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9384: How Did Africa's Prospective Petroleum Producers Fall Victim to the Presource Curse ?

David Mihalyi and Thomas Scurfield

9383: Small Area Estimation of Non-Monetary Poverty with Geospatial Data

Takaaki Masaki, David Newhouse, Ani Silwal, Adane Bedada and Ryan Engstrom

9382: Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality

Deon Filmer, James Paul Habyarimana and Shwetlena Sabarwal

9381: Educator Knowledge of Early Childhood Development: Evidence from Eastern Nepal

Lindsey Buck, Nathan V. Fiala, Nishith Prakash, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Deepak Saraswat and Deepika Shrestha

9380: Talent Allocation and Post-Reform Growth in Central America

Rishabh Sinha

9379: Which Firms Benefit from Corporate QE during the COVID-19 Crisis ? The Case of the ECB's Pandemic Emergency Purchase Program

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Balint Horvath and Harry Huizinga

9378: Productivity Convergence: Is Anyone Catching Up?

Gene Kindberg-Hanlon and Cedric Iltis Finafa Okou

9377: Violence and Newborn Health: Estimates for Colombia

Laura Rodriguez Takeuchi

9376: The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources: Evidence from Ghana

Andrew Agyei-Holmes, Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto and Christopher Udry

9375: The Utilization-adjusted Human Capital Index (UHCI)

Steven Michael Pennings

9374: The Oil Nouveau-Riche and Arms Imports

Pierre-Louis Vézina

9373: The Seasonality of Conflict

Jenny Guardado and Steven Michael Pennings

9372: Natural Resource Discoveries, Citizen Expectations and Household Decisions

James Cust and Justice Tei Mensah

9371: Supporting Teacher Autonomy to Improve Education Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Brazil

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

Isis Gaddis, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Janneke Pieters

9369: An Optimal Rice Policy for Sierra Leone: Balancing Consumer and Producer Welfare

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

Patrick Premand and Oumar Barry

9367: Autonomy and Specificity in Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Mexico

Carolina Corral, Xavier Gine, Aprajit Mahajan and Enrique Seira

9366: Long-run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

Shawn Allen Cole, Martin Melecký, Florian Molders and Tristan Reed

9365: Identifying Effective Teachers: Lessons from Four Classroom Observation Tools

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

Jacob Jordaan, Willem Douw and Zhenwei Qiang

9363: Banking Sector Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis

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

Fabrice Defever, Alejandro Riano and Gonzalo Varela

9361: The Impact of Employer Discrimination on Female Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Tunisia

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

Shwetlena Sabarwal, Celeste Sununtnasuk and Deepika Ramachandran

9359: The Role of Government in the Market for Electric Vehicles: Evidence from China

Shanjun Li, Xianglei Zhu, Yiding Ma, Fan Zhang and Hui Zhou

9358: Are Teachers in Africa Poorly Paid?: Evidence from 15 Countries

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

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

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

Amer Hasan, Nozomi Nakajima and Marcos A. Rangel

9354: Borrowing to Keep Up (with the Joneses): Inequality, Debt, and Conspicuous Consumption

Sheheryar Banuri and Ha Nguyen

9353: Slow Rockets and Fast Feathers or the Link between Exchange Rates and Exports: A Case Study for Pakistan

Martín Brun, Juan Pedro Gambetta and Gonzalo Varela

9352: Coastal Development between Opportunity and Disaster Risk: A Multisectoral Risk Assessment for Vietnam

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

Mathijs van Ledden, Tran Thanh Tung, Dzung Huy Nguyen and Long Thanh Nguyen

9350: Political Reservation and Female Labor Force Participation in Rural India

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Hari Krishnan Nagarajan and Sudhir K. Singh

9349: Internationally Linked Firms, Integration Reforms and Productivity: Evidence from Pakistan

Stefania Lovo and Gonzalo Varela

9348: Hide and Protect: A Role of Global Financial Secrecy in Shaping Domestic Institutions

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova and Michael Lokshin

9347: Who on Earth Can Work from Home ?

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

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

Eliana Carranza, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin and Neil Rankin

9344: Expansionary Fiscal Austerity: New International Evidence

Owen Nie

9343: The Information Content of Capital Controls

Owen Nie

9342: Income Distribution, International Integration and Sustained Poverty Reduction

Pinelopi Goldberg and Tristan Reed

9341: Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Guinea

Abdoul Ganiou Mijiyawa and Lancine Conde

9340: Gender Empowerment, Supply-Chain Linkages and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence on Bangladesh

Ana Fernandes and Hiau Looi Kee

9339: Crop Yield Convergence across Districts in India's Poorest State

Rishabh Sinha

9338: Mobile Money and Investment by Women Businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asif Islam and Silvia Muzi

9337: Capital Market Financing and Firm Growth

Tatiana Didier Brandao, Ross Levine, Ruth Llovet Montanes and Sergio Schmukler

9336: The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador

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

Fernando Sedano, Vasco Molini and M Abul Kalam Azad

9334: What Can the Service Delivery Indicator Surveys Tell Us about COVID-19 Preparedness ?

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

Ana Paula Cusolito, Daniel Lederman and Jorge O. Pena

9332: Shoring Up Economic Refugees: Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nandini Krishnan, Flavio Luiz Russo Riva, Dhiraj Sharma and Tara Vishwanath

9325: Short-Run Welfare Impacts of Factory Jobs: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

Girum Abebe, Niklas Buehren and Markus Goldstein

9324: COVID-19 and EMDE Corporate Balance Sheet Vulnerabilities: A Simple Stress-Test Approach

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

Ante Dodig

9322: Gender Pension Gaps in a Private Retirement Accounts System: A Dynamic Model of Household Labor Supply and Savings

Clement Jean Edouard Joubert

9321: Contagious Protests

Rabah Arezki, Alou Adessé Dama, Simeon Djankov and Ha Nguyen

9320: Adding Fuel to the Fire: Cheap Oil during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Collette Mari Wheeler, John Baffes, Alain Kabundi, Gene Kindberg-Hanlon, Peter Nagle and Franziska Ohnsorge

9319: Reform Chatter and Democracy

Rabah Arezki, Simeon Djankov, Ha Nguyen and Ivan Yotzov

9318: Recent Trends in Bank Privatization

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

Richard Herd

9316: Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy: Evidence from China and India

M. Shahe Emran, Francisco Ferreira, Yajing Jiang and Yan Sun

9315: Diversification and Cooperation Strategies in a Decarbonizing World

Grzegorz Peszko, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe and Alexander Golub

9314: The Evolution of Built-up Areas in Ghana since 1975

Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi

9313: COVID-19 Age-Mortality Curves Are Flatter in Developing Countries

Gabriel Demombynes

9312: Should Consumption Sub-Aggregates Be Used to Measure Poverty ?

Luc Christiaensen, Ethan Ligon and Thomas Sohnesen

9311: How Valuable is the Reliability of Residential Electricity Supply in Low-Income Countries ? Evidence from Nepal

Anna Alberini, Jevgenijs Steinbuks and Govinda Timilsina

9310: Trust or Property Rights ? Can Trusted Relationships Substitute for Costly Land Registration in West African Cities ?

Lucie Letrouit and Harris Selod

9309: Caloric intake and energy expenditures in India

Shari Eli and Nicholas Li

9308: Big Data in Transportation: An Economics Perspective

Harris Selod and Souleymane Soumahoro

9307: Implementing Precaution in Benefit-Cost Analysis: The Case of Deep Seabed Mining

Kerry Mace Krutilla, David Henning Good, Michael Toman and Tijen Arin

9306: Using Machine Learning to Assess Yield Impacts of Crop Rotation: Combining Satellite and Statistical Data for Ukraine

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Nataliia Kussul, Mykola Lavreniuk and Oleg Nivievskyi

9305: Impact of Financial Incentives and the Role of Information and Communication in Last-Mile Delivery of Textbooks in Zambia

Seo Yeon Hong, Xiaonan Cao and Mupuwaliywa Mupuwaliywa

9304: International Benchmarking for Country Economic Diagnostics: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Subal Kumbhakar, Norman Loayza and Vivian Norambuena

9303: Demystifying the Costs of Electricity Generation Technologies

Govinda Timilsina

9302: Tax Competition: Is It a Source of the Corporate Savings Glut?

Atsushi Kawamoto and Kei Muraki

9301: Transforming Finance in the Middle East and North Africa

Rabah Arezki and Lemma W. Senbet

9300: What Are the Poverty and Inequality Impacts of Fiscal Policy in Turkey ?

Pablo Facundo Cuevas, Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti and Metin Nebiler

9299: Attracting Private Solutions and Participation in the Power Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Findings from a Survey of Investors and Financiers

Benedict Sebastian Probst, Richard Holcroft, Joern Thorsten Huenteler, Ani Balabanyan, Andrew Tipping and Peter Robinson

9298: China's Productivity Slowdown and Future Growth Potential

Loren Brandt, John Litwack, Elitza Mileva, Luhang Wang, Yifan Zhang and Luan Zhao

9297: Power System Implications of Subsidy Removal, Regional Electricity Trade, and Carbon Constraints in MENA Economies

Govinda Timilsina and Ilka Fabiana Deluque Curiel

9296: Growth and Risk: A View from International Trade

Pravin Krishna, Andrei Levchenko and William Maloney

9295: Women in the Pipeline: A Dynamic Decomposition of Firm Pay Gaps

Jishnu Das and Clement Jean Edouard Joubert

9294: Why Are So Many Children Stunted in the Philippines ?

Mario V. Capanzana, Gabriel Demombynes and Paul Michael Gubbins

9293: Rent-Seeking Activities, Misallocation, and Innovation in Argentina

Gabriel Zaourak

9292: Changes in Female Employment in Mexico: Demographics, Economics, and Policies

Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena and Diego Cardozo Medeiros

9291: Examining the Economic Impact of COVID-19 in India through Daily Electricity Consumption and Nighttime Light Intensity

Robert Beyer, Sebastian Franco Bedoya and Virgilio Galdo

9290: A Decade after the 2009 Global Recession: Macroeconomic Developments

Wee Chian Koh and Shu Yu

9289: A Decade after the 2009 Global Recession: Macroeconomic and Financial Sector Policies

Wee Chian Koh and Shu Yu

9288: Technology in the Classroom and Learning in Secondary Schools

Moussa Blimpo, Ousman Gajigo, Solomon Owusu, Ryoko Tomita and Yanbin Xu

9287: Reversal of Fortune for Political Incumbents after Oil Shocks

Rabah Arezki, Simeon Djankov, Ha Nguyen and Ivan Yotzov

9286: Does Corruption Hurt Employment Growth of Financially Constrained Firms More ?

Mohammad Amin and Yew Chong Soh

9285: Productivity Growth and Efficiency Dynamics of Korean Structural Transformation

Hyeok Jeong