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Journal of Development Economics

The Journal of Development Economics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. It was established in 1974 and is considered the top field journal in development economics.

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Journal of Development Economics
DisciplineDevelopment economics
LanguageEnglish
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History1974-present
Publisher
FrequencyBimonthly
3.875 (2020)
Standard abbreviations
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ISO 4J. Dev. Econ.
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ISSN0304-3878
LCCN76647333
OCLC no.1292659
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The Journal of Development Economics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. It was established in 1974 and is considered the top field journal in development economics.123

Its editor-in-chief from 1985 to 2003 was Pranab Bardhan, who has been the longest-serving JDE editor to date. He followed T.N. Srinivasan, and Lance Taylor as Editors since the journal was established in 1974. He was succeeded by Mark Rosenzweig (2003-2009) and Maitreesh Ghatak (2009-2015). The current editor-in-chief is Andrew Foster, who started in 2016.4

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References

  1. Kalaitzidakis, Pantelis, Theofanis P. Mamuneas, and Thanasis Stengos. 2002. "Ranking of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics", Journal of the European Economics Association 1(6): 1346-66.
  2. "A Journal Ranking for the Ambitious Economist" (PDF). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review. 2009.
  3. "Kalaitzidakis, Pantelis, Theofanis P. Mamuneas, and Thanasis Stengos (2010) "An Updated Ranking of Academic Journals in Economics"" (PDF).
  4. "Journal of Development Economics Editorial Board". Retrieved 2016-10-29.
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