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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

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