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wp-2018-77: Skills, personality traits, and gender wage gaps: Evidence from Bangladesh

Christophe Nordman, Leopold Sarr and Smriti Sharma

wp-2018-76: Tenurial security and agricultural investment: Evidence from Vietnam

Marc Bellemare, Kenn Chua, Julieth Santamaria and Khoa Vu

wp-2018-75: What does it mean to be poor?: Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique

Sam Jones and Inge Tvedten

wp-2018-74: On the persistence of growth for South African firms

Mulalo Mamburu

wp-2018-73: Rural roads and urban agglomeration economies: Benefits for town and country?

Clive Bell

wp-2018-72: Pecuniary returns to working conditions in Vietnam

Christophe Nordman and Smriti Sharma

wp-2018-71: Does union membership pay off?: Evidence from Vietnamese SMEs

Nina Torm

wp-2018-70: Horizontal inequality as a dependent variable

Carla Canelas and Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2018-69: How important are management practices for the productivity of small and medium enterprises?

Axel Demenet and Quynh Hoang

wp-2018-68: Rowing against the current: Diversification in Africa's resource-rich economies

John Page

wp-2018-67: Capital allocation, credit access, and firm growth in Vietnam

Christina Kinghan, Carol Newman and Conor O'Toole

wp-2018-66: The interaction of institutional quality and human capital in shaping the dynamics of capital structure in Vietnam

Enrico Santarelli and Hien Thu Tran

wp-2018-65: Early life shocks and mental health: The long-term effect of war in Vietnam

Saurabh Singhal

wp-2018-64: Why do household businesses in Vietnam stay informal?

Thi Bich Tran and Hai Anh La

wp-2018-63: The information content of the yield spread about future inflation in South Africa

Manqoba Ntshakala and Laurence Harris

wp-2018-62: We need land first: Identifying local needs for sustainable recovery after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal

Lulu He

wp-2018-61: Simulating the effect on households' real consumption and poverty of the increase in prices that followed the 2015-16 economic crisis in Mozambique

Félix Mambo, Yonesse Paris, Vincenzo Salvucci and Ricardo Santos

wp-2018-60: Quantifying the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality: An application to Mozambique

Carlos Gradín

wp-2018-59: NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions

Faraz Usmani, Marc Jeuland and Subhrendu Pattanayak

wp-2018-58: Maternal mortality and women's political participation

Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Joseph Gomes and Atheendar Venkataramani

wp-2018-57: The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UK

Catherine Gladwell, Jennie Thomas, Georgina Chetwynd, Saliha Majeed, Carolyn Burke, Victoria Stubbs and Seemin Zahid

wp-2018-56: Extractive industries and development: Lessons from international experience for Mozambique

Alan R. Roe

wp-2018-55: Horizontal inequality and data challenges

Carla Canelas and Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2018-54: Humanitarian economics

Gilles Carbonnier

wp-2018-53: Occupational gender segregation in post-apartheid South Africa

Carlos Gradín

wp-2018-52: Do multinational companies shift profits out of developing countries?: How data availability may hide the evidence

Caroline Schimanski

wp-2018-51: Zambia's mining windfall tax

Olav Lundstøl and Jan Isaksen

wp-2018-50: Policy transparency in the public sector: The case of social benefits in Tanzania

Gemma Wright, Vincent Leyaro, Elineema Kisanga and Christine Byaruhanga

wp-2018-49: Economic integration of Afghan refugees in the US, 1980-2015

Carl Stempel and Qais Alemi

wp-2018-48: How large is the wage penalty in the labour broker sector?: Evidence for South Africa using administrative data

Aalia Cassim and Daniela Casale

wp-2018-47: Women legislators and economic performance

Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia Bhalotra, Brian Min and Yogesh Uppal

wp-2018-46: Economic and non-economic returns to Communist Party membership in Vietnam

Thomas Markussen and Thanh Ngo

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