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9171: The Distributive Impact of Taxes and Expenditures in Colombia Downloads
Nunez Jairo, Sergio Olivieri, Julieth Parra and Julieth Pico
9170: Incidence of the Digital Economy and Frictional Unemployment: International Evidence Downloads
Daniel Lederman and Marwane Zouaidi
9169: Learning from Power Sector Reform Experiences: The Case of Vietnam Downloads
Alan David Lee and Franz Gerner
9168: Effect of Armed Conflict on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria Downloads
Uche Eseosa Ekhator-Mobayode, Lucia C. Hanmer, Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich and Diana Jimena Arango
9167: Paying More for Less: Why Don't Households in Tanzania Take Advantage of Bulk Discounts ? Downloads
Brian Dillon, Joachim De Weerdt and Ted O'Donoghue
9166: Benefits and Costs of Debt: The Dose Makes the Poison Downloads
Ayhan Kose, Franziska Ohnsorge and Naotaka Sugawara
9165: Returns to Low-Skilled International Migration: Evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia Migration Lottery Program Downloads
Ahmed Mobarak, Iffath Anwar Sharif and Maheshwor Shrestha
9164: Understanding the Cost of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Downloads
Dana Lauren Vorisek and Shu Yu
9163: Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks Downloads
Chiara Broccolini, Giulia Lotti, Alessandro Maffioli, Andrea Presbitero and Rodolfo Stucchi
9162: Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of the Arab Republic of Egypt Downloads
Anshul Rana and Ashish Khanna
9161: Business Environment and Dual-Track Private Sector Development: China's Experience in Two Crucial Decades Downloads
Cheryl Xiaoning Long, Lixin Xu and Jin Yang
9159: Modeling Uncertainty in Large Natural Resource Allocation Problems Downloads
Yongyang Cai, Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Kenneth Judd, Jonas Jaegermeyr and Thomas Hertel
9158: The Upstream Tariff Simulator (UTAS): A Tool to Assess the Impact of Tariff Reform on Input Costs and Effective Protection across Sectors Downloads
Andreas Eberhard, Gonzalo Varela, Lucia Casal and Federico Ganz
9157: Analyzing Female Employment Trends in South Asia Downloads
Fatima Najeeb, Matias Morales and Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo
9156: icio: Economic Analysis with Inter-Country Input-Output Tables in Stata Downloads
Federico Belotti, Alessandro Borin and Michele Mancini
9155: Iraq's Universal Public Distribution System: Utilization and Impacts During Displacement Downloads
Lokendra Phadera, Dhiraj Sharma and Matthew Grant Wai-Poi
9154: A Field Experiment on the Role of Socioemotional Skills and Gender for Hiring in Turkey Downloads
Selin Efsan Nas Ozen, Stefan Hut, Victoria Levin and Ana Maria Munoz Boudet
9153: Understanding Decisions Made on Asylum Applications in Host Countries Downloads
Ismael Issifou
9152: Are You Being Asked ? Impacts of Respondent Selection on Measuring Employment Downloads
Talip Kilic, Goedele Van den Broeck, Gayatri B. Koolwal and Heather Moylan
9151: Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) Lay of the Land: Impact of Survey Respondent Selection on Measuring Land Ownership and Rights Downloads
Talip Kilic, Heather Moylan and Gayatri B. Koolwal
9150: Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts Downloads
Jørgen Andersen, Niels Johannesen and Bob Rijkers
9149: Does Greater Regulatory Burden Lead to More Corruption ? Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries Downloads
Mohammad Amin and Yew Chong Soh
9148: Emerging and Developing Economies: Ten Years After the Global Recession Downloads
Ayhan Kose and Franziska Ohnsorge
9147: Digital Platforms and the Demand for International Tourism Services Downloads
Jose Ernesto Lopez Cordova
9146: The Role of Historical Christian Missions in the Location of World Bank Aid in Africa Downloads
Matteo Alpino and Eivind Hammersmark
9145: The Dynamics of High-Growth Firms: Evidence from Tunisia Downloads
Marcio Cruz, Leila Baghdadi and Hassen Arouri
9144: Salt of the Earth: Quantifying the Impact of Water Salinity on Global Agricultural Productivity Downloads
Jason Daniel Russ, Esha Zaveri, Richard Damania, Sébastien Desbureaux, Jorge Jose Escurra and Aude-Sophie Rodella
9143: The Nitrogen Legacy: The Long-Term Effects of Water Pollution on Human Capital Downloads
Esha Zaveri, Jason Daniel Russ, Sébastien Desbureaux, Richard Damania, Aude-Sophie Rodella and Giovanna Ribeiro Paiva De Souza
9142: Global Corporate Debt during Crises: Implications of Switching Borrowing across Markets Downloads
Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Tatiana Didier Brandao and Sergio Schmukler
9141: The Power of Believing You Can Get Smarter: The Impact of a Growth-Mindset Intervention on Academic Achievement in Peru Downloads
Ingo Outes-Leon, Alan Sanchez and Renos Vakis
9140: Assessing the Longer Term Impact of Community-Driven Development Programs: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Democratic Republic of Congo Downloads
Eric Mvukiyehe and Peter van der Windt
9139: Assessing the Returns on Investment in Data Openness and Transparency Downloads
Megumi Kubota and Albert G. Zeufack
9138: Bank Capital and Risk in Europe and Central Asia Ten Years After the Crisis Downloads
Deniz Anginer, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Davide Salvatore Mare
9137: Borrow with Sorrow ? The Changing Risk Profile of Sub-Saharan Africa's Debt Downloads
Cesar Calderon and Albert G. Zeufack
9136: Cost Recovery and Financial Viability of the Power Sector in Developing Countries: Insights from 15 Case Studies Downloads
Joern Torsten Huenteler, Denzel J. Hankinson, Nicole Rosenthal, Ani Balabanyan, Arthur Kochnakyan, Tu Chi Nguyen, Anshul Rana and Vivien Foster
9135: Cyber Resilience of Autonomous Mobility Systems: Cyber Attacks and Resilience-Enhancing Strategies Downloads
Bo Zou, Pooria Choobchian and Julie Rozenberg
9134: Reverse Mortgages, Financial Inclusion, and Economic Development: Potential Benefit and Risks Downloads
Peter Knaack, Margaret J. Miller and Fiona Elizabeth Stewart
9133: Toward Successful Development Policies: Insights from Research in Development Economics Downloads
Erhan Artuc, Robert Cull, Susmita Dasgupta, Roberto Fattal Jaef, Deon Filmer, Xavier Gine, Hanan Jacoby, Dean Jolliffe, Hiau Looi Kee, Leora Klapper, Aart C. Kraay, Norman Loayza, David McKenzie, Berk Özler, Vijayendra Rao, Bob Rijkers, Sergio Schmukler, Michael Toman, Adam Wagstaff and Michael Woolcock
9132: Trade Integration, Export Patterns, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Downloads
Cesar Calderon, Martha Catalina Cantu Canales and Albert G. Zeufack
9131: Religion and Sanitation Practices Downloads
Anjali Adukia, Marcella Alsan, Kim Babiarz, Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert and Lea Prince
9130: Taxing Tobacco in Georgia: Welfare and Distributional Gains of Smoking Cessation Downloads
Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Maria Fernanda Gonzalez Icaza
9129: Inflation and Public Debt Reversals in Advanced Economies Downloads
Ichiro Fukunaga, Takuji Komatsuzaki and Hideaki Matsuoka
9128: Recall Length and Measurement Error in Agricultural Surveys Downloads
Philip Randolph Wollburg, Marco Tiberti and Alberto Zezza
9127: Do Weak Institutions Prolong Crises ? On the Identification, Characteristics, and Duration of Declines During Economic Slumps Downloads
Richard Bluhm, Denis de Crombrugghe and Adam Szirmai
9126: Narrow Incumbent Victories and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines Downloads
Benjamin Crost, Joseph H. Felter, Hani Mansour and Daniel I. Rees
9125: Beneficiary Views on Cash and In-Kind Payments: Evidence from Ethiopia's Productive Safety Downloads
Kalle Hirvonen and John Hoddinott
9124: Digital Innovation in East Asia: Do Restrictive Data Policies Matter Downloads
Martina Francesca Ferracane and Erik van der Marel
9123: Up before Dawn: Experimental Evidence from a Cross-Border Trader Training at the Democratic Republic of Congo?Rwanda Border Downloads
Kevin Croke, Maria Elena Garcia Mora, Markus Goldstein, Edouard Romeo Mensah and Michael O'Sullivan
9122: The Role of Income and Substitution in Commodity Demand Downloads
John Baffes, Alain Kabundi and Peter Nagle
9121: Inequality, Poverty and the Intra-Household Allocation of Consumption in Senegal Downloads
Philippe H. De Vreyer and Sylvie Lambert
9120: Assessing Deprivation with an Ordinal Variable: Theory and Application to Sanitation Deprivation in Bangladesh Downloads
Suman Seth and Gaston Yalonetzky
9119: Regional Integration in South Asia: Implications for Green Growth, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Gender Wage Gap Downloads
Muthukumara S. Mani, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan and Deepika Wadhwa
9118: Intimate Partner Violence: The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women Downloads
Sonia Bhalotra, Uma Kambhampati, Samantha Rawlings and Zahra Siddique
9117: Returns to Education in Azerbaijan: Some New Estimates Downloads
Vicente A. Garcia Moreno and Harry Patrinos
9116: Debt and Financial Crises Downloads
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 Downloads
Christine Zhenwei Qiang, He Wang and Lixin Xu
9114: Conceptual Aspects of Global Value Chains Downloads
Pol Antras
9113: Gender Differences in Agricultural Productivity in Cote d'Ivoire: Changes in Determinants and Distributional Composition over the Past Decade Downloads
Aletheia Donald, Kotchikpa Lawin and Léa Rouanet
9112: Does Democratization Promote Competition?: Indonesian Manufacturing Pre and Post Suharto Downloads
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? Downloads
Martin Brownbridge and Sudharshan Canagarajah
9110: Migration in Libya: A Spatial Network Analysis Downloads
Michele Di Maio, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza and Vasco Molini
9109: Macro-Financial Aspects of Climate Change Downloads
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 Downloads
Minhaj Mahmud, Italo Gutierrez, Krishna B. Kumar and Shanthi Nataraj
9106: The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education Downloads
Tianshu Li and Sheetal Sekhri
9105: Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market: Evidence from Ethiopia Downloads
Luke Chicoine
9104: Stages of Development of Payment Systems: Leapfrogging across Countries and MENA's Place in the World Downloads
Clément Gévaudan and Daniel Lederman
9103: The External Wealth of Arab Nations: Structure, Trends, and Policy Implications Downloads
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 Downloads
Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds
9101: The Targeting Benefit of Conditional Cash Transfers Downloads
Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds
9100: Gender Bias in SME Lending: Experimental Evidence from Turkey Downloads
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 Downloads
Arti Goswami Grover
9098: Trade and Female Labor Participation: Stylized Facts Using a Global Dataset Downloads
Nadia Rocha and Deborah Winkler
9097: Have Robots Grounded the Flying Geese?: Evidence from Greenfield FDI in Manufacturing Downloads
Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Gaurav Nayyar
9096: Decline in Wage Inequality in Brazil: A Survey Downloads
Sergio Firpo and Alysson Portella
9095: How Technology Adoption and Trade Are Shaping Indonesian Labor Markets Downloads
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 Downloads
Esha Chhabra, Fatima Najeeb and Dhushyanth Raju
9093: Lights Off, Lights On: The Effects of Electricity Shortages on Small Firms Downloads
Morgan Hardy and Jamie Lee Mccasland
9092: Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda Downloads
Maria Ruth Jones, Florence Kondylis, John Ashton Loeser and Jeremy Magruder
9091: Trade, Global Value Chains and GDP Comovemement: An Empirical Investigation Downloads
François de Soyres and Alexandre Gwen Simon Gaillard
9090: Inflation Dynamics and Global Value Chains Downloads
François de Soyres and Sebastian Franco Bedoya
9089: An Empirical Investigation of Trade Diversion and Global Value Chains Downloads
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 Downloads
Ran Philip Goldblatt, Kilian Tobias Heilmann and Yonatan Vaizman
9087: Group Incentives for the Public Good: A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment Downloads
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 Downloads
Ciro Avitabile, Jesse Matthew Cunha and Ricardo Meilman Lomaz Cohn
9085: Addressing High School Dropouts with a Scalable Intervention: The Case of PODER Downloads
Ciro Avitabile, Janina Cuevas, Rafael De Hoyos and Julian C Jamison
9084: Product Market Competition, Productivity, and Jobs: The Case of South Africa Downloads
Seidu Dauda, Sara Nyman and Aalia Cassim
9083: Foreign Direct Investment and Female Entrepreneurship Downloads
Sheng Fang, Heba M.M. Shamseldin and Lixin Xu
9082: Exiting Financial Repression: The Case of Ethiopia Downloads
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 Downloads
Clara Delavallade, Alan Griffith and Rebecca Thornton
9079: Markups, Market Imperfections, and Trade Openness: Evidence from Ghana Downloads
Kaku Attah Damoah
9078: Financial Risk Management in Agriculture: Analyzing Data from a New Module of the Global Findex Database Downloads
Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, Saniya Ansar and Jake Richard Hess
9077: Quality Education and the Efficiency of Public Expenditure: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis Downloads
Elisé Miningou
9076: Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations: Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity ? Downloads
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 Downloads
Soazic Elise Wang Sonne and Paolo Verme
9074: Behavior Revealed in Mobile Phone Usage Predicts Credit Repayment Downloads
Daniel Björkegren and Darrell Grissen
9073: Decomposing the Labor Productivity Gap between Upper-Middle-Income and High-Income Countries Downloads
Mohammad Amin, Asif Islam and Usman Khalid
9072: Free Riding in Loan Approvals: Evidence from SME Lending in Peru Downloads
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 Downloads
Javier Baez, Varun Kshirsagar and Emmanuel Skoufias
9070: Improving Preschool Provision and Encouraging Demand: Heterogeneous Impacts of a Large-Scale Program Downloads
Jan Lukas Berkes, Adrien Bouguen, Deon Filmer and Tsuyoshi Fukao
9069: Basel III Implementation and SME Financing: Evidence for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies Downloads
Boris Fisera, Roman Horvath and Martin Melecký
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