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wp-2016-138: Access to what?: Legal agency and access to justice for indigenous peoples in Latin America

Daniel M. Brinks

wp-2016-137: Deterrence, peer effect, and legitimacy in anti-corruption policy-making: An experimental analysis

Amadou Boly, Robert Gillanders and Topi Miettinen

wp-2016-136: Cash transfers in Latin America: Effects on poverty and redistribution

Veronica Amarante and Martín Brun

wp-2016-135: Political agency and public healthcare: Evidence from India

Joan Costa-Font and Divya Parmar

wp-2016-134: Female say on income and child outcomes: Evidence from Nigeria

Rama Lionel Ngenzebuke

wp-2016-133: Redistribution around the world: Causes and consequences

Markus Jantti, Jukka Pirttilä and Risto Rönkkö

wp-2016-132: Integrating market and bilateral power trading in the Southern African Power Pool

Amy Rose, Robert Stoner and Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga

wp-2016-131: The political economy of 'linked' progressive taxation in Africa and Latin America

Paul Mosley and Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai

wp-2016-130: Social protection in an aspiring 'developmental state': The political drivers of Ethiopia's PSNP

Tom Lavers

wp-2016-129: Crosscutting cleavages and ethno-communal violence: Evidence from Indonesia in the post-Suharto era

Joshua R. Gubler, Joel S. Selway and Ashutosh Varshney

wp-2016-128: Estimating profit shifting in South Africa using firm-level tax returns

Hayley Reynolds and Ludvig Wier

wp-2016-127: Patterns and trends of group-based inequality in Brazil

Pedro H. Leivas and Anderson M. A. dos Santos

wp-2016-126: Technical note: Proposed model for regional power sector integration in Africa

Amy Rose and Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga

wp-2016-125: Wind turbine and photovoltaic generating efficiency in Africa

Charles Fant

wp-2016-124: Unintended consequences of economic sanctions for human rights: Conflict minerals and infant mortality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dominic Parker, Jeremy Foltz and David Elsea

wp-2016-123: Links between foreign direct investment and human capital formation: Evidence from the manufacturing sector in India

Gunja Baranwal

wp-2016-122: The role and effectiveness of Special Economic Zones in Tanzania

Abel Kinyondo, Carol Newman and Finn Tarp

wp-2016-121: Gold mining pollution and the cost of private healthcare: The case of Ghana

Wisdom Akpalu and Ametefee K. Normanyo

wp-2016-120: Can commercial farming promote rural dynamism in sub-Saharan Africa?: Evidence from Mozambique

Steven Glover and Sam Jones

wp-2016-119: Horizontal inequalities and affirmative action: An analysis of attitudes towards redistribution across groups in Africa

Arnim Langer, Frances Stewart and Maarten Schroyens

wp-2016-118: The politics of promoting social cash transfers in Uganda

Sam Hickey and Badru Bukenya

wp-2016-117: Iran's multi-ethnic mosaic: A 23-year perspective

Sanaz Fesharaki and Mahdi Majbouri

wp-2016-116: Political competition and tax revenues in developing countries

Thierry Yogo and Martine M. Ngo Njib

wp-2016-115: SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model: Recent developments

Gemma Wright, Michael Noble, Helen Barnes, David McLennan and Michell Mpike

wp-2016-114: Horizontal inequality in education and wealth in Tanzania: A 20-year perspective

Emmanuel Maliti

wp-2016-113: The impact of intergovernmental transfers on local revenue generation in Africa: Evidence from Tanzania

Takaaki Masaki

wp-2016-112: Formalizing safety nets and the requirements to obtain them: An increased role for identity documents in the Global South

Wendy Hunter

wp-2016-111: Linking taxation and social protection: Evidence on redistribution and poverty reduction in Ethiopia

Kalle Hirvonen, Giulia Mascagni and Keetie Roelen

wp-2016-110: Effect of girls' secondary school stipend on completed schooling, age at marriage, and age at first birth: Evidence from Bangladesh

Yeasmin Sayeed

wp-2016-109: Is multi-party coalition government better for the protection of socially backward classes in India?

Kaushik Basu, Sattwick Dey Biswas, Pratik Harish, Sasi Dhar and Mounik Lahiri

wp-2016-108: Growth and structural transformation in Vietnam during the 2000s

Dang Thi Thu Hoai, Finn Tarp, Dirk van Seventer and Ho Cong Hoa

wp-2016-107: Gender differences in child investment behaviour among agricultural households: Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme

Ashwini Sebastian, Ana Paula de la O Campos, Silvio Daidone, Benjamin Davis, Ousmane Niang and Luca Pellerano

wp-2016-106: Vertical and horizontal inequality in Ecuador: The lack of sustainability

Ivan Gachet, Diego Grijalva, Paúl Ponce and Damián Rodríguez

wp-2016-105: Ethnic fragmentation, public good provision, and inequality in India, 1988-2012

Nishant Chadha and Bharti Nandwani

wp-2016-104: Competing cleavages in sub-Saharan Africa?: How economic distance affects ethnic bloc politics

Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz

wp-2016-103: Taxation, infrastructure, and firm performance in developing countries

Lisa Chauvet and Marin Ferry

wp-2016-102: Structural transformation in the world economy: On the significance of developing countries

Deepak Nayyar

wp-2016-101: Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

wp-2016-100: Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes in South Africa

Biniam Bedasso and Nonso Obikili

wp-2016-99: On the spread of social protection systems

Peter Egger, Doina Radulescu and Nora Strecker

wp-2016-98: Taxation and inequality in developing countries: Lessons from the recent experience of Latin America

Bruno Martorano

wp-2016-97: A brief history of the international monetary system since Bretton Woods

José Antonio Ocampo

wp-2016-96: Resilience to crisis through social protection: Can we build the case?

Thomas Roca and Hélène Ferrer

wp-2016-95: Capital flight and development: An overview of concepts, methods, and data sources

Niels Johannesen and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2016-94: Global inequality: How large is the effect of top incomes?

Vanesa Jorda and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2016-93: Understanding elite commitment to social protection: Rwanda's Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme

Tom Lavers

wp-2016-92: Deflecting my burden, hindering redistribution: How elites influence tax legislation in Latin America

Juan A. Bogliaccini and Juan Pablo Luna

wp-2016-91: Institutionalizing segregation: Conditional cash transfers and employment choices

María Gabriela Palacio

wp-2016-90: Imports, supply chains, and firm productivity

Carol Newman, John Rand and Finn Tarp

wp-2016-89: Financial systems in new middle-income African economies: The opportunities and the risks

Alan R. Roe

wp-2016-88: Anti-corruption policy-making, discretionary power, and institutional quality: An experimental analysis

Amadou Boly and Robert Gillanders

wp-2016-87: Ethnic and racial disparities in children's education: Comparative evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

Mohamed Arouri, Adel Ben-Youssef and Cuong Viet Nguyen

wp-2016-86: Why does caste still influence access to agricultural credit?

Sunil Mitra Kumar

wp-2016-85: Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India

Hemanshu Kumar and Rohini Somanthan

wp-2016-84: Mining-related national systems of innovation in southern Africa: National trajectories and regional integration

Judith Fessehaie, Zavareh Rustomjee and Lauralyn Kaziboni

wp-2016-83: Can mining promote industrialization?: A comparative analysis of policy frameworks in three Southern African countries

Judith Fessehaie, Zavareh Rustomjee and Lauralyn Kaziboni

wp-2016-82: Impact of post-conflict development interventions on maternal healthcare utilization

Muhammad Badiuzzaman and Syed Mansoob Murshed

wp-2016-81: The history and politics of energy transitions: Comparing contested views and finding common ground

Benjamin K. Sovacool

wp-2016-80: Do labour market conditions affect the extent of gender discrimination?

Eva Arceo-Gomez and Raymundo Campos-Vazquez

wp-2016-79: Tanzania: From mining to oil and gas

Alan R. Roe

wp-2016-78: Discriminatory attitudes and indigenous language promotion: Challenges and solutions

Rajesh Ramachandran and Christopher Rauh

wp-2016-77: Less restrictive birth control, less education?: Evidence from ethnic minorities in China

Yishen Liu and Yao Pan

wp-2016-76: Cooperation and leadership in a segregated community: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in a South African township

Daniela Grieco, Michela Braga and Francesco Bripi

wp-2016-75: Multidimensional assessment of child welfare for Tanzania

Channing Arndt, Vincent Leyaro, Kristi Mahrt and Finn Tarp

wp-2016-74: Mandated political representation and crimes against the low castes

Victoire Girard

wp-2016-73: Microsimulation of impacts of tax and transfer in Vietnam: Feasibility study

Duong Anh Nguyen, Minh Binh Tran and Anh Mai Le

wp-2016-72: The political economy of energy transitions and thermal energy poverty: Comparing the residential LPG sectors in Indonesia and South Africa

Johannes Kruger, Louise Tait and Jiska de Groot

wp-2016-71: Double jeopardy?: Caste, affirmative action, and stigma

Ashwini Deshpande

wp-2016-70: Self-assessed versus statistical evidence of labour market discrimination: The case of indigenous Australians

Alan Duncan, Astghik Mavisakalyan and Yashar Tarverdi

wp-2016-69: Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India: An experimental investigation

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani and Prakarsh Singh

wp-2016-68: The transmission of socially responsible behaviour through international trade

Carol Newman, John Rand, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2016-67: Gender bias in education during conflict: Evidence from Assam

Sutanuka Roy and Prakarsh Singh

wp-2016-66: Affirmative action policies and the evolution of post-apartheid South Africa's racial wage gap

Rulof Burger, Rachel Jafta and Dieter von Fintel

wp-2016-65: Protecting unsophisticated applicants in school choice through information disclosure

Christian Basteck and Marco Mantovani

wp-2016-64: The behavioural implications of women's empowerment programmes

Lata Gangadharan, Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Joseph Vecci

wp-2016-63: Institutional differences across resource-based economies

Utku Teksoz and Katerina Kalcheva

wp-2016-62: The linkages of energy, water, and land use in Southeast Asia: Challenges and opportunities for the Mekong region

Kim Hang Pham Do and Ariel Dinar

wp-2016-61: The power to choose: Gender balance of power and intra-household educational spending in India

Christophe Nordman and Smriti Sharma

wp-2016-60: Caste differences in behaviour and personality: Evidence from India

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

wp-2016-59: Is feed-in-tariff policy effective for increasing deployment of renewable energy in Indonesia?

Dewi Yuliani

wp-2016-58: Capital flight and foreign direct investment in Africa: An investigation of the role of natural resource endowment

Léonce Ndikumana and Mare Sarr

wp-2016-57: Oil discoveries and democracy

Tania Masi and Roberto Ricciuti

wp-2016-56: Employment status and educational attainment among disabled Ghanaians

Clifford Afoakwah and Fatima Dauda

wp-2016-55: For whom does the phone (not) ring?: Discrimination in the rental housing market in Delhi, India

Saugato Datta and Vikram Pathania

wp-2016-54: Affirmative action and effort choice: An experimental investigation

Juliana Silva-Goncalves, Uwe Dulleck, Anita Lee Hong, Markus Schaffner and Stephen Whyte

wp-2016-53: Racial bias and the validity of the Implicit Association Test

Daniel Lee

wp-2016-52: Affirmative action policy in developing countries: Lessons learned and a way forward

Elizabeth Kaletski and Nishith Prakash

wp-2016-51: The legal configuration of hydrocarbon infrastructure

Ross Astoria

wp-2016-50: The political economy of clean energy transitions at sub-national level: Understanding the role of international climate regimes in energy policy in two Brazilian states

Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira and Celio Andrade

wp-2016-49: Global macroeconomic cooperation and the exchange rate system

José Antonio Ocampo

wp-2016-48: Understanding indicator choice for the assessment of research, development, and demonstration financing of low-carbon energy technologies: Lessons from the Nordic countries

Jonas Sonnenschein

wp-2016-47: Eliciting risk preferences: Firefighting in the field

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

wp-2016-46: The inequality-resource curse of conflict: Heterogeneous effects of mineral deposit discoveries

Joeri Smits, Yibekal Tessema, Takuto Sakamoto and Richard Schodde

wp-2016-45: Evaluating monetary policy options for managing resource revenue shocks when fiscal policy is laissez-faire: Application to Nigeria

Chuku Chuku

wp-2016-44: Carbon pricing under binding political constraints

Jesse D. Jenkins and Valerie J. Karplus

wp-2016-43: Delayed marriage, contraceptive use, and breastfeeding: Fertility patterns over time and wealth quintiles in sub-Saharan Africa

Jocelyn E. Finlay, Iván Mejía-Guevara and Yoko Akachi

wp-2016-42: Introduction to the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury firm-level panel

Duncan Pieterse, Carl Kreuser and Elizabeth Gavin

wp-2016-41: Total factor productivity in South African manufacturing firms

Carl Kreuser and Carol Newman

wp-2016-40: Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors: An analysis with administrative data

Johannes Fedderke, Nonso Obikili and Nicola Viegi

wp-2016-39: Importing and firm performance: New evidence from South Africa

Lawrence Edwards, Marco Sanfilippo and Asha Sundaram