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9585: Power Market Sophistication and Sector Outcomes: A Focus on Social Performance, Electricity Reliability, and Renewable Energy Penetration

Djeneba Doumbia

9584: Workers at Risk: Panel Data Evidence on the COVID-19 Labor Market Crisis in India

Maurizio Bussolo, Ananya Kotia and Siddharth Sharma

9583: The Convergence of Sovereign Environmental, Social and Governance Ratings

Eric Bouye and Diane Dorothy Menville

9582: The Short-Term Impacts of COVID-19 on Households in Developing Countries: An Overview Based on aHarmonized Data Set of High-Frequency Surveys

Tom Bundervoet, Maria Eugenia Davalos and Natalia Garcia

9581: Living Standards of Tunisian Households in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Federica Alfani, Dorra Dhrif, Vasco Molini, Dan Pavelesku and Marco Ranzani

9580: Titling and Beyond: Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Alexandra Patricia Panman and Nancy Lozano Gracia

9579: Making Room for Renters: Understanding and Supporting Rental Markets in the Global South — Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Alexandra Patricia Panman and Nancy Lozano Gracia

9578: The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal

Felipe Fadullon Dizon, Zetianyu Wang and Prajula Mulmi

9577: Invoicing Currency and Symmetric Pass-Through of Exchange Rates and Tariffs: Evidence from Malawian Imports from the EU

Angella Montfaucon

9576: How Do Digital Technologies Affect Household Welfare in Developing Countries ? Evidence from Senegal

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Samantha Lach, Takaaki Masaki and Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa

9575: Using Twitter to Evaluate the Perception of Service Delivery in Data-Poor Environments

Alia Anne Braley, Samuel Paul Fraiberger and Emcet Tas

9574: Saving the American Dream ? Education Policies in Spatial General Equilibrium

Fabian Eckert and Tatjana Karina Kleineberg

9573: Digital Technology Uses among Informal Micro-Sized Firms: Productivity and Jobs Outcomes in Senegal

Atiyas,Ä°zak and Mark Andrew Dutz

9572: Optimal Taxation with Multiple Dimensions of Heterogeneity

Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds

9571: COVID-19, Poverty, and Social Safety Net Response in Zambia

Boban Varghese Paul, Arden Finn, Sarang Chaudhary, Renata Mayer Gukovas and Ramya Sundaram

9570: Statistical Performance Indicators and Index: A New Tool to Measure Country Statistical Capacity

Hai-Anh Dang, John James Pullinger, Umar Serajuddin and Brian William Stacy

9569: Closing the Gap: Gender, Transport, and Employment in Mumbai

Muneeza Mehmood Alam, Maureen Cropper, Matias Herrera Dappe and Palak Suri

9568: Firm-Level Technology Adoption in the State of Ceara in Brazil

Xavier Cirera, Diego Comin, Marcio Cruz, Kyungmin Lee and Antonio Neto

9567: Firm-Level Technology Adoption in Vietnam

Xavier Cirera, Diego Comin, Marcio Cruz, Kyungmin Lee and Antonio Neto

9566: The Silenced Women: Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women ?

Abhilasha Sahay

9565: The Covid-19 Vaccine Production Club: Will Value Chains Temper Nationalism?

Simon J. Evenett, Bernard Hoekman, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta

9564: Inventories, Input Costs, and Productivity Gains from Trade Liberalizations

Shafaat Khan and Armen Khederlarian

9563: Policy Choices Can Help Keep 4G and 5G Universal Broadband Affordable

Edward J. Oughton, Niccolo Comini, Vivien Foster and Jim W. Hall

9562: Pathways out of Extreme Poverty: Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-faceted Social Protection Program in Niger

Thomas Bossuroy, Markus Goldstein, Dean Karlan, Harounan Kazianga, William Pariente, Patrick Premand, Catherine Cole Thomas, Christopher Udry, Julia Vaillant and Kelsey Ann Wright

9561: Liberalization, Technology Adoption, and Stock Returns: Evidence from Telecom

Rabah Arezki, Vianney Dequiedt, Yuting Fan and Carlo Maria Rossotto

9560: Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa, Samantha Lach and Takaaki Masaki

9559: Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of Education: Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia

Richard Akresh, Daniel Halim and Marieke Kleemans

9558: Welfare and Distributional Impacts of Inflation and the COVID-19 Outbreak in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Laura Rodriguez Takeuchi and Aziz Atamanov

9557: Gravity Model–Based Export Potential: An Application to Turkey

Alen Mulabdic and Pinar Yasar

9556: The Evolving Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 in Four African Countries

Ann Furbush, Anna Josephson, Talip Kilic and Jeffrey Michler

9555: Who Is in Justice? Caste, Religion and Gender in the Courts of Bihar over a Decade

Sandeep Bhupatiraju, Daniel Li Chen, Shareen Joshi and Peter Konstantin Neis

9554: Happy but Unequal: Differences in Subjective Well-Being across Individuals and Space in Colombia

Martijn Burger, Martijn Hendriks and Elena Ianchovichina

9553: A Global View of Poverty, Gender, and Household Composition

Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Antra Bhatt, Ginette Azcona, Jayne Jungsun Yoo and Kathleen G. Beegle

9552: Business Training and Mentoring: Experimental Evidence from Women-Owned Microenterprises in Ethiopia

M. Mehrab Bakhtiar, Gautam Bastian and Markus Goldstein

9551: Taking Stock of Trade Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from China’s Pre-WTO Accession

George Alessandria, Shafaat Khan and Armen Khederlarian

9550: Tax Revenue Effort and Aid in Fragile States: The Case of the Comoros

Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez, Abrams Mbu Enow Tagem and Joana Monteiro Da Mota

9549: Political Prioritization of Early Childhood Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Michelle J. Neuman and Shawn Michael Powers

9548: Toward the African Continental Free Trade Area: The Effects of Economic Integration and Democracy on Real Misalignments across Exchange Rate Regimes

Ferdinand Owoundi, Desire Avom and Yselle Flora Kuete

9547: Can Youth Empowerment Programs Reduce Violence against Girls during the COVID-19 Pandemic ?

Selim Gulesci, Manuela Puente Beccar and Diego Ubfal

9546: The Impact of Oil Shocks on Sovereign Default Risk

Sultan Abdulaziz M Alturki and Ann Marie Hibbert

9545: It Takes Two (To Make Things Right): Women's Empowerment and Couple Concordance in South Asia

Maurizio Bussolo, Nayantara Sarma and Anaise Marie Williams

9544: A Division of Laborers: Identity and Efficiency in India

Guilhem Cassan, Daniel Keniston and Tatjana Karina Kleineberg

9543: The Causal Effects of Long-Term PM2.5 Exposure on COVID-19 in India

Takahiro Yamada, Hiroyuki Yamada and Muthukumara S. Mani

9542: Gender Differences in Children's Antibiotic Use and Adherence

Christine Blandhol and Anja Sautmann

9541: Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India: Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program

David Blakeslee, Ritam Chaurey, Ram Fishman and Samreen Malik

9540: Development Research at High Geographic Resolution: An Analysis of Night Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India Using the SHRUG Open Data Platform

Sam Asher, Tobias Lunt, Ryu Matsuura and Paul Michael Novosad

9539: Improving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New Guinea

Christopher Hoy, Luke McKenzie and Mathias Sinning

9538: Tracking Economic Activity in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis Using Nighttime Lights — The Case of Morocco

Mark Roberts

9537: Do Large-Scale Student Assessments Really Capture Cognitive Skills ?

Rafael De Hoyos, Ricardo Estrada and Maria Jose Vargas Mancera

9536: Assessing the Impact and Cost of Economic Inclusion Programs: A Synthesis of Evidence

Boban Varghese Paul, Puja Vasudeva Dutta and Sarang Chaudhary

9535: School Management, Grants, and Test Scores: Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Mauricio Romero, Juan Bedoya, Monica Yanez Pagans, Marcela Lucia Silveyra De La Garza and Rafael De Hoyos

9534: Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in the Drought-Prone Lowlands of Ethiopia

Emmanuel Skoufias, Katja Vinha and Berhe Mekonnen Beyene

9533: The Impact of Living Arrangements (In-Camp versus Out-of-Camp) on the Quality of Life: A Case Study of Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Chinedu Temple Obi

9532: The Demand for Advice: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dominik Naeher and Matthias Schundeln

9531: Taming Private Leviathans: Regulation versus Taxation

Rabah Arezki, Asif Islam and Gregoire Rota-Graziosi

9530: Measuring Poverty Rapidly Using Within-Survey Imputations

Utz Pape

9529: The Technology-Employment Trade-Off: Automation, Industry, and Income Effects

Gene Kindberg-Hanlon

9528: "Building Back Better" in Practice: A Science-Policy Framework for a Green Economic Recovery after COVID-19

Theodoros Zachariadis, Elias Giannakis, Constantinos Taliotis, Marios Karmellos, Nestor Fylaktos, Mark Idwal Howells, William James Blyth and Stephane Hallegatte

9527: Exports and Women Workers in Formal Firms

Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam

9526: Roads Development Optimization for All-Season Service Accessibility Improvement in Rural Nepal Using a Novel Cost-Time Model and Evolutionary Algorithm

Andries Michiel Heyns, Robert Steven Banick and Suraj Regmi

9525: Technology and Demand Drivers of Productivity Dynamics in Developed and Emerging Market Economies

Alistair Dieppe, Neville Ricardo Francis and Gene Kindberg-Hanlon

9524: Macroeconomic Expectations and Credit Card Spending

Mikhail Galashin, Martin Kanz and Ricardo Perez Truglia

9523: Identification Properties for Estimating the Impact of Regulation on Markups and Productivity

James Sampi, Charl Jooste and Ekaterina Vostroknutova

9522: Does Central Bank Independence Increase Inequality?

Michaël Aklin, Andreas Kern and Mario Negre

9521: The Unintended Consequences of Deportations: Evidence from Firm Behavior in El Salvador

Antonella Agostina Bandiera, Lelys Dinarte Diaz, Sandra Rozo, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, Maria Micaela Sviatschi and Hernan Winkler

9520: Investment Impacts of Gendered Land Rights in Customary Tenure Systems: Substantive and Methodological Insights from Malawi

Klaus Deininger, Fang Xia, Talip Kilic and Heather G. Moylan

9519: Using Mobile Data to Understand Urban Mobility Patterns in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Fatima Arroyo Arroyo, Marta Fernandez Gonzalez, Dunstan Matekenya and Xavier Espinet Alegre

9518: A Reappraisal of the Migration-Development Nexus: Testing the Robustness of the Migration Transition Hypothesis

Naomi Leefmans, Nienke Oomes, Hugo Alexander Rojas Romagosa, Tobias Vervliet and Nicolas Berthiaume

9517: The Impact of Language of Instruction in Schools on Student Achievement: Evidence from Malaysia Using the Synthetic Control Method

Yew Chong Soh, Ximena Del Carpio and Liang Wang

9516: Competition Reform and Household Welfare: A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Eduardo Malásquez, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa and Abdelkrim Araar

9515: Does Competition from Informal Firms Hurt Job Creation by Formal Firms ? Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data

Mohammad Amin

9514: Coping with COVID-19: Does Management Make Firms More Resilient ?

Arti Goswami Grover and Valerie Jean Karplus

9513: Have Remittances Affected Real Unit Labor Costs in the Transition Economies of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia ?

Jimmy Apaa Okello, Martin Brownbridge and Roy S. Canagarajah

9512: Characterization of Ambient Air Quality in Selected Urban Areas in Uganda: A Low-Cost Approach

Nancy Lozano Gracia, Engineer Bainomugisha, Maria Edisa Soppelsa and Deo Okure

9511: COVID-19, Public Procurement Regimes, and Trade Policy

Varun Eknath, Bernard Hoekman, Viktoriya Ereshchenko and Anirudh Shingal

9510: The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries: Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys

Amparo Palacios-Lopez, David Newhouse, Utz Pape, Melanie Khamis, Michael Weber and Daniel Prinz

9509: Incentives for Mayors to Improve Learning: Evidence from state reforms in Ceará, Brazil

Ildo Jose Lautharte Junior, Victor Hugo de Oliveira and Andre Loureiro

9508: Pandemic Trade: Covid-19, Remote Work and Global Value Chains

Alvaro Raul Espitia Rueda, Michele Ruta, Nadia Rocha, Deborah Elisabeth Winkler and Aaditya Mattoo

9507: Trickle Down Tax Morale: A Cross Country Survey Experiment

Jonathan Mellon, Tiago Carneiro Peixoto, Fredrik Matias Sjoberg and Varun Gauri

9506: Policies to Support Businesses through the COVID-19 Shock: A Firm-Level Perspective

Xavier Cirera, Marcio Cruz, Elwyn Adriaan Robin Davies, Arti Goswami Grover, Leonardo Iacovone, Jose Ernesto Lopez Cordova, Denis Medvedev, Franklin Maduko, Gaurav Nayyar, Santiago Reyes Ortega and Jesica Torres

9505: Macroeconomic Modeling of Managing Hurricane Damage in the Caribbean: The Case of Jamaica

Andrew Burns, Charl Jooste and Gregor Schwerhoff

9504: The Impact of Flooding on Urban Transit and Accessibility: A Case Study of Kinshasa

Yiyi He, Stephan Fabian Thies, Paolo Avner and Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler

9503: Impacts of COVID-19 on Household Welfare in Tunisia

Deeksha Kokas, Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo, AbdelRahmen El Lahga and Vibhuti Mendiratta

9502: Improving Business Practices and the Boundary of the Entrepreneur: A Randomized Experiment Comparing Training, Consulting, Insourcing and Outsourcing

Stephen J. Anderson and David McKenzie

9501: Bilateral International Investments: The Big Sur ?

Fernando Broner, Tatiana Didier Brandao, Sergio Schmukler and Goetz von Peter

9500: Do Immigrants Push Natives towards Safer Jobs ? Exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union

Laurent Bossavie, Daniel Garrote Sanchez, Mattia Makovec and Caglar Ozden

9499: Assessing the Effects of Fiscal Policies on Poverty and Inequality: The Case of Uruguay

Marisa Bucheli, Gabriel Lara Ibarra and Diego Tuzman Fernandez

9498: Trade Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: Evidence from a New Data Set

Simon J. Evenett, Matteo Fiorini, Johannes Fritz, Bernard Hoekman, Piotr Lukaszuk, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta, Filippo Santi and Anirudh Shingal

9497: Taking Stock of the Financial Sector Policy Response to COVID-19 around the World

Erik H.B. Feyen, Tatiana Alonso Gispert, Tatsiana Kliatskova and Davide Salvatore Mare

9496: Actual and Potential Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific: Estimated Effects

Michael Joseph Ferrantino, Maryla Maliszewska and Svitlana Taran

9494: Economic Growth in European Union NUTS-3 Regions

Austin Francis Louis Kilroy and Roberto Ganau

9493: Data Transparency and Long-Run Growth

Asif Islam and Daniel Lederman

9492: Texting Parents about Early Child Development: Behavioral Changes and Unintended Social Effects

Oscar Barrera-Rodriguez, Karen Macours, Patrick Premand and Renos Vakis

9491: Measuring Total Factor Productivity Using the Enterprise Surveys: A Methodological Note

David C. Francis, Nona Karalashvili, Hibret Maemir and Jorge Rodriguez Meza

9490: Do Coronavirus Containment Measures Work ? Worldwide Evidence

Fernando Heber Blanco, Drilona Emrullahu and Raimundo Soto

9489: Dynamics and Synchronization of Global Equilibrium Interest Rates

Robert Beyer and Lazar Milivojevic

9488: Applying Machine Learning and Geolocation Techniques to Social Media Data (Twitter) to Develop a Resource for Urban Planning

Svetoslava Petkova Milusheva, Robert Andrew Marty, Guadalupe Bedoya Arguelles, Sarah Elizabeth Williams, Elizabeth Landsdowne Resor and Arianna Legovini

9487: Corporate Market Power in Romania: Assessing Recent Trends, Drivers, and Implications for Competition

Mariana Iootty, Georgiana Pop and Jorge O. Pena

9486: Subsidies, Information, and the Timing of Children’s Health Care in Mali

Anja Sautmann, Samuel Brown and Dean Mark Kline

9485: Lights Out ? COVID-19 Containment Policies and Economic Activity

Robert Beyer, Tarun Jain and Sonalika Sinha