Journal of Development Economics

This paper investigates the complementarity between business training and timely access to financial capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in the business support program we study were offered training. One-third of participants are offered loans immediately after training (Concurrent Loan group), one-third are offered loans six weeks after training (Delayed Loan group), and the remaining third are offered loans after another four weeks (Control group). While a long time lag may reduce knowledge retention and application among SMEs, concurrent access to loans and associated business spending may divert the entrepreneurs’ attention away from improving business practices. We find evidence for the latter in both intention-to-treat and treatment-on-the-treated estimates. While SMEs in both Control and Delayed Loan groups improve their business practices, SMEs in the Concurrent Loan group who take loans do not improve their practices at all. Moreover, entrepreneurs who take loans spend less time on their businesses and experience declines in their business revenue. The supplementary materials contain the two main datasets and associated codes required to generate the figures and tables in the paper. Both the datasets are in panel formats where each business is identified using a unique identifier. More descriptions of the data can be found in the paper.

This is the replication data corresponding to the following published paper: Chimbutane, Feliciano, Naureen Karachiwalla, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Jessica Leight, and Carlos Lauchande. "The effect of teacher training and community literacy programming on teacher and student outcomes." Journal of Development Economics 178 (2026): 103578.

Replication files for paper: In Someone Else’s Shoes: Reducing Prejudice through Perspective Taking published at the Journal of Development Economics: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387824000580?dgcid=author

These are the replication files for the following paper: Bhanot, S.P., Crost, B., Leight, J., Mvukiyehe, E. and Yedgenov, B., 2021. Can community service grants foster social and economic integration for youth? A randomized trial in Kazakhstan. Journal of Development Economics, 153, p.102718.

Casual observation suggests that cultural differences play an important role in business transactions, yet systematic evidence on this relationship is scarce. This paper provides a novel investigation of the effect of cultural distance on multinational firms’ decisions to integrate their cooperation partners into firm boundaries, rather than transact with independent companies at arm’s-length. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple theoretical model which suggests that (i) cultural distance between contracting parties decreases the relative attractiveness of integration, and (ii) this effect is mitigated in more productive firms. We test these predictions using extensive product-, industry-, and firm-level data. We find a robust negative relationship between cultural distance and the relative attractiveness of integration. In line with our theoretical predictions, we also find that the effect of cultural distance on firm boundaries is less pronounced the higher firm’s productivity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103175

The data and programs replicate the analysis from "Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile" by Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz (2018).

This is the replication package (data and code) for the paper "Education and Polygamy: Evidence from Cameroon"

In this replication package we include all relevant data and Stata code to replicate the article "When nature calls back: Sustaining behavioral change in rural Pakistan" published at the Journal of Development Economics, Volume 158, September 2022, 102933.

This is Supplementary Data Replication for the paper "Early Childhood Exposure to Health Insurance and Adolescent Outcomes: Evidence from Rural China".

This dataset and associated do file replicates the findings reported in Castells-Quintana, Lopez-Uribe and McDermott (2022) "Population displacement and urban conflict: Global evidence from more than 3300 flood events", published in the Journal of Development Economics. The published article is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102922