Economic Development and Cultural Change

Papers
(The median citation count of Economic Development and Cultural Change is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Education, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation: Evidence from School Construction in Malian Villages40
Automation trends and labor markets35
Are Employment Protection Laws for Persons with Disabilities Effective in a Developing Country?24
Why Guarantee Employment? Evidence from a Large Indian Public-Works Program23
The Salience of Information: Evidence from a Health Information Campaign in Rural China20
Elite College Education and Social Mobility in China20
Internal Migration and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia17
Communication and production in the family farm: theory and evidence from rural Togo.16
Fertility Responses to Granting Legal Status: Evidence from Venezuelan Forced Migrants in Colombia15
Alcohol Ban and Crime: The ABCs of the Bihar Prohibition15
Women Talking: Intimate Partner Violence, Group Discussions, and their Effects on Social and Economic Ties15
Political Connections, Competition, and Innovation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Chinese Firms14
The Unintended Consequences of Deportations: Evidence from Firm Behavior in El Salvador13
Developing Textbooks to Improve Math Learning in Primary Education: Empirical Evidence from El Salvador13
Internal Migration and Crime in Brazil13
Son Preference and Maternal Health: A Cross-Cultural and Temporal Analysis11
Attrition in Randomized Controlled Trials: Using Tracking Information to Correct Bias11
Improving Hygiene and Sanitation through Parental Skill Training10
Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar10
Sir! I’d Rather Go to School, Sir!10
Land Property Rights and Household Welfare: Evidence from Rural China9
Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India: Evidence from Night-Lights Data9
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Soil Endowments and Intrahousehold Distribution of Consumption in India: A Structural Approach9
More Powerful Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials9
Is Hypertension Screening Effective in a Low-Resource Setting? A Multidimensional Regression Discontinuity Design9
Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash Transfer Programs Work for Children? Experimental Evidence from Myanmar9
Information and Social Norms: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Aspirations of Saudi Women8
The Impact of an Adult Education Program for Mothers: Evidence from India8
Rebuilding Irrigation Infrastructure and Institutions: Evidence from Afghanistan8
Industrial Gold Mining and Female Empowerment8
The Power of the Anticorruption Campaign: Evidence from Cigarette and Alcohol Consumption in China7
Crime-differential responses to an environmental shock: Evidence from blackouts7
Personalized Information as a Tool to Improve Pension Savings: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Chile7
Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan7
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Cash for Votes: Evidence from India7
Norm-Shifting Interventions and Beliefs about Gender Norms in Paraguay7
Workplace Attributes and Women’s Labor Supply Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment6
Motherhood and Women’s Self-Employment: Theory and Evidence from Nigeria6
Income, Psychological Well-Being, and the Dynamics of Poverty6
The Role of Mothers-in-Law in Determining Women’s Work: Evidence from India6
Mobilizing Parents at Home and at School: An Experiment on Primary Education in Angola6
Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia6
Understanding Child Sex Trafficking by Use of Victim-Level Data6
Heterogeneous Firms under Regional Temperature Shocks: Exit and Reallocation, with Evidence from Indonesia6
Relaxing Credit and Information Constraints: Five-Year Experimental Evidence from Tanzanian Agriculture5
Where Ideas Come From: Experimenting on the “Spirit of Capitalism” in Medieval China5
When the Identity of the Perpetrator Matters: The Heterogeneous Legacies of the Civil Conflict on Social Capital in Peru5
Effect of a Management Intervention on Firm Performance and Quality Defects5
From Hospitality to Hostility: Impact of the Rohingya Refugee Influx on the Sentiments of Host Communities5
Cash Transfers, Gender Norms, and Women’s Control over Decision-Making in Egypt5
Culture, Intrahousehold Distribution, and Individual Poverty5
Growing Pains: Timing of In Utero Rainfall Shocks and Child Growth in Rural Rwanda5
Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force: Evidence from a Role Model Intervention in Pakistan5
Spatial Clustering of Natural Disasters, Selection in Migration, and Economic Outcomes4
Informal Contracts in an Incomplete Market: The Price of Milk in Paraguay4
Making Recognition Count: Evidence from a Public Sector Teacher Training in Pakistan4
Marital “Mismatch” from Changes in Women’s Litigant Rights4
The Hidden Cost of Prenatal Heat Stress Exposure: Evidence on Psychological Well-Being in China4
Farm Size and Productivity: The Role of Family Labor4
Double the Diapers, Double the Degrees? Anticipated Children and Educational Investment in China4
Labor Market Information and Parental Attitudes toward Women Working Outside the Home: Experimental Evidence from Rural Pakistan4
Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China4
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The Effects of Reduced Educational Opportunities on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Female College Restrictions4
Short-Run Impacts of Reducing Water Collection Times on Time Use, Well-Being, and Education in Rural Kenya4
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COVID-19, Crises, and Women’s Control of Resources: Evidence from Mexico4
Incentives to Improve Government Agricultural Extension Agent Performance: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh4
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When Do Gender Quotas Change Policy? Evidence from Household Toilet Provision in India3
Study for Nothing? Gender and Access to Higher Education in a Developing Country3
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In the Name of Love: Policy Imitation, Political Incentives, and Local Economic Growth3
Fighting the Learning Crisis in Developing Countries: A Randomized Experiment of Self-Learning at the Right Level3
Can Bridging the Learning Gap Improve Test Scores on a Key National Exam? Evidence from a Remedial Education Program in Indian Secondary Schools3
Migration, Marriage, and Counterfactual Spouses3
Targeting High School Scholarships to the Poor: The Impact of a Program in Mexico3
Effort and Social Comparison: Experimental Evidence from Uganda3
The Effect of Pension Income on Land Transfers: Evidence from Rural China3
Incentivizing Quantity and Quality of Care: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation of Performance-Based Financing in the Health Sector in Tajikistan3
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Redistribution, Rent-Seeking, and the Welfare Effect of a Universal Basic Income in India3
COVID-19 and Food Security in Ethiopia: Do Social Protection Programs Protect?3
Computers and Discretion: Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Experiments3
The Rule of Law, Collective Action, and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru3
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Can Role Models Influence Female Students’ Decision to Participate in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Field Experiment3
Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China3
Hukou or Son? Access to Urban Citizenship and Sex Selection of Migrants in China3
Up before Dawn: Experimental Evidence from a Cross-Border Trader Training at the DRC-Rwanda Border2
How Well Do Worker Cooperatives Perform in Manufacturing? Evidence from a Large Low-Income Country2
The Long-Run Effect of Migration on Firms’ Trade: Evidence from China2
Import Tariff Liberalization and Child Labor: Evidence from China2
Cooperation in Polygynous Households: Experimental Evidence from Northern Benin2
Estimating the Demand for Business Training: Evidence from Jamaica2
Bridging the Savings Gap: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi2
Environmental Regulation, Labor Income Share, and Implications for Inequality2
Lottery Wins and Employment in a Low-Income Country: Impacts and Mechanisms2
Decollectivization and Child Adoption in Rural China2
Using Communications Technology to Promote Democratic Participation: Experimental Evidence from South Africa2
Good Intentions Gone Bad? The Dodd-Frank Act and Conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes Region2
Worker Turnover and Job Reallocation: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data2
Spillovers of Community-Based Health Interventions on Consumption Smoothing2
The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early-Childhood Development: Short- and Long-Run Evidence from Nepal2
Isolating the “Tech” from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer-Assisted Learning in China2
Crime, Income, and Inequality: Nonlinearities under Extreme Inequality in South Africa2
Income Tax Payers Are Not All the Same: A Behavioral Letter Experiment in Eswatini2
Retention Effects of Employee Stock Options: Evidence from Bunching at Vesting Dates2
Early-Life Rainfall and Long-Term Human Capital Accumulation of African Women1
Cash Transfers and Women’s Agency: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP Program1
Narrow Paths Out of Poverty and Educational Demand: Evidence from Dominican Baseball1
Judicial Presence and Rent Extraction1
Stay at Home with Grandma, Mom Is Going to Work: The Impact of Grandmothers’ Retirement on Mothers’ Labor Decisions1
Economic Empowerment and Mental Health: Evidence from India1
Teacher Gender and Parenting Style: Evidence from Junior High Schools in China1
Tasks and gender wage gap: Evidence from China1
A Resource-Rich Neighbor Is a Misfortune: The Spatial Distribution of the Resource Curse in Brazil1
Property Tax Compliance in Tanzania: Can Nudges Help?1
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What Is the Price of Freedom? Estimating Women’s Willingness to Pay for Job Schedule Flexibility1
Media-Reported Violence and Female Labor Supply1
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The Impact of Being Surveyed on the Adoption of Agricultural Technology1
Saving Lives through Technology: Mobile Phones and Infant Mortality1
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Locus of Control and Economic Decision-Making: A Field Experiment in Odisha, India1
Bad Money? Witchcraft Beliefs and Fairness Views in Kenya1
Land Reform and Child Health in the Kyrgyz Republic1
Welfare Effects of Digital Credit: A Randomized Evaluation in Nigeria1
Do Labor Market Interventions Incentivize Technology Adoption? Unexpected Impacts of the World’s Largest Rural Poverty Program1
Distributive Implications for Governing Party Constituencies: Evidence from Bangladesh1
When Private Beats Public: A Flexible Value-Added Model with Tanzanian School Switchers1
Competition on Agricultural Markets and Quality of Smallholder Supply: The Role of Relational Contracting and Input Provision by Traders1
Hukou Status and Children’s Education in China1
Does a Productivity Bonus Pay Off? The Effects of Teacher-Incentive Pay on Student Achievement in Brazilian Schools1
Labor Scarcity and Technology Adoption in Agriculture: Evidence from Rural India during the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Foreign Direct Investment and Gender Education Gap1
Are Educated Candidates Less Corrupt Bureaucrats? Evidence from Randomized Audits in Brazil1
Identity Economics and Intrahousehold Bargaining1
Unpacking the Links between Conflict and Child Health: Evidence from a Foreign Insurgency1
Teacher Performance Pay and Student Learning: Evidence from a Nationwide Program in Peru1
Can Investment Incentives Crowd Out Innovation? Evidence from China1
Foreword by the Guest Editors1
Mothers’ Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation1
When Money Can’t Buy Political Love: Lab Experiments on Vote Buying in Ghana and Uganda1
The Leaky Bucket: Transition Costs from Cash to Deposits in a Mexican Transfer Program1
Shortening Supply Chains: Experimental Evidence from Fruit and Vegetable Vendors in Bogota1
Monitoring Corruption: Can Top-Down Monitoring Crowd Out Grassroots Participation?1
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