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Property rights, sick pay and effort supply 产权、病假工资和劳动报酬
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103533
Pablo Blanchard , Gabriel Burdin , Andrés Dean
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Price and prejudice: Gender discrimination in online marketplaces 价格与偏见：网络市场中的性别歧视
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103540
Sher Afghan Asad , Husnain Fateh Ahmad , Hadia Majid
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Agricultural modernization and redistributive conflict 农业现代化与再分配的冲突
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103529
Stefano Falcone , Michele Rosenberg
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Occupational mismatch and market power 职业错配与市场力量
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103536
Felipe Balmaceda
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Hairdressers and well-being: Local services provision and mental health first response 美发师与福祉：当地服务提供和心理健康第一反应
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103528
Björn Nilsson , Clémence Pougué Biyong
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Spillovers in ICT adoption from formal to informal firms: Evidence from Zambia 从正规企业到非正规企业采用信息通信技术的溢出效应：来自赞比亚的证据
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103549
Filip Jolevski , Gaurav Nayyar , Regina Pleninger , Shu Yu
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Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature 受冲突影响国家的信任与发展：专题介绍
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103552
Philip Verwimp , Silke Goubin , Patricia Justino , Tilman Brück
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High temperature, power rationing, and firm performance 耐高温，限电，性能稳固
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103541
Xinya Hao , Yongying Huang , Lin Zhang
{"title":"High temperature, power rationing, and firm performance","authors":"Xinya Hao ,&nbsp;Yongying Huang ,&nbsp;Lin Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103541","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103541","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper develops a theoretical framework and provides causal evidence explaining the rationality of government-imposed power rationing strategies during high-temperature periods in electricity systems lacking market mechanisms and price signals. By combining comprehensive panel data on Chinese firms with high-resolution meteorological data, we document robust evidence that high temperatures significantly reduce both electricity usage and operational performance among firms. We then construct supply shocks based on precipitation anomalies weighted by the inter-provincial hydropower dependence to identify power rationing. These analyses demonstrate the persistent prevalence of firm-level power rationing across China in recent years. Furthermore, we show that while redirecting electricity from industrial to residential sectors during heat-induced shortages reduces firm performance, this represents a welfare-maximizing outcome from a social planner's perspective. Our findings reveal how climate change intensifies inter-sectoral electricity competition, with market inefficiencies playing a critical role in explaining China's rationing patterns.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 103541"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144107083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Corruption and extremism 腐败和极端主义
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103526
Attila Gáspár , Tommaso Giommoni , Massimo Morelli , Antonio Nicolò
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Fertility outcomes and parental well-being in later life: Evidence from India 生育结果和父母晚年的幸福：来自印度的证据
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103535
Bilal Ahmad Bhat , Esha Chatterjee , Sounak Thakur
{"title":"Fertility outcomes and parental well-being in later life: Evidence from India","authors":"Bilal Ahmad Bhat ,&nbsp;Esha Chatterjee ,&nbsp;Sounak Thakur","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103535","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103535","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study the effect of fertility outcomes on parental well-being in post-reproductive ages. The context is India, where the gender of the firstborn is plausibly random, and parents with firstborn daughters end up having more daughters. For both women and men, we find that having a firstborn daughter leads to lower subjective life satisfaction and an increase in labor supply in their post-reproductive years. We present suggestive evidence that these results are plausibly driven by greater financial stress associated with marrying off daughters, and, for women, by the long-term effects of abortion and lower autonomy in households with firstborn daughters.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103535"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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