Policy Research Working Paper Series

From The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433.
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Roula I. Yazigi ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

11126: Where You Are Born Matters: Inequality of Opportunities and Intergenerational Mobility across Colombia’s Territory

Maria Davalos and Juan Manuel Monroy Barragan

11125: From Chalkboards to Chatbots: Evaluating the Impact of Generative AI on Learning Outcomes in Nigeria

Martin Elias De Simone, Federico Hernan Tiberti, Maria Rebeca Barron Rodriguez, Federico Alfredo Manolio, Wuraola Mosuro and Eliot Jolomi Dikoru

11124: Navigating the Competition-Stability Nexus in Financial Services: A Dynamic Extension of the Tinbergen Rule

Pietro Calice

11123: Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced Populations

Sandra Rozo and Guy Grossman

11122: Breaking Invisible Barriers: Does Fast Internet Improve Access to Input Markets ?

Banu Demir, Beata Javorcik and Piyush Paritosh Panigrahi

11121: Access to Finance for MSMEs in Ecuador: A Firm-Level Impact Evaluation

Miriam Bruhn, Federico Alfonso Diaz Kalan, Nicolò Fraccaroli and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

11120: VAT Exemptions, Embedded Tax, and Unintended Consequences

William Chandler, Alastair Thomas and Frederic Tremblay

11119: Using Household Surveys and Specialized Enterprise Surveys to Measure Informal Enterprises

Akuffo Amankwah, Hibret Belete Maemir, Pauline Castaing, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Richmond Attah-Ankomah, Diego Zardetto and David C. Francis

11118: Chinese Imports and Industrialization in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia

Marina Ngoma Mavungu

11117: Promoting Innovative Startups: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Tunisia

Nadia Ali, Massimiliano Cali and Bob Rijkers

11116: Labor Market Scarring in a Developing Economy: Stigma versus Lost Human Capital from Plant Closings in Mexico

Francisco Javier Arias Vazquez and Daniel Lederman

11115: Building and Managing Local Databases from Google Earth Engine with the geeLite R Package

Marcell Tamas Kurbucz and Bo Pieter Johannes Andree

11114: Innovative Financial Instruments and Their Role in the Development of Jurisdictional REDD+

Alexander Alexandrovich Golub, Marek Hanusch, Diogo Bardal, Bruce Ian Keith, Daniel Navia Simon and Cornelius Fleischhaker

11113: A Quick-Fix for Perverse Incentives Inherent in Mainstream Multidimensional Poverty Measures

Benoit Marie A Decerf

11112: Cash Is Queen: Local Economy Effects of Cash Transfers to Women in West Africa

Sreelakshmi Papineni, Paula Lorena Gonzalez Martinez, Markus Goldstein and Jed Friedman

11111: Mitigating the Impact of Household Expropriation on Female Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

Francisco Moraes Leitao Campos, Adriana Conconi, Elwyn Davies, Marine Gassier and Markus Goldstein

11110: When Aggregation Misleads: Bias in Unit-Level Small Area Estimates of Poverty with Aggregate Data

Paul Andres Corral Rodas

11109: Costs, Cost-Sharing, and Cost Drivers of a Home Visiting Program: The Case of PADIN in Brazil

Alaka Holla and Yilin Pan

11108: Host Environments and Welfare of In-Camp Refugees: Evidence from Ethiopia

Takaaki Masaki, Nitsuh Mengist Nega and Christina Wieser

11107: Non-Normal Empirical Bayes Prediction of Local Welfare

Chris Elbers and Roy van der Weide

11106: Massive Modular Ecosystems: A Framework for Understanding Complex Industries in the Digital Age

Eric Thun, Daria Taglioni, Timothy J. Sturgeon and Mark P. Dallas

11105: Participation in Pension Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

John Giles, Clement Joubert and Tomoaki Tanaka

11104: Bridging the Gap: Revenue Mobilization in South Asia

Hagen Kruse, Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge, Gabriel Zenon Tourek and Zoe Xie

11103: Labor History and Contribution Density in the Pension System of the Dominican Republic

Ignacio Raul Apella and Gonzalo Zunino

11102: Certified to Stay ? Long-Run Experimental Evidence on Land Formalization and Widows’ Tenure Security in Benin

Ioana Alexandra Botea, Markus Goldstein, Kenneth Houngbedji, Florence Kondylis, Michael B. O'Sullivan and Harris Selod

11101: How Organized Is the Informal Sector ? The Role of Business Associations in Microenterprises in West Africa

Clement Joubert and Kathleen G. Beegle

11100: Capitalizing on Digital Transformation to Enhance the Effectiveness of Property Institutions: Conceptual Background and Evidence from 85 Countries

Klaus W. Deininger, Thea Hilhorst, Jaap Zevenbergen and Emmanuel Nkurunziza

11099: Dry Spells, Urban Swells: Analyzing the Drought-Induced Expansion of Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Rafael Van der Borght, Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Jean Thuret and Joaquin Ignacio Munoz Diaz

11098: Just Transition Risks in the Banking Sector

World Bank

11097: The Role of Market Frictions in Demand for Prepaid Electricity

Megan Elizabeth Lang

11096: Disentangling the Key Economic Channels through Which Infrastructure Affects Jobs

Maria Vagliasindi and Nisan Gorgulu

11095: Women and Climate Adaptation in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Constraints and Research Priorities

Clara Delavallade, Melanie Colette Jacqueline Gittard and Julia Vaillant

11094: Climate Policies are Path-Dependent: Implications for Policy Sequencing and Feasibility

Penelope Ann Mealy, Michael Ganslmeier and Stephane Hallegatte

11093: Global Inequality and Economic Growth: The Three Decades before Covid-19 and Three Decades After

Diana Carolina Garcia Rojas, Nishant Yonzan and Christoph Lakner

11092: Climate Risk and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa

Chitra Balasubramanian, Sandra Baquie and Alan Fuchs

11091: Which Data Do Economists Use to Study Corruption ? A Cross-Section of Corruption Research

James Anderson and Akanksha Baidya

11090: Effective Tax Rates, Firm Size and the Global Minimum Tax

Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Roel Dom and Camille Marine Semelet

11089: Buffering Recessions: Labor Market Asymmetries and the Role of Self-Employment

Prakash Loungani, Emiliano Luttini and Hayley Pallan

11088: TV, TEDx, and Tweets: Measuring the Impacts of a Multi-Pronged Edutainment Program in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan

Ben Fowler, Christopher Joseph Heitzig, Marrium Khan, Renuka Pai and Sakshi Varma

11087: Ten Consequential and Actionable ‘Social’ Contributions to the Theory, Practice, and Evaluation of Development

Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock

11086: Understanding Labor Market Demand in Real Time in Argentina and Uruguay

Evelyn Vezza, Gonzalo Zunino, Luis Laguinge, Harry Edmund Moroz, Ignacio Raul Apella and Marla Hillary Spivack

11085: Procuring Low Growth: The Impact of Political Favoritism on Public Procurement and Firm Performance in Bulgaria

Mihaly Fazekas, Viktoriia Poltoratskaya, Marc Tobias Schiffbauer and Bence Tóth

11084: Impacts and Spillovers of a Low-Cost Multifaceted Economic Inclusion Program in Chad

Patrick Premand and Pascale Schnitzer

11083: Gender Barriers, Structural Transformation, and Economic Development

Gaurav Chiplunkar and Tatjana Kleineberg

11082: Businesses of the State in Brazil: The Impact on Employment and Business Dynamism

Sara Brolhato, Xavier Cirera and Antonio Neto

11081: Firm-Level Climate Change Adaptation: Micro Evidence from 134 Nations

Claudia N. Berg, Luca Bettarelli, Davide Furceri, Michael Ganslmeier, Arti Grover, Megan Elizabeth Lang and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

11080: Rural Non-Farm Employment in Rajasthan: Determinants, Welfare Effects, and Enterprise Performance

Francis Addeah Darko, Akankshita Dey and S. K. Ritadhi

11079: Weather Shocks and Rural Economic Linkages: Evidence from Rajasthan’s Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Sectors

Francis Addeah Darko, Akankshita Dey and S. K. Ritadhi

11078: Seeds of Change: The Impact of Ethiopia’s Direct Seed Marketing Approach on Smallholders’ Seed Purchases and Productivity

Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David Spielman and Frank Place

11077: Collecting Accurate Data on Intimate Partner Violence: Learnings from Pakistan

Nasir Iqbal, Amen Jalal, Mahreen Mahmud and Kate Vyborny

11076: Bridging Conflicts and Biodiversity Protection: The Critical Role of Reliable and Comparable Data

Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and David Wheeler

11075: From Conflict to Compromise: Experimental Evidence on Occupational Downgrading in Migration from Myanmar

Yashodhan Ghorpade and Muhammad Saad Imtiaz

11074: Community Health Workers as Key Providers of Easy-to-Use Contraceptive Injectables: Experimental Evidence from Rural Burundi

Michele Andreottola, Olivier Basenya, Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera, Arndt Reichert and Paula Spinola

11073: Beyond the AI Divide: A Simple Approach to Identifying Global and Local Overperformers in AI Preparedness

Pierre Jean-Claude Mandon

11072: Revisiting the Gains from Trade in EMDEs: The Case of Selected East Asian and East African Economies

Enkhmaa Battogtvor, Socrates Kraido Majune and Angella Montfaucon

11071: Road Investment and Violence in DRC: Perishable Peace Dividends

Mathilde Lebrand, Hannes Mueller, Peer Schouten and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

11070: Effects of a Community-Driven Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Intervention on Diarrhea, Child Growth, and Local Institutions: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Democratic Republic of Congo

John P Quattrochi, Kevin Croke, Caleb Jeremie Dohou, Luca Stanus Ghib, Yannick Bokasola Lokaya, Aidan Coville and Eric Mvukiyehe

11069: Energy Prices, Energy Intensity, and Firm Performance

Reyes Aterido, Mariana Iootty and Martin Melecký

11068: Technology and Corporate Ethical Standards

Marika Carboni, Degl’Innocenti,Marta, Franco Fiordelisi and Davide Salvatore Mare

11067: Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Viet Nam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development ?

Hai-Anh Dang, Shatakshee Dhongde, Minh Do, Cuong Nguyen and Obert Pimhidzai

11066: Dynamic Effects of Fiscal Rules: Do Initial Conditions Matter ?

Antonio Fatas, Bram Gootjes and Joseph Mawejje

11065: Deciding Not to Decide: When Is There Power in Not Deciding ?

Marya Hillesland, Cheryl R. Doss, Serena Masino, Martina Querejeta, Aletheia Amalia Donald, Greg Seymour and Clare Clingain

11064: Decarbonization in MENA Countries: An Empirical Analysis of Policy Impacts

Zeljko Bogetic and Hamid Mohtadi

11063: Does Free Sound Too Cheap ? The Adverse Effect of a Randomized Text Message Campaign on Program Take-up

Jeannie Annan, Mousson Estelle Jamel Koussoube, Josephine Tassy, Léa Rouanet, Clara Delavallade and David Evans

11062: Lying to the Taxman or Accepting a Helping Hand ? Evidence from a Novel Experiment on SMEs in Tanzania

Revocatus Washington Paul, Ephraim Mdee, Massaga Fimbo, Jonathan George Karver, Zain Chaudhry and Christopher Alexander Hoy

11061: The Elusive Impact of Corporate Tax Incentives

Massimiliano Calì, Giorgio Presidente and Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda

11060: Exploring the Gender Divide in Real Estate Ownership and Property Tax Compliance

Tatiana Flores, Guillermo Cruces, Jose Carlo Bermúdez, Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda, Juan Luis Schiavoni and Dario Tortarolo

11059: Design of Partial Population Experiments with an Application to Spillovers in Tax Compliance

Guillermo Cruces, Dario Tortarolo and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare

11058: Dynamic, High-Resolution Wealth Measurement in Data-Scarce Environments

Zhuo Zheng, Timothy Wu, Richard Lee, David Newhouse, Talip Kilic, Marshall Burke, Stefano Ermon and David B. Lobell

11057: The Exposure of Workers to Artificial Intelligence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Gabriel Demombynes, Jorg Gero Langbein and Michael Weber

11056: Does Social Mobility Affect Economic Development ? Cross-Country Analysis Using Different Mobility Measures

Ivan Torre, Michael Lokshin and James Foster

11055: Displaced Learners: Early Integration of Ukrainian Refugee Students into Italy’s Schools

Michela Carlana, Pauline Castaing, Mauro Testaverde and Marco Tiberti

11054: Boosting Data Transparency: A Shared Incentive for Borrowers and Investors

Megumi Kubota

11053: Decentralized Markets for Electricity in Low-Income Countries

Megan Elizabeth Lang

11052: How Do Migrants Fare in Africa’s Urban Labor Markets ?

Luc Christiaensen and Michael Keenan

11051: Technology Sophistication across Establishments

Diego A. Comin, Xavier Cirera and Marcio Cruz

11050: Fixing Nitrogen: Agricultural Productivity, Environmental Fragility, and the Role of Subsidies

Esha Dilip Zaveri

11049: Forced Displacement, the Perpetuation of Autocratic Leadership, and Development in Origin Countries

Nicolás Cabra-Ruiz, Sandra Rozo and María Micaela Sviatschi

11048: Fishing and Climate Change in Coastal Bangladesh: The Economic and Health Impacts of Increasing Salinity

Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, Zahirul Huque Khan, Md. Golam Mustafa and David Wheeler

11047: Growing Vulnerability: What Happened to Europe’s Middle Class in the Course of a Decade ?

Maurizio Bussolo, Jonathan George Karver, Michael Lokshin, Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva and Ivan Torre

11046: Gender Bias, Citizen Participation, and AI

Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva and Natalia Pecorari

11045: Implementing 30x30: Lessons from Country Case Studies

Susmita Dasgupta, Brian Blankespoor and David Wheeler

11044: Determinants of Bank Interest Spreads in Tajikistan

Pietro Calice

11043: Caseloads and Competence in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Fundamental Reassessment of the Human Resources Crisis in Primary Health Care

Benjamin Daniels, Jishnu Das, Roberta V. Gatti and Andres Yi Chang

11042: Housing Subsidies for Refugees: Experimental Evidence on Life Outcomes and Social Integration in Jordan

Abdulrazzak Tamim, Emma Smith, I. Bailey Palmer, Edward Miguel, Samuel Leone, Sandra Rozo and Sarah Stillman

11041: The Gendered Impact of Social Norms on Financial Access and Capital Misallocation

Arti Grover and Mariana Viollaz

11040: The Unintended Impacts of an Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Program: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda

Claire Cullen, Arthur Alik Lagrange, Muthoni Ngatia and Julia Vaillant

11039: Exploring Geospatial-Based Approaches to Develop a Pre-Census National Sampling Frame in Armenia

Saida Ismailakhunova, Avralt-Od Purevjav, Tsenguunjav Byambasuren and Sarchil Qader

11038: Working for Yourself or for Your Kids ? Childcare Expansion Policy in Uzbekistan

Dilnovoz Abdurazzakova, Chiyu Niu and Avralt-Od Purevjav

11037: Fiscal Policy Procyclicality and Volatility in Commodity-Exporting Emerging and Developing Economies: Determinants and Implications for Growth

Francisco Arroyo Marioli and Garima Vasishtha

11036: The Emergence and Diffusion of Green Technologies: Firm-level Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents and Earnings Calls

Paulo Bastos and Lucio Castro

11035: Clean Tech Manufacturing Opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe: Export and Investment Implications

Samuel Rosenow, Sarur Chaudhary Lnu, Gregor Semieniuk and Emilija Timmis

11034: Predicting Income Distributions from Almost Nothing

Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Marta Schoch, Christoph Lakner and Minh Nguyen Nguyet Do

11033: The Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Micro-Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Cross-Section of Women in Mexico

Benjamin Williams, Jesica Torres Coronado and David C. Francis

11032: Estimating the Number of Firms in Africa

Marcio Cruz, Florian Moelders, Edgar Salgado Chavez and Ariane Tamara Volk

11031: Poverty Dynamics in Bhutan, 2017–2022: Evidence from Synthetic Panels

Nicola Amendola, Federico Belotti, Alvin Etang Ndip, Giulia Mancini and Giovanni Vecchi

11030: Global expansion of marine protected areas and the redistribution of fishing effort

Gavin McDonald, Jennifer Bone, Christopher Costello, Gabriel Englander and Jennifer Raynor

11029: Did Program Support for the Poorest Areas Work ? Evidence from Rural Viet Nam

Hai-Anh Dang, Klaus W. Deininger and Cuong Nguyen

11028: The Changing Landscape of Africa’s Growth

Cesar Calderon, Andrew L. Dabalen and Ayan Qu

11027: Unveiling Multidimensional Poverty: Insights from the EU

Monica Robayo-Abril and Lucia Echeverria