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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

9406: When Goal-Setting Forges Ahead but Stops Short

Asad Islam, Sungoh Kwon, Eema Masood, Nishith Prakash, Shwetlena Sabarwal and Deepak Saraswat

9405: Inflation Threshold Levels and Economic Growth in the Franc Zone Countries

Dimitri Sanga and Steve Gui-Diby

9404: Long-Term Effects of Free Primary Education on Educational Achievement: Evidence from Lesotho

Ramaele Moshoeshoe

9403: Implications of Cheap Oil for Emerging Markets

Alain Kabundi and Franziska Ohnsorge

9402: Designing Oil Revenue Management Mechanisms: An Application to Chad

Benoît Campagne, Markus Kitzmuller and Silvana Tordo

9401: Sovereign Credit Ratings, Relative Risk Ratings, and Private Capital Flows

Supriyo De, Sanket Mohapatra and Dilip Ratha

9400: One Rule Fits All ? Heterogeneous Fiscal Rules for Commodity Exporters When Price Shocks Can BePersistent: Theory and Evidence

Arthur Galego Mendes and Steven Michael Pennings

9399: Determinants of Property Tax Revenue: Lessons from Empirical Analysis

Rajul Awasthi, Tuan Minh Le and Chenli You

9398: A Structural Model of the Labor Market to Understand Gender Gaps among Marginalized Roma Communities

Mauricio Salazar-Saenz and Monica Robayo-Abril

9397: The Energy-Management Nexus in Firms: Which Practices Matter, How Much and for Whom ?

Arti Goswami Grover and Valerie Jean Karplus

9396: Child Stature, Maternal Education, and Early Childhood Development

Emmanuel Skoufias and Katja Vinha

9395: Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools

Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels and Andrew Zeitlin

9394: Growth of Global Corporate Debt: Main Facts and Policy Challenges

Facundo Abraham, Juan Jose Cortina Lorente and Sergio Schmukler

9393: Cross-Border Banking in EMDEs: Trends, Scale, and Policy Implications

Erik H.B. Feyen, Norbert Fiess, Ata Bertay and Igor Esteban Zuccardi Huertas

9392: Bank Lending Rates and Spreads in EMDEs: Evolution, Drivers, and Policies

Erik H.B. Feyen and Igor Esteban Zuccardi Huertas

9391: Making Gravity Great Again

Will Martin

9390: On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality

S Anukriti, Sonia Bhalotra and Hiu Tam

9389: What is the Impact of Weather Shocks on Prices?: Evidence from Ethiopia

Ruth Hill and Habtamu Neda Fuje

9388: How Useful is CPI Price Data for Spatial Price Adjustment in Poverty Measurement?: A Case from Ghana

Xiaomeng Chen, Rose Mungai, Shohei Nakamura, Thomas Patrick Pearson, Ayago Esmubancha Wambile and Nobuo Yoshida