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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

9484: The Determinants of Regional Foreign Direct Investment and Its Spatial Dependence: Evidence from Tunisia

Bechir Naier Bouzid and Sofiene Toumi

9483: Productivity Loss and Misallocation of Resources in Southeast Asia

Francesca de Nicola, Ha Nguyen and Norman Loayza

9482: Does Patient Demand Contribute to the Overuse of Prescription Drugs ?

Carolina Pereira Lopez, Anja Sautmann and Simone Schaner

9481: Scarred but Wiser: World War 2's COVID Legacy

Michael Lokshin, Vladimir Kolchin and Martin Ravallion

9480: Opening-up Trajectories and Economic Recovery: Lessons after the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Michael Lokshin and Iván Torre

9479: Does Maternal Depression Undermine Childhood Cognitive Development? Evidence from the Young Lives Survey in Peru

Maria Magdalena Bendini and Lelys Dinarte Diaz

9478: Ex-Ante Evaluation of Sub-National Labor Market Impacts of Trade Reforms

Maryla Maliszewska, Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Rakesh Gupta Nichanametla Ramasubbaiah

9477: The Employment Effect of Place-Based Policies: Evidence from India

Yue - ETICI Li and Sutirtha Roy

9476: Technology Within and Across Firms

Xavier Cirera, Diego Comin, Marcio Cruz and Kyungmin Lee

9475: COVID-19 and Food Security in Ethiopia: Do Social Protection Programs Protect ?

Kibrom Abay, Guush Berhane, John Hoddinott and Kibrom Tafere

9474: The Coronavirus Pandemic and Food Security: Evidence from West Africa

Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Jeffrey Bloem and Aly Sanoh

9473: Do Cash Transfers Foster Resilience ? Evidence from Rural Niger

Patrick Premand and Quentin Stoeffler

9472: Economic Crises and Returns to University Education in Middle-Income Countries: Stylized Facts and COVID-19 Projections

Tazeen Fasih, Harry Patrinos and M. Najeeb Shafiq

9471: Children on the Move: Progressive Redistribution of Humanitarian Cash Transfers among Refugees

Berk Özler, Cigdem Celik, Scott Cunningham, Pablo Facundo Cuevas and Luca Parisotto

9470: The Interplay of Policy, Institutions, and Culture in the Time of Covid-19

Sheng Fang, Lixin Xu and Yuanyuan Yi

9469: Building Trust in the State with Information: Evidence from Urban Punjab

Adnan Khan, Sanval Nasim, Mahvish Ifrah Shaukat and Andreas Stegmann

9468: The Drivers of Firms' Compliance to Environmental Regulations: The Case of India

Sebastian Franco Bedoya and Muthukumara S. Mani

9467: Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers: Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh

Selim Gulesci

9466: Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 in Four African Countries

Anna Josephson, Talip Kilic and Jeffrey Michler

9465: In Light of What They Know: How do Local Leaders Make Targeting Decisions?

Ervin Dervisevic, Seth Aaron Levine Garz, Aneesh Mannava and Elizaveta Perova

9464: The Rural-Urban Divide and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in a Developing Country: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Md Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

9463: From Farms to Factories and Firms: Structural Transformation and Labor Productivity Growth in Malaysia

Amanina Binti Abdur Rahman and Achim Schmillen

9462: Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Paul J. Gertler, Nozomi Nakajima and Harry Patrinos

9461: Using Experimental Evidence to Inform Firm Support Programs in Developing Countries

Arti Goswami Grover and Michele Imbruno

9460: Credit Constraints and Fraud Victimization: Evidence from a Representative Chinese Household Survey

Nan Gao, Yuanyuan Ma and Lixin Xu

9459: Tracing the Local Impacts of Exports on Poverty and Inequality in Mexico

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Emmanuel Vazquez and Hernan Winkler

9458: Measuring Human Capital in Europe and Central Asia

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ivan Torre

9457: Interest Rate Repression: A New Database

Pietro Calice, Federico Alfonso Diaz Kalan and Oliver Masetti

9456: Feeling Poor, Feeling Rich, or Feeling Middle-Class: An Empirical Investigation

Maurizio Bussolo, Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand and Ivan Torre

9455: Conflict and Poverty

Hannes Mueller and Chanon Techasunthornwat

9454: Big Sisters

Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Lia C. Fernald and Heather Ashley Knauer

9453: Saving for Dowry: Evidence from Rural India

S Anukriti, Sungoh Kwon and Nishith Prakash

9452: Complex Decisions between Care and Paid Work: A Qualitative Study on the Demand for ChildcareServices in Mexico City

Miriam Muller and Martha Jaen

9451: Measuring the Biases, Burdens, and Barriers Women Entrepreneurs Endure in Myanmar

Chiara Dall'Aglio, Fayavar Hayati and David James Lee

9450: How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently ? A Comparison of 150 Interventions Using theNew Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling Metric

Noam Angrist, David Evans, Deon Filmer, Rachel Glennerster, Frederic Rogers and Shwetlena Sabarwal

9449: The Role of Gender in Agent Banking: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Richard Chamboko, Robert Cull, Xavier Gine, Soren Heitmann, Fabian Reitzug and Morne Van Der Westhuizen

9448: Estimating the Magnitude of Water Supply and Sanitation Subsidies

Luis Andres, Gonzalo Espineira, George Joseph, German Eduardo Sember and Michael David Thibert

9447: People in Harm's Way: Flood Exposure and Poverty in 189 Countries

Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Melda Salhab

9446: Learning Poverty: Measures and Simulations

João Pedro Azevedo

9445: Political Dividends of Digital Participatory Governance: Evidence from Moscow Pothole Management

Nisan Gorgulu, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

9444: Women's Legal Rights and Gender Gaps in Property Ownership in Developing Countries

Isis Gaddis, Rahul Suresh Lahoti and Hema Swaminathan

9443: Supporting Carbon Tax Implementation in Developing Countries through Results-Based Payments for Emissions Reductions

Jon Strand

9442: Do Innovative Firms Pay Higher Wages?: Micro-Level Evidence from Brazil

Xavier Cirera and Antonio Neto

9441: Why Do Firms Pay Bribes?: Evidence on the Demand and Supply Sides of Corruption in Developing Countries

Bernard P. Gauthier, Jonathan Goyette and Wilfried Anicet Kouakou Kouame

9440: An Analysis of Clinical Knowledge, Absenteeism, and Availability of Resources for Maternal andChild Health: A Cross-Sectional Quality of Care Study in 10 African Countries

Laura Di Giorgio, David Evans, Magnus Lindelow, Son Nam Nguyen, Jakob Svensson, Waly Wane and Anna Welander Tarneberg

9439: Africa in Manufacturing Global Value Chains: Cross-Country Patterns in the Dynamics of Linkages

Kaleb Girma Abreha, Emmanuel Lartey, Taye Mengistae, Solomon Owusu and Albert G. Zeufack

9438: Risk Management in Border Inspection

Russell Hillberry, Bilgehan Karabay and Shawn Tan

9437: The Impact of COVID-19 on Formal Firms: Micro Tax Data Simulations across Countries

Pierre Jean Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer and Camille Marine Semelet

9436: Impact of Grain Trade Policies on Prices and Welfare: Evidence from Malawi

Habtamu Neda Fuje and Hemant Pullabhotla

9435: Vulnerability to Poverty Following Extreme Weather Events in Malawi

Sandra Baquie and Habtamu Neda Fuje

9434: Unmasking the Impact of COVID-19 on Businesses: Firm Level Evidence from Across the World

Marie Christine Apedo Amah, Besart Avdiu, Xavier Cirera, Marcio Cruz, Elwyn Adriaan Robin Davies, Arti Goswami Grover, Leonardo Iacovone, Umut Kilinc, Denis Medvedev, Franklin Okechukwu Maduko, Stavros Poupakis, Jesica Torres Coronado and Trang Thu Tran

9433: In Search of Better Opportunities: Sorting and Agglomeration Effects among Young College Graduates in Colombia

Marigee Bacolod, Jorge De la Roca and Maria Marta Ferreyra

9432: Exporting and Female Labor Market Outcomes in Georgia

Claire Honore Hollweg and Anne Beline Chua Ong Lopez

9431: In It to Win It ? Self-Esteem and Income-Earning among Couples

Ioana Alexandra Botea, Aletheia Donald and Léa Rouanet

9430: The Scars of Civil War: The Long-Term Welfare Effects of the Salvadoran Armed Conflict

Pablo Acosta, Javier Baez, German Caruso and Carlos Carcach

9429: Global Technology for Local Monitoring of Air Pollution in Dhaka

Susmita Dasgupta, M. Khaliquzzaman and David R. Wheeler

9428: Raising College Access and Completion: How Much Can Free College Help ?

Maria Marta Ferreyra, Carlos Garriga, Juan David Martin and Angelica Maria Sanchez Diaz

9427: Child Care Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development

Samuel Berlinski, Maria Marta Ferreyra, Luca Flabbi and Juan David Martin

9426: Market Access and Development of the ICT Sector in the West Bank

Chiara Fratto and Elisa Giannone

9425: The Voice of Foreign Direct Investment: Foreign Investor Policy Preferences and Experiences inDeveloping Countries

Abhishek Saurav and Ryan Chia Kuo

9424: Estimating the Contribution of Short-Cycle Programs to Student Outcomes in Colombia

Maria Marta Ferreyra, Andrea Franco Hernandez, Tatiana Melguizo and Angelica Maria Sanchez Diaz

9423: How Do Small Formal and Informal Firms in the Arab Republic of Egypt Compare ?

Caroline Krafft, Ragui A. Assaad, Khandker Wahedur Rahman and Maakwe Cumanzala

9422: Inflation Targeting in India: An Interim Assessment

Barry Eichengreen, Poonam-000193453 Gupta and Rishabh Choudhary

9421: Transportation and the Environment: A Review of Empirical Literature

Shanjun Li, Jianwei Xing, Lin Yang and Fan Zhang

9420: Secondary Schools and Teenage Childbearing: Evidence from the School Expansion in Brazilian Municipalities

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner and Jesse Matheson

9419: Modeling and Predicting the Spread of Covid-19: Comparative Results for the United States, thePhilippines, and South Africa

Susmita Dasgupta and David R. Wheeler

9418: Life Expectancy at Birth and Lifetime Education and Earnings

Mohammad Mainul Hoque, Elizabeth King, Claudio Montenegro and Peter Orazem

9417: Revised Estimates of the Impact of Climate Change on Extreme Poverty by 2030

Bramka Arga Jafino, Brian James Walsh, Julie Rozenberg and Stephane Hallegatte

9416: Perceptions, Contagion, and Civil Unrest

Christophe Abi-Nassif, Asif Islam and Daniel Lederman

9415: Estimating the Demand for Business Training: Evidence from Jamaica

Alessandro Maffioli, David McKenzie and Diego Ubfal

9414: Small and Medium Enterprises in the Pandemic: Impact, Responses and the Role of Development Finance

Ikmal Adian, Djeneba Doumbia, Neil Gregory, Alexandros Ragoussis, Aarti Reddy and Jonathan David Timmis

9413: Stochastic Modeling of Food Insecurity

Dieter Wang, Bo Andree, Andres Fernando Chamorro Elizondo and Phoebe Girouard Spencer

9412: Predicting Food Crises

Bo Andree, Andres Fernando Chamorro Elizondo, Aart C. Kraay, Phoebe Girouard Spencer and Dieter Wang

9411: Implications of Major Adverse Events on Productivity

Alistair Dieppe, Sinem Kilic Celik and Cedric Iltis Finafa Okou

9410: Gender Bias in Agricultural Child Labor: Evidence from Survey Design Experiments

Jose Galdo, Ana Dammert and Degnet Abebaw Ejigie

9409: The Role of Inequality for Poverty Reduction

Katy Bergstrom

9408: Small Business Training to Improve Management Practices in Developing Countries: Reassessingthe Evidence for 'Training Doesn’t Work'

David McKenzie

9407: Urban Design, Public Spaces, and Social Cohesion: Evidence from a Virtual Reality Experiment

Jimena Llopis Abella, Anna Fruttero, Emcet Tas and Umar Taj