Journal of Development Economics

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March 2020

 

1.     Experimental long-term effects of early-childhood and school-age exposure to a conditional cash transfer program

Teresa Molina Millán, Karen Macours, John A. Maluccio, Luis Tejerina

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2.     The early bird catches the worm? School entry cutoff and the timing of births

Cheng Huang, Shiying Zhang, Qingguo Zhao

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3.     The geography of linguistic diversity and the provision of public goods

Klaus Desmet, Joseph Flavian Gomes, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín

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4.     Heat, infant mortality, and adaptation: Evidence from India

Rakesh Banerjee, Riddhi Maharaj

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5.     Technology adoption, capital deepening, and international productivity differences

Chaoran Chen

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6.     The effect of marital endowments on domestic violence in India

Seetha Menon

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7.     How effective is energy-efficient housing? Evidence from a field trial in Mexico

Lucas W. Davis, Sebastian Martinez, Bibiana Taboada

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8.     Gender gaps in technology diffusion

Ariel BenYishay, Maria Jones, Florence Kondylis, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

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9.     Mass media, information and demand for environmental quality: Evidence from the “Under the Dome”

Meng Tu, Bing Zhang, Jianhua Xu, Fangwen Lu

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10.  Can large, untargeted conditional cash transfers increase urban high school graduation rates? Evidence from Mexico City's Prepa

Andrew Dustan

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11.  Improving child welfare in middle income countries: The unintended consequence of a pro-homemaker divorce law and wait time to divorce

Misty L. Heggeness

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12.  Failure of frequent assessment: An evaluation of India’s continuous and comprehensive evaluation program

James Berry, Harini Kannan, Shobhini Mukherji, Marc Shotland

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13.  Close to the edge: High productivity at plot peripheries and the inverse size-productivity relationship

Leah EM. Bevis, Christopher B. Barrett

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14.  Violence, psychological stress and educational performance during the “war on drugs” in Mexico

Maren M. Michaelsen, Paola Salardi

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15.  The gold digger and the machine. Evidence on the distributive effect of the artisanal and industrial gold rushes in Burkina Faso

Remi Bazillier, Victoire Girard

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16.  Common transport infrastructure: A quantitative model and estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative

François de Soyres, Alen Mulabdic, Michele Ruta

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17.  The price of gold: Dowry and death in India

Sonia Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty, Selim Gulesci

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18.  Cash transfers, polygamy, and intimate partner violence: Experimental evidence from Mali

Rachel Heath, Melissa Hidrobo, Shalini Roy

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19.  Healthcare at the beginning of life and child survival: Evidence from a cash transfer experiment in Nigeria

Edward N. Okeke, Isa S. Abubakar

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20.  Early-life deprivation and health outcomes in adulthood: Evidence from childhood hunger episodes of middle-aged and elderly Chinese

Hanxiao Cui, James P. Smith, Yaohui Zhao

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21.  Short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification: Evidence from the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid

Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini

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22.  The Lazarus drug: the impact of antiretroviral therapy on economic growth

Anna Tompsett

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23.  How public information affects asymmetrically informed lenders: Evidence from a credit registry reform

M. Ali Choudhary, Anil K. Jain

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24.  Rural transformation, inequality, and the origins of microfinance

Marvin Suesse, Nikolaus Wolf

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25.  Aiming high and falling low: The SADA-Northern Ghana Millennium Village Project

Edoardo Masset, Jorge García-Hombrados, Arnab Acharya

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26.  Fertility and rural electrification in Bangladesh

Tomoki Fujii, Abu S. Shonchoy

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27.  The long reach of cotton in the US South: Tenant farming, mechanization, and low-skill manufacturing

Yeonha Jung

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28.  Following the poppy trail: Origins and consequences of Mexican drug cartels

Tommy E. Murphy, Martín A. Rossi

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29.  Land quality, land rights, and indigenous poverty

Bryan Leonard, Dominic P. Parker, Terry L. Anderson

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