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Volume 34, issue Supplement_1, 2020

The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and Opportunities to Expand Access to and Use of Financial Services* pp. S2-S8

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, Saniya Ansar and Jake Hess

Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination pp. S9-S13

Xiaowen Dong, Eaman Jahani, Alfredo J Morales, Burçin Bozkaya, Bruno Lepri and Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

The Impact of Information Sharing on the Use of Collateral versus Guarantees pp. S14-S19

Ralph De Haas and Matteo Millone

Linguistic Fractionalization and Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. S20-S25

Joseph Gomes

Predicting Dynamic Patterns of Short-Term Movement pp. S26-S34

Sveta Milusheva

Representativity and Networked Interference in Data-Rich Field Experiments: A Large-Scale RCT in Rural Mexico pp. S35-S39

Alejandro Noriega and Alex Pentland

Measuring Regional Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Surveys vs. GIS pp. S40-S45

Boris Gershman and Diego Rivera

Geography, Climate, and Genes in Development Studies pp. S46-S51

Robert Klitgaard, Johannes Fedderke and Valerio Napolioni

Public Investment Choices by Local and Central Governments pp. S52-S57

Katrina Kosec and Tewodaj Mogues

Economic Transformation in Africa from the Bottom Up: New Evidence from Tanzania pp. S58-S62

Xinshen Diao, Josaphat Kweka, Margaret McMillan and Zara Qureshi

Is There a Cost-Effective Means of Training Microenterprises? pp. S63-S67

Wyatt Brooks, Kevin Donovan and Terence R Johnson

Medium-Run Impacts of Management Training in Garment Clusters pp. S68-S71

Yuki Higuchi, Edwin Mhede, Vu Nam and Tetsushi Sonobe

Is Informal Redistribution Costly? Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Senegal pp. S72-S78

Marie Boltz, Karine Marazyan and Paola Villar

Comparing Costs of Living across World Cities pp. S79-S88

Shohei Nakamura, Rawaa Harati, Somik V Lall, Yuri M Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, William Vigil Oliver, Marko Olavi Rissanen and Mizuki Yamanaka

The ABCDE of Big Data: Assessing Biases in Call-Detail Records for Development Estimates pp. S89-S97

Gabriel Pestre, Emmanuel Letouzé and Emilio Zagheni

Volume 34, issue 3

Conceptual Aspects of Global Value Chains pp. 551-574

Pol Antràs

Mine, Yours or Ours? The Efficiency of Household Investment Decisions: An Experimental Approach pp. 575-596

Anandi Mani

Cash Transfers and Management Advice for Agriculture: Evidence from Senegal pp. 597-617

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton

Behavior Revealed in Mobile Phone Usage Predicts Credit Repayment pp. 618-634

Daniel Björkegren and Darrell Grissen

Can Medium-Resolution Satellite Imagery Measure Economic Activity at Small Geographies? Evidence from Landsat in Vietnam pp. 635-653

Ran Goldblatt, Kilian Heilmann and Yonatan Vaizman

Be Wary of Those Who Ask: A Randomized Experiment on the Size and Determinants of the Enumerator Effect pp. 654-669

Michele Di Maio and Nathan Fiala

Cash Transfers, Microentrepreneurial Activity, and Child Work: Evidence from Malawi and Zambia pp. 670-697

Jacobus de Hoop, Valeria Groppo and Sudhanshu Handa

Multigenerational Effects of Education Reform: Mother’s Education and Children’s Human Capital in Nepal pp. 698-729

Vinish Shrestha and Rashesh Shrestha

Free Primary Education, Timing of Fertility, and Total Fertility pp. 730-748

Tihtina Zenebe Gebre

Exploring Recipient Preferences and Allocation Mechanisms in the Distribution of Development Aid pp. 749-766

Jeremy Shapiro

Narrow Incumbent Victories and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines pp. 767-789

Benjamin Crost, Joseph H Felter, Hani Mansour and Daniel I Rees

Are Less Developed Countries More Exposed to Multinational Tax Avoidance? Method and Evidence from Micro-Data pp. 790-809

Niels Johannesen, Thomas Tørsløv and Ludvig Wier

Do Weak Institutions Prolong Crises? On the Identification, Characteristics, and Duration of Declines during Economic Slumps pp. 810-832

Richard Bluhm, Denis de Crombrugghe and Adam Szirmai

Volume 34, issue 2, 2020

Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico pp. 259-283

Sarra Ben Yahmed and Pamela Bombarda

Persistent Misallocation and the Returns to Education in Mexico pp. 284-311

Santiago Levy and Luis Lopez-Calva

Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity: Revisiting the Evidence pp. 312-331

Véronique Gille

Exploring the Heterogeneous Effects of Export Promotion pp. 332-350

Marcelo Olarreaga, Stefan Sperlich and Virginie Trachsel

Informed Trading in Business Groups pp. 351-370

Alvaro Pedraza

Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers’ Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia pp. 371-392

Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan and Martín Valdivia

Training to Teach Science: Experimental Evidence from Argentina pp. 393-417

Facundo Albornoz, María Victoria Anauati, Melina Furman, Mariana Luzuriaga, María Eugenia Podestá and Inés Taylor

Call Me Maybe: Experimental Evidence on Frequency and Medium Effects in Microenterprise Surveys pp. 418-443

Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin and Simon Quinn

Saving Water with a Nudge (or Two): Evidence from Costa Rica on the Effectiveness and Limits of Low-Cost Behavioral Interventions on Water Use pp. 444-463

Juan Jose Miranda, Saugato Datta and Laura Zoratto

The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Expansion on Mothers’ Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence in Turkey pp. 464-484

Selim Gulesci, Erik Meyersson and Sofia Trommlerová

Is Predicted Data a Viable Alternative to Real Data? pp. 485-508

Tomoki Fujii and Roy van der Weide

Migration and Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa pp. 509-532

Jan David Bakker, Christopher Parsons and Ferdinand Rauch

How Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions: A Natural Experiment in Jordan pp. 533-549

Alex Nowrasteh, Andrew Forrester and Cole Blondin

Volume 34, issue 1, 2020

Get Rich or Die Tryin’: Perceived Earnings, Perceived Mortality Rates, and Migration Decisions of Potential Work Migrants from Nepal pp. 1-27

Maheshwor Shrestha

The Origins and Dynamics of Export Superstars pp. 28-47

Caroline Freund and Martha Denisse Pierola

Do Poor Countries Really Need More IT? pp. 48-62

Maya Eden and Paul Gaggl

Urbanization and Child Nutritional Outcomes pp. 63-74

Mulubrhan Amare, Channing Arndt, Kibrom Abay and Todd Benson

Taxing the Good? Distortions, Misallocation, and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 75-100

Xavier Cirera, Roberto Fattal-Jaef and Hibret Maemir

Does E-Government Improve Government Capacity? Evidence from Tax Compliance Costs, Tax Revenue, and Public Procurement Competitiveness pp. 101-120

Anna Kochanova, Zahid Hasnain and Bradley Larson

The Global Trade Slowdown: Cyclical or Structural? pp. 121-142

Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo and Michele Ruta

The Geography of NGO Activism against Multinational Corporations pp. 143-163

Sophie Hatte and Pamina Koenig

The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education pp. 164-178

Tianshu Li and Sheetal Sekhri

Early Rainfall Shocks and Later-Life Outcomes: Evidence from Colombia pp. 179-209

Bladimir Carrillo

The Impact of Positive Agricultural Income Shocks on Rural Chinese Households pp. 210-231

Jessica Leight

Development and the Labor Share pp. 232-257

Paul Maarek and Elsa Orgiazzi