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9844: Global Income Poverty Measurement with Preference Heterogeneity: Theory and Application

Benoit Marie A Decerf, Mery Ferrando and Natalie Quinn

9843: Trade Networks in Latin America: Spatial Inefficiencies and Optimal Expansions

Nicole Emily Gorton and Elena Ianchovichina

9842: Impacts of Energy Efficiency Projects in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Spatial Difference-in-Differences Analysis in Malawi

Dominik Naeher, Raghavan Narayanan and Virginia Ziulu

9841: Survey Measurement Errors and the Assessment of the Relationship between Yields and Inputs in Smallholder Farming Systems: Evidence from Mali

Ismael Yacoubou Djima and Talip Kilic

9840: Knowledge and Adoption of Complex Agricultural Technologies: Evidence from an Extension Experiment

Denise Hörner, Adrien Bouguen, Markus Frölich and Meike Wollni

9839: The Pass-Through of International Commodity Price Shocks to Producers’ Welfare: Evidence from Ethiopian Coffee Farmers

Hundanol Atnafu Kebede

9838: Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data: A Revisit with Further Refinements

Hai-Anh Dang, Talip Kilic, Calogero Carletto and Kseniya Abanokova

9837: Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Papua New Guinea

Christopher Hoy, Terence Wood and Ellen Elizabeth Moscoe

9836: The Intergenerational Effects of Economic Sanctions

Safoura Moeeni

9835: A Tale of Two Programs: Assessing Treatment and Control in NREGA Studies

Girish Bahal

9834: Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets

Kate Schneider, Luc Christiaensen, Patrick J. Webb and William Masters

9833: Empowering Migrant Women: Impacts of Amnesties on Crime Reports

Ana Ibáñez, Sandra Rozo and Dany Bahar

9832: International Reserves and Central Bank Independence

Agustin Samano Penaloza

9831: Can Grit Be Taught ? Lessons from a Nationwide Field Experiment with Middle-School Students

Indhira Vanessa Santos, Violeta Petroska-Beska, Pedro Manuel Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Inés Berniell, Christian Krekel, Omar Arias and Angela Lee Duckworth

9830: Introducing the Adequate Housing Index (AHI): A New Approach to Estimate the Adequate Housing Deficit within and across Emerging Economies

Daniela Monika Behr, Lixue Chen, Ankita Goel, Khondoker Tanveer Haider, Sandeep - CSEFI Singh and Asad Zaman

9829: Deep Trade Agreement and Foreign Direct Investments

Edith Laget, Nadia Roch and Gonzalo Varela

9828: Childcare and Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries

Daniel Zefanya Halim, Elizaveta Perova and Sarah Reynolds

9827: Improving the Well-Being of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries

Katy Bergstrom and Berk Özler

9826: A Multi-Country Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Contexts of Forced Displacement

Yeshwas Admasu, Sabina Alkire, Uche Eseosa Ekhator-Mobayode, Fanni Kovesdi, Julieth Santamaria and Scharlin-Pettee[,Sophie

9825: The Risk That Travels with You: Links between Forced Displacement, Conflict and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia and Liberia

Jocelyn TD Kelly, Amalia Hadas Rubin, Uche Eseosa Ekhator-Mobayode and Diana Jimena Arango

9824: The Double Burden of Female Protracted Displacement: Survey Evidence on Gendered Livelihoods in El Fasher, Darfur

Wolfgang Stojetz and Tilman Brück

9823: Multidimensional Poverty, Gender, and Forced Displacement: A Multi-Country, Intrahousehold Analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Yeshwas Admasu, Sabina Alkire and Sophie Scharlin-Pettee

9822: Do Gender Norms Become Less Traditional with Displacement ? The Case of Colombia

Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich

9821: Intimate Partner Violence and Household Decision Making Autonomy: Effects of the Malian Conflict on Women

Uche Eseosa Ekhator-Mobayode, Jocelyn Thalassa Deverall Kelly, Amalia Hadas Rubin and Diana Jimena Arango

9820: How Do Gender Norms Shape Education and Domestic Work Outcomes ? The Case of Syrian Refugee Adolescents in Jordan

Caroline Krafft, Assaad Ragui and Isabel Pastoor

9819: Conflict, Displacement and Overlapping Vulnerabilities: Understanding Risk Factors for Gender-Based Violence among Displaced Women in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Jocelyn TD Kelly, Morgan Oleary Holmes, Niamh Gibbons, Amani Matabaro and Maarten Jan Voors

9818: Differences in Household Composition: Hidden Dimensions of Poverty and Displacement in Somalia

Lucia C. Hanmer, Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich and Julieth Santamaria

9817: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women-Led Businesses

Jesica Torres, Franklin Okechukwu Maduko, Isis Gaddis, Leonardo Iacovone and Kathleen G. Beegle

9816: Targeting for Social Safety Nets: Evidence from Nine Programs in the Sahel

Pascale Schnitzer and Quentin Stoeffler

9815: Sectoral Value Added — Electricity Elasticities across Countries

Shoghik Hovhannisyan and Kersten Kevin Stamm

9814: Firm Performance, Participation in Global Value Chains and Service Inputs: Evidence from India

Ruchita Manghnani, Birgit Meyer, Juan Sebastian Saez and Erik Leendert Van Der Marel

9813: Integration in Global Value Chains — The Role of Service Inputs: Evidence from India

Ruchita Manghnani, Birgit Meyer, Juan Sebastian Saez and Erik Leendert Van Der Marel

9812: The Impact of Corruption on SMEs’ Access to Finance: Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data from Developing Countries

Mohammad Amin and Vctor Motta

9811: Under What Conditions Are Data Valuable for Development ?

Dean Jolliffe, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Malarvizhi Veerappan, Talip Kilic and Philip Randolph Wollburg

9810: Firm Recovery during COVID-19: Six Stylized Facts

Xavier Cirera, Marcio Cruz, Arti Goswami Grover, Leonardo Iacovone, Denis Medvedev, Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez and Santiago Reyes

9809: Understanding Drivers of Decoupling of Global Transport CO2 Emissions from Economic Growth: Evidence from 145 Countries

Vivien Foster, Jennifer Uju Dim, Sebastian Vollmer and Fan Zhang

9808: Education Quality, Green Technology, and the Economic Impact of Carbon Pricing

Kevin Macdonald and Harry Patrinos

9807: COVID-19 Age-Mortality Curves for 2020 Are Flatter in Developing Countries Using Both Official Death Counts and Excess Deaths

Gabriel Demombynes, Damien de Walque, Paul Michael Gubbins, Beatriz Piedad Urdinola and Jeremy Henri Maurice Veillard

9806: Measuring the Economic Impact of COVID-19 with Real-Time Electricity Indicators

Maria Vagliasindi

9805: A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall?: New Insights on Water Security and Fragility in the Sahel

Amjad Khan and Aude-Sophie Rodella

9804: Fair Inheritance Taxation

Benoit Marie A Decerf and Francois Maniquet

9803: Demand Analysis of Multiple Goods and Services in Vietnam

Mauro Vigani and Hasan Dudu

9802: Corruption in Customs

Cyril Romain Chalendard, Ana Fernandes, Gaël Raballand and Bob Rijkers

9801: Non-Tariff Measures, Import Competition, and Exports

Massimiliano Calì and Angella Montfaucon

9800: A Mountain of Debt: Navigating the Legacy of the Pandemic

Ayhan Kose, Franziska Ohnsorge and Naotaka Sugawara

9799: Fiscal Policies for a Sustainable Recovery and a Green Transformation

Michele Catalano and Lorenzo Forni

9798: Governance Drivers of Rural Water Sustainability: Collaboration in Frontline Service Delivery

Dikshya Thapa, Muhammad Noor Farid and Christophe Prevost

9797: Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil

Mrittika Shamsuddin, Pablo Acosta, Rovane Battaglin Schwengber, Jedediah Rooney Fix and Nikolas Pirani

9796: What Have We Learned about the Effectiveness of Infrastructure Investment as a Fiscal Stimulus ? A Literature Review

Maria Vagliasindi and Nisan Gorgulu

9795: Distributional Impacts of Taxes and Benefits in Post-Soviet Countries

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Mikhail Matytsin, Natsuko Kiso Nozaki and Daria Popova

9794: Decrypting New Age International Capital Flows

Clemens Mathis Henrik Graf Von Luckner, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

9793: Financial Incentives to Increase Utilization of Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Sven Neelsen, Damien de Walque, Jed Friedman and Adam Wagstaff

9792: Commodity Price Shocks: Order within Chaos ?

John Baffes and Alain Kabundi

9791: A Simple Method to Quantify the ex-ante Effects of “Deep” Trade Liberalization and “Hard” Trade Protection

Mario Larch, Shawn Tan and Yoto Yotov

9790: International Sourcing and Firm Learning: Evidence from Serbian Firms

Mason Scott Reasner and Shawn Tan

9789: Leveling Up: Impacts of Performance-Based Grants on Municipal Revenue Collection in Mozambique

Alvina Elisabeth Erman, Carla Cristina Solis Uehara and Chloé Beaudet

9788: Social Contracts in Sub-Saharan Africa: Concepts and Measurements

Mathieu Cloutier

9787: Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31

Paul J. Gertler, James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Ribeiro Antunes Pinto, Susan M. Chang-Lopez, Sally Grantham-Mcgregor, Christel M. J. Vermeersch, Susan Walker and Amika S. Wright

9786: Human Capital Accumulation at Work: Estimates for the World and Implications for Development

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

9785: Economic Consequences of Trade and Global Value Chain Integration: A Measurement Perspective

Alessandro Borin, Michele Mancini and Daria Taglioni

9784: Gender Discrimination in Hiring: Evidence from an Audit Experiment in Uzbekistan

Sevilya Muradova and William Hutchins Seitz

9783: Drivers of Utilization, Quality of Care, and RMNCH-N Services in Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis of Demand and Supply-Side Determinants Using Machine Learning for Investment Decision-Making

Saji Saraswathy Gopalan, Rianna L. Mohammed-Roberts and Hellen Chrystine Zanetti Matarazzo

9782: Banking Research in the Time of COVID-19

Allen N. Berger and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

9781: Do Illicit Financial Flows Hurt Tax Revenues ? Evidence from the Developing World

Jean-Louis Combes, Alexandru Minea and Pegdewende Sawadogo

9780: Climate Modeling for Macroeconomic Policy: A Case Study for Pakistan

Andrew Burns, Charl Jooste and Gregor Schwerhoff

9779: Mind the Gap: Disparities in Assessments of Living Standards Using National Accounts and Household Surveys

Espen Prydz, Dean Jolliffe and Umar Serajuddin

9778: Cash Transfers and Formal Labor Markets: Evidence from Brazil: Cash Transfers and the Local Economy: Evidence from Brazil

Francois Gerard, Joana Naritomi and Joana C. G. Silva

9777: Shared Decision-Making: Can Improved Counseling Increase Willingness to Pay for Modern Contraceptives ?

Susan Athey, Katy Bergstrom, Vitor Hadad, Julian C Jamison, Berk Özler, Luca Parisotto and Julius Dohbit Sama

9776: Measuring Untapped Revenue Potential in Developing Countries: Cross-Country Frontier and Panel Data Analysis

Zeljko Bogetic, Dominik Naeher and Raghavan Narayanan

9775: Patterns of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade Shocks with Imperfect Capital Mobility

Erhan Artuc, Irene Brambilla and Guido Porto

9774: Floods and Their Impacts on Firms: Evidence from Tanzania

Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Ella Jisun Kim, Stephan Fabian Thies, Sophie Anne De Vries Robbe, Alvina Elisabeth Erman and Stephane Hallegatte

9773: Changing Perceptions of Institutions and Standard of Living in Iraq

Saniya Ansar, Bledi Celiku, Leora Klapper and Wael Mansour

9772: Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes

Kerem Cosar, Banu Demir, Devaki Ghose and Nathaniel Virgil C Young

9771: The Aftermath of Debt Surges

Ayhan Kose, Franziska Ohnsorge, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

9770: The Anatomy of Index Rebalancings: Evidence from Transaction Data

Mariana Escobar, Lorenzo Pandolfi, Alvaro Enrique Pedraza Morales and Tomas Williams

9769: Intervention Size and Persistence

Florence Kondylis and John Ashton Loeser

9768: The Impact of Regional Trade Agreements on Georgia's Exporters: A Firm-Level Analysis

Matteo Neri, Gianluca Orefice and Michele Ruta

9767: Sectoral Decomposition of Convergence in Labor Productivity: A Re-examination from a New Dataset

Alistair Dieppe and Hideaki Matsuoka

9766: Gendered Laws, Informal Origins, and Subsequent Performance

Marie Caitriona Hyland and Asif Islam

9765: Individual Wealth and Time Use: Evidence from Cambodia

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

9764: The Highways and Side Roads of Statistical Capacity Building

Michael Lokshin

9763: Central Bank Governance and Reserve Portfolios Investment Policies: An Empirical Analysis

Daniela M. H. Klingebiel, Carmen Mileva Herrero Montes, Marco Antonio Ruiz Gil and James Seward

9762: Spatial Heterogeneity of COVID-19 Impacts on Urban Household Incomes: Between- and Within-City Evidence from Two African Countries

Yele Maweki Batana, Shohei Nakamura, Anirudh Venkatanarayan Rajashekar, Mervy Ever Viboudoulou Vilpoux and Christina Wieser

9761: Trade Creation and Trade Diversion in African RECs: Drawing Lessons for AfCFTA

Woubet Kassa and Pegdewende Sawadogo

9760: Sharing Responsibility through Joint Decision Making and Implications for Intimate-Partner Violence: Evidence from 12 Sub-Saharan African Countries

Aletheia Donald, Cheryl Doss, Markus Goldstein and Sakshi Gupta

9758: Climate Shocks, Vulnerability, Resilience and Livelihoods in Rural Zambia

Hambulo Ngoma, Arden Jeremy Finn and Mulako Kabisa

9757: Proximity to the Frontier, Markups, and the Response of Innovation to Foreign Competition: Evidence from Matched Production-Innovation Surveys in Chile

Ana Paula Cusolito, Alvaro Felipe Garcia Marin and William Maloney

9756: Economic and Social Development along the Urban-Rural Continuum: New Opportunities to Inform Policy

Andrea Cattaneo, Anjali Adukia, David L. Brown, Luc Christiaensen, David K. Evans, Annie Marie Haakenstad, Theresa McMenomy, Mark Partridge, Sara Vaz and Daniel J. Weiss

9755: Mass Messaging and Health Risk Reduction: Evidence from COVID-19 Text Messages in Tajikistan

William Hutchins Seitz

9754: Warlords, State Failures, and the Rise of Communism in China

Zhangkai Huang, Meng Miao, Yi Shao and Lixin Xu

9753: Return Migrants and the Wage Premium: Does the Legal Status of Migrants Matter ?

Nelly Youssef Louis William Elmallakh and Jackline Wahba

9752: Mobile Access Expansion and Price Information Diffusion: Firm Performance after Ethiopia’s Transition to 3G in 2008

Kaleb Girma Abreha, Jieun Choi, Woubet Kassa, Hyun Ju Kim and Maurice Kugler

9751: Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab

Catia Batista and David McKenzie

9750: Protectionism and Gender Inequality in Developing Countries

Erhan Artuc, Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Guido Porto and Bob Rijkers

9749: Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania

Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Takaaki Masaki, Genaro Cruz, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan and Viviane Sanfelice

9748: Scores, Camera, Action: Social Accountability and Teacher Incentives in Remote Areas

Arya Gaduh, Menno Prasad Pradhan, Jan Priebe and Dewi Susanti

9747: Do Behavioral Interventions Enhance the Effects of Cash on Early Childhood Development and Its Determinants ? Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Trial in Madagascar

Saugato Datta, Joshua Bader Martin, Catherine MacLeod, Laura B. Rawlings and Andrea Vermehren

9746: The Cyclicality of IFC Investments: To Be, or Not to Be, Procyclical

Fernando Andres Blanco Cossio and Niharika Sachdeva

9745: Agricultural Data Collection to Minimize Measurement Error and Maximize Coverage

Calogero Carletto, Andrew Dillon and Alberto Zezza

9744: Flood Protection and Land Value Creation - Not All Resilience Investments Are Created Equal

Paolo Avner, Vincent Viguié, Bramka Arga Jafino and Stephane Hallegatte