Journal of Development Economics

Article	Citations
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	326
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	145
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	99
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	85
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	71
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	71
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	68
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	63
Editorial Board	61
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	59
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	58
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	51
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	49
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	48
Communist propaganda and women’s status	48
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	46
Get in the Zone: The Risk-Adjusted Welfare Effects of Data-Driven vs. Administrative Borders for Index Insurance Zones	46
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	45
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	45
The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China	44
Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature	42
Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil	42
The impact of investment promotion on multinational production: Firm-level evidence	42
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	42
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	41

Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	41
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	40
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	39
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	39
Editorial Board	39
Grassland Certification, Grazing Behavior, and Ecological Consequences: Evidence from Pastoral China	37
Temporary migration for long-term investment	37
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	37
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	36
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	36
Information and behavioral responses during a pandemic: Evidence from delays in Covid-19 death reports	35
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	35
When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from waterborne illnesses	35
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	35
Consequences of a massive refugee influx on firm performance and market structure	33
Peaceful entry: Entrepreneurship dynamics during Colombia’s peace agreement	33
Does social capital positively influence loan performance even during a crisis?	31
A behavioral intervention to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay	31
Corrigendum to “How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi” J. Dev. Econ. 146 (2020) 102522	31
Welfare effects of an in-kind transfer program: Evidence from Mexico	30
Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China	30
Agricultural revolution and industrialization	30
Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño?	30
Information and behavior: Evidence from fertilizer quantity recommendations in Bangladesh	29
Transportation infrastructure and deforestation in the Amazon	28
Gains from market integration: Welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia	27
Corruption exposure, political trust, and immigrants	27
Distance, trade, and income — The 1967 to 1975 closing of the Suez canal as a natural experiment	27
The persistence of trade relocation from civil conflict	27
Externalities of the personality traits: The effect of peer personality on students’ mental health	27
Agricultural trade and depletion of groundwater	26
Disrupted academic careers: The returns to time off after high school	25
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
Editorial Board	25
Relocation from China (with Chinese characteristics)	25
Ethno-regional favoritism and the political economy of school test scores	25
Curriculum and national identity: Evidence from the 1997 curriculum reform in Taiwan	24
Public pensions and family dynamics: Eldercare, child investment, and son preference in rural China	24
Does labor composition impact the transmission of monetary policy to output?	24
Agricultural composition and labor productivity	23
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment	23
Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine	23
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys	23
Social isolation induced negative emotions affect economic behavior: A natural experiment study	23
Nonclassical measurement error and farmers’ response to information treatment	21
Vehicle exhaust standards and urban air quality in China	21
Endogenous labor migration and remittances: Macroeconomic and welfare consequences	21
What you do (not) get when expanding the net - Evidence from forced taxpayer registrations in South Africa	21
Does the gig economy discriminate against women? Evidence from physicians in China	21

The impact of female political leadership on gender attitudes: Evidence from Taiwan’s local councils	21
Cognitive and socioemotional skills in low-income countries: Measurement and associations with schooling and earnings	21
Multifaceted programs targeting women in fragile settings: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo	21
Better strategies for saving more: Evidence from three interventions in Chile	21
Internal migration and drug violence in Mexico	21
The seeds of misallocation: Fertilizer use and maize varietal misidentification in Ethiopia	21
Federal and state audits do not increase compliance with a grant program to improve municipal infrastructure: A pre-registered field experiment	20
Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality: Theory and evidence	20
Human capital affects religious identity: Causal evidence from Kenya	20
Immigration and occupational downgrading in Colombia	20
Improved menstrual health and the workplace: An RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers	20
Seeking the treated: The impact of mobile extension on farmer information exchange in India	19
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states	19
Returns to quality in rural agricultural markets: Evidence from wheat markets in Ethiopia	19
Spillovers in ICT adoption from formal to informal firms: Evidence from Zambia	19
Sharing risk to avoid tragedy: Informal insurance and irrigation in village economies	19
North Korean refugees’ implicit bias against South Korea predicts market earnings	18
A dynamic theory on clientelism and bureaucratic development	18
When regional policies fail: An evaluation of Indonesia’s Integrated Economic Development Zones	18
Formal insurance and altruism networks	18
Driving while hungry: The effect of fasting on traffic accidents	17
From wells to wealth? Government transfers and human capital	17
The impact of violence on the dynamics of migration: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution	17
Editorial Board	17
Impacts of industrial and entrepreneurial jobs on youth: 5-year experimental evidence on factory job offers and cash grants in Ethiopia	17
The limits of hegemony: U.S. banks and Chilean firms in the Cold War	17
Occupational mismatch and market power	16
Identifying psychological trauma among Syrian refugee children for early intervention: Analyzing digitized drawings using machine learning	16
Digital connectivity and firm participation in foreign markets: An exporter-based bilateral analysis	16
Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies	16
Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity	16
When do refugees return home? Evidence from Syrian displacement in Mashreq	15
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China	15
Jobs! Electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa	15
Editorial Board	15
Voter-buying, politician selection, and public good provision in Brazil	15
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence	15
The housing quality, income, and human capital effects of subsidized homes in urban India	15
Promoting Innovative Startups: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Tunisia	15
Universal secondary education, schooling and women ’s empowerment: Evidence from Uganda	15
Responding to natural disasters: What do monthly remittance data tell us?	15
Public sentiment in times of terror	14
Holi crimes: The impact of a public festivity on violence against women	14
The quiet revolution: Send-down movement and female empowerment in China	14
“Moving Umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China	14
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition	14
A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa	13
The effects of expanding worker rights to children	13
Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes?	13
Bundled contracts and technological diffusion: Evidence from the Brazilian soybean boom	13
Do tax audits have a dynamic impact? Evidence from corporate income tax administrative data	13
Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo	13
Persistent yet ameliorable shocks to female entrepreneurship: Experimental evidence from Kenya	13
Types of communications technology and civil conflict	13
Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention	13
Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing	13
How distortive are turnover taxes? Evidence from China	13
Property rights, sick pay and effort supply	13
Parental responses to child disability: Gender differences and relative earnings	13
Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration	13
Place-based Policies and Household Wealth in Africa	13
Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia	13
Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability	13
Spatial inefficiencies in Africa’s trade network	13
Preprimary education and early childhood development: Evidence from government schools in rural Kenya	12
Delivery times in international competition: An empirical investigation	12
Does terrorism make people pessimistic? Evidence from a natural experiment	12
How good are livestock statistics in Africa? Can nudging and direct counting improve the quality of livestock asset data?	12
What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde	12
Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model	12
Behavioral consequences of religious schooling	12
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: The role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power	12
Religious leaders and rule of law	12
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports?	12
The power to protect: Household bargaining and female condom use	12
Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households	12
Labor market rigidity at home and multinational corporations’ flexible production reallocation abroad	12
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s learning and wellbeing: Evidence from India	11
Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia	11
Refugees and foreign direct investment: Quasi-experimental evidence from US resettlements	11

Information and immigrant settlement	11
Introduction to the journal of development economics special issue on methods and measurement	11
Fighting violence against women: The role of female political representation	11
Blaming the wind? The impact of wind turbine on bird biodiversity	11
Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China	11
Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan	11
Road expansion, allocative efficiency, and pro-competitive effect of transport infrastructure: Evidence from China	11
Timing matters: The (very) long-run impacts of cash grants during a crisis	11
Learning by searching: Spatial mismatches and imperfect information in Southern labor markets	10
Car restriction policies and housing markets	10
Large multiproduct exporters across rich and poor countries: Theory and evidence	10
Wider economic benefits of transport corridors: Evidence from international development organizations	10
Health, wealth, or equity? Trade-offs from households’ allocative decisions	10
TV in times of political uncertainty: Evidence from the 2017 elections in Kenya	10
Shipwrecked by rents	10
Tradition and mortality: Evidence from twin infanticide in Africa	10
Multiplying multi-plants: A new and consequential phenomenon	10
Multi-product firms and misallocation	10
Trade, policy, and economic development in the digital economy	10
Cash transfers and micro-enterprise performance: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya	10
Editorial Board	10
Corruption and extremism	10
Using satellites and phones to evaluate and promote agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from smallholder farms in India	10
Editorial Board	10
Property rights, factor allocation and household welfare: Experimental evidence from a land titling program in India	10
Editorial Board	10
Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence: Evidence from India	10
Social protection amidst social upheaval: Examining the impact of a multi-faceted program for ultra-poor households in Yemen	10
Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship in colonial India	9
Elite persistence in Sierra Leone: What can names tell us?	9
Hairdressers and well-being: Local services provision and mental health first response	9
Cheap talk and coordination in the lab and in the field: Collective commercialization in Senegal	9
A mother’s voice: Impacts of spousal communication training on child health investments	9
Neighborhood violence, poverty, and psychological well-being	9
Equality of opportunity and human capital accumulation: Motivational effect of a nationwide scholarship in Colombia	9
Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor	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
Policy enforcement in the presence of organized crime: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro	9
Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity	9
Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods	9
Competition in household human capital investments: Strength, motivations and consequences	9
Trade-induced competition and ownership dynamics	9
In-group competition for incentives	9
Slums and pandemics	9
From drains to bridges: The role of internationally mobile PhD students in linking non-mobile with foreign scientists	8
Fracking, farmers, and rural electrification in India	8
Borrower leakage from costly screening: Evidence from SME lending in Peru	8
Weapons and war: The effect of arms transfers on internal conflict	8
Manufacturing employment and women’s agency: Evidence from Lesotho 2004–2014	8
Extreme heat and rural household adaptation: Evidence from Northeast China	8
The political impacts of land expropriation in China	8
Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem	8
Pollution-induced trips: Evidence from flight and train bookings in China	8
Migration and the epidemiological approach: Time and self-selection into foreign ancestries matter	8
Quota removal, destination-specific export shocks, and skill acquisition in China	8
Active learning improves financial education: Experimental evidence from Uganda	8
The protective role of index insurance in the experience of violent conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia	8
Editorial Board	8
Early childhood exposure to health insurance and adolescent outcomes: Evidence from rural China	8
Texts don’t nudge: An adaptive trial to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in India	8
Motivating volunteer health workers in an African capital city	8
High temperature, power rationing, and firm performance	8
Financial market imperfections, informality and government spending multipliers	8
International risk sharing for food staples	8
Agricultural modernization and redistributive conflict	8
Global Mobile Inventors	8
On the effects of wildfires on poverty in Bolivia	7
Medication against conflict	7
Immigration and violent crime: Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border	7
Risk, arbitrage, and spatial price relationships: Insights from China's hog market under the African Swine Fever	7
Idiosyncratic shocks and aggregate fluctuations in an emerging market	7
Internal migration and labor market adjustments in the presence of non-wage compensation	7
Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce “backway” migration from The Gambia?	7
Road infrastructure and skill premium: Evidence from Indian manufacturing	7
Across a few prohibitive miles: The impact of the Anti-Poverty Relocation Program in China	7
Employment effects of minimum wages in a dual economy: Evidence from Thailand	7
What is the optimal locus of control for social assistance programs? Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia	7
Program targeting with machine learning and mobile phone data: Evidence from an anti-poverty intervention in Afghanistan	7
Learning to use trade agreements	7
Intergenerational mobility around the world: A new database	7
The deforestation effects of trade and agricultural productivity in Brazil	7
Long Live friendship? The long-term impact of Soviet aid on Sino-Russian trade	7
Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia	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
Trade liberalization and quality upgrading: Third-country effects	7
Gender composition, social context, and academic performance in high-stakes examinations	7
Mitigating the health impact of a famine: Evidence from the 1985 Ethiopian emergency food aid	7
Export capacity constraints and distortions	7
Migration from developing countries: Selection, income elasticity, and Simpson’s paradox	7
Shortening the path to productive investment: Evidence from input fairs and cash transfers in Malawi	7
Discrimination against migrants and its determinants: Evidence from a Multi-Purpose Field Experiment in the Housing Rental Market	7
Training microentrepreneurs over Zoom: Experimental evidence from Mexico	7
Poverty mapping in the age of machine learning	7
Armed groups: Competition and political violence	6