Review of Development Economics

Article	Citations
Digital inclusive finance and urban innovation: Evidence from China	57
Natural resources, technological progress, and economic modernization	40
Does women’s participation in agricultural technology adoption decisions affect the adoption of climate‐smart agriculture? Insights from Indo‐Gangetic Plains of India	29
Casting a shadow: Productivity of formal firms and informality	29
Cereal production, undernourishment, and food insecurity in South Asia	27
Housing price, talent movement, and innovation output: Evidence from Chinese cities	27
Internet use and consumption diversity: Evidence from rural China	22
Do personal remittances influence economic growth in South Asia? A panel analysis	21
The effect of export composition on energy demand: A fresh evidence in the context of economic complexity	18
Has the information and communication technology sector become the engine of China’s economic growth?	17
Disparities in regional productivity, capital accumulation, and efficiency across Indonesia: A club convergence approach	16
Rural development in the digital age: Does information and communication technology adoption contribute to credit access and income growth in rural China?	16
Adoption of agricultural technologies among rice farmers in Benin	14
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	13
Mechanization services, factor allocation, and farm efficiency: Evidence from China†	13
Aggregate and heterogeneous sectoral growth effects of foreign direct investment in Egypt	12
Understanding poverty dynamics and vulnerability in Tanzania: 2012–2018	12
Adoption and use of mobile banking by low‐income individuals in Senegal	12
Impact of remittances on male and female labor force participation patterns in Africa: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Ghana	12
Income inequality and economic growth: A re‐examination of theory and evidence	12
Poverty in India in the face of Covid‐19: Diagnosis and prospects*	11
On the financial literacy, indebtedness, and wealth of Colombian households	11
The effects of international remittances on expenditure patterns of the left‐behind households in Sub‐Saharan Africa	11
Survey attrition after 15 years of tracking children in four developing countries: The Young Lives study	10
Evaluating universal primary education in Uganda: School fee abolition and educational outcomes	10

Impact of global value chains on total factor productivity: The case of Indian manufacturing	10
Poverty and vulnerability in Mozambique: An analysis of dynamics and correlates in light of the Covid‐19 crisis using synthetic panels	10
Smallholder farmers’ perception of climate change and drivers of adaptation in agriculture: A case study in Guinea	10
Impact of remittances on household health care expenditure: Evidence from the Nepal Living Standards Survey	10
Government consumption, government debt and economic growth	10
How climate change leads to emigration: Conditional and long‐run effects	9
Innovation‐adjusted economic complexity and growth: Do patent flows reveal enhanced economic capabilities?	9
Investigating the well‐being implications of mobile money access and usage from a multidimensional perspective	9
Productivity determinants in the construction sector in emerging country: New evidence from Ecuadorian firms	9
Technology adoption and the middle‐income trap: Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia	9
Gender, entrepreneurship and food security in Niger	9
Urban segregation and consumption inequality: Does hukou conversion matter in China?	9
Gender gap and access to finance: A cross‐country analysis	9
What explains trade costs? Institutional quality and other determinants	9
Impacts of management training on workers: Evidence from Central America and the Caribbean region	9
Corruption and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean	8
Profit sharing, industrial upgrading, and global supply chains: Theory and evidence	8
Empowerment and intimate partner violence: Domestic abuse when household income is uncertain	8
Are developing countries accumulating sufficient total factor productivity to sustain their economic growth and job creation? Empirical evidence from the Middle East and North Africa region	8
Is the demographic dividend diminishing in China? Evidence from population aging and economic growth during 1990–2015	8
The impacts of farmland expropriation on Vietnam’s rural households	7
Policy impact assessment in developing countries using Social Accounting Matrices: The Kenya SAM 2014	7
Aid for Trade, export product diversification, and foreign direct investment	7
Labor protection laws and the drain on productivity: Evidence from India	7
Dynamic correlation between crude oil and agricultural futures markets	7
Does agricultural trade liberalization increase obesity in developing countries?	7
Do interest rate controls work? Evidence from Kenya	7
Is the devil in the shadow? The effect of institutional quality on income	7
Constructing synthetic panels for the purpose of studying poverty dynamics: A primer	7
Internet use and agricultural productivity in rural Vietnam	7
Smartphone use, off‐farm employment, and women's decision‐making power: Evidence from rural China	7
Political instability and youths unemployment in sub‐Saharan Africa	7
Market access and regional dispersion of human capital accumulation in Turkey	7
Foreign direct investment, informality and technology transfer	6
The role of resource reallocation in promoting total factor productivity growth: Insights from China’s agricultural sector	6
Is maternal employment detrimental to children’s nutritional status? Evidence from Bangladesh	6
Risk preference and child labor: Econometric evidence	6
Gender inequality, corruption, and economic development	6
Son‐biased fertility stopping, birth spacing, and child nutritional status in Pakistan	6
The distributional effects of government spending shocks in developing economies	6
Severity of the COVID‐19 pandemic in India	6
Within‐family inequalities in human capital accumulation in India	6
The economic cost of conflict: Evidence from South Sudan	6
Redistribution and efficiency: An empirical analysis of the relevant trade‐offs of welfare state fiscal policies	6
Heterogeneity in entrepreneurship in developing countries: Risk, credit, and migration and the entrepreneurial propensity of youth and women	6
Reducing farmers' poverty vulnerability in China: The role of digital financial inclusion	6
Does manager education play a role in the productivity of informal firms in developing economies? Evidence from firm‐level surveys	6
Distortions to agricultural incentives: Evidence from Nigerian value chains	6
Working conditions and factory survival: Evidence from better factories Cambodia	6
Can microcredit reduce vulnerability to poverty? Evidence from rural Vietnam	6

Inflation targeting in low‐income countries: Does IT work?	6
Economic openness, government efficiency, and urbanization	5
Internal migration and youth entrepreneurship in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	5
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	5
Business operations, contestability, bureaucratic holdup, and bribe solicitations	5
Gendered effects of sanctions on manufacturing employment: Evidence from Iran	5
Farmer organizations and maize productivity in rural Burkina Faso: The effects of the diversion strategy on cotton input loans	5
Poverty and vulnerability transitions in Myanmar: An analysis using synthetic panels	5
Environmental regulation and foreign direct investment attractiveness: Evidence from China provinces	5
Growing up in the Iran–Iraq war and preferences for strong defense	5
Economic growth takeoffs and the extensive and intensive margins of trade	5
Remittances and rural credit markets: Evidence from Senegal	5
Is specialization a strategy to improve farm efficiency in northwest China?	5
Wagner’s Law and Fiscal Illusion: An analysis of state government finances in Brazil	5
The impact of conflict on the exchange rate of developing economies	5
Earnings gap between men and women in the informal labor market in Cameroon	5
Microfinance and poverty reduction: Evidence from Djibouti	4
Overcoming digital poverty traps in rural Asia	4
Welfare impact of asymmetric price transmission on rice consumers in Bangladesh	4
Beyond technical skills training: The impact of credit counseling on the entrepreneurial behavior of Ugandan youth	4
An empirical analysis of Colombia's trade liberalization process and its effect on the equilibrium of its structural trade deficit	4
What effect does development aid have on productivity in recipient countries?	4
Modeling the dynamics of oil and agricultural commodity price nexus in linear and nonlinear frameworks: A case of emerging economy	4
Social networks and internal migration in China: A spatial autoregressive model	4
Modern sector development: The role of exports and institutions in developing countries	4
Cash transfers and the supply of labor by poor households: Evidence from the livelihood empowerment against poverty program in Ghana	4
Age at marriage, social norms, and female education in Nepal	4
The impact of rent seeking on social infrastructure and productivity	4
Understanding poverty dynamics in Ethiopia: Implications for the likely impact of COVID‐19	4
Climate change and spatial agricultural development in Turkey	4
The persistence of inequality across Indian states: A time series approach	4
Pollution permits, green taxes, and the environmental poverty trap	4
Long‐run effects of teachers in developing countries	4
“Opt out” or kept out? The effect of stigma, structure, selection, and sector on the labor force participation of married women in India	4
Contract farming, community effect, and farmer valuation of biofortified crop varieties in China: The case of high‐zinc wheat	4
Does combining traditional and information and communications technology–based extension methods improve agricultural outcomes? Evidence from field experiments in Mali	4
Measuring inclusive growth experiences: Five criteria for productive employment	4
Race‐based affirmative action for higher education in Brazil: Impact assessment on performance, time, and delay in completion*	4
Hand pollination, mass spraying, and hybrid seedlings: Do these technologies affect the welfare of smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana?	4
Trade liberalization, domestic reforms, and income inequality: Evidence from Taiwan	3
Drought and social conflict in rural Zimbabwe: Does the burden fall on women and girls?	3
Democracy in the neighborhood and foreign direct investment	3
Inclusive health and life insurance adoption: An empirical study in Guatemala	3
Structural changes and economic landscape of the Indian economy: 2000‐2019	3
The perils of embedded experiments	3
Can individuals’ beliefs help us understand nonadherence to malaria test results? Evidence from rural Kenya	3
Does piped water improve adolescent health? Empirical evidence from rural China	3
Do you really need it? Educational mismatch and earnings in Ghana	3
Trade liberalization, export quality, and three dimensions of wage inequality*	3
Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan	3
Exchange rate uncertainty and foreign direct investment in Africa: Does financial development matter?	3
Urban poverty, growth, and inequality: A needed paradigm shift?	3
Return migrants in Albania: The determinants of “entrepreneurial gain”	3
Effects of housing demolition on labor supply: Evidence from China	3
Inflation and income distribution in Central America, Mexico, Panama, and the Dominican Republic	3
Formalization of manufacturing firms in Bangladesh	3
Military spending and sustainable development	3
Engel’s law in China: Some new evidence	3
Agricultural productivity‐environmental sustainability nexus through the lens of digitalization and energy intensity in BRICS countries	3
Free to escape? Economic freedoms, growth and poverty traps	3
The impacts of China’s exchange rate regime reform in 2005: A counterfactual analysis	3
Absent laws and missing women: Can domestic violence legislation reduce female mortality?	3
Malnutrition in the shadow of economic growth	3
Does intrahousehold bargaining power enhance women's marital satisfaction? A perspective from two competing forces in China	3
Institutional endowment, curse, and the impact of external political shock: The case of Macao	3
FDI and spillovers: New evidence from Malaysia’s manufacturing sector	3
A good mix against ultra‐poverty? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in Bangladesh	3
Poverty, vulnerability and Covid‐19: Introduction and overview	3
Education and wage inequality before and during the fiscal crisis: A quantile regression analysis for Greece 2006–2016	3
Market resilience in times of crisis: The case of Darfur	3
The gender wage gap among China’s rural–urban migrants	3
Smartphone‐based agricultural extension services and farm incomes: Evidence from Zhejiang Province in China	3
Distance of doing business and outward foreign direct investment: An empirical study of China	3
The trade openness–gender wage differential nexus: Household‐level evidence from Ghana	3
Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia: The gravity model	3
The big push to a knowledge‐based economy with intellectual property rights protection	3
Urban household consumption in China: Price, income, and demographic effects	3
Income inequality among agricultural households in India: A regression‐based decomposition analysis	3
Balanced versus unbalanced growth: Revisiting the forgotten debate with new empirics	3
Heterogeneity in returns to agricultural technologies with incomplete diffusion: Evidence from Ghana	3

Relative economic status and mental health among Chinese adults: Evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study	3
The detection dilemma of marginally non‐poor households in poverty alleviation evaluation: Evidence from a linear quantile mixed model	3
The impact of minimum wages on wages, wage spillovers, and employment in China: Evidence from longitudinal individual‐level data	3
Can proactive fiscal policy achieve the goal of “Beyond Keynesianism”?	3
Inclusive growth in the face of increasing urbanization: What experience for African countries?	2
Terrorism and inbound tourism in Egypt: Economy‐wide and distributional impacts	2
Make concentrated trade not war?	2
Family‐type public goods and intra‐household decision‐making by co‐resident South African couples	2
Complementarity and substitutability between farm and nonfarm activities: Evidence from agricultural households in Tanzania	2
Grading foreign aid agencies: Best practices across traditional and emerging donors	2
Liquidity defaults and progressive lending in microfinance: A lab‐in‐the field experiment in Bolivia	2
Conditional cash transfers tools to combat child labor: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Costa Rica	2
The role of peer imitation in agricultural index insurance adoption: Findings from lab‐in‐the‐field experiments in Kyrgyzstan	2
Impact of mobile payment adoption on household expenditures and subjective well‐being	2
Estimating the link between trade uncertainty, pandemic uncertainty and food price stability in Togo: New evidence for an asymmetric analysis	2
Narrowing the gender digital divide in Pakistan: Mobile phone ownership and female labor force participation	2
Outsmarting your parents: Being a first‐generation learner in developing countries	2
The impact of Nepal's earthquake on the health status of rural children	2
Correction of China's income inequality for missing top incomes	2
Income inequality and macroeconomic instability	2
Enhancing rural income through public agricultural R&D: Spatial spillover and infrastructure thresholds	2
Monetary policy and inflation–output variability in Sri Lanka: Lessons for developing economies	2
Effects of pollution abatement activities on environmental efficiency and productivity: Empirical evidence from the Chinese industrial sector	2
Rethinking the aid–growth relationship: A network approach	2
Do vertical spillovers differ by investors’ productivity? Theory and evidence from Vietnam	2
Microfinance competition and multiple borrowing: Evidence using panel data from Bangladesh	2
Language and learning in ethnically mixed communities	2
Interregional inequality in Africa, convergence, and multiple equilibria: Evidence from nighttime light data	2
The impacts of women's land ownership: Evidence from Vietnam	2
Class or caste? A study on the role of caste and wealth status in school choice decision	2
Some questions of ethics in randomized controlled trials	2
The effects of free primary education in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A difference‐in‐differences approach	2
Spillovers from transport infrastructures onto firm productivity: An analytical and empirical study	2
Agglomeration and innovation effort: A longitudinal study on small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Vietnam	2
The multiplier effect of public employment on formal employment in the private sector: Evidence from Turkey*	2
How does education affect intergenerational income mobility in Chinese society?	2
The effects of school‐based management on Indian government schools	2
An introduction to rural and agricultural development in the digital age	2
The long‐term impact of education on dietary diversity among women in Zimbabwe	2
Labor policy and multinational firms: The “race to the bottom” revisited	2
Linguistic distance and economic development: A cross‐country analysis	2
Son preference and the demographic transition	2
Long‐run productivity trends: A global update with a global index	2
Government spending and the exchange rate: Exploring this relationship in Mexico using a cointegrated system of equations	2
The impact of anti‐sweatshop activism on employment	2
Exchange rate pass‐through to import prices: Evidence from a heterogeneous panel of West African countries	2
Export quality and patent protection: Stage‐dependent effects in development	2
To obey or not to obey? Can game theory explain human behavior in the context of coronavirus disease?	2
Wage inequality in the developing world: Evidence from Latin America	2
Life expectancy and economic development: Evidence from microdata	2
Pandemics and technology engagement: New evidence from m‐Health intervention during COVID‐19 in India	2
“Eat, my child.” Obesity among children in developing countries: Evidence from South Africa	1
The New Development Bank and the structure of the multilateral development financial system	1
Empirical investigation of the agriculture–malnutrition nexus in Africa: Spatial clustering and spillover effects	1
Shedding light on the convergence debate: Using luminosity data to investigate economic convergence in Ecuador	1
Pollution haven or pollution halo? The role of global value chains in Belt and Road economies	1
Once NEET, always NEET? A synthetic panel approach to analyze the Moroccan labor market	1
The determinants of inequality in child nutrition status: Evidence from Jordan	1
Political origins of financial structure in developing countries	1
On the determinants and interrelationship of components of government spending	1
The influence of international trade on labour productivity in services: The case of Brazil in the 1990s	1
Child labor, social capital, and economic development*	1
Public works programs and crime: Evidence for El Salvador	1
How does religion affect health in the gold mining industry? Evidence from Nigeria	1
Family policy, intrahousehold bargaining, and child health	1
The nexus between public sector corruption and private sector efficiency: Evidence from worldwide firm‐level data	1
Evaluating the effectiveness of labor market interventions on reducing the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic	1
Economic openness, financial bias, and the urban–rural income gap	1
Do farmers get a greater return from selling their agricultural products through e‐commerce?	1
Does the impact of private education on growth differ at different levels of credit market development?	1
Fiscal policy and economic activity in South Asia	1
“Not everything is lost”: The role of education during adolescence to mitigate the effects of the early experience of poverty	1
Nutrient consumption in India: Evidence from a village study	1
Technology licensing, entry mode, and trade liberalization	1
Agricultural labor markets and the inverse plot size–productivity relationship: Evidence from China's apple growers	1
Central bank securities and foreign exchange market intervention in a developing economy	1
Once again “smile curve”: Is chain upgrading possible?	1
Decomposing changes in inequality: Evidence from Myanmar	1
Biased FDI spillovers in incomplete datasets: An empirical examination	1
Fertility decisions of families in an intergenerational exchange model	1
Trade policy and input liberalization: The effect on Egyptian firms’ productivity	1
Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics	1
Asymmetric impacts of ICT and energy intensity on agricultural productivity: Evidence from Asia‐Pacific region	1
Population density, urbanisation and agricultural mechanisation in modern Ghana	1
Withdrawal of the multifibre agreement and Indian textile industry: Concerns, efforts, and achievements	1
How is China's trade imbalance overstated? An analysis based on trade in value‐added	1
Special economic zones, export status, and firms’ productivity: Theory and evidence from China	1
Do illiterate mothers learn from their literate kids? Evidence from maternal nutritional knowledge	1
Partial privatization, producer services, and unemployment in developing countries	1
Agricultural producer service subsidies and agricultural pollution: An approach based on endogenous agricultural pollution	1
Parents' pension eligibility and migrant consumption in urban China: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	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
Forced formalization and informal sector: A simple Chayanov model	1
Child health impact of the Nepalese civil war	1