Review of Development Economics

Article	Citations
Digital inclusive finance and urban innovation: Evidence from China	64
Natural resources, technological progress, and economic modernization	40
Does women’s participation in agricultural technology adoption decisions affect the adoption of climate‐smart agriculture? Insights from Indo‐Gangetic Plains of India	31
Casting a shadow: Productivity of formal firms and informality	29
Housing price, talent movement, and innovation output: Evidence from Chinese cities	28
Internet use and consumption diversity: Evidence from rural China	25
Do personal remittances influence economic growth in South Asia? A panel analysis	25
Has the information and communication technology sector become the engine of China’s economic growth?	18
The effect of export composition on energy demand: A fresh evidence in the context of economic complexity	18
Disparities in regional productivity, capital accumulation, and efficiency across Indonesia: A club convergence approach	18
Rural development in the digital age: Does information and communication technology adoption contribute to credit access and income growth in rural China?	16
Mechanization services, factor allocation, and farm efficiency: Evidence from China†	15
Adoption of agricultural technologies among rice farmers in Benin	14
Financial inclusion and education: An empirical study of financial inclusion in the face of the pandemic emergency due to Covid‐19 in Latin America and the Caribbean	14
Understanding poverty dynamics and vulnerability in Tanzania: 2012–2018	14
Income inequality and economic growth: A re‐examination of theory and evidence	13
Poverty in India in the face of Covid‐19: Diagnosis and prospects*	12
Impact of remittances on household health care expenditure: Evidence from the Nepal Living Standards Survey	12
Aggregate and heterogeneous sectoral growth effects of foreign direct investment in Egypt	12
Impact of remittances on male and female labor force participation patterns in Africa: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Ghana	12
Impact of global value chains on total factor productivity: The case of Indian manufacturing	12
Corruption and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean	11
On the financial literacy, indebtedness, and wealth of Colombian households	11
Gender gap and access to finance: A cross‐country analysis	11
The effects of international remittances on expenditure patterns of the left‐behind households in Sub‐Saharan Africa	11

Evaluating universal primary education in Uganda: School fee abolition and educational outcomes	11
Innovation‐adjusted economic complexity and growth: Do patent flows reveal enhanced economic capabilities?	10
Smallholder farmers’ perception of climate change and drivers of adaptation in agriculture: A case study in Guinea	10
Poverty and vulnerability in Mozambique: An analysis of dynamics and correlates in light of the Covid‐19 crisis using synthetic panels	10
Productivity determinants in the construction sector in emerging country: New evidence from Ecuadorian firms	10
Impacts of management training on workers: Evidence from Central America and the Caribbean region	10
Reducing farmers' poverty vulnerability in China: The role of digital financial inclusion	9
Is the demographic dividend diminishing in China? Evidence from population aging and economic growth during 1990–2015	9
Investigating the well‐being implications of mobile money access and usage from a multidimensional perspective	9
Technology adoption and the middle‐income trap: Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia	9
What explains trade costs? Institutional quality and other determinants	9
How climate change leads to emigration: Conditional and long‐run effects	9
Urban segregation and consumption inequality: Does hukou conversion matter in China?	9
Smartphone use, off‐farm employment, and women's decision‐making power: Evidence from rural China	8
Is the devil in the shadow? The effect of institutional quality on income	8
Empowerment and intimate partner violence: Domestic abuse when household income is uncertain	8
Does agricultural trade liberalization increase obesity in developing countries?	8
Do interest rate controls work? Evidence from Kenya	8
Are developing countries accumulating sufficient total factor productivity to sustain their economic growth and job creation? Empirical evidence from the Middle East and North Africa region	8
Constructing synthetic panels for the purpose of studying poverty dynamics: A primer	8
Profit sharing, industrial upgrading, and global supply chains: Theory and evidence	8
Policy impact assessment in developing countries using Social Accounting Matrices: The Kenya SAM 2014	8
Political instability and youths unemployment in sub‐Saharan Africa	8
Internet use and agricultural productivity in rural Vietnam	8
The impacts of farmland expropriation on Vietnam’s rural households	8
Market access and regional dispersion of human capital accumulation in Turkey	7
Severity of the COVID‐19 pandemic in India	7
The economic cost of conflict: Evidence from South Sudan	7
Can microcredit reduce vulnerability to poverty? Evidence from rural Vietnam	7
Aid for Trade, export product diversification, and foreign direct investment	7
Does manager education play a role in the productivity of informal firms in developing economies? Evidence from firm‐level surveys	7
Working conditions and factory survival: Evidence from better factories Cambodia	7
Dynamic correlation between crude oil and agricultural futures markets	7
The distributional effects of government spending shocks in developing economies	7
Risk preference and child labor: Econometric evidence	7
The role of resource reallocation in promoting total factor productivity growth: Insights from China’s agricultural sector	6
Gender inequality, corruption, and economic development	6
An introduction to rural and agricultural development in the digital age	6
Redistribution and efficiency: An empirical analysis of the relevant trade‐offs of welfare state fiscal policies	6
Heterogeneity in entrepreneurship in developing countries: Risk, credit, and migration and the entrepreneurial propensity of youth and women	6
Narrowing the gender digital divide in Pakistan: Mobile phone ownership and female labor force participation	6
Is maternal employment detrimental to children’s nutritional status? Evidence from Bangladesh	6
Growing up in the Iran–Iraq war and preferences for strong defense	6
Gendered effects of sanctions on manufacturing employment: Evidence from Iran	6
Remittances and rural credit markets: Evidence from Senegal	6
Foreign direct investment, informality and technology transfer	6
Within‐family inequalities in human capital accumulation in India	6
Drought and social conflict in rural Zimbabwe: Does the burden fall on women and girls?	6
Son‐biased fertility stopping, birth spacing, and child nutritional status in Pakistan	6
Inflation targeting in low‐income countries: Does IT work?	6

Age at marriage, social norms, and female education in Nepal	5
Earnings gap between men and women in the informal labor market in Cameroon	5
Farmer organizations and maize productivity in rural Burkina Faso: The effects of the diversion strategy on cotton input loans	5
Internal migration and youth entrepreneurship in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	5
Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan	5
Poverty and vulnerability transitions in Myanmar: An analysis using synthetic panels	5
Poverty, vulnerability and Covid‐19: Introduction and overview	5
Analyzing vulnerability to poverty and assessing the role of universal public works and food security programs to reduce it: Evidence from an eastern Indian state	5
The gender wage gap among China’s rural–urban migrants	5
Agricultural productivity‐environmental sustainability nexus through the lens of digitalization and energy intensity in BRICS countries	5
Modeling the dynamics of oil and agricultural commodity price nexus in linear and nonlinear frameworks: A case of emerging economy	5
Economic growth takeoffs and the extensive and intensive margins of trade	5
Microfinance and poverty reduction: Evidence from Djibouti	5
Outsmarting your parents: Being a first‐generation learner in developing countries	5
The impact of conflict on the exchange rate of developing economies	5
Business operations, contestability, bureaucratic holdup, and bribe solicitations	5
What effect does development aid have on productivity in recipient countries?	5
Social networks and internal migration in China: A spatial autoregressive model	5
Economic openness, government efficiency, and urbanization	5
Is specialization a strategy to improve farm efficiency in northwest China?	5
“Opt out” or kept out? The effect of stigma, structure, selection, and sector on the labor force participation of married women in India	5
Environmental regulation and foreign direct investment attractiveness: Evidence from China provinces	5
The perils of embedded experiments	4
Relative economic status and mental health among Chinese adults: Evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study	4
Hand pollination, mass spraying, and hybrid seedlings: Do these technologies affect the welfare of smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana?	4
Pollution permits, green taxes, and the environmental poverty trap	4
FDI and spillovers: New evidence from Malaysia’s manufacturing sector	4
Cash transfers and the supply of labor by poor households: Evidence from the livelihood empowerment against poverty program in Ghana	4
An empirical analysis of Colombia's trade liberalization process and its effect on the equilibrium of its structural trade deficit	4
Beyond technical skills training: The impact of credit counseling on the entrepreneurial behavior of Ugandan youth	4
Education and wage inequality before and during the fiscal crisis: A quantile regression analysis for Greece 2006–2016	4
Military spending and sustainable development	4
Climate change and spatial agricultural development in Turkey	4
The persistence of inequality across Indian states: A time series approach	4
Overcoming digital poverty traps in rural Asia	4
Exchange rate uncertainty and foreign direct investment in Africa: Does financial development matter?	4
Welfare impact of asymmetric price transmission on rice consumers in Bangladesh	4
Contract farming, community effect, and farmer valuation of biofortified crop varieties in China: The case of high‐zinc wheat	4
The impact of rent seeking on social infrastructure and productivity	4
Do farmers get a greater return from selling their agricultural products through e‐commerce?	4
Smartphone‐based agricultural extension services and farm incomes: Evidence from Zhejiang Province in China	4
Race‐based affirmative action for higher education in Brazil: Impact assessment on performance, time, and delay in completion*	4
Long‐run effects of teachers in developing countries	4
Income inequality among agricultural households in India: A regression‐based decomposition analysis	4
Does intrahousehold bargaining power enhance women's marital satisfaction? A perspective from two competing forces in China	4
Understanding poverty dynamics in Ethiopia: Implications for the likely impact of COVID‐19	4
Can proactive fiscal policy achieve the goal of “Beyond Keynesianism”?	4
Does combining traditional and information and communications technology–based extension methods improve agricultural outcomes? Evidence from field experiments in Mali	4
Measuring inclusive growth experiences: Five criteria for productive employment	4
The impact of anti‐sweatshop activism on employment	3
Conditional cash transfers tools to combat child labor: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Costa Rica	3
The impacts of China’s exchange rate regime reform in 2005: A counterfactual analysis	3
Government spending and the exchange rate: Exploring this relationship in Mexico using a cointegrated system of equations	3
The impact of Nepal's earthquake on the health status of rural children	3
A good mix against ultra‐poverty? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in Bangladesh	3
The effects of free primary education in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A difference‐in‐differences approach	3
The long‐term impact of education on dietary diversity among women in Zimbabwe	3
The effects of school‐based management on Indian government schools	3
Trade liberalization, domestic reforms, and income inequality: Evidence from Taiwan	3
Formalization of manufacturing firms in Bangladesh	3
How does education affect intergenerational income mobility in Chinese society?	3
The big push to a knowledge‐based economy with intellectual property rights protection	3
Some questions of ethics in randomized controlled trials	3
Engel’s law in China: Some new evidence	3
Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia: The gravity model	3
Malnutrition in the shadow of economic growth	3
Estimating the link between trade uncertainty, pandemic uncertainty and food price stability in Togo: New evidence for an asymmetric analysis	3
Institutional endowment, curse, and the impact of external political shock: The case of Macao	3
Do you really need it? Educational mismatch and earnings in Ghana	3
Impact of mobile payment adoption on household expenditures and subjective well‐being	3
Absent laws and missing women: Can domestic violence legislation reduce female mortality?	3
The detection dilemma of marginally non‐poor households in poverty alleviation evaluation: Evidence from a linear quantile mixed model	3
Effects of housing demolition on labor supply: Evidence from China	3
Democracy in the neighborhood and foreign direct investment	3
Inclusive health and life insurance adoption: An empirical study in Guatemala	3
Distance of doing business and outward foreign direct investment: An empirical study of China	3
Does piped water improve adolescent health? Empirical evidence from rural China	3
Urban household consumption in China: Price, income, and demographic effects	3
Interregional inequality in Africa, convergence, and multiple equilibria: Evidence from nighttime light data	3
Can individuals’ beliefs help us understand nonadherence to malaria test results? Evidence from rural Kenya	3

Balanced versus unbalanced growth: Revisiting the forgotten debate with new empirics	3
Heterogeneity in returns to agricultural technologies with incomplete diffusion: Evidence from Ghana	3
Urban poverty, growth, and inequality: A needed paradigm shift?	3
Trade liberalization, export quality, and three dimensions of wage inequality*	3
The impact of minimum wages on wages, wage spillovers, and employment in China: Evidence from longitudinal individual‐level data	3
Agglomeration and innovation effort: A longitudinal study on small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Vietnam	3
Return migrants in Albania: The determinants of “entrepreneurial gain”	3
Market resilience in times of crisis: The case of Darfur	3
Inflation and income distribution in Central America, Mexico, Panama, and the Dominican Republic	3
Structural changes and economic landscape of the Indian economy: 2000‐2019	3
Free to escape? Economic freedoms, growth and poverty traps	3
The role of peer imitation in agricultural index insurance adoption: Findings from lab‐in‐the‐field experiments in Kyrgyzstan	3
The trade openness–gender wage differential nexus: Household‐level evidence from Ghana	3
Pandemics and technology engagement: New evidence from m‐Health intervention during COVID‐19 in India	2
Effects of pollution abatement activities on environmental efficiency and productivity: Empirical evidence from the Chinese industrial sector	2
Do vertical spillovers differ by investors’ productivity? Theory and evidence from Vietnam	2
Complementarity and substitutability between farm and nonfarm activities: Evidence from agricultural households in Tanzania	2
Make concentrated trade not war?	2
Language and learning in ethnically mixed communities	2
Liquidity defaults and progressive lending in microfinance: A lab‐in‐the field experiment in Bolivia	2
Rethinking the aid–growth relationship: A network approach	2
Exchange rate pass‐through to import prices: Evidence from a heterogeneous panel of West African countries	2
Microfinance competition and multiple borrowing: Evidence using panel data from Bangladesh	2
Spillovers from transport infrastructures onto firm productivity: An analytical and empirical study	2
The nexus between public sector corruption and private sector efficiency: Evidence from worldwide firm‐level data	2
A possible mechanism for partial crowding‐out of R&D subsidies in developing countries	2
Correction of China's income inequality for missing top incomes	2
Enhancing rural income through public agricultural R&D: Spatial spillover and infrastructure thresholds	2
Financial inclusion, gender gaps and agricultural productivity in Mali	2
Income inequality and macroeconomic instability	2
Inclusive growth in the face of increasing urbanization: What experience for African countries?	2
Internet usage and the income gap between self‐employed individuals and employees: Evidence from China	2
The impacts of women's land ownership: Evidence from Vietnam	2
Labor policy and multinational firms: The “race to the bottom” revisited	2
How do the intended and unintended beneficiaries respond to the Philippines' conditional cash transfer program?	2
Son preference and the demographic transition	2
To obey or not to obey? Can game theory explain human behavior in the context of coronavirus disease?	2
Class or caste? A study on the role of caste and wealth status in school choice decision	2
Fertility decisions of families in an intergenerational exchange model	2
The multiplier effect of public employment on formal employment in the private sector: Evidence from Turkey*	2
Terrorism and inbound tourism in Egypt: Economy‐wide and distributional impacts	2
Family‐type public goods and intra‐household decision‐making by co‐resident South African couples	2
Linguistic distance and economic development: A cross‐country analysis	2
Grading foreign aid agencies: Best practices across traditional and emerging donors	2
Do public pension programmes reduce elderly poverty in China?	2
Long‐run productivity trends: A global update with a global index	2
Monetary policy and inflation–output variability in Sri Lanka: Lessons for developing economies	2
Export quality and patent protection: Stage‐dependent effects in development	2
Special economic zones, export status, and firms’ productivity: Theory and evidence from China	2
Female labor force participation in Egypt and Palestine: An age–period–cohort analysis*	2
Wage inequality in the developing world: Evidence from Latin America	2
Did Mali benefit from joining the CFA zone? An analysis using the synthetic control method	1
Do fiscal opacity, fiscal impulse, and fiscal credibility affect disagreement about economic growth forecasts? Empirical evidence from Brazil considering the period of political instability and presid	1
Empirical investigation of the agriculture–malnutrition nexus in Africa: Spatial clustering and spillover effects	1
Trade policy and input liberalization: The effect on Egyptian firms’ productivity	1
Population density, urbanisation and agricultural mechanisation in modern Ghana	1
Asymmetric impacts of ICT and energy intensity on agricultural productivity: Evidence from Asia‐Pacific region	1
Political origins of financial structure in developing countries	1
Pollution haven or pollution halo? The role of global value chains in Belt and Road economies	1
Does the impact of private education on growth differ at different levels of credit market development?	1
On the determinants and interrelationship of components of government spending	1
Coastal proximity and individual living standards: Econometric evidence from georeferenced household surveys in sub‐Saharan Africa	1
Parents' pension eligibility and migrant consumption in urban China: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	1
Once again “smile curve”: Is chain upgrading possible?	1
Decomposing changes in inequality: Evidence from Myanmar	1
How does religion affect health in the gold mining industry? Evidence from Nigeria	1
Withdrawal of the multifibre agreement and Indian textile industry: Concerns, efforts, and achievements	1
Biased FDI spillovers in incomplete datasets: An empirical examination	1
New insight into decoupling carbon emissions from economic growth: Do financialization, human capital, and energy security risk matter?	1
The New Development Bank and the structure of the multilateral development financial system	1
Nutrient consumption in India: Evidence from a village study	1
Technology licensing, entry mode, and trade liberalization	1
Shedding light on the convergence debate: Using luminosity data to investigate economic convergence in Ecuador	1
Agricultural labor markets and the inverse plot size–productivity relationship: Evidence from China's apple growers	1
Once NEET, always NEET? A synthetic panel approach to analyze the Moroccan labor market	1
Partial privatization, producer services, and unemployment in developing countries	1
Agricultural producer service subsidies and agricultural pollution: An approach based on endogenous agricultural pollution	1
Child labor, social capital, and economic development*	1
Exporting and the wage premium: The case of South African manufacturing firms	1
Environmental disasters and mental health: Evidence from oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon	1
Central bank securities and foreign exchange market intervention in a developing economy	1
Foreign aid network diversification and its impact on growth, growth acceleration, and growth spell	1
Child health impact of the Nepalese civil war	1
The determinants of inequality in child nutrition status: Evidence from Jordan	1
Economic openness, financial bias, and the urban–rural income gap	1
Fiscal policy and economic activity in South Asia	1
Do illiterate mothers learn from their literate kids? Evidence from maternal nutritional knowledge	1
Effects of COVID‐19 restrictions on mechanization service providers and mechanization equipment retailers: Insights from phone surveys in Myanmar	1
How is China's trade imbalance overstated? An analysis based on trade in value‐added	1
“Not everything is lost”: The role of education during adolescence to mitigate the effects of the early experience of poverty	1
Building smallholder farmers' capacity to adopt climate‐smart agricultural practices in flood prone areas: Lessons from Bangladesh	1
The influence of international trade on labour productivity in services: The case of Brazil in the 1990s	1
Why cash grants fail to raise household investment in child education in developing countries	1
Public works programs and crime: Evidence for El Salvador	1
Smoking habits in Mexico: Upward and downward comparisons of economic status	1