Journal of Development Economics

Green Table of Contents

September 2020

1.     Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India

Sonia Bhalotra, Rachel Brulé, Sanchari Roy

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2.     Improving learning outcomes through information provision: Experimental evidence from Indian villages

Farzana Afridi, Bidisha Barooah, Rohini Somanathan

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3.     Exposure to open defecation can account for the Indian enigma of child height

Dean Spears

Open access available

4.     Performance bonuses in the public sector: Winner-take-all prizes versus proportional payments to reduce child malnutrition in India

Prakarsh Singh, William A. Masters

Open access available

5.     Changing the climate for banking: The economic effects of credit in a climate-vulnerable area

Daniel Da Mata, Guilherme Resende

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6.     Geographic connectivity and cross-border investment: The Belts, Roads and Skies

Maggie Xiaoyang Chen, Chuanhao Lin

Preprint not available

7.     The effects of fuel standards on air pollution: Evidence from China

Pei Li, Yi Lu, Jin Wang

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8.     Costs and benefits of rural-urban migration: Evidence from India

Clément Imbert, John Papp

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9.     The cross-spousal effect of education on health

Rufei Guo, Lin Lin, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang

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10.  Institutions, implementation, and program effectiveness: Evidence from a randomized evaluation of computer-assisted learning in rural China

Di Mo, Yu Bai, Yaojiang Shi, Cody Abbey, ... Prashant Loyalka

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11.  Measuring ethnic stratification and its effect on trust in Africa

Roland Hodler, Sorawoot Srisuma, Alberto Vesperoni, Noémie Zurlinden

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12.  Effects of temporary corporate income tax cuts: Evidence from Vietnam

Anh Pham

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13.  The short term impact of a productive asset transfer in families with child labor: Experimental evidence from the Philippines

Eric Edmonds, Caroline Theoharides

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14.  Demand for insurance and within-kin-group marriages: Evidence from a West-African country

Rozenn Hotte, Karine Marazyan

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15.  Tax competition between developed, emerging, and developing countries – Same same but different?

Mohammed Mardan, Michael Stimmelmayr

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16.  Trade effects of the New Silk Road: A gravity analysis

Suprabha Baniya, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta

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17.  Markups and misallocation with evidence from exchange rate shocks

Ariel Weinberger

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18.  A Framework to Assess Debt Sustainability under the Belt and Road Initiative

Luca Bandiera, Vasileios Tsiropoulos

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19.  Blessing or burden? Impacts of refugees on businesses and the informal economy

Onur Altındağ, Ozan Bakış, Sandra V. Rozo

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20.  Credit lines in microcredit: Short-term evidence from a randomized controlled trial in India

Fernando M. Aragón, Alexander Karaivanov, Karuna Krishnaswamy

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21.  Who wins, who loses? Understanding the spatially differentiated effects of the belt and road initiative

Somik V. Lall, Mathilde Lebrand

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22.  Does informality facilitate inflation stability?

Enrique Alberola, Carlos Urrutia

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23.  Controlling tuberculosis? Evidence from the first community-wide health experiment

Karen Clay, Peter Juul Egedesø, Casper Worm Hansen, Peter Sandholt Jensen, Avery Calkins

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24.  Frontiers, warfare and economic geography: The case of Spain

Daniel Oto-Peralías

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25.  Stigma or cushion? IMF programs and sovereign creditworthiness

Kai Gehring, Valentin Lang

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26.  Fiscal capacity in “post”-conflict states: Evidence from trade on Congo river

Ola Olsson, Maria Eriksson Baaz, Peter Martinsson

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27.  Who marries whom in a surging housing market?

Ang Sun, Qinghua Zhang

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28.  The impact of ethnic segregation on schooling outcomes in Mandate Palestine

Laura Panza

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29.  National or sub-national parties: Does party geographic scope matter?

Alexey Makarin, Ricardo Piqué, Fernando Aragón

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30.  Demand heterogeneity for index-based insurance: The case for flexible products

Francisco Ceballos, Miguel Robles

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31.  Grain exports and the causes of China's Great Famine, 1959–1961: County-level evidence

Hiroyuki Kasahara, Bingjing Li

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32.  Crop choice, trade costs, and agricultural productivity

Alberto Rivera-Padilla

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33.  Time horizon of government and public goods investment: Evidence from Japan

Junichi Yamasaki

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34.  The effects of elite public colleges on primary and secondary schooling markets in India

Maulik Jagnani, Gaurav Khanna

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35.  The value of discretion: Price-caps and public service delivery

Florian Blum

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36.  Competition and the racial wage gap: Evidence from Brazil

Guilherme Hirata, Rodrigo R. Soares

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37.  The effects of rural electrification in India: An instrumental variable approach at the household level

Daniel Robert Thomas, S.P. Harish, Ryan Kennedy, Johannes Urpelainen

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38.  Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Arman Rezaee

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39.  How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi

Brigitte Seim, Ryan Jablonski, Johan Ahlbäck

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40.  Land division: A lab-in-the-field bargaining experiment

Margarita Gáfaro, César Mantilla

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