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290: The Power of Transparency: Information, Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia

Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan C. Kyle, Benjamin Olken and Sudarno Sumarto

289: What are the Headwaters of Formal Savings? Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

Michael Callen, Suresh De Mel, Craig McIntosh and Christopher Woodruff

288: On the Effectiveness of Exchange Rate Interventions in Emerging Markets

Christian Daude, Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Arne Nagengast

287: Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das and Asim Khwaja

286: Engaging with Fragile and Conflict-Affected States

Michael Woolcock

285: This is PFM

Matt Andrews, Marco Cangiano, Neil Cole, Paolo de Renzio, Philipp Krause and Renaud Seligmann

284: The Best of Rules and Discretion: A Case for Nominal GDP Targeting in India

Pranjul Bhandari and Jeffrey Frankel

283: Why Distributed End Users Often Limit Public Financial Management Reform Success

Matt Andrews

282: Better Knowledge Need Not Affect Behavior; A Randomized Evaluation on the Demand for Lottery Tickets in Rural Thailand

Juliane Zenker, Andreas Wagener and Sebastian Vollmer

281: An Ends-Means Approach to Looking at Governance

Matt Andrews

279: Trillions Gained and Lost: Estimating the Magnitude of Growth Episodes

Lant Pritchett, Kunal Sen, Sabyasachi Kar and Selim Raihan

278: Can one retell a Mozambican reform story through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation?

Matt Andrews

277: The Risks to Education Systems from Design Mismatch and Global Isomorphism

Lant Pritchett

276: Implied Comparative Advantage

Muhammed A. Yildirim

275: How should Uganda grow?

Ricardo Hausmann, Brad Cunningham, John Matovu, Rosie Osire and Kelly Wyett

274: Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan

Filipe Campante and David Yanagizawa-Drott

273: Maintaining Local Public Goods: Evidence from Rural Kenya

Ryan Sheely

272: The State, Socialization, and Private Schooling: When Will Governments Support Alternative Producers?

Lant Pritchett and Martina Viarengo

271: Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service

Rema Hanna and Shing-Yi Wang

270: Using Case Studies to Explore the External Validity of ‘Complex’ Development Interventions

Michael Woolcock

269: Overcoming the Limits of Institutional Reform in Uganda

Matt Andrews and Lawrence Bategeka

268: South Sudan’s Capability Trap: Building a State with Disruptive Innovation

Greg Larson, Peter Biar Ajak and Lant Pritchett

267: Explaining Positive Deviance in Public Sector Reforms in Development

Matt Andrews

266: Looking like an Industry: Supporting Commercial Agriculture in Africa

Ishac Diwan, Olivier Gaddah and Rosie Osire

265: Promoting Millennium Development Ideals: The Risks of Defining Development Down

Lant Pritchett and Charles Kenny

264: Do International Organizations Really Shape Government Solutions in Developing Countries?

Matt Andrews

263: Debt Levels, Debt Composition, and Sovereign Spreads in Emerging and Advanced Economies

Salvatore Dell'Erba, Ricardo Hausmann and Ugo Panizza

262: Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India

Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande and Nicholas Ryan

261: Going Beyond Heroic-Leaders in Development

Matt Andrews

260: How do Governments get Great?

Matt Andrews

259: Screening Peers Softly: Inferring the Quality of Small Borrowers

Asim Khwaja, Rajkamal Iyer, Erzo Luttmer and Kelly Shue

258: Who Really Leads Development?

Matt Andrews

257: Propaganda and Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide

David Yanagizawa-Drott

256: Who are the Democrats? Leading Opinions in the Wake of Egypt’s 2011 Popular Uprisings

Ishac Diwan

255: Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia

Rema Hanna, Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin Olken, Ririn Purnamasari and Matthew Wai-Poi

254: Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Rema Hanna, Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin Olken, Ririn Purnamasari, Matthew Wai-Poi and Christian Daude

253: Who Needs the Nation State?

Dani Rodrik

252: When is Prevention More Profitable than Cure?

Michael Kremer and Christopher Snyder

251: The Effect of Fertility Reduction on Economic Growth

Quamrul Ashraf, David Weil and Joshua Wilde

250: Crony Capitalism in Egypt

Hamouda Chekir and Ishac Diwan

249: It’s All About MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning (‘e’) to Crawl the Design Space

Lant Pritchett, Salimah Samji and Jeffrey Hammer

248: On Graduation from Fiscal Procyclicality

Jeffrey Frankel, Carlos A. Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin

247: Conflicts Over Land and Threats to Customary Tenure in Africa Today

Pauline Peters

246: Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Rema Hanna, Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar and Benjamin Olken

245: Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming

Rema Hanna, Sendhil Mullainathan and Josh Schwartstein

244: Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City

Rema Hanna, Eva Arceo-Gomez and Paulina Oliva

243: Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries

Lant Pritchett and Amanda Beatty

242: Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? Evidence from Local Markets for (Fake?) Antimalarial Medicine in Uganda

Martina Bjorkman-Nyqvist, Jakob Savensson and David Yanagizawa-Drott

241: Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone and Rema Hanna

240: Escaping Capability Traps through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

Lant Pritchett, Matt Andrews and Michael Woolcock