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2017-037: Promoting structural transformation: Strategic diversification vs laissez-faire approach

Clovis Freire

2017-036: Testing linear growth rate formulas of non-scale endogenous growth models

Thomas Ziesemer

2017-035: Is the demand-pull driver equally crucial for product vs process innovation?

Herbert Dawid, Gabriele Pellegrino and Marco Vivarelli

2017-034: How inequality hurts growth: Revisiting the Galor-Zeira model through a Korean case

Bogang Jun, Mary Kaltenberg and Won-sik Hwang

2017-033: Economic diversification: Explaining the pattern of diversification in the global economy and its implications for fostering diversification in poorer countries

Clovis Freire

2017-032: The need to customise innovation indicators in developing countries

Michiko Iizuka and Hugo Hollanders

2017-031: Husbands' return migration and wives' occupational choices

Clotilde Mahe

2017-030: Opening and linking up: Firms, global value chains and productivity in Latin America

Pierluigi Montalbano, Silvia Nenci and Carlo Pietrobelli

2017-029: Social protection investments, human capital, and income growth: Simulating the returns to social cash transfers in Uganda

Stephan Dietrich, Daniele Malerba, Armando Barrientos, Franziska Gassmann, Pierre Mohnen, Nyasha Tirivayi, Susan Kavuma and Fred Matovu

2017-028: Willingness to pay for agricultural risk insurance as a strategy to adapt climate change

Tigist Mekonnen

2017-027: Heterogeneous effects of bilateral investment treaties

Rodney Falvey and Neil Foster-McGregor

2017-026: Sanitation challenges of the poor in urban and rural settings: Case studies of Bengaluru City and rural North Karnataka

Manasi Seshaiah, Latha Nagesh and Hemalatha Ramesh

2017-025: Indigenous knowledge for sustainable livelihoods: Lessons from ecological pest control and post-harvest techniques of Baduy (West Java) and Nguni (Southern Africa)

Leeja C. Korina and Alexis Habiyaremye

2017-024: Estimating the impact of sericulture adoption on farmer income in Rwanda: an application of propensity score matching

Alexis Habiyaremye

2017-023: Regional analysis of sanitation performance in India

Debasree Bose and Arijita Dutta

2017-022: The role of migration-specific and migration-relevant policies in migrant decision-making in transit

Katie Kuschminder and Khalid Koser

2017-021: The productivity effect of public R&D in the Netherlands

Luc Soete, Bart Verspagen and Thomas Ziesemer

2017-020: Role of WASH and Agency in Health: A study of isolated rural communities in Nilgiris and Jalpaiguri

Shyama V. Ramani

2017-019: Innovation policy & labour productivity growth: Education, research & development, government effectiveness and business policy

Mueid Al Raee, Jo Ritzen and Denis de Crombrugghe

2017-018: Challenged by migration: Europe's options

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

2017-017: Effects of health insurance on labour supply: A systematic review

Nga Le Thi Quynh, Wim Groot, Sonila M. Tomini and Florian Tomini

2017-016: Post-conflict peacebuilding: A critical survey of the literature and avenues for future research

Ayokunu Adedokun

2017-015: Emerging challenges to long-term peace and security in Mozambique

Ayokunu Adedokun

2017-014: Transition from civil war to peace: The role of the United Nations and international community in Mozambique

Ayokunu Adedokun

2017-013: Is innovation destroying jobs? Firm-level evidence from the EU

Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

2017-012: Pathways for capacity building in heterogeneous value chains: Evidence from the case of IT-enabled services in South Africa

Charlotte Keijzer and Michiko Iizuka

2017-011: Do authoritarian regimes receive more Chinese development finance than democratic ones? Empirical evidence for Africa

Tobias Broich

2017-010: U.S. and Soviet foreign aid during the Cold War: A case study of Ethiopia

Tobias Broich

2017-009: Financing rural households and its impact: Evidence from randomized field experiment data

Tigist Mekonnen

2017-008: Impact of agricultural technology adoption on market participation in the rural social network system

Tigist Mekonnen

2017-007: Productivity and household welfare impact of technology adoption: Micro-level evidence from rural Ethiopia

Tigist Mekonnen

2017-006: How development aid explains (or not) the rise and fall of insurgent attacks in Iraq

Pui Hang Wong

2017-005: Country risk, FDI flows and convergence trends in the context of the Investment Development Path

Jonas Hub Frenken and Dorcas Mbuvi

2017-004: Labour mobility through business visits as a way to foster productivity

Mariacristina Piva, Max Tani and Marco Vivarelli

2017-003: Impact of the Great Recession on industry unemployment: a 1976-2011 comparison

Yelena Takhtamanova and Eva Sierminska

2017-002: Fostering social mobility: The case of the 'Bono de Desarrollo Humano' in Ecuador

Andrés Mideros and Franziska Gassmann

2017-001: The economic impact of East-West migration on the European Union

Martin Kahanec and Mariola Pytlikova

2016-072: An econometric investigation of the productivity gender gap in Mexican research, and a simulation study of the effects on scientific performance of policy scenarios to promote gender equality

Llorena Rivera Leon, Jacques Mairesse and Robin Cowan

2016-071: Skills and entrepreneurship: Are return migrants 'Jacks-of-all-trades'?

Clotilde Mahe

2016-070: Offshoring medium-skill tasks, low-skill unemployment and the skill-wage structure

Ehsan Vallizadeh, Joan Muysken and Thomas Ziesemer

2016-069: The Glass ceiling effect in urban China: Wage inequality of rural-urban migrants

Zhaopeng Qu and Zhong Zhao

2016-068: Capacity building using PhD education in Africa

Mindel Van de Laar, Shivani Achrekar, Lucy Larbi and Friederike Rühmann

2016-067: The impact of quantitative easing in the Netherlands: A stock-flow consistent approach

Huub Meijers and Joan Muysken

2016-066: Post-Enlargement Migration and the Great Recession in the E(M)U: Lessons and policy implications

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

2016-065: Contracting for technology transfer: patent licensing and know-how in Brazil

Catalina Martínez and Pluvia Zuniga

2016-064: Tilting at windmills or whipping up a storm? Elites and ethno-nationalist conflict during democratisation

Lutz Krebs

2016-063: The effect of improved storage innovations on food security and welfare in Ethiopia

Wondimagegn Tesfaye and Nyasha Tirivayi

2016-062: Towards a new European refugee policy that works

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

2016-061: Patents, exhibitions and markets for innovation in the early twentieth century: Evidence from Turin 1911 International Exhibition

Giacomo Domini

2016-060: On the fungibility of public and private transfers: A mental accounting approach

Jennifer Waidler