on wages, wage spillovers, and employment in China: Evidence from longitudinal individual‐level data	4
The impacts of women's land ownership: Evidence from Vietnam	4
The persistence of inequality across Indian states: A time series approach	4
Cash transfers and the supply of labor by poor households: Evidence from the livelihood empowerment against poverty program in Ghana	4
Wage inequality in the developing world: Evidence from Latin America	4
Inclusive health and life insurance adoption: An empirical study in Guatemala	4
Enhancing rural income through public agricultural R&D: Spatial spillover and infrastructure thresholds	3
Income inequality and macroeconomic instability	3
Does piped water improve adolescent health? Empirical evidence from rural China	3
Son preference and the demographic transition	3
Institutional endowment, curse, and the impact of external political shock: The case of Macao	3
The role of peer imitation in agricultural index insurance adoption: Findings from lab‐in‐the‐field experiments in Kyrgyzstan	3
Absent laws and missing women: Can domestic violence legislation reduce female mortality?	3
Female labor force participation in Egypt and Palestine: An age–period–cohort analysis*	3
Return migrants in Albania: The determinants of “entrepreneurial gain”	3
Alternative paths of diversification for developing countries	3
Pollution haven or pollution halo? The role of global value chains in Belt and Road economies	3
Market resilience in times of crisis: The case of Darfur	3
How does education affect intergenerational income mobility in Chinese society?	3
Do fiscal opacity, fiscal impulse, and fiscal credibility affect disagreement about economic growth forecasts? Empirical evidence from Brazil considering the period of political instability and presid	3
A good mix against ultra‐poverty? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in Bangladesh	3
Internet usage and the income gap between self‐employed individuals and employees: Evidence from China	3
Do public pension programmes reduce elderly poverty in China?	3
Export quality and patent protection: Stage‐dependent effects in development	3
The effects of free primary education in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A difference‐in‐differences approach	3
Economic transition, dualism and informality inIndia: Nature and patterns of household‐level transitions	3
The detection dilemma of marginally non‐poor households in poverty alleviation evaluation: Evidence from a linear quantile mixed model	3
Trade liberalization, domestic reforms, and income inequality: Evidence from Taiwan	3
Engel’s law in China: Some new evidence	3
Microfinance competition and multiple borrowing: Evidence using panel data from Bangladesh	3
Interregional inequality in Africa, convergence, and multiple equilibria: Evidence from nighttime light data	3
The nexus between public sector corruption and private sector efficiency: Evidence from worldwide firm‐level data	3
The impact of anti‐sweatshop activism on employment	3
Parental aspirations and child private‐school enrollment: Evidence from India	3
Heterogeneity in returns to agricultural technologies with incomplete diffusion: Evidence from Ghana	3

Household income mobility in India, 1993–2011	3
The effects of school‐based management on Indian government schools	3
Family‐type public goods and intra‐household decision‐making by co‐resident South African couples	2
Make concentrated trade not war?	2
How do the intended and unintended beneficiaries respond to the Philippines' conditional cash transfer program?	2
Parents' pension eligibility and migrant consumption in urban China: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	2
Language and learning in ethnically mixed communities	2
Trade policy and input liberalization: The effect on Egyptian firms’ productivity	2
Fragility exposure index: Concepts, measurement, and application	2
Effects of COVID‐19 restrictions on mechanization service providers and mechanization equipment retailers: Insights from phone surveys in Myanmar	2
Empirical investigation of the agriculture–malnutrition nexus in Africa: Spatial clustering and spillover effects	2
The New Development Bank and the structure of the multilateral development financial system	2
Crime, elections, and political competition	2
A possible mechanism for partial crowding‐out of R&D subsidies in developing countries	2
Correction of China's income inequality for missing top incomes	2
Financial inclusion, gender gaps and agricultural productivity in Mali	2
Green technological progress, agricultural modernization, and wage inequality: Lessons from China	2
Market competition, exchange rate uncertainty, and foreign direct investment	2
Coastal proximity and individual living standards: Econometric evidence from georeferenced household surveys in sub‐Saharan Africa	2
Reforms and education inequality in Ghana	2
Monetary policy and inflation–output variability in Sri Lanka: Lessons for developing economies	2
On the economic impacts of COVID‐19: A text mining literature analysis	2
Once NEET, always NEET? A synthetic panel approach to analyze the Moroccan labor market	2
Urban cash transfers and poverty in Ghana	2
Asymmetric impacts of ICT and energy intensity on agricultural productivity: Evidence from Asia‐Pacific region	2
Years of life lost to revolution and war in Iran	2
Drain on your health: Sanitation externalities from dirty drains in India	2
The multiplier effect of public employment on formal employment in the private sector: Evidence from Turkey*	2
The determinants of inequality in child nutrition status: Evidence from Jordan	2
Complementarity and substitutability between farm and nonfarm activities: Evidence from agricultural households in Tanzania	2
Liquidity defaults and progressive lending in microfinance: A lab‐in‐the field experiment in Bolivia	2
Labor policy and multinational firms: The “race to the bottom” revisited	2
Exchange rate pass‐through to import prices: Evidence from a heterogeneous panel of West African countries	2
Economic openness, financial bias, and the urban–rural income gap	2
Effect of goods market segmentation on labor mobility: Evidence from China	2
Special economic zones, export status, and firms’ productivity: Theory and evidence from China	2
How do education resources respond to the quality of local governance in Africa?	2
Assessment of the effects of targeted poverty alleviation policy on differently poverty‐stricken households: A multi‐propensity score weighting model	2
Partner country selection between development narratives and self‐interests: A new method for analysing complex donor approaches	2
International remittances and nonfarm entrepreneurship among the left‐behind: Evidence from Nepal	2
Growth in a macro‐Mincer model: Good results with schooling and experience interactions	2
Effects of pollution abatement activities on environmental efficiency and productivity: Empirical evidence from the Chinese industrial sector	2
Does the impact of private education on growth differ at different levels of credit market development?	1
How is China's trade imbalance overstated? An analysis based on trade in value‐added	1
Political origins of financial structure in developing countries	1
“Not everything is lost”: The role of education during adolescence to mitigate the effects of the early experience of poverty	1
On the determinants and interrelationship of components of government spending	1
Agricultural producer service subsidies and agricultural pollution: An approach based on endogenous agricultural pollution	1
Why cash grants fail to raise household investment in child education in developing countries	1
The effects of local economic development on female obesity (overweight) in sub‐Saharan Africa	1
On the inclusiveness of rural road improvement: Evidence from Morocco	1
Beyond the scenery: Understanding the impact of rural tourism development on household consumption in China	1
Public works programs and crime: Evidence for El Salvador	1
Did Mali benefit from joining the CFA zone? An analysis using the synthetic control method	1
Family policy, intrahousehold bargaining, and child health	1
The remittance‐growth nexus in leading remittance‐earning nations, controlling regulatory quality, trade openness, energy use, and financial expansion	1
Oil discovery, boom‐bust cycle and manufacturing slowdown: Evidence from a large industry level dataset	1
Does social integration matter for cohort differences in the political participation of internal migrants in China?	1
Forced formalization and informal sector: A simple Chayanov model	1
Biased FDI spillovers in incomplete datasets: An empirical examination	1
Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics	1
Factors of production, productivity, institutions, and development: Evidence from Brazil	1
The welfare implications of COVID‐19 for fragile and conflict‐affected regions	1
Technology licensing, entry mode, and trade liberalization	1
Partial privatization, producer services, and unemployment in developing countries	1
The geography of intergenerational mobility: Evidence of educational persistence and the “Great Gatsby Curve” in Brazil	1
The influence of international trade on labour productivity in services: The case of Brazil in the 1990s	1
The impact of CO2 emissions and climate on economic growth and productivity: International evidence	1
Once again “smile curve”: Is chain upgrading possible?	1
Decomposing changes in inequality: Evidence from Myanmar	1
Estimating the health production function for Pakistan: Do environmental factors matter?	1
Smoking habits in Mexico: Upward and downward comparisons of economic status	1
Judicial efficiency and the comparative disadvantage of Indian manufacturing	1
Do fertilizer and seed subsidies strengthen farmers' market participation? Evidence from Tanzania's subsidy program	1
Evaluating the effectiveness of labor market interventions on reducing the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic	1
The role of fisheries for poverty reduction and food security: Evidence from household‐level data	1
Is wealth found in the soil or in the brain? Investing in farm people in Malawi	1
Child health impact of the Nepalese civil war	1
Population density, urbanisation and agricultural mechanisation in modern Ghana	1
Agricultural labor markets and the inverse plot size–productivity relationship: Evidence from China's apple growers	1
Foreign aid network diversification and its impact on growth, growth acceleration, and growth spell	1
Do illiterate mothers learn from their literate kids? Evidence from maternal nutritional knowledge	1
Duration of exposure to inheritance law in India: Examining the heterogeneous effects on empowerment	1
Building smallholder farmers' capacity to adopt climate‐smart agricultural practices in flood prone areas: Lessons from Bangladesh	1
Central bank securities and foreign exchange market intervention in a developing economy	1
Impact of information and communication technologies on fertilizer and pesticide use efficiency of China's grain production	1
Exporting and the wage premium: The case of South African manufacturing firms	1
Environmental disasters and mental health: Evidence from oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon	1
Transformation of international migrants in head wind: Evidence from Tajikistan in the 2010s	1
Temporary migrants and gender housework division among left‐behind household members	1
A gendered analysis of the effect of financial inclusion on household welfare in Burundi	1
Digital financial inclusion and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises in China	1
Impact of financial inclusion on household welfare in Liberia: A gendered perspective	1
Withdrawal of the multifibre agreement and Indian textile industry: Concerns, efforts, and achievements	1
Reassessing the relationship between women's empowerment and fertility: Evidence from India	1