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The decision-makers we become: Early education and the decision-making of boys and girls 我们成为决策者：男孩和女孩的早期教育和决策
IF 4.6 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103660
Leandro S. Carvalho , Joana Cardim , Pedro Carneiro , Damien de Walque
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Input substitution in electricity generation and industrial production: Evidence from India 发电和工业生产中的投入替代：来自印度的证据
IF 4.6 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103614
Raavi Aggarwal
{"title":"Input substitution in electricity generation and industrial production: Evidence from India","authors":"Raavi Aggarwal","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103614","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103614","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Carbon taxation is suggested as an efficient instrument for the clean energy transition. However, high resulting prices for coal and electricity could adversely impact industrial performance and employment by raising production costs. Integration of renewable energy in the electricity grid could stabilise electricity prices. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between labour and electricity among the formal and informal manufacturing sector in India. The results show labour and electricity are strong complements in manufacturing, with elasticities significantly below one, which suggests a carbon tax that raises electricity prices may reduce employment in firms. On the contrary, we find high substitutability between thermal (coal) and renewable energy-based electricity generation, with the elasticity of substitution estimated at 2.0–3.3. Our results suggest that electricity derived from renewable energy sources and supplied to industry at affordable prices could mitigate the adverse effects of a carbon tax in Indian industry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103614"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145221211","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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The effects of nutrition support on behavioral outcomes and labor productivity 营养支持对行为结果和劳动生产率的影响
IF 4.6 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103613
Seollee Park , Hyuncheol Bryant Kim
{"title":"The effects of nutrition support on behavioral outcomes and labor productivity","authors":"Seollee Park ,&nbsp;Hyuncheol Bryant Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103613","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103613","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While many of the world’s poor consume inadequate calories with low nutritional value, there has been little work on how this may shape their behaviors and productivity. Using lab-in-the-field and field experiments in the context of a floriculture plant in Ethiopia, this study investigates the effects of a nutrition support program on behavioral outcomes—stress, prosociality, cooperation, and attention—and productivity. We find that nutrition support relieves stress and decreases prosociality, exhibiting a pattern of hedonic adaptation over time. We do not find evidence for improvements in labor productivity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103613"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145119162","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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Seasonality, academic calendar and school dropouts in South Asia 南亚的季节性、学历和辍学率
IF 4.6 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103649
Seiro Ito , Abu S. Shonchoy
{"title":"Seasonality, academic calendar and school dropouts in South Asia","authors":"Seiro Ito ,&nbsp;Abu S. Shonchoy","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103649","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103649","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural families in developing countries often face a critical trade-off: keeping children in school or involving them in seasonal agricultural labor. Misaligned school calendars intensify this challenge, significantly increasing school dropout rates. Leveraging the timing of Ramadan school holidays as a natural experiment, we find that annual exams coinciding with the harvest season increase school dropout rates by 6.6 to 9.0 percentage points (from the base of 25% dropout) among children from agricultural households in Bangladesh. This effect is predominantly driven by boys who participate in peak seasonal agricultural activities. Our findings are robust to varying age cut-offs and definitions of agricultural households. Long-term analyses employing age-specific cohorts using national household surveys corroborate these results. Complementary evidence from India, exploiting state-level academic calendar variations, further supports the findings. This study underscores the importance of carefully designing school calendars in rural areas that align with local agricultural seasonality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103649"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145416640","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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Unreliable firms: Evidence from Rwanda 不可靠的公司：来自卢旺达的证据
IF 4.6 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103611
Vishan Gandhi Nigam , Brandon Joel Tan
{"title":"Unreliable firms: Evidence from Rwanda","authors":"Vishan Gandhi Nigam ,&nbsp;Brandon Joel Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103611","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103611","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper measures <em>reliability</em> – whether firms execute transactions on-schedule – for the universe of Rwandan formal firms using transaction timing data and describes the characteristics of reliable firms. Reliable firms have larger interfirm sales, export more, supply exporters and multinationals, and transact with other reliable firms. Reliable firms are less sensitive to supply chain disruptions. Supplying an MNC increases seller reliability even when servicing non-MNC buyers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103611"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145107221","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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Unveiling the Cosmic Race: Skin tone and intergenerational economic disparities in Latin America and the Caribbean 揭示宇宙种族：拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的肤色和代际经济差距
IF 4.6 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103594
L. Guillermo Woo-Mora
{"title":"Unveiling the Cosmic Race: Skin tone and intergenerational economic disparities in Latin America and the Caribbean","authors":"L. Guillermo Woo-Mora","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103594","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103594","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how skin tone shapes intergenerational economic disparities across 25 Latin American and Caribbean countries. First, it analyzes the distribution of ethnoracial identities and skin tone, confirming Mestizo predominance and revealing how broad categories obscure substantial phenotypic diversity. Second, it documents non-linear gaps in income and education, with darker skin tones consistently linked to economic disadvantages. A variance decomposition shows that skin tone explains significant within-group variation, offering explanatory power beyond self-reported ethnoracial categories. Finally, using mothers’ education as a benchmark, the study provides novel cross-country evidence on skin tone gaps in absolute educational intergenerational mobility, revealing barriers to upward mobility for darker-skinned individuals. Robustness checks with machine-assessed skin tone data from Mexico, incorporating additional parental and contextual controls, confirm these disparities. These findings underscore the need to account for phenotypic variation when studying economic inequality in Latin America.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103594"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145020827","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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Migration and sources of discrimination in a social context: Experimental evidence from 15 Latin American countries 社会背景下的移民和歧视来源：来自15个拉丁美洲国家的实验证据
IF 4.6 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103633
Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez , Gwen-Jirō Clochard , Helmut Dietl , Juan Cruz Duhalde
{"title":"Migration and sources of discrimination in a social context: Experimental evidence from 15 Latin American countries","authors":"Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez ,&nbsp;Gwen-Jirō Clochard ,&nbsp;Helmut Dietl ,&nbsp;Juan Cruz Duhalde","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103633","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103633","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper considers two types of statistical discrimination: individual (productivity) and compositional (team fit). We conduct a large-scale correspondence study in 15 Latin American countries in the context of sports to test their influence on individual behavior. We send over 10,000 applications to male amateur soccer clubs and ask them to participate in a practice session. Each club receives one application, randomly varying the applicant's origin and signals about individual and compositional productivity. We find no evidence of discrimination against immigrants overall, but we observe heterogeneity that is consistent with individual statistical discrimination. Productivity signals have no significant influence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103633"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145333327","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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Downstream impacts of mines on agriculture in Africa 地雷对非洲农业的下游影响
IF 4.6 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103671
Lukas Vashold , Gustav Pirich , Maximilian Heinze , Nikolas Kuschnig
{"title":"Downstream impacts of mines on agriculture in Africa","authors":"Lukas Vashold ,&nbsp;Gustav Pirich ,&nbsp;Maximilian Heinze ,&nbsp;Nikolas Kuschnig","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103671","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103671","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mining operations in Africa are expanding rapidly, creating negative externalities that remain poorly understood. In this paper, we provide causal evidence for the impact of water pollution from mines on downstream vegetation and agriculture across the continent. We exploit a natural experiment, where mines cause a discontinuity in water pollution along river networks, to compare vegetation health in upstream and downstream locations. We find that mines significantly reduce peak vegetation downstream by 1.3–1.5%, impairing the productivity of over 74,000 km<sup>2</sup> of croplands. These reductions correspond to annual losses of 91,000–205,000 tons of cereal crops in the immediate vicinity alone, with particularly severe effects in fertile regions and areas where gold mining predominates. Our findings highlight substantial externalities of mining and demonstrate an urgent need for oversight and regulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103671"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145416641","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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Trade policy and exporters’ resilience: Evidence from Indonesia 贸易政策与出口商的韧性：来自印度尼西亚的证据
IF 4.6 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103561
Massimiliano Calì , Simón Caicedo Graciano , Devaki Ghose , Angella Faith Montfaucon , Michele Ruta
{"title":"Trade policy and exporters’ resilience: Evidence from Indonesia","authors":"Massimiliano Calì ,&nbsp;Simón Caicedo Graciano ,&nbsp;Devaki Ghose ,&nbsp;Angella Faith Montfaucon ,&nbsp;Michele Ruta","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103561","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103561","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How does trade policy affect exporters’ ability to source intermediate inputs and adjust exports in response to foreign shocks? The analysis exploits new disaggregated, time-varying data on non-tariff measures (NTMs) faced by Indonesian firms. In response to a depreciation of the Yuan, which makes Chinese exports more competitive in third markets, Indonesian firms facing NTMs on their inputs see a much larger drop in their export values compared to firms that do not face any NTMs, with the magnitude of this effect varying depending on the type of NTM. We show that this difference can be explained by the inability of firms facing NTMs to take advantage of cheaper intermediate inputs from China in the face of depreciations of the Yuan, consistent with a model where NTMs impose fixed costs of import. These findings suggest that reforming some types of import NTMs can positively affect exporters’ resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103561"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145107222","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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Narrowing or widening the gender gap in market and domestic work? The impact of workweek reduction reform in China 缩小还是扩大市场和家务劳动中的性别差距？工作周减少改革对中国的影响
IF 4.6 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103672
Ang Sun , Wei Sun , Wang Xiang , Huili Zhang , Junsen Zhang
{"title":"Narrowing or widening the gender gap in market and domestic work? The impact of workweek reduction reform in China","authors":"Ang Sun ,&nbsp;Wei Sun ,&nbsp;Wang Xiang ,&nbsp;Huili Zhang ,&nbsp;Junsen Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103672","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103672","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate whether shorter working hours can narrow the gender gap in market and domestic work by examining the impact of China's workweek reduction policy. We find that the policy deepened the gender division of labor within dual-employee households, resulting in women further leaning toward familial roles. Specifically, women allocated more time to childcare and other household chores, while men withdrew from these domestic duties, worked longer hours beyond the designated schedule, and pursued higher education. This shift contributed to improved income and career advancement for men, whereas women did not experience similar improvements. The impact of this polarized gender division of labor was particularly pronounced in households with higher demands for domestic product consumption or with higher male-female wage ratios prior to the reform. Our analysis demonstrates that under the shortened working hours system, families' optimization behavior manifests as a deepened household specialization aimed at maximizing household consumption, suggesting that the reduction in working hours may exacerbate labor market gender inequality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103672"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362566","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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