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

Michael Clemens and Jennifer Hunt

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

William Reuben and Flávia Carbonari

453: Ethnic Politics and Ebola Response in West Africa

Souleymane Soumahoro

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

Charles Kenny and Dev Patel

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

Michael Clemens, Ethan Lewis and Hannah Postel

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

Nora Lustig

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

Nancy Birdsall, Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Anna Diofasi

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

Nora Lustig

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

Margarita Beneke, Nora Lustig and José Andrés Oliva

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

Ali Enami, Nora Lustig and Rodrigo Aranda

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

Matthew Collin, Samantha Cook and Kimmo Soramäki

444: Internationally Comparable Mathematics Scores for Fourteen African Countries

Justin Sandefur

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

Jon Jellema, Nora Lustig, Astrid Haas and Sebastian Wolf

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

Ali Enami, Nora Lustig and Alireza Taqdiri

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

Nora Lustig

440: Banking the Unbanked: Evidence from Three Countries

Pascaline Dupas, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Robinson and Diego Ubfal

439: Financial Inclusion in Latin America: Facts and Obstacles

Liliana Rojas-Suarez

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

Sutirtha Roy, Martin Kessler and Arvind Subramanian

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

Charles Kenny and Ben Crisman

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

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

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

Alan Gelb and Anna Diofasi

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

Sara Nadel and Lant Pritchett

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

Christopher Hoy and Andy Sumner

432: The Impact of Legislation on the Hazard of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Burkina Faso

Ben Crisman, Sarah Dykstra, Charles Kenny and Megan O'Donnell

431: Practical Considerations with Using Mobile Phone Survey Incentives: Experiences in Ghana and Tanzania

Robert Morello and Benjamin Leo

430: Program for Results: The First 35 Operations

Alan Gelb, Anna Diofasi and Hannah Postel

429: Estimating the Avertable Disease Burden and Cost-Effectiveness in Millions Saved Third Edition

Andrew Mirelman, Amanda Glassman and Miriam Temin

428: Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers

Michael Clemens, Claudio Montenegro and Lant Pritchett

427: The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay (Spanish)

Nora Lustig

426: Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception are Substitutes

Grant Miller and Christine Valente

425: Designing Contracts for the Global Fund: Lessons from the Theory of Incentives

Liam Wren-Lewis

424: Global Health Donors Viewed as Regulators of Monopolistic Service Providers: Lessons from Regulatory Literature

Han Ye

423: The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment

Michael Clemens and Lant Pritchett

422: Family Planning Program Effects: A Review of Evidence from Microdata

Grant Miller and Kimberly Singer Babiarz

421: The New Role of the World Bank

Michael Clemens and Michael Kremer

420: Changes in Funding Patterns by Latin American Banking Systems: How Large? How Risky?

Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Jose Maria Serena Garralda

419: Comparing Emissions Mitigation Efforts across Countries

William Pizer, Joseph Aldy and Keigo Akimoto

418: Asking What the People Want: Using Mobile Phone Surveys to Identify Citizen Priorities

Benjamin Leo and Robert Morello

417: Toward Better Global Poverty Measures

Martin Ravallion

416: What Determines Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates?

Alan Gelb and Anna Diofasi

415: Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development

Michael Clemens

414: The Politics of Priority Setting in Health: A Political Economy Perspective

Katharina Hauck and Peter Smith

413: Philanthropy, Welfare Capitalism or Radically Different Global Economic Model: What Would It Take to End Global Poverty within a Generation Based on Historical Growth Patterns?

Peter Edward and Andy Sumner

412: Taxes: Price of Civilization or Tribute to Leviathan?

Lant Pritchett and Yamini Aiyar

411: The Future of Forests: Emissions from Tropical Deforestation with and without a Carbon Price, 2016–2050

Jonah Busch and Jens Engelmann

410: Inequality and Fiscal Redistribution in Middle Income Countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa

Nora Lustig

409: Manufacturing or Services? An Indian Illustration of a Development Dilemma

Amrit Amirapu and Arvind Subramanian

408: The Health Consequences of Aerial Spraying of Illicit Crops: The Case of Colombia

Adriana Camacho and Daniel Mejia

407: How the New International Goal for Child Mortality Is Unfair to Africa (Again)

Simon Lange and Stephan Klasen

406: Call Me Educated: Evidence from a Mobile Monitoring Experiment in Niger

Jenny Aker and Christopher Ksoll