The World Bank Research Observer
1986 - 2024
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Volume 39, issue 2, 2024
- School Meals Are Evolving: Has the Evidence Kept Up? pp. 159-176
- Harold Alderman, Donald Bundy and Aulo Gelli
- Impacts of Extreme Weather Events on Education Outcomes: A Review of Evidence pp. 177-226
- Sergio Venegas Marin, Lara Schwarz and Shwetlena Sabarwal
- Measuring Total Carbon Pricing pp. 227-258
- Paolo Agnolucci, Carolyn Fischer, Dirk Heine, Mariza Montes de Oca Leon, Joseph Pryor, Kathleen Patroni and Stéphane Hallegatte
- Is There Job Polarization in Developing Economies? A Review and Outlook pp. 259-288
- Antonio Martins-Neto, Nanditha Mathew, Pierre Mohnen and Tania Treibich
- Revisiting the Measurement of Digital Inclusion pp. 289-318
- Matthew Sharp
Volume 39, issue 1, 2024
- The Relationship between Climate Action and Poverty Reduction pp. 1-46
- Hans Peter Lankes, Rob Macquarie, Éléonore Soubeyran and Nicholas Stern
- Girls’ Education at Scale pp. 47-74
- David K Evans, Amina Mendez Acosta and Fei Yuan
- Fears and Tears: Should More People Be Moving within and from Developing Countries, and What Stops this Movement? pp. 75-96
- David McKenzie
- The Impact of Private Schools, School Chains and PPPs in Developing Countries pp. 97-123
- Lee Crawfurd, Susannah Hares and Rory Todd
- Social Norms and Gender Disparities with a Focus on Female Labor Force Participation in South Asia pp. 124-158
- Maurizio Bussolo, Jessy Amarachi Ezebuihe, Ana Maria Muñoz Boudet, Stavros Poupakis, Tasmia Rahman and Nayantara Sarma
Volume 38, issue 2, 2023
- Improving the Well-Being of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries pp. 179-212
- Katy Bergstrom and Berk Özler
- Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Carbon Pricing pp. 213-248
- Kasper Vrolijk and Misato Sato
- Impacts of Temporary Migration on Development in Origin Countries pp. 249-294
- Laurent Bossavie and Çağlar Özden
- The Promise and Limitations of Information Technology for Tax Mobilization pp. 295-324
- Oyebola Okunogbe and Fabrizio Santoro
- What Makes Public Sector Data Valuable for Development? pp. 325-346
- Dean Jolliffe, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Malarvizhi Veerappan, Talip Kilic and Philip Wollburg
Volume 38, issue 1, 2023
- Greater than the Sum of the Parts? Evidence on Mechanisms Operating in Women's Groups pp. 1-35
- Lucía Díaz-Martin, Akshara Gopalan, Eleonora Guarnieri and Seema Jayachandran
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women-Led Businesses pp. 36-72
- Jesica Torres, Franklin Maduko, Isis Gaddis, Leonardo Iacovone and Kathleen Beegle
- Childcare and Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 73-114
- Daniel Halim, Elizaveta Perova and Sarah Reynolds
- A Puzzle with Missing Pieces: Explaining the Effectiveness of World Bank Development Projects pp. 115-146
- Louise Ashton, Jed Friedman, Diana Goldemberg, Mustafa Zakir Hussain, Thomas Kenyon, Akib Khan and Mo Zhou
- Services, Jobs, and Economic Development in Africa pp. 147-178
- Leonardo Baccini, Matteo Fiorini, Bernard Hoekman and Marco Sanfilippo
Volume 37, issue 2, 2022
- Factors Affecting Technological Diffusion Through Social Networks: A Review of the Empirical Evidence (Just a Few Seeds More: Value of Network Information for Diffusion.” SSRN Scholarly Paper ID 3062830) pp. 137-170
- Hoi Wai Jackie Cheng
- EdTech in Developing Countries: A Review of the Evidence (From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies: Challenges and Solutions, with an Application) pp. 171-203
- Daniel Rodriguez-Segura
- Do Government Incentives to Promote R&D Increase Private R&D Investment? (Productivity Differences) pp. 204-228
- Jieun Choi
- Social Protection for Child Development in Crisis: A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps (School Feeding Reduces Anemia Prevalence in Adolescent Girls and Other Vulnerable Household Members in a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda) pp. 229-263
- Elisabetta Aurino and Sara Giunti
Volume 37, issue 1, 2022
- Measure for Measure: Comparing Survey Based Estimates of Income and Consumption for Rural Households (Obtaining Useful Data on Household Incomes from Surveys) pp. 1-38
- Gero Carletto, Marco Tiberti and Alberto Zezza
- Mentoring Migrants for Labor Market Integration: Policy Insights from a Survey of Mentoring Theory and Practice (A Marginal Cost Analysis of a Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Youth Mentoring Program: New Evidence Using Statistical Analysis) pp. 39-72
- Lisa Bagnoli and Antonio Estache
- Teacher Beliefs: Why They Matter and What They Are (Instructional Time Loss in Developing Countries: Concepts, Measurement, and Implications) pp. 73-106
- Shwetlena Sabarwal, Malek Abu-Jawdeh and Radhika Kapoor
- Teacher Professional Development around the World: The Gap between Evidence and Practice (Training to Teach Science: Experimental Evidence from Argentina) pp. 107-136
- Anna Popova, David Evans, Mary E Breeding and Violeta Arancibia
Volume 36, issue 2, 2021
- Public Procurement, Regional Integration, and the Belt and Road Initiative (How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port) pp. 131-163
- Tania Ghossein, Bernard Hoekman and Anirudh Shingal
- What Drives Successful Economic Diversification in Resource-Rich Countries? (Blocking the Pathway out of the Resource Curse: What Hinders Diversification in Resource-rich Developing Countries?) pp. 164-196
- Addisu A Lashitew, Michael L Ross and Eric Werker
- Financial Inclusion and Stability: Review of Theoretical and Empirical Links (Risk in Islamic Banking) pp. 197-233
- Martin Čihák, Davide Salvatore Mare and Martin Melecký
- Can Jobs Programs Build Peace? (Intergroup Conflict and Intra-Group Punishment in an Experimental Contest Game) pp. 234-259
- Tilman Brück, Neil Ferguson, Valeria Izzi and Wolfgang Stojetz
- Public Service Reform in Post-Conflict Societies (Labor Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange) pp. 260-287
- Jurgen Rene Blum and Daniel Rogger
Volume 36, issue 1, 2021
- Simulating the Potential Impacts of COVID-19 School Closures on Schooling and Learning Outcomes: A Set of Global Estimates (Tackling Inequity in Education during and after COVID-19) pp. 1-40
- João Pedro, Amer Hasan, Diana Goldemberg, Koen Geven and Syedah Aroob Iqbal
- Policies to Support Businesses through the COVID-19 Shock: A Firm Level Perspective (Economic Uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic) pp. 41-66
- Xavier Cirera, Marcio Cruz, Elwyn Davies, Arti Grover, Leonardo Iacovone, José López-Córdova, Denis Medvedev, Franklin Maduko, Gaurav Nayyar, Santiago Reyes Ortega and Jesica Torres
- Who on Earth Can Work from Home? (Secular Stagnation? The Effect of Aging on Economic Growth in the Age of Automation) pp. 67-100
- Daniel Garrote Sanchez, Nicolas Gomez-Parra, Caglar Ozden, Bob Rijkers, Mariana Viollaz and Hernan Winkler
- Replication Redux: The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming (Economics of Mass Deworming Programs) pp. 101-130
- Owen Ozier
Volume 35, issue 1, 2020
- Putting Global Governance in Its Place pp. 1-18
- Dani Rodrik
- Supporting Policy Reform from the Outside pp. 19-43
- Lodewijk Smets
- Illicit Financial Flows: Concepts, Measurement, and Evidence pp. 44-86
- Matthew Collin
- Preventing More “Missing Girls”: A Review of Policies to Tackle Son Preference pp. 87-121
- Sneha Kumar and Nistha Sinha
Volume 34, issue 2, 2019
- What Explains Uneven Female Labor Force Participation Levels and Trends in Developing Countries? pp. 161-197
- Stephan Klasen
- Jobs and Land Use within Cities: A Survey of Theory, Evidence, and Policy pp. 198-238
- Arti Grover and Somik V Lall
- Beyond Poverty Escapes—Social Mobility in Developing Countries: A Review Article pp. 239-273
- Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna and Kunal Sen
- The Turnaround of the Swedish Economy: Lessons from Large Business Sector Reforms pp. 274-308
- Fredrik Heyman, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson
- Gender Matters in Economic Empowerment Interventions: A Research Review pp. 309-346
- Mayra Buvinić and Megan O'Donnell
Volume 34, issue 1, 2019
- The World Bank Human Capital Index: A Guide pp. 1-33
- Aart Kraay
- Governance and Women's Economic and Political Participation: Power Inequalities, Formal Constraints and Norms pp. 34-64
- Annamaria Milazzo and Markus Goldstein
- Globalization and Structural Change around the World, 1985–2015 pp. 65-94
- Adrian Wood
- Changing Behavioral Patterns Related to Maternity and Childbirth in Rural and Poor Populations: A Critical Review pp. 95-118
- Ariadna Garcia-Prado
- Long-Term Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Review of the Evidence pp. 119-159
- Teresa Molina Millán, Tania Barham, Karen Macours, John Maluccio and Marco Stampini
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