Policy Research Working Paper Series

From The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433.
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Roula I. Yazigi ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

10979: Reconciling Multi-Level Rights-Based Commitments in Development: Assessing the Legal and Administrative Imperatives of Responding to Education, Health Care, and Environment Protection Challenges

Bernice Nuerkey Narh and Michael Woolcock

10978: Poverty Lines and Spatial Differences in the Cost of Living

Nicola Amendola, Federico Belotti, María Edo, Marco Ranzani and Giovanni Vecchi

10977: High Tariffs, High Stakes: The Policy Drivers behind Firm-Level Adoption of Green Technologies

Samuel Rosenow, Alvaro Raul Espitia Rueda and Ana Margarida Fernandes

10976: A Longitudinal Cross-Country Dataset on Agricultural Productivity and Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa

Thomas Patrick Bentze and Philip Randolph Wollburg

10975: Maternal Mental Health and Its Influence on Children’s Early Development: Evidence from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Mahreen Tahir Chowdhry, Elizabeth Lauren Hentschel, Heather B. Tomlinson, Amna Ansari, Amer Hasan, Aisha Yousafzai and Naveed Hussain

10974: Resolving Puzzles of Monetary Policy Transmission in Emerging Markets

Ayhan Kose, Jongrim Ha, Dohan Kim and Eswar Prasad

10973: Is There a Gendered Parenthood Penalty in Indonesian Labor Markets?

Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez, Ardina Hasanbasri and Fernando Rios-Avila

10972: Are There Jobs for Everyone ? An Analysis of the Relationship between the Employment of Older and Younger Persons in Indonesia

Amanina Binti Abdur Rahman

10971: The Timing versus Allocation Trade-off in Politically Constrained Climate Policies

Adam Michael Bauer, Stephane Hallegatte and Florent McIsaac

10970: Weathering Shocks: Unraveling the Effects of Short-Term Weather Shocks on Poverty in Paraguay

Teresa Janz, Franziska Gassmann and Lyliana Gayoso de Ervin

10969: Afghanistan’s New Economic Landscape: Using Nighttime Lights to Understand the Civilian Economy after 2021

Ivo Teruggi, Oscar Eduardo Barriga Cabanillas, Walker Kosmidou-Bradley, Silvia Redaelli and Eigo Tateishi

10968: Is There an Underside to Economic Growth ? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Malaysia

M Asadullah, Monica Biradavolu, Vijayendra Rao and Kenneth Simler

10967: Can Facebook Ads Prevent Malaria ? Two Field Experiments in India

Dante Donati, Nandan Rao, Victor Orozco-Olvera and Ana Maria Munoz Boudet

10966: Perceptions of Economic Mobility and Support for Education Reforms

Alexandru Cojocaru, Michael Lokshin and Iván Torre

10965: Maximizing Output and Government Revenues from Mining in Developing Countries: The Role of Country Political Risk and Investors’ Return, and Implications for the Energy Transition

Graham Davis, Chadi Bou Habib, Gaute Solheim and Martin Lokanc

10964: Yielding Insights: Machine Learning-Driven Imputations to Filling Agricultural Data Gaps

Ismael Yacoubou Djima, Marco Tiberti and Talip Kilic

10963: Optimal Public Sector Premium, Talent Misallocation, and Aggregate Productivity: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa

Jesica Torres Coronado and Francisco Parro

10962: Ancaman Beracun terhadap Sumber Daya Manusia Indonesia: Prevalensi dan Dampak Cat timbal di Rumah Indonesia

William Hutchins Seitz and Imam Setiawan

10961: How Regulations Impact the Labor Market: A Review of the Literatures on Product and Labor Market Regulations

David Alzate, Eliana Carranza, Joana Duran-Franch, Truman G. Packard and Celina Proffen

10960: Prioritizing Heat Mitigation Actions in Indian Cities: A Cost-Benefit Analysis under Climate Change Scenarios

Nicholas K.W. Jones, Asmita Tiwari, Natsuko Kikutake, Sacha Takacs and Niels Souverijns

10959: Is Escaping the Fiscal Pro-Cyclicality Trap Possible ? Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa

Zeljko Bogetic and Dominik Naeher

10958: Crisis Credit, Employment Protection, Indebtedness, and Risk

Federico Huneeus, Joseph Kaboski, Mauricio Larrain, Sergio Schmukler and Mario Vera

10957: Designing Air Quality Measurement Systems in Data-Scarce Settings

Bridget Hoffmann and Sveta Milusheva

10956: Fading Away Informality by Development

M Nazim Tamkoc

10955: Trade Restructuring: Assessing Labor Market and Welfare Effects

Kaleb Abreha and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

10954: Revisiting Public Investment Multipliers: Nonlinear Effects of the Business Cycle, Fiscal Space, Efficiency, and Capital Stock

Amat Adarov, Benedict Clements and Joao Jalles

10953: The Impact of Market Volatility on Hotel Efficiency in Malaysia: Does Hotel Size Matter ?

Mohammad Amin and Nesma Ali

10952: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Methodology and 2024 Update

Daniel Kaufmann and Aart C. Kraay

10951: Heterogeneous Effects of Trade Agreements in Central America: The Case of CAFTA-DR

Sebastian Franco Bedoya and Woori Lee

10950: Technological Decoupling ? The Impact on Innovation of US Restrictions on Chinese Firms

Yu Cao, Francesca de Nicola, Aaditya Mattoo and Jonathan David Timmis

10949: Digitalization, Remote Work and Firm Resilience: Evidence from the COVID-19 Shock

Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Arti Grover and Gaurav Nayyar

10948: Financial Deepening and Carbon Emissions Intensity: Evidence from a Global Sample of Countries

Boris Fisera, Martin Melecký and Dorothe Singer

10947: Household and Firm Exposure to Heat and Floods in South Asia

A. Patrick Behrer, Jonah Matthew Rexer, Siddharth Sharma and Margaret Triyana

10946: Education, Social Norms, and the Marriage Penalty: Evidence from South Asia

Maurizio Bussolo, Jonah Matthew Rexer and Margaret Triyana

10945: Identifying Growth Accelerations

Bram Gootjes, Jakob de Haan, Kersten Kevin Stamm and Shu Yu

10944: The Effect of Carbon Taxes on Aggregate Productivity: The Case of the Dominican Republic

Esteban Ferro, Davide Salvatore Mare, Faruk Miguel Liriano, Fausto Andres Patino Pena, Maria Gabriela Rodriguez Quezada and Federica Zeni

10943: Taxing for Growth: Revisiting the 15 Percent Threshold

Rishabh Choudhary, Franz Ulrich Ruch and Emilia Skrok

10942: Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Argentina: Drivers and Channels of a Long-Lasting Marriage

Francisco García Posleman and Julian Folgar

10941: Digitalization and Inclusive Growth: A Review of the Evidence

Regina Pleninger, Dana Vorisek, Shu Yu and Gaurav Nayyar

10940: Tax Compliance in Romania

Monica Robayo-Abril, Georgiana Balaban and Marcin Wroński

10939: Fuel Subsidy Reforms: Lessons from the Literature and Assessing the Price Shock for Different Sectors through an Input-Output Table in the Case of Angola

Bao We Wal Bambe, Chadi Bou Habib and Joaquin Marandino Peregalli

10938: Long-Term and Lasting Impacts of Personal Initiative Training on Entrepreneurial Success

Francisco Campos, Michael Frese, Leonardo Iacovone, Hillary C. Johnson, David McKenzie and Mona Mensmann

10937: Domestic Laws and Protectionism in Government Procurement

Carlos Sebastian Barreto Cifuentes, Katayoon Beshkardana, Majed M. El-Bayya and Lorenzo Rotunno

10936: Usus Fructus: Taking Account of Property Use Rights in Household Wealth Measurement

Giovanni D'Alessio, Andrea Neri and I. Toma

10935: Mapping the Risk Posed to Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems by Uncontrolled Access to Photovoltaic Water Pumping in Sub-Saharan Africa

Guillaume Zuffinetti and Simon Meunier

10934: Simulating Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Minimum Wage Increases in Romania: Evidence from Survey and Administrative Tax Data

Monica Robayo-Abril, Madalina Zamfir and Marcin Wroński

10933: Find the Fake: Boosting Resistance to Health Misinformation in Jordan with a WhatsApp Chatbot Game

Michelle Dugas, Daniel Alejandro Pinzon Hernandez, Jungkyu Rhys Lim, Renos Vakis, Zeina Afif, Takahiro Hasumi and Diya Nitham Mousa Elfadel

10932: Spatial Inequality and Informality in Kenya’s Firm Network

Verena Christina Wiedemann, Benard K. Kirui, Vatsal Khandelwal and Peter W. Chacha

10931: Using Post-Double Selection Lasso in Field Experiments

Jacobus Cilliers, Nour Elashmawy and David McKenzie

10930: Disaggregated Impacts of Growth on Multidimensional Poverty: Does the Source of Growth Matter?

Francis Muamba Mulangu, Jean-Pascal Nguessa Nganou, Mokhtar Benlamine and Michael Keller

10929: The Financial Premium and Real Cost of Bureaucrats in Businesses

Ana Paula Cusolito, Roberto Fattal Jaef, Fausto Andres Patino Pena and Akshat Vikram Singh

10928: Jobless Development

Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge, Richard Rogerson and Zoe Leiyu Xie

10927: Characterizing Green and Carbon-intensive Employment in India

Andrés Ham, Emmanuel Vazquez and Monica Yanez Pagans

10926: Effective Fuel Price in Reducing Emission Intensity: A Panel Analysis for Brazil

Ayan Qu

10925: The Division of Revenues from Unexpected Demand Shocks

Paulo Bastos, Natalia P. Monteiro and Odd Rune Straume

10924: Exploring the Drivers of Youth Pursuing Vocational Training in High-Paying Sectors in Côte d’Ivoire

Clara Delavallade, Manil Nadir Zenaki, Léa Rouanet and Mousson Estelle Jamel Koussoube

10923: Thirsty Business: A Global Analysis of Extreme Weather Shocks on Firms

Roberta V. Gatti, Asif Islam, Casey Maue and Esha Dilip Zaveri

10922: Rebating Revenues from Unilateral Emissions Pricing

Christoph Böhringer, Carolyn Fischer and Nicholas Rivers

10921: Do More Informed Citizens Make Better Climate Policy Decisions ?

Michael Lokshin, Michael Hannon, Miguel Purroy and Iván Torre

10920: It Takes a Village Election: Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies

Samuel Bazzi, Masyhur Hilmy, Benjamin Marx, Mahvish Ifrah Shaukat and Andreas Stegmann

10919: Regenerative Agriculture in Practice: A Review

Andrew L. Dabalen, Aparajita Goyal and Ruozi Song

10918: Questioning the Climate Change Age Gap

Alexandru Cojocaru, Arina Nikandrova and Michael Lokshin

10917: Statistically Matching Income and Consumption Data: An Evaluation of Energy and Income Poverty in Romania

Britta Laurin Rude and Monica Robayo-Abril

10916: How Well Did Real-Time Indicators Track Household Welfare Changes in Developing Countries during the COVID-19 Crisis?

David Newhouse, Rachel Swindle, Shun Wang, Joshua David Merfeld, Utz Pape, Kibrom Tafere and Michael Weber

10915: Generative AI: Catalyst for Growth or Harbinger of Premature De-Professionalization ?

Yan Liu

10914: Why Did Support for Climate Policies Decline in Europe and Central Asia?

Alexandru Cojocaru, Michael Lokshin and Iván Torre

10913: Fiscal Challenges in Small States: Weathering Storms, Rebuilding Resilience

Samuel Christopher Hill and Jeetendra Khadan

10912: Using Satellite Imagery and a Farmer Registry to Assess Agricultural Support in Conflict Settings: The Case of the Producer Support Grant Program in Ukraine

Klaus W. Deininger and Daniel Ayalew Ali

10911: Do Capital Incentives Distort Technology Diffusion ? Evidence on Cloud, Big Data and AI

Richard Kneller, Jonathan David Timmis, Timothy DeStefano and Nick Johnstone

10910: Using Poverty Lines to Measure Refugee Self-Reliance

Johannes G. Hoogeveen and Robert Benjamin Hopper

10909: Trade-offs in the Design of Simplified Tax Regimes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Nicolas Orgeira Pillai, Christopher Alexander Hoy, Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda, Alex Oguso, Anna Custers, Daniel Zalo, Ruggero Doino and Jonathan George Karver

10908: Identification of an Expanded Inventory of Green Job Titles through AI-Driven Text Mining

Michal Palinski, Gunes Asik, Tomasz Gajderowicz, Maciej Jakubowski, Efsan Nas Ozen and Dhushyanth Raju

10907: Hidden Debt Revelations

Sebastian Andreas Horn, David Mihalyi, Philipp Nickol and Cesar Sosa-Padilla

10906: Women at Work: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban Djibouti

Florencia Devoto, Emanuela Galasso, Kathleen G. Beegle and Stefanie Brodmann

10905: Firm Networks and Global Technology Diffusion

Paulo Bastos, Katherine Stapleton, Daria Taglioni and Hannah Yi Wei

10904: Regional Convergence in Brazil

Kaleb Abreha, Rafael Amaral Ornelas and Gabriel Roberto Zaourak

10903: The Economic Impacts of the Syrian Refugee Migration on Jordan: An Integration Perspective

Juan Segnana, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson and Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez

10902: Export-Led Industrial Policy for Developing Countries: Is There a Way to Pick Winners?

Tristan Reed

10901: Evaluation of Door-to-Door Tax Enforcement Strategy in Indonesia

Paulo Antonacci and Muhammad Khudadad Chattha

10900: Long-Term Growth Prospects in Peru: Leveraging the Global Green Transition and the Reforms Needed to Become a High-Income Country

Paulo Chávez, Daniel Francisco Barco Rondan, Bledi Celiku, Arthur Galego Mendes, Steven Michael Pennings and Elena Resk

10899: Racial Peer Effects at Work: Evidence from Worker Deaths in Brazil

Aiko Schmeißer and Katharina Maria Fietz

10898: Conflict and Firms’ Performance: A Global View

Emanuele Brancati, Michele Di Maio, Roberta V. Gatti and Asif Islam

10897: A Literature Review on Productivity and Growth in Brazil

Fernando Veloso and Gabriel Roberto Zaourak

10896: Economic Transformation in Africa: The Role of North-South and South-South Trade

Woubet Kassa, Gideon Ndubuisi and Solomon Owusu

10895: Dynamic Exports and Labor Markets for Inclusive Growth in Cambodia

Deeksha Kokas, Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson and Wendy Karamba

10894: Can Public Credit Schemes Improve Access to Finance for Small Businesses ? Evidence from Indonesia

Hillary C. Johnson, Cecile Thioro Niang, Francesco Strobbe and Salman Alibhai

10893: Optimal Investments in Africa’s Road Network

Sebastian Martin Krantz

10892: Small Area Estimation of Poverty in Four West African Countries by Integrating Survey and Geospatial Data

Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie, David Newhouse, Nikos Tzavidis, Timo Schmid, Elizabeth Mary Foster, Angela Luna Hernandez, Aissatou Ouedraogo, Aly Sanoh and Aboudrahyme Savadogo

10891: The Accumulation and Utilization of Human Capital over the Development Spectrum

Federico Rossi and Michael Weber

10890: Sustaining Poverty Gains: A Vulnerability Map to Guide the Expansion of Social Registries

Oscar Eduardo Barriga Cabanillas, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Emmanuel Skoufias, Thomas Bossuroy and Paul Andres Corral Rodas

10889: Understanding the Main Determinants of Telework and Its Role in Women’s Labor Force Participation

Gabriela Inchauste and Mariel Cecilia Siravegna

10888: The Mis-Education of Women in Afghanistan: From Wage Premiums to Economic Losses

Rafiuddin Najam, Harry Patrinos and Raja Bentaouet Kattan

10887: How Redistributive Is Fiscal Policy in China ? New Evidence on the Distributional Impacts of Taxes and Spending

Veronica Sonia Montalva Talledo, Sailesh Tiwari, Yang Wang, Maria Ana Lugo and Nora Lustig

10886: Spilling Over: The Benefits of Public Works Projects for Groundwater in India

A. Patrick Behrer and Hemant Pullabhotla

10885: Agriculture Production Potential of Groundwater Irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bhavya Srivastava, Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie, Aparajita Goyal and Andrew L. Dabalen

10884: Refugees and Humanitarian Aid: The Rohingya Impact on Bangladesh’s Development

Maria Jose Urbina, Christina Wieser, Alvin Etang Ndip and Sandra Rozo

10883: A Learning Agenda for Community-Driven Development: Responding to Complex Contextual, Evaluation, and Inference Challenges

Patrick John Barron, Patricia Fernandes, Stephen Joseph Winkler and Michael Woolcock

10882: Development Acupuncture: The Network Structure of Multidimensional Poverty and Its Implications

Luis Lopez-Calva, Kimberly Blair Bolch, Viktor Stojkoski and Almudena Fernandez

10881: “Crowding In” Effect of Public Investment on Private Investment Revisited

John Nana Darko Francois, Maty Konte and Franz Ulrich Ruch

10880: What Data-Rich Assessments of Socioeconomic Inequality and Mobility in Rich Countries Overlook in Poor Countries

Roy van der Weide and Michael Woolcock