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

Emiko Fukase, Yeon Soo Kim and Cristina 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 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 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

9985: Attitudes and Policies toward Refugees: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Cevat Giray Aksoy and Thomas Clinton Ginn

9984: Late Banking Transitions: Comparing Uzbekistan to Earlier Reformers

Davit Babasyan, Yunfan Gu and Martin Melecký

9983: The Geography of Displacement, Refugees’ Camps and Social Conflicts

Nicola Coniglio, Vito Peragine and Davide Vurchio

9982: Immigration, Labor Markets and Discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Peru

Andre Groeger, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta and Steven Stillman

9981: Inclusive Refugee-Hosting in Uganda Improves Local Development and Prevents Public Backlash

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

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

Samira Barzin, Paolo Avner, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and O’Clery,Neave

9978: Saving Lives through Technology: Mobile Phones and Infant Mortality

Justice Tei Mensah, Kibrom Tafere and Kibrom A. Abay

9977: Proximity without Productivity: Agglomeration Effects with Plant-Level Output and Price Data

Arti Goswami Grover and William F. Maloney

9976: Roads, Electricity, and Jobs: Evidence of Infrastructure Complementarity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mansoureh Abbasi , Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand, Arcady Bluette Mongoue, Roland Pongou and Fan Zhang

9975: How Resilient Was Trade to COVID-19 ?

Maria Bas, Ana Fernandes and Caroline Paunov

9974: Estimating a Poverty Trend for Nigeria between 2009 and 2019

Jonathan William Lain, Marta Schoch and Tara Vishwanath

9973: Globalization and Factor Income Taxation

Pierre Jean Bachas, Matthew Fisher-Post, Anders Jensen and Gabriel Zucman

9972: Fiscal Risks from Early Termination of Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure

Matias Herrera Dappe, Martin Melecký and Burak Turkgulu

9971: State-Owned Enterprises as Countercyclical Instruments: Experimental Evidence from the Infrastructure Sector

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

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

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

Yannick Markhof, Giulia Ponzini and Philip Randolph Wollburg

9967: Targeting in Tax Compliance Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Honduras

Giselle Del Carmen, Edgardo Enrique Espinal Hernandez and Thiago Scot

9966: Beyond Money: Does Migration Experience Transfer Gender Norms ? Empirical Evidence from Kerala, India

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

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

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

Markus Heemann, Utz Pape and Sebastian Vollmer

9962: Crypto-Assets Activity around the World: Evolution and Macro-Financial Drivers

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

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

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

Yuanwei Xu, Antonia Johanna Sophie Delius and Utz Pape

9958: Balancing Work and Childcare: Evidence from COVID-19 School Closures and Reopenings in Kenya

Pierre E. Biscaye, Dennis Timo Egger and Utz Pape

9957: Socioemotional Skills Development in Highly Violent Contexts: Measurements and Impacts

Lelys Dinarte Diaz, Pablo Egana-delSol and Claudia Martinez A.

9956: Do Judges Favor Their Own Ethnicity and Gender?: Evidence from Kenya

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

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

Martijn Burger, Elena Ianchovichina and Prottoy Akbar

9953: Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050

Arnold Behrer and Sherrie Wang

9952: Does Foreign Direct Investment Catalyze Local Structural Transformation and Human Capital Accumulation ? Evidence from China

Yan-000529044 Liu

9951: Global Transition Online

Alexandros Ragoussis and Jonathan Timmis

9950: How to Cope with a Refugee Shock ? Evidence from Uganda

Mark Marvin Kadigo, Nene Oumou Diallo and Jean-François Maystadt

9949: Technology and Resilience

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

Nfamara K Dampha, Colette Salemi and Stephen Polasky

9947: Electronic Payment Technology and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Uruguay’s Financial Inclusion Re form

Anne Brockmeyer and Magaly Vanessa Saenz Somarriba

9946: Infrastructure Quality and FDI Inflows: Evidence from the Arrival of High-Speed Internet in Africa

Justice Tei Mensah and Nouhoum-000531164 Traore

9945: The Impact of Internet Access on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa

Georges Vivien Houngbonon, Justice Tei Mensah and Nouhoum-000531164 Traore

9944: Improving Multi-Topic Household Surveys for Better Transport Policy Analysis

Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand and Qiuyan Yin

9943: Modeling the Macroeconomic Consequences of Natural Disasters: Capital Stock, Recovery Dynamics, and Monetary Policy

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

Steven Michael Pennings

9941: Assessing the Impact of the 2017 PPPs on the International Poverty Line and Global Poverty

Dean Jolliffe, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Christoph Lakner, Aziz Atamanov and Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah

9940: The Syrian Refugee Life Study: First Glance

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

Carmen Estrades, Maryla Maliszewska, Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Maria Filipa Seara E Pereira

9938: Bureaucrats, Tournament Competition, and Performance Manipulation: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Gang Xu, L. Colin Xu and Ruichao Si

9937: The Distribution of Crisis Credit: Effects on Firm Indebtedness and Aggregate Risk

Federico Huneeus, Joseph Kaboski, Mauricio Larrain, Sergio Schmukler and Mario Vera

9936: Private Cities: Implications for Urban Policy in Developing Countries

Martin Rama and Yue Li

9935: Relevance of the World Bank Group’s Early Response to COVID-19: A Cross-Country Sector Analysis

Dominik Naeher, Raghavan Narayanan and Virginia Ziulu

9934: Addressing Gender-Based Segregation through Information: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Republic of Congo

Marine Gassier, Léa Rouanet and Lacina Traore

9933: Understanding and Predicting Job Losses due to COVID-19: Empirical Evidence from Middle Income Countries

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

Roberto Samaniego, Remi Jedwab, Paul M Romer and Asif Islam

9931: What Do We Know about Poverty in India in 2017/18 ?

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

Laurent Bossavie, Joseph-Simon Görlach, Caglar Ozden and He Wang

9929: Debt Vulnerability Analysis: A Multi-Angle Approach: Debt Vulnerability Analysis: A Multi-Angle

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

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

Si Guo, Yun Pei and Zoe Xie

9926: When Promising Interventions Fail: Personalized Coaching for Teachers in a Middle-Income Country

Pedro Manuel Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro, Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo, Ruthy Intriago, Juan Ponce, Norbert Schady and Sarah Schodt