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11174: Engineering Ukraine’s Wirtschaftswunder

Ufuk Akcigit, Furkan Kilic, Somik V. Lall and Solomiya Shpak

11173: The Future of Poverty: Projecting the Impact of Climate Change on Global Poverty through 2050

Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez, Minh Cong Nguyen and Paul Andres Corral Rodas

11172: Exports, Labor Markets, and the Environment: Evidence from Brazil

Carlos Andre Bezerra De Goes, Otavio Canozzi Conceicao, Gabriel Lara Ibarra and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

11171: Impact of Heat Waves on Learning Outcomes and the Role of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Peru

Juan Jose Miranda Montero and Cesar Contreras

11170: The Asymmetric Bank Distress Amplifier of Recessions

Dohan Kim

11169: From Tailwinds to Headwinds: Emerging and Developing Economies in the Twenty-First Century

Mirco Balatti Mozzanica, Ayhan Kose, Kate Frances Mckinnon, Edoardo Palombo, Naotaka Sugawara, Guillermo Verduzco Bustos and Dana Vorisek

11168: Exploring Household Recovery after a Disaster in a Conflict Setting: The Case of the June-November 2022 Nigerian Floods

Karima Ben Bih, Bramka Arga Jafino, Chloe Genevieve Helene Desjonqueres and Mikhail Sirenko

11167: Unpacking the Disaster-FCV Nexus: Household Economic Impacts of Conflict and Floods in Nigeria

Karima Ben Bih, Bramka Arga Jafino, Chloe Genevieve Helene Desjonqueres and Solene Masson

11166: Intergenerational Income Mobility around the World: A New Database

Ercio Muñoz Saavedra and Roy Van der Weide

11165: A “Big Push” Through the Finish Line: Evidence from a Composite Scholarship for Ugandan Students

Benedetta Lerva, Denise Ferris and Margherita Fornasari

11164: Trade's Emissions Paradox: Cutting Greenhouse Gases, Raising Air Pollution

Ebad Ebadi and Enrique Aldaz-Carroll

11163: Inequality, Education, and Occupational Change in the Philippines

Nadia Belhaj Hassine Belghith, Francine Claire Chang Fernandez and Benjamin Aaron Lavin

11162: The Impact of Credential Recognition: Evidence from Venezuelan Health Professionals in Peru

Javier Torres, Pablo Ariel Acosta and Gustavo Javier Canavire Bacarreza

11161: Environmental Stringency and Firms’ Participation in Global Value Chains: Evidence for MENA Countries

Nada Hazem and Chahir Zaki

11160: Climate Change Negotiations under the Shadow of History

Sheheryar Banuri, Ha Nguyen and Ernest John Sergenti

11159: Soaring Food Prices Threaten Recent Economic Gains in the EU

Monica Robayo-Abril, Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti, Lukas Delgado-Prieto and Reena Badiani-Magnusson

11158: Modeling Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Urban Heat in Bangkok

Juan A. Acero, Vivek K. Sinh and Steven Louis Rubinyi

11157: Economics of Household Cooking Using Electricity in Nepal

Sunil Malla, Govinda R. Timilsina and Martin Heger

11156: Expansionary Fiscal Consolidation Under Sovereign Risk

Carlos Esquivel and Agustin Samano

11155: Antitrust Enforcement and Firm Performance: Evidence from Colombia’s Sugar Market

James Sampi and Ekaterina Vostroknutova

11154: Global Stock-Take of Fuel Subsidies and Pricing Policies

Elcin Akcura

11153: A Global Assessment of Domestic Petroleum Fuel Prices

Elcin Akcura

11152: Gender Discrimination in Entrepreneurial Finance: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

Niklas Buehren and Sreelakshmi Papineni

11151: Conscious Coupling: Impact of a Skills Intervention to Address Intrahousehold Constraints for Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia

Sophia Friedson-Ridenour, Adiam Hagos Hailemicheal, Dumebi Uzoabaka Ochem and Sreelakshmi Papineni

11150: Double Burden, Unequal Ground: Childcare Challenges and Work-Family Conflict for Low-Income Mothers in Urban Burkina Faso

Fiona Gedeon Achi, Sophia Friedson-Ridenour, Rachael Susan Pierotti, Nathalie Ouangraoua and Alis Bambara

11149: Geopolitical Fragmentation and Friendshoring: Evidence from Project-Level Foreign Investment Data

Arti Grover and Pierre-Louis Vézina

11148: Contraceptive Concordance

Sarah Vincent, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, S Anukriti and Mahesh Karra

11147: Wealth, Marriage, and Sex Selection

Girija Borker, Jan Eeckhout, Nancy Luke, Shantidani Minz, Kaivan Munshi and Soumya Swaminathan

11146: Accelerating Learning in Ecuador's Technical Institutes: The Impact of Using Mixed Reality to Teach Auto-Mechanics

Diego Angel-Urdinola and Marjorie H Chinen

11145: Crowding Out and Banking Crises

Pablo Daniel Hernando Kaminsky

11144: Effects of COVID-19 on Student Learning: Assessing Learning Losses Using Adaptive Technology

Juan Baron, José Mola, Astrid Camille Pineda and Paola Patricia Polanco Santos

11143: Luck of the Draw: The Causal Effect of Physicians on Birth Outcomes

Christian Posso Suarez, Jorge Tamayo, Arlen Yahir Guarin Galeano and Estefania Saravia

11142: Barriers to Entry: Decomposing the Gender Gap in Job Search in Urban Pakistan

Elisabetta Gentile, Nikita Kohli, Nivedhitha Subramanian, Zunia Tirmazee and Kate Vyborny

11141: Where and How is Money Spent on International Migration and Refugees by World Bank Operational Projects ?

David McKenzie, Charlotte Müller and Pablo Ariel Acosta

11140: Do Formal Loans Boost SME Performance ? Key Takeaways from a Meta-Analysis

Miriam Bruhn, Johan Andrey Ortega Hernandez and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

11139: Territorial Inequalities: A Note on State Discontinuity

Lidia Ceriani, Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva and Samuel David Restrepo Oyola

11138: The Earlier the Better? Cash Transfers for Drought Response in Niger

Ashley Charlotte Pople, Patrick Premand, Stefan Dercon, Margaux Vinez and Stephanie Brunelin

11137: Global Poverty Revisited Using 2021 PPPs and New Data on Consumption

Elizabeth Mary Foster, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Christoph Lakner and Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah

11136: Industrial Policy under Constraints: Evidence from Pakistan’s Export Subsidy Schemes

Stefania Lovo and Gonzalo Varela

11135: From Patriarchy to Policy: Norms, Votes, and Gender Equal Laws

Maurizio Bussolo, Jonah Matthew Rexer and Lynn Hu

11134: Yield Gains from Balancing Fertilizer Use: Evidence from Eastern India

Julian Arteaga and Klaus W. Deininger

11133: The Macroeconomic Implications of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Options: A Modeling Approach

Kodzovi Abalo, Brent Boehlert, Thanh Bui, Andrew Burns, Diego Castillo, Unnada Chewpreecha, Alexander Haider, Stephane Hallegatte, Charl Jooste, Florent McIsaac, Heather Jane Ruberl, Kim Smet and Ken Strzepek

11132: Forecast Sensitivity to Global Risks: A BVAR Analysis

Heather Jane Ruberl, Remzi Baris Tercioglu and Adam Elderfield

11131: Rethinking Fiscal Policies: Tackling Inequality and Poverty in the Middle East and Noth Africa Region

Alan Fuchs, Beenish Amjad and Mario Julian Loayza Grisi

11130: Tradeoffs over Rate Cycles: Activity, Inflation and the Price Level

Kristin Forbes, Jongrim Ha and Ayhan Kose

11129: Global Socio-economic Resilience to Natural Disasters

Robin Middelanis, Bramka Arga Jafino, Ruth Hill, Minh Cong Nguyen and Stephane Hallegatte

11128: Assessing Workplace Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills in Africa: The ESTEEM Framework

Vic Marsh, Clara Delavallade, Smita Das, Léa Rouanet, Tricia Koroknay-Palicz and Dawn McDaniel

11127: Beyond Aggregates: A Sector-Specific Framework for Long-Term Growth Modeling

Charl Jooste and Remzi Baris Tercioglu

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 Calì 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 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 Poltoratskaia, 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