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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

497: The Medium-Run and Scale-Up Effects of Performance-Based Financing: An Extension of Rwanda’s 2006 Trial Using Secondary Data

Diana Ngo and Sebastian Bauhoff

496: The Economic and Fiscal Effects of Granting Refugees Formal Labor Market Access

Michael Clemens, Cindy Huang and Jimmy Graham

495: The Elusive Quest for Additionality

Patrick Carter, Nicolas Van de Sijpe and Raphael Calel

494: The Impact of Civil Conflict on Child Malnutrition and Mortality, Nigeria, 2002-2013

Embry Howell, Timothy Waidmann, Nikhil Holla, Nancy Birdsall and Kevin Jiang

493: How Do African Firms Respond to Unreliable Power? Exploring Firm Heterogeneity Using K-Means Clustering

Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah and Todd Moss

492: Should the Randomistas (Continue to) Rule?

Martin Ravallion

491: If You Build It, Will They Consume? Key Challenges for Universal, Reliable, and Low-Cost Electricity Delivery in Kenya

Jay Taneja

490: Competing or Complementary Strategies? Protecting Indigenous Rights and Paying to Conserve Forests

William Savedoff

489: Digital Governance in Developing Countries: Beneficiary Experience and Perceptions of System Reform in Rajasthan, India

Alan Gelb, Anit Mukherjee and Kyle Navis

488: Projected Health Financing Transitions: Timeline and Magnitude

Rachel Silverman

487: The Rise of the Robot Reserve Army: Automation and the Future of Economic Development, Work, and Wages in Developing Countries

Lukas Schlogl and Andy Sumner

486: Creating a Multilateral Wealth Fund for a Global Public Good: Proposed Approach to Assessing Performance and Awarding Returns for a Tropical Forest Finance Facility

Michael Wolosin, Michele de Nevers, Kenneth Lay and Patricia Bliss-Guest

485: Three Decades of Poverty Mobility in Nigeria: The Trapped, the Freed, and the Never Trapped

Zuhumnan Dapel

484: Speeding Sustainable Development: Integrating Economic, Social, and Environmental Development

Charles Kenny

483: Will the Poor in Nigeria Escape Poverty in Their Lifetime?

Zuhumnan Dapel

482: Guaranteed Employment or Guaranteed Income?

Martin Ravallion

481: Using Supervised Learning to Select Audit Targets in Performance-Based Financing in Health: An Example from Zambia

Dhruv Grover, Sebastian Bauhoff and Jed Friedman

480: Does Deforestation Increase Malaria Prevalence? Evidence from Satellite Data and Health Surveys

Sebastian Bauhoff and Jonah Busch

479: Alleviating Global Poverty: Labor Mobility, Direct Assistance, and Economic Growth

Lant Pritchett

478: hort-Term Impacts of Improved Access to Mobile Savings, with and without Business Training: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Gautam Bastian, Iacopo Bianchi, Markus Goldstein and Joao Montalvao

477: Paraguay: Is Good Macro Policy Enough to Ensure Adequate Resilience to Adverse External Shocks? How Does It Compare to Other Emerging Markets?

Liliana Rojas-Suarez

476: Guyana’s REDD+ Agreement with Norway: Perceptions of and Impacts on Indigenous Communities

Timothy Laing

475: FDI and Supply Chains in Horticulture (Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers, Raw, Packaged, Cut, and Processed): Diversifying Exports and Reducing Poverty in Africa, Latin America, and Other Developing Economies

Theodore Moran

474: Measures of Global Public Goods and International Spillovers

Charles Kenny, Mallika Snyder and Dev Patel

473: Encouraging State Governments to Protect and Restore Forests Using Ecological Fiscal Transfers: India’s Tax Revenue Distribution Reform

Jonah Busch and Anit Mukherjee

472: Meeting the Sustainable Development Goal Zero Targets: What Could We Do?

Charles Kenny and Mallika Snyder

471: Family Planning and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Incentive Effects and Direct Effects among Malaysian Women

Kimberly Singer Babiarz, Jiwon Lee, Grant Miller, Tey Nai Peng and Christine Valente

470: Family Planning and Fertility Behavior: Evidence from Twentieth Century Malaysia

Kimberly Singer Babiarz, Jiwon Lee, Grant Miller, Tey Nai Peng and Christine Valente

469: Estimating the SDGs' Demand for Innovation

Charles Kenny and Dev Patel

468: An Index of Regulatory Practices for Financial Inclusion in Latin America: Enablers, Promoters, and Preventers

Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Lucía Pacheco

467: Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Sonia Bhalotra, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Grant Miller, Alfonso Miranda and Atheendar Venkataramani

466: Can Africa Be a Manufacturing Destination? Labor Costs in Comparative Perspective

Alan Gelb, Christian Meyer, Vijaya Ramachandran and Divyanshi Wadhwa

465: Norms and Reform: Legalizing Homosexuality Improves Attitudes

Charles Kenny and Dev Patel

464: Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Different Levels of Skills

Manoj Mohanan, Grant Miller, Katherine Donato, Yulya Truskinovsky and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

463: Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf

Michael Clemens

462: Can Outsourcing Improve Liberia’s Schools? Preliminary Results from Year One of a Three-Year Randomized Evaluation of Partnership Schools for Liberia

Mauricio Romero, Justin Sandefur and Wayne Sandholtz

461: Evaluating Evaluations: Assessing the Quality of Aid Agency Evaluations in Global Health - Working Paper 461

Julia Goldberg Raifman, Felix Lam, Janeen Madan Keller, Alexander Radunsky and William Savedoff