Journal of Development Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Development Economics is 10. 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
Is the glass half full or half empty? Examining the impact of Swatch Bharat interventions on sanitation and hygiene in rural Punjab, India277
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Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations241
Transnational terrorism and the internet115
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Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country81
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Public sentiment in times of terror65
Long Live friendship? The long-term impact of Soviet aid on Sino-Russian trade59
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi59
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa57
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots53
Group lending with covariate risk50
Migration from developing countries: Selection, income elasticity, and Simpson’s paradox50
Idiosyncratic shocks and aggregate fluctuations in an emerging market49
Farming output, concentration, and market access: Evidence from the 19th-century American railroad expansion47
Do referrals improve the representation of women in mobile phone surveys?45
Measuring social unrest using media reports41
Can political parties improve minority wellbeing? Evidence from India’s “Silent Revolution”41
Exposure to transit migration: Public attitudes and entrepreneurship41
Political uncertainty and the forms of state capture39
When do refugees return home? Evidence from Syrian displacement in Mashreq38
On the market failure of “missing pioneers”38
Economic shocks and infant health: Evidence from a trade reform in Brazil38
Asset transfers and anti-poverty programs: Experimental evidence from Tanzania38
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania38
Exposure to collective gender-based violence causes intimate partner violence37
Attenuating measurement errors in agricultural productivity analysis by combining objective and self-reported survey data35
Import competition, labor market regulations, and firm outsourcing35
Labeled loans and human capital investments35
Circle of fortune: The long-term impact of Western customs institution in China34
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence34
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–189534
From bilateral trade to centralized markets: A search model for commodity exchanges in Africa34
The long-run costs of highly competitive exams for government jobs33
The health costs of dirty energy: Evidence from the capacity market in Colombia33
Active learning improves financial education: Experimental evidence from Uganda32
Communist propaganda and women’s status32
Using technology to prevent fraud in high stakes national school examinations: Evidence from Indonesia32
Discrimination against migrants and its determinants: Evidence from a Multi-Purpose Field Experiment in the Housing Rental Market32
Can information correct optimistic wage expectations? Evidence from Mozambican job-seekers31
The housing quality, income, and human capital effects of subsidized homes in urban India29
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition28
Tariff overhang and aid: Theory and empirics28
Trust, violence, and coca28
Training microentrepreneurs over Zoom: Experimental evidence from Mexico27
The welfare effects of India’s rural employment guarantee27
Children on the move: Progressive redistribution of humanitarian cash transfers among refugees27
Extreme heat and rural household adaptation: Evidence from Northeast China26
Cover more for less: Targeted drug coverage, chronic disease management, and medical spending26
Shortening the path to productive investment: Evidence from input fairs and cash transfers in Malawi26
A structural estimation of the return to infrastructure investment in China26
Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors26
Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce “backway” migration from The Gambia?25
Income inequality under colonial rule. Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920–196025
Mistaking noise for bias25
Lucky women in unlucky cohorts25
Public governance versus corporate governance: Evidence from oil drilling in forests25
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision24
Economic development and known natural resource endowment: Discovery rate differentials of oil24
Breaking the silence – Group discussions and the adoption of menstrual health technologies24
Intergenerational mobility around the world: A new database24
Jobs! Electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa23
Land allocation and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from the 2007 reform in China23
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China23
The deforestation effects of trade and agricultural productivity in Brazil23
The quiet revolution: Send-down movement and female empowerment in China23
High-skilled services and development in China22
Latin American pride: Labor market outcomes of sexual minorities in Brazil22
Female employment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee inflows to Turkey21
Weather shocks, infant mortality, and adaptation: Experimental evidence from Uganda21
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations21
Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia20
Reconciling the conflicting narratives on poverty in China20
Go with the wind: Spatial impacts of environmental regulations on economic activities in China20
The political economy of health epidemics: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak20
Compliance and accountability-seeking: Evidence from a field experiment in Argentina19
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting19
“Moving Umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China18
Aspirations and financial decisions: Experimental evidence from the Philippines18
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets18
The costs of “blue sky”: Environmental regulation, technology upgrading, and labor demand in China18
Land titling, human capital misallocation, and agricultural productivity in China17
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh17
Marriage markets and the rise of dowry in India17
Groups in conflict: Private and public prizes16
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys16
Spatial inefficiencies in Africa’s trade network16
Military investment and the rise of industrial clusters: Evidence from China’s self-strengthening movement16
Trade liberalization, roads and firm productivity16
FDI inflows and export quality: Domestic competition and within-firm adjustment15
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How light is too light touch: The effect of a short training-based intervention on household poultry production in Burkina Faso15
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor15
Corrigendum to “The legacy effect of unexploded bombs on educational attainment in Laos” [J. Dev. Econ. 147 (2020) 102527]15
Does trade cause detrimental specialization in developing economies? Evidence from countries south of the Suez Canal15
Last corrupt deed before retirement? Evidence from a lower middle-income country15
Testing willingness to pay elicitation mechanisms in the field: Evidence from Uganda15
Refugees' and irregular migrants’ self-selection into Europe15
A gravity analysis of refugee mobility using mobile phone data15
The deep roots of rebellion15
Editorial Board15
Exploitation of labor? Classical monopsony power and labor's share15
No bulls: Experimental evidence on the impact of veterinarian ratings in Pakistan14
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism14
Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo14
Spousal communication and information sharing: Evidence from migrants and their spouses14
The consequences of health mandates on infant health: Evidence from a smoking-ban regulation14
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Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability14
The nutritional cost of beef bans in India14
Immigration and violent crime: Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border14
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India14
Types of communications technology and civil conflict13
Student loans: Credit constraints and higher education in South Africa13
Mass persuasion and the ideological origins of the Chinese Cultural Revolution13
The effectiveness of entry deregulation: Novel evidence from removing minimum capital requirements13
Macroeconomic outcomes in disaster-prone countries13
Evidence on designing sanitation interventions13
Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention13
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Childhood migration and educational attainment: Evidence from Indonesia13
Are age-of-marriage laws enforced? Evidence from developing countries12
What is the optimal locus of control for social assistance programs? Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia12
A hybrid approach to targeting social assistance12
Can housing booms elevate financing costs of financial institutions?12
Adapting to climate change accounting for individual beliefs12
Bundled contracts and technological diffusion: Evidence from the Brazilian soybean boom12
Marriage outcomes of displaced women12
Early maternity and paternity. Effects on educational trajectories12
Endogenous inclusion in the Demographic and Health Survey anthropometric sample: Implications for studying height within households12
Parental investment, school choice, and the persistent benefits of an early childhood intervention11
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving11
Supporting early childhood development remotely: Experimental evidence from SMS messages11
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones11
Changing local customs: The long run impacts of Christian missions on female genital cutting in Africa11
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China11
Quantifying welfare effects in the presence of externalities: An ex-ante evaluation of sanitation interventions11
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania11
Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes?11
A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa11
Do tax audits have a dynamic impact? Evidence from corporate income tax administrative data11
Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia10
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors10
Export capacity constraints and distortions10
Caveat utilitor: A comparative assessment of resilience measurement approaches10
Program targeting with machine learning and mobile phone data: Evidence from an anti-poverty intervention in Afghanistan10
Network adoption subsidies: A digital evaluation of a rural mobile phone program in Rwanda10
Need-based financing policies, college decision-making, and labor market behavior: Evidence from Jamaica10
Direct vs indirect management training: Experimental evidence from schools in Mexico10
What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde10
Measuring time use in rural India: Design and validation of a low-cost survey module10
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia10
Medication against conflict10
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India10
Identifying communication spillovers in lab-in-the-field experiments10
Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil10
Building networks: Investigating the quid pro quo between local politicians & developers10
Trans-boundary air pollution spillovers: Physical transport and economic costs by distance10
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