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Working Papers

2025

1. Evaluating the Employment Effects of a Labor Market Integration Program for Syrian Refugees and Turkish Nationals in Türkiye: Baseline Report
   Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes, The World Bank
2. Vertical Skills Mismatch in Türkiye’s Labor Market: Evidence from Refined Measures
   Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes, The World Bank

2024

3. Identification of an Expanded Inventory of Green Job Titles through AI-Driven Text Mining
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2024)
4. Mining spillovers and the formal-informal duality in manufacturing and services
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
5. Poverty dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17: an investigation using synthetic panels
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
6. Tackling the Last Hurdles of Poverty Entrenchment: An Investigation of Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06-2016/17
   GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2024)

2023

7. Nonlinear Propagation of Sectoral Productivity Shocks with Variable Elasticities of Substitution
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
8. Sectoral Productivity Shock, Regional Differences in Intersectoral Linkages, and Structural Transformation in Ghana
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
9. Social Protection Program Spending and Household Welfare in Ghana
   Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes, The World Bank
   Also in World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group (2023)
   See also Book Social Protection Program Spending and Household Welfare in Ghana, World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group (2023) (2023)

2022

10. Benefits and Costs of Public Schooling in Ghana
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
11. Regional Differences in Intersectoral Linkages and Diverse Patterns of Structural Transformation
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
12. Shocks and Social Safety Net Program Participation in Ghana - Descriptive Evidence from Linking Climate Risk Maps to Programs Beneficiary Rolls
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
13. The Financial Risk Reduction Provided by Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)

2021

14. Barriers to Growth-Enhancing Structural Transformation: The Role of Subnational Differences in Intersectoral Productivity Gaps
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (1)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2021)
15. Social Assistance Programs and Household Welfare in Eswatini
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
16. Welfare, Shocks, and Government Spending on Social Protection Programs in Lesotho
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group

2020

17. Covariate Shocks and Child Undernutrition: A Review of Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
18. Structural Transformation and Labor Market Performance in Ghana
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
    Also in Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides, The World Bank (2020) View citations (2)
    Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides, The World Bank

2019

19. Effects over the Life of a Program: Evidence from an Education Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Girls
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
20. The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2018

21. Feeding of Infants and Young Children in South Asia
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
22. Youth Labor Skill Training in Nepal
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
    Also in Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides, The World Bank (2018)

2017

23. Child undernutrition in Pakistan: what do we know ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
24. Cities, slums, and early child growth: empirical evidence from Bangladesh
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
25. Delivering Education to the Underserved Through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2017) View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2022) View citations (3) (2022)

2016

26. Public school teacher management in Sri Lanka: issues and options
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2015

27. Teacher performance pay: Experimental evidence from Pakistan
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Teacher performance pay: Experimental evidence from Pakistan, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2017) View citations (20) (2017)

2014

28. Private school participation in Pakistan
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Private School Participation in Pakistan, Lahore Journal of Economics, Department of Economics, The Lahore School of Economics (2015) View citations (2) (2015)

2011

29. Evaluating public per-student subsidies to low-cost private schools: regression-discontinuity evidence from Pakistan
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)

2010

30. Short-run learning dynamics under a test-based accountability system: evidence from Pakistan
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)

2007

31. Child labor across the developing world: patterns and correlations
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
32. Gender equality, poverty and economic growth
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (66)

2003

33. Unemployment benefit systems in Central and Eastern Europe: a review of the 1990s
    Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes, The World Bank View citations (30)

2002

34. Income support systems for the unemployed: issues and options
    Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes, The World Bank View citations (20)

2001

35. The informal sector revisited: a synthesis across space and time
    Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes, The World Bank View citations (50)

Journal Articles

2023

1. Government social protection programme spending and household welfare in Lesotho
   South African Journal of Economics, 2023, 91, (3), 375-393

2022

2. Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104, (3), 399-416 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Delivering Education to the Underserved Through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan, NBER Working Papers (2017) View citations (7) (2017)

2019

3. Cities, slums, and child nutrition in Bangladesh
   Review of Development Economics, 2019, 23, (2), 760-781

2017

4. Public School Teacher Management in Sri Lanka
   South Asia Economic Journal, 2017, 18, (1), 39-63 View citations (1)
5. Teacher performance pay: Experimental evidence from Pakistan
   Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 148, (C), 75-91 View citations (20)
   See also Working Paper Teacher performance pay: Experimental evidence from Pakistan, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2015) View citations (1) (2015)

2015

6. Evaluating the Impact of Public Student Subsidies on Low-Cost Private Schools in Pakistan
   Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51, (7), 808-825 View citations (9)
7. Private School Participation in Pakistan
   Lahore Journal of Economics, 2015, 20, (1), 1-46 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Private school participation in Pakistan, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2014) View citations (7) (2014)

2005

8. Unemployment Benefit Systems in Central and Eastern Europe: A Review of the 1990s1
   Comparative Economic Studies, 2005, 47, (4), 615-651 View citations (22)

Books

2023

1. Social Protection Program Spending and Household Welfare in Ghana
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group
   See also Working Paper Social Protection Program Spending and Household Welfare in Ghana, Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes, The World Bank (2023) (2023)

2018

2. Health and Nutrition in Urban Bangladesh
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group
3. Youth Employment in Nepal
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group

2017

4. Sri Lanka Education Sector Assessment
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (1)