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- 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
- 9898: The Interplay of Regional and Ethnic Inequalities in Malaysian Poverty Dynamics

- Gerton Rongen, Zainab Binti Ali Ahmad, Peter Lanjouw and Kenneth Simler
- 9897: More Is Better: Evaluating the Impact of a Variation in Cash Assistance on the Reintegration Outcomes of Returning Afghan Refugees

- Hisham Esper, Nandini Krishnan and Christina Wieser
- 9896: What Explains Boys’ Educational Underachievement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ?

- Mahmoud Abduh Ali Elsayed, Aidan Clerkin, Vasiliki Pitsia, Nayyaf Aljabri and Khaleel Al-Harbi
- 9895: Challenges of Public Credit Guarantee Schemes in Latin America during the Pandemic

- Heinz P. Rudolph, Federico Alfonso Diaz Kalan and Faruk Miguel Liriano
- 9894: The US-China Trade War and Global Reallocations

- Pablo David Fajgelbaum, Pinelopi Goldberg, Patrick Kennedy, Amit Khandelwal and Daria Taglioni
- 9893: Measuring Quarterly Economic Growth from Outer Space

- Robert Beyer, Yingyao Hu and Jiaxiong Yao
- 9892: Microdata Collection and Openness in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Introducing the MENA Microdata Access Indicator

- Uche Eseosa Ekhator-Mobayode and Johannes G. Hoogeveen
- 9891: Indirect Tax Incidence in Brazil: Assessing the Distributional Effects of Potential Tax Reforms

- Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Rafael Macedo Rubião and Eduardo Simoes Fleury
- 9890: Learning to Learn: Experimentation, Entrepreneurial Capital, and Development

- William Maloney and Andres Zambrano
- 9889: Exploring the Growth Effects of COVID-19 across Developing Countries

- Cesar Calderon and Megumi Kubota
- 9888: How Much Does Physical Infrastructure Contribute to Economic Growth ? An Empirical Analysis

- Govinda Timilsina, David Stern and Debasish Kumar Das
- 9887: The Role of Work-from-Home in the Gender Asymmetries of COVID-19: An Analysis for Latin America Based on High-Frequency Surveys

- Inés Berniell, Leonardo Carlos Gasparini, Mariana Marchionni and Mariana Viollaz
- 9886: Estimating Food Price Inflation from Partial Surveys

- Bo Andree
- 9885: Transnational Terrorism and the Internet

- Quy-Toan Do, Nicolas Gomez Parra and Bob Rijkers
- 9884: A Puzzle with Missing Pieces: Explaining the Effectiveness of World Bank Development Projects

- Helen Louise Ashton, Jed Friedman, Diana Goldemberg, Mustafa Zakir Hussain, Thomas Kenyon, Akib Khan and Mo Zhou
- 9883: Lost in Interpretation: Why Spouses Disagree on Who Makes Decisions

- Sundas Liaqat, Aletheia Donald, Forest Brach Jarvis, Elizaveta Perova and Hillary C. Johnson
- 9882: The Global Diffusion of Electric Vehicles: Lessons from the First Decade

- Shanjun Li, Binglin Wang, Muxi Yang and Fan Zhang
- 9881: Monetary, Fiscal, and Structural Drivers of Inflation in Ethiopia: New Empirical Evidence from Time Series Analysis

- Léonce Ndikumana, Janvier D. Nkurunziza, Miguel Eduardo Sanchez Martin, Samuel Mulugeta and Zerihun Getachew Kelbore
- 9880: Taxation, Accountability, and Cash Transfers: Breaking the Resource Curse

- Shantayanan Devarajan and Quy-Toan Do
- 9879: What Explains Wage Differentials for Urban Wage Earners?: Returns to Education for Ethiopia’s Urban Wage Employed

- Shanjukta Nath and Christina Wieser
- 9878: Estimating a Poverty Line for Brazil Based on the 2017-18 Household Budget Survey

- Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Anna Luisa Paffhausen and Daniel Vasconcellos Archer Duque
- 9877: Short-Term Impacts of Targeted Cash Grants and Business Development Services: Experimental Evidence from Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso

- Michael Grimm, Sidiki Soubeiga and Michael Weber
- 9876: Mobilizing Parents at Home and at School: An Experiment on Primary Education in Angola

- Vincenzo Di Maro, Stefan Leeffers, Danila Serra and Pedro Vicente
- 9875: Building State Capacity: What Is the Impact of Development Projects ?

- Vincenzo Di Maro, David Evans, Stuti Khemani and Thiago Scot
- 9874: Can Business Grants Mitigate a Crisis ? Evidence from Youth Entrepreneurs in Kenya during COVID-19

- Yanina Eliana Domenella, Julian C Jamison, Abla Safir and Bilal Husnain Zia
- 9873: Occupational Hazards: Migrants and the Economic and Health Risks of COVID-19 in Western Europe

- Laurent Bossavie, Daniel Garrote Sanchez, Mattia Makovec and Caglar Ozden
- 9872: Political Prioritization of Early Childhood Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Low- and Middle-Income Countries

- Michelle J. Neuman and Shawn Michael Powers
- 9871: What Has Been the Impact of COVID-19 on Debt ? Turning a Wave into a Tsunami

- Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge and Naotaka Sugawara
- 9870: Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Horn of Africa

- Matias Herrera Dappe and Mathilde Lebrand
- 9869: Getting Real ? The Uneven Burden of Inflation across Households in Turkey

- Javier Baez, Osman Inan and Metin Nebiler
- 9868: Does Competition from Informal Firms Impact R&D by Formal SMEs ? Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data

- Mohammad Amin
- 9867: Estimating the Impact of Weather on Agriculture

- Jeffrey Michler, Anna Josephson, Talip Kilic and Siobhan Murray
- 9866: In Someone Else’s Shoes: Reducing Prejudice Through Perspective Taking

- Marisol Rodríguez Chatruc and Sandra Rozo
- 9865: Does Race and Gender Inequality Impact Income Growth ?

- Gustavo Marrero, Juan Rodríguez and Roy van der Weide
- 9864: Measuring Systemic Banking Resilience: A Simple Reverse Stress Testing Approach

- Erik H.B. Feyen and Davide Salvatore Mare
- 9863: Mangroves as Coastal Protection for Local Economic Activities from Hurricanes in the Caribbean

- Juan Jose Miranda, Luigi Butron, Chrissie Pantoja Vallejos and Rashmin Gunasekera
- 9862: Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods: Refugees in Ethiopia

- Yeshwas Admasu Bogale
- 9861: Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation: Evidence from Developing Asia

- Liming Chen, Rana Hasan and Yi Jiang
- 9860: Nowcasting Global Poverty

- Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Raul Andres Castaneda Aguilar and David Newhouse
- 9859: Inequality under COVID-19: Taking Stock of High-Frequency Data for East Asia and the Pacific

- Lydia Y. Kim, Maria Ana Lugo, Andrew D. Mason and Ikuko Uochi
- 9858: Estimating Poverty in Kinshasa by Dealing with Sampling and Comparability Issues

- Yele Maweki Batana, Takaaki Masaki, Shohei Nakamura and Mervy Ever Viboudoulou Vilpoux
- 9857: Profiling Living Conditions of the DRC Urban Population: Access to Housing and Services in Kinshasa Province

- Yele Maweki Batana, Alexandra Jarotschkin, Akakpo Domefa Konou, Takaaki Masaki, Shohei Nakamura and Mervy Ever Viboudoulou Vilpoux
- 9856: Demographic and Spatial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes within the Kinshasa Urban Landscape

- Yele Maweki Batana, Alexandra Jarotschkin, Akakpo Domefa Konou, Takaaki Masaki, Shohei Nakamura and Mervy Ever Viboudoulou Vilpoux
- 9855: Corridors without Borders in West Africa

- Mathilde Lebrand
- 9854: The Macroeconomy After Tariffs

- Davide Furceri, Swarnali Hannan, Jonathan Ostry and Andrew Rose
- 9853: The Impact of Digital Infrastructure on African Development

- Cesar Calderon and Catalina Cantu
- 9852: Becoming Legible to the State: The Role of Identification and Collection Capacity in Taxation

- Oyebola Okunogbe
- 9851: Competition and Firm Recovery Post-COVID-19

- Miriam Bruhn, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Dorothe Singer
- 9850: Helping Families Help Themselves ? Heterogeneous Effects of a Digital Parenting Program

- Sofia Fernando Monteiro Amaral, Lelys Dinarte Diaz, Patricio Dominguez and Santiago Perez-Vincent
- 9849: Rural Poverty Reduction and Economic Transformation in China: A Decomposition Approach

- Maria Ana Lugo, Chiyu Niu and Ruslan Yemtsov
- 9848: The Promise and Limitations of Information Technology for Tax Mobilization

- Oyebola Okunogbe and Fabrizio Santoro
- 9847: Preparation, Practice, and Beliefs: A Machine Learning Approach to Understanding Teacher Effectiveness

- Deon Filmer, Vatsal Nahata and Shwetlena Sabarwal
- 9846: What Types of Capital Flows Help Improve International Risk Sharing ?

- Ergys Islamaj and Ayhan Kose
- 9845: Urban CO2 Emissions: A Global Analysis with New Satellite Data

- Susmita Dasgupta, Somik V. Lall and David R. Wheeler
- 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
- 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
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