Journal of Development Economics

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	279
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	257
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	121
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	110
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	87
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	71
Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors	68
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	68
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	61
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	55
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	54
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	53
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	53
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	50
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	49
Communist propaganda and women’s status	45
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	43
Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil	42
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	42
Editorial Board	42
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	42
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	39
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	39
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	38
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	37

Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	37
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	36
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	35
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	35
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	35
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	34
Temporary migration for long-term investment	34
Agricultural revolution and industrialization	33
A behavioral intervention to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay	33
Welfare effects of an in-kind transfer program: Evidence from Mexico	33
Does social capital positively influence loan performance even during a crisis?	33
Consequences of a massive refugee influx on firm performance and market structure	31
Information and behavior: Evidence from fertilizer quantity recommendations in Bangladesh	30
Gains from market integration: Welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia	30
Corrigendum to “How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi” J. Dev. Econ. 146 (2020) 102522	29
When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from waterborne illnesses	29
Editorial Board	29
Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño?	28
Peaceful entry: Entrepreneurship dynamics during Colombia’s peace agreement	28
Distance, trade, and income — The 1967 to 1975 closing of the Suez canal as a natural experiment	28
Agricultural trade and depletion of groundwater	27
Information and behavioral responses during a pandemic: Evidence from delays in Covid-19 death reports	27
Ethno-regional favoritism and the political economy of school test scores	27
Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China	27
Corruption exposure, political trust, and immigrants	26
The persistence of trade relocation from civil conflict	26
Editorial Board	26
Curriculum and national identity: Evidence from the 1997 curriculum reform in Taiwan	26
Does labor composition impact the transmission of monetary policy to output?	26
Disrupted academic careers: The returns to time off after high school	26
Trouble with zero: The limits of subsidizing technology adoption	25
Subjective risk belief function in the field: Evidence from cooking fuel choices and health in India	25
Does the gig economy discriminate against women? Evidence from physicians in China	25
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment	25
Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine	24
Cognitive and socioemotional skills in low-income countries: Measurement and associations with schooling and earnings	24
Agricultural composition and labor productivity	24
Public pensions and family dynamics: Eldercare, child investment, and son preference in rural China	24
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys	24
Vehicle exhaust standards and urban air quality in China	24
What you do (not) get when expanding the net - Evidence from forced taxpayer registrations in South Africa	22
Better strategies for saving more: Evidence from three interventions in Chile	22
Multifaceted programs targeting women in fragile settings: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo	22
Sharing risk to avoid tragedy: Informal insurance and irrigation in village economies	22
Nonclassical measurement error and farmers’ response to information treatment	21
Human capital affects religious identity: Causal evidence from Kenya	21
Returns to quality in rural agricultural markets: Evidence from wheat markets in Ethiopia	21
Endogenous labor migration and remittances: Macroeconomic and welfare consequences	20
Immigration and occupational downgrading in Colombia	20
The impact of female political leadership on gender attitudes: Evidence from Taiwan’s local councils	20

The seeds of misallocation: Fertilizer use and maize varietal misidentification in Ethiopia	20
Seeking the treated: The impact of mobile extension on farmer information exchange in India	20
Federal and state audits do not increase compliance with a grant program to improve municipal infrastructure: A pre-registered field experiment	20
Internal migration and drug violence in Mexico	20
Improved menstrual health and the workplace: An RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers	19
Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality: Theory and evidence	19
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states	19
Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity	18
Editorial Board	18
Spillovers in ICT Adoption from Formal to Informal Firms: Evidence from Zambia	18
A dynamic theory on clientelism and bureaucratic development	18
The limits of hegemony: U.S. banks and Chilean firms in the Cold War	17
Formal insurance and altruism networks	17
Contingent determinants	17
North Korean refugees’ implicit bias against South Korea predicts market earnings	17
Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies	17
Driving while hungry: The effect of fasting on traffic accidents	17
Identifying psychological trauma among Syrian refugee children for early intervention: Analyzing digitized drawings using machine learning	17
Impacts of industrial and entrepreneurial jobs on youth: 5-year experimental evidence on factory job offers and cash grants in Ethiopia	17
Editorial Board	16
When do refugees return home? Evidence from Syrian displacement in Mashreq	16
From wells to wealth? Government transfers and human capital	16
Responding to natural disasters: What do monthly remittance data tell us?	16
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China	16
On the market failure of “missing pioneers”	15
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition	15
Jobs! Electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa	15
Parental responses to child disability: Gender differences and relative earnings	15
The housing quality, income, and human capital effects of subsidized homes in urban India	15
“Moving Umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China	15
Universal secondary education, schooling and women ’s empowerment: Evidence from Uganda	15
Public sentiment in times of terror	15
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence	15
The quiet revolution: Send-down movement and female empowerment in China	15
Types of communications technology and civil conflict	14
Spatial inefficiencies in Africa’s trade network	14
Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention	14
Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration	14
How distortive are turnover taxes? Evidence from China	14
A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa	14
Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes?	14
The effects of expanding worker rights to children	14
Marriage outcomes of displaced women	14
Bundled contracts and technological diffusion: Evidence from the Brazilian soybean boom	14
Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo	13
Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia	13
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports?	13
Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia	13
Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing	13
Behavioral consequences of religious schooling	13
What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde	13
Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability	13
Do tax audits have a dynamic impact? Evidence from corporate income tax administrative data	13
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: The role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power	12
Refugees and foreign direct investment: Quasi-experimental evidence from US resettlements	12
Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China	12
The power to protect: Household bargaining and female condom use	12
Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model	12
Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan	12
Delivery times in international competition: An empirical investigation	12
Religious leaders and rule of law	12
Blaming the wind? The impact of wind turbine on bird biodiversity	12
Introduction to the journal of development economics special issue on methods and measurement	12
Refugee camps and deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa	12
Preprimary education and early childhood development: Evidence from government schools in rural Kenya	12
Does terrorism make people pessimistic? Evidence from a natural experiment	12
Fighting violence against women: The role of female political representation	12
Road expansion, allocative efficiency, and pro-competitive effect of transport infrastructure: Evidence from China	11
Colonialism and female empowerment: A two-sided legacy	11
Corruption and extremism	11
Timing matters: The (very) long-run impacts of cash grants during a crisis	11
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s learning and wellbeing: Evidence from India	11
The “miseries” of sex imbalance: Evidence using subjective well-being data	11
TV in times of political uncertainty: Evidence from the 2017 elections in Kenya	11
Information and immigrant settlement	11
Editorial Board	11
Shipwrecked by rents	11
Tradition and mortality: Evidence from twin infanticide in Africa	10
Car restriction policies and housing markets	10
Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor	10

Trade, policy, and economic development in the digital economy	10
Wider economic benefits of transport corridors: Evidence from international development organizations	10
Learning by searching: Spatial mismatches and imperfect information in Southern labor markets	10
Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship in colonial India	10
Segregation and internal mobility of Syrian refugees in Turkey: Evidence from mobile phone data	10
Trade-induced competition and ownership dynamics	10
Cash transfers and micro-enterprise performance: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya	10
Social protection amidst social upheaval: Examining the impact of a multi-faceted program for ultra-poor households in Yemen	10
Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity	10
Editorial Board	10
Elite persistence in Sierra Leone: What can names tell us?	10
Multiplying multi-plants: A new and consequential phenomenon	10
Cheap talk and coordination in the lab and in the field: Collective commercialization in Senegal	10
Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence: Evidence from India	10
Large multiproduct exporters across rich and poor countries: Theory and evidence	10
In-group competition for incentives	9
Property rights, factor allocation and household welfare: Experimental evidence from a land titling program in India	9
Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods	9
Pollution-induced trips: Evidence from flight and train bookings in China	9
Give me your tired and your poor: Impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees	9
Quota removal, destination-specific export shocks, and skill acquisition in China	9
Competition in household human capital investments: Strength, motivations and consequences	9
Neighborhood violence, poverty, and psychological well-being	9
Input quality and skills are complementary and increase output quality: Causal evidence from Ecuador’s trade liberalization	9
A mother’s voice: Impacts of spousal communication training on child health investments	9
Borrower leakage from costly screening: Evidence from SME lending in Peru	9
Equality of opportunity and human capital accumulation: Motivational effect of a nationwide scholarship in Colombia	9
Slums and pandemics	9
Global universal basic skills: Current deficits and implications for world development	9
Who benefits from job training programs? Evidence from a high-dosage program in Brazil	9
Financial market imperfections, informality and government spending multipliers	9
Multi-product firms and misallocation	9
Manufacturing employment and women’s agency: Evidence from Lesotho 2004–2014	9
The political impacts of land expropriation in China	8
Editorial Board	8
Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce “backway” migration from The Gambia?	8
Active learning improves financial education: Experimental evidence from Uganda	8
International risk sharing for food staples	8
Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem	8
Texts don’t nudge: An adaptive trial to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in India	8
Long Live friendship? The long-term impact of Soviet aid on Sino-Russian trade	8
The protective role of index insurance in the experience of violent conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia	8
Fracking, farmers, and rural electrification in India	8
Global Mobile Inventors	8
Weapons and war: The effect of arms transfers on internal conflict	8
The long road to health: Healthcare utilization impacts of a road pavement policy in rural India	8
Early childhood exposure to health insurance and adolescent outcomes: Evidence from rural China	8
Training microentrepreneurs over Zoom: Experimental evidence from Mexico	8
Migration from developing countries: Selection, income elasticity, and Simpson’s paradox	8
Motivating volunteer health workers in an African capital city	8
Policy enforcement in the presence of organized crime: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro	8
Intergenerational mobility around the world: A new database	7
Discrimination against migrants and its determinants: Evidence from a Multi-Purpose Field Experiment in the Housing Rental Market	7
What is the optimal locus of control for social assistance programs? Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia	7
Export capacity constraints and distortions	7
Learning to use trade agreements	7
Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia	7
The deforestation effects of trade and agricultural productivity in Brazil	7
Shortening the path to productive investment: Evidence from input fairs and cash transfers in Malawi	7
Road infrastructure and skill premium: Evidence from Indian manufacturing	7
Testing willingness to pay elicitation mechanisms in the field: Evidence from Uganda	7
Idiosyncratic shocks and aggregate fluctuations in an emerging market	7
Is the glass half full or half empty? Examining the impact of Swatch Bharat interventions on sanitation and hygiene in rural Punjab, India	7
Extreme heat and rural household adaptation: Evidence from Northeast China	7
On the effects of wildfires on poverty in Bolivia	7
A hybrid approach to targeting social assistance	7
Estimating impact with surveys versus digital traces: Evidence from randomized cash transfers in Togo	6
Digital adoption, automation, and labor markets in developing countries	6
Land market distortions and aggregate agricultural productivity: Evidence from Guatemala	6
The dirty business of eliminating open defecation: The effect of village sanitation on child height from field experiments in four countries	6
Are age-of-marriage laws enforced? Evidence from developing countries	6
Medication against conflict	6
When the levee breaks: The impact of floods on educational outcomes in China	6
A tale of framing and screening: How health messaging and house screening affect malaria transmission in Ethiopia	6
The long-term welfare effects of colonial institutions: Evidence from Central India	6
Local knowledge, formal evidence, and policy decisions	6
Leverage and productivity	6
Corrigendum to “Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China” [J. Dev. Econ. 166, (January 2024), 103211]	6
Impact of self- or social-regarding health messages: Experimental evidence based on antibiotics purchases	6
In-kind transfers, marketization costs and household specialization: Evidence from Indian farmers	6
Program targeting with machine learning and mobile phone data: Evidence from an anti-poverty intervention in Afghanistan	6
Risk, arbitrage, and spatial price relationships: Insights from China's hog market under the African Swine Fever	6
Adapting to climate change accounting for individual beliefs	6
Employment effects of minimum wages in a dual economy: Evidence from Thailand	6
Understanding the effects of racial classification in Apartheid South Africa	6
Economic shocks, gender, and populism: Evidence from Brazil	6
Editorial Board	6
Helping families help themselves: The (Un)intended impacts of a digital parenting program	6
The dual role of insurance in input use: Mitigating risk versus curtailing incentives	6
Across a few prohibitive miles: The impact of the Anti-Poverty Relocation Program in China	6
Immigration and violent crime: Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border	6
Saving for dowry: Evidence from rural India	6
Poverty mapping in the age of machine learning	6
Demand for “Safe Space”: Avoiding harassment and complying with norms	6
Do index insurance programs live up to their promises? Aggregating evidence from multiple experiments	6