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- 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
- 9685: Scalable Early Warning Systems for School Dropout Prevention: Evidence from a 4.000-School Randomized Controlled Trial

- Francisco Haimovich Paz, Emmanuel Vazquez and Melissa Ann Adelman
- 9684: Linking Intra- and Inter-Country Spatial Price Adjustments in Global Poverty Measurement: Urban PPP Bias and Reference Price Mismatch

- Shohei Nakamura and Nobuo Yoshida
- 9683: Barriers to Growth-Enhancing Structural Transformation: The Role of Subnational Differences in Intersectoral Productivity Gaps

- Saumik Paul and Dhushyanth Raju
- 9682: The Scarring and Hysteresis Effects of Steep Recessions and the Implications for Fiscal Policy in ECA Transition EMDEs

- Martin Brownbridge and Roy S. Canagarajah
- 9681: Using Registry Data to Assess Gender-Differentiated Land and Credit Market Effects of Urban Land Policy Reform: Evidence from Lesotho

- Daniel Ayalew Ali and Klaus Deininger
- 9680: Participatory Theater Empowers Women: Evidence from India

- Karla Hoff, Jyotsna Jalan and Sattwik Santra
- 9679: Gender Dimensions of COVID-19 Economic Impact in Chad: Insights from a CGE Model and Household Phone Survey

- Kayenat Kabir, Hasan Dudu and Fulbert Tchana Tchana
- 9678: Robots and Export Quality

- Timothy DeStefano and Jonathan Timmis
- 9677: The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies

- Lin Ma, Gil Shapira, Damien de Walque, Quy-Toan Do, Jed Friedman and Andrei Levchenko
- 9676: Reducing Bias in Phone Survey Samples: Effectiveness of Reweighting Techniques Using Face-to-Face Surveys as Frames in Four African Countries

- Alemayehu Ambel, Kevin Robert Mcgee and Asmelash Haile Tsegay
- 9675: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Informal Labor Markets: Evidence from Peru

- Ronald Cueva, Ximena Del Carpio and Hernan Winkler
- 9674: Trade Facilitation Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements: Impact on Peru’s Exporters

- Woori Lee, Nadia Patrizia Rocha Gaffurri and Michele Ruta
- 9673: Death and Destitution: The Global Distribution of Welfare Losses from the COVID-19 Pandemic

- Francisco Ferreira, Olivier Sterck, Daniel Gerszon Mahler and Benoît Decerf
- 9672: The Impact of FDI on Domestic Firm Innovation: Evidence from Foreign Investment Deregulation in China

- Yan-000529044 Liu and Xuan Wang
- 9671: Productivity and Firm Exit during the COVID-19 Crisis: Cross-Country Evidence

- Silvia Muzi, Filip Jolevski, Kohei Ueda and Domenico Viganola
- 9670: Financial Structure and Firm Innovation: Evidence from around the World

- Davide Salvatore Mare, Francesca de Nicola and Faruk Miguel Liriano
- 9669: What Are the Benefits of Government Assistance with Household Energy Bills ? Evidence from Ukraine

- Anna Alberini and Nithin Umapathi
- 9668: International Trade and Labor Markets: Evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt

- Raymond Robertson, Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena, Deeksha Kokas and Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo
- 9667: The Hidden Potential of Call Detail Records in The Gambia

- Ayumi Arai, Erwin Willem Yvonnick Leon Knippenberg, Moritz Meyer and Apichon Witayangkurn
- 9666: Recurrent Climatic Shocks and Humanitarian Aid: Impacts on Livelihood Outcomes in Malawi

- Nancy Mccarthy, Talip Kilic, Joshua Milton Brubaker, Alejandro De La Fuente and Siobhan Murray
- 9665: Digital Payments and Business Resilience: Evidence in the Time of COVID-19

- Youssouf Camara
- 9664: Climate Anomalies and International Migration: A Disaggregated Analysis for West Africa

- Fernanda Martínez Flores, Svetoslava Petkova Milusheva and Arndt Reichert
- 9663: Polygyny and Farm Households' Resilience to Climate Shocks

- Sylvain Eloi Dessy, Luca Tiberti, Marco Tiberti and David Aime Zoundi
- 9662: Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Literature

- Harris Selod and Forhad Shilpi
- 9661: Diamonds in the Rough?: Repurposing Multi-Topic Surveys to Estimate Individual-Level Consumption Poverty

- Theophiline Bose-Duker, Isis Gaddis, Talip Kilic, Valérie Lechene and Krishna Pendakur
- 9660: Representativeness of Individual-Level Data in COVID-19 Phone Surveys: Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa

- Joshua Milton Brubaker, Talip Kilic and Philip Randolph Wollburg
- 9659: Trade Impacts of Intellectual-Property-Related PTAs: Evidence from Using the World Bank Deep Trade Agreements Database

- Keith Maskus and William Ridley
- 9658: How Has COVID-19 Affected the Intention to Migrate via the Backway to Europe

- Tijan L Bah, Catia Batista, Flore Gubert and David McKenzie
- 9657: Firm-Level Adoption of Technologies in Senegal

- Xavier Cirera, Diego Comin, Marcio Cruz and Kyungmin Lee
- 9656: Does the Gender Wage Gap Influence Intimate Partner Violence in Brazil ? Evidence from Administrative Health Data

- Elizaveta Perova, Sarah Anne Reynolds and Ian Schmutte
- 9655: Expansionary Austerity: Reallocating Credit Amid Fiscal Consolidation

- Bernardo Morais, Javier Perez-Estrada, Jose-Luis Peydro and Claudia Ruiz Ortega
- 9654: Gain without Pain ? Non-Tariff Measures, Plants’ Productivity and Markups

- Massimiliano Calì, Marco Le Moglie and Giorgio Presidente
- 9653: Automation and Manufacturing Performance in a Developing Country

- Massimiliano Calì and Giorgio Presidente
- 9652: Heterogenous Teacher Effects of Two Incentive Schemes: Evidence from a Low-Income Country

- Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Jacobus Cilliers, Marie-Helene Cloutier and Deon Filmer
- 9651: Measuring Public Procurement Rules and Practices: Benchmarking a Recurrent Infrastructure Contract

- Antoni Albert Nogues Comas and Nuno Filipe Mendes Dos Santos
- 9650: One Country, Two Systems: Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China

- John Giles, Xiaoyan Lei, Gewei Wang, Yafeng Wang and Yaohui Zhao
- 9649: Economic Governance Improvements and Sovereign Financing Costs in Developing Countries

- Girum Dagnachew Abate, Michael Andrew Brown, Alex Sienaert, Alexis Sienaert and Mark Roland Thomas
- 9648: Using Poverty Maps to Improve the Design of Household Surveys: The Evidence from Tunisia

- Gianni Betti, Vasco Molini and Dan Pavelesku
- 9647: Enhancing Human Capital in Children: A Case Study on Scaling

- Francesco Agostinelli, Ciro Avitabile and Matteo Bobba
- 9646: How Does Trade Respond to Anticipated Tariff Changes ? Evidence from NAFTA

- Shafaat Khan and Armen Khederlarian
- 9645: Understanding FDI Spillovers in the presence of GVCs

- Valerie Anne Mercer-Blackman, Wei Xiang and Fahad Khan
- 9644: Effects of Recognition of Prior Learning on Job Market Outcomes: Impact Evaluation in Bangladesh

- Shiro Nakata, Uttam Sharma, Tashmina Rahman, Mokhlesur Rahman and Mustahsin-Ul Aziz
- 9643: Effects of Public Sector Wages on Corruption: Wage Inequality Matters

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Michael Lokshin and Vladimir Kolchin
- 9642: COVID-19 and African Firms: Impact and Coping Strategies

- Gemechu A. Aga and Hibret Maemir
- 9641: The Long Shadow of Short-Term Schooling Disruption: Analysis of Kuwait's Civil Service Payroll Data

- Simon Bilo, Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad, Ebtesam Alansari, Lama Alhumaidan and Faleh M F E Alrashidi
- 9640: Regime-Dependent Environmental Tax Multipliers: Evidence from 75 Countries

- Christian Schoder
- 9639: Does Gender Equality in Labor Participation Bring Real Equality ? Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries

- Federica Alfani, Fabio Clementi, Michele Fabiani, Vasco Molini and Enzo Valentini
- 9638: The Impact of PTAs on the Duration of Antidumping Protection

- Thomas Prusa and Min Zhu
- 9637: Containing Chinese State-Owned Enterprises?: The Role of Deep Trade Agreements

- Kevin Jean-Rene Lefebvre, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta
- 9636: Assessing Response Fatigue in Phone Surveys: Experimental Evidence on Dietary Diversity in Ethiopia

- Kibrom A. Abay, Guush Berhane, John Hoddinott and Kibrom Tafere
- 9635: Estimating the Gains from International Diversification: The Case of Pension Funds

- Juan Pablo Afanador, Richard Mark Davis and Alvaro Enrique Pedraza Morales
- 9634: The Distribution of Effort: Physical Activity, Gender Roles, and Bargaining Power in an Agrarian Setting

- Jed Friedman, Isis Gaddis, Talip Kilic, Antonio Martuscelli, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Alberto Zezza
- 9633: Organizational Resources, Country Institutions, and National Culture behind Firm Survival and Growth during COVID-19

- Yu Liu, Mike W. Peng, Zuobao Wei, Jian Xu and L. Colin Xu
- 9632: How to End the COVID-19 Pandemic by March 2022

- Ruchir Agarwal and Tristan Reed
- 9631: The Economic Ripple Effects of COVID-19

- Francisco Buera, Roberto Fattal Jaef, Pablo Neumeyer, Hugo Hopenhayn and Yongseok Shin
- 9630: A General Equilibrium Assessment of the Economic Impact of Deep Trade Agreements

- Lionel Fontagné, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta and Gianluca Santoni
- 9629: Machine Learning in International Trade Research: Evaluating the Impact of Trade Agreements

- Holger Breinlich, Valentina Corradi, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta, João Santos Silva and Thomas Zylkin
- 9628: Trade, Jobs, and Worker Welfare

- Erhan Artuc, Paulo Bastos and Eunhee Lee
- 9627: Social Transfer Multipliers in Developed and Emerging Countries: The Role of Hand-to-Mouth Consumers

- Jessica Roxana Bracco, Luciana Maria Galeano, Pedro Juarros, Daniel Riera-Crichton and Guillermo Vuletin
- 9626: Inclusive Statistics: Human Development and Disability Indicators in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

- Sophie Mitra, Jaclyn Lourdes Alcala Yap, Justine Francoise Marie Herve and Wei Chen
- 9625: Invisible or Mainstream ? Disability in Surveys and Censuses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

- Sophie Mitra, Wei Chen, Justine Francoise Marie Herve, Sophia Pirozzi and Jaclyn Lourdes Alcala Yap
- 9624: Gender Violence, Enforcement, and Human Capital: Evidence from Women's Justice Centers in Peru

- Maria Micaela Sviatschi and Iva Trako
- 9623: Human Trafficking: Definitions, Data, and Determinants

- Stephen Joseph Winkler
- 9622: When Distance Drives Destination, Towns Can Stimulate Development

- Joachim De Weerdt, Luc Christiaensen and Ravi Kanbur
- 9621: Motivating Teams: Private Feedback and Public Recognition at Work

- Clara Anne Delavallade
- 9620: A Map of the Poor or a Poor Map ?

- Paul Corral Rodas, Kristen Himelein Kastelic, Kevin Robert Mcgee and Isabel Molina
- 9619: Does Participation in Global Value Chains Reduce Spatial Inequalities within Countries ?

- Arti Goswami Grover and Somik V. Lall
- 9618: The Evolution of City Form: Evidence from Satellite Data

- Somik V. Lall, Mathilde Lebrand and Maria Edisa Soppelsa
- 9617: Long-Term Impacts of Short Exposure to Conditional Cash Transfers in Adolescence: Evidence from the Philippines

- Ervin Dervisevic, Elizaveta Perova and Abhilasha Sahay
- 9616: From Health Crisis to Financial Distress

- Carmen Reinhart
- 9615: Mapping Data Governance Legal Frameworks Around the World: Findings from the Global Data Regulation Diagnostic

- Rong - DECIG Chen
- 9614: What Prevents More Small Firms from Using Professional Business Services ? An Information and Quality-Rating Experiment in Nigeria

- Stephen J. Anderson and David McKenzie
- 9613: Welfare Impact of Hosting Refugees in Ethiopia

- Ashenafi Belayneh Ayenew
- 9612: Coping with Disasters: Two Centuries of International Official Lending

- Sebastian Horn, Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch
- 9611: Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises ? Experimental Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

- Marianne Bertrand, Bruno Jacques Jean Philippe Crepon, Alicia Charlene Marguerie and Patrick Premand
- 9610: A Cautionary Tale: An Experiment on The Stability of Business Environment Perceptions in a Firm Survey

- Asif Islam and Jorge Rodriguez Meza
- 9609: Understanding the Requirements for Surveys to Support Satellite-Based Crop Type Mapping: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

- George Azzari, Shruti Jain, Graham Jeffries, Talip Kilic and Siobhan Murray
- 9608: Deep Services Trade Agreements and their Effect on Trade and Value Added

- Ingo Borchert and Mattia Di Ubaldo
- 9607: The Realities of Primary Care: Variation in Quality of Care Across Nine Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

- Kathryn Gilman Andrews, Ruben Orion Conner, Roberta V. Gatti and Jigyasa Sharma
- 9606: Natural Capital and Sovereign Bonds

- Dieter Wang
- 9605: Integration of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil

- Mrittika Shamsuddin, Pablo Acosta, Rovane Battaglin Schwengber, Jedediah Rooney Fix and Nikolas Pirani
- 9604: Damaged by the Disaster: The Impact of COVID-19 on Firms in South Asia

- Arlan Zandro Ilagan Brucal, Arti Goswami Grover and Santiago Reyes Ortega
- 9603: Links between Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: A Survey

- Valerie Cerra, Ruy Lama and Norman Loayza
- 9602: Trade Barriers in Government Procurement

- Alen Mulabdic and Lorenzo Rotunno
- 9601: The Effectiveness of Environmental Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements

- Ryan Michael Abman, Clark Christopher Lundberg and Michele Ruta
- 9600: The Value of Deep Trade Agreements in the Presence of Pricing-to-Market

- Meredith Crowley, Lu Han and Thomas Prayer
- 9599: Deep Integration in Trade Agreements: Labor Clauses, Tariffs, and Trade Flows

- Raymond Robertson
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