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9406: When Goal-Setting Forges Ahead but Stops Short Downloads
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 Downloads
Dimitri Sanga and Steve Gui-Diby
9404: Long-Term Effects of Free Primary Education on Educational Achievement: Evidence from Lesotho Downloads
Ramaele Moshoeshoe
9403: Implications of Cheap Oil for Emerging Markets Downloads
Alain Kabundi and Franziska Ohnsorge
9402: Designing Oil Revenue Management Mechanisms: An Application to Chad Downloads
Benoît Campagne, Markus Kitzmuller and Silvana Tordo
9401: Sovereign Credit Ratings, Relative Risk Ratings, and Private Capital Flows Downloads
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 Downloads
Arthur Galego Mendes and Steven Michael Pennings
9399: Determinants of Property Tax Revenue: Lessons from Empirical Analysis Downloads
Rajul Awasthi, Tuan Minh Le and Chenli You
9398: A Structural Model of the Labor Market to Understand Gender Gaps among Marginalized Roma Communities Downloads
Mauricio Salazar-Saenz and Monica Robayo-Abril
9397: The Energy-Management Nexus in Firms: Which Practices Matter, How Much and for Whom ? Downloads
Arti Goswami Grover and Valerie Jean Karplus
9396: Child Stature, Maternal Education, and Early Childhood Development Downloads
Emmanuel Skoufias and Katja Vinha
9395: Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools Downloads
Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels and Andrew Zeitlin
9394: Growth of Global Corporate Debt: Main Facts and Policy Challenges Downloads
Facundo Abraham, Juan Jose Cortina Lorente and Sergio Schmukler
9393: Cross-Border Banking in EMDEs: Trends, Scale, and Policy Implications Downloads
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 Downloads
Erik H.B. Feyen and Igor Esteban Zuccardi Huertas
9391: Making Gravity Great Again Downloads
Will Martin
9390: On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality Downloads
S Anukriti, Sonia Bhalotra and Hiu Tam
9389: What is the Impact of Weather Shocks on Prices?: Evidence from Ethiopia Downloads
Ruth Hill and Habtamu Neda Fuje
9388: How Useful is CPI Price Data for Spatial Price Adjustment in Poverty Measurement?: A Case from Ghana Downloads
Xiaomeng Chen, Rose Mungai, Shohei Nakamura, Thomas Patrick Pearson, Ayago Esmubancha Wambile and Nobuo Yoshida
9387: Returns to Education in the Russian Federation: Some New Estimates Downloads
Ekaterina Melianova, Suhas D. Parandekar, Harry Patrinos and Artem Volgin
9386: Broadband Internet and Household Welfare in Senegal Downloads
Takaaki Masaki, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
9385: Mining and the Quality of Public Services: The Role of Local Governance and Decentralization Downloads
Maty Konte and Rose Vincent
9384: How Did Africa's Prospective Petroleum Producers Fall Victim to the Presource Curse ? Downloads
David Mihalyi and Thomas Scurfield
9383: Small Area Estimation of Non-Monetary Poverty with Geospatial Data Downloads
Takaaki Masaki, David Newhouse, Ani Silwal, Adane Bedada and Ryan Engstrom
9382: Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality Downloads
Deon Filmer, James Paul Habyarimana and Shwetlena Sabarwal
9381: Educator Knowledge of Early Childhood Development: Evidence from Eastern Nepal Downloads
Lindsey Buck, Nathan V. Fiala, Nishith Prakash, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Deepak Saraswat and Deepika Shrestha
9380: Talent Allocation and Post-Reform Growth in Central America Downloads
Rishabh Sinha
9379: Which Firms Benefit from Corporate QE during the COVID-19 Crisis ? The Case of the ECB's Pandemic Emergency Purchase Program Downloads
Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Balint Horvath and Harry Huizinga
9378: Productivity Convergence: Is Anyone Catching Up? Downloads
Gene Kindberg-Hanlon and Cedric Iltis Finafa Okou
9377: Violence and Newborn Health: Estimates for Colombia Downloads
Laura Rodriguez Takeuchi
9376: The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources: Evidence from Ghana Downloads
Andrew Agyei-Holmes, Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto and Christopher Udry
9375: The Utilization-adjusted Human Capital Index (UHCI) Downloads
Steven Michael Pennings
9374: The Oil Nouveau-Riche and Arms Imports Downloads
Pierre-Louis Vézina
9373: The Seasonality of Conflict Downloads
Jenny Guardado and Steven Michael Pennings
9372: Natural Resource Discoveries, Citizen Expectations and Household Decisions Downloads
James Cust and Justice Tei Mensah
9371: Supporting Teacher Autonomy to Improve Education Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Brazil Downloads
Caio Piza, Astrid Maria Theresia Zwager, Matteo Ruzzante, Rafael Santos Dantas and Andre Loureiro
9370: Who Is Employed ? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa on Redefining Employment Downloads
Isis Gaddis, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Janneke Pieters
9369: An Optimal Rice Policy for Sierra Leone: Balancing Consumer and Producer Welfare Downloads
Errol George Graham, Hardwick Tchale and Mamadou Ndione
9368: Behavioral Change Promotion, Cash Transfers and Early Childhood Development: Experimental Evidence from a Government Program in a Low-Income Setting Downloads
Patrick Premand and Oumar Barry
9367: Autonomy and Specificity in Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Mexico Downloads
Carolina Corral, Xavier Gine, Aprajit Mahajan and Enrique Seira Bejarano
9366: Long-run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Market and Developing Economies Downloads
Shawn Allen Cole, Martin Melecký, Florian Molders and Tristan Reed
9365: Identifying Effective Teachers: Lessons from Four Classroom Observation Tools Downloads
Deon Filmer, Ezequiel Molina and Waly Wane
9364: Multinational Corporation Affiliates, Backward Linkages, and Productivity Spillovers in Developing and Emerging Economies: Evidence and Policy Making Downloads
Jacob Jordaan, Willem Douw and Zhenwei Qiang
9363: Banking Sector Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis Downloads
Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Alvaro Pedraza and Claudia Ruiz Ortega
9362: Evaluating the Impact of Export Finance Support on Firm-Level Export Performance: Evidence from Pakistan Downloads
Fabrice Defever, Alejandro Riano and Gonzalo Varela
9361: The Impact of Employer Discrimination on Female Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Tunisia Downloads
Jumana Jamal Subhi Alaref, Samira Nikaein Towfighian, Gustavo Nicolas Paez Salamanca and Mohammed Thabet M Audah
9360: Low-Cost Private Schools in Tanzania: A Descriptive Analysis Downloads
Shwetlena Sabarwal, Celeste Sununtnasuk and Deepika Ramachandran
9359: The Role of Government in the Market for Electric Vehicles: Evidence from China Downloads
Shanjun Li, Xianglei Zhu, Yiding Ma, Fan Zhang and Hui Zhou
9358: Are Teachers in Africa Poorly Paid?: Evidence from 15 Countries Downloads
David Evans, Fei Yuan and Deon Filmer
9357: Ex-ante Evaluation of the Impact of Increases in Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes in Kosovo Downloads
Monica Robayo-Abril, Anastasia Terskaya and Stefanie Koettl-Brodmann
9356: Reacting Quickly and Protecting Jobs: The Short-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Greek Labor Market Downloads
Gordon Betcherman, Nicholas Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Laliotis, Ioanna Pantelaiou, Mauro Testaverde and Giannis Tzimas
9355: Mama Knows (and Does) Best: Maternal Schooling Opportunities and Child Development in Indonesia Downloads
Amer Hasan, Nozomi Nakajima and Marcos A. Rangel
9354: Borrowing to Keep Up (with the Joneses): Inequality, Debt, and Conspicuous Consumption Downloads
Sheheryar Banuri and Ha Nguyen
9353: Slow Rockets and Fast Feathers or the Link between Exchange Rates and Exports: A Case Study for Pakistan Downloads
Martín Brun, Juan Pedro Gambetta and Gonzalo Varela
9352: Coastal Development between Opportunity and Disaster Risk: A Multisectoral Risk Assessment for Vietnam Downloads
Johannes Michael Braese, Sophie Anne De Vries Robbe and Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler
9351: Coastal Development between Opportunity and Disaster Risk: An Assessment of the Coastal Protection System in Vietnam Downloads
Mathijs van Ledden, Tran Thanh Tung, Dzung Huy Nguyen and Long Thanh Nguyen
9350: Political Reservation and Female Labor Force Participation in Rural India Downloads
Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Hari Krishnan Nagarajan and Sudhir K. Singh
9349: Internationally Linked Firms, Integration Reforms and Productivity: Evidence from Pakistan Downloads
Stefania Lovo and Gonzalo Varela
9348: Hide and Protect: A Role of Global Financial Secrecy in Shaping Domestic Institutions Downloads
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova and Michael Lokshin
9347: Who on Earth Can Work from Home ? Downloads
Daniel Garrote Sanchez, Nicolas Gomez Parra, Caglar Ozden, Bob Rijkers, Mariana Viollaz and Hernan Winkler
9346: Invitations, Incentives, and Conditions: A Randomized Evaluation of Demand-Side Interventions for Health Screenings in Armenia Downloads
Damien de Walque, Adanna Deborah Ugochi Chukwuma, Nono Akpedje Ayivi Guedehoussou and Marianna Koshkakaryan
9345: Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills Downloads
Eliana Carranza, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin and Neil Rankin
9344: Expansionary Fiscal Austerity: New International Evidence Downloads
Owen Nie
9343: The Information Content of Capital Controls Downloads
Owen Nie
9342: Income Distribution, International Integration and Sustained Poverty Reduction Downloads
Pinelopi Goldberg and Tristan Reed
9341: Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Guinea Downloads
Abdoul Ganiou Mijiyawa and Lancine Conde
9340: Gender Empowerment, Supply-Chain Linkages and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence on Bangladesh Downloads
Ana Fernandes and Hiau Looi Kee
9339: Crop Yield Convergence across Districts in India's Poorest State Downloads
Rishabh Sinha
9338: Mobile Money and Investment by Women Businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa Downloads
Asif Islam and Silvia Muzi
9337: Capital Market Financing and Firm Growth Downloads
Tatiana Didier Brandao, Ross Levine, Ruth Llovet Montanes and Sergio Schmukler
9336: The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador Downloads
Sergio Olivieri, Francesc Ortega, Eliana Carranza and Ana Mercedes Rivadeneira Alava
9335: The State of Land Use in Northern Nigeria: A Landsat-Based Mapping Framework Downloads
Fernando Sedano, Vasco Molini and M Abul Kalam Azad
9334: What Can the Service Delivery Indicator Surveys Tell Us about COVID-19 Preparedness ? Downloads
Jigyasa Sharma, Kathryn Gilman Andrews, Ruben Orion Conner and Roberta V. Gatti
9333: The Effects of Digital-Technology Adoption on Productivity and Factor Demand: Firm-level Evidence from Developing Countries Downloads
Ana Paula Cusolito, Daniel Lederman and Jorge O. Pena
9332: Shoring Up Economic Refugees: Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market Downloads
Sergio Olivieri, Francesc Ortega, Ana Mercedes Rivadeneira Alava and Eliana Carranza
9331: Using Remittance Transaction Data for Timely Estimation of the Foreign Worker Population in Malaysia Downloads
Zainab Binti Ali Ahmad, Kenneth Simler and Soonhwa Yi
9330: Active Conflict and Access to Education: Evidence from a Series of Conflict-Related Shocks in the Republic of Yemen Downloads
Safa Ali Qassim Almoayad, Eliana Favari, Samira Halabi, Siddharth Krishnaswamy, Almedina Music and Sharad Tandon
9329: Big Data for Sampling Design: The Venezuelan Migration Crisis in Ecuador Downloads
Juan Eduardo Munoz, Jose Victor Gallegos Munoz and Sergio Olivieri
9328: Transforming Teacher Education in the West Bank and Gaza: Policy Implications for Developing Countries Downloads
Andrew Burke, Ernesto Pancracio Cuadra, Tony Mahon, Juan Manuel Moreno Olmedilla and Simon Thacker
9327: The Lives and Livelihoods of Syrian Refugees in the Middle East: Evidence from the 2015-16 Surveys of Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Jordan, Lebanon, and Kurdistan, Iraq Downloads
Nandini Krishnan, Flavio Luiz Russo Riva, Dhiraj Sharma and Tara Vishwanath
9326: Coping with the Influx: Service Delivery to Syrian Refugees and Hosts in Jordan, Lebanon, and Kurdistan, Iraq Downloads
Nandini Krishnan, Flavio Luiz Russo Riva, Dhiraj Sharma and Tara Vishwanath
9325: Short-Run Welfare Impacts of Factory Jobs: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia Downloads
Girum Abebe, Niklas Buehren and Markus Goldstein
9324: COVID-19 and EMDE Corporate Balance Sheet Vulnerabilities: A Simple Stress-Test Approach Downloads
Erik H.B. Feyen, Fernando Dancausa, Bryan O'Reilly Gurhy and Owen Nie
9323: Relationship between Macroeconomic Indicators and Capital Markets Performance in Selected Southeastern European Countries Downloads
Ante Dodig
9322: Gender Pension Gaps in a Private Retirement Accounts System: A Dynamic Model of Household Labor Supply and Savings Downloads
Clement Jean Edouard Joubert
9321: Contagious Protests Downloads
Rabah Arezki, Alou Adessé Dama, Simeon Djankov and Ha Nguyen
9320: Adding Fuel to the Fire: Cheap Oil during the COVID-19 Pandemic Downloads
Collette Mari Wheeler, John Baffes, Alain Kabundi, Gene Kindberg-Hanlon, Peter Nagle and Franziska Ohnsorge
9319: Reform Chatter and Democracy Downloads
Rabah Arezki, Simeon Djankov, Ha Nguyen and Ivan Yotzov
9318: Recent Trends in Bank Privatization Downloads
Ata Bertay, Pietro Calice, Federico Alfonso Diaz Kalan and Oliver Masetti
9317: Estimating Capital Formation and Capital Stock by Economic Sector in China: The Implications for Productivity Growth Downloads
Richard Herd
9316: Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy: Evidence from China and India Downloads
M. Shahe Emran, Francisco Ferreira, Yajing Jiang and Yan Sun
9315: Diversification and Cooperation Strategies in a Decarbonizing World Downloads
Grzegorz Peszko, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe and Alexander Golub
9314: The Evolution of Built-up Areas in Ghana since 1975 Downloads
Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi
9313: COVID-19 Age-Mortality Curves Are Flatter in Developing Countries Downloads
Gabriel Demombynes
9312: Should Consumption Sub-Aggregates Be Used to Measure Poverty ? Downloads
Luc Christiaensen, Ethan Ligon and Thomas Sohnesen
9311: How Valuable is the Reliability of Residential Electricity Supply in Low-Income Countries ? Evidence from Nepal Downloads
Anna Alberini, Jevgenijs Steinbuks and Govinda Timilsina
9310: Trust or Property Rights ? Can Trusted Relationships Substitute for Costly Land Registration in West African Cities ? Downloads
Lucie Letrouit and Harris Selod
9309: Caloric intake and energy expenditures in India Downloads
Shari Eli and Nicholas Li
9308: Big Data in Transportation: An Economics Perspective Downloads
Harris Selod and Souleymane Soumahoro
9307: Implementing Precaution in Benefit-Cost Analysis: The Case of Deep Seabed Mining Downloads
Kerry Mace Krutilla, David Henning Good, Michael Toman and Tijen Arin
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