Showing papers in "Journal of Development Economics in 2022"

TL;DR: This article studied the effects of air pollution on migration in China using changes in the average strength of thermal inversions over five-year periods as a source of exogenous variation for medium run air pollution levels.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors conducted a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically varied containment policies to estimate the association between the pandemic and containment policies and measures of women's well-being, including mental health and food security.

TL;DR: The authors studied the effect of women's public leadership in times of crisis and found that female leaders outperformed male ones when dealing with a global policy issue, while increasing enforcement of non-pharmaceutical interventions.

TL;DR: This paper studied the effect of women's public leadership in times of crisis and found that female leadership reduced deaths and hospitalizations per 100 thousand inhabitants while increasing enforcement of non-pharmaceutical interventions.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors exploited a large-scale land titling reform in China that clearly entitles rural households to land rights by issuing uniform land use certificates and study how this impacted entrepreneurship in rural areas.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors studied how regional productivity shocks in agriculture propagate to the rest of the economy via trade and migration linkages, shaping their aggregate effects on GDP, welfare, and agricultural employment.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the effect of land market imperfections on land allocation across farmers and aggregate agricultural productivity and found that due to these distortions aggregate output is 19% below its efficient level for both maize and beans and 31% below for coffee.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors compare performance of three resilience measurement methods: the Resilience Indicators for Measurement and Analysis (RIMA), the multi-dimensional index approach and the probabilistic approach of Cissé and Barrett.

TL;DR: The authors investigated a two-part explanation: farmers are reluctant to invest without farm-specific evidence of profitability, possibly because of heterogeneous returns, and information is not sufficient to increase investment because of financing constraints.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether delays in death reports affect individuals' beliefs and behavior, and show that reporting delays lead to slower individual responses, and consequently, worse epidemic outcomes.

TL;DR: This paper investigated a two-part explanation: farmers are reluctant to invest without farm-specific evidence of profitability, possibly because of heterogeneous returns, and information is not sufficient to increase investment because of financing constraints.

TL;DR: This paper examined the role of social capital, embedded in kinship-based clans, in disaster relief during China's Great Famine (1958-1961) using a county-year panel and a difference-in-differences strategy, finding that the rise in the mortality rate during the famine years is significantly less in counties with a higher clan density.

TL;DR: The authors exploit the designs of two separate US refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees foster outward FDI to their countries and regions of origin, drawing upon aggregated individual-level refugee and project-level FDI data, and show this effect holds in terms of new FDI projects, as well as capital invested and jobs created.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore whether targeted extension advice leads farmers to align fertilizer usage to the recommended levels and whether this impacts productivity, and also consider whether coupling the targeted information with agricultural insurance encourages fertilizer investment.

TL;DR: This paper examined whether dowry impacts intertemporal resource allocation and other household decisions in rural India using data from 1986-2007 and found that the prospect of higher dowry payments at the time of a daughter's marriage leads parents to save more in advance.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyze a program in Rwanda that subsidized the equivalent of 8% of the stock of mobile phones, using 5.3 billion transaction records, showing that 85% of accounts receiving subsidized handsets mostly use a rural tower.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the ex ante motivational effect of a nationwide merit and need-based scholarship in Colombia, which granted full scholarships to low-income students at high-quality universities.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors deliver one month's average profit to a randomly selected group of female microenterprise owners in Dandora, Kenya, arriving just in advance of an exponential growth in COVID-19 cases.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze a program in Rwanda that subsidized the equivalent of 8% of the stock of mobile phones, using 5.3 billion transaction records and find that 85% of accounts receiving subsidized handsets use the phone most with a rural tower.

TL;DR: In this article , a stylized model of urban luminosity and empirical evidence suggest that these "top lights" can be characterized by a Pareto distribution or similarly heavy-tailed distributions.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the anti-poverty relocation program in China, considering the village-to-Town relocation from agricultural to non-agricultural sectors induced by the program.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors conducted a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia, randomly assigning households to either phone or in-person interviews, and found that in the phone survey, average per capita consumption is 23 percent lower and the estimated poverty headcount is twice as high than in the in-Person survey.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors implemented a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania that was designed to address these post-harvest constraints, which showed that treated farmers stored 29 percent more and sold 50 percent more maize on average in the lean season compared to farmers in the control group.

TL;DR: This paper showed that misperception induces crowding-in(out) of complementary agricultural inputs but these misperceived-driven input allocations may not necessarily be yield-enhancing.

TL;DR: In this paper , the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due to their impact on childcare from their effects due to alternative mechanisms was analyzed, showing that the negative effect on mothers' employment is smaller where public daycare is more available, or private daycare or schools are more affordable.

TL;DR: The authors studied the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on small businesses between March and November 2020 using new survey data on 35,000 small businesses in eight Latin American countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between neighborhood violence and psychological well-being using nationally representative panel data from South Africa was estimated using data on household-level perceptions of neighborhood violence as well as reported crimes and local media reports to measure violence.

TL;DR: This article found no evidence that either WB or Chinese aid increases conflict in Africa using a comprehensive set of georeferenced aid projects and sub-national stability measures and found that WB aid correlates more strongly with a reduction of conflict than Chinese aid.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors show that the railroad network increased city size in the period 1881 to 1931, and they construct instrumental variables for railroad proximity based on distance from a least cost path spanning cities that existed prior to the start of railroad construction.

TL;DR: In this paper , the effects of antenatal food and cash transfers with women's groups on household allocative behavior and explore whether these effects are explained by intergenerational bargaining among women.