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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 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 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

9743: Pollution in Ugandan Cities: Do Managers Avoid It or Adapt in Place ?

Vittorio Bassi, Matthew Kahn, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Tommaso Porzio and Jeanne Sorin

9742: Putting the Green Back in Greenbacks: Opportunities for a Truly Green Stimulus

Farzad Taheripour, Maksym Chepeliev, Richard Damania, Thomas Farole, Nancy Lozano Gracia and Jason Daniel Russ

9741: Trade-Policy Dynamics: Evidence from 60 Years of U.S.-China Trade

George Alessandria, Shafaat Khan, Armen Khederlarian, Kim Ruhl and Joseph Steinberg

9740: Temporary Migration for Long-term Investment

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

9739: Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Six National Phone Surveys

Shelton Sofiel Elisa Kanyanda, Yannick Markhof, Philip Randolph Wollburg and Alberto Zezza

9738: Trade, Internal Migration, and Human Capital: Who Gains from India’s IT Boom?

Devaki Ghose

9737: One-Stop Source: A Global Database of Inflation

Jongrim Ha, Ayhan Kose and Franziska Ohnsorge

9736: COVID-19 and Children’s School Resilience: Evidence from Nigeria

Sylvain Eloi Dessy, Horace Mahugnon Akim Gninafon, Luca Tiberti and Marco Tiberti

9735: Women’s Economic Participation, Time Use, and Access to Childcare in Urban Bangladesh

Emcet Tas and Tanima Ahmed

9734: Migration, Economic Crisis and Child Growth in Rural Guatemala: Insights from the Great Recession

Calogero Carletto, John Maluccio, Savant Man Shrestha and Mackenzie Farrell Stewart

9733: Structural Reforms and Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Intra- or Inter-Reallocation Channel ?

Maty Konte, Wilfried Kouamé and Emmanuel Mensah

9732: Gender Differences in Economics Course-Taking and Majoring: Findings from an RCT

Daniel Halim, Elizabeth Powers and Rebecca Lynn Thornton

9731: Safety First: Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women

Girija Borker

9730: Agglomeration Economies in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis

Arti Goswami Grover, Somik V. Lall and Jonathan Timmis

9729: The Power and Roots of Aspirations: A Survey of the Empirical Evidence

Anna Fruttero, Noel Muller and Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez

9728: Agricultural Production and Transport Connectivity: Evidence from Mozambique

Atsushi Iimi

9727: Firm Productivity and Locational Choice: Evidence from Mozambique

Atsushi Iimi

9726: Estimating the Impact of Improved Roads on Access to Health Care: Evidence from Mozambique

Atsushi Iimi

9725: Financing Municipal Water and Sanitation Services in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements

Aidan Coville, Sebastian Galiani, Paul J. Gertler and Susumu Yoshida

9724: Are Firm Capabilities Holding Back Firms in Mozambique ?

Gemechu A. Aga, Francisco Campos, Adriana Conconi, Elwyn Adriaan Robin Davies and Carolin Geginat

9723: Is Investment in Preprimary Education Too Low ? Lessons from (Quasi) Experimental Evidence across Countries

Alaka Holla, Maria Magdalena Bendini, Lelys Dinarte Diaz and Iva Trako

9722: What Makes a Program Good ? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Lelys Dinarte Diaz, Maria Marta Ferreyra, Sergio Urzua and Marina Bassi

9721: Coding Bootcamps for Female Digital Employment: Evidence from an RCT in Argentina and Colombia

Julian Aramburu, Ana Goicoechea and Ahmed Mobarak

9720: The Role of Justice in Development: The Data Revolution

Manuel Ramos Maqueda and Daniel Li Chen

9719: Natural Disasters and the Reshaping of Global Value Chains

Caroline Freund, Aaditya Mattoo, Alen Mulabdic and Michele Ruta

9718: A Household-Level Model of Demand for Electricity Services and Welfare Analysis of Electricity Prices in Rajasthan

Sutirtha Roy and Frank Anthony Wolak

9717: Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs: Lessons from Colombia

Maria Marta Ferreyra, Camila Galindo and Sergio Urzua

9716: Entry and Competition in the Market for Short-Cycle Programs

Juan Esteban Carranza, Maria Marta Ferreyra and Ana Gazmuri

9715: Gender and Tax Incidence of Rural Land Use Fee and Agricultural Income Tax in Ethiopia

Hitomi Komatsu, Alemayehu Ambel, Gayatri B. Koolwal and Manex Bule Yonis

9714: Do Investments in Clean Technologies Reduce Production Costs ? Insights from the Literature

Govinda Timilsina and Sunil Malla

9713: Efficient Irrigation and Water Conservation: Evidence from South India

Ram Fishman, Xavier Gine and Hanan Jacoby

9712: Informal Firms in Mozambique: Status and Potential

Gemechu A. Aga, Francisco Campos, Adriana Conconi, Elwyn Adriaan Robin Davies and Carolin Geginat

9711: Neutral Real Interest Rates in Inflation Targeting Emerging and Developing Economies

Franz Ruch

9710: Carbon Tax in an Economy with Informality: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis for Cote d’Ivoire

Govinda Timilsina, Yazid Dissou, Michael Toman and Dirk Heine

9709: Gender and COVID-19: What have we learnt, one year later ?

Carmen De Paz Nieves, Isis Gaddis and Miriam Muller

9708: Would Mexican Migrants be Willing to Guarantee Americans a Basic Income ?

Michael Lokshin and Martin Ravallion

9707: Intergenerational Mobility around the World

Roy van der Weide, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Ambar Narayan and Rakesh Gupta Nichanametla Ramasubbaiah

9706: The Falling Price of Cement in Africa

Fabrizio Leone, Rocco Macchiavello and Tristan Reed

9705: Financial Incentives, Fertility, and Son Preference in Armenia

Maria Florencia Pinto, Josefina Posadas and Gil Shapira

9704: Behavioral Insights in Infrastructure Sectors: A Survey

George Joseph, Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling, Pepita Miquel-Florensa, Hernan Bejarano and Alejandra Quevedo Cardona

9703: How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World ?

Maurice Kugler, Mariana Viollaz, Daniel Vasconcellos Archer Duque, Isis Gaddis, David Newhouse, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Michael Weber

9702: Does Title Increase Large Farm Productivity ? Institutional Determinants of Large Land-Based Investments’ Performance in Zambia

Daniel Ayalew Ali and Klaus Deininger

9701: Why Do Manufacturing Firms Sell Services ? Evidence from India

Arti Goswami Grover and Aaditya Mattoo

9700: Heterogeneous Impacts of SPS and TBT Regulations: Firm-Level Evidence from Deep Trade Agreements

Ana Fernandes, Kevin Jean-Rene Lefebvre and Nadia Rocha

9699: Economics of Distributed Photovoltaics: An Illustration from Bangladesh

Govinda Timilsina

9698: Incentivizing Carbon Taxation in Low-Income Countries: Tax Rebating versus Carbon Crediting

Jon Strand

9697: Does Better Access to Finance Help Firms Deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic ? Evidence from Firm-Level Survey Data

Mohammad Amin and Domenico Viganola

9696: Lives versus Livelihoods during the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Testing Softens the Trade-off

Ergys Islamaj, Duong Le and Aaditya Mattoo

9695: Occupational Sex Segregation in Agriculture: Evidence on Gender Norms and Socio-Emotional Skills in Nigeria

Smita Das, Clara Anne Delavallade, Ayodele Emmanuel Fashogbon, Wale Olatunji Ogunleye and Sreelakshmi Papineni

9694: Climate-Related and Environmental Risks for the Banking Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Preliminary Assessment

Pietro Calice and Faruk Miguel Liriano

9693: Incentivizing Conservation of de facto Community-Owned Forests

Daan van Soest, Guigonan Serge Adjognon and Eline van der Heijden

9692: How Much Does Latin America Gain from Enhanced Cross-Border Electricity Trade in the Short Run ?

Govinda Timilsina, Ilka Fabiana Deluque Curiel and Debabrata Chattopadhyay

9691: Public Work Programs and Gender-Based Violence: Evidence from Lao PDR

Elizaveta Perova, Erik Caldwell Johnson, Aneesh Mannava, Sarah Anne Reynolds and Alana Hinda Teman

9690: Improving Public Procurement Outcomes: Review of Tools and the State of the Evidence Base

Mihály Fazekas and Jurgen Rene Blum

9689: Lowering Prices of Pharmaceuticals, Medical Supplies, and Equipment: Insights from Big Data for Better Procurement Strategies in Latin America

Mihály Fazekas, Alexandre Borges De Oliveira and Nóra Regös

9688: When do Refugees Return Home?: Evidence from Syrian Displacement in Mashreq

Lori A. Beaman, Harun Onder and Stefanie Onder

9687: Information, Loss Framing, and Spillovers in Pay-for-Performance Contracts

Sebastian Peter Alexander Bauhoff and Eeshani Kandpal

9686: Long-Run Effects of Trade Liberalization on Local Labor Markets: Evidence from South Africa

Paulo S. R. Bastos and Nicolas Eduardo Santos Villagran