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wp-2022-31: Affirmative action with no major switching: Evidence from a top university in Brazil

Rodrigo Oliveira, Alei Santos and Edson Severnini

wp-2022-30: Two decades of Tanzanian health policy: Examining policy developments and opportunities through a gender lens

Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä

wp-2022-29: Monetary policy in South Africa, 2007-21

Patrick Honohan and Athanasios Orphanides

wp-2022-28: Impact of female peer composition on gender norm perceptions and skills formation in secondary school

Martina Querejeta

wp-2022-27: The global inequality boomerang

Ravi Kanbur, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Andy Sumner

wp-2022-26: Taxless fiscal states: Lessons from 19th-century America and 21st-century China

Yuen Yuen Ang

wp-2022-25: Ethnic dominance and exclusion: Unpacking cross-national data

Andrea Vaccaro

wp-2022-24: Measuring illicit financial flows: A gravity model approach to estimate international trade misinvoicing

Lourenco Paz

wp-2022-23: Impact of teacher content knowledge on student achievement in a low-income country

Anna Holvio

wp-2022-22: Does aid to the productive sectors cause manufacturing sector growth in Africa?

Alain Ndikumana

wp-2022-21: Profit-shifting behaviour of emerging multinationals from India

Khanindra Ch. Das

wp-2022-20: Women's inheritance rights and time use: Evidence from Hindu Succession Act in India

Tanu Gupta

wp-2022-19: Revisiting the links between economic inequality and political violence: The role of social mobilization

Patricia Justino

wp-2022-18: Does the adoption of peer-to-government mobile payments improve tax revenue mobilization in developing countries?

Abdoul-Akim Wandaogo, Fayçal Sawadogo and Jesse Lastunen

wp-2022-17: The legacies of armed conflict: insights from stayees and returning forced migrants

Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva

wp-2022-16: Global oil theft: impact and policy responses

Etienne Romsom

wp-2022-15: Aid's impact on democracy

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Ana Horigoshi and Rachel M. Gisselquist

wp-2022-14: Incorporation of offshore shell companies as an indicator of corruption risk in the extractive industries

Giovanna Marcolongo and Diego Zambiasi

wp-2022-13: Recovery with distress: unpacking COVID-19 impact on livelihoods and poverty in Bangladesh

Hossain Zillur Rahman, Atiya Rahman, Md. Saiful Islam, Avinno Faruk, Imran Matin, Mohammad Abdul Wazed and Umama Zillur

wp-2022-12: Whose intergenerational mobility?: A new set of estimates for Indonesia by gender, geography, and generation

Diding Sakri, Andy Sumner and Arief Anshory Yusuf

wp-2022-11: The social and political consequences of wartime sexual violence: New evidence from list experiments in three conflict-affected populations

Carlo Koos and Richard Traunmüller

wp-2022-10: Spillovers from extractive industries

Michael Kilumelume, Bruno Morando, Carol Newman and John Rand

wp-2022-9: Hide-seek-hide? The effects of financial secrecy on cross-border financial assets

Petr Janský, Tereza Palanská and Miroslav Palansky

wp-2022-8: An assessment of the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on Kenya's trade

Maureen Were and Kethi Ngoka

wp-2022-7: Diffusion of agricultural innovations in Guinea-Bissau: From learning to doing

Rute Martins Caeiro

wp-2022-6: Income distribution in Uganda based on tax registers: what do top incomes say?

Markus Jäntti, Milly Isingoma Nalukwago and Ronald Waiswa

wp-2022-5: Inequality and growth: a review on a great open debate in economics

Enea Baselgia and Reto Foellmi

wp-2022-4: Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run

Antonio Savoia, Kunal Sen and Abrams M.E. Tagem

wp-2022-3: Macroeconomic risks after a decade of microeconomic turbulence: South Africa (2007-2020)

Ricardo Hausmann, Federico Sturzenegger, Patricio Goldstein, Frank Muci and Douglas Barrios

wp-2022-2: Community organization and armed group behaviour: Evidence from Colombia

Margarita Gafaro, Ana Ibáñez and Patricia Justino

wp-2022-1: The dynamics of domestic revenue mobilization across four decades

Annalena Oppel, Kyle McNabb and Daniel Chachu

wp-2021-191: Legal opacity, narcotics laws, and drug seizures

Ninon Moreau-Kastler and Farid Toubal

wp-2021-190: Securitized reception: revisiting contexts confronting Afghan and Vietnamese forced migrants

Phi Hong Su and Hameed Hakimi

wp-2021-189: Dynamic impacts of lockdown on domestic violence: Evidence from multiple policy shifts in Chile

Sonia Bhalotra, Emilia Brito, Damian Clarke, Pilar Larroulet and Francisco Pino

wp-2021-188: Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda

Merima Ali and Odd Fjeldstad

wp-2021-187: The tax-price elasticity of offshore tax avoidance: Evidence from Ecuadorian transaction data

Jakob Brounstein

wp-2021-186: Maternal employment and children's outcomes: Evidence from Indonesia

Ervin Dervisevic, Maria Lo Bue and Elizaveta Perova

wp-2021-185: Donors for tax morale: Evidence from 34 African countries

Alessandro Belmonte, Vincenzo Bove and Jessica Di Salvatore

wp-2021-184: Economic sanctions and trade flows in the neighbourhood

Vincenzo Bove, Jessica Di Salvatore and Roberto Nisticò

wp-2021-183: The gender productivity gap: Evidence from the Indian informal sector

Ira Gang, Rajesh Raj, Kunal Sen and Myeong-Su Yun

wp-2021-182: Fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa: conceptualization and empirical trends

Ane Karoline Bak, Matilde Jeppesen and Anne Mette Kjær

wp-2021-181: Climate change and agricultural productivity in Myanmar: Application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) model

Henning Tarp Jensen, Marcus Keogh-Brown and Finn Tarp

wp-2021-180: Labour market projections and time allocation in Myanmar: Application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) model

Henning Tarp Jensen, Marcus Keogh-Brown and Finn Tarp

wp-2021-179: Taxation and income distribution in Myanmar: Application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) model

Henning Tarp Jensen, Marcus Keogh-Brown and Finn Tarp

wp-2021-178: Boosting mineral revenues in Zambia: Policy options for a sustainable fiscal regime

Andrew Mwaba and Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa

wp-2021-177: No taxation without informational foundation: On the role of legibility in tax state development

Matthias vom Hau, José Peres-Cajías and Hillel David Soifer

wp-2021-176: Fiscal capacity in non-democratic states: the origins and expansion of income tax

Per F. Andersson

wp-2021-175: No taxation without property rights: Formalization of property rights on land and tax revenues from individuals in sub-Saharan Africa

Marina Nistotskaya and Michelle D'Arcy

wp-2021-174: Tariffs, productivity, and resource misallocation

Michael Kilumelume, Bruno Morando, Carol Newman and John Rand

wp-2021-173: The guide to the CIT-IRP5 panel version 4.0

Amina Ebrahim, Carl Kreuser and Michael Kilumelume

wp-2021-172: Industrialization in developing countries: is it related to poverty reduction?

Abdul Azeez Erumban and Gaaitzen de Vries

wp-2021-171: The gender employment gap: the effects of extended maternity leave policy in Viet Nam

Tu Thi Ngoc Le and Ngoc Thi Bich Pham

wp-2021-170: Tax effort revisited: new estimates from the Government Revenue Dataset

Kyle McNabb, Michael Danquah and Abrams M.E. Tagem

wp-2021-169: How clientelism undermines state capacity: Evidence from Mexican municipalities

Ana L. De La O

wp-2021-168: Aid and social cohesion

Michael Danquah and Bazoumana Ouattara

wp-2021-167: The effect of fiscal drag on income distribution and work incentives: A microsimulation analysis on selected African countries

Adnan Shahir and Francesco Figari

wp-2021-166: COVID-19 in Central America: effects of firm resilience and policy responses on employment

Beatriz Calzada Olvera, Mario Gonzalez-Sauri, Federico Louvin and David-Alexander Harings Moya

wp-2021-165: Simulation of options to replace the special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant and close the poverty gap at the food poverty line

Maya Goldman, Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender, Lindi Mzankomo, Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt

wp-2021-164: Towards greater poverty reduction in Zambia: Simulating potential Cash Plus reforms using MicroZAMOD

Katrin Gasior, David McLennan, Mbewe Kalikeka, Miselo Bwalya and Maria Jouste

wp-2021-163: An assessment of presumptive tax in Uganda: Evaluating the 2020 reform and four alternative reform scenarios using UGAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Uganda

Ronald Waiswa, Jesse Lastunen, Gemma Wright, Michael Noble, Joseph Okello Ayo, Milly Isingoma Nalukwago, Tina Kaidu Barugahara, Susan Kavuma, Isaac Arinaitwe, Martin Mwesigye, Wilson Asiimwe and Pia Rattenhuber

wp-2021-162: The changing nature of work and inequality in Brazil (2003-19): A descriptive analysis

Sergio Firpo, Alysson Portella, Flavio Riva and Giovanna Úbida

wp-2021-161: What are the drivers of tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa?

Abrams M.E. Tagem and Oliver Morrissey

wp-2021-160: The informal sector and the safety of female traders in Tanzania: A reflection of practices, policies, and legislation

William Amos Pallangyo

wp-2021-159: An exploration of the association between fuel subsidies and fuel riots

Neil McCulloch, Davide Natalini, Naomi Hossain and Patricia Justino

wp-2021-158: The afterlife of industrial work: Urban-to-rural labour transitions from the factory to the informal economy

Alessandra Mezzadri and Kaustav Banerjee

wp-2021-157: Improving young women's working conditions in Tanzania's urban food vending sector

Nandera Ernest Mhando and Nasibu Rajabu Mramba

wp-2021-156: The macroeconomic effect of fiscal policy in South Africa: A narrative analysis

Tumisang Loate, Romain Houssa and Nicola Viegi

wp-2021-155: Contract clientelism: How infrastructure contracts fund vote-buying

Alisha Holland and Will Freeman

wp-2021-154: Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world: Evidence from global microdata

Maria Lo Bue, Tu Thi Ngoc Le, Manuel Santos Silva and Kunal Sen

wp-2021-153: Technology and clientelist politics in India

Steven I. Wilkinson

wp-2021-152: Debt-financed fiscal stimulus in South Africa

Hylton Hollander

wp-2021-151: Glimpses of fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa

Mick Moore

wp-2021-150: The effects of a risk-based approach to tax examinations: Evidence from Tanzania

Amina Ebrahim, Elineema Kisanga, Ezekiel Swema, Vincent Leyaro, Edwin Mhede, Ephraim Mdee, Heikki Palviainen and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2021-149: Childbirth and women's labour market transitions in India (revised)

Rosa Abraham, Rahul Lahoti and Hema Swaminathan

wp-2021-148: The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Jesse Lastunen, Pia Rattenhuber, Kwabena Adu-Ababio, Katrin Gasior, H. Xavier Jara, Maria Jouste, David McLennan, Enrico Nichelatti, Rodrigo Oliveira, Jukka Pirttilä, Matteo Richiardi and Gemma Wright

wp-2021-147: Formalizing clientelism in Kenya: From Harambee to the Constituency Development Fund

Ken Ochieng' Opalo

wp-2021-146: The welfare effects of financial inclusion in Ghana: An exploration based on a multidimensional measure of financial inclusion

Abdul Malik Iddrisu and Michael Danquah

wp-2021-145: Labour conditions in regional versus global value chains: Insights from apparel firms in Lesotho and Eswatini

Giovanni Pasquali

wp-2021-144: Poverty, social networks, and clientelism

Nico Ravanilla and Allen Hicken

wp-2021-143: Barriers to entry and the role of African multinational corporations: Entrants in intermediate industrial products (inputs into construction)

Grace Nsomba and Thando Vilakazi

wp-2021-142: The recentered influence function and unidimensional poverty measurement

Carlos Gradín

wp-2021-141: Voter coercion and pro-poor redistribution in rural Mexico

Dragan Filipovich, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Alma Santillán Hernández

wp-2021-140: Informed participation: the effects of information treatment on panel non-response

Ricardo Santos and Sam Jones

wp-2021-139: Trends in inequality within countries using a novel dataset

Carlos Gradín and Annalena Oppel

wp-2021-138: Social ties, clientelism, and the poor's expectations of future service provision: Receiving more, expecting less?

Prisca Jöst and Ellen Lust

wp-2021-137: Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues?: Evidence from a top university in Brazil

Henrique Z. Motte and Rodrigo Oliveira

wp-2021-136: The saga and limits of public financial management: The Mozambican case

António S. Cruz, Ines A. Ferreira, Johnny Flentø, Finn Tarp and Mariam Umarji

wp-2021-135: The relative neglect of agriculture in Mozambique

João Z. Carrilho, Ines A. Ferreira, Rui N. Ribeiro and Finn Tarp

wp-2021-134: Exploring the quality of income data in two African household surveys for the purpose of tax-benefit microsimulation modelling: Imputing employment income in Tanzania and Zambia

David McLennan, Michael Noble, Gemma Wright, Helen Barnes and Faith Masekesa

wp-2021-133: Maternity benefits mandate and women's choice of work in Viet Nam

Khoa Vu and Paul Glewwe

wp-2021-132: The impact of centralized bargaining on spillovers and the wage structure in monopsonistic labour markets

Ihsaan Bassier

wp-2021-131: Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal: Disentangling the interdependencies

Aslihan Arslan, Eva-Maria Egger, Erdgin Mane and Vanya Slavchevska

wp-2021-130: Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women's work between income generation, expenditure-saving, and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India

Ashwini Deshpande and Naila Kabeer

wp-2021-129: Do gifts buy votes?: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Jenny Guardado and Leonard Wantchekon

wp-2021-128: Childbirth and women's labour market transitions in India

Rosa Abraham, Rahul Lahoti and Hema Swaminathan

wp-2021-127: Local governance quality and law compliance: The case of Mozambican firms

Hanna Berkel, Christian Estmann and John Rand

wp-2021-126: The regulation of interconnection and regulatory alignment in the Southern African Development Community

Grace Nsomba

wp-2021-125: Clientelistic politics and pro-poor targeting: Rules versus discretionary budgets

Dilip Mookherjee and Anusha Nath

wp-2021-124: Learning from experience: Special Economic Zones in Southern Africa

Neva Makgetla

wp-2021-123: Informal employment or informal firms? Regulatory enforcement and the transformation of the informal sector

Sanjay Jain