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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Are Employment Protection Laws for Persons with Disabilities Effective in a Developing Country?37
The Puzzle of Falling Happiness despite Rising Income in Rural China: Eleven Hypotheses35
Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: What Do the Data Show?27
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Effort and Social Comparison: Experimental Evidence from Uganda20
The Power of Securing Property Rights: Evidence from China’s Land Titling Policy18
Mobilizing Parents at Home and at School: An Experiment on Primary Education in Angola17
Shortening Supply Chains: Experimental Evidence from Fruit and Vegetable Vendors in Bogota15
Overconfidence and Risk Taking in the Field: Evidence from Ethiopian Farmers15
Insecure Land Tenure, Social Protection, and Resource Misallocation: Evidence from China’s Agricultural Sector14
Incentivizing Quantity and Quality of Care: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation of Performance-Based Financing in the Health Sector in Tajikistan13
Education, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation: Evidence from School Construction in Malian Villages13
Targeting Using Differential Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment12
Targeting High School Scholarships to the Poor: The Impact of a Program in Mexico12
The Role of Mothers-in-Law in Determining Women’s Work: Evidence from India11
Computers and Discretion: Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Experiments11
Working Hard or Hardly Working: Health Worker Effort and Health Outcomes10
Financial Incentives, Efforts, and Performances in the Health Sector: Experimental Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo9
Scalable Nutrition Interventions in a Graduation Model Program: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia9
Elite College Education and Social Mobility in China9
A Pandemic Crossing the Border: The Impact of COVID-19 in the US on the Mexican Labor Market8
Heterogeneous Firms under Regional Temperature Shocks: Exit and Reallocation, with Evidence from Indonesia8
Land Reform and Child Health in the Kyrgyz Republic8
COVID-19 and Food Security in Ethiopia: Do Social Protection Programs Protect?8
Psychology, Soft Skills, or Cash? Evidence on Marginal Investments8
Why Guarantee Employment? Evidence from a Large Indian Public-Works Program8
Understanding Child Sex Trafficking by Use of Victim-Level Data8
Money or Management? A Field Experiment on Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Rural Pakistan7
The Impact of COVID-19 on Poverty-Alleviated Households: Evidence from J City, China7
Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia7
Study for Nothing? Gender and Access to Higher Education in a Developing Country7
Measuring Violence against Women with Experimental Methods7
Income, Psychological Well-Being, and the Dynamics of Poverty7
Preschool Availability and Women’s Employment: Evidence from Indonesia7
Growing Pains: Timing of In Utero Rainfall Shocks and Child Growth in Rural Rwanda6
Relaxing Credit and Information Constraints: Five-Year Experimental Evidence from Tanzanian Agriculture6
Cross-Age Tutoring: Experimental Evidence from Kenya6
Are Educated Candidates Less Corrupt Bureaucrats? Evidence from Randomized Audits in Brazil6
Decollectivization and Child Adoption in Rural China6
Home-Based Enterprises: Experimental Evidence on Female Preferences from Pakistan6
FERTILITY RESPONSES TO GRANTING LEGAL STATUS: EVIDENCE FROM FORCED VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS IN COLOMBIA6
Cash Transfers and Women’s Agency: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP Program6
Tax Compliance in Rwanda: Evidence from a Message Field Experiment5
Syrian Refugees and the Migration Dynamics of Jordanians: Moving In or Moving Out?5
Intellectual Property Use and Firm Performance: The Case of Chile5
The Salience of Information: Evidence from a Health Information Campaign in Rural China5
Economic Development and Environmental Conservation: Evidence from Ecotourism5
Internal Migration and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia5
Information, Knowledge, and Behavior: Evaluating Alternative Methods of Delivering School Information to Parents5
Leveraging the Lottery for Financial Inclusion: Lotto-Linked Savings Accounts in Haiti5
The Origins of Optimism: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment among Microfinance Clients in Bolivia5
Entrepreneurship during an Economic Crisis: Evidence from Rural Thailand5
Here Comes the Rain Again: Productivity Shocks, Educational Investments, and Child Work5
Isolating the “Tech” from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer-Assisted Learning in China4
Motherhood and Women’s Self-Employment: Theory and Evidence from Nigeria4
Media’s Influence on Citizen Demand for Public Goods4
Cash Transfers, Gender Norms, and Women’s Control over Decision-Making in Egypt4
Between Sticky Floors and Glass Ceilings: Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality by Gender and Race in Brazil4
How Well Do Worker Cooperatives Perform in Manufacturing? Evidence from a Large Low-Income Country4
Dependence or Constraints? Cash Transfers and Labor Supply4
Can Role Models Influence Female Students’ Decision to Participate in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Field Experiment3
The Impact of Being Surveyed on the Adoption of Agricultural Technology3
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Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China3
Estimating the Effects of Educational System Consolidation: The Case of China’s Rural School Closure Initiative3
Moving toward a Better Future? Migration and Children’s Health and Education3
National Institutions and Self-Insurance3
Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force: Evidence from a Role Model Intervention in Pakistan3
Durable Ownership, Time Allocation, and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China’s “Home Appliances to the Countryside” Rebate3
Can Investment Incentives Crowd Out Innovation? Evidence from China3
Alcohol Ban and Crime: The ABCs of the Bihar Prohibition3
Inequality in the Quality of Health Services: Wealth, Content of Care, and the Price of Antenatal Consultations in the Democratic Republic of Congo3
The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early-Childhood Development: Short- and Long-Run Evidence from Nepal3
Regionalism and Tribal Insecurity in India3
Culture, Intrahousehold Distribution, and Individual Poverty3
Judicial Presence and Rent Extraction3
Discrimination against Women in Hiring3
From Hospitality to Hostility: Impact of the Rohingya Refugee Influx on the Sentiments of Host Communities3
Effect of a Management Intervention on Firm Performance and Quality Defects3
Worker Turnover and Job Reallocation: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data2
When the Identity of the Perpetrator Matters: The Heterogeneous Legacies of the Civil Conflict on Social Capital in Peru2
Income Improves Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from South Africa2
Overconfidence, Trust, and Information-Seeking among Smallholder Farmers: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia2
Does a Productivity Bonus Pay Off? The Effects of Teacher-Incentive Pay on Student Achievement in Brazilian Schools2
Political Connections, Competition, and Innovation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Chinese Firms2
Labor Market Information and Parental Attitudes toward Women Working Outside the Home: Experimental Evidence from Rural Pakistan2
Crime, Income, and Inequality: Nonlinearities under Extreme Inequality in South Africa2
Spillovers of Community-Based Health Interventions on Consumption Smoothing2
After the Flood: Migration and Remittances as Coping Strategies of Rural Bangladeshi Households2
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Banking with Agents: Experimental Evidence from Senegal2
The Effect of Personalized Feedback on Small Enterprises’ Finances in Uganda2
Minimum Wage and Women’s Decision-Making Power within Households: Evidence from Indonesia2
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten? Evidence from the Philippines2
The Effects of Teacher Gender Composition on Students’ Noncognitive Characteristics2
Fighting the Learning Crisis in Developing Countries: A Randomized Experiment of Self-Learning at the Right Level2
A Structural Model of Informality with Constrained Entrepreneurship2
Up before Dawn: Experimental Evidence from a Cross-Border Trader Training at the DRC-Rwanda Border2
Bridging the Savings Gap: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi2
Helping Us or Helping Them? What Makes Foreign Aid Popular with Donor Publics?1
The Long-Run Effect of Migration on Firms’ Trade: Evidence from China1
The Unintended Consequences of Deportations: Evidence from Firm Behavior in El Salvador1
Miracle seeds: Biased expectations, complementary input use, and the dynamics of smallholder technology adoption.1
Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar1
Gendered Barriers to Formal Health-Care Utilization: Modeling Health-Care Demand in a Low-Resource Setting1
Lottery Wins and Employment in a Low-Income Country: Impacts and Mechanisms1
Estimating the Demand for Business Training: Evidence from Jamaica1
Wheels of Power: Can Free Bicycles for Schoolgirls Free Their Mothers?1
The Effect of Manager Gender and Performance Feedback: Experimental Evidence from India1
Hukou Status and Children’s Education in China1
Benefits and Unintended Consequences of Gender Segregation in Public Transportation: Evidence from Mexico City’s Subway System1
Household Responses to Cash Transfers1
Monitoring Corruption: Can Top-Down Monitoring Crowd Out Grassroots Participation?1
The Role of Information in Agricultural Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rice Farmers in Uganda1
Internal Migration and Crime in Brazil1
Informal Contracts in an Incomplete Market: The Price of Milk in Paraguay1
Do Banks and Microfinance Institutions Compete? Microevidence from Madagascar1
Women’s Work, Social Norms and the Marriage Market1
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Justice Delayed Is Growth Denied: The Effect of Slow Courts on Relationship-Specific Industries in India1
Short-Run Impacts of Reducing Water Collection Times on Time Use, Well-Being, and Education in Rural Kenya1
Good Intentions Gone Bad? The Dodd-Frank Act and Conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes Region1
Developing Textbooks to Improve Math Learning in Primary Education: Empirical Evidence from El Salvador1
Women’s Empowerment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Multidimensional Policy in India1
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Conflict and the Formation of Political Beliefs in Africa1
Paying for Digital Information: Assessing Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for a Digital Agriculture and Nutrition Service in Ghana1
Guilt and Prosocial Behavior: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Bangladesh1
The Demographic Transition and Rural Industrialization in China1
Rule-of-Thumb Instructions to Improve Fertilizer Management: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh1
Employee Referral, Social Proximity, and Worker Discipline: Theory and Suggestive Evidence from India1
Income Tax Payers Are Not All the Same: A Behavioral Letter Experiment in Eswatini1
Does Better Parental Education Improve Child Health Outcomes? Evidence from the Compulsory Schooling Law in China1
Old-Age Pensions in a Lower Middle-Income Country: Economic or Psychological Effects?1
Motivating Public Sector Employees: Public Good Contributions in Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority1
Correcting Misperceptions about Support for Social Distancing to Combat COVID-191
COVID-19, Job Loss, and Intimate Partner Violence in Peru1
Early-Life Rainfall and Long-Term Human Capital Accumulation of African Women1
Attrition in Randomized Controlled Trials: Using Tracking Information to Correct Bias1
Social Insurance in an Aging Population: Impacts of a Government Transfer Program in South Korea1
The Impact of No-Fault Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Mexico1
The Impact of Armed Conflict Shocks on Local Cross-Border Trade: Evidence from the Border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo1
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