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wp-2018-45: Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity: The Bayesian perspective

Marie Albertine Djuikom

wp-2018-44: A meta-analysis of aid effectiveness: Revisiting the evidence

Tseday Jemaneh Mekasha and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-43: Identifying monetary policy rules in South Africa with inflation expectations and unemployment

Shannon Bold and Laurence Harris

wp-2018-42: Innovation activity in South Africa: Measuring the returns to R&D

Andre Steenkamp, Mark Schaffer, Wayde Flowerday and John Gabriel Goddard

wp-2018-41: Settling in motion: Nyasa clandestine migration through Southern Rhodesia into the Union of South Africa, 1920s - 1950s

Anusa Daimon

wp-2018-40: The impact of remittances on household food security: A micro perspective from Tigray, Ethiopia

Nigussie Abadi, Ataklti Techane, Girmay Tesfay, Daniel Maxwell and Bapu Vaitla

wp-2018-39: Legal empowerment and group-based inequality

Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2018-38: How unpopular policies are made: Examples from South Africa, Singapore, and Bangladesh

Ingrid Palmary, Thea De Gruchy, Ali Ashraf, Koh Chiu Yee, Kellynn Wee, Charmian Goh and Brenda S.A. Yeoh

wp-2018-37: Educational assistance and education quality in Indonesia: The role of decentralization

Virgi Sari

wp-2018-36: Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto

Carla Canelas and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2018-35: Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA: Evidence from labour market panel surveys

Vladimir Hlasny and Shireen AlAzzawi

wp-2018-34: The negotiated politics of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa

Sam Hickey, Tom Lavers, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Jeremy Seekings

wp-2018-33: Household tipping points in the face of rising electricity tariffs in South Africa

Angelika Goliger and Aalia Cassim

wp-2018-32: The tipping point: The impact of rising electricity tariffs on large firms in South Africa

Angelika Goliger and Landon McMillan

wp-2018-31: Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and tactical political maneuverings: Evidence from Ghana's District Assemblies Common Fund

Abel Fumey

wp-2018-30: The impact of social mobilization on health service delivery and health outcomes: Evidence from rural Pakistan

Xavier Gine, Salma Khalid and Ghazala Mansuri

wp-2018-29: An empirical analysis of state fragility and growth: The impact of state ineffectiveness and political violence

Ines A. Ferreira

wp-2018-28: The effect of Hukou registration policy on rural-to-urban migrants' health

Marta Bengoa and Christopher Rick

wp-2018-27: Campaign externalities, programmatic spending, and voting preferences in rural Mexico: The case of Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera programme

Dragan Filipovich, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Alma Santillán Hernández

wp-2018-26: Contract farming in Mozambique: Implications on gender inequalities within and across rural households

Cecilia Navarra

wp-2018-25: Diaspora externalities: A view from the South

Hillel Rapoport

wp-2018-24: Explaining cross-state earnings inequality differentials in India: An RIF decomposition approach

Carlos Gradín

wp-2018-23: A role for universal pension?: Simulating universal pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania, and South Africa

Pia Rattenhuber and Maria Jouste

wp-2018-22: Following in their footsteps: An analysis of the impact of successive migration on rural household welfare in Ghana

Eva-Maria Egger and Julie Litchfield

wp-2018-21: Estimating the scale of profit shifting and tax revenue losses related to foreign direct investment

Petr Janský and Miroslav Palansky

wp-2018-20: A 2015 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Mozambique

António S. Cruz, Fausto J. Mafambissa, Mónica Magáua, Vincenzo Salvucci and Dirk van Seventer

wp-2018-19: Inequality, good governance and endemic corruption

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

wp-2018-18: Is the education of local children influenced by living nearby a refugee camp?: Evidence from host communities in Rwanda

Ozge Bilgili, Sonja Fransen, Craig Loschmann and Melissa Siegel

wp-2018-17: Does managerial personality matter?: Evidence from firms in Vietnam

Smriti Sharma and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-16: South-South labour migration and the impact of the informal China-Ghana gold rush 2008-13

Gabriel Botchwey, Gordon Crawford, Nicholas Loubere and Jixia Lu

wp-2018-15: Invisible, successful, and divided: Vietnamese in Germany since the late 1970s

Frank Bösch and Phi Hong Su

wp-2018-14: Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility: The case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United States

Carl L. Bankston and Min Zhou

wp-2018-13: What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?

Roberto Ricciuti, Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen

wp-2018-12: On asymmetric information and tax morale in developing countries

Ahmed Salim Nuhu and John M. Musah

wp-2018-11: How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour?: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania

Ivar Kolstad and Arne Wiig

wp-2018-10: Labour migration in Indonesia and the health of children left behind

James Ng

wp-2018-9: Formal education, malaria preventive behaviour, and children's malarial status in Tanzania

Ninja Ritter Klejnstrup and Joel Silas Lincoln

wp-2018-8: Fragmenting the family?: The complexity of household migration strategies in post-apartheid South Africa

Katharine Hall and Dorrit Posel

wp-2018-7: Stock-and-flow-consistent macroeconomic model for South Africa

Konstantin Makrelov, Channing Arndt, Rob Davies and Laurence Harris

wp-2018-6: Fiscal multipliers in South Africa: The importance of financial sector dynamics

Konstantin Makrelov, Channing Arndt, Rob Davies and Laurence Harris

wp-2018-5: Fiscal policy, state building and economic development

Tony Addison, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2018-4: Fiscal pressure of migration and horizontal fiscal inequality: Evidence from Indian experience

Pinaki Chakraborty and Shatakshi Garg

wp-2018-3: How polarized is the global income distribution?

Laurence Roope, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-2: The integration of Vietnamese refugees in London and the UK: Fragmentation, complexity, and 'in/visibility'

Tamsin Barber

wp-2018-1: The use of social accountability mechanisms by Syrian diaspora organizations providing aid in the Syrian crisis

Mounah Abdel-Samad and Shawn Flanigan

wp-2017-34b: Variation in structural change around the world, 1985-2015 (in Chinese): Patterns, causes and implications

Adrian Wood

wp-2017-212: Educational inequality in Mozambique

Servaas van der Berg, Carlos da Maia and Cobus Burger

wp-2017-211: Does women's empowerment affect the health of children?: The case of Mozambique

Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber

wp-2017-210: The counting approach to multidimensional poverty: The case of four African countries

Valérie Bérenger

wp-2017-209: Living conditions and well-being: Evidence from African countries

Andrew Clark and Conchita D'Ambrosio

wp-2017-208: Investigating growing inequality in Mozambique

Carlos Gradín and Finn Tarp

wp-2017-207: Gender inequality in employment in Mozambique

Carlos Gradín and Finn Tarp

wp-2017-206: Robustness tests for multidimensional poverty comparisons

Sam Jones

wp-2017-205: Fishermen's wives: On the cultural origins of violence against women

Vincent Leyaro, Pablo Selaya and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2017-204: Inequality, ethnicity, and social cohesion

Omar Shahabudin McDoom

wp-2017-203: The role of governance and international norms in managing natural resources

James Cust

wp-2017-202: New data, new approaches and new evidence: A policy synthesis

Channing Arndt

wp-2017-201: The long(er)-term impacts of Chile Solidario on human capital and labour income

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Guido Neidhöfer

wp-2017-200: Are politically connected firms less constrained in credit markets?

John Rand

wp-2017-199: Smoothing or strengthening the 'Great Gatsby curve'?: The intergenerational impact of China's New Rural Pension Scheme

Jing You and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2017-198: Entrepreneurship and human capital development in children

Kasper Brandt, Longinus Rutasitara, Onesmo Selejio and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2017-197: Contracts between smallholders and private firms in Mozambique and their implications on food security

Cecilia Navarra

wp-2017-196: Female work status and child nutritional outcome in Nigeria

Rama Lionel Ngenzebuke and Yoko Akachi

wp-2017-195: Family structure, education and women's employment in rural India

Sowmya Dhanaraj and Vidya Mahambare

wp-2017-194: Inequality and fiscal redistribution in Mexico: 1992-2015

John Scott, Enrique de la Rosa and Rodrigo Aranda

wp-2017-193: Quantifying the impacts of expanding social protection on efficiency and equity: Evidence from a behavioural microsimulation model for Ghana

Robert Osei, Jukka Pirttilä and Pia Rattenhuber

wp-2017-192: Global inequality in length of life, 1950-2015

Vanesa Jorda and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2017-191: The impact of infrastructure shocks on agricultural markets: Evidence from the Zambezi river in Mozambique

Cesar Salazar and Sam Jones

wp-2017-190: Poverty and wellbeing impacts of microfinance: What do we know?

Mathilde Maîtrot and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2017-189: Settlement and labour force outcomes for Afghan immigrants and their children in Canada

Ravi Pendakur

wp-2017-188: The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decades

Feng Hou

wp-2017-187: Governance and the reversal of women's rights: The case of abortion in El Salvador

Jocelyn Viterna, Jose Santos Guardado Bautista, Silvia Ivette Juarez Barrios and Alba Evelyn Cortez

wp-2017-186: Labour income inequality in Mexico: Puzzles solved and unsolved

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez and Nora Lustig

wp-2017-185: Oil discovery and macroeconomic management: The recent Ghanaian experience

Mahamudu Bawumia and Håvard Halland

wp-2017-184: Toward closer cohesion of international tax statistics: The ICTD/UNU-WIDER GRD 2017

Kyle McNabb

wp-2017-183: The decline of the labour share in Mexico: 1990-2015

Carlos A. Ibarra and Jaime Ros

wp-2017-182: Impact of school feeding programmes on educational outcomes: Evidence from dry cereals in schools in Burkina Faso

Pouirkèta Rita Nikiema

wp-2017-181: Exiting the fragility trap: Rethinking our approach to the world's most fragile states

David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy

wp-2017-180: The economics and politics of foreign aid and domestic revenue

Abrams M.E. Tagem

wp-2017-179: Regulatory structures and challenges to developmental extractives: Some practical observations from Ghana

Toni Aubynn

wp-2017-178: Conflict and development: Recent research advances and future agendas

Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino and Charles Martin-Shields

wp-2017-177: Tax-benefit microsimulation and income redistribution in Ecuador

H. Xavier Jara and Marcelo Varela

wp-2017-176: Ethnic fragmentation and school provision in India

Nishant Chadha and Bharti Nandwani

wp-2017-175: Tanzania—from mining to oil and gas: Structural change or just big numbers?

Alan R. Roe

wp-2017-174: Energy subsidies, international aid, and the politics of reform

Neil McCulloch

wp-2017-173: Making marriages last: Trust is good, but credible information is better

Rebecca Thornton and Hans-Peter Kohler

wp-2017-172: Multilateral development aid: Assessing the major replenishments of 2016

Richard Manning

wp-2017-171: Patterns of international capital flows and their implications for developing countries

Mika Nieminen

wp-2017-170: Backsliding and reversal: The J-Curve revisited

David Carment, Mark Haichin and Peter Tikuisis

wp-2017-169: Development and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Tony Addison, Ville Pikkarainen, Risto Rönkkö and Finn Tarp

wp-2017-168: The effects of land titling in Tanzania

Jehovaness Aikaeli and Thomas Markussen

wp-2017-167: Intersecting inequalities and the Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from Brazil

Naila Kabeer and Ricardo Santos

wp-2017-166: Breaking the metal ceiling: Female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors

Francisco Campos, Markus Goldstein, Laura McGorman, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet and Obert Pimhidzai

wp-2017-165: Subjective income expectations and risks in rural India

Alok Kumar

wp-2017-164: Protecting the environment during and after resource extraction

Ruth Greenspan Bell

wp-2017-163: Why do women co-operate more in women's groups?

James D. Fearon and Macartan Humphreys

wp-2017-162: Effective corporate tax burden and firm size in South Africa: A firm-level analysis

Marco Carreras, Chandu Dachapalli and Giulia Mascagni

wp-2017-161: New industrial policy and the extractive industries

Evelyn Dietsche

wp-2017-160: Comparing estimated and self-reported mark-ups for formal and informal firms in an emerging market context

John Rand

wp-2017-159: The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters

Nancy Qian