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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

9598: Global Value Chains and Deep Integration

Leonardo Baccini, Matteo Fiorini, Bernard Hoekman, Carlo Altomonte and Italo Colantone

9597: New Evidence on Learning Trajectories in a Low-Income Setting

Natalie Bau, Jishnu Das and Andres Yi Chang

9596: Regulating Personal Data: Data Models and Digital Services Trade

Martina Francesca Ferracane and Erik van der Marel

9595: The Effect of Information and Subsidy Measures on Adoption of Solar Lanterns: An Application of the BDM Bidding Mechanism in Rural Ethiopia

Alemu Mekonnen, Sied Hassen, Marcela Jaime, Michael Toman and Xiao-Bing Zhang

9594: Achieving Privacy: Costs of Compliance and Enforcement of Data Protection Regulation

Anupam Chander, Meaza Abraham, Sandeep Chandy, Yuan Fang, Dayoung Park and Isabel Yu

9593: Poor Expectations: Experimental Evidence on Teachers~^!!^ Stereotypes and Student Assessment: Poor Expectations: Experimental Evidence on Teachers' Stereotypes and Student Assessment

Maria Gabriela Farfan Bertran, Alaka Holla and Renos Vakis

9592: Bridging Bangladesh and India: Cross-Border Trade and the Motor Vehicles Agreement

Matias Herrera Dappe, Mathilde Lebrand and Diana Van Patten

9591: Trends and Determinants of Female Labor Force Participation in Morocco: An Initial Exploratory Analysis

Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo, Florencia Devoto, Morales,Matías and Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez

9590: A Demand-Side View of Mobile Internet Adoption in the Global South

Rong - DECIG Chen

9589: Projecting the Economic Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Justin-Damien Guenette and Takefumi Yamazaki

9588: Will Every Child Be Able to Read by 2030 ? Defining Learning Poverty and Mapping the Dimensions of the Challenge

João Pedro Azevedo, Diana Goldemberg, Silvia Montoya, Reema Nayar, Frederic Rogers, Jaime Saavedra and Brian William Stacy

9587: Meta-Analysis Assessing the Effects of Virtual Reality Training on Student Learning and Skills Development

Diego Angel-Urdinola, Catalina Castillo Castro and Angela Hoyos

9586: Aspirations and Financial Decisions: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines

David McKenzie, Aakash Mohpal and Dean Yang