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548: Deliberative Democracy and the Resource Curse: A Nationwide Experiment in Tanzania

Justin Sandefur, Nancy Birdsall, James Fishkin and Mujobu Moyo

547: The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Income Inequality, Poverty, and the Urban-Rural and Regional Income Gaps in China

Nora Lustig and Yang Wang

546: Teacher Labor Markets in Developing Countries

Lee Crawfurd and Todd Pugatch

545: How Big Are Effect Sizes in International Education Studies?

David Evans and Fei Yuan

544: Contact and Commitment to Development: Evidence from Quasi-random Missionary Assignments

Lee Crawfurd

543: Social Protection Amidst Social Upheaval: Examining the Impact of a Multi-Faceted Program for Ultra-Poor Households in Yemen

Lasse Brune, Dean Karlan, Sikandra Kurdi and Christopher Udry

542: Education in Africa: What Are We Learning?

David Evans and Amina Acosta

541: Why Do Governments Tax or Subsidize Fossil Fuels?

Paasha Mahdavi, Cesar Martinez-Alvarez and Michael Ross

540: The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries

Michael Clemens

539: Migration from Developing Countries: Selection, Income Elasticity, and Simpson’s Paradox

Michael Clemens and Mariapia Mendola

538: Are Teachers in Africa Poorly Paid? Evidence from 15 Countries

David Evans, Fei Yuan and Deon Filmer

537: Growth with Adjectives: Global Poverty and Inequality after the Pandemic

Christopher Hoy and Andy Sumner

535: Predicted COVID-19 Fatality Rates Based on Age, Sex, Comorbidities, and Health System Capacity

Selene Ghisolfi, Ingvild Almås, Justin Sandefur, Tillmann von Carnap, Jesse Heitner and Tessa Bold

534: Practical Lessons for Phone-Based Assessments of Learning

Noam Angrist, Peter Bergman, David Evans, Susannah Hares, Matthew Jukes and Thato Letsomo

533: The IMF’s Growth Forecasts for Poor Countries Don’t Match Its COVID Narrative

Justin Sandefur and Arvind Subramanian

532: Can Tax Buoyancy in Sub-Saharan Africa Help Finance the Sustainable Development Goals?

Sanjeev Gupta and Jianhong Liu

531: Headship and Poverty in Africa

Caitlin Brown and Dominique van de Walle

530: Can Boosting Savings and Skills Support Female Business Owners in Indonesia? Evidence from A Randomized Controlled Trial

Mayra Buvinic, Hillary Johnson, Elizaveta Perova and Firman Witoelar

529: Finance for International Development (FID): A New Measure to Compare Traditional and Emerging Provider Countries’ Official Development Finance Efforts, and Some Provisional Results

Ian Mitchell, Euan Ritchie and Andrew Rogerson

528: Pandemics and Violence Against Women and Children

Amber Peterman, Alina Potts, Megan O'Donnell, Kelly Thompson, Niyati Shah, Sabine Oertelt-Prigione and Nicole van Gelder

527: SDG1: The Last Three Percent

Martin Ravallion

526: Building Resilient Health Systems: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Darin Christensen, Oeindrila Dube, Johannes Haushofer, Bilal Siddiqi and Maarten Voors

525: A Decision Tree for Digital Financial Inclusion Policymaking

Stijn Claessens and Liliana Rojas-Suarez

524: Revisiting Aid Effectiveness: A New Framework and Set of Measures for Assessing Aid "Quality"

Caitlin McKee, Catherine Blampied, Ian Mitchell and Andrew Rogerson

523: Gender Gaps in Education: The Long View

David Evans, Maryam Akmal and Pamela Jakiela

522: Identifying and Verifying Customers: When are KYC Requirements Likely to Become Constraints on Financial Inclusion?

Alan Gelb and Diego Castrillon

521: Beyond Short-term Learning Gains: The Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia after Three Years

Mauricio Romero and Justin Sandefur

520: Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia

Gaurav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo

519: What Is "Country Ownership"? A Formal Exploration of the Aid Relationship

William Savedoff

518: Multilingual Assessment of Early Child Development: Analyses from Repeated Observations of Children in Kenya

Heather Knauer, Patricia Kariger, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier and Lia C. H. Fernald

517: Teacher Professional Development around the World: The Gap between Evidence and Practice

Anna Popova, David Evans, Mary Breeding and Violeta Arancibia

516: Are the Pacific Islands Insurable? Challenges and Opportunities for Disaster Risk Finance

Vijaya Ramachandran and Junaid Sadiq Masood

515: The Political Economy of Testing in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

Barbara Bruns, Maryam Akmal and Nancy Birdsall

514: The Effects of an ID Requirement for Health Insurance on Infants' Health Care Utilization and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Peru's Seguro Integral de Salud

Sebastian Bauhoff and Roxanne Oroxom

513: What We Learn about Girls' Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls

David Evans and Fei Yuan

512: Digital Governance: Is Krishna a Glimpse of the Future?

Arshi Aadil, Alan Gelb, Anurodh Giri, Anit Mukherjee, Kyle Navis and Mitul Thapliyal

511: Examining the Impact of E-Procurement in Ukraine

Artur Kovalchuk, Charles Kenny and Mallika Snyder

510: The Limits of Accounting-Based Accountability in Education (and Far Beyond): Why More Accounting Will Rarely Solve Accountability Problems

Dan Honig and Lant Pritchett

509: Who Benefits from Pharmaceutical Price Controls? Evidence from India

Emma Boswell Dean

508: Pooled Procurement of Drugs in Low and Middle Income Countries

Pierre Dubois, Yassine Lefouili and Stephane Straub

507: The Future of Global Health Procurement: Issues around Pricing Transparency

Mikel Berdud, Kalipso Chalkidou, Emma Dean, Jimena Ferraro, Lou Garrison, Cassandra Nemzoff and Adrian Towse

506: Midline Effects of a Randomized Controlled Trial to Increase the Utilization of Financial Services by Women Business Owners in Rural Indonesia

James Knowles

505: The Limits (And Human Costs) of Population Policy: Fertility Decline and Sex Selection in China under Mao

Kimberly Babiarz, Paul Ma, Grant Miller and Shige Song

504: Learning Equity Requires More than Equality: Learning Goals and Achievement Gaps between the Rich and the Poor in Five Developing Countries

Maryam Akmal and Lant Pritchett

503: Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence

Thiemo Fetzer and Stephan Kyburz

502: Enhancing Young Children’s Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing: A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya

Heather Knauer, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Frances Aboud and Lia Fernald

501: Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment

Michael Clemens

500: Gendered Language

Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

499: Who Are the World’s Poor? A New Profile of Global Multidimensional Poverty

Gisela Robles Aguilar and Andy Sumner

498: The Dilemma of the African Development Bank: Does Governance Matter for the Long-Run Financing of the MDBs?

Nancy Birdsall