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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

wp-2019-55: Counting-based multidimensional poverty identification: From deprivation weights to bundles

Sam Jones

wp-2019-54: Income and consumption inequality in China: A comparative approach with India

Carlos Gradín and Binbin Wu

wp-2019-53: Linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana and Kenya

Felix Adamu Nandonde, Richard Adu-Gyamfi, TinayeSonto Mmusi, Herbert Wamalwa, Simplice Asongu, Johannes Pieter Opperman and Jeremia Makindara

wp-2019-52: Moving up the copper value chain in Southern Africa

Neva Makgetla, Saul Levin and Sithembiso Mtanga

wp-2019-51: Vulnerability to natural shocks: Assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in Mozambique

Vincenzo Salvucci and Ricardo Santos

wp-2019-50: Subsidized labour and firms: Investment, profitability, and leverage

Isaac Marcelin, Daniel Brink, David Fadiran and Hammed Adedeji Amusa

wp-2019-49: An analysis of school dropout in Mozambique, 2014-15

Félix Mambo, Maren Basso, Vincenzo Salvucci and Ricardo Santos

wp-2019-48: Spreading the gains?: Prospects and policies for the development of regional value chains in Southern Africa

Anthony Black, Lawrence Edwards, Faizel Ismail, Brian Makundi and Mike Morris

wp-2019-47: Earnings and employment microdata in South Africa

Andrew Kerr and Martin Wittenberg

wp-2019-46: Resource misallocation and total factor productivity: Manufacturing firms in South Africa

Carol Newman, John Rand and Mpho Tsebe

wp-2019-45: Measuring wealth inequality in South Africa: An agenda

Aroop Chatterjee

wp-2019-44: How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?

Nicholas Apergis and Arusha Cooray

wp-2019-43: Digital technologies and 'value' capture in global value chains: Empirical evidence from Indian manufacturing firms

Karishma Banga

wp-2019-42: Inequality in India: A review of levels and trends

Himanshu Himanshu

wp-2019-41: The individual poverty incidence of growth

Maria Lo Bue and Flaviana Palmisano

wp-2019-40: Beyond access to basic services: Perspectives on the social determinants of health in Mozambique

Alba Llop-Gironés and Sam Jones

wp-2019-39: The effect of foreign competition on family and network labour allocation

Margaryta Klymak

wp-2019-38: Motorcycle parts and aftermarket industry regional value chain in Southern Africa

Sithembiso Mtanga and Richard McCamel

wp-2019-37: The contribution of services to trade and development in Southern Africa

Justin Visagie and Ivan Turok

wp-2019-36: Evaluating the impact of global oil prices on the SADC and the potential for increased trade in biofuels and natural gas within the region

Alfred Moyo

wp-2019-35: The impact of a higher leverage ratio on the South African economy

Rob Davies, Laurence Harris and Konstantin Makrelov

wp-2019-34: The wage-setting power of firms: Rent-sharing and monopsony in South Africa

Ihsaan Bassier

wp-2019-33: The distributional impact of structural transformation in rural India: Model-based simulation and case-study evidence

Chris Elbers and Peter Lanjouw

wp-2019-32: The size distribution of monetary policy effects among South African manufacturing firms: Firm-level evidence from administrative tax data

Keagile Lesame

wp-2019-31: Gender and the South African labour market: Policy relevant research possibilities using South African tax data

Amina Ebrahim and Kezia Lilenstein

wp-2019-30: Trade liberalization and South African manufacturing: Looking back with data

Ciaran Driver

wp-2019-29: The effect of real exchange rate volatility on income distribution in South Africa

Goodness C. Aye and Laurence Harris

wp-2019-28: Can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment?: Evidence from South Africa

Amina Ebrahim and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2019-27: The creation of an individual panel using administrative tax microdata in South Africa

Amina Ebrahim and Christopher Axelson

wp-2019-26: Black cat, white cat: Lessons to be learned from ASEAN

Sandy Lowitt

wp-2019-25: Snakes and ladders and loaded dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa, 2008-2017

Rocco Zizzamia, Simone Schotte and Murray Leibbrandt

wp-2019-24: Inequality and the generational economy: Race-disaggregated National Transfer Accounts for South Africa, 2015

Morne Oosthuizen

wp-2019-23: Self-selection of Mexican migrants in the presence of random shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907

David Escamilla-Guerrero and Moramay Lopez-Alonso

wp-2019-22: Institutional bypass and aid effectiveness in Africa

Michael Chasukwa and Dan Banik

wp-2019-21: A Pre-Prototype 2015 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Myanmar

Dirk van Seventer, Finn Tarp, Nyo Nyo San and Khin Ohnmar Myint Thein