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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

9925: Hidden Defaults

Sebastian Andreas Horn, Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch

9924: Anatomy of Brazil’s Subjective Well-Being: A Tale of Growing Discontent and Polarization in the 2010s

Martijn Burger, Martijn Hendriks and Elena Ianchovichina

9923: Resource-Backed Loans in Sub-Saharan Africa

David Mihalyi, Jyhjong Hwang, Diego Rivetti and James Cust

9922: Demand and Supply Shocks: Evidence from Corporate Earning Calls

Franz Ruch and Temel Taskin

9921: The Returns to Innovation in East Asia: The Role of the Business Environment and Firms' Characteristics

Francesca de Nicola and Pinyi Chen

9920: Public Debt Reporting in Developing Countries

Diego Rivetti

9919: Women in Paid Employment: A Role for Public Policies and Social Norms in Guatemala

Rita Kullberg Almeida and Mariana Viollaz

9918: Can Economics Become More Reflexive ? Exploring the Potential of Mixed-Methods

Vijayendra Rao

9917: Social Cohesion and Refugee-Host Interactions: Evidence from East Africa

Alexander Milton Stedman Betts, Maria Flinder Stierna, Naohiko Omata and Olivier Sterck

9916: Local Peace Agreements and the Return of IDPs with Perceived ISIL Affiliation in Iraq

Jacqueline Margarethe Parry and Olga Aymerich

9915: How Do Shared Experiences of Economic Shocks Impact Refugees and Host Communities ? Evidence from Afghan Refugees in Iran

Mohammad Hoseini and Mahsa Jahan Dideh

9914: Labor Market Integration, Local Conditions and Inequalities: Evidence from Refugees in Switzerland

Tobias Müller, Pia Pannatier and Martina Giorgia Viarengo

9913: Forced Migration, Social Cohesion and Conflict: The 2015 Refugee Inflow in Germany

Emanuele Albarosa and Benjamin Elsner

9912: Long-Term Effects of the 1923 Mass Refugee Inflow on Social Cohesion in Greece

Elie Murard

9911: The Impacts of Lockdown Policies on International Trade in the Philippines

Guillermo Carlos Arenas, Socrates Kraido Majune and Angella Montfaucon

9910: Exploring the Urban Model: Employment, Housing, and Infrastructure

Daniel Marbod Sturm, Kohei Takeda and Anthony Venables

9909: Heat, Crime, and Punishment

Arnold Behrer and Valentin Bolotnyy

9908: Nonclassical Measurement Error and Farmers’ Response to Information Reveal Behavioral Anomalies

Kibrom A. Abay, Christopher Barrett, Talip Kilic, Heather G. Moylan, John Ilukor and Wilbert Drazi Vundru

9907: Illicit Schemes: Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reforms and the Role of Tax Evasion and Smuggling

Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Nobuhiro Hosoe

9906: Sovereign Bonds since Waterloo

Josefin Meyer, Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch

9905: Surveying Informal Businesses: Methodology and Applications

Gemechu A. Aga, David C. Francis, Filip Jolevski, Jorge Rodriguez Meza and Joshua Seth Wimpey

9904: The Effects of Subsidizing Social Security Contributions: Job creation or Informality Reduction ?

Gunes Asik, Laurent Bossavie, Jochen Kluve, Selin Efsan Nas Ozen, Metin Nebiler and Ana Maria Oviedo Silva

9903: Understanding Public Spending Trends for Infrastructure in Developing Countries

Vivien Foster, Anshul Rana and Nisan Gorgulu

9902: COVID-19 and Economic Inequality: Short-Term Impacts with Long-Term Consequences

Ambar Narayan, Alexandru Cojocaru, Sarthak Agrawal, Tom Bundervoet, Maria Eugenia Davalos, Natalia Garcia, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Veronica Sonia Montalva Talledo, Andrey Ten and Nishant Yonzan

9901: FDI and Trade Outcomes at the Industry Level—A Data-Driven Approach

Jean-Christophe Maur, Milan Nedeljkovic and Erik von Uexkull

9900: Multidimensionality of Land Ownership among Men and Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

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

9899: Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region

Mathilde Lebrand