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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

wp-2017-134: The differential impact of economic crisis on men and women, and its connection to intra-household bargaining

Sarah Dong

wp-2017-133: Reducing early pregnancy in low-income countries: A literature review and new evidence

Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Amina Mohamed Maalim, Vincent Somville and Bertil Tungodden

wp-2017-132: Are caste categories misleading?: The relationship between gender and jati in three Indian states

Shareen Joshi, Nishtha Kochhar and Vijayendra Rao

wp-2017-131: Bride price and the well-being of women

Sara Lowes and Nathan Nunn

wp-2017-130: The donor footprint and gender gaps

Maria Berlin, Evelina Bonnier and Anders Olofsgård

wp-2017-129: How status inequality between ethnic groups affects public goods provision: Experimental evidence on caste and tolerance for teacher absenteeism in India

Prerna Singh and Dean Spears

wp-2017-128: Household bargaining and spending on children: Experimental evidence from Tanzania

Charlotte Ringdal and Ingrid Hoem Sjursen

wp-2017-127: Polygamy and female labour supply in Senegal

Elisabeth Cudeville, Charlotte Guénard and Anne-Sophie Robilliard

wp-2017-126: Who trusts?: Ethnicity, integration, and attitudes toward elected officials in urban Nigeria

Adrienne LeBas

wp-2017-125: Health consequences of sterilizations

Maëlys De La Rupelle and Christelle Dumas

wp-2017-124: Marital trajectories and women's wellbeing in Senegal

Sylvie Lambert, Dominique van de Walle and Paola Villar

wp-2017-123: Firm-level corruption: Unravelling sand from grease

Axel Demenet, Hoang-Anh Ho and Sarah Morcillo

wp-2017-122: What makes countries negotiate away their corporate tax base?

Martin Hearson

wp-2017-121: Political role models, child marriage, and women's autonomy over marriage in India

Carolina Castilla

wp-2017-120: Enhancing sustainable development from oil, gas, and mining: From an 'all of government' approach to Partnerships for Development

Kathryn McPhail

wp-2017-119: Migration impact on left-behind women's labour participation and time-use: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Kamalbek Karymshakov and Burulcha Sulaimanova

wp-2017-118: Regional inequality of economic outcomes and opportunities in Ethiopia: A tale of two periods

Bethlehem A. Argaw

wp-2017-117: Career dynamics and gender gaps among employees in the microfinance sector

Ina Ganguli, Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo

wp-2017-116: Excess female mortality in Africa

Siwan Anderson and Debraj Ray

wp-2017-115: The global politics of social protection

Sam Hickey and Jeremy Seekings

wp-2017-114: The politics of scaling up social protection in Kenya

Fredrick O. Wanyama and Anna McCord

wp-2017-113: Downstream activities: The possibilities and the realities

Olle Östensson and Anton Löf

wp-2017-112: Shadow prices for a small open economy under uncertainty: Which expected values are valid

Clive Bell

wp-2017-111: Project appraisal: A revival is long overdue

Clive Bell

wp-2017-110: Forced migration and attitudes towards domestic violence: Evidence from Turkey

Selim Gulesci

wp-2017-109: Gender inequalities among adults and children in collective households

Lucia Mangiavacchi and Luca Piccoli

wp-2017-108: Intra-household bargaining in poor countries

Jean-Marie Baland and Roberta Ziparo

wp-2017-107: Defining high-growth firms in South Africa

Mulalo Mamburu

wp-2017-106: Agribusinesses, smallholder tenure security, and plot-level investments: Evidence from rural Tanzania

Kacana Sipangule

wp-2017-105: Gender identity and female labour supply in Brazil

Karen Codazzi, Valéria Pero and André Albuquerque Sant'Anna

wp-2017-104: Does migration affect education of girls and young women in Tajikistan?

Kseniia Gatskova, Artjoms Ivlevs and Barbara Dietz

wp-2017-103: Integration along the Abuja road map: A progress report

Jaime de Melo, Mariem Nouar and Jean-Marc Solleder

wp-2017-102: How do we legislate for improved community development?

James M. Otto

wp-2017-101: Loyalty, trust, and glass ceiling: The gender effect on microcredit renewal

Mathilde Bauwin and Walid Jbili

wp-2017-100: Options for suitable biofuel farming: Experience from Southern Africa

Graham von Maltitz

wp-2017-99: Social protection, electoral competition, and political branding in Malawi

Sam Hamer and Jeremy Seekings

wp-2017-98: Dependence on extractive industries in lower-income countries: The statistical tendencies

Alan R. Roe and Samantha Dodd

wp-2017-97: The Southern African poultry value chain: Regional development versus national imperatives

Phumzile Ncube, Simon Roberts and Tatenda Zengeni

wp-2017-96: Local content, supply chains, and shared infrastructure

Olle Östensson

wp-2017-95: The effects of minimum wage hikes on employment and wages in Vietmam's micro, small, and medium enterprises

Phan Kim Dung

wp-2017-94: Cognitive, socioemotional, and behavioural returns to college quality

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

wp-2017-93: Are there different spillover effects from cash transfers to men and women?: Impacts on investments in education in post-war Uganda

Margherita Calderone

wp-2017-92: The role of environmental regulations and innovation in TFP convergence: Evidence from manufacturing SMEs in Vietnam

Thanh Tam Nguyen-Huu, Minh Nguyen-Khac and Quoc Tran-Nam

wp-2017-91: Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in Guatemala

Carla Canelas and Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2017-90: Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition?

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

wp-2017-89: Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States

Carlos Gradín

wp-2017-88: Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980-2016

Isaac Chinyoka

wp-2017-87: Biofuels technology: A look forward

William Stafford, Adrian Lotter, Alan Brent and Graham von Maltitz

wp-2017-86: Prospects for information and communications technology-enabled services in Kenya: The case of the mobile money transfer industry

Dianah Ngui and Peter Kimuyu

wp-2017-85: Land and agronomic potential for biofuel production in Southern Africa

Michael von Maltitz and Marna van der Merwe

wp-2017-84: Rwanda: From devastation to services-first transformation

Kasim Ggombe and Richard Newfarmer

wp-2017-83: Building a conservative welfare state in Botswana

Jeremy Seekings

wp-2017-82: Differentials in market constraints and value addition among micro, small, and medium enterprises in Vietnam

Christine Ngoc Ngo and Miao Chi

wp-2017-81: Doubling down: National oil companies as instruments of risk and reward

Patrick R.P. Heller

wp-2017-80: Approaches to supporting local and community development: Brazil and the Vale SA model of corporate interaction

Liesel Filgueiras, Andreia Rabetim and Isabel Aché

wp-2017-79: Framework: The channels for indirect impacts

Alan R. Roe and Jeffery I. Round

wp-2017-78: Anti-discrimination measures in education: A comparative policy analysis

Amanda Lenhardt, Ella Page, Moizza Binat Sarwar and Andrew Shepherd

wp-2017-77: The effects of Chinese import penetration on firm innovation: Evidence from the Vietnamese manufacturing sector

Anh Dang

wp-2017-76: A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan Africa

Channing Arndt, Kristi Mahrt, M. Azhar Hussain and Finn Tarp

wp-2017-75: The taxation of extractive industries: Mining

James M. Otto

wp-2017-74: Female political representation in the aftermath of ethnic violence: A comparative analysis of Burundi and Rwanda

Andrea Guariso, Bert Ingelaere and Marijke Verpoorten

wp-2017-73: Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after apartheid

Carlos Gradín

wp-2017-72: The missing middle: Growing and strengthening Vietnam's micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises

Catherine Co, Thu Kim Nguyen, Tung Nhu Nguyen and Que Nguyet Tran

wp-2017-71: Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources: Evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa

Olivier Bargain, Prudence Kwenda and Miracle Ntuli

wp-2017-70: Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendance: A multilevel approach

Kyle McNabb

wp-2017-69: Social networks, geographic proximity, and firm performance in Vietnam

Emma Howard

wp-2017-68: Drivers of productivity in Vietnamese SMEs: The role of management standards and innovation

Elisa Calza, Micheline Goedhuys and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2017-67: Discrimination, social capital, and financial constraints: The case of Vietnam

Tho Pham and Oleksandr Talavera

wp-2017-66: The impact of hosting refugees on the intra-household allocation of tasks: A gender perspective

Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva

wp-2017-65: Impact of soil conservation adoption on intrahousehold allocations in Zambia

Conor Carney and Monica Carney

wp-2017-64: Migration and the autonomy of women left behind

Julia Matz and Linguere Mbaye

wp-2017-63: Female leaders and gender gaps within the firm: Evidence from three sub-Saharan African countries

Giulia La Mattina, Gabriel Picone, Alban Ahoure and Jose Carlos Kimou

wp-2017-62: Constraints to biofuel feedstock production expansion in Zambia

Paul C. Samboko, Mulako Kabisa and Giles Henley

wp-2017-61: Urban change and rural continuity in gender ideologies and practices: Theorizing from Zambia

Alice Evans

wp-2017-60: Fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in developing nations

Syed Mansoob Murshed, Muhammad Badiuzzaman and Mohammad Habibullah Pulok

wp-2017-59: Analysis of the animal feed to poultry value chain in Zambia

Paul C. Samboko, Olipa Zulu-Mbata and Antony Chapoto

wp-2017-58: The expansion of regional supermarket chains: Implications for local suppliers in Zambia

Francis Ziba and Mwanda Phiri

wp-2017-57: Using legal empowerment for labour rights in India

Rina Agarwala