Review of Development Economics

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Issue Information	65
Empowering women through microcredit in Djibouti	55
Rethinking Growth‐Environment Dynamics: A Review of Environmental Policy in Emerging Economies	42
Social Capital, Social Protection, and Multi‐Dimensional Poverty: Evidence From Chinese Migrant Workers' Experience	42
Iron‐Fortified Drinking Water in Anganwadi Centres in Rural India: A Randomized Controlled Trial	40
Unmasking the Corruption Paradox: Public Debt, Corruption, and Economic Growth in Sub‐Saharan Africa	38
Conditional cash transfers tools to combat child labor: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Costa Rica	33
The remittance‐growth nexus in leading remittance‐earning nations, controlling regulatory quality, trade openness, energy use, and financial expansion	29
Does Land Resource Misallocation Reduce Energy Efficiency? Empirical Evidence From 243 Prefecture Level Cities in China	28
The effect of capital structure on the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions: A meta‐analysis	28
Deepening Economic Development Through Market Access: Evidence From Navigational Channel Regulation Works	28
Does Monetary Policy Affect Urban Food Inflation? Some Evidence From India	28
Teaching in the right context: Textbook supply program, language, and learning	28
Why do some African firms export? The role of regional economic communities?	24
Climate threat and price stability: A case study of Belize	22
Research collaboration in development economics	22
Non‐Farm Entrepreneurship and Household Economic Precarity in Rural Ghana	22
Path Dependence: The “Curse” of Natural Resources on Urban Entrepreneurship	21
Local Business Environment and Enterprise Development in Vietnam: The Role of Macroeconomics	20
Do Industrial Robots Lower Employment Quality for Manufacturing Migrant Workers in China?	18
Correction to “Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan”	17
Rural development in the digital age: Does information and communication technology adoption contribute to credit access and income growth in rural China?	16
COVID ‐19 and the Unequal Distribution of Poverty Risks: Evidence From Urban India	16
Does Fiscal Efficiency Affect Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence Based on Spatial Panel Data Models	16

Inequality in Africa: Does injustice matter?	16
“Rising Women”: Evidence From China's Agricultural Mechanization	15
Food Gifting and Household Food Security	15
Internet use and consumption diversity: Evidence from rural China	14
The Impact of Fair Trade on Child Labor Working Hours in a Small Open Economy	14
Crime, elections, and political competition	14
From cultivation to culture: Wheat farming and sex selection in China	14
Oil discovery, boom‐bust cycle and manufacturing slowdown: Evidence from a large industry level dataset	13
Corruption, Land, and Housing: The Cleaning and Chilling Effects of China's Anti‐Corruption Campaign	12
Drain on your health: Sanitation externalities from dirty drains in India	12
Correction of China's income inequality for missing top incomes	12
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Aspirations and Investments in Agricultural Risk Mitigation Strategies	12
Economic transition, dualism and informality inIndia: Nature and patterns of household‐level transitions	11
The Impact of Income Inequality on Rural Household's Adoption of Climate‐Smart Agriculture Practices: Evidence From Yellow River Basin Region, China	11
Does Mobile Payment Raise the Poverty‐Alleviation Resilience of Chinese Households?	11
Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics	11
Beyond the scenery: Understanding the impact of rural tourism development on household consumption in China	10
Challenges in water and sanitation services: Do natural disasters make matters worse?	10
Fruitless or Fruitful? Examining Ghana's Agricultural Inputs Subsidy and Household Welfare	10
The impact of financial inclusion on rural–urban households welfare inequality in Ghana: A decomposition analysis	10
Wage inequality in the developing world: Evidence from Latin America	10
Beyond Competitiveness: Is Productivity Everything?	10
Does intrahousehold bargaining power enhance women's marital satisfaction? A perspective from two competing forces in China	9
Female labor force participation in Egypt and Palestine: An age–period–cohort analysis*	9
From non‐renewables to renewables and high‐tech production: The impact of natural wealth and technology on ecological load capacity in sub‐Saharan Africa	9
Early‐Life Hunger Experience and Dietary Behaviors in Adulthood: Evidence From the Great Chinese Famine	9
Equal opportunity and poverty reduction: How should aid be allocated?	9
Introduction to the Special Issue, Inequality in the 21st Century in the Developing World	9
Impact of financial inclusion on household welfare in Liberia: A gendered perspective	9
(En‐)‘lightening’ children: Assessing the impacts of access to electricity on learning achievement levels	8
Population Aging and Structural Transformation: An Overlapping Generations Model With Age‐Related Preference Shifts	8
A Novel Decomposition Framework for Agricultural Growth Accounting: A Global Supply Chain Perspective	8
Exports, skills, and wage inequality in Kenya's manufacturing firms	8
Household income mobility in India, 1993–2011	8
How do small formal and informal firms in Egypt compare? An analysis of firm characteristics and implications for formalization efforts	8
Democracy and Aid‐Led Development: Analysis With Dispersion Measure of Democracy and Korea's Knowledge Sharing Project Outcome	8
The effects of free primary education in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A difference‐in‐differences approach	8
Convergence or Divergence? Financial Development Trajectories in Post‐Communist Countries Based on Sharp and Smooth Break Panel Stationarity Tests	8
Do chairmen with China's Great Famine experience in early‐life affect firm tax avoidance activities?	8
The Bias of Chinese Agricultural Enterprises’ Export: Profit Margin or Productivity?	7
The Impact of Integrated Straw Utilization on Low‐Carbon Agricultural Development: Evidence From China	7
Parental aspirations and child private‐school enrollment: Evidence from India	7
Government Digitalization: A Catalyst for Innovation Across Economies	7
The Effects of ICT ‐Aided Learning on Non‐Farm Employment: Evidence From China	7
Structural Change, Internal Migration, and Welfare: A Micro‐Panel Data Evidence From Tanzania	7
Internet Use, Farm Investment, and Non‐Farm Employment: Evidence From Thailand and Vietnam	7
Informality, foreign ownership and bribery in developing countries	7
From Tech to Green: The Potential of Company Digitalization in Mitigating Urban Air Pollution	7
Does democracy stimulate remittances?	7

Connecting the fields: How ICT improve agricultural productivity in sub‐Saharan Africa	7
Constructing Country‐Specific Debt Indices for Developing Countries	7
The Impact of Digital Technology Use on Farmers' Quality of Life: Evidence From Rural China	7
Trade liberalization, wilful credit defaults and bank bribery in a credit‐constrained economy	7
Unveiling complexities: Income inequality and inequality of opportunity in China	7
Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia: The gravity model	7
Quantifying Mozambique's Peace Dividend: An Application of the Synthetic Control Method	7
“Rely (only) on the rigorous evidence” is bad advice	7
Impacts of climate change on food utilization in Nepal	6
Bribery and firm survival in Vietnam: Moderating effects of market competition, credit, and institutional constraints	6
The effect of mini‐grid rural electrification on urbanization: Evidence from the pilot mini‐grid systems in Ghana	6
Does It Help or Hinder? The Impact of Population Aging on Industrial Structure Upgrading in Transition Economic Systems	6
Assessment of the effects of targeted poverty alleviation policy on differently poverty‐stricken households: A multi‐propensity score weighting model	6
The New Development Bank and the structure of the multilateral development financial system	6
Spatial tax regimes and location choices of manufacturing firms: Survey evidence in southern Tunisia	6
Democracy and Human Capital in Africa	6
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From Complexity to Zero Hunger Goal: The Role of Productive Sophistication in Reducing Undernourishment	6
The impact of a disaster recovery policy on health status of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake victims: Evidence from a natural experiment	6
Predicting FDI inflows: Exploring a nonlinear relationship between peace years, oil wealth, and the rule of law	6
Assessing the impacts of Brazil's expenditure ceiling with a multiple‐household CGE model	6
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Can world heritage sites boost sales in non‐tourism firms? The role of visibility	6
Impact of mobile payment adoption on household expenditures and subjective well‐being	6
Monetary, fiscal, and structural drivers of inflation in Ethiopia: new empirical evidence from time series analysis	6
Pandemic‐induced job loss and mental health: Evidence from a moderated mediation model	5
Finding the right products for export diversification	5
The Extractive Resource Curse Revisited: Absolute Versus Relative De‐Industrialization in Africa	5
Navigating the Governance Gap: Is Africa's Informal Sector Holding Back Economic Transformation?	5
Parents' pension eligibility and migrant consumption in urban China: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	5
Structural changes and economic landscape of the Indian economy: 2000‐2019	5
Informal Firms' Adoption and Use of Mobile Money Under Uncertain Times: Evidence From Burkina Faso	5
Debt, Dictatorship, and Decline: The Enduring Economic Impact of the Philippines' 1980s Crisis	5
Women, Violence and Work: Threat of Sexual Violence and Women's Decision to Work	5
The Impacts of Weather Variability and Shocks on Farmers and Indigenous Peoples' Consumption: Evidence From Panama	5
Coastal proximity and individual living standards: Econometric evidence from georeferenced household surveys in sub‐Saharan Africa	5
Open‐access renewable resources and pollution: Trade and policy implications in a two‐country model	5
Understanding the Inequality of Opportunity in Stunting Among Chinese Children and Adolescents: An Urban–Rural Comparison	5
Mobile Money and Financial Inclusion: Evidence From Petty Traders in Ghana's Informal Sector	5
International or national implementers—Who is better? Evidence from a framing experiment	5
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Inclusive growth in the face of increasing urbanization: What experience for African countries?	5
The unintended energy efficiency gain from tax incentives for investment: Micro‐evidence from quasi‐natural experiments in China	5
Financial Development and Income Inequality Nexus in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Is Inequality of Opportunity the Missing Puzzle?	5
Agricultural producer service subsidies and agricultural pollution: An approach based on endogenous agricultural pollution	5
Comparative Analysis of SME Financing Impact on Economic Growth: Evidence From Developed and Developing Economies	5
The Impact of Institutional Openness Policies on Firms' Total Factor Productivity	5
Do fertilizer and seed subsidies strengthen farmers' market participation? Evidence from Tanzania's subsidy program	5
Re‐evaluating Africa's growth, poverty and inequality nexus	5
Women Disrupting the Workplace: Employer Attitudes Against Hiring Women in South Asia	5
Financial inclusion and healthcare in Africa: Examining the moderating role of education	5
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On the inclusiveness of rural road improvement: Evidence from Morocco	5
Immigration and the economic performance of countries	4
Unveiling the Causes of Low Women's Political Participation: Novel Perspectives From China	4
Revisiting the Schooling Inputs Debate: Experimental Evidence From an Early Grade Literacy Intervention in Lao PDR	4
Macroeconomic volatility and anti‐refugee violence in developing countries: Evidence from commodity price shocks	4
Charting the RMB's Development as a Global Currency Anchor: An Empirical Analysis	4
The effects of school‐based management on Indian government schools	4
Issue Information	4
Green technological progress, agricultural modernization, and wage inequality: Lessons from China	4
Unemployment only temporarily lowers happiness in an eastern society	4
Population Aging and Corporate Innovation: A U‐Shaped Evidence From China	4
The Heterogeneous Effects of High‐Speed Rail on Urban Economy in China: From the Perspective of Labor Mobility	4
Do Bilateral Political Relations Affect the Technological Innovation of Multinational Enterprises? Evidence From China	4
Did the nationwide implementation of electronic fund management in the Indian employment guarantee scheme result in reduced expenditures? A re‐examination of the evidence	4
Age Disparities in Economies of Scale in Daily Electricity Consumption: Evidence From Rural Households in a Northern Chinese Province	4
Does Multi‐Tiered Health Insurance Participation Reduce Household Financial Vulnerability? Evidence From Chinese Households	4
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Global Value Chain Participation and Sustainable Development in Belt and Road Initiative Economies: A Blessing or a Curse?	4
Challenges in the Socioeconomic and Environmental Context: A Multidimensional Analysis of Delayed Childhood Development	4
Evaluating the effectiveness of labor market interventions on reducing the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Dynamic System Model to Assess the Impact of Factors on Green Total Factor Productivity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing Firms in the Period 2012–2022	3
Impact of information and communication technologies on fertilizer and pesticide use efficiency of China's grain production	3
Leader selection and why it matters: Education and the endogeneity of favouritism in 11 African countries	3
Institutional difference and foreign direct investment location choice: Evidence from China	3
To obey or not to obey? Can game theory explain human behavior in the context of coronavirus disease?	3
Does the Asset‐Type Matter in Vulnerability Reduction? Evidence From Rural Indian Households	3
The Long‐Run Impact of Agricultural Risk on Cultural Divergence	3
Income‐linked pathways towards sustainable development goals: Analyzing the interplay of green energy, financial inclusion, and militarization in shaping aggregated economic sustainability	3

Population aging and saving: Evidence from China	3
Does access to financial services improve nutritional intake among rural residents? Assessing potential action mechanism pathways	3
National Health Insurance Reform in Indonesia: Health Care Usage and Expenditure Patterns When Expanding Population Coverage	3
The Geopolitics of Foreign Aid	3
Shocks and Vulnerability in Rural Tanzania	3
Do public pension programmes reduce elderly poverty in China?	3
Unpacking the COVID‐19 Gender Employment Gap Among Young People in the Global South	3
3G Internet Diffusion and Secondary Education Attainment: Evidence of Opportunity Cost in Vietnam	3
Asset accumulation, financial inclusion and subjective well‐being: The role of financial formality in South Africa's households	3
Correction to “Exchange rate pass‐through to import prices: Evidence from a heterogeneous panel of West African countries”	3
Multifaceted Assessment of the Relationship Between FDI and Sustainable Development in Latin America: The Role of the FDI	3
Does it matter how we measure poverty? Correlates of income and multidimensional poverty in Sri Lanka	3
Health and Survival Impacts of Early Childhood Development Programmes: The Case of the Happy Child Programme in Brazil	3
Do Structural Transformation and Energy Transition Cause Growth?	3
A Tale of Two Choices: Son Preference and Reproductive Outcomes in Uzbekistan	3
Growth, Crises, and COVID‐19: Tracking Poverty Changes in Turkey From 2003 to 2021	3
How Input Subsidies Boost Food Security in Developing Countries: Micro‐Level Evidence From Zambia	3
Gender Wage Gap in Early Careers: Evidence From University Graduates in China	3
The informal economy and the reach of policy interventions: Evidence from the COVID‐19 lockdown in India	3
Issue Information	3
The Timing of Learning by Exporting: An Empirical Investigation on Ethiopian Large and Medium Manufacturing Firms	3
Budget support to the health sector—The right choice for strong institutions? Evidence from panel data	3
Revenue losses from corporate tax avoidance: Estimations from the UNUWIDER Government Revenue Dataset	3
Women's Economic Empowerment and Financial Well‐Being: Evidence From Rural China	3
Female Labor Supply in Latin America and the Business Cycle: Instability and Asymmetry	3
How Does Inclusive Finance Affect the Resilience of Agricultural Industry: Evidence From County‐Level Data of China	3
Nutrition for all? Input subsidies and equitable diets	3
Global Agricultural Output Under Climate Shocks: Evidence From 160 Economies	3
The Mental Health of the Young in Eastern Europe and Central Asia	3
The effect of negative human recognition on farmland access and well‐being: Evidence from women farmers in Malawi	3
Smartphone use, off‐farm employment, and women's decision‐making power: Evidence from rural China	3
Urban Amenities, Productive Performance and Global Value Chain Activities of Indian Firms	2
Diaspora and Sustainable Economic Development in Lebanon: New Survey‐Informed Analysis	2
Does fiscal expenditure matter for agricultural development? Examining the impact of technological progress on food production	2
Sustainable Development Transition and Employment Constraints: An Empirical Analysis of Energy and Environment in BRICS and	2
The Impact of Digital Technology Application on Individual Participation in the Labor Force: Evidence From China	2
The long‐term impact of education on dietary diversity among women in Zimbabwe	2
Heterogeneous Effects of Farm and Nonfarm Income on Household Consumption Expenditure and Inequality	2
What Role Does Women's Political Empowerment Play on the Environmental Performance of Developing Countries?	2
Why cash grants fail to raise household investment in child education in developing countries	2
Financial inclusion, vulnerability coping strategies and multidimensional poverty: Does conceptualisation of financial inclusion matter?	2
Forced formalization and informal sector: A simple Chayanov model	2
Digital financial inclusion and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises in China	2
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Reforming Tax Systems: The Interplay of Governance, Informality, and Institutional Strength in Developing Countries	2
Innovation Based Growth Accounting: Understanding the Economics of Decoupling in Colombia	2
The welfare implications of COVID‐19 for fragile and conflict‐affected regions	2
Do Foreign Investments Promote Export Diversification in a Host Country? Evidence From China's Investment in Africa	2
Employment transitions and COVID‐19 containment measures: Evidence from a developing country	2
Quid pro quo	2
Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Development Resilience of Rural Households: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Health Insurance System in China	2
Labor Informality and Market Segmentation in Senegal	2
Effects of free textbooks on academic performance: Evidence from China's compulsory education	2
Agricultural Mechanization Socialized Services and Gender Disparities in Labor Reallocation: Insights From Rural China	2
Does Digital Technology Development Promote Export Efficiency?	2
Assessing the Impact of Financing on SMEs ' Innovation in China	2
Free zones and manufactured export competitiveness from Africa	2
Cross‐industry interlinkages in employment growth: Evidence from Brazil	2
Endogenous Employment Protection and Total Factor Productivity: Plant‐Level Evidence From India	2
An empirical comparison of stabilization funds and futures hedging for oil exporting developing countries	2
Issue Information	2
Can We Do Well, While Doing Good? A Comparison Between Sustainable and Conventional Investments	2
Economic Growth Expectations and Corporate Innovation: Evidence From China	2
The effects of local economic development on female obesity (overweight) in sub‐Saharan Africa	2
Credit market imperfection, lack of entrepreneurship and capital outflow from a developing economy	2
Foreign direct investment spillovers and regional innovation in China: The spatial moderating role of absorptive capacity	2
The impact of rural e‐commerce platforms on the transformation of industrial structure: Evidence from China	2
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Women's Inheritance Rights and Wages in India: Measuring Impact Through Unobservable Human Capital Improvements	2
Fifty Years of Productivity Research: A Bibliometric Mapping and Multilevel Framework of Determinants	2
Hand pollination, mass spraying, and hybrid seedlings: Do these technologies affect the welfare of smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana?	2
Transferring remittances through central banks: A tool applied to the Guatemalan exchange rate	2
Income, Subjective Well‐Being, and Violence in Afghanistan: Evidence From a Nationwide Survey	2
The Spatial Analysis of the Impact of Economic Uncertainty on Household Consumption in Taiwan	2
Quantile Insights Into Sustainability: Financial Inclusion, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Damage in EAGLE Countries	2
The Path to Overcoming the Middle‐Income Trap	2
Taxation in the context of high informality: Conceptual challenges and evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa	2
Domestic Versus International Remittances and Job Creation in Family Firms in Nigeria and Uganda	2
Extreme Heat and Family Fertility Decisions: Evidence From Rural China	2
Women's Empowerment and Intra‐Household Bargaining Power	2
The perils of embedded experiments	2
Temporary migrants and gender housework division among left‐behind household members	2
Navigating the Digital Frontier: Digital Economy and High‐Quality Development in Manufacturing Industry	2
Nutri‐Farming! Estimating the Impacts of a Nutritional Security Programme on Agricultural Productivity	2
How does religion affect health in the gold mining industry? Evidence from Nigeria	2
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How Does Automation Reshape the Labor Market: Evidence From China	2
The case for mixed methods research: Embracing qualitative research to understand the (informal) economy	2
Asymmetric impacts of ICT and energy intensity on agricultural productivity: Evidence from Asia‐Pacific region	2
Can Natural Resources, Eco‐Trade, and Environmental Policy Stringency Enhance Ecological Sustainability in Emerging Economies?	2
The Role of Energy Poverty on the Gender‐Health Gap in Ghana	2
The impacts of imports and trade liberalization in Brazil: Insights from an aggregate cost function	2
Role of Regulatory Quality Toward a Sustainable Economic Development: A Dual Study of Ease of Doing Business and Economic Growth Amid Bank Efficiency	2
The tax revenue implication of trade liberalisation in sub‐Saharan Africa: Some new evidence	2
The Long‐Term Effects of a Medical Intervention: Determinants and Implications of Orthotic Equipment Failure in Uganda	1