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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-2017-212: 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

wp-2017-158: Do fences make good neighbours?: Evidence from an insurgency in India

Heidi Kaila, Saurabh Singhal and Divya Tuteja

wp-2017-157: Policy diffusion within international organizations: A bottom-up analysis of International Monetary Fund tax work in Panama, Seychelles, and the Netherlands

Matti Ylönen

wp-2017-156: New technologies create opportunities

Sally Murray

wp-2017-155: Gender and bargaining: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda

Ben D'Exelle, Christine Gutekunst and Arno Riedl

wp-2017-154: Inequality of opportunities among ethnic groups in the Philippines

Celia Reyes, Christian Mina and Ronina D. Asis

wp-2017-153: Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique?: Accounting for underreported consumption

Channing Arndt and Kristi Mahrt

wp-2017-152: Gender, Islam, and law

John R. Bowen

wp-2017-151: Patterns and trends in horizontal inequality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Isaac Kanyama

wp-2017-150: Choices for spending government revenue: New African oil, gas, and mining economies

Sophie Witter and Maja Jakobsen

wp-2017-149: On the poverty-growth elasticity

Channing Arndt, Kristi Mahrt and Caroline Schimanski

wp-2017-148: Mining's contribution to low- and middle-income economies

Magnus Ericsson and Olof Löf

wp-2017-147: Explaining gender differences in preference for self-employment among tertiary graduates in Ghana

Kehinde Ajayi and Nana Akua Anyidoho

wp-2017-146: The politics of horizontal inequality: Indigenous opposition to wind farm development in Mexico

Courtney Jung

wp-2017-145: Eradicating women-hurting customs: What role for social engineering?

Jean-Philippe Platteau, Guilia Camilotti and Emmanuelle Auriol

wp-2017-144: Records of medical malpractice litigation: A potential indicator of healthcare quality in China

Zhan Wang, Niying Li, Mengsi Jiang, Keith Dear and Chee-Ruey Hsieh

wp-2017-143: Quality of routine essential care during childbirth: Clinical observations of uncomplicated births in Uttar Pradesh, India

Gaurav Sharma, Timothy Powell-Jackson, Kaveri Haldar, John Bradley and Véronique Filippi

wp-2017-142: Changing the narratives for patient safety

Peter J. Pronovost, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Lopa Basu and Mary Dixon-Woods

wp-2017-141: Developing global indicators for quality of maternal and newborn care: A feasibility assessment

Barbara Madaj, Helen Smith, Matthews Mathai, Nathalie Roos and Nynke van den Broek

wp-2017-140: Improving the quality of hospital care for children by supportive supervision: A cluster randomized trial, Kyrgyzstan

Marzia Lazzerini, Venera Shukurova, Marina Davletbaeva, Kubanychbek Monolbaev, Tatiana Kulichenko, Yuri Akoev, Maya Bakradze, Tea Margieva, Ilya Mityushino, Leyla Namazova-Baranova, Elnura Boronbayeva, Aigul Kuttumuratova, Martin Weber and Giorgio Tamburlini

wp-2017-139: Variation in quality of primary-care services in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania

Margaret E. Kruk, Adanna Chukwuma, Godfrey Mbaruku and Hannah H. Leslie

wp-2017-138: A geospatial evaluation of timely access to surgical care in seven countries

Lisa M. Knowlton, Paulin Banguti, Smita Chackungal, Traychit Chanthasiri, Tiffany E. Chao, Bernice Dahn, Milliard Derbew, Debashish Dhar, Micaela M. Esquivel, Faye Evans, Simon Hendel, Drake G. LeBrun, Michelle Notrica, Iracema Saavedra-Pozo, Ross Shockley, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, Boualy Vannavong, Kelly A. McQueen, David A. Spain and Thomas G. Weiser

wp-2017-137: Community-based approaches for neonatal survival: Meta-analyses of randomized trial data

Claudia Hanson, Sanni Kujala, Peter Waiswa, Tanya Marchant and Joanna Schellenberg

wp-2017-136: Maternal and neonatal services in Ethiopia: Measuring and improving quality

Maureen E. Canavan, Marie A. Brault, Dawit Tatek, Daniel Burssa, Ayele Teshome, Erika Linnander and Elizabeth H. Bradley

wp-2017-135: Quality of care: Measuring a neglected driver of improved health

Yoko Akachi and Margaret E. Kruk