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9724: Are Firm Capabilities Holding Back Firms in Mozambique ? Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Julian Aramburu, Ana Goicoechea and Ahmed Mobarak
9720: The Role of Justice in Development: The Data Revolution Downloads
Manuel Ramos Maqueda and Daniel Li Chen
9719: Natural Disasters and the Reshaping of Global Value Chains Downloads
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 Downloads
Sutirtha Roy and Frank Anthony Wolak
9717: Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs: Lessons from Colombia Downloads
Maria Marta Ferreyra, Camila Galindo and Sergio Urzua
9716: Entry and Competition in the Market for Short-Cycle Programs Downloads
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 Downloads
Hitomi Komatsu, Alemayehu Ambel, Gayatri B. Koolwal and Manex Bule Yonis
9714: Do Investments in Clean Technologies Reduce Production Costs ? Insights from the Literature Downloads
Govinda Timilsina and Sunil Malla
9713: Efficient Irrigation and Water Conservation: Evidence from South India Downloads
Ram Fishman, Xavier Gine and Hanan Jacoby
9712: Informal Firms in Mozambique: Status and Potential Downloads
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 Downloads
Franz Ruch
9710: Carbon Tax in an Economy with Informality: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis for Cote d’Ivoire Downloads
Govinda Timilsina, Yazid Dissou, Michael Toman and Dirk Heine
9709: Gender and COVID-19: What have we learnt, one year later ? Downloads
Carmen De Paz Nieves, Isis Gaddis and Miriam Muller
9708: Would Mexican Migrants be Willing to Guarantee Americans a Basic Income ? Downloads
Michael Lokshin and Martin Ravallion
9707: Intergenerational Mobility around the World Downloads
Roy van der Weide, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Ambar Narayan and Rakesh Gupta Nichanametla Ramasubbaiah
9706: The Falling Price of Cement in Africa Downloads
Fabrizio Leone, Rocco Macchiavello and Tristan Reed
9705: Financial Incentives, Fertility, and Son Preference in Armenia Downloads
Maria Florencia Pinto, Josefina Posadas and Gil Shapira
9704: Behavioral Insights in Infrastructure Sectors: A Survey Downloads
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 ? Downloads
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 Downloads
Daniel Ayalew Ali and Klaus Deininger
9701: Why Do Manufacturing Firms Sell Services ? Evidence from India Downloads
Arti Goswami Grover and Aaditya Mattoo
9700: Heterogeneous Impacts of SPS and TBT Regulations: Firm-Level Evidence from Deep Trade Agreements Downloads
Ana Fernandes, Kevin Jean-Rene Lefebvre and Nadia Rocha
9699: Economics of Distributed Photovoltaics: An Illustration from Bangladesh Downloads
Govinda Timilsina
9698: Incentivizing Carbon Taxation in Low-Income Countries: Tax Rebating versus Carbon Crediting Downloads
Jon Strand
9697: Does Better Access to Finance Help Firms Deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic ? Evidence from Firm-Level Survey Data Downloads
Mohammad Amin and Domenico Viganola
9696: Lives versus Livelihoods during the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Testing Softens the Trade-off Downloads
Ergys Islamaj, Duong Le and Aaditya Mattoo
9695: Occupational Sex Segregation in Agriculture: Evidence on Gender Norms and Socio-Emotional Skills in Nigeria Downloads
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 Downloads
Pietro Calice and Faruk Miguel Liriano
9693: Incentivizing Conservation of de facto Community-Owned Forests Downloads
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 ? Downloads
Govinda Timilsina, Ilka Fabiana Deluque Curiel and Debabrata Chattopadhyay
9691: Public Work Programs and Gender-Based Violence: Evidence from Lao PDR Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Mihály Fazekas, Alexandre Borges De Oliveira and Nóra Regös
9688: When do Refugees Return Home?: Evidence from Syrian Displacement in Mashreq Downloads
Lori A. Beaman, Harun Onder and Stefanie Onder
9687: Information, Loss Framing, and Spillovers in Pay-for-Performance Contracts Downloads
Sebastian Peter Alexander Bauhoff and Eeshani Kandpal
9686: Long-Run Effects of Trade Liberalization on Local Labor Markets: Evidence from South Africa Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Shohei Nakamura and Nobuo Yoshida
9683: Barriers to Growth-Enhancing Structural Transformation: The Role of Subnational Differences in Intersectoral Productivity Gaps Downloads
Saumik Paul and Dhushyanth Raju
9682: The Scarring and Hysteresis Effects of Steep Recessions and the Implications for Fiscal Policy in ECA Transition EMDEs Downloads
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 Downloads
Daniel Ayalew Ali and Klaus Deininger
9680: Participatory Theater Empowers Women: Evidence from India Downloads
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 Downloads
Kayenat Kabir, Hasan Dudu and Fulbert Tchana Tchana
9678: Robots and Export Quality Downloads
Timothy DeStefano and Jonathan Timmis
9677: The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies Downloads
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 Downloads
Alemayehu Ambel, Kevin Robert Mcgee and Asmelash Haile Tsegay
9675: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Informal Labor Markets: Evidence from Peru Downloads
Ronald Cueva, Ximena Del Carpio and Hernan Winkler
9674: Trade Facilitation Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements: Impact on Peru’s Exporters Downloads
Woori Lee, Nadia Patrizia Rocha Gaffurri and Michele Ruta
9673: Death and Destitution: The Global Distribution of Welfare Losses from the COVID-19 Pandemic Downloads
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 Downloads
Yan-000529044 Liu and Xuan Wang
9671: Productivity and Firm Exit during the COVID-19 Crisis: Cross-Country Evidence Downloads
Silvia Muzi, Filip Jolevski, Kohei Ueda and Domenico Viganola
9670: Financial Structure and Firm Innovation: Evidence from around the World Downloads
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 Downloads
Anna Alberini and Nithin Umapathi
9668: International Trade and Labor Markets: Evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt Downloads
Raymond Robertson, Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena, Deeksha Kokas and Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo
9667: The Hidden Potential of Call Detail Records in The Gambia Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Youssouf Camara
9664: Climate Anomalies and International Migration: A Disaggregated Analysis for West Africa Downloads
Fernanda Martínez Flores, Svetoslava Petkova Milusheva and Arndt Reichert
9663: Polygyny and Farm Households' Resilience to Climate Shocks Downloads
Sylvain Eloi Dessy, Luca Tiberti, Marco Tiberti and David Aime Zoundi
9662: Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Literature Downloads
Harris Selod and Forhad Shilpi
9661: Diamonds in the Rough?: Repurposing Multi-Topic Surveys to Estimate Individual-Level Consumption Poverty Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Keith Maskus and William Ridley
9658: How Has COVID-19 Affected the Intention to Migrate via the Backway to Europe Downloads
Tijan L Bah, Catia Batista, Flore Gubert and David McKenzie
9657: Firm-Level Adoption of Technologies in Senegal Downloads
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 Downloads
Elizaveta Perova, Sarah Anne Reynolds and Ian Schmutte
9655: Expansionary Austerity: Reallocating Credit Amid Fiscal Consolidation Downloads
Bernardo Morais, Javier Perez-Estrada, Jose-Luis Peydro and Claudia Ruiz Ortega
9654: Gain without Pain ? Non-Tariff Measures, Plants’ Productivity and Markups Downloads
Massimiliano Calì, Marco Le Moglie and Giorgio Presidente
9653: Automation and Manufacturing Performance in a Developing Country Downloads
Massimiliano Calì and Giorgio Presidente
9652: Heterogenous Teacher Effects of Two Incentive Schemes: Evidence from a Low-Income Country Downloads
Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Jacobus Cilliers, Marie-Helene Cloutier and Deon Filmer
9651: Measuring Public Procurement Rules and Practices: Benchmarking a Recurrent Infrastructure Contract Downloads
Antoni Albert Nogues Comas and Nuno Filipe Mendes Dos Santos
9650: One Country, Two Systems: Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China Downloads
John Giles, Xiaoyan Lei, Gewei Wang, Yafeng Wang and Yaohui Zhao
9649: Economic Governance Improvements and Sovereign Financing Costs in Developing Countries Downloads
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 Downloads
Gianni Betti, Vasco Molini and Dan Pavelesku
9647: Enhancing Human Capital in Children: A Case Study on Scaling Downloads
Francesco Agostinelli, Ciro Avitabile and Matteo Bobba
9646: How Does Trade Respond to Anticipated Tariff Changes ? Evidence from NAFTA Downloads
Shafaat Khan and Armen Khederlarian
9645: Understanding FDI Spillovers in the presence of GVCs Downloads
Valerie Anne Mercer-Blackman, Wei Xiang and Fahad Khan
9644: Effects of Recognition of Prior Learning on Job Market Outcomes: Impact Evaluation in Bangladesh Downloads
Shiro Nakata, Uttam Sharma, Tashmina Rahman, Mokhlesur Rahman and Mustahsin-Ul Aziz
9643: Effects of Public Sector Wages on Corruption: Wage Inequality Matters Downloads
Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Michael Lokshin and Vladimir Kolchin
9642: COVID-19 and African Firms: Impact and Coping Strategies Downloads
Gemechu A. Aga and Hibret Maemir
9641: The Long Shadow of Short-Term Schooling Disruption: Analysis of Kuwait's Civil Service Payroll Data Downloads
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 Downloads
Christian Schoder
9639: Does Gender Equality in Labor Participation Bring Real Equality ? Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries Downloads
Federica Alfani, Fabio Clementi, Michele Fabiani, Vasco Molini and Enzo Valentini
9638: The Impact of PTAs on the Duration of Antidumping Protection Downloads
Thomas Prusa and Min Zhu
9637: Containing Chinese State-Owned Enterprises?: The Role of Deep Trade Agreements Downloads
Kevin Jean-Rene Lefebvre, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta
9636: Assessing Response Fatigue in Phone Surveys: Experimental Evidence on Dietary Diversity in Ethiopia Downloads
Kibrom A. Abay, Guush Berhane, John Hoddinott and Kibrom Tafere
9635: Estimating the Gains from International Diversification: The Case of Pension Funds Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Yu Liu, Mike W. Peng, Zuobao Wei, Jian Xu and L. Colin Xu
9632: How to End the COVID-19 Pandemic by March 2022 Downloads
Ruchir Agarwal and Tristan Reed
9631: The Economic Ripple Effects of COVID-19 Downloads
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 Downloads
Lionel Fontagné, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta and Gianluca Santoni
9629: Machine Learning in International Trade Research: Evaluating the Impact of Trade Agreements Downloads
Holger Breinlich, Valentina Corradi, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta, João Santos Silva and Thomas Zylkin
9628: Trade, Jobs, and Worker Welfare Downloads
Erhan Artuc, Paulo Bastos and Eunhee Lee
9627: Social Transfer Multipliers in Developed and Emerging Countries: The Role of Hand-to-Mouth Consumers Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Sophie Mitra, Wei Chen, Justine Francoise Marie Herve, Sophia Pirozzi and Jaclyn Lourdes Alcala Yap
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