About the archive

The archive makes frontier development-economics job market research featured in two recurring blog series easier to search, explore, and teach with.

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Purpose and coverage

The archive brings together job market paper posts from the World Bank Development Impact blog and Economics That Really Matters. It supports browsing individual featured papers and seeing trends in topics, methods, and geographies over time.

The current release covers 310 blog-post occurrences. The unit is the blog-post occurrence, so cross-posted papers are retained as separate source records. The archive was launched in August 2026 and will be updated annually after the two series' job-market-paper seasons conclude. It is not a census of all development-economics job market papers.

What each record contains

Each record includes the source blog and original post, publication date and academic season, featured author, job-market institution, available paper title and link, and classifications for geography, research methods, topics, units of analysis, and study population.

The blog post is the archive's primary source object. Paper links are convenience links checked as of August 2026. They may point to a working-paper or published version, and links may later move or disappear.

How classifications were created

Source blog posts and available paper materials were reviewed and classified systematically across five dimensions: geography, research methods, topics, units of analysis, and study population. Classifications can be multi-valued.

LLM/AI assistance was used to support systematic extraction and classification. Human judgment and review were used to resolve classifications and ambiguous cases.

Geography: geography describes the substantive study setting. Country tags are conservative and assigned only when countries are explicitly identified in the featured blog post. Broader Multi-country, regional, and Global scope values are used where appropriate.

Methods: method tags identify the paper's main empirical or methodological approaches. Ancillary specifications, robustness checks, and secondary estimators are not treated as main method classifications.

Download the archive

The primary download is an occurrence-level CSV with 310 rows, one row per blog-post occurrence. Cross-posts are retained as separate records. Multi-valued fields use | . Paper-link status reflects links checked as of August 2026. Country geography tags are conservative and included only when supported by the featured blog post.

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Citation

Biscaye, Pierre. 2026. Development Economics JMP Blog Archive. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22081825

All versions: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22081824