JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10696) O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth (1824) O1 - Economic Development (916) O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development (101)
Number of items at this level: 101.
Article
  • Aghion, Philippe (2018). Innovation and growth from a schumpeterian perspective. Revue d’Economie Politique, 128(5), 693-711. https://doi.org/10.3917/redp.285.0693
  • Aghion, Philippe, Burgess, Robin, Redding, Stephen, Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2005). Entry liberalization and inequality in industrial performance. Journal of the European Economic Association, 3(2/3), 291-302. https://doi.org/10.1162/jeea.2005.3.2-3.291
  • Aghion, Philippe (2016). Entrepreneurship and growth: lessons from an intellectual journey. Small Business Economics, 48(1), 9-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-016-9812-z
  • Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M., Wendland, Nicolai (2011). Fifty years of urban accessibility: the impact of the urban railway network on the land gradient in Berlin 1890-1936. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 41(2), 77-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2010.10.001
  • Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M., Wendland, Nicolai (2013). How polycentric is a monocentric city?: centers, spillovers and hysteresis. Journal of Economic Geography, 13(1), 53-83. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbs013
  • Akerlof, Robert, Ashraf, Anik, Macchiavello, Rocco, Rabbani, Atonu (2025). Unrest, layoffs, and productivity at a Bangladeshi sweater factory. Journal of the European Economic Association, picture_as_pdf
  • Alfaro-Ureña, Alonso, Manelici, Isabela, Vasquez Carvajal, Jose (2022). The effects of joining multinational supply chains: new evidence from firm-to-firm linkages. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjac006 picture_as_pdf
  • Baboni, Clare, Bandiera, Oriana, Burgess, Robin, Ghatak, Maitreesh, Heil, Anton (2022). Why do people stay poor? Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137(2), 785 - 844. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjab045 picture_as_pdf
  • Bandiera, Oriana (2007). Contract duration and investment incentives: evidence from land tenancy agreements. Journal of the European Economic Association, 5(5), 953-986. https://doi.org/10.1162/JEEA.2007.5.5.953
  • Bandiera, Oriana, Bassi, Vittorio, Burgess, Robin, Rasul, Imran, Sulaiman, Munshi, Vitali, Anna (2025). The search for good jobs: evidence from a six-year field experiment in Uganda. Journal of Labor Economics, 43(3), 885 - 935. https://doi.org/10.1086/728429 picture_as_pdf
  • Bandiera, Oriana, Burgess, Robin, Das, Narayan, Gulesci, Selim, Rasul, Imran, Sulaiman, Munshi (2017). Labor markets and poverty in village economies. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132(2), 811 - 870. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjx003
  • Bandiera, Oriana, Elsayed, Ahmed H., Heil, Anton, Smurra, Andrea (2022). Economic development and the organisation of labour: evidence from the Jobs of the World Project. Journal of the European Economic Association, 20(6), 2226 – 2270. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvac056 picture_as_pdf
  • Banerjee, Abhijit, Duflo, Esther, Ghatak, Maitreesh, Lafortune, Jeanne (2013). Marry for what?: caste and mate selection in modern India. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 5(2), 33-72. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.5.2.33
  • Barker, Nathan, Bryan, Gharad, Karlan, Dean, Ofori-Atta, Angela L., Udry, Christopher (2022). Cognitive behavioral therapy among Ghana’s rural poor is effective regardless of baseline mental distress. American Economic Review: Insights, 4(4), 527 - 545. https://doi.org/10.1257/aeri.20210612 picture_as_pdf
  • Berry, James, Fischer, Gregory, Guiteras, Raymond (2020). Eliciting and utilizing willingness to pay: evidence from field trials in northern Ghana. Journal of Political Economy, 128(4), 1436 - 1473. https://doi.org/10.1086/705374 picture_as_pdf
  • Besley, Timothy, Burchardi, Konrad B., Ghatak, Maitreesh (2012). Incentives and the De Soto Effect. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127(1), 237-282. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjr056
  • Besley, Timothy, Burgess, Robin, Khan, Adnan, Xu, Guo (2022). Bureaucracy and development. Annual Review of Economics, 14, 397 - 424. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080521-011950
  • Besley, Timothy, Ghatak, Maitreesh (2017). Public-private partnerships for the provision of public goods: theory and an application to NGOs. Research in Economics, 71(2), 356-371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rie.2017.04.005
  • Besley, Timothy, Leight, Jessica, Pande, Rohini, Rao, Vijayendra (2016). Long-run impacts of land regulation: evidence from tenancy reform in India. Journal of Development Economics, 118, 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.08.001
  • Bruno, Randolph Luca, Campos, Nauro F., Estrin, Saul (2018). Taking stock of firm-level and country-level benefits from foreign direct investment. Multinational Business Review, 26(2), 126-144. https://doi.org/10.1108/MBR-02-2018-0011
  • Bryan, Gharad, Choi, James J, Karlan, Dean (2021). Randomizing religion: the impact of Protestant evangelism on economic outcomes. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 136(1), 293 - 380. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaa023 picture_as_pdf
  • Bryan, Gharad, Karlan, Dean, Osman, Adam (2024). Big loans to small businesses: predicting winners and losers in an entrepreneurial lending experiment. American Economic Review, 114(9), 2825 - 2860. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20220616 picture_as_pdf
  • Bryan, Gharad, Karlan, Dean, Zinman, Jonathan (2015). Referrals: peer screening and enforcement in a consumer credit field experiment. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 7(3), 174-204. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20130234
  • Burgess, Robin, Besley, Tim (2002). The political economy of government responsiveness: theory and evidence from India. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117(4), p. 1415. https://doi.org/10.1162/003355302320935061
  • Callen, Mike, Gulzar, Saad, Rezaee, Arman, Shapiro, Jacob N. (2024). Extending the formal state: the case of Pakistan's frontier crimes regulation. Economica, 91(363), 701-718. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12527 picture_as_pdf
  • Callen, Mike, Isaqzadeh, Mohammad, Long, James D., Sprenger, Charles (2014). Violence and risk preference: experimental evidence from Afghanistan. American Economic Review, 104(1), 123 - 148. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.1.123 picture_as_pdf
  • Caselli, Francesco (1997). Rural labor and credit markets. Journal of Development Economics, 54(2), 235-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3878(97)00042-4
  • Commander, Simon, Nikoloski, Zlatko (2011). Institutions and economic performance: what can be explained? Review of Economics and Institutions, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.5202/rei.v2i2.33
  • Costa, Francisco J. M., de Faria, João S., Iachan, Felipe S., Caballero, Bárbara (2018). Homicides and the age of criminal responsibility: a density discontinuity approach. Economía, 19(1), 59 - 92. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.2018.0008 picture_as_pdf
  • Decancq, Koen, Olivera, Javier, Schokkaert, Erik (2025). Ethnic differences and preference heterogeneity: assessing social pensions in Peru. Development Studies Research, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/21665095.2024.2443233 picture_as_pdf
  • Engel, Stefanie, López, Ramón, Palmer, Charles (2006). Community-industry contracting over natural resource use in a context of weak property rights: the case of Indonesia. Environmental and Resource Economics, 33(1), 73-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-005-1706-5
  • Fischer, Greg, Karlan, Dean, McConnell, Margaret, Raffler, Pia (2019). Short-term subsidies and seller type: a health products experiment in Uganda. Journal of Development Economics, 137, 110-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.07.013 picture_as_pdf
  • Fischer, Gregory (2013). Contract structure, risk sharing and investment choice. Econometrica, 81(3), 883-939. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA9100
  • Fisman, Raymond, Guriev, Sergei, Ioramashvili, Carolin, Plekhanov, Alexander (2024). Corruption and firm growth: evidence from around the world. Economic Journal, 134(660), 1494 -1516. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead100 picture_as_pdf
  • Garg, Teevrat, Gennaioli, Caterina, Lovo, Stefania, Singer, Gregor (2025). Fostering cooperation: the conflict-reducing effects of inter-village competition for government transfers. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, picture_as_pdf
  • Gerard, François, Naritomi, Joana (2021). Job displacement insurance and (the lack of) consumption-smoothing. American Economic Review, 111(3), 899 - 942. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20190388 picture_as_pdf
  • Ghatak, Maitreesh (2000). Contract choice in agriculture with joint moral hazard in effort and risk. Journal of Development Economics, 63(2), 303-326. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3878(00)00116-4
  • Ghatak, Maitreesh, Mookherjee, Dilip (2025). Misallocating misallocation? Annual Review of Economics, 17(1), 511 - 538. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-091624-051237 picture_as_pdf
  • Ghatak, Maitreesh, Mookherjee, Dilip (2024). Revisiting the Eswaran-Kotwal model of tenancy. Studies in Microeconomics, 12(1), 32 - 58. https://doi.org/10.1177/23210222241231700 picture_as_pdf
  • Kleven, Henrik J., Waseem, M. (2013). Using notches to uncover optimization frictions and structural elasticities: theory and evidence from Pakistan. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128(2), 669-723. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjt004
  • Lasdun, Violet, Harou, Aurélie, Magomba, Chris, Guereña, Davíd (2025). Peer learning and technology adoption in a digital farmer-to-farmer network. Journal of Development Economics, 176, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103496 picture_as_pdf
  • Lovo, Stefania (2014). Analyzing the welfare-improving potential of land in the former homelands of South Africa. Agricultural Economics, 45(6), 679-692. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12115
  • Macchiavello, Rocco (2010). Vertical integration and investor protection in developing countries. Journal of Development Economics, 93(2), 162-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2009.11.007
  • Macchiavello, Rocco (2022). Relational contracts and development. Annual Review of Economics, 14, 337 - 362. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051420-110722 picture_as_pdf
  • Maxwell, Daniel, Majid, Nisar, Adan, Guhad, Abdirahman, Khalif, Kim, Jeeyon Janet (2016). Facing famine: Somali experiences in the famine of 2011. Food Policy, 65, 63 - 73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.11.001 picture_as_pdf
  • Meager, Rachael (2019). Understanding the average impact of microcredit expansions: a Bayesian hierarchical analysis of seven randomized experiments. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(1), 57-91. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20170299 picture_as_pdf
  • Misch, Florian, Saborowski, Christian (2020). The drivers and consequences of resource misallocation: exploiting variation across Mexican industries and states. Economía, 20(2), 61 - 96. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.2020.0003 picture_as_pdf
  • Sequeira, Sandra, Djankov, Simeon (2014). Corruption and firm behavior: evidence from African ports. Journal of International Economics, 94(2), 277-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2014.08.010
  • Shahe Emran, M., Ferreira, Francisco H. G., Jiang, Yajing, Sun, Yan (2023). Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India. Journal of Economic Inequality, 21(3), 743 - 773. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-023-09599-1 picture_as_pdf
    • Chapter
  • Besley, Timothy, Ghatak, Maitreesh (2009). Property rights and economic development. In Rodrick, Dani, Rosenzweig, M. R. (Eds.), Handbook of Development Economics (pp. 4525-4595). Elsevier (Firm). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-52944-2.00006-9
    • Report
  • Bandiera, Oriana, Burgess, Robin, Goldstein, Markus, Buehren, Niklas, Gulesci, Selim, Rasul, Imran, Sulaiman, Munshi (2014). Women’s empowerment in action: evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa. (Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers EOPP 50). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
    • Working paper
  • Abul Naga, Ramses H., Burgess, Robin (1997). Prediction and determination of household permanent income. (Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 32 DARP/32). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Aghion, Philippe, Schankerman, Mark (2000). An analytical framework for evaluating transition impact of infrastructure projects. European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
  • Aghion, Philippe, Schankerman, Mark (2000). A model of market-enhancing infrastructure. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain).
  • Alem, Yonas, Colmer, Jonathan (2015). Consumption smoothing and the welfare cost of uncertainty. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1369). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Alfaro-Ureña, Alonso, Manelici, Isabela, Vasquez Carvajal, Jose (2020). The effects of joining multinational supply chains: new evidence from firm-to-firm linkages. (PEDL Research Paper). Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries.
  • Alfaro-Ureña, Alonso, Manelici, Isabela, Vasquez Carvajal, Jose (2019). The effects of joining multinational supply chains: new evidence from firm-to-firm linkages. University of Chicago.
  • Ashraf, Nava, Glaeser, Edward, Holland, Abraham, Steinberg, Bryce (2017). Water, health and wealth. (NBER Working Paper Series 23807). The National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w23807
  • Bandiera, Oriana (2002). Land distribution, incentives and the choice of production techniques in Nicaragua. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Bandiera, Oriana (2002). Land distribution, incentives and the choice of production techniques in Nicaragua. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain).
  • Bandiera, Oriana (2000). On the structure of tenancy contracts: theory and evidence from 19th century rural Sicily. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Bandiera, Oriana (2001). On the structure of tenancy contracts: theory and evidence from 19th century rural sicily. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain).
  • Bandiera, Oriana, Levy, Gilat (2010). Diversity and the power of the elites in democratic societies: a model and a test. (CEPR discussion papers 7985). Centre for Economic Policy Research, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bandiera, Oriana, Rasul, Imran (2002). Social networks and technology adoption in Northern Mozambique. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Bandiera, Oriana, Rasul, Imran (2002). Social networks and technology adoption in Northern Mozambique. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain).
  • Banerjee, Abhijit, Ghatak, Maitreesh (2003). Eviction threats and investment incentives. (DEDPS 39). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Beck, Thorsten, Degryse, Hans, Haas, Ralph, Horen, Neeltje (2015). When arm's length Is too far. Relationship banking over the credit cycle. (Systemic Risk Centre Discussion Papers 33). Systemic Risk Centre, The London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Besley, Timothy, Burgess, Robin (2000). The political economy of government responsiveness: theory and evidence from India. (Development Economics discussion paper; DEDPS 28 DEDPS 28). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Besley, Timothy, Ghatak, Maitreesh (1999). Public-private partnership for the provision of public goods : theory and an application to NGOs. (Development Economics discussion paper; DEDPS 17 DEDPS No. 17). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Besley, Timothy, Pande, Rohini (1998). Read my lips : the political economy of information transmission. (Theoretical Economics; TE/1998/355 TE/98/355). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Besley, Timothy, Pande, Rohini, Rao, Vijayendra (2007). Just rewards? Local politics and public resource allocation in South India. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Bhalotra, Sonia (2000). Is child work necessary? (DEDPS 26). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Bryan, Gharad, Choi, James J, Karlan, Dean (2018). Randomizing religion: the impact of Protestant evangelicalism on economic outcomes. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Bryan, Gharad, Karlan, Dean, Zinman, Jonathan (2012). You can pick your friends, but you need to watch them: loan screening and enforcement in a referrals field experiment. (BREAD working paper 321). Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development.
  • Burgess, Robin, Venables, Tony (2004). Towards a microeconomics of growth. (World Bank policy research working paper 3257). World Bank.
  • Chassang, Sylvain, Padró i Miquel, Gerard, Snowberg, Erik (2010). Selective trials: a principal-agent approach to randomized controlled trials. (NBER working papers 16343). NBER.
  • Chimienti, Ádam, Creutzfeldt, Benjamin (2014). Strategies and counter-strategies: China in the Andean region of South America. (Working Paper 1/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science, Global South Unit.
  • Ciarli, Tommaso, Kofol, Chiara, Menon, Carlo (2015). Business as unusual. An explanation of the increase of private economic activity in high-conflict areas in Afghanistan. (SERC discussion papers SERCDP0182). Spatial Economics Research Centre.
  • Drexler, Alejandro, Fischer, Gregory, Schoar, Antoinette (2010). Keeping it simple: financial literacy and rules of thumb. (Development economics 7994). CERP.
  • Ethridge, Frank, Feldman, Maryann, Kemeny, Tom, Zoller, Ted (2015). The economic value of local social networks. (SERC discussion papers SERCDP0170). Spatial Economics Research Centre.
  • Fischer, Gregory (2011). Contract structure, risk sharing and investment choice. (Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers EOPP/2011/23). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Ghatak, Maitreesh, Morelli, Massimo, Sjostrom, Tomas (2002). Credit rationing, wealth inequality and allocation of talent. (TE 441). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Goldstein, Markus, de Janvry, Alan, Sadoulet, Elisabeth (2002). Is a friend in need a friend indeed? Inclusion and exclusion in mutual insurance networks in southern Ghana. (DEDPS 32). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Gozen, Ruveyda Nur (2024). Property rights and innovation dynamism: the role of women inventors. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP2005). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Hassan, Fadi, Lucchino, Paolo (2016). Powering education. (CEP Discussion Paper 1438). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Kondylis, Florence (2005). Agricultural returns and conflict: quasi-experimental evidence from a policy intervention programme in Rwanda. (CEPDP 709). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Kondylis, Florence, Manacorda, Marco (2006). School proximity and child labour: evidence from rural Tanzania. (CEP working paper 1537). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Koren, Miklos, Tenreyro, Silvana (2007). Technological diversification. London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Leone, Fabrizio, Macchiavello, Rocco, Reed, Tristan (2022). Market size, markups and international price dispersion in the cement industry. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1862). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Macchiavello, Rocco, Morjaria, Ameet (2022). Acquisitions, management and efficiency in Rwanda's coffee industry. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1864). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Manara, Martina, Regan, Tanner (2020). Eliciting demand for title deeds: lab-in-the-field evidence from urban Tanzania. (Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series 19). Department of Geography and Environment, LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Matsuyama, Kiminori (2000). The rise of mass consumption societies. (DEDPS 23). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Michelacci, Claudio, Silva, Olmo (2005). Why so many local entrepreneurs? (CEMFI Working Paper 0506). Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros.
  • Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya (2022). Sanctions and misallocation. How sanctioned firms won and Russia lost. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1886). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Nunez Chaim, Gonzalo Ignacio, Overman, Henry George, Riom, Capucine Anne Veronique (2024). Does subsidising business advice improve firm performance? Evidence from a large RCT. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1977). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Ossa, Ralph (2006). A gold rush theory of economic development. (CEPDP 719). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Qayyum, Abdul, Khawaja, Muhammad Idrees, Hyder, Asma (2008). Growth diagnostics in Pakistan. (PIDE-Working Papers 2008:47). Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
  • Scott, Colin, Hopkins, R. (1999). The economics of non-governmental organisations. (DEDPS 15). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Sequeira, Sandra, Djankov, Simeon (2013). Corruption and firm behavior. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Sequeira, Sandra, Djankov, Simeon (2010). An empirical study of corruption in ports. (MPRA Paper). Munich Personal RePEc Archive.
  • Shahe Emran, M., Ferreira, Francisco H. G., Jiang, Yajing, Sun, Yan (2020). Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India. (III Working paper 52). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.ta0lqbykeuji picture_as_pdf