Journal of Development Economics
November 2019
Green Table of Contents
Special section on The
Microeconomics of Conflict
1. The microeconomics of violent Conflict
Philip Verwimp, Patricia Justino, Tilman Brck
2. Education is forbidden: The effect of the Boko Haram conflict on education in North-East Nigeria
Eleonora Bertoni, Michele Di Maio, Vasco
Molini, Roberto Nistic
3. Early life shocks and mental health: The long-term effect of war in Vietnam
Saurabh Singhal
4. Conflict and counterinsurgency aid: Drawing sectoral distinctions
Travers Barclay Child
5. Polarization, foreign military intervention, and civil conflict
Suleiman Abu-Bader, Elena Ianchovichina
Regular articles
1. Death scares: How potential work-migrants infer mortality rates from migrant deaths
Maheshwor Shrestha
2. The impact of the Indian Ocean tsunami on AcehÕs long-term economic growth
Martin Philipp Heger, Eric Neumayer
Link to preprint [Starts in pg. 19]
3. Predicting entrepreneurial success is hard: Evidence from a business plan competition in Nigeria
David McKenzie, Dario Sansone
4. A matter of time: An impact evaluation of the Brazilian National Land Credit Program
Steven M. Helfand, Vilma H. Sielawa, Deepak Singhania
5. Monetary incentives on inter-caste marriages in India: Theory and evidence
Ali Hortasu, Sam Il Myoung Hwang, Divya Mathur
6. Directed technological change & cross-country income differences: A quantitative analysis
Michal Jerzmanowski, Robert Tamura
7. The effect of parental job loss on child school dropout: Evidence from the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Michele Di Maio, Roberto Nistic
8. Women's political participation and intrahousehold empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring
Olivier Bargain, Delphine Boutin, Hugues Champeaux
9. A new spin on an old debate: Errors in farmer-reported production and their implications for inverse scale - Productivity relationship in Uganda
Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic, David B. Lobell
Link to preprint [Different title]
10. Do criminally accused politicians affect economic outcomes? Evidence from India
Nishith Prakash, Marc Rockmore, Yogesh Uppal
11. Farewell to confucianism: The modernizing effect of dismantling China's imperial examination system
Ying Bai
12. Preferential and multilateral liberalization: Evidence from Latin AmericaÕs use of tariffs, antidumping and safeguards
Patricia Tovar
13. Valuing the urban hukou in China: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design for housing prices
Yu Chen, Shaobin Shi, Yugang Tang