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10085: Social Sustainability, Poverty, and Income: An Empirical Exploration

Jose Cuesta, Alma Lucia Madrigal Correa and Natalia Gisel Pecorari

10084: Natural Disasters and Economic Dynamics: Evidence from the Kerala Floods

Robert Beyer, Abhinav Narayanan and Gogol Thakur

10083: Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate ? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey

Hai-Anh Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh and Paolo Verme

10082: Understanding the Climate Change-Migration Nexus through the Lens of Household Surveys: An Empirical Review to Assess Data Gaps

Marco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano and Adriana Paolantonio

10081: The Welfare Implications of COVID-19 for Fragile and Conflict-Affected Areas

Chrysostomos Tabakis, Gi Khan Ten, Joshua David Merfeld, David Newhouse, Utz Pape and Michael Weber

10080: How Well Can Real-Time Indicators Track the Economic Impacts of a Crisis Like COVID-19 ?

Gi Khan Ten, Joshua David Merfeld, Kibrom Tafere, David Newhouse and Utz Pape

10079: Corporate Debt and Stock Returns: Evidence from U.S. Firms during the 2020 Oil Crash

Rabah Arezki, Caleb Sungwoo Cho, Ha Nguyen and Anh Pham

10078: Geography, Institutions, and Global Cropland Dynamics

Hogeun Park, Harris Selod, Siobhan Murray and Gnanaraj Chellaraj

10077: Combining Survey and Geospatial Data Can Significantly Improve Gender-Disaggregated Estimates of Labor Market Outcomes

Joshua David Merfeld, David Newhouse, Michael Weber and Partha Lahiri

10076: A Welfarist Theory Unifying Monetary and Non-Monetary Poverty Measurement

Benoit Marie A Decerf

10075: How Do Government Transfer Payments Affect Retail Prices and Welfare ? Evidence from SNAP

Justin H. Leung and Hee Kwon (Samuel) Seo

10074: What the Mean Measures of Mobility Miss: Learning About Intergenerational Mobility from Conditional Variance

Md. Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang and Forhad J. Shilpi

10073: The Financial Risk Reduction Provided by Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme

Dhushyanth Raju and Stephen D. Younger

10072: Two Sides of Gender: Sex, Power, and Adolescence

Manisha Shah, Jennifer Seager, Joao H. C. Montalvao Machado and Markus P. Goldstein

10071: Spatial Development and Mobility Frictions in Latin America: Theory-Based Empirical Evidence

Bruno Conte and Elena Ianchovichina

10070: The Demand for Digital and Complementary Skills in Southeast Asia

Wendy Cunningham, Harry Edmund Moroz, Noel Muller and Aivin Vicquierra Solatorio

10069: Intensity-Based Rebating of Emission Pricing Revenues

Christoph Böhringer, Carolyn Fischer and Nicholas Rivers

10068: Trade Policy and Exporters’ Resilience: Evidence from Indonesia

Massimiliano Calì, Devaki Ghose, Angella Montfaucon and Michele Ruta

10067: Financing Vaccine Equity: Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic

Ruchir Agarwal and Tristan Reed

10066: Trade, Transport, and Territorial Development

Kunal Dasgupta and Arti Goswami Grover

10065: Small and Medium Enterprises in Emerging Economies: The Achilles’ Heel of Corporate ESG Responsibility Practices ?

Matteo Ferrazzi and Annamaria Tueske

10064: Green Investment by Firms: Finance or Climate Driven ?

Fotios Kalantzis, Helena Schweiger and Sofia Dominguez

10063: The Human Capital of Firms and the Formal Training of Workers

Asif Islam and Roberta V. Gatti

10062: Management Practices and the Partial Government Ownership of Firms in the Middle East and North Africa Region

Asif Islam and Roberta V. Gatti

10061: Jobs, Access to Credit, and Informality in MENA Countries

Emanuele-000592383 Brancati, Michele Di Maio and Aminur Rahman

10060: Trade and Innovation in MENA

World Bank

10059: Trucking Costs and the Margins of Internal Trade: Evidence from a Trucking Portal in India

Somik V. Lall, Sutirtha Sinha Roy and Forhad J. Shilpi

10058: Is Inequality Systematically Underestimated in Sub-Saharan Africa ? A Proposal to Overcome the Problem

Fabio Clementi, Michele Fabiani, Vasco Molini and Francesco Schettino

10057: Neither by Land nor by Sea: The Rise of Electronic Remittances during COVID-19

Lelys Dinarte Diaz, David Jaume, Eduardo Medina-Cortina and Hernan Winkler

10056: Managing the Fiscal Risks Wrought by PPPs: A Simple Framework and Some Lessons from Chile

Eduardo Engel, Martín Ferrari, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

10055: Policy Preferences in Response to Large Migration Inflows

William Allen, Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Ivan Vargas Silva

10054: The Effects of Internally Displaced Peoples on Consumption and Inequality in Mali

World Bank, Jeremy Foltz and Sakina Shibuya

10053: Inequality and Security in the Aftermath of Internal Population Displacement Shocks: Evidence from Nigeria

Lars Ludolph, Barbora Šedová and Marta Talevi

10052: Refugees, Diversity and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa

Luisito Bertinelli, Rana Cömertpay and Jean-François Maystadt

10051: Measuring What Matters: Principles for a Balanced Data Suite That Prioritizes Problem-Solving and Learning

Kate Bridges and Michael Woolcock

10050: How Binding Is Supervisory Guidance ? Evidence from the European Calendar Provisioning

Franco Fiordelisi, Gabriele Lattanzio and Davide Salvatore Mare

10049: Mobility and Resilience: A Global Assessment of Flood Impacts on Road Transportation Networks

Yiyi He, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Paolo Avner, Jianxi Gao, Xiangyu Yue and John Radke

10048: Firm-Level Input Distortion in Indian States

Ritam Chaurey, Ruchita Manghnani, Viviana Maria Eugenia Perego and Siddharth Sharma

10047: Two Heads Are Better Than One: Agricultural Production and Investment in Côte d’Ivoire

Aletheia Donald, Markus P. Goldstein and Léa Rouanet

10046: A Method to Scale-Up Inter pretative Qualitative Analysis, with an Application to Aspirations in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh

Julian Ashwin, Vijayendra Rao, Monica Rao Biradavolu, Aditya Chhabra, Arshia Haque, Afsana Iffat Khan and Nandini Krishnan

10045: Prospects for Markets for Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes under the Paris Agreement

Jon Strand

10044: Livelihood Impacts of Refugees on Host Communities: Evidence from Ethiopia

Solomon Zena Walelign, Soazic Elise Wang Sonne and Ganesh Kumar Seshan

10043: How Urban Land Titling and Registry Reform Affect Land and Credit Markets: Evidence from Lesotho

Klaus W. Deininger and Daniel Ayalew Ali

10042: Normative Indicators Combining Poverty and Mortality: A Survey

Benoît Decerf

10041: Incentivizing Social Learning for the Diffusion of Climate-Smart Agricultural Techniques

Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Tung Nguyen Huy, Jonas Christoph Guthoff and Daan van Soest

10040: Data Triangulation Strategies to Design a Representative Household Survey of Hosts and Rohingya Displaced in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Jose Endara, Maria Eugenia Genoni, Afsana Iffat Khan, Walker Turnbull Kosmidou-Bradley, Juan Eduardo Munoz, Nethra Palaniswamy and Tara Vishwanath

10039: The Impact of Lifting Firing Restrictions on Firms: Evidence from a State-Level Labor Law Amendment

Sarur Chaudhary and Siddharth Sharma

10038: The Growth and Performance of Affordable Housing Finance Lenders in India

Nadeem M. Karmali and Guillermo J. Rodriguez Ruiz

10037: Does It Matter Where You Grow Up ? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ercio Muñoz Saavedra

10036: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ercio Muñoz Saavedra

10035: School Is Closed: Simulating the Long-Term Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic–Related School Disruptions in Kuwait

Simon Bilo, Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad, Ebtesam AlAnsari, Lama AlHumaidan and Faleh M F E Alrashidi

10034: When Is There Enough Data to Create a Global Statistic ?

Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Umar Serajuddin and Hiroko Maeda

10033: An Analysis of COVID-19 Student Learning Loss

Harry Patrinos, Emiliana Vegas and Rohan Carter-Rau

10032: Skills, Human Capital, and Economic Development

Sudhakar Satyanarayan Raju and Shobhana Sosale

10031: Housing Demand and Affordability in India: Implications for Housing Policy

Nadeem M. Karmali and Aline Weng

10030: The Legal Profile of Russian Eurobonds: Engineered against Speed

Juan Pablo Farah Yacoub

10029: Effects of Data Collection Methods on Estimated Household Consumption and Survey Costs: Evidence from an Experiment in the Marshall Islands

Michael K. Sharp, Bertrand Buffière, Kristen Himelein, Nathalie Troubat and John Gibson

10028: Women’s Labor Force Participation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: A Study of Social and Psychological Barriers

Sen Iman, Zeina Afif, Varun Gauri and Gohdar Mohamed

10027: Unemployment Benefits, Active Labor Market Policies, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from New Global Data

Hulya Ulku and Dorina Peteva Georgieva

10026: Cash and In-Kind Transfers in Humanitarian Settings: A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps

Dahyeon Jeong and Iva Trako

10025: Exploring the Sources of the Agricultural Productivity Gender Gap: Evidence from Sri Lanka

Emiko Fukase, Yeon Soo Kim and Cristina Andrea Chiarella

10024: Displacement and Return in the Internet Era: How Social Media Captures Migration Decisions in Northern Syria

Erin Elizabeth Walk, Kiran Garimella and Fotini Christia

10023: Superstitions and Civilian Displacement: Evidence from the Colombian Conflict

Oliver Ross Kaplan

10022: Displacement and Social Empowerment: Evidence from Surveys of IDPs in Iraq, the Philippines, and Uganda

Patrick Thierry Vinck, O’Mealia,Thomas, Carol Wei, Abdulrazzaq al-Saiedi, Muslih Irwani and Phuong Ngoc Pham

10021: Forced Displacement, Exposure to Conflict and Long-run Education and Income Inequality: Evidence from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dejan Kovac, Adnan Efendic and Jacob N. Shapiro

10020: Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees

Elaine Kathryn Denny, David Dow, Gabriella Levy and Mateo Villamizar-Chaparro

10019: Social Cohesion, Economic Security, and Forced Displacement in the Long-Run: Evidence from Rural Colombia

Juan Fernando Tellez and Laia Balcells

10018: Determining the Caloric Content of Food Consumed away from Home: An Application to the Construction of a Cost-of-Basic-Needs Poverty Line

Kristen Himelein

10017: Benefits and Costs of Public Schooling in Ghana

Dhushyanth Raju and Stephen D. Younger

10016: Intimate Partner Violence against Women: Prevalence, Formal Reporting, and Risk Factors in Chile

Trinidad Berenice Saavedra Facusse, Juan Manuel Contreras Urbina and Gabriela Inchauste

10015: Calamities, Debt, and Growth in Developing Countries

Rachel Yuting Fan, Daniel Lederman, Ha Nguyen and Claudio Rojas Guzmán

10014: Rapid Urban Growth in Flood Zones: Global Evidence since 1985

Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Paolo Avner, Mattia Marconcini, Rui Su, Emanuele Strano, Louise Alice Karine Bernard, Capucine Anne Veronique Riom and Stephane Hallegatte

10013: New Algorithm to Estimate Inequality Measures in Cross-Survey Imputation: An Attempt to Correct the Underestimation of Extreme Values

Gianni Betti, Vasco Molini and Lorenzo Mori

10012: Childcare, COVID-19 and Female Firm Exit: Impact of COVID-19 School Closure Policies on Global Gender Gaps in Business Outcomes

Markus P. Goldstein, Paula Lorena Gonzalez Martinez, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Joshua Seth Wimpey

10011: The Gender Labor Productivity Gap across Informal Firms

Asif Islam and Mohammad Amin

10010: Rising Incomes, Transport Demand, and Sector Decarbonization

Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand and Ewane Theophile

10009: Unequal Households or Communities ? Decomposing the Inequality in Nutritional Status in South Asia

Caitlin Brown, Eeshani Kandpal, Jean Lee and Anaise Williams

10008: Absolute and Relative Poverty Measurement: A Survey

Benoît Decerf

10007: Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in Uganda

Aziz Atamanov, Chris Ndatira Mukiza and Vincent Fred Ssennono

10006: Estimating the Demand for Informal Public Transport: Evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar

Atsushi Iimi

10005: Air Pollution and Poverty: PM2.5 Exposure in 211 Countries and Territories

Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Nadia Leonova

10004: Near-Real-Time Welfare and Livelihood Impacts of an Active Civil War: Evidence from Ethiopia

Kibrom A. Abay, Kibrom Tafere, Guush Berhane, Jordan Chamberlin and Mehari Abay

10003: The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Children in Kenya

Emma Ward Richardson Cameron, Antonia Johanna Sophie Delius, Amanda Epstein Devercelli, Utz Pape and Samuel Siewers

10002: Tracking Economic Fluctuations in Bangladesh with Electricity Consumption

Selvia Arshad and Robert Beyer

10001: Welfare and Environmental Benefits of Electric Vehicle Tax Policies in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombia

Jerónimo Callejas, Joshua Abraham Linn and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

10000: The Impact of Ethiopia’s Road Investment Program on Economic Development and Land Use: Evidence from Satellite Data

Simon Alder, Kevin Croke, Alice Duhaut, Robert Andrew Marty and Ariana Brynn Vaisey

9999: Talk or Text ? Evaluating Response Rates by Remote Survey Method during COVID-19

Sofia Fernando Monteiro Amaral, Lelys Dinarte Diaz, Patricio Dominguez, Santiago Perez-Vincent and Steffanny Romero

9998: FDI, Market Power, and Markups: Evidence from Vietnam

Yue Li, Ryan Chia Kuo, Mauricio Alejandro Pinzon Latorre and Mark Peter Albertson

9997: Firm Resources, Strategies, and Survival and Growth during COVID-19: Evidence from Two-Wave Global Surveys

Sheng Fang, Chorching Goh, Shaomin Li and Lixin Xu

9996: Impacts of Temporary Migration on Development in Origin Countries

Laurent Bossavie and Caglar Ozden

9995: Million Dollar Plants and Retail Prices

Abhishek Bhardwaj, Devaki Ghose, Saptarshi Mukherjee and Manpreet Singh

9994: Poverty in India Has Declined over the Last Decade But Not As Much As Previously Thought

Sutirtha Sinha Roy and Roy van der Weide

9993: A Few Good Masks: Evidence from Mask Manufacturing in Rwanda during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kieran Thomas Byrne, Florence Kondylis, John Ashton Loeser and Denis Mukama

9992: Fathoming Shipping Costs: An Exploration of Recent Literature, Data, and Patterns

Adina Teodora Ardelean, Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Alexandre Skiba and David Michael Terner

9991: Globally Engaged Firms in the COVID-19 Crisis

Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Arti Goswami Grover, Stavros Poupakis and Santiago Reyes Ortega

9990: Spatial Misallocation, Informality, and Transit Improvements: Evidence from Mexico City

Roman David Zarate Vasquez

9989: Cash Transfers after Ebola in Guinea: Lessons Learned on Human Capital

Damien de Walque and Dimitris Mavridis

9988: Economic Integration, Industrial Structure, and Catch-up Growth: Firm-Level Evidence from Poland

Paulo S. R. Bastos, Stefania Lovo, Gonzalo Varela and Jan Hagemejer

9987: Individual Wealth Inequality: Measurement and Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Ardina Roosiany Hasanbasri, Talip Kilic, Gayatri B. Koolwal and Heather G. Moylan

9986: The Effects of Community Health Worker Visits and Primary Care Subsidies on Health Behavior and Health Outcomes for Children in Urban Mali

Mark Dean and Anja Sautmann