Review of Development Economics

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Issue Information	50
The remittance‐growth nexus in leading remittance‐earning nations, controlling regulatory quality, trade openness, energy use, and financial expansion	43
Government spending and the exchange rate: Exploring this relationship in Mexico using a cointegrated system of equations	40
Conditional cash transfers tools to combat child labor: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Costa Rica	37
A good mix against ultra‐poverty? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in Bangladesh	33
Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan	28
Empowering women through microcredit in Djibouti	28
Special economic zones, export status, and firms’ productivity: Theory and evidence from China	25
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Does Monetary Policy Affect Urban Food Inflation? Some Evidence From India	22
Climate threat and price stability: A case study of Belize	21
Correction to “Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan”	21
Does Fiscal Efficiency Affect Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence Based on Spatial Panel Data Models	20
Why do some African firms export? The role of regional economic communities?	19
COVID‐19 and the Unequal Distribution of Poverty Risks: Evidence From Urban India	19
Teaching in the right context: Textbook supply program, language, and learning	19
Has the information and communication technology sector become the engine of China’s economic growth?	18
Research collaboration in development economics	18
The effect of capital structure on the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions: A meta‐analysis	18
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Innovation‐adjusted economic complexity and growth: Do patent flows reveal enhanced economic capabilities?	17
Inequality in Africa: Does injustice matter?	16
“Rising Women”: Evidence From China's Agricultural Mechanization	16
From cultivation to culture: Wheat farming and sex selection in China	15

Rural development in the digital age: Does information and communication technology adoption contribute to credit access and income growth in rural China?	15
Internet use and consumption diversity: Evidence from rural China	15
Does Mobile Payment Raise the Poverty‐Alleviation Resilience of Chinese Households?	14
Impact of financial inclusion on household welfare in Liberia: A gendered perspective	14
Impact of global value chains on total factor productivity: The case of Indian manufacturing	13
Aspirations and Investments in Agricultural Risk Mitigation Strategies	13
Corruption, Land, and Housing: The Cleaning and Chilling Effects of China's Anti‐Corruption Campaign	12
The Impact of Income Inequality on Rural Household's Adoption of Climate‐Smart Agriculture Practices: Evidence From Yellow River Basin Region, China	12
The impact of financial inclusion on rural–urban households welfare inequality in Ghana: A decomposition analysis	12
Beyond the scenery: Understanding the impact of rural tourism development on household consumption in China	11
Wage inequality in the developing world: Evidence from Latin America	11
Challenges in water and sanitation services: Do natural disasters make matters worse?	11
Drain on your health: Sanitation externalities from dirty drains in India	11
Crime, elections, and political competition	11
Economic transition, dualism and informality inIndia: Nature and patterns of household‐level transitions	10
Oil discovery, boom‐bust cycle and manufacturing slowdown: Evidence from a large industry level dataset	10
From non‐renewables to renewables and high‐tech production: The impact of natural wealth and technology on ecological load capacity in sub‐Saharan Africa	10
Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics	10
Fruitless or Fruitful? Examining Ghana's Agricultural Inputs Subsidy and Household Welfare	10
Beyond Competitiveness: Is Productivity Everything?	10
Correction of China's income inequality for missing top incomes	10
The effects of free primary education in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A difference‐in‐differences approach	9
How do small formal and informal firms in Egypt compare? An analysis of firm characteristics and implications for formalization efforts	9
A Novel Decomposition Framework for Agricultural Growth Accounting: A Global Supply Chain Perspective	9
The Bias of Chinese Agricultural Enterprises’ Export: Profit Margin or Productivity?	9
Parental aspirations and child private‐school enrollment: Evidence from India	9
Local droughts and income risk among Thai households	9
(En‐)‘lightening’ children: Assessing the impacts of access to electricity on learning achievement levels	9
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	9
Exports, skills, and wage inequality in Kenya's manufacturing firms	9
Poverty and vulnerability transitions in Myanmar: An analysis using synthetic panels	9
Equal opportunity and poverty reduction: How should aid be allocated?	8
Do chairmen with China's Great Famine experience in early‐life affect firm tax avoidance activities?	8
One‐child policy and marriage market in China	8
Household income mobility in India, 1993–2011	8
Does intrahousehold bargaining power enhance women's marital satisfaction? A perspective from two competing forces in China	8
“Rely (only) on the rigorous evidence” is bad advice	8
Female labor force participation in Egypt and Palestine: An age–period–cohort analysis*	8
Selection and performance in post‐compulsory education	8
Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia: The gravity model	7
Constructing Country‐Specific Debt Indices for Developing Countries	7
Can world heritage sites boost sales in non‐tourism firms? The role of visibility	7
Does It Help or Hinder? The Impact of Population Aging on Industrial Structure Upgrading in Transition Economic Systems	7
Government Digitalization: A Catalyst for Innovation Across Economies	7
Informality, foreign ownership and bribery in developing countries	7
Connecting the fields: How ICT improve agricultural productivity in sub‐Saharan Africa	7
Modeling the dynamics of oil and agricultural commodity price nexus in linear and nonlinear frameworks: A case of emerging economy	7
Social networks and internal migration in China: A spatial autoregressive model	7
Unveiling complexities: Income inequality and inequality of opportunity in China	7
Trade liberalization, wilful credit defaults and bank bribery in a credit‐constrained economy	7

The impact of a disaster recovery policy on health status of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake victims: Evidence from a natural experiment	7
Does democracy stimulate remittances?	7
Bribery and firm survival in Vietnam: Moderating effects of market competition, credit, and institutional constraints	6
Predicting FDI inflows: Exploring a nonlinear relationship between peace years, oil wealth, and the rule of law	6
The effect of mini‐grid rural electrification on urbanization: Evidence from the pilot mini‐grid systems in Ghana	6
Do fertilizer and seed subsidies strengthen farmers' market participation? Evidence from Tanzania's subsidy program	6
Impacts of climate change on food utilization in Nepal	6
Understanding the Inequality of Opportunity in Stunting Among Chinese Children and Adolescents: An Urban–Rural Comparison	6
Monetary, fiscal, and structural drivers of inflation in Ethiopia: new empirical evidence from time series analysis	6
Democracy and Human Capital in Africa	6
Assessment of the effects of targeted poverty alleviation policy on differently poverty‐stricken households: A multi‐propensity score weighting model	6
Assessing the impacts of Brazil's expenditure ceiling with a multiple‐household CGE model	6
Spatial tax regimes and location choices of manufacturing firms: Survey evidence in southern Tunisia	6
Open‐access renewable resources and pollution: Trade and policy implications in a two‐country model	5
Women, Violence and Work: Threat of Sexual Violence and Women's Decision to Work	5
Mechanization services, factor allocation, and farm efficiency: Evidence from China†	5
Impact of mobile payment adoption on household expenditures and subjective well‐being	5
The Impacts of Weather Variability and Shocks on Farmers and Indigenous Peoples' Consumption: Evidence From Panama	5
Dynamic correlation between crude oil and agricultural futures markets	5
Trade liberalization, domestic reforms, and income inequality: Evidence from Taiwan	5
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On the inclusiveness of rural road improvement: Evidence from Morocco	5
Inclusive growth in the face of increasing urbanization: What experience for African countries?	5
International or national implementers—Who is better? Evidence from a framing experiment	5
Agricultural producer service subsidies and agricultural pollution: An approach based on endogenous agricultural pollution	5
Son preference and the demographic transition	5
Finding the right products for export diversification	5
Timing of international market openings and shrinking middle‐income class	5
Parents' pension eligibility and migrant consumption in urban China: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	5
Partial privatization, producer services, and unemployment in developing countries	5
Green technological progress, agricultural modernization, and wage inequality: Lessons from China	5
The unintended energy efficiency gain from tax incentives for investment: Micro‐evidence from quasi‐natural experiments in China	5
Pandemic‐induced job loss and mental health: Evidence from a moderated mediation model	5
Central bank securities and foreign exchange market intervention in a developing economy	5
Re‐evaluating Africa's growth, poverty and inequality nexus	5
The New Development Bank and the structure of the multilateral development financial system	5
Structural changes and economic landscape of the Indian economy: 2000‐2019	5
Military spending and sustainable development	5
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Financial inclusion and healthcare in Africa: Examining the moderating role of education	5
Coastal proximity and individual living standards: Econometric evidence from georeferenced household surveys in sub‐Saharan Africa	5
Evaluating the effectiveness of labor market interventions on reducing the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Global Value Chain Participation and Sustainable Development in Belt and Road Initiative Economies: A Blessing or a Curse?	4
The Geopolitics of Foreign Aid	4
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Growth, Crises, and COVID‐19: Tracking Poverty Changes in Turkey From 2003 to 2021	4
Income‐linked pathways towards sustainable development goals: Analyzing the interplay of green energy, financial inclusion, and militarization in shaping aggregated economic sustainability	4
Nutrition for all? Input subsidies and equitable diets	4
Charting the RMB's Development as a Global Currency Anchor: An Empirical Analysis	4
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Macroeconomic volatility and anti‐refugee violence in developing countries: Evidence from commodity price shocks	4
Revisiting the Schooling Inputs Debate: Experimental Evidence From an Early Grade Literacy Intervention in Lao PDR	4
Female Labor Supply in Latin America and the Business Cycle: Instability and Asymmetry	4
Does access to financial services improve nutritional intake among rural residents? Assessing potential action mechanism pathways	4
The effects of school‐based management on Indian government schools	4
Impact of information and communication technologies on fertilizer and pesticide use efficiency of China's grain production	4
Did the nationwide implementation of electronic fund management in the Indian employment guarantee scheme result in reduced expenditures? A re‐examination of the evidence	4
Unveiling the Causes of Low Women's Political Participation: Novel Perspectives From China	4
Unemployment only temporarily lowers happiness in an eastern society	4
Population Aging and Corporate Innovation: A U‐Shaped Evidence From China	4
Immigration and the economic performance of countries	4
The effect of negative human recognition on farmland access and well‐being: Evidence from women farmers in Malawi	4
Language and learning in ethnically mixed communities	3
Quantile Insights Into Sustainability: Financial Inclusion, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Damage in EAGLE Countries	3
Microfinance and poverty reduction: Evidence from Djibouti	3
Credit market imperfection, lack of entrepreneurship and capital outflow from a developing economy	3
Smartphone use, off‐farm employment, and women's decision‐making power: Evidence from rural China	3
To obey or not to obey? Can game theory explain human behavior in the context of coronavirus disease?	3
Do Structural Transformation and Energy Transition Cause Growth?	3
Race among equals? An inquiry into the segmentation of Indian labor market	3
Women's Economic Empowerment and Financial Well‐Being: Evidence From Rural China	3
Gender Wage Gap in Early Careers: Evidence From University Graduates in China	3
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Financial inclusion, vulnerability coping strategies and multidimensional poverty: Does conceptualisation of financial inclusion matter?	3
Do public pension programmes reduce elderly poverty in China?	3
The distributional effects of government spending shocks in developing economies	3
Budget support to the health sector—The right choice for strong institutions? Evidence from panel data	3
Role of Regulatory Quality Toward a Sustainable Economic Development: A Dual Study of Ease of Doing Business and Economic Growth Amid Bank Efficiency	3
Multifaceted Assessment of the Relationship Between FDI and Sustainable Development in Latin America: The Role of the FDI Surplus Upon Environmental Productivities	3
Does manager education play a role in the productivity of informal firms in developing economies? Evidence from firm‐level surveys	3

Asset accumulation, financial inclusion and subjective well‐being: The role of financial formality in South Africa's households	3
Does the Asset‐Type Matter in Vulnerability Reduction? Evidence From Rural Indian Households	3
Population aging and saving: Evidence from China	3
Leader selection and why it matters: Education and the endogeneity of favouritism in 11 African countries	3
The Role of Energy Poverty on the Gender‐Health Gap in Ghana	3
The informal economy and the reach of policy interventions: Evidence from the COVID‐19 lockdown in India	3
Unpacking the COVID‐19 Gender Employment Gap Among Young People in the Global South	3
Hand pollination, mass spraying, and hybrid seedlings: Do these technologies affect the welfare of smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana?	3
Revenue losses from corporate tax avoidance: Estimations from the UNUWIDER Government Revenue Dataset	3
Is maternal employment detrimental to children’s nutritional status? Evidence from Bangladesh	3
Institutional difference and foreign direct investment location choice: Evidence from China	3
Correction to “Exchange rate pass‐through to import prices: Evidence from a heterogeneous panel of West African countries”	3
Does it matter how we measure poverty? Correlates of income and multidimensional poverty in Sri Lanka	3
The welfare implications of COVID‐19 for fragile and conflict‐affected regions	2
Asymmetric impacts of ICT and energy intensity on agricultural productivity: Evidence from Asia‐Pacific region	2
Women's Inheritance Rights and Wages in India: Measuring Impact Through Unobservable Human Capital Improvements	2
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The Path to Overcoming the Middle‐Income Trap	2
Foreign direct investment spillovers and regional innovation in China: The spatial moderating role of absorptive capacity	2
Quid pro quo	2
Corruption and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean	2
Poverty, vulnerability and Covid‐19: Introduction and overview	2
Economic Growth Expectations and Corporate Innovation: Evidence From China	2
Nutri‐Farming! Estimating the Impacts of a Nutritional Security Programme on Agricultural Productivity	2
Can We Do Well, While Doing Good? A Comparison Between Sustainable and Conventional Investments	2
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The geography of intergenerational mobility: Evidence of educational persistence and the “Great Gatsby Curve” in Brazil	2
Why cash grants fail to raise household investment in child education in developing countries	2
Assessing the Impact of Financing on SMEs' Innovation in China	2
Cross‐industry interlinkages in employment growth: Evidence from Brazil	2
Effects of free textbooks on academic performance: Evidence from China's compulsory education	2
Diaspora and Sustainable Economic Development in Lebanon: New Survey‐Informed Analysis	2
The case for mixed methods research: Embracing qualitative research to understand the (informal) economy	2
Taxation in the context of high informality: Conceptual challenges and evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa	2
The effects of local economic development on female obesity (overweight) in sub‐Saharan Africa	2
Multidimensional Determinants of Life Expectancy in Developing Countries: Evidence From Preston Curve Hypothesis	2
Forced formalization and informal sector: A simple Chayanov model	2
Endogenous Employment Protection and Total Factor Productivity: Plant‐Level Evidence From India	2
The impacts of imports and trade liberalization in Brazil: Insights from an aggregate cost function	2
Free zones and manufactured export competitiveness from Africa	2
Does fiscal expenditure matter for agricultural development? Examining the impact of technological progress on food production	2
The tax revenue implication of trade liberalisation in sub‐Saharan Africa: Some new evidence	2
Reforming Tax Systems: The Interplay of Governance, Informality, and Institutional Strength in Developing Countries	2
Digital financial inclusion and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises in China	2
Employment transitions and COVID‐19 containment measures: Evidence from a developing country	2
The impact of rural e‐commerce platforms on the transformation of industrial structure: Evidence from China	2
Transferring remittances through central banks: A tool applied to the Guatemalan exchange rate	2
Agricultural Mechanization Socialized Services and Gender Disparities in Labor Reallocation: Insights From Rural China	2
The Spatial Analysis of the Impact of Economic Uncertainty on Household Consumption in Taiwan	2
The long‐term impact of education on dietary diversity among women in Zimbabwe	2
Enhancing rural income through public agricultural R&D: Spatial spillover and infrastructure thresholds	2
Understanding poverty dynamics in Ethiopia: Implications for the likely impact of COVID‐19	2
Temporary migrants and gender housework division among left‐behind household members	2
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The perils of embedded experiments	2
Judicial efficiency and the comparative disadvantage of Indian manufacturing	2
How does religion affect health in the gold mining industry? Evidence from Nigeria	2
An empirical comparison of stabilization funds and futures hedging for oil exporting developing countries	2
Constructing synthetic panels for the purpose of studying poverty dynamics: A primer	1
More transparency, more trust: Evidence from anti‐corruption campaign in China	1
Impact of manufacturing servitization on total factor productivity under global trade openness	1
Does Mobile Money Adoption and Credit Access Improve Enterprise Innovation and Performance in Sierra Leone?	1
Distance of doing business and outward foreign direct investment: An empirical study of China	1
Gender gap and access to finance: A cross‐country analysis	1
Long‐term regional convergence in Mexico: A new look	1
Power to the researchers: Calculating power after estimation	1
The influence of international trade on labour productivity in services: The case of Brazil in the 1990s	1
The determinants of inequality in child nutrition status: Evidence from Jordan	1
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Does aid for trade promote FDI from enterprises of donors to recipient countries? Based on the spatial spillover effect of China's Aid for Trade	1
How is China's trade imbalance overstated? An analysis based on trade in value‐added	1
An introduction to rural and agricultural development in the digital age	1
The impact of low‐skilled migrants on firm productivity: Evidence from hukou reform in China	1
Traditional Versus Improved Varieties of Seed: Is There a Trade‐Off Between Productivity and Risk?	1
Does the quality of institutions matter for foreign investment concentration in Africa? Understanding the controversial role of international aid	1
How does education affect intergenerational income mobility in Chinese society?	1
Effects of housing demolition on labor supply: Evidence from China	1
Exploring the role of pesticide traders in protecting farmers' benefit	1
Urban poverty, growth, and inequality: A needed paradigm shift?	1
Engel’s law in China: Some new evidence	1
The effect of export composition on energy demand: A fresh evidence in the context of economic complexity	1
Does opening up change customs? Evidence from trade liberalization and marriage payments in China	1
Relative contributions of indirect taxes and inflation on inequality: What does the Turkish data reveal?	1
Political instability and youths unemployment in sub‐Saharan Africa	1
Unpacking Mundell‐Fleming Trilemma Tradeoffs: Asymmetric Pathways to Energy Diversification	1
Drought and social conflict in rural Zimbabwe: Does the burden fall on women and girls?	1
Equal Opportunity Sensitive Aggregate Wellbeing Measurement: Food Security and Basic Household Income on Sub‐Sahara African Farms	1
The Long‐Term Effects of a Medical Intervention: Determinants and Implications of Orthotic Equipment Failure in Uganda	1
Unveiling the synergy: How natural resources, energy prices and financial development drive the energy transition in N‐11 countries	1
Comparative responses of renewable energy stock market to economic policy uncertainty and climate policy uncertainty shocks: Evidence from China	1
Crop diversification, impulsivity, and resilience in Ethiopia	1
Are Credit Doors Equally Open? Gender Perspectives on Agricultural Credit Access in Sub‐Saharan Africa	1
Digitalization and Food Security: Evidence From Developing Countries	1
How Does Digital Inclusive Finance Impact Consumption Structure of Urban–Rural Residents? Evidence From Household Survey Data in China	1
On the determinants and interrelationship of components of government spending	1