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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

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