Recent publications
Publications by researchers at the department within the field of Development Economics.
2024
Michelle D'Arcy, Marina Nistotskaya, Ola Olsson (2024), "Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel!, in Journal of Political Economy.
Laura Mayoral, Ola Olsson (2024), "Floods, droughts, and environmental circumscription in early state development: the case of ancient Egypt", in JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH.
Söderbom, Måns and Moges Tufa. “The Effect of Firm Absorptive Capacity on Learning by Importing: The Mediation Role of Industry Policy-Induced Intermediate Input Imports”, forthcoming in International Journal of Business Forecasting and Marketing Intelligence.
Dick Durevall, Ann Sofie Isaksson (2024), "Aid and child health: A disaggregated analysis of the effects of aid on impaired growth", in World Development.
Pelle Ahlerup, Aksel Sundström, Sverker C. Jagers, Martin Sjöstedt (2024), "Climate Shocks, Regional Favoritism and Trust in Leaders: Insights from Droughts in Africa", in World Development.
Heather Congdon Fors, Ann-Sofie Isaksson, Annika Lindskog (2024), "Changing local customs: The long run impacts of Christian missions on female genital cutting in Africa", in Journal of Development Economics.
Dick Durevall (2024), "Gender policy and intimate partner violence in Colombia", PloS one.
Louise Jeppsson, Lisa Norrgren (2024), "Can mothers' time preferences predict their children's educational outcomes?", in The Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
Eyayu Tesfaye Mulugeta, Måns Söderbom (2024), "Imported inputs and firm productivity: does foreign ownership matter?", in INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC POLICY.
2023
Heather Congdon Fors, Annika Lindskog (2023), "Son preference and education Inequalities in India: the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys", in Journal of Population Economics.
Dick Durevall, R.G. Cowden, S. Beckett, A BM Kharsany, L Lewis, G George, C Cawood, D Khanyile , K Govender (2023), "Associations of Social Support with Sexual Practices, Health Behaviours, and Health Outcomes Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Evidence From a Longitudinal Study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa", in International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
Roxanne Kovacs, Maurice Dunaiski, Janne Tukiainen (2023), "The effect of compulsory face mask policies on community mobility in Germany", in Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
Søren Rud Kristensen, Laura Anselmi, Garrett Wallace Brown, Eleonora Fichera, Roxanne Kovacs, Rene Loewenson, Neha Singh, Nicholas Midzi, Fatimah Mustapha, Lee White et al (2023), "Pay for performance at a crossroads: lessons from taking a global perspective", in International Journal of Public Sector Management.
Moges Tufa, Måns Söderbom, Zerayehu Sime (2023), "The Impact of Sector-Specific Industrial Policy on Manufacturing Firm Performance: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Ethiopian Chemical Industries", in Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade.
A. Shiferaw, Måns Söderbom (2023), "Worker Turnover and Job Reallocation: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data", in Economic Development and Cultural Change.
S. Bhalotra, I. Clots-Figueras, L. Iyer, Joseph Vecci (2023), "Leader Identity and Coordination", in Review of Economics and Statistics.
P. Rossi, Yun Xiao (2023), "Spillovers in Childbearing Decisions and Fertility Transitions: Evidence from China", in Journal of the European Economic Association.
L. Li, Yun Xiao (2023), "Beyond boiling: The effect of in utero exposure to treated tap water on childhood health", in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
2022
H. A. Ho, Peter Martinsson, Ola Olsson (2022), "The origins of cultural divergence: evidence from Vietnam", in Journal of Economic Growth.
Heather Congdon Fors, Annika Lindskog (2022), "Within-family inequalities in human capital accumulation in India", in Review of Development Economics.
Ann Sofie Isaksson, Dick Durevall (2022), "Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in Africa", in Review of International Organizations.
Kaymarlin Govender, Dick Durevall, Richard G Cowden, Sean Beckett, Ayesha Bm Kharsany, Lara Lewis, Gavin George, Cherie Cawood, David Khanyile (2022), "Depression symptoms, HIV testing, linkage to ART, and viral suppression among women in a high HIV burden district in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A cross-sectional household study", in Journal of Health Psychology.
Roxanne Kovacs, M. Lagarde, J. Cairns (2022), "Can patients improve the quality of care they receive? Experimental evidence from Senegal", in World Development.
Annika Lindskog, Peter Martinsson, H. Medhin (2022), "Risk-taking and others Does the social reference point matter?", in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
M. Fafchamps, Måns Söderbom, M. Boogart (2022), "Adoption with Social Learning and Network Externalities", in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
M. J. Chegere, Håkan Eggert, Måns Söderbom (2022), "The Effects of Storage Technology and Training on Postharvest Losses, Practices, and Sales: Evidence from Small-Scale Farms in Tanzania", in Economic Development and Cultural Change.
A. S. Bedi, A. Shiferaw, Måns Söderbom, G. A. Zewdu (2022), "Social insurance reform and workers' compensation", in Labour Economics.
L. Gangadharan, T. Jain, P. Maitra, Joseph Vecci (2022), "Lab-in-the-field experiments: perspectives from research on gender", in Japanese Economic Review.
Yvonne Jie Chen, Li Li, Yun Xiao (2022), "Early-Life Exposure to Tap Water and the Development of Cognitive Skills", in Journal of Human Resources.
C. J. Dalgaard, N. Kaarsen, Ola Olsson, P. Selaya (2022), "Roman roads to prosperity: Persistence and non-persistence of public infrastructure", in Journal of Comparative Economics.
2021
Annika Lindskog, Dick Durevall (2021), "To educate a woman and to educate a man: Gender-specific sexual behavior and human immunodeficiency virus responses to an education reform in Botswana", in Health Economics (United Kingdom).
J. J. Hammes, L. Nerhagen, Heather Congdon Fors (2021), "The Influence of Individual Characteristics and Institutional Norms on Bureaucrats' Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Choice Experiment", in Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis.
Pelle Ahlerup, Thushyanthan Baskaran, Arne Bigsten (2021), "Quality of Government and Economic Growth", in OUP Handbook of Quality of Government, Eds. Marcia Grimes, Bo Rothstein, Monika Bauhr and Andreas Bågenholm.
Andrea Berggren, Louise Jeppsson (2021), "The impact of upper secondary school flexibility on sorting and educational outcomes", in Economics of Education Review.
Lata Gangadharan, Philip J. Grossman, Joseph Vecci (2021), "Moving on up: The impact of income mobility on antisocial behaviour", in European Economic Review.
Oana Borcan, Ola Olsson, Louis Putterman (2021), "Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global analysis", in Explorations in Economic History.