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8410: Place-based policies for development

Gilles Duranton and Anthony Venables

8409: The economics of the gender wage gap in Armenia

Lourdes Rodriguez Chamussy, Nistha Sinha and Andrea Atencio

8408: Electricity provision and tax mobilization in Africa

Moussa Blimpo, Justice Tei Mensah, Opalo,K. Ochieng? and Ruifan Shi

8407: Why are connection charges so high ? an analysis of the electricity sector in Sub-Saharan Africa

Moussa Blimpo, Shaun McRae and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

8406: Sharing the benefits of innovation-digitization: a summary of market processes and policy suggestions

Roumeen Islam

8405: Capital inflows, equity issuance activity, and corporate investment

Charles W. Calomiris, Mauricio Larrain and Sergio Schmukler

8404: The effects of cash transfers on adult labor market outcomes

Sarah Jane Baird, David McKenzie and Berk Özler

8403: To impute or not to impute ? a review of alternative poverty estimation methods in the context of unavailable consumption data

Hai-Anh Dang

8402: Returns to investment in education: a decennial review of the global literature

George Psacharopoulos and Harry Patrinos

8401: Closer, but no cigar: intergenerational mobility across caste groups in India

Rishabh Sinha

8400: Determinants and dynamics of business aspirations: evidence from small-scale entrepreneurs in an emerging market

Patricio S. Dalton, Julius Rüschenpöhler and Bilal Husnain Zia

8399: Communism as the unhappy coming

Simeon Djankov and Elena Nikolova

8398: Interest rate caps: the theory and the practice

Aurora Ferrari, Oliver Masetti and Jiemin Ren

8397: Surviving firms of the Syrian Arab Republic: a rapid assessment

Kinley Clemens Salmon, Nabila Assaf and David C. Francis

8396: Understanding effective teaching practices in Chinese classrooms: evidence from a pilot study of primary and junior secondary schools in Guangdong, China

Andrew Moore Coflan, Andrew B. Ragatz, Amer Hasan and Yilin Pan

8395: Does workfare work well ? the case of the employment generation program for the poorest in Bangladesh

Yoonyoung Cho and Ummul Hasanath Ruthbah

8394: Lobbying for capital tax benefits and misallocation of resources during a credit crunch

Gabriel Roberto Zaourak

8393: The impact of interest rate caps on the financial sector: evidence from commercial banks in Kenya

Mehnaz S. Safavian and Bilal Zia

8392: Paris climate agreement and the global economy: winners and losers

Muthukumara S. Mani, Zekarias Hussein, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan and Deepika Wadhwa

8391: Taxation and the shadow economy: how the tax system can stimulate and enforce the formalization of business activities

Rajul Awasthi and Michael Engelschalk

8390: Assessing fiscal space in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cesar Calderon, Punam Chuhan-Pole and Yirbehogre Modeste Some

8389: Peacekeeping and development in fragile states: micro-level evidence from Liberia

Eric Mvukiyehe

8388: Why are so many water points in Nigeria non-functional?: an empirical analysis of contributing factors

Luis Alberto Andres, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Basab Das Gupta, Jonathan Grabinsky and George Joseph

8387: Too small to be beautiful?: the farm size and productivity relationship in Bangladesh

Madhur Gautam and Mansur Ahmed

8386: What investors want: perceptions and experiences of multinational corporations in developing countries

Peter Kusek and Andrea Antonia Lim Silva

8385: Obstacles on the road to Palestinian economic growth

Roy van der Weide, Bob Rijkers, Brian Blankespoor and Alexei Sisulu Abrahams

8384: Public works programs and crime: evidence for El Salvador

Pablo Ariel Acosta and Emma Mercedes Monsalve Montiel

8383: Access to employment and property values in Mexico

Laura H. Atuesta, J. Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo, Nancy Lozano Gracia and Uwe Deichmann

8382: Fiscal incentives and firm performance: evidence from the Dominican Republic

Alessandra Amendola, Marinella Boccia, Gianluca Mele and Luca Sensini

8381: Unemployment and violent extremism: evidence from Daesh foreign recruits

Mohamed Abdel Jelil, Kartika Bhatia, Anne Brockmeyer, Quy-Toan Do and Clément Joubert

8380: Growth, safety nets and poverty: assessing progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011

Ruth Hill and Eyasu Tsehaye

8379: Reflections of employers'gender preferences in job ads in India: an analysis of online job portal data

Afra Rahman Chowdhury, Ana Carolina Areias, Saori Imaizumi, Shinsaku Nomura and Futoshi Yamauchi

8378: Asymmetric information on noncognitive skills in the Indian labor market: an experiment in online job portal

Futoshi Yamauchi, Shinsaku Nomura, Saori Imaizumi, Ana Carolina Areias and Afra Rahman Chowdhury

8377: General equilibrium effects of targeted cash transfers: nutrition impacts on non-beneficiary children

Deon P. Filmer, Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal and Junko Onishi

8376: Risk preferences and the decision to flee conflict

Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme

8375: Safety nets and natural disaster mitigation: evidence from cyclone Phailin in Odisha

Paul J. Christian, Eeshani Kandpal, Nethra Palaniswamy and Vijayendra Rao

8374: Eyes in the sky, boots on the ground: assessing satellite- and ground-based approaches to crop yield measurement and analysis in Uganda

David B. Lobell, George Azzari, Burke Marshall, Sydney Gourlay, Zhenong Jin, Talip Kilic and Siobhan Murray

8373: Credit risk dynamics of infrastructure investment: considerations for financial regulators

Andreas Alexander Jobst

8372: The speed of justice

Florence Kondylis and Mattea Stein

8371: An evaluation of the contributing factors of water scheme failures in Nigeria

Luis Alberto Andres, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Basab Das Gupta, Jonathan Grabinsky and George Joseph

8370: The distributional impact of the fiscal system in Albania

Maria Eugenia Davalos, Monica Robayo-Abril, Esmeralda Shehaj and Aida Gjika

8369: Long-run impacts of increasing tobacco taxes: evidence from South Africa

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Giselle Del Carmen and Alfred Mukong

8368: Resource misallocation and productivity gaps in Malaysia

Lay Lian Chuah, Norman Loayza and Ha Minh Nguyen

8367: Giving Sisyphus a helping hand: pathways for sustainable RIA systems in developing countries

Peter Farup Ladegaard, Petter Lundkvist and Jonathan Camillo Kamkhaji

8366: Impact of U.S. market access on local labor markets in Vietnam

Trung Xuan Hoang and Ha Minh Nguyen

8365: International competition, returns to skill, and labor market adjustment

Rodney Falvey, David Greenaway and Joana Silva

8364: Employment structure and returns to skill in Vietnam: estimates using the labor force survey

Gabriel Demombynes and Mauro Testaverde

8363: Size-dependent tax enforcement and compliance: global evidence and aggregate implications

Pierre Jean Bachas, Roberto Fattal Jaef and Anders Jensen

8362: The performance of a consumption augmented asset index in ranking Households and Identifying the Poor

Diana Ngo and Luc Christiaensen

8361: Analysis of the mismatch between Tanzania household budget survey and national panel survey data in poverty and inequality levels and trends

Nadia Belhaj Hassine Belghith, Maria Adelaida Lopera, Alvin Etang Ndip and Wendy Karamba

8360: Gender differences in poverty and household composition through the life-cycle: a global perspective

Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Paola Buitrago, Benedicte Leroy De La Briere, David Newhouse, Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich, Kinnon Scott and Pablo Suarez Becerra

8359: The reallocation of district-level spending and natural disasters: evidence from Indonesia

Emmanuel Skoufias, Eric Strobl and Thomas Tveit

8358: "If it's already tough, imagine for me..."a qualitative perspective on youth out of school and out of work in Brazil

Ana Luiza Machado and Miriam Muller

8357: Geo-spatial modeling of access to water and sanitation in Nigeria

Luis Alberto Andres, Samir Bhatt, Basab Dasgupta, Juan A. Echenique, Peter William Gething, Jonathan Grabinsky Zabludovsky and George Joseph

8356: India's internal labor migration paradox: the statistical and the real

Gaurav Nayyar and Kyoung Yang Kim

8355: The state of jobs in post-conflict areas of Sri Lanka

David Newhouse and Ani Silwal

8354: Gross capital flows, common factors, and the global financial cycle

Luis-Diego Barrot and Luis Servén

8353: Identifying catch-up trajectories in child growth: new methods with evidence from young lives

Sam Jones, Jere Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang and Paul Anand

8352: Decentralization and redistribution: irrigation reform in Pakistan's Indus basin

Hanan Jacoby, Ghazala Mansuri and Freeha Fatima

8351: Governing the commons?: water and power in Pakistan's Indus basin

Hanan Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri

8350: Wider economic benefits of investments in transport corridors and the role of complementary policies

Martin Melecký, Siddharth Sharma and Hari Subhash

8349: The roots of inequality: estimating inequality of opportunity from regression trees

Paolo Brunori, Paul Hufe and Daniel Gerszon Mahler

8348: A skills-based human capital framework to understand the phenomenon of youth economic disengagement

Diego Angel-Urdinola and Renata Mayer Gukovas

8347: Psychic vs. economic barriers to vaccine take-up: evidence from a field experiment in Nigeria

Ryoko Sato and Yoshito Takasaki

8346: Distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures

Gaurav Datt

8345: Water when it counts: reducing scarcity through irrigation monitoring in Central Mozambique

Paul J. Christian, Florence Kondylis, Valerie Mueller, Astrid Maria Theresia Zwager and Tobias Siegfried

8344: Hit and run ? income shocks and school dropouts in Latin America

Paula Maria Cerutti, Elena Crivellaro, German Jeremias Reyes and Liliana Sousa

8343: The role of social ties in factor allocation

Ulrik Beck, Benedikte Alkjaersig Bjerge and Marcel Fafchamps

8342: Finding the poor vs. measuring their poverty: exploring the drivers of targeting effectiveness in Indonesia

Adama Bari Bah, Samuel Bazzi, Sudarno Sumarto and Julia Tobias

8341: Urban transport infrastructure and household welfare: evidence from Colombia

Tobias Pfutze, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan and Daniel Valderrama Gonzalez

8340: Migrants, towns, poverty and jobs: insights from Tanzania

Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Bert Lodewijk M Ingelaere and Ravi Kanbur

8339: Do management interventions last ? evidence from India

Nicholas Bloom, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts

8338: Love the job... or the patient ? task vs. mission-based motivations in health care

Sheheryar Banuri, Philip Keefer and Damien de Walque

8337: Unlocking India's logistics potential: the value of disaggregated macroscopic freight flow analysis

Bernard Aritua, Jan Havenga, Zane Paul Simpson and Esther Woon Lyn Chiew

8336: Structural change in west Africa: a tale of gain and loss

Fiseha Haile Gebregziabher

8335: The price elasticity of African elephant poaching

Quy-Toan Do, Andrei Levchenko, Lin Ma, Julian Blanc, Tom Milliken and Holly Dublin

8334: Human capital outflows: selection into migration from the Northern Triangle

Giselle Eugenia Del Carmen Hasbun and Liliana Sousa

8333: Cash transfers increase trust in local government

David Evans, Brian Holtemeyer and Katrina Kosec

8332: Effect of climate policies on labor markets in developing countries: review of the evidence and directions for future research

Marc Andrew Christian Hafstead, Roberton Williams, Alexander Golub, Siet Meijer, Badri G. Narayanan, Kevin Nyamweya and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

8331: Prioritizing water supply infrastructure investments in Sri Lanka: an application of the world bank infrastructure prioritization framework

Darwin Marcelo, Deblina Saha, Aditi Raina and Ruth Schuyler House

8330: Redistribution and group participation: experimental evidence from Africa and the UK

Marcel Fafchamps and Ruth Hill

8329: South Caucasus in motion: economic and social mobility in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

Sailesh Tiwari, Cesar A. Cancho, Moritz Meyer and Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky

8328: Informal sector heterogeneity and income inequality: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Franck M. Adoho and Djeneba Doumbia

8327: Tobacco price elasticity and tax progressivity in Moldova

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Francisco Juan Alberto Meneses Ponzini

8326: Digital technology adoption and jobs: a model of firm heterogeneity

Irene Brambilla

8325: Investment in ICT, productivity, and labor demand: the case of Argentina

Irene Brambilla and Dario Tortarolo

8324: Why are more sovereigns issuing in Euros? Choosing between USD and EUR-denominated bonds

Antonio Velandia-Rubiano and Rodrigo Silveira Veiga Cabral

8323: The impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on firm entry and performance in Turkey

Yusuf Emre Akgunduz, Marcel van den Berg and Wolter Hassink

8322: Relationship between energy intensity and economic growth: new evidence from a multi-country multi-sector data set

Uwe Deichmann, Anna Reuter, Sebastian Vollmer and Fan Zhang

8321: Using satellite imagery to assess impacts of soil and water conservation measures: evidence from Ethiopia's Tana-Beles Watershed

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus W. Deininger and Daniel C. Monchuk

8320: Optimizing finance for development

Tito Cordella

8319: Regional carbon pricing for international maritime transport: challenges and opportunities for global geographical coverage

Goran Dominioni, Dirk Heine and Beatriz Martinez Romera

8318: Broadband internet, labor demand, and total factor productivity in Colombia

Carlos Ospino

8317: The making of behavioral development economics

Allison Davis Demeritt and Karla Hoff

8316: Cyclonic storm landfalls in Bangladesh, west Bengal and Odisha, 1877-2016: a spatiotemporal analysis

Sunando Bandyopadhyay, Susmita Dasgupta, Zahirul Huque Khan and David J. Wheeler

8315: Financial sector strategies and financial sector outcomes: do the strategies perform?

Martin Melecký and Anca Maria Podpiera

8314: Global data set on education quality (1965-2015)

Nadir Altinok, Noam Angrist and Harry Patrinos

8313: The impact of social mobilization on health service delivery and health outcomes: evidence from rural Pakistan

Xavier Gine, Salma Khalid and Ghazala Mansuri

8312: Lessons from reforming financial management information systems: a review of the evidence

Ali Hashim and Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen

8311: The changing way governments talk about poverty and inequality: evidence from two centuries of Latin American presidential speeches

Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez, Axel Eizmendi and German Jeremias Reyes