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703: Deposit Insurance and Market Discipline

Deniz Anginer and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

702: From High-Stakes to Low: How Kenya’s Test Reforms Affect Teaching Practices

Amani Karisa, Moses Ngware, Francis Kiroro, Mulusew Jebena, Obiageri Azubuike and Jack Rossiter

701: Income and the Demand for Food among the Poor

Marc Bellemare, Eeshani Kandpal and Katherina Thomas

700: The Cost-Effectiveness of Health Aid: An Exploratory Quantitative Analysis

Victoria Fan, Brian Webster, Venkatesh Subramanian, Karen Grépin, David Watkins and Joseph Dieleman

699: Changing Perceptions of Educational Returns in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Meta-Analysis

David Evans and Amina Acosta

698: The Teachers Who Leave: Teacher Attrition in Burkina Faso

Biniam Bedasso and Amina Acosta

697: Is Latin America an Economic Failure? From Narratives to Data

Alejandro Fiorito, José Ruiz and Ernesto Talvi

696: Can the IMF Use Its Balance Sheet More Effectively to Address Global Challenges?

David Andrews

695: The Often Overlooked “Pull” Factor: Border Crossings and Labor Market Tightness in the US

Dany Bahar

694: An End to Extreme Poverty? (Or at Least the Extreme Poverty Line)

Charles Kenny

693: The Implications of a Declining Labor Force

Charles Kenny and George Yang

692: Climate Shocks, Adaptation, and Well-Being in Ghana: A Mixed Methods Study

Nkechi Owoo

691: Improving School Leadership in Rwanda

Simeon Lauterbach, Lee Crawfurd, Jocelyne Kirezi, Aimable Nsabimana and Jef Peeraer

690: Corporate Inequality: Role of Competition and Institutions

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

689: Long-Distance Industrial Policy for Africa

Justin Sandefur and Arvind Subramanian

688: Influencing Migration Policy and Public Debate through Targeted Communications: Lessons for Researchers and Practitioners as to What, Who, How, and When to Engage

Helen Dempster

687: Forced Migration and Refugees: Policies for Successful Economic and Social Integration

Dany Bahar, Rebecca Brough and Giovanni Peri

686: The Role of Fathers in Promoting Early Childhood Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review of the Evidence

David Evans and Pamela Jakiela

685: The Evolution of World Bank Lending for Education: 1998-2022

Biniam Bedasso and Justin Sandefur

684: Social Safety Nets, Women’s Economic Achievements and Agency: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Amber Peterman, Jingying Wang, Kevin Kamto Sonke and Janina Steinert

683: A New Vintage of Populism in Latin America? The Perils of the New Paradigm

Mauricio Cardenas and Enrique Sanz Posse

682: The Economics of Antibiotic Resistance

Anthony McDonnell, Ranil Dissanayake, Katherine Klemperer, Flavio Toxvaerd and Michael Sharland

681: The Socioeconomic Impact of Climate Change in Developing Countries in the Next Decades

Philip Adom

680: The Case for Globalization and Robust Global Value Chains Grows Stronger

Shahid Yusuf

679: Refugees and the Education of Host Populations: Evidence from the Syrian Inflow to Jordan

Ragui Assaad, Thomas Ginn and Mohamed Saleh

678: Sexist Textbooks

Lee Crawfurd, Christelle Saintis-Miller and Rory Todd

677: Pay-for-Performance Contracts in the Lab and the Real World: Evidence from Nigeria

Sebastian Bauhoff and Eeshani Kandpal

676: The Impacts of Childcare Interventions on Children’s Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

David Evans, Pamela Jakiela and Amina Acosta

675: Integrating Gender into Macroeconomic Policies at the IMF

Rishi Goyal and Ratna Sahay

674: Data Localization: A “Tax” on the Poor

David Medine

673: Merit, Inequality, and Opportunity: The Impact of Malawi's Selective Secondary Schools

Esme Kadzamira, Symon Winiko, Tsirizani Kaombe and Jack Rossiter

672: Persistence and Emergence of Literacy Skills: Long-Term Impacts of an Effective Early Grade Reading Intervention in South Africa

Jonathan Stern, Matthew Jukes, Jacobus Cilliers, Brahm Fleisch, Stephen Taylor and Nompumelelo Mohohlwane

671: Cost-Sharing in Medical Care Can Increase Adult Mortality: Evidence from Colombia

Giancarlo Buitrago, Javier Amaya, Grant Miller and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

670: Women and Credit: A Narrative Review in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Mayra Buvinic and Shubhangi Gokhroo

669: Missing Figures: Women's Underrepresentation in IFI Leadership

Eeshani Kandpal, Brian Webster and Charles Kenny

668: Phonics and Foreign Aid: Can America Teach the World to Read?

Justin Sandefur, Thomaz Alvares de Azevedo, Xiaomin Ju and Thi Le

667: Improving School Management of Violence: Evidence from a Nationwide Policy in Peru

Gabriela Smarrelli

666: How the Media Cover School Violence: Evidence from Five African Countries

David Evans and Kiersten Robertson

665: Estimated Future Mortality from Pathogens of Epidemic and Pandemic Potential

Nita Madhav, Ben Oppenheim, Nicole Stephenson, Rinette Badker, Dean Jamison, Cathine Lam and Amanda Meadows

664: The Future of Natural Resources and Development: Whither Low and Middle-Income Countries?

Augustin Fosu and Dede Gafa

663: The Future of Official Aid Flows

Charles Kenny and Zachary Gehan

662: Is Manufacturing Destiny? On the Dynamics of Future Sectoral Shares and Development

Brian Webster, Charles Kenny and Ranil Dissanayake

661: Preprimary Education and Early Childhood Development: Evidence from Government Schools in Rural Kenya

Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Lia Fernald and Heather Knauer

660: Climate Change and Government Borrowing Costs: A Triple Whammy for Emerging Market Economies

Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta, Joao Jalles and Bernat Adrogue

659: Unequal Households or Communities? Explaining Nutritional Inequality in South Asia

Caitlin Brown, Eeshani Kandpal, Jean Lee and Anaise Williams

658: When the Data You Have Aren’t the Data You Need: School-Related Violence Data Availability in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

David Evans, Susannah Hares, Gabriela Smarrelli and Dongyi Wu

657: Increasing Disclosure of School-Related Gender-Based Violence: Lessons from a Systematic Review of Data Collection Methods and Existing Survey Research

Clare Tanton, Amiya Bhatia, Jodie Pearlman and Karen Devries

656: Country Transition Projections up to 2040: Gavi, the Global Fund, and the World Bank’s IDA

Adrian Gheorghe and Peter Baker

655: Identifying Macroeconomic Resilience to External Shocks in Emerging and Developing Countries: Lessons from the Global Shocks of 2020-2022

Liliana Rojas-Suarez

654: Loan Recoveries and the Financing of Zombie Firms over the Business Cycle

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Balint Horvath and Harry Huizinga