Journal of Development Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Development Studies is 0. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Inter-Imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance49
Risk Compensation and HIV Therapy: A Field Experiment in South Africa48
Empowering Labor: Leftist Approaches to Wage Policy in Unequal Democracies Empowering Labor: Leftist Approaches to Wage Policy in Unequal Democracies By Juan A. Bogliacc48
The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China38
Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge30
Effects of Jobs on Ethnic Switching – Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia28
Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums28
A Farewell to Arms: The Peace Dividend of Costa Rica’s Army Abolition26
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence23
The Long-Term Effects of Civil Conflict on Psychological Well-being22
Internationally Linked Firms and Productivity in Pakistan: A Look at the Top End of the Distribution16
Women’s Higher Education, Assortative Mating, and Empowerment: Long-Term Evidence from College Enrollment Expansion in South Korea15
‘Promoting Equality by Disclosure’: How Does Fiscal Transparency Affect Income Inequality in China? A Perspective Based on Local Governments’ Behaviours14
The Welfare Effects of Social Assistance Programs for Women in India14
Risk Taking With Social Consequences14
Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia By Anand A. Yang Oakla13
Too Close to Home: Photoelicitation with African Diasporic Communities, Ethical (Un)preparedness and the Importance of Critical Reflexivity in International Development Research13
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination13
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy12
Fringe Benefits, Self-Selection, and the Public/Private Compensation Differential12
Guanxi and Moral Articulation: Strategies of Corruption During China’s Anti-Corruption Drive12
The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends Are Changing Industrialization12
Disease Eradication, Infant Mortality, and Fertility Response: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India12
Being Dead Otherwise Being Dead Otherwise By Anne Allison Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2023,12
China, Africa, and the future of the Internet11
At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis11
The Impact of Foreign Aid on Local Development: A Grid Cell Analysis11
Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity11
Inside Mining Capitalism: The Micropolitics of Work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts11
Exit and Voice: The Paradox of Cross-Border Politics in Mexico11
Hope and Its Distribution in Rural Tanzania11
Unskilled Migration and Vertical Disintegration: Theory and Evidence from China11
Informality and Pension Reforms in Bolivia: The Case ofRenta Dignidad11
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh 10
Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making10
Self-Help, Natality and ‘Civic Growth’10
Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana10
Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi10
Can Immigration Explain Why Ethnic Diversity is Negatively Associated with Common Property Management?10
Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation9
Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda9
Crop Diversification, Household Welfare and Conflict: Afghanistan 2011–20179
Weather Shocks, Coping Strategies and Household Well-being: Evidence from Rural Mauritania9
Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa9
Nutrition Matters: Numeracy, Child Nutrition and Schooling Efficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Long Run9
Continuity or Disruption? Rethinking Engagement in Multi-Stakeholder Forums Through the Lens of Boundary Objects8
Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance8
In the Technological Age: The Internet and the Performance of Micro-Enterprises in Togo8
Insuring Against Disasters and Poor Institutions: Remittances as Aid and Informal Family Insurance During Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines8
Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China8
The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism8
Impact of Weather Shocks on Food Security: How Effective are Forests as Natural Insurance?7
Expanding Social Protection Coverage with Humanitarian Aid: Lessons on Targeting and Transfer Values from Ethiopia7
Re-Thinking Recipient Agency in South-South Cooperation: Strategies of Contestation, Strategies of Transformation and the South’s Own View of Development7
Prosperity in Rural Africa: Insights into Wealth, Assets and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania Prosperity in Rural Africa: Insights into Wealth, Assets and Poverty from Long7
Africa’s Struggle for its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat6
Encouraging Community Action Against Teacher Absenteeism: A Mass Media Experiment in Rural Uganda6
The Impact of Better Access to Improved Water Sources on Health, Schooling, and Water Collection of Girls and Boys in Rural Zambia6
Health Consequences of Patriarchal Kinship System for the Elderly: Evidence from India6
Brown Saviours and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labour and the Global Politics of Help in India6
The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania . By Michael Degani, 6
A Decade Since Busan: Towards Legitimacy or a ‘New Tyranny’ of Global Development Partnership?6
Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design6
Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime6
Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World . By Taylor C6
Education Empowers Residential Energy Transition: Causal Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reform in China6
Do Gender Norms Relax with Displacement?5
Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar5
How Vulnerable are the Self-Employed? Evidence from Ugandan Small-Scale Entrepreneurs5
Social Spillovers of Parental Absence: The Classroom Peer Effects of ‘Left-behind’ Children on Household Human Capital Investments in Rural China5
Chiefly Patronage and Schooling5
Ethnicity and Risk Sharing Network Formation: Evidence from Rural Vietnam5
Stimulating Innovations for Sustainable Agricultural Practices among Smallholder Farmers: Persistence of Intervention Matters5
The Impact of Academic Freedom on Democracy in Africa5
Intervening in Cash Crop Value Chains for Improved Nutrition: Evidence from Rural Sierra Leone5
Contextualizing Individual-Level Asset Data Collection: Evidence from Household Surveys5
Addressing Declining Female Labor Force Participation in India: Does Political Empowerment Make a Difference?5
Do Social Investments by Mining Companies Harm Citizen-State Relations? Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso5
Smallholders’ Personal Networks in Access to Agricultural Markets: A Case of African Leafy Vegetables Commercialisation in Kenya5
Picking Losers: How Career Incentives Undermine Industrial Policy in Chinese Cities5
Livestock as a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review5
The Party-Police Nexus in Bangladesh5
Does Community-Based Adaptation Enhance Social Capital? Evidence from Senegal and Mali5
The Long-Term Labor Market Effect of Drought Exposure: Evidence from Nigeria4
Correction4
Political Settlements and Development: Theory, Evidence, Implications4
Assessing Community Readiness for Payments for Ecosystem Service Schemes for Tropical Primary Forest Protection in the Democratic Republic of Congo4
An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis4
Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts4
Urban Amazonians use Fishing as a Strategy for Coping with Food Insecurity4
Four Decades of Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa4
Gender Dimensions of Forced Displacement: A Brief Review and Introduction to the Special Issue4
Gender and Productivity Differentials in Smallholder Groundnut Farming in Malawi: Accounting for Technology Differences4
Correction4
Location-Based Tax Incentives for Non-Farm Rural Enterprises in Armenia4
The Critical Role of Implementing Partners: Evidence From Training Micro and Small Enterprises Across 12 Financial Service Providers4
Resilience of Social Transfer Programs to Large Unexpected Shocks4
The Effects of the Development Zone Upgrading on the Diversification of Firm’s Product Exports: Evidence from Chinese Exporters4
Oil Palm Production and Educational Outcomes: Gender-Differentiated Evidence from Cameroon4
Impact of Extreme Rainfall Days on the Welfare of Households in the Formal and Informal Sectors4
Risk Aversion and Gender Gaps in Technology Adoption by Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia4
Improving Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries: Do Women Policymakers Matter?4
Multiplying Siblings: Exploring the Trade-off Between Family Size and Child Education in Rural Bangladesh4
Ránquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile4
Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam4
Drivers of SME Resilience in Southeast Asia during COVID-194
Do Cooperatives Improve Female Miners’ Outcomes? A Case Study of Rwanda4
Farm Size, Soil Investment, and Quality: Theory and Evidence from a Panel Data Set in Tanzania4
Informality and Welfare: New Insights from the Job Satisfaction of Workers in Indonesia4
Mental and Physical Health Effect of Rural-Urban Migration in South Africa: A Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluation Study4
Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy3
Charaiveti: An Academic’s Global Journey Charaiveti: An Academic’s Global Journey By Pranab Bardhan Delhi : Harper C3
The Linkage between School Autonomy and Inequality in Achievement in 69 Countries: Does Development Level Matter?3
Dispossession Without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India By Michael Levien3
Agriculture Production and Transport Connectivity: Evidence from Mozambique3
Structural Change and Welfare: A Micro Panel Data Evidence from Ghana3
Addressing Non-response Bias in Surveys of Wealthy Households in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Strategies and Implementation3
Exports and New Products in China – A Generalised Propensity Score Approach with Firm-to-Firm Spillovers3
Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil: An Environmental History of Low-Carbon Energy, 1960s–90s3
Effects of Monetary Policy on Food Inequality in India3
Import Tariff Liberalization, Employment, and Gender in Ethiopia3
Is Cocoa Production a Main Driver of Children’s Work in Ghana?3
The Effect of TV/Radio Media Family Planning Messages on Modern Contraceptive Use among Women: Empirical Evidence from the Philippines3
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China3
Child Work in Developing Countries: Revisiting the Differences and Similarities Between Income-Generating and Care and Domestic Work3
Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai By Amélie Le Renard 3
Scale and Sustainability: The Impact of a Women’s Self-Help Group Program on Household Economic Well-Being in India3
How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond3
Mines, Communities, and States: The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Africa3
Reforming of Women’s Litigant Rights and Child Wellbeing: Evidence from Nigeria3
Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India’s Secret Cold War3
For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers3
Financializing Poverty: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance3
Left in the Dust: Infrastructural Violence of a Railway Project Through Pastoral Rangelands in Kenya3
Agrarian Capitalism, War and Peace in Colombia: Beyond Dispossession3
High Reliability Knowledge Networks: Responding to Animal Diseases in a Pastoral Area of Northern Kenya3
Land Tenure and Agricultural Investment: Do Ugandan Polygynous Households Comport with Theory?3
Free Education in Childhood and Health Benefits in Adulthood: Evidence from China2
Everyday Practices of State Building in Ethiopia: Power, Scale, Performativity2
Does the Minimum Wage Affect Wage Inequality? A Study for the Six Largest Latin American Economies2
Climate Urbanism: Towards a Critical Research Agenda2
Does Regional Favoritism Affect Public Investment Budget Allocation? Evidence from Cameroon in the Context of Decentralization2
Latin American Brotherhood? Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution2
Raising Two Fists: Struggles of Black Citizenship in Multicultural Colombia Raising Two Fists: Struggles of Black Citizenship in Multicultural Colombia By Roosbelina Cár2
Rebel Populism: Revolution and Loss among Syrian Labourers in Beirut2
Viral Frictions: Global Health and the Persistence of HIV Stigma in Kenya2
To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide2
Echo Effects of Health Shocks: The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal and Early-Life Malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward Famine in China2
Race, Taste and the Grape: South African Wine from a Global Perspective2
Bleeding at the Margins: Understanding Period Poverty among SC and ST Women Using Decomposition Analysis2
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway By Mikiya Koyagi Stanford, C2
The Equity Effects of Cadasters in Colombia2
Covid Lockdown and Employment in the Philippines2
Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty2
Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital CityHigher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City By China Scherz, George Mpanga, and Sarah Namirembe Berkeley, CA 2
Fiscal Reaction Functions Augmented with Bespoke Debt Indicators: Evidence from Small Island States2
Global Value Chains and Local Inter-Industry Linkages: South Africa’s Participation in the Automotive GVC2
Democracy in Hard Places Democracy in Hard Places By Scott Mainwaring and Tarek Masoud Oxford : Oxford University Pr2
A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi2
The Contribution of the Development of Transportation to Improving Labour Market Outcomes for Youth in China2
School, Shocks, and Safety Nets: Can Conditional Cash Transfers Protect Human Capital Investments during Rainfall Shocks?2
Dangerous Love: Sex Work, Drug Use, and the Pursuit of Intimacy in Tijuana, Mexico2
Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance2
Visualising Community Capacity in Sustainable Development2
Microfinance and Small Business Development in a Transitional Economy: Insights from Borrowers’ Relations with Microfinance Organisations in Kazakhstan2
Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia2
Targeting Social Safety Nets: Evidence from Nine Programs in the Sahel2
Vulnerability to Climate Change and Communal Conflicts: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and South/South-East Asia2
The Toxification of Population Discourse. A Genealogical Study2
The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form and Scope The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form and Scope By Andaleeb Rahman and Prabhu Pingali 2
Defending Civic Space: When are Campaigns against Repressive Laws Successful?2
Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus2
Refugee-Host Proximity and Market Creation in Uganda2
Rwanda’s Agricultural Transformation Revisited: Stagnating Food Production, Systematic Overestimation, and a Flawed Performance Contract System2
Rural Roads, Child Labor, and Schooling in Rural Ethiopia2
Servicification of Manufacturing in Global Value Chains: Upgrading of Local Suppliers of Embedded Services in the South African Market for Wind Turbines2
Colonial Origins of Comparative Development in Ghana2
Do Large Estates Benefit Smallholder Neighbours? Evidence from Malawi1
Social Violent Event in Childhood and Human Capital: The Long-Run Effect of Exposure to the Gwangju Uprising in Childhood in South Korea1
The Role of Political Connections in COVID Policy Response: Effectiveness of Firm-Level Government Support in Egypt1
The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century1
Correction1
In Memoriam: Professor Michael Lipton1
Forced Migration and Violent Crime: Evidence from The Venezuelan Exodus to Brazil1
Do School Feeding Programmes Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Liberia1
Gender Gap in Spousal Education and Wealth After Marriage in India1
Appetite for Reform: When do Exogenous Shocks Motivate Industrial Policy Change?1
Will Bride Price Affect Household Savings: Evidence from Rural China1
Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing1
Local Recruits in Development Finance Institutions: Relocating Global North-South Divides in the International Aid Industry1
Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Cash for Work: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Tunisia1
Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism1
Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda: Clientelism, Coercion and Social Control1
Does Agricultural Commercialisation Increase Asset and Livestock Accumulation on Smallholder Farms in Ethiopia?1
What Sustains Informality? A Study of the Interactions between Formal and Informal Sector Firms1
Trade Wars are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace1
Markets, States or Transnational Networks? Explaining Technology Leverage by Latecomer Firms in Industrializing Countries1
The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi1
Business Licencing Reform and Gender Equality: Evidence from Indonesia1
Mobilising Private Funding of Development Finance1
Innovation is the Answer! But is Development the Question? Assessing Innovation Against the Capabilities Approach to Development1
The Plus in Credit-Plus-Technical Assistance: Evidence from a Rural Microcredit Programme in Bolivia1
Premature Deindustrialisation and Income Inequality Dynamics: Evidence from Middle-Income Economies1
Who is Likely to Benefit from Public and Private Sector Investments in Farmer-led Irrigation Development? Evidence from Ethiopia1
The Double Burden of Female Protracted Displacement: Survey Evidence on Gendered Livelihoods in El Fasher, Darfur1
Aid and Radicalization: The Case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza1
Pathways to Development: From Politics to Power1
Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa1
Financial Sector Development and the Preference for Informal Remittance Channels: Evidence from Bangladesh1
Red Tape Reduction, More New Firms? Saving Time and Money: Evidence from an Ecuadorian Reform1
Agricultural Practices and Voting Behaviours: Evidence from Chinese Village Committee Elections1
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia1
Son Preference and Human Capital Investment among China’s Rural-urban Migrant Households1
Accounting for Divergences in Industrial Policy Performance in the Cement and Textile Industries in Nigeria1
Adolescent Girls’ Safety In and Out of School: Evidence on Physical and Sexual Violence from Across Sub-Saharan Africa1
On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought1
Infant Mortality and Desired Fertility: The Case of the Free Health Care Initiative in Sierra Leone1
The Eyes of the World: Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo The Eyes of the World: Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo By James H. Smith 1
Re-visiting the Conditional Cash Transfer in India through the Partial Identification Approach1
Does Export Experience Improve Firms’ Productivity? Evidence from Indonesia1
Inequality of Opportunity in Mexico and its Regions: A Data-Driven Approach1
The Making of Land and the Making of India1
The Gender-Differential Effect of Financial Inclusion on Household Financial Resilience1
From Economic Integration to Near Elimination: The Economic Consequences of Isolation1
Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods: Refugees in Ethiopia1
Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi1
Fixes and Flux: Frontier Brokers, Political Settlements and Post-War Politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka1
Long-term Well-being among Survivors of the Rwandan and Cambodian Genocides1
Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry since 19471
Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train1
How Many and Which Women Own Land in India? Inter-gender and Intra-gender Gaps1
Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders1
Impact of Intergovernmental Transfers on Household Multidimensional Well-Being1
Imports, Exports, and Employment: India’s Trading Relationship with China1
Elite Status, Market Linkages, and Contributions to Collective Goods: Evidence from a Survey and Public Goods Experiments1
Understanding Farmer Preferences to Guide Crop Improvement: The Case of Grasspea in Ethiopia1
Population Ethics for an Imperfect World: Basic Justice, Reasonable Disagreement, and Unavoidable Value Judgements1
Civil Conflict and Firm Recovery: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire1
Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala1
Why Communities Participate in Malaria Elimination Projects: Case Studies from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia1
Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath1
The Laziness Myth: Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa1
Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa1
Combating Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance is Failing and What We Can Do About It1
A Decolonial Approach to Innovation? Building Paths Towards Buen Vivir1
China and the WTO: Why Multilateralism Matters1
Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India1
The Tax Elasticity of Formal Work in Sub-Saharan African Countries1
The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers: State Capacity and Political Contestation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia1
Digitally Down to the Countryside: Fintech and Rural Development in China1
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