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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

wp-2016-38: The South African manufacturing exporter story

Marianne Matthee, Neil Rankin, Tasha Naughtin and Carli Bezuidenhout

wp-2016-37: Job flows, worker flows, and churning in South Africa

Andrew Kerr

wp-2016-36: How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities?: Evidence from South African tax registers

Wian Boonzaaier, Jarkko Harju, Tuomas Matikka and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2016-35: A review of consumption poverty estimation for Mozambique

Channing Arndt, Sam Jones, Kristi Mahrt, Vincenzo Salvucci and Finn Tarp

wp-2016-34: The world's two new middles: Growth, precarity, structural change, and the limitations of the special case

Andy Sumner

wp-2016-33: Climate change policy and power sector reform in Mexico under the 'golden age of gas'

José María Valenzuela and Isabel Studer

wp-2016-32: Towards a political economy framework for wind power: Does China break the mould?

Michael R. Davidson, Fredrich Kahrl and Valerie J. Karplus

wp-2016-31: An inquiry into the political economy of the global clean energy transition policies and Nigeria's federal and state governments' fiscal policies

David Onyinyechi Agu and Evelyn Nwamaka Ogbeide-Osaretin

wp-2016-30: The effects of climate risk on hydropower P3 contract value: Preliminary study of the Inga 3 Dam

Richard Swanson and Vivek Sakhrani

wp-2016-29: Implementing EU renewable energy policy at the subnational level: Navigating between conflicting interests

Gilles Lepesant

wp-2016-28: Governing clean energy transitions in China and India: A comparative political economy analysis

Karoliina Isoaho, Alexandra Goritz and Nicolai Schulz

wp-2016-27: Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling in Mozambique: A feasibility study

Helen Barnes, Vanda Castelo, Finório Castigo, António S. Cruz, Michell Mpike, Michael Noble and Gemma Wright

wp-2016-26: A 2012 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for South Africa

Dirk van Seventer, Faaiqa Hartley, Sherwin Gabriel and Rob Davies

wp-2016-25: Do political economy factors matter in explaining the increase in the production of bioenergy?

Eric Kere

wp-2016-24: Natural resource revenues and public investment in resource-rich economies in sub-Saharan Africa

Amin Karimu, George Adu, George Marbuah, Justice Tei Mensah and Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah

wp-2016-23: Integrating clean energy use in national poverty reduction strategies: Opportunities and challenges in Rwanda's Girinka programme

Chika Ezeanya and Abel Kennedy

wp-2016-22: Global trends in the political economy of smart grids: A tailored perspective on 'smart' for grids in transition

Cherrelle Eid, Rudi Hakvoort and Martin de Jong

wp-2016-21: European energy security: Challenges and green opportunities

Almas Heshmati and Shahrouz Abolhosseini

wp-2016-20: Border adjustment mechanisms: Elements for economic, legal, and political analysis

Julien Bueb, Lilian Richieri Hanania and Alice Le Clézio

wp-2016-19: The social shaping of nuclear energy technology in South Africa

Britta Rennkamp and Radhika Bhuyan

wp-2016-18: Varieties of clean energy transitions in Europe: Political-economic foundations of onshore and offshore wind development

Stefan Ćetković, Aron Buzogány and Miranda Schreurs

wp-2016-17: The political economy of energy innovation

Shouro Dasgupta, Enrica De Cian and Elena Verdolini

wp-2016-16: Coffee price volatility and intra-household labour supply: Evidence from Vietnam

Ulrik Beck, Saurabh Singhal and Finn Tarp

wp-2016-15: Post-apartheid electricity policy and the emergence of South Africa's renewable energy sector

Lucy Baker

wp-2016-14: Sell the oil deposits!: A financial proposal to keep the oil underground in the Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

Santiago Bucaram, Mario Fernandez and Diego Grijalva

wp-2016-13: Falling oil prices and sustainable energy transition: Towards a multilateral agreement on fossil-fuel subsidies

Henok Birhanu Asmelash

wp-2016-12: Renewable energy in the Brazilian Amazon: The drivers of political economy and climate

Sabrina McCormick

wp-2016-11: Inter- and intra-farm land fragmentation in Vietnam

Thomas Markussen, Finn Tarp, Do Huy Thiep and Nguyen Do Anh Tuan

wp-2016-10: Are less developed countries more exposed to multinational tax avoidance?: Method and evidence from micro-data

Niels Johannesen, Thomas Tørsløv and Ludvig Wier

wp-2016-9: Political economy of Nigerian power sector reform

Eric Kehinde Ogunleye

wp-2016-8: Absolute poverty lines

Channing Arndt, Kristi Mahrt and Finn Tarp

wp-2016-7: Corporate social responsibility in a competitive business environment

Carol Newman, John Rand, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2016-6: Support policies for renewables: Instrument choice and instrument change from a Public Choice perspective

Erik Gawel, Sebastian Strunz and Paul Lehmann

wp-2016-5: Industry in Tanzania: Performance, prospects, and public policy

John Page

wp-2016-4: Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes

Bethlehem A. Argaw

wp-2016-3: Estimating the level and distribution of global wealth, 2000-14

James Davies, Rodrigo Lluberas and Anthony F. Shorrocks

wp-2016-2: Development of the animal feed to poultry value chain across Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Phumzile Ncube, Simon Roberts and Tatenda Zengeni

wp-2016-1: The state, the market, and development

Joseph Stiglitz

wp-2015-154: Ethiopia - an agrarian economy in transition

Yared Seid, Alemayehu Taffesse and Seid Nuru Ali

wp-2015-153: Smoothing food price trends in Nigeria: Political economy issues and policy vistas

Aderibigbe S. Olomola

wp-2015-152: Assessing the likelihood of regional climate change over the Nile River basin and northern Africa: A hybrid assessment

Adam Schlosser and Kenneth Strzepek

wp-2015-151: Identifying destitution through linked subsets of multidimensionally poor: An ordinal approach

Sabina Alkire and Suman Seth

wp-2015-150: Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana

Raymond Elikplim Kofinti and Samuel Kobina Annim

wp-2015-149: Industrial policy, learning, and development

Joseph Stiglitz

wp-2015-148: Modelling growth scenarios for biofuels in South Africa's transport sector

Adrian Stone, Giles Henley and Tiisetso Maseela

wp-2015-147: Lofty pine and clinging vine: The educational 'Great Gatsby Curve' and the role of house prices

Jing You, Xinxin Ding, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Sangui Wang

wp-2015-146: Reforming the global monetary non-system

José Antonio Ocampo

wp-2015-145: Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling in Tanzania: A feasibility study

Vincent Leyaro, Elineema Kisanga, Gemma Wright, Helen Barnes and Michell Mpike

wp-2015-144: Role of economists in policy-making

Montek S. Ahluwalia

wp-2015-143: Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10

David Stifel, Tiaray Razafimanantena and Faly Rakotomanana

wp-2015-142: Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11

David Stifel and Tassew Woldehanna

wp-2015-141: Demographic, employment, and wage trends in South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Karmen Naidoo, Morne Oosthuizen and Kavisha Pillay

wp-2015-140: Understanding Ghana's growth success story and job creation challenges

Ernest Aryeetey and William Baah-Boateng

wp-2015-139: Global economic governance and economic policy: A personal perspective

Kemal Dervis

wp-2015-138: Compilation of annual mini SAMs for South Africa 1993-2013 in current and constant prices

Dirk van Seventer

wp-2015-137: Estimating multidimensional poverty in Zambia

Kristi Mahrt and Gibson Masumbu

wp-2015-136: Poverty trends in Pakistan

Hina Nazli, Edward Whitney and Kristi Mahrt

wp-2015-135: Aid, education policy, and development

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2015-134: The African Lions: Kenya country case study

Mwangi Kimenyi, Francis M. Mwega and Njuguna Ndung'u

wp-2015-133: Keep it real: Measuring real inequality using survey data from developing countries

Ulrik Beck

wp-2015-132: Spatial and temporal multidimensional poverty in Nigeria

Olu Ajakaiye, Afeikhena T. Jerome, Olanrewaju Olaniyan, Kristi Mahrt and Olufunke Alaba

wp-2015-131: Estimating multidimensional childhood poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2007 through 2013

Kristi Mahrt and Malokele Nanivazo

wp-2015-130: China's international development finance: Past, present, and future

Jiajun Xu and Richard Carey

wp-2015-129: Uganda - A new set of utility consistent poverty lines

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Haruna Sekabira and Fiona Nattembo

wp-2015-128: Tax-benefit microsimulation in Ecuador: A feasibility study

H. Xavier Jara

wp-2015-127: Institutional and policy adjustments to implement Free Trade Agreements with the European Union: A developing country perspective

Kenneth Baltzer

wp-2015-126: Methods matter: The sensitivity of Malawian poverty estimates to definitions, data, and assumptions

Ulrik Beck, Karl Pauw and Richard Mussa

wp-2015-125: The recent evolution of consumption poverty in Rwanda

Andy McKay