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8364: Employment structure and returns to skill in Vietnam: estimates using the labor force survey

Gabriel Demombynes and Mauro Testaverde

8363: Size-dependent tax enforcement and compliance: global evidence and aggregate implications

Pierre Jean Bachas, Roberto Fattal Jaef and Anders Jensen

8362: The performance of a consumption augmented asset index in ranking Households and Identifying the Poor

Diana Ngo and Luc Christiaensen

8361: Analysis of the mismatch between Tanzania household budget survey and national panel survey data in poverty and inequality levels and trends

Nadia Belhaj Hassine Belghith, Maria Adelaida Lopera, Alvin Etang Ndip and Wendy Karamba

8360: Gender differences in poverty and household composition through the life-cycle: a global perspective

Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Paola Buitrago, Benedicte Leroy De La Briere, David Newhouse, Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich, Kinnon Scott and Pablo Suarez Becerra

8359: The reallocation of district-level spending and natural disasters: evidence from Indonesia

Emmanuel Skoufias, Eric Strobl and Thomas Tveit

8358: "If it's already tough, imagine for me..."a qualitative perspective on youth out of school and out of work in Brazil

Ana Luiza Machado and Miriam Muller

8357: Geo-spatial modeling of access to water and sanitation in Nigeria

Luis Alberto Andres, Samir Bhatt, Basab Dasgupta, Juan A. Echenique, Peter William Gething, Jonathan Grabinsky Zabludovsky and George Joseph

8356: India's internal labor migration paradox: the statistical and the real

Gaurav Nayyar and Kyoung Yang Kim

8355: The state of jobs in post-conflict areas of Sri Lanka

David Newhouse and Ani Silwal

8354: Gross capital flows, common factors, and the global financial cycle

Luis-Diego Barrot and Luis Servén

8353: Identifying catch-up trajectories in child growth: new methods with evidence from young lives

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

8352: Decentralization and redistribution: irrigation reform in Pakistan's Indus basin

Hanan G. Jacoby, Ghazala Mansuri and Freeha Fatima

8351: Governing the commons?: water and power in Pakistan's Indus basin

Hanan G. Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri

8350: Wider economic benefits of investments in transport corridors and the role of complementary policies

Martin Melecký, Siddharth Sharma and Hari Subhash

8349: The roots of inequality: estimating inequality of opportunity from regression trees

Paolo Brunori, Paul Hufe and Daniel Gerszon Mahler

8348: A skills-based human capital framework to understand the phenomenon of youth economic disengagement

Diego Angel-Urdinola and Renata Mayer Gukovas

8347: Psychic vs. economic barriers to vaccine take-up: evidence from a field experiment in Nigeria

Ryoko Sato and Yoshito Takasaki

8346: Distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures

Gaurav Datt

8345: Water when it counts: reducing scarcity through irrigation monitoring in Central Mozambique

Paul J. Christian, Florence Kondylis, Valerie Martina Mueller, Astrid Maria Theresia Zwager and Tobias Siegfried

8344: Hit and run ? income shocks and school dropouts in Latin America

Paula Maria Cerutti, Elena Crivellaro, German Jeremias Reyes and Liliana Do Couto Sousa

8343: The role of social ties in factor allocation

Ulrik Beck, Benedikte Alkjaersig Bjerge and Marcel Fafchamps

8342: Finding the poor vs. measuring their poverty: exploring the drivers of targeting effectiveness in Indonesia

Adama Bari Bah, Samuel Bazzi, Sudarno Sumarto and Julia Tobias

8341: Urban transport infrastructure and household welfare: evidence from Colombia

Tobias Pfutze, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan and Daniel Valderrama Gonzalez

8340: Migrants, towns, poverty and jobs: insights from Tanzania

Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Bert Lodewijk M Ingelaere and Ravi Kanbur

8339: Do management interventions last ? evidence from India

Nicholas Bloom, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts

8338: Love the job... or the patient ? task vs. mission-based motivations in health care

Sheheryar Banuri, Philip E. Keefer and Damien B. C. M. De Walque

8337: Unlocking India's logistics potential: the value of disaggregated macroscopic freight flow analysis

Bernard Aritua, Jan Havenga, Zane Paul Simpson and Esther Woon Lyn Chiew

8336: Structural change in west Africa: a tale of gain and loss

Fiseha Haile Gebregziabher

8335: The price elasticity of African elephant poaching

Quy-Toan Do, Andrei A. Levchenko, Lin Ma, Julian Blanc, Tom Milliken and Holly Dublin

8334: Human capital outflows: selection into migration from the Northern Triangle

Giselle Eugenia Del Carmen Hasbun and Liliana Do Couto Sousa

8333: Cash transfers increase trust in local government

David Evans, Brian Holtemeyer and Katrina L. Kosec

8332: Effect of climate policies on labor markets in developing countries: review of the evidence and directions for future research

Marc Andrew Christian Hafstead, Roberton Williams, Alexander Golub, Siet Meijer, Badri G. Narayanan, Kevin Nyamweya and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

8331: Prioritizing water supply infrastructure investments in Sri Lanka: an application of the world bank infrastructure prioritization framework

Darwin Marcelo, Deblina Saha, Aditi Raina and Ruth Schuyler House

8330: Redistribution and group participation: experimental evidence from Africa and the UK

Marcel Fafchamps and Ruth Hill

8329: South Caucasus in motion: economic and social mobility in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

Sailesh Tiwari, Cesar A. Cancho, Moritz Meyer and Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky

8328: Informal sector heterogeneity and income inequality: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Franck M. Adoho and Djeneba Doumbia

8327: Tobacco price elasticity and tax progressivity in Moldova

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Francisco Juan Alberto Meneses Ponzini

8326: Digital technology adoption and jobs: a model of firm heterogeneity

Irene Brambilla

8325: Investment in ICT, productivity, and labor demand: the case of Argentina

Irene Brambilla and Dario Tortarolo

8324: Why are more sovereigns issuing in Euros? Choosing between USD and EUR-denominated bonds

Antonio Velandia-Rubiano and Rodrigo Silveira Veiga Cabral

8323: The impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on firm entry and performance in Turkey

Yusuf Emre Akgunduz, Marcel van den Berg and Wolter Hassink

8322: Relationship between energy intensity and economic growth: new evidence from a multi-country multi-sector data set

Uwe Deichmann, Anna Reuter, Sebastian Vollmer and Fan Zhang

8321: Using satellite imagery to assess impacts of soil and water conservation measures: evidence from Ethiopia's Tana-Beles Watershed

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus W. Deininger and Daniel C. Monchuk

8320: Optimizing finance for development

Tito Cordella

8319: Regional carbon pricing for international maritime transport: challenges and opportunities for global geographical coverage

Goran Dominioni, Dirk Heine and Beatriz Martinez Romera

8318: Broadband internet, labor demand, and total factor productivity in Colombia

Carlos Ospino

8317: The making of behavioral development economics

Allison Davis Demeritt and Karla Hoff

8316: Cyclonic storm landfalls in Bangladesh, west Bengal and Odisha, 1877-2016: a spatiotemporal analysis

Sunando Bandyopadhyay, Susmita Dasgupta, Zahirul Huque Khan and David J. Wheeler

8315: Financial sector strategies and financial sector outcomes: do the strategies perform?

Martin Melecký and Anca Maria Podpiera

8314: Global data set on education quality (1965-2015)

Nadir Altinok, Noam Angrist and Harry Patrinos

8313: The impact of social mobilization on health service delivery and health outcomes: evidence from rural Pakistan

Xavier Gine, Salma Khalid and Ghazala Mansuri

8312: Lessons from reforming financial management information systems: a review of the evidence

Ali Hashim and Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen

8311: The changing way governments talk about poverty and inequality: evidence from two centuries of Latin American presidential speeches

Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez, Axel Eizmendi and German Jeremias Reyes

8310: Winners never quit, quitters never grow: using text mining to measure policy volatility and its link with long-term growth in Latin America

Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez and Axel Eizmendi

8309: A primer on human capital

Luca Flabbi and Roberta V. Gatti

8308: Structural reforms and firms'productivity: evidence from developing countries

Sampawende Tapsoba and Wilfried Kouamé

8307: Female migration in Lesotho: determinants and opportunities

Ioana Alexandra Botea, Nell Compernolle and Shubha Chakravarty

8306: Marital shocks and women's welfare in Africa

Dominique van de Walle and Marie Albertine Djuikom

8305: Impact of phone reminders on survey response rates: evidence from a web-based survey in an international organization

Lode Smets

8304: Simulating pension income scenarios with penCalc: an illustration for India's national pension system

William Joseph Price and Renuka Sane

8303: What explains the gender gap reversal in education ? the role of the tail hypothesis

Laurent Bossavie and Ohto Kanninen

8302: Transport corridors and their wider economic benefits: a critical review of the literature

Mark Roberts, Martin Melecký, Theophile Bougna and Yan-000462055 Xu

8301: Insecurity and industrial organization: evidence from Afghanistan

Ott Toomet, Joshua Evan Blumenstock, Thomas Scherer, Sylvan Rene Herskowitz, Tarek F. Ghani and Ethan B. Kapstein

8300: Cross-border spillover effects of the g20 financial regulatory reforms: results from a pilot survey

Clive Briault, Erik H.B. Feyen, Ines Gonzalez Del Mazo, Jan Rademacher, Brian Kwok Chung Yee and Ilias Skamnelos

8299: Can we measure the power of the grabbing hand?: a comparative analysis of different indicators of corruption

Alexander James Hamilton and Craig Hammer

8295: Can mothers afford to work in Poland: labor supply incentives of social benefits and childcare costs

Matteo Morgandi and Ali Bargu

8290: Preschool and child development under extreme poverty: evidence from a randomized experiment in rural Mozambique

Sebastian Martinez, Sophie Naudeau and Vitor Azevedo Pereira

8289: How (not) to fix problems that matter: assessing and responding to Malawi's history of institutional reform

Katherine Bridges and Michael Woolcock

8288: State ownership of financial institutions in Europe and Central Asia

Aurora Ferrari, Davide Salvatore Mare and Ilias Skamnelos

8287: Cost recovery and financial viability of the power sector in developing countries: a literature review

Joern Torsten Huenteler, Istvan Dobozi, Ani Balabanyan and Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee

8286: Are international banks different? evidence on bank performance and strategy

Ata Can Bertay, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry P. Huizinga

8285: Public infrastructure and structural transformation

Fidel Perez Sebastian and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

8284: Poverty from space: using high-resolution satellite imagery for estimating economic well-being

Ryan Engstrom, Jonathan Samuel Hersh and David Newhouse

8283: Increasing the sustainability of rural water service: findings from the impact evaluation baseline survey in Nicaragua

Christian Borja-Vega, Joshua Sean Gruber and Alexander Matthew Spevack

8282: Data gaps, data incomparability, and data imputation: a review of poverty measurement methods for data-scarce environments

Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Hai-Anh H. Dang, Calogero Carletto, Hai-Anh H. Dang, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe and Calogero Carletto

8281: Business environment and firm performance in European lagging regions

Thomas Farole, Issam Hallak, Peter Harasztosi, Shawn Weiming Tan, Thomas Farole, Issam Hallak, Peter Harasztosi and Shawn Weiming Tan

8280: Quasi-fiscal deficits in the electricity sector of the Middle East and North Africa: sources and size

Daniel Camos, Antonio Estache and Mohamad M. Hamid

8279: The profits of wisdom: the impacts of a business support program in Tanzania

Elena Bardasi, Marine Gassier, Markus P. Goldstein and Alaka Holla

8278: Mobile infrastructure and rural business enterprises: evidence from sim registration mandate in Niger

Francis Annan and Aly Sanoh

8277: The global costs of protectionism

Zornitsa Kutlina-Dimitrova and Csilla Lakatos

8276: Are psychometric tools a viable screening method for small and medium-size enterprise lending ? evidence from Peru

Irani Arraiz, Claudia Ruiz Ortega, Rodolfo Mario Stucchi, Miriam Bruhn, Irani Arraiz, Miriam Bruhn, Claudia Ruiz Ortega and Rodolfo Mario Stucchi

8275: The impact of hurricane strikes on short-term local economic activity: evidence from nightlight images in the Dominican Republic

Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Juan Jose Miranda Montero and Eric Strobl

8274: How do multinationals report their economic, social, and environmental impacts? evidence from global reporting initiative data

Deborah Elisabeth Winkler

8273: Building macro SAMs from cross-country databases: method and matrices for 133 countries

Martín Cicowiez and Hans Lofgren

8272: A GEM for streamlined dynamic CGE analysis: structure, interface, data, and macro application

Martín Cicowiez and Hans Lofgren

8271: Man vs. machine in predicting successful entrepreneurs: evidence from a business plan competition in Nigeria

David McKenzie and Dario Sansone

8270: Mission and the bottom line: performance incentives in a multi-goal organization

Xavier Gine, Ghazala Mansuri and Slesh Anand Shrestha

8269: Appraisal econometrics for proposed transport corridors: optimal placement, intervention design, and wider economic benefits

Martin Melecký

8268: Capital and labor: the factor income composition of top incomes in the United States, 1962-2006

Anthony B. Atkinson and Christoph Lakner

8267: The whys of social exclusion: insights from behavioral economics

Karla Hoff and James Sonam Walsh

8266: The value of reference letters

Simon Martin Abel, Rulof Petrus Burger and Patrizio Piraino

8265: Change management that works: making impacts in challenging environments

Caroline Sian Hughes, Sokbunthoeun So, Erwin Ariadharma and Leah April

8264: Double for nothing ? experimental evidence on an unconditional teacher salary increase in Indonesia

Joppe Jaitze De Ree, Karthik Muralidharan, Menno Prasad Pradhan and F. Rogers

8263: Association of World Bank policy lending with social development policies and institutions

Zeljko Bogetic and Lodewijk Smets

8262: The internet and Chinese exports in the pre-Alibaba era

Ana Margarida Fernandes, Aaditya Mattoo, Huy Le Nguyen and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

8261: Teaching with the test: experimental evidence on diagnostic feedback and capacity building for public schools in Argentina

Rafael De Hoyos, Alejandro Jorge Ganimian and Peter Anthony Holland

8260: Macroeconomic implications of financial imperfections: a survey

Stijn Claessens and Ayhan Kose

8259: Asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes: a survey

Stijn Claessens and Ayhan Kose

8258: A regime-based effect of fiscal policy: evidence from an emerging economy

Bechir Naier Bouzid