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9122: The Role of Income and Substitution in Commodity Demand

John Baffes, Alain Kabundi and Peter Nagle

9121: Inequality, Poverty and the Intra-Household Allocation of Consumption in Senegal

Philippe H. De Vreyer and Sylvie Lambert

9120: Assessing Deprivation with an Ordinal Variable: Theory and Application to Sanitation Deprivation in Bangladesh

Suman Seth and Gaston Yalonetzky

9119: Regional Integration in South Asia: Implications for Green Growth, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Gender Wage Gap

Muthukumara S. Mani, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan and Deepika Wadhwa

9118: Intimate Partner Violence: The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women

Sonia Bhalotra, Uma Kambhampati, Samantha Rawlings and Zahra Siddique

9117: Returns to Education in Azerbaijan: Some New Estimates

Vicente A. Garcia Moreno and Harry Patrinos

9116: Debt and Financial Crises

Wee Chian Koh, Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge and Naotaka Sugawara

9115: Heterogeneous Effects of the de jure and de facto Business Environment: Findings from Multiple Data Sets on the Business Environment

Christine Zhenwei Qiang, He Wang and Lixin Xu

9114: Conceptual Aspects of Global Value Chains

Pol Antras

9113: Gender Differences in Agricultural Productivity in Cote d'Ivoire: Changes in Determinants and Distributional Composition over the Past Decade

Aletheia Donald, Kotchikpa Lawin and Léa Rouanet

9112: Does Democratization Promote Competition?: Indonesian Manufacturing Pre and Post Suharto

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Anna Kochanova and Bob Rijkers

9111: Migration and Remittances in the Former Soviet Union Countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus: What Are the Long-Term Macroeconomic Consequences?

Martin Brownbridge and Sudharshan Canagarajah

9110: Migration in Libya: A Spatial Network Analysis

Michele Di Maio, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza and Vasco Molini

9109: Macro-Financial Aspects of Climate Change

Erik H.B. Feyen, Robert Johann Utz, Igor Esteban Zuccardi Huertas, Olena Bogdan and Jisung Moon

9108: What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value ? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh

Minhaj Mahmud, Italo Gutierrez, Krishna B. Kumar and Shanthi Nataraj

9106: The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education

Tianshu Li and Sheetal Sekhri

9105: Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market: Evidence from Ethiopia

Luke Chicoine

9104: Stages of Development of Payment Systems: Leapfrogging across Countries and MENA's Place in the World

Clément Gévaudan and Daniel Lederman

9103: The External Wealth of Arab Nations: Structure, Trends, and Policy Implications

Mahmoud Mohieldin, Ahmed Mohamed Tawfick Rostom and Chahir Zaki

9102: Using Labor Supply Elasticities to Learn about Income Inequality: The Role of Productivities versus Preferences

Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds

9101: The Targeting Benefit of Conditional Cash Transfers

Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds

9100: Gender Bias in SME Lending: Experimental Evidence from Turkey

Salman Alibhai, Aletheia Donald, Markus Goldstein, Alper Ahmet Oguz, Alexander Pankov and Francesco Strobbe

9099: Firms Far Up: Productivity, Agglomeration, and High-Growth Firms in Ethiopia

Arti Goswami Grover

9098: Trade and Female Labor Participation: Stylized Facts Using a Global Dataset

Nadia Rocha and Deborah Winkler

9097: Have Robots Grounded the Flying Geese?: Evidence from Greenfield FDI in Manufacturing

Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Gaurav Nayyar

9096: Decline in Wage Inequality in Brazil: A Survey

Sergio Firpo and Alysson Portella

9095: How Technology Adoption and Trade Are Shaping Indonesian Labor Markets

Mariana Viollaz, Francis Addeah Darko and Andrew D. Mason

9094: Effects over the Life of a Program: Evidence from an Education Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Girls

Esha Chhabra, Fatima Najeeb and Dhushyanth Raju

9093: Lights Off, Lights On: The Effects of Electricity Shortages on Small Firms

Morgan Hardy and Jamie Lee Mccasland

9092: Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda

Maria Ruth Jones, Florence Kondylis, John Ashton Loeser and Jeremy Magruder

9091: Trade, Global Value Chains and GDP Comovemement: An Empirical Investigation

François de Soyres and Alexandre Gwen Simon Gaillard

9090: Inflation Dynamics and Global Value Chains

François de Soyres and Sebastian Franco Bedoya

9089: An Empirical Investigation of Trade Diversion and Global Value Chains

François de Soyres, Julien Luc Yvon Maire and Guillaume Sublet

9088: Can Medium-Resolution Satellite Imagery Measure Economic Activity at Small Geographies ? Evidence from Landsat in Vietnam

Ran Philip Goldblatt, Kilian Tobias Heilmann and Yonatan Vaizman

9087: Group Incentives for the Public Good: A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment

Carol Newman, Tara Mitchell, Marcus Erik Holmlund and Chloe Monica Fernandez

9086: The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-kind Food Transfers on Learning

Ciro Avitabile, Jesse Matthew Cunha and Ricardo Meilman Lomaz Cohn

9085: Addressing High School Dropouts with a Scalable Intervention: The Case of PODER

Ciro Avitabile, Janina Cuevas, Rafael De Hoyos and Julian C Jamison

9084: Product Market Competition, Productivity, and Jobs: The Case of South Africa

Seidu Dauda, Sara Nyman and Aalia Cassim

9083: Foreign Direct Investment and Female Entrepreneurship

Sheng Fang, Heba M.M. Shamseldin and Lixin Xu

9082: Exiting Financial Repression: The Case of Ethiopia

Jean-Pierre Christophe Chauffour and Muluneh Ayalew Gobezie

9081: Effects of a Multi-Faceted Education Program on Enrollment, Equity, Learning, and School Management: Evidence from India

Clara Delavallade, Alan Griffith and Rebecca Thornton

9079: Markups, Market Imperfections, and Trade Openness: Evidence from Ghana

Kaku Attah Damoah

9078: Financial Risk Management in Agriculture: Analyzing Data from a New Module of the Global Findex Database

Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, Saniya Ansar and Jake Richard Hess

9077: Quality Education and the Efficiency of Public Expenditure: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Elisé Miningou

9076: Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations: Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity ?

Hai-Anh Dang and Paolo Verme

9075: Intergenerational Impact of Population Shocks on Children's Health: Evidence from the 1993-2001 Refugee Crisis in Tanzania

Soazic Elise Wang Sonne and Paolo Verme

9074: Behavior Revealed in Mobile Phone Usage Predicts Credit Repayment

Daniel Björkegren and Darrell Grissen

9073: Decomposing the Labor Productivity Gap between Upper-Middle-Income and High-Income Countries

Mohammad Amin, Asif Islam and Usman Khalid

9072: Free Riding in Loan Approvals: Evidence from SME Lending in Peru

Irani Arraiz, Miriam Bruhn, Benjamin N. Roth, Claudia Ruiz Ortega and Rodolfo Stucchi

9071: Adaptive Safety Nets for Rural Africa: Drought-Sensitive Targeting with Sparse Data

Javier Baez, Varun Kshirsagar and Emmanuel Skoufias

9070: Improving Preschool Provision and Encouraging Demand: Heterogeneous Impacts of a Large-Scale Program

Jan Lukas Berkes, Adrien Bouguen, Deon Filmer and Tsuyoshi Fukao

9069: Basel III Implementation and SME Financing: Evidence for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

Boris Fisera, Roman Horvath and Martin Melecký

9068: The Financial Costs of the U.S.-China Trade Tensions: Evidence from East Asian Stock Markets

Francesca de Nicola, Martin Dov Alfred Kessler and Ha Nguyen

9067: Management Practices in Croatia: Drivers and Consequences for Firm Performance

Arti Goswami Grover, Leonardo Iacovone and Pavel Chakraborty

9066: Obesity and Food away from Home: What Drives the Socioeconomic Gradient in Excess Body Weight ?

Christoph Strupat, Maria Gabriela Farfan Bertran, Laura Moritz, Mario Negre and Renos Vakis

9065: The Effects of International Scrutiny on Manufacturing Workers: Evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh

Laurent Bossavie, Yoonyoung Cho and Rachel Heath

9064: Third-Country Effects of Regional Trade Agreements: A Firm-Level Analysis

Woori Lee, Alen Mulabdic and Michele Ruta

9063: Labor Market Analysis Using Big Data: The Case of a Pakistani Online Job Portal

Norihiko Matsuda, Tutan Ahmed and Shinsaku Nomura

9061: Built to Last: Sustainability of Early Childhood Education Services in Rural Indonesia

Amer Hasan, Haeil Jung, Angela Kinnell, Amelia Maika, Nozomi Nakajima and Menno Prasad Pradhan

9060: Contrasting Experiences: Understanding the Longer-Term Impact of Improving Access to Preschool Education in Rural Indonesia

Amer Hasan, Haeil Jung, Angela Kinnell, Amelia Maika, Nozomi Nakajima and Menno Prasad Pradhan

9059: Impact of Early Life Exposure to Environments with Unimproved Sanitation on Education Outcomes: Evidence from Bangladesh

George Joseph, Yi Rong Hoo, Nazia Sultana Moqueet and Gnanaraj Chellaraj

9058: Impact of Salinity on Infant and Neonatal Mortality in Bangladesh

George Joseph, Qiao Wang, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Mohammed Shamsudduha and Abu Mohammed Naser

9057: Wider Economic Benefits of Transport Corridors: Evidence from International Development Organizations

Muneeza Mehmood Alam, Matias Herrera Dappe, Martin Melecký and Ran Philip Goldblatt

9056: Regional Development Overview: Challenges, Adopted Strategies, and New Initiatives

Randall Jackson, Geoffrey Hewings, Serge Rey and Nancy Lozano Gracia

9055: Index Insurance: A Viable Solution for Irrigated Farming?

Rathnija Arandara, Shanuki Gunasekera and Agrotosh Mookerjee

9054: Children Need Clean Water to Grow: E. Coli Contamination of Drinking Water and Childhood Nutrition in Bangladesh

George Joseph, Sabrina Sharmin Haque, Nazia Sultana Moqueet and Yi Rong Hoo

9053: Measuring and Explaining Management in Schools: New Approaches Using Public Data

Clare Leaver, Renata Lemos and Daniela Scur

9052: Can We Rely on VIIRS Nightlights to Estimate the Short-Term Impacts of Natural Disasters ?

Emmanuel Skoufias, Eric Strobl and Thomas Tveit

9051: Impact of Fiscal Policy on Poverty and Inequality in Uganda: Fiscal Incidence Analysis Using the UNHS 2016/17

Carolina Mejia-Mantilla, Deisy Johanna Fajardo Gonzalez, Maya Scott Goldman, Jon Robbert Jellema and Haley Renda

9050: Trade Policy and Market Power: Firm-Level Evidence

Alan Asprilla, Nicolas Berman, Olivier Cadot and Melise Jaud

9049: Polarization and Its Discontents: Morocco before and after the Arab Spring

Fabio Clementi, Haider Khan, Vasco Molini, Francesco Schettino and Khalid Soudi

9048: Policy Uncertainty, Trade, and Global Value Chains: Some Facts, Many Questions

Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo and Michele Ruta

9047: New Approaches to the Identification of Low-Frequency Drivers: An Application to Technology Shocks

Alistair Dieppe, Francis Neville and Gene Joseph Kindberg Hanlon

9046: Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks: Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana

Rachel Heath, Ghazala Mansuri and Bob Rijkers

9045: Household Impacts of Tariffs: Data and Results from Agricultural Trade Protection

Erhan Artuc, Guido Porto and Bob Rijkers

9044: Bank Regulation and Supervision Ten Years after the Global Financial Crisis

Deniz Anginer, Ata Bertay, Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Davide Salvatore Mare

9043: Productivity Growth in Romania: A Firm-Level Analysis

Mariana Iootty, Jorge O. Pena and Donato De Rosa

9042: Progress and Challenges of Upper Secondary Education in China

Dandan Chen, Ning - HEAED Fu and Yilin Pan

9041: Integrating Value for Money and Impact Evaluations: Issues, Institutions, and Opportunities

Elizabeth Denison Brown and Jeffery Tanner

9040: Cities of Workers, Children, or Seniors? Age Structure and Economic Growth in a Global Cross-Section of Cities

Remi Jedwab, Daniel Pereira and Mark Roberts

9039: Too Much Energy: The Perverse Effect of Low Fuel Prices on Firms

Massimiliano Calì, Nicola Cantore, Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez and Giorgio Presidente

9038: Poverty Convergence in a Time of Stagnation: A Municipal-Level Perspective from Mexico (1992-2014)

Luis Lopez-Calva, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

9037: Regulatory Arbitrage and Cross-Border Syndicated Loans

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Balint Horvath and Harry Huizinga

9036: Trade Policy to Catalyze Export Diversification: What Should Landlocked Fragile Countries Do ? The Cases of Mali, Chad, and Niger

Jose R. Lopez Calix and Nihal Pitigala

9035: Is Informality Good for Business ? The Impacts of IDP Inflows on Formal Firms

Sandra Rozo and Hernan Winkler

9034: Taking Power: Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jeannie Ruth Annan, Aletheia Donald, Markus Goldstein, Paula Lorena Gonzalez Martinez and Gayatri B. Koolwal

9033: Domestic Government Spending on Human Capital: A Cross-Country Analysis of Recent Trends

Kathryn Gilman Andrews, Ciro Avitabile and Roberta V. Gatti

9032: Innovations in Tax Compliance: Conceptual Framework

Wilson Prichard, Anna Louise Custers, Roel Dom, Stephen R. Davenport and Michael Anthony Roscitt

9031: Capital Allocation in Developing Countries

Joel Michael David, Venky Venkateswaran, Ana Paula Cusolito and Tatiana Didier Brandao

9030: Caregiver Perceptions of Child Development: A Cross-Sectional Study

Esther O. Chung, Lia C.H. Fernald, Emanuela Galasso, Lisy Zarasoa Ratsifandrihamanana and Ann Weber

9029: Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Expenditure Management: Using Banking Sector Innovations for Improved Expenditure Control and Effective Service Delivery

Moritz Otto Maria Alfons Piattifuenfkirchen, Ali Hashim and Khuram Farooq

9028: Multilingual Assessment of Early Child Development: Analyses from Repeated Observations of Children in Kenya

Heather Ashley Knauer, Patricia Karol Kariger, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier and Lia C. H. Fernald

9027: Entry Barriers, Idiosyncratic Distortions, and the Firm-Size Distribution

Roberto Fattal Jaef

9026: Firm Compliance and Public Disclosure in Vietnam

Claire Honore Hollweg

9025: Magnitude and Distribution of Electricity and Water Subsidies for Households in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Helena Cardenas and Dale Whittington

9024: Is 3D Printing a Threat to Global Trade ? The Trade Effects You Didn't Hear About

Caroline Freund, Alen Mulabdic and Michele Ruta

9023: Expectations Set High: Understanding Reservation Wages in North Macedonia

Marjan Petreski, Ana Maria Oviedo Silva and Cesar A. Cancho

9022: Is Short-Term Debt a Substitute or a Complement to Good Governance ?

Deniz Anginer, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Mete Tepe and Serif Aziz Simsir

9021: Economic and Distributional Impacts of Free Trade Agreements: The Case of Indonesia

Massimiliano Calì, Maryla Maliszewska, Zoryana Olekseyuk and Israel Osorio-Rodarte

9020: A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index

Ritika Dsouza, Roberta V. Gatti and Aart C. Kraay