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10024: Displacement and Return in the Internet Era: How Social Media Captures Migration Decisions in Northern Syria Downloads
Erin Elizabeth Walk, Kiran Garimella and Fotini Christia
10023: Superstitions and Civilian Displacement: Evidence from the Colombian Conflict Downloads
Oliver Ross Kaplan
10022: Displacement and Social Empowerment: Evidence from Surveys of IDPs in Iraq, the Philippines, and Uganda Downloads
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 Downloads
Dejan Kovac, Adnan Efendic and Jacob N. Shapiro
10020: Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Kristen Himelein
10017: Benefits and Costs of Public Schooling in Ghana Downloads
Dhushyanth Raju and Stephen D. Younger
10016: Intimate Partner Violence against Women: Prevalence, Formal Reporting, and Risk Factors in Chile Downloads
Trinidad Berenice Saavedra Facusse, Juan Manuel Contreras Urbina and Gabriela Inchauste
10015: Calamities, Debt, and Growth in Developing Countries Downloads
Rachel Yuting Fan, Daniel Lederman, Ha Nguyen and Claudio Rojas Guzmán
10014: Rapid Urban Growth in Flood Zones: Global Evidence since 1985 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Markus Goldstein, Paula Lorena Gonzalez Martinez, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Joshua Seth Wimpey
10011: The Gender Labor Productivity Gap across Informal Firms Downloads
Asif Islam and Mohammad Amin
10010: Rising Incomes, Transport Demand, and Sector Decarbonization Downloads
Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand and Ewane Theophile
10009: Unequal Households or Communities ? Decomposing the Inequality in Nutritional Status in South Asia Downloads
Caitlin Brown, Eeshani Kandpal, Jean Lee and Anaise Williams
10008: Absolute and Relative Poverty Measurement: A Survey Downloads
Benoît Decerf
10007: Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in Uganda Downloads
Aziz Atamanov, Chris Ndatira Mukiza and Vincent Fred Ssennono
10006: Estimating the Demand for Informal Public Transport: Evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar Downloads
Atsushi Iimi
10005: Air Pollution and Poverty: PM2.5 Exposure in 211 Countries and Territories Downloads
Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Nadia Leonova
10004: Near-Real-Time Welfare and Livelihood Impacts of an Active Civil War: Evidence from Ethiopia Downloads
Kibrom A. Abay, Kibrom Tafere, Guush Berhane, Jordan Chamberlin and Mehari Abay
10003: The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Children in Kenya Downloads
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 Downloads
Selvia Arshad and Robert Beyer
10001: Welfare and Environmental Benefits of Electric Vehicle Tax Policies in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombia Downloads
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 Downloads
Simon Alder, Kevin Croke, Alice Duhaut, Robert Andrew Marty and Ariana Vaisey
9999: Talk or Text ? Evaluating Response Rates by Remote Survey Method during COVID-19 Downloads
Sofia Fernando Monteiro Amaral, Lelys Dinarte Diaz, Patricio Dominguez, Santiago Perez-Vincent and Steffanny Romero
9998: FDI, Market Power, and Markups: Evidence from Vietnam Downloads
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 Downloads
Sheng Fang, Chorching Goh, Shaomin Li and Lixin Xu
9996: Impacts of Temporary Migration on Development in Origin Countries Downloads
Laurent Bossavie and Caglar Ozden
9995: Million Dollar Plants and Retail Prices Downloads
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 Downloads
Sutirtha Sinha Roy and Roy van der Weide
9993: A Few Good Masks: Evidence from Mask Manufacturing in Rwanda during the COVID-19 Pandemic Downloads
Kieran Thomas Byrne, Florence Kondylis, John Ashton Loeser and Denis Mukama
9992: Fathoming Shipping Costs: An Exploration of Recent Literature, Data, and Patterns Downloads
Adina Teodora Ardelean, Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Alexandre Skiba and David Michael Terner
9991: Globally Engaged Firms in the COVID-19 Crisis Downloads
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 Downloads
Roman David Zarate Vasquez
9989: Cash Transfers after Ebola in Guinea: Lessons Learned on Human Capital Downloads
Damien de Walque and Dimitris Mavridis
9988: Economic Integration, Industrial Structure, and Catch-up Growth: Firm-Level Evidence from Poland Downloads
Paulo S. R. Bastos, Stefania Lovo, Gonzalo Varela and Jan Hagemejer
9987: Individual Wealth Inequality: Measurement and Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries Downloads
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 Downloads
Mark Dean and Anja Sautmann
9985: Attitudes and Policies toward Refugees: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries Downloads
Cevat Giray Aksoy and Thomas Clinton Ginn
9984: Late Banking Transitions: Comparing Uzbekistan to Earlier Reformers Downloads
Davit Babasyan, Yunfan Gu and Martin Melecký
9983: The Geography of Displacement, Refugees’ Camps and Social Conflicts Downloads
Nicola Coniglio, Vito Peragine and Davide Vurchio
9982: Immigration, Labor Markets and Discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Peru Downloads
Andre Groeger, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta and Steven Stillman
9981: Inclusive Refugee-Hosting in Uganda Improves Local Development and Prevents Public Backlash Downloads
Yang-Yang Zhou, Guy Grossman and Shuning Ge
9980: Effectiveness of Government Support for the Private Sector during the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from El Salvador and Georgia Downloads
Nona Karalashvili and M Nazim Tamkoc
9979: Where Are All the Jobs ? A Machine Learning Approach for High Resolution Urban Employment Prediction in Developing Countries Downloads
Samira Barzin, Paolo Avner, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and O’Clery,Neave
9978: Saving Lives through Technology: Mobile Phones and Infant Mortality Downloads
Justice Tei Mensah, Kibrom Tafere and Kibrom A. Abay
9977: Proximity without Productivity: Agglomeration Effects with Plant-Level Output and Price Data Downloads
Arti Goswami Grover and William F. Maloney
9976: Roads, Electricity, and Jobs: Evidence of Infrastructure Complementarity in Sub-Saharan Africa Downloads
Mansoureh Abbasi , Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand, Arcady Bluette Mongoue, Roland Pongou and Fan Zhang
9975: How Resilient Was Trade to COVID-19 ? Downloads
Maria Bas, Ana Fernandes and Caroline Paunov
9974: Estimating a Poverty Trend for Nigeria between 2009 and 2019 Downloads
Jonathan William Lain, Marta Schoch and Tara Vishwanath
9973: Globalization and Factor Income Taxation Downloads
Pierre Jean Bachas, Matthew Fisher-Post, Anders Jensen and Gabriel Zucman
9972: Fiscal Risks from Early Termination of Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure Downloads
Matias Herrera Dappe, Martin Melecký and Burak Turkgulu
9971: State-Owned Enterprises as Countercyclical Instruments: Experimental Evidence from the Infrastructure Sector Downloads
Matias Herrera Dappe, Aldo Musacchio, Carolina Pan, Yadviga Viktorivna Semikolenova, Burak Turkgulu and Jonathan Barboza Pineda
9970: Smoke and Mirrors: Infrastructure State-Owned Enterprises and Fiscal Risks Downloads
Matias Herrera Dappe, Aldo Musacchio, Carolina Pan, Yadviga Viktorivna Semikolenova, Burak Turkgulu and Jonathan Barboza Pineda
9969: Infrastructure State-Owned Enterprises: A Tale of Inefficiency and Fiscal Dependence Downloads
Matias Herrera Dappe, Aldo Musacchio, Carolina Pan, Yadviga Viktorivna Semikolenova, Burak Turkgulu and Jonathan Barboza Pineda
9968: Measuring Disaster Crop Production Losses Using Survey Microdata: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa Downloads
Yannick Markhof, Giulia Ponzini and Philip Randolph Wollburg
9967: Targeting in Tax Compliance Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Honduras Downloads
Giselle Del Carmen, Edgardo Enrique Espinal Hernandez and Thiago Scot
9966: Beyond Money: Does Migration Experience Transfer Gender Norms ? Empirical Evidence from Kerala, India Downloads
George Joseph, Qiao Wang, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Emcet Tas, Luis Andres, Syed Usman Javaid and Irudaya Rajan
9965: Assessing the Effects of Natural Resources on Long-Term Growth: An Extension of the World Bank Long Term Growth Model Downloads
Norman Loayza, Arthur Galego Mendes, Fabian Mendez Ramos and Steven Michael Pennings
9964: The Impact of Covid-19 on Household Welfare in the Comoros: The Experience of a Small Island Developing State Downloads
Vibhuti Mendiratta, Olive Umuhire Nsababera and Hannah Sam
9963: The Labor Market Implications of Restricted Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya: Evidence from Nationally Representative Phone Surveys Downloads
Markus Heemann, Utz Pape and Sebastian Vollmer
9962: Crypto-Assets Activity around the World: Evolution and Macro-Financial Drivers Downloads
Erik H.B. Feyen, Yusaku Kawashima and Raunak Mittal
9961: Nudging in the Time of the Coronavirus: Evidence from an Experimental Tax Trial in Albania at the Onset of a Global Pandemic Downloads
Jonathan George Karver, Hilda Shijaku and Christoph T F Ungerer
9960: Impact of COVID-19 on Labor Market Outcomes of Refugees and Nationals in Kenya Downloads
Mirko Vintar, Theresa Parrish Beltramo, Antonia Johanna Sophie Delius, Dennis Timo Egger and Utz Pape
9959: Gender Differences in Household Coping Strategies for COVID-19 in Kenya Downloads
Yuanwei Xu, Antonia Johanna Sophie Delius and Utz Pape
9958: Balancing Work and Childcare: Evidence from COVID-19 School Closures and Reopenings in Kenya Downloads
Pierre E. Biscaye, Dennis Timo Egger and Utz Pape
9957: Socioemotional Skills Development in Highly Violent Contexts: Measurements and Impacts Downloads
Lelys Dinarte Diaz, Pablo Egana-delSol and Claudia Martinez A.
9956: Do Judges Favor Their Own Ethnicity and Gender?: Evidence from Kenya Downloads
Daniel Li Chen, Jimmy Graham, Manuel Ramos Maqueda and Shashank - DIME3 Singh
9955: Pandemic, Climate Mitigation, and Reshoring: Impacts of a Changing Global Economy on Trade, Incomes, and Poverty Downloads
Maksym Chepeliev, Maryla Maliszewska, Israel Osorio-Rodarte, Maria Filipa Seara E Pereira and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
9954: Heterogeneous Agglomeration Economies in the Developing Countries: The Roles of Firm Characteristics, Sector Tradability, and Urban Mobility Downloads
Martijn Burger, Elena Ianchovichina and Prottoy Akbar
9953: Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050 Downloads
Arnold Behrer and Sherrie Wang
9952: Does Foreign Direct Investment Catalyze Local Structural Transformation and Human Capital Accumulation ? Evidence from China Downloads
Yan-000529044 Liu
9951: Global Transition Online Downloads
Alexandros Ragoussis and Jonathan Timmis
9950: How to Cope with a Refugee Shock ? Evidence from Uganda Downloads
Mark Marvin Kadigo, Nene Oumou Diallo and Jean-François Maystadt
9949: Technology and Resilience Downloads
Xavier Cirera, Diego Comin, Marcio Cruz, Kyungmin Lee and Jesica Torres Coronado
9948: Rohingya Refugee Camps and Forest Loss in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: An Inquiry Using Remote Sensing and Econometric Approaches Downloads
Nfamara K Dampha, Colette Salemi and Stephen Polasky
9947: Electronic Payment Technology and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Uruguay’s Financial Inclusion Re form Downloads
Anne Brockmeyer and Magaly Vanessa Saenz Somarriba
9946: Infrastructure Quality and FDI Inflows: Evidence from the Arrival of High-Speed Internet in Africa Downloads
Justice Tei Mensah and Nouhoum-000531164 Traore
9945: The Impact of Internet Access on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa Downloads
Georges Vivien Houngbonon, Justice Tei Mensah and Nouhoum-000531164 Traore
9944: Improving Multi-Topic Household Surveys for Better Transport Policy Analysis Downloads
Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand and Qiuyan Yin
9943: Modeling the Macroeconomic Consequences of Natural Disasters: Capital Stock, Recovery Dynamics, and Monetary Policy Downloads
Stephane Hallegatte, Charl Jooste and Florent McIsaac
9942: A Gender Employment Gap Index (GEGI): A Simple Measure of the Economic Gains from Closing Gender Employment Gaps, with an Application to the Pacific Islands Downloads
Steven Michael Pennings
9941: Assessing the Impact of the 2017 PPPs on the International Poverty Line and Global Poverty Downloads
Dean Jolliffe, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Christoph Lakner, Aziz Atamanov and Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah
9940: The Syrian Refugee Life Study: First Glance Downloads
Edward Miguel, Bailey Palmer, Sandra Viviana Rozo Villarraga, Sarah Virginia Stillman, Emma Smith and Abdulrazzak Tamim
9939: Estimating the Economic and Distributional Impacts of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Downloads
Carmen Estrades, Maryla Maliszewska, Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Maria Filipa Seara E Pereira
9938: Bureaucrats, Tournament Competition, and Performance Manipulation: Evidence from Chinese Cities Downloads
Gang Xu, L. Colin Xu and Ruichao Si
9937: The Distribution of Crisis Credit: Effects on Firm Indebtedness and Aggregate Risk Downloads
Federico Huneeus, Joseph Kaboski, Mauricio Larrain, Sergio Schmukler and Mario Vera
9936: Private Cities: Implications for Urban Policy in Developing Countries Downloads
Martin Rama and Yue Li
9935: Relevance of the World Bank Group’s Early Response to COVID-19: A Cross-Country Sector Analysis Downloads
Dominik Naeher, Raghavan Narayanan and Virginia Ziulu
9934: Addressing Gender-Based Segregation through Information: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Republic of Congo Downloads
Marine Gassier, Léa Rouanet and Lacina Traore
9933: Understanding and Predicting Job Losses due to COVID-19: Empirical Evidence from Middle Income Countries Downloads
Maho Hatayama, Yiruo Li and Theresa Osborne
9932: Scars of Pandemics from Lost Schooling and Experience: Aggregate Implications and Gender Differences Through the Lens of COVID-19 Downloads
Roberto Samaniego, Remi Jedwab, Paul M Romer and Asif Islam
9931: What Do We Know about Poverty in India in 2017/18 ? Downloads
Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Christoph Lakner, Laura Liliana Moreno Herrera, David Newhouse, Sutirtha Roy and Nishant Yonzan
9930: Institutional Voids, Capital Markets and Temporary Migration: Evidence from Bangladesh Downloads
Laurent Bossavie, Joseph-Simon Görlach, Caglar Ozden and He Wang
9929: Debt Vulnerability Analysis: A Multi-Angle Approach: Debt Vulnerability Analysis: A Multi-Angle Downloads
Doerte Doemeland, Marcello Estevão, Charl Jooste, James Sampi and Vasileios Tsiropoulos
9928: Life out of the Shadows: The Impacts of Regularization Programs on the Lives of Forced Migrants Downloads
Ana Ibáñez, Andres Moya, María Adelaida Ortega, Sandra Rozo and Maria Jose Urbina Florez
9927: A Dynamic Model of Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt Accumulation Downloads
Si Guo, Yun Pei and Zoe Xie
9926: When Promising Interventions Fail: Personalized Coaching for Teachers in a Middle-Income Country Downloads
Pedro Manuel Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro, Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo, Ruthy Intriago, Juan Ponce, Norbert Schady and Sarah Schodt
9925: Hidden Defaults Downloads
Sebastian Andreas Horn, Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch
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