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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

460: The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream - Working Paper 460

Gaurav Khanna and Nicolas Morales

459: Violence, Development, and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions - Working Paper 459

Michael Clemens

458: Do Age-of-Marriage Laws Work? Evidence from a Large Sample of Developing Countries - Working Paper 458

Matthew Collin and Theodore Talbot

457: Measuring Rents from Public Employment: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya - Working Paper 457

Nicholas Barton, Tessa Bold and Justin Sandefur

456: Gender Matters in Economic Empowerment Interventions: A Research Review - Working Paper 456

Mayra Buvinic and Megan O’Donnell

455: The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results - Working Paper 455

Michael Clemens and Jennifer Hunt

454: Identification as a National Priority: The Unique Case of Peru - Working Paper 454

William Reuben and Flávia Carbonari

453: Ethnic Politics and Ebola Response in West Africa - Working Paper 453

Souleymane Soumahoro

452: Gender Laws, Values, and Outcomes: Evidence from the World Values Survey - Working Paper 452

Charles Kenny

451: Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion - Working Paper 451

Michael Clemens

450: The Impact of the Tax System and Social Expenditure on the Distribution of Income and Poverty in Latin America (Spanish) - Working Paper 450

Nora Lustig

449: Expanding Global Liquidity Insurance: Myths and Realities of the IMF’s Precautionary Credit Lines - Working Paper 449

Nancy Birdsall

448: Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Low and Middle Income Countries - Working Paper 448

Nora Lustig

447: The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in El Salvador - Working Paper 447

Margarita Beneke, Nora Lustig and José Andrés Oliva

446: Analytic Foundations: Measuring the Redistributive Impact of Taxes and Transfers - Working Paper 446

Ali Enami

445: The Impact of Anti-Money Laundering Regulation on Payment Flows: Evidence from SWIFT Data - Working Paper 445

Matt Collin

444: Internationally Comparable Mathematics Scores for Fourteen African Countries - Working Paper 444

Justin Sandefur

443: The Impact of Taxes, Transfers, and Subsidies on Inequality and Poverty in Uganda - Working Paper 443

Jon Jellema

442: Fiscal Policy, Inequality and Poverty in Iran: Assessing the Impact and Effectiveness of Taxes and Transfers the Poor in the Developing World - Working Paper 442

Ali Enami

441: Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Poor in the Developing World - Working Paper 441

Nora Lustig

440: Banking the Unbanked: Evidence from Three Countries - Working Paper 440

Pascaline Dupas

439: Financial Inclusion in Latin America: Facts and Obstacles - Working Paper 439

Liliana Rojas-Suarez

438: Glimpsing the End of Economic History? Unconditional Convergence and the Missing Middle Income Trap - Working Paper 438

Sutirtha Roy

437: Results Through Transparency: Does Publicity Lead to Better Procurement? - Working Paper 437

Charles Kenny

436: Unauthorized Mexican Workers in the United States: Recent Inflows and Possible Future Scenarios - Working Paper 436

Pia Orrenius

435: Biometric Elections in Poor Countries: Wasteful or a Worthwhile Investment? - Working Paper 435

Alan Gelb

434: Searching for the Devil in the Details: Learning about Development Program Design

Sara Nadel

433: Gasoline, Guns, and Giveaways: Is There New Capacity for Redistribution to End Three Quarters of Global Poverty?

Christopher Hoy and Andy Sumner