World Development

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	421
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Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks	246
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Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	155
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector	152
Income inequality in Guyana: Class or ethnicity? New evidence from survey data	106
Voluntary audits: Experimental evidence on a new approach to monitoring front-line bureaucrats	106
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	100
Indian dairy cooperative development: A combination of scaling up and scaling out producing a center-periphery structure	90
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America	87
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	84
Risk and time preferences for participating in forest landscape restoration: The case of coffee farmers in Uganda	82
Inherent Dilemma: Balancing conservation efficiency and social equity in natural resource governance	74
Who Deserves Aid? Perceptions of Fairness in Contexts of Forced Displacement	73
When the data you have aren’t the data you need: The availability of school-related violence data in low- and middle-income countries	72
Linking innovations adoption with farm sustainability: Empirical evidence from rainwater harvesting and fertilizer micro-dosing in Tanzania	72
Immigration and labour productivity: A comparative effect	71
Do aid agencies comply with human rights requirements in Practice? Systematic evidence on the integration of human rights in German development cooperation	69
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Chronicle of a disaster foretold: The politics of restoring Lake Urmia (Iran)	67
Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India	64
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	62
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	62
Navigating food price shocks in a pandemic: Food insecurity and coping mechanisms in Burkina Faso	62

With and beyond sustainability certification: Exploring inclusive business and solidarity economy strategies in Peru and Switzerland	61
It’s all about politics: Migration and resource conflicts in the global south	59
Horrible trade-offs in a pandemic: Poverty, fiscal space, policy, and welfare	59
Variety of national innovation systems (NIS) and alternative pathways to growth beyond the middle-income stage: Balanced, imbalanced, catching-up, and trapped NIS	58
Why do aspirations matter for empowerment?: Discrepancies between the A-WEAI domains and aspirations of ethnic minority women in Vietnam	56
Urbanising the Villages: Three modes of village incorporation and the implications for structural transition in India’s “Chinese-style” special economic zones (SEZs)	55
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	55
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	54
Wages and the division between mental and manual labor in China	54
Mobile phone adoption, deforestation, and agricultural land use in Uganda	53
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Ideology and Rifles: The Agrarian Origins of Civil Conflict in Colombia	52
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	52
Troubling the idealised pageantry of extractive conflicts: Comparative insights on authority and claim-making from Papua New Guinea, Mongolia and El Salvador	52
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Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures	50
Beyond a generalized deagrarianization: Livelihood heterogeneity and its determinants in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico	50
Can hypothetical measures of time preference predict actual and incentivised behaviour? Evidence from Senegal.	48
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	47
When clients vote for brokers: How elections improve public goods provision in urban slums	46
Governing the diverse forest: Polycentric climate governance in the Amazon	45
Mixed records, complexity, and ethnic voting in African elections	44
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Revisiting the Income Inequality-Crime Puzzle	43
Pay for performance for prenatal care and newborn health: Evidence from a developing country	42
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Chinese sisal estates and smallholder land uses and livelihoods, Kilosa, Central Tanzania	41
Donors want it faster, humanitarian organizations get it cheaper	41
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The impact of decentralized decision-making on student outcomes and teacher quality: Evidence from Colombia	39
Impact of family law reform on adolescent reproductive health in Ethiopia: A quasi-experimental study	39
Winds of fire and smoke: Air pollution and health in the Brazilian Amazon	38
COVID-19 and armed conflict	37
Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countries	37
To use financial incentives or not? Insights from experiments in encouraging sanitation investments in four countries	37
Finance, informal competition, and expectations: A firm-level analysis	37
Relationship between water and sanitation and maternal health: Evidence from Indonesia	37
Gender equality is diluted in commitments made to small-scale fisheries	37
Decentralization, historical state capacity and public goods provision in Post-Soviet Russia	36
Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay	36
Minimum wage compliance and household welfare: An analysis of over 1500 minimum wages in India	36
Unconditional cash transfers and safe transitions to adulthood in Malawi	36
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Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	35
Forest income and livelihoods on Pemba: A quantitative ethnography	34
Revisiting China’s supermarket revolution: Complementarity and co-evolution between traditional and modern food outlets	34
Encouraging technology adoption using ICTs and farm trials in Senegal: Lessons for gender equity and scaled impact	34
The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica	33
Land tenure and economic development: Evidence from Vietnam	33
China’s BRI developmental agency in its own words: A content analysis of key policy documents	33

The impact of remittances on food insecurity: Evidence from Mexico	33
Trade-offs or synergies? Hybridity and sustainable performance of dairy cooperatives in India	33
Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	33
Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on India’s rural youth: Evidence from a panel survey and an experiment	33
Multichain strategies and economic upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from Kenyan horticulture	32
Mobile phone ownership and welfare: Evidence from South Africa’s household survey	32
Domestic policy consequences of international mega-events: Evidence from China	32
Migrants and access to health care in Costa Rica	32
Spousal concordance in joint and separate households: Survey evidence from Nepal	32
Who Benefits from Free Trade?	32
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	31
Institutional pluralism and water user behavior in rural Africa	31
The social costs of titling land: Evidence from Uganda	31
Brand Aid and coffee value chain development interventions: Is Starbucks working aid out of business?	31
Caught between winning repeat business and learning: Reactivity to output indicators in international development	31
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	31
SMEs, violence and crisis: Stylized facts from a survey in Latin America	31
Fatalism or vigilance? Exposure to infant and maternal deaths and subsequent use of maternal health services in Malawi	31
Institutional coalescence and illegal small scale gold mining in Ghana	30
Unsustainable prosperity? Decoupling wellbeing, economic growth, and greenhouse gas emissions over the past 150 years	30
Impacts of improved biomass cookstoves on child and adult health: Experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia	30
Orchestrating self-empowerment in tribal India: Debt bondage, land rights, and the strategic uses of spirituality	30
Spillover Effects and Diffusion of Savings Groups	30
Statebuilding and indigenous rights implementation: Political incentives, social movement pressure, and autonomy policy in Central America	30
Is economic growth less welfare enhancing in Africa? Evidence from the last forty years	30
Covid-19 vs. Ebola: Impact on households and small businesses in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo	30
Within the cracks of the cosmic race: Income inequalities by race and ethnicity in Latin America	29
Cultural taboos and misinformation about menstrual health management in rural Bangladesh	29
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam	29
The effect of Universal Salt Iodization on cognitive test scores in rural India	28
Do conditional cash transfers create resilience against poverty? Long-run evidence from Jamaica	28
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	28
A revisit of farm size and productivity: Empirical evidence from a wide range of farm sizes in Nigeria	28
Farmers’ perspectives and context are key for the success and sustainability of farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) in northeastern Ghana	28
Dispossessions in Bolsonaro’s Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic	28
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	27
Ideology at the Water’s Edge: Explaining Variation in Public Support for Foreign Aid	27
Substitution versus wealth: Dual effects of non-pastoral income on livestock herd size	27
Governing the knowledge commons: Hybrid relational–contractual governance in china’s mining industry	27
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	27
Drivers of conflict over customary land in the Middle Drâa Valley of Morocco	27
Economic incentives and return migrant scholars: Evidence from a talent recruitment program in China	27
“We fight to the end”: On the violence against social leaders and territorial defenders during the post-peace agreement period and its political ecological implications in the Putumayo, Colombia	27
Beyond Ostrom: Randomized experiment of the impact of individualized tree rights on forest management in Ethiopia	27
Outward and upward construction: A 3D analysis of the global building stock	27
How does governance mediate links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation? Results from a systematic mapping and thematic synthesis of literature	26
Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India	26
Designing development interventions: The application of service design and discrete choice experiments in complex settings	26
Allocation of humanitarian aid after a weather disaster	26
Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism	26
Gender and LPG use after government intervention in rural north India	26
Kenya’s ‘Universal’ social pension: The politics of registration in Marsabit County	26
The role of gender in agent banking: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo	26
The political behavior of family firms: Evidence from Brazil	25
Aid or exploitation?: Food-for-work, cash-for-work, and the production of “beneficiary-workers” in Ethiopia and Haiti	25
Moving with risk: Forced displacement and vulnerability to hazards in Colombia	25
Can communal systems work? The effects of communal water provision on child health in Peru	25
Chinese aid and health at the country and local level	25
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa	25
The politics of labour relations in global production networks: Collective action, industrial parks, and local conflict in the Ethiopian apparel sector	25
Temporary labor mobility to various geographical and sectoral destinations improves rural incomes − Insights from Peru	25
Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico	24
Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries	24
Changes in adult well-being and economic inequalities: An exploratory observational longitudinal study (2002–2010) of micro-level trends among Tsimane’, a small-scale rural society of Indigenous Peopl	24
Regimes and industrialization	24
Does a joint United Nations microfinance ‘plus’ program empower female farmers in rural Ethiopia? Evidence using the pro-WEAI	24
Agricultural land acquisitions unlikely to address the food security needs of African countries	24
Agricultural commercialization and nutrition; evidence from smallholder coffee farmers	24
Institutional benefit pathways in development	24
Reducing energy poverty by nearly universal pension coverage of rural China	23
Indigenous forest destroyers or guardians? The indigenous Batwa and their ancestral forests in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRC	23
Uber for tractors? Opportunities and challenges of digital tools for tractor hire in India and Nigeria	23
Corrigendum to “Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and public-private partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea” [World Development 137 (2021) 105198]	23
Motivating for environmental protection: Evidence from county officials in China	23
Erratum to “The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu” [World Dev. 142 (2021) 105363]	23
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]	23
Can decentralization lower poverty? Cambodia’s Commune and Sangkat Fund	22
Should payments for environmental services be used to implement zero-deforestation supply chain policies? The case of soy in the Brazilian Cerrado	22
Of cooks, crooks and slum-dwellers: Exploring the lived experience of energy and mobility poverty in Mexico's informal settlements	22
The power paradigm in practice: A critical review of developments in the Zambian electricity sector	22

Keeping communal peace in the shadow of civil war: A natural experiment from Côte d’Ivoire	22
Using machine learning and qualitative interviews to design a five-question survey module for women’s agency	22
China’s investments in renewable energy in Africa: Creating co-benefits or just cashing-in?	22
How village leaders in rural Amazonia create bonding, bridging, and linking social capital configurations to achieve development goals, and why they are so difficult to maintain over time	22
Scaling up agriculture? The dynamics of land transfer in inland China	21
Using Google data to measure the role of Big Food and fast food in South Africa’s obesity epidemic	21
Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh	21
Self-help groups as platforms for development: The role of social capital	21
Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas	21
Leaving no one behind: Urban poverty traps in Sub-Saharan Africa	21
Public services as carriers of ideas that (de-) legitimise the state: The illustrative case of free education in Sri Lanka	21
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development?	21
A place at the table is not enough: Accountability for Indigenous Peoples and local communities in multi-stakeholder platforms	21
Sanctions effectiveness, development and regime type. Are aid suspensions and economic sanctions alike?	21
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as an instrument for Chinese influence? Supplementary versus remedial multilateralism	21
Blessed are the peacemakers: The future burden of intrastate conflict on poverty	20
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	20
Lives and livelihoods: Estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic	20
The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach	20
Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition	20
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China	20
Lack of access to clean fuel and piped water and children’s educational outcomes in rural India	20
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	20
Crops in crises: Shocks shape smallholders' diversification in rural Ethiopia	20
Empowering women through targeting information or role models: Evidence from an experiment in agricultural extension in Uganda	20
Trust in peacebuilding organizations: A survey experiment in Haiti	19
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	19
Interplay of governance elements and their effects on deforestation in tropical landscapes: Quantitative insights from Ecuador	19
Investment impacts of gendered land rights in customary tenure systems: Substantive and methodological insights from Malawi	19
Trafficking as settler colonialism in eastern Panama: Linking the Americas via illicit commerce, clientelism, and land cover change	19
Women’s political empowerment and economic growth	19
Is there political elite capture in access to energy sources? Evidence from Indian households	19
There’s Technology Improvement, but is there Economy-wide Energy Leapfrogging? A Country Panel Analysis	19
The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey	19
Falling inequality and the growing capital income share: Reconciling divergent trends in survey and tax data	19
Urban wage premium for women: evidence across the wage distribution	19
Examining norms and social expectations surrounding exclusive breastfeeding: Evidence from Mali	19
Mining and women’s agency: Evidence on acceptance of domestic violence and shared decision-making in India	19
Do financial crises increase income inequality?	19
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania	19
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?	19
Southern thought, islandness and real-existing degrowth in the Mediterranean	19
Is the agricultural sector cursed too? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	18
A food insecurity Kuznets Curve?	18
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	18
Childhood vaccinations and the demand for children: Long-term evidence from India	18
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	18
Livelihood investments as incentives for community forestry in Africa	18
Higher economic growth in poor countries, lower migration flows to the OECD – Revisiting the migration hump with panel data	18
Development of agroforestry food resources in Niger: Are farmers’ preferences context specific?	18
Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa	18
Life between the city and the village: Scaling analysis of service access in Indian urban slums	18
Patterns of temporary rural migration: A study in northern Bangladesh	18
Do remedial activities using math workbooks improve student learning? Empirical evidence from scaled-up interventions in Niger	17
Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining: Lessons from a quasi-randomized reform program in Sierra Leone	17
Like father, like son, like mother, like daughter: Intergenerational transmission of intrahousehold gender attitudes in Ethiopia	17
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Switching it up: The effect of energy price reforms in Oman	17
NGO-state relations in the monitoring of illegal forest logging and wildlife trafficking in Central Africa	17
Worth a shot? The political economy of government responsiveness in times of crisis	17
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	17
How clientelism undermines state capacity: Evidence from Mexican municipalities	17
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Majoritarian politics and hate crimes against religious minorities: Evidence from India, 2009–2018	17
Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies	17
Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal	17
Which dimensions of religiosity matter for trust? New insights from the MENA region	17
Undernutrition inequality between Dalits and non-Dalits in Nepal – A decomposition analysis	16
Political violence and endogenous growth	16
Bureaucrat time-use: Evidence from a survey experiment	16
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption	16
Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect	16
Seeing like a smartphone: The co-production of landscape-scale and rights-based conservation	16
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017	16
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No man is an Island: A spatially explicit approach to measure development resilience	16
The intersections of mining and neoliberal conservation	16
Colonial origins and quality of education evidence from cameroon	16
Wealthy, healthy and green: Are we there yet?	16
“Leave no one behind”. A power-capabilities-energy justice perspective on energy transition in remote rural communities in Cambodia	16
Exchange rate fluctuations, labour laws, and gender differences in job flows: Analysis of manufacturing industries across Indian states	16
What does equitable distribution mean in community forests?	16
Rebuilding public authority in Uganda dualist theory, hybrid social orders and democratic statehood	16
Fighting against hunger: A country-wide intervention and its impact on birth outcomes	16
Scaling-up sustainable commodity governance through jurisdictional initiatives: Political pathways to sector transformation in the Indonesian palm oil sector?	16
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam	16
Targeting coethnic voters, elites, or both? Evidence from aid allocation in Malawi	16
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean	16
Coping with shocks: How Self-Help Groups impact food security and seasonal migration	16
The implications of aggregate measures of exposure to violence for the estimated impacts on individual risk preferences	16
The long-term effects of early European settlement on local development: Evidence from Indonesia	16
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Matching grants and economic activities among horticultural entrepreneurs: Long-term evidence from Rwanda	15
Inter-household transfers: An empirical investigation of the income-transfer relationship with novel data from Burkina Faso	15