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wp-2020-34: Hidden from the data: Landholding patterns and women's low work participation rates in West Bengal, India

Deepita Chakravarty

wp-2020-33: Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China

Yanan Li and Chunbing Xing

wp-2020-32: Measuring labour earnings inequality in post-apartheid South Africa

Serena Merrino

wp-2020-31: Structural transformation and inclusive growth: Kuznets' 'developer's dilemma' in Indonesia

Kyunghoon Kim, Arriya Mungsunti, Andy Sumner and Arief Yusuf

wp-2020-30: Shifting from deductions to credits: Unpacking the distributional effects of medical expenditure considerations in South Africa

Senia Nhamo and Edinah Mudimu

wp-2020-29: The elasticity of taxable income: New data and estimates for South Africa

Johannes Kemp

wp-2020-28: Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societies

Gregory Clark

wp-2020-27: Job spells in an emerging market: Evidence from apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa

Robert Hill, Kezia Lilenstein and Amy Thornton

wp-2020-26: Moral reputation and political selection in a decentralized democracy: Theory and evidence from India

Prasenjit Banerjee, Vegard Iversen, Sandip Mitra, Antonio Nicolo' and Kunal Sen

wp-2020-25: Leapfrogging into the unknown: The future of structural change in the developing world

Lukas Schlogl

wp-2020-24: Kuznets' tension in India: Two episodes

Saon Ray and Sabyasachi Kar

wp-2020-23: Initial considerations for the creation of an inter-regional industrial hemp value chain between Malawi and South Africa

Sandy Lowitt

wp-2020-22: Revenue forecasting in the mining industries: A data-driven approach

Benjamin Jones

wp-2020-21: Winners and losers in industrial policy 2.0

Mohamed Marouani and Michelle Marshalian

wp-2020-20: The impact of impact evaluation: Are impact evaluation and impact evaluation synthesis contributing to evidence generation and use in low- and middle-income countries?

Richard Manning, Ian Goldman and Gonzalo Hernández Licona

wp-2020-19: Measuring multidimensional inequality of opportunity

Martyna Kobus, Marek Kapera and Vito Peragine

wp-2020-18: Productivity, structural change, and skills dynamics: Evidence from a half-century analysis

Gunes Asik, Ulas Karakoc, Mohamed Marouani and Michelle Marshalian

wp-2020-17: Labour market polarization in South Africa: A decomposition analysis

Rob Davies and Dirk van Seventer

wp-2020-16: What's behind pro-poor growth?: The role of shocks and measurement error

Stephan Klasen, Maria Lo Bue and Vincenzo Prete

wp-2020-15: Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling in Zanzibar: A feasibility study

Vincent Leyaro, Faith Masekesa, Ramadhan Ramadhan, Elineema Kisanga, Michael Noble and Gemma Wright

wp-2020-14: The ethnographic approach to social mobility

Divya Vaid

wp-2020-13: Can 'good' social mobility news be 'bad' and vice versa?: Measurement (and downward mobility) pitfalls

Vegard Iversen

wp-2020-12: Social mobility and inequality between groups

Patricia Funjika and Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2020-11: Are routine jobs moving south?: Evidence from changes in the occupational structure of employment in the USA and Mexico

Guido Matias Cortes and Diego Morris

wp-2020-10: Is there a fiscal resource curse?: Resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economies

Tania Masi, Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen

wp-2020-9: Gender, age cohort, and household investment in child schooling: New evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Abdul Malik Iddrisu, Michael Danquah, Alfred Barimah and Williams Ohemeng

wp-2020-8: The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market: Evidence from a public federal university in Brazil

Henrique Z. Motte and Rodrigo Oliveira

wp-2020-7: Income mobility in the developing world: Recent approaches and evidence

Himanshu Himanshu and Peter Lanjouw

wp-2020-6: Drivers of mobility

Patrizio Piraino

wp-2020-5: Returns to education in self-employment in India: A comparison across different selection models

Indrajit Bairagya

wp-2020-4: Social mobility in China: A case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South

Yaojun Li

wp-2020-3: Turnin' it up a notch: how spillovers from foreign direct investment boost the complexity of South Africa's exports

Bjørn Bo Sørensen

wp-2020-2: Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana: A micro-level analysis

Michael Danquah, Abdul Malik Iddrisu, Williams Ohemeng and Alfred Barimah

wp-2020-1: Exchange rates and firm export performance in South Africa

Lawrence Edwards and Ayanda Hlatshwayo

wp-2019-121: China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility

Roy van der Weide and Ambar Narayan

wp-2019-120: Social networks, role models, peer effects, and aspirations

Anandi Mani and Emma Riley

wp-2019-119: A proposal for a new universal development commitment

Jonathan Glennie, Nilima Gulrajani, Andy Sumner and Myles Wickstead

wp-2019-118: Structural transformations and the lack of inclusive growth: The case of Chile

Andrés Solimano and Gabriela Zapata-Román

wp-2019-117: Are you what you consume?: Impact of food, soft drinks, and coffee on cognitive and non-cognitive test scores

Thomas Sohnesen

wp-2019-116: Roads and jobs in Ethiopia

Matteo Fiorini and Marco Sanfilippo

wp-2019-115: Is export-led growth a mirage?: The case of Kenya

Peter Wamalwa and Maureen Were

wp-2019-114: Worker mobility and productivity spillovers: An emerging market perspective

Ayanda Hlatshwayo, Carl Kreuser, Carol Newman and John Rand

wp-2019-113: Migrants leaving mega-cities: Where they move and why prices matter

Eva-Maria Egger

wp-2019-112: Internal migration and crime in Brazil

Eva-Maria Egger

wp-2019-111: The effects of the Maputo ring road on the quantity and quality of nearby housing

Peter Fisker, David Malmgren-Hansen and Thomas Sohnesen

wp-2019-110: Does sorting matter for learning inequality?: Evidence from East Africa

Paul Anand, Jere Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang and Sam Jones

wp-2019-109: Structural transformation, openness, and productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Suale Karimu

wp-2019-108: Gender and social mobility: Exploring gender attitudes and women's labour force participation

Nancy Luke

wp-2019-107: Informal work in sub-Saharan Africa: Dead end or steppingstone?

Michael Danquah, Simone Schotte and Kunal Sen

wp-2019-106: Concepts of social mobility

Gary Fields

wp-2019-105: Revisiting the returns to education during rapid structural and rural transformation in Thailand: A regression discontinuity approach

Upalat Korwatanasakul

wp-2019-104: Civic legacies of wartime governance

Patricia Justino and Wolfgang Stojetz

wp-2019-103: Evaluating foreign direct investment in Mozambique's natural gas industry: An economy-wide perspective

Silvana Mondlane and Dirk van Seventer

wp-2019-102: Will urbanization raise social mobility in the South, replicating the economic history of the West?

Emily Rains and Anirudh Krishna

wp-2019-101: Occupational choice of skilled workers in the presence of a large development sector: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Jamelia Harris

wp-2019-100: Structural poverty dynamics in urban South Africa: A mixed-methods investigation

Simone Schotte

wp-2019-99: Was Kuznets right?: New evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequality

Çinar Baymul and Kunal Sen

wp-2019-98: Economic approach to intergenerational mobility: Measures, methods, and challenges in developing countries

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

wp-2019-97: Self-employment and labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua

Enrique Alaniz, Alma Espino and T.H. Gindling

wp-2019-96: Occupational mobility in developing countries: Conceptual issues and empirical findings

Anthony Heath and Yizhang Zhao

wp-2019-95: Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration: National and subnational influences

Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2019-94: Globotics and development: When manufacturing is jobless and services are tradable

Richard Baldwin and Rikard Forslid

wp-2019-93: Agglomeration and productivity in South Africa: Evidence from firm-level data

Hammed Amusa, Njeri Wabiri and David Fadiran

wp-2019-92: Marriage, work, and migration: The role of infrastructure development and gender norms

Amrit Amirapu, M Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj

wp-2019-91: Winning or buying hearts and minds?: Cash transfers and political attitudes in Pakistan

Yashodhan Ghorpade and Patricia Justino

wp-2019-90: Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world?: Insider-outsider theory revisited

Lucas Ronconi, Ravi Kanbur and Santiago López-Cariboni

wp-2019-89: Competitiveness and diversification of service exports in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of the East African Community

Maureen Were and Maureen Odongo

wp-2019-88: Educational mobility in developing countries

Florencia Torche

wp-2019-87: De-industrialization, re-industrialization, and the resurgence of state capitalism: The case of Indonesia

Kyunghoon Kim and Andy Sumner

wp-2019-86: Inequality of opportunity in child health in Sudan: Across-region study

Ebaidalla M. Ebaidalla

wp-2019-85: Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries

Jere Behrman

wp-2019-84: The effects of wartime institutions on households' ability to cope with shocks: Evidence for Colombia

Ana Ibáñez, Julián Arteaga, Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Ana Arjona and Patricia Justino

wp-2019-83: Firm-level employment growth in South Africa: The role of innovation and exports

Karmen Naidoo

wp-2019-82: Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2019-81: Doing business in a deals world: The doubly false premise of rules reform

Sabyasachi Kar, Lant Pritchett, Spandan Roy and Kunal Sen

wp-2019-80: South African gold mining and local procurement in Tanzania and Ghana

Michael Nassen Smith, Carilee Osborne, Zunaid Moola and Ben Turok

wp-2019-79: Key behavioural characteristics of small-business owners: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Myanmar

John Rand, Paula Castro Rodriguez, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2019-78: The governance of global value chains, the state, and small businesses: The case of timber in Myanmar

John Rand, Paula Castro Rodriguez, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2019-77: Agricultural development, trade, and income distribution: A 2015 social accounting matrix multiplier decomposition approach for Mozambique

Silvana Mondlane and Dirk van Seventer

wp-2019-76: On the political and social consequences of economic inequality: Civic engagement in Colombia

Patricia Justino, Ana Arjona, Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Ana Ibáñez and Julián Arteaga

wp-2019-75: Offshoring within South African manufacturing firms: An analysis of the labour market effects

Anmar Pretorius, Carli Bezuidenhout, Marianne Matthee and Derick Blaauw

wp-2019-74: Social norms as a barrier to women's employment in developing countries

Seema Jayachandran

wp-2019-73: Inequality by population groups and income sources: Accounting for inequality changes in Spain during the recession

Carlos Gradín

wp-2019-72: Exploring the potential for growth and trade in fruit and oilseed-to-edible oils value chains following political shifts in Zimbabwe

Shingie Chisoro-Dube, Cornelius Dube and Wellington Matsika

wp-2019-71: Mobile phone use, productivity and labour market in Tanzania

Aimable Nsabimana and Patricia Funjika

wp-2019-70: Assessment of demand in agro-processing machinery in the SADC region: A case study of the maize-milling machinery value chain in South Africa and Zambia

Gillian Chigumira

wp-2019-69: The tax elasticity of formal work in African countries

Andy McKay, Jukka Pirttilä and Caroline Schimanski

wp-2019-68: In praise of snapshots

Ravi Kanbur

wp-2019-67: Intergenerational mobility of education in Vietnam: Evidence from the Vietnam War

Khoa Vu and Maria Lo Bue

wp-2019-66: Trade tax reforms and poverty in developing countries: Why do some countries benefit and others lose?

Amèvi Rocard Kouwoaye

wp-2019-65: The corruption-growth relationship: Do political institutions matter?

Shrabani Saha and Kunal Sen

wp-2019-64: Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Patricia Funjika and Yoseph Getachew

wp-2019-63: Dancing with dragons: Chinese import penetration and the performances of manufacturing firms in South Africa

Sofia Torreggiani and Antonio Andreoni

wp-2019-62: Linking Southern Africa into South Africa's global value chains

Karishma Banga and Neil Balchin

wp-2019-61: Charity begins at home: The political economy of non-tariff barriers to trade in Southern Africa

Tracy Ledger

wp-2019-60: Politicians and their promises in an uncertain world: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India

Prasenjit Banerjee, Vegard Iversen, Sandip Mitra, Antonio Nicolo' and Kunal Sen

wp-2019-59: The role of supermarket chains in developing food, other fast-moving consumer goods and consumer goods suppliers in regional markets

Reena Das Nair and Namhla Landani

wp-2019-58: Markups and market structure in South Africa: What can be learnt from new administrative data?

Joshua Budlender

wp-2019-57: Unofficial sovereign wealth funds and duration in power in Africa

Larissa Nawo, Désiré Avom, Kyle McNabb and Luc Nembot

wp-2019-56: A 2016 social accounting matrix for South Africa with an occupationally disaggregated labour market representation

Dirk van Seventer and Rob Davies