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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

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