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9019: Conflict, Household Victimization, and Welfare: Does the Perpetrator Matter ?

Heidi Kristiina Kaila and M Abul Kalam Azad

9018: The Moroccan New Keynesian Phillips Curve: A Structural Econometric Analysis

Vincent De Paul Tsoungui Belinga and Mohamed Doukali

9017: Eurobonds: A Quantitative Analysis of Joint-Liability Debt

Vasileios Tsiropoulos

9016: Broken Promises: Evaluating an Incomplete Cash Transfer Program

Angelika Muller, Utz Pape and Laura R. Ralston

9015: Socioeconomic Resilience in Sri Lanka: Natural Disaster Poverty and Wellbeing Impact Assessment

Brian James Walsh and Stephane Hallegatte

9014: Impact of International Migration on Labor Supply in Nepal

Lokendra Phadera

9013: Targeting Inputs: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Xavier Gine, Bernardo Barboza Ribeiro and Ildrim Valley

9012: Moral Hazard vs. Land Scarcity: Flood Management Policies for the Real World

Paolo Avner and Stephane Hallegatte

9011: Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development ? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India

Paul Anand, Swati Saxena, Rolando Gonzalez and Hai-Anh Dang

9010: Fiscal Incidence in Moldova: A Commitment to Equity Analysis

Alexandru Cojocaru, Mikhail Matytsin and Valeriu Prohnitchi

9009: Paying Attention to Profitable Investments: Experimental Evidence from Renewable Energy Markets

Aidan Coville, Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera and Arndt Reichert

9008: On Financial Development and Economic Growth in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Mahmoud Mohieldin, Khaled Hussein and Ahmed Mohamed Tawfick Rostom

9007: Self-Employment and Migration

Samuele Giambra and David McKenzie

9006: Requirements to Be a Teacher in Brazil: Effective or Not ?

Marcelo Ponte Barbosa and Leandro Oliveira Costa

9005: The Missing Market for Work Permits

Michael Lokshin and Martin Ravallion

9004: The Social Value of Health Insurance Results from Ghana

Silvia Garcia Mandico, Arndt Reichert and Christoph Strupat

9003: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Household Coping Strategies during the 2015-16 Recession in Belarus

Kateryna Bornukova, Alexandru Cojocaru, Mikhail Matytsin and Gleb Shymanovich

8998: The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change: Fighting HIV with MTV

Abhijit Banerjee, Eliana La Ferrara and Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera

8997: The Large-Firm Wage Premium in Developing Economies

Tristan Reed and Trang Thu Tran

8996: Management Capabilities and Performance of Firms in the Russian Federation

Arti Goswami Grover and Iván Torre

8995: Twenty Years of Wage Inequality in Latin America

Julian Messina and Joana Silva

8994: RUSMOD -- A Tool for Distributional Analysis in the Russian Federation

Mikhail Matytsin, Daria Popova and Samuel Freije-Rodriguez

8993: Revisiting the Trade Impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act: A Synthetic Control Approach

Woubet Kassa and Souleymane Coulibaly

8992: Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa

Pierre Nguimkeu and Albert G. Zeufack

8991: Financing Low-Carbon Transitions through Carbon Pricing and Green Bonds

Dirk Heine, Willi Semmler, Mariana Mazzucato, Joao Paulo Braga, Michael Flaherty, Arkady Gevorkyan, Erin Kate Hayde and Siavash Radpour

8990: Fiscal Rules for the Western Balkans

Edith Kikoni, Sanja Madzarevic-Sujster, Tim Irwin and Charl Jooste

8989: Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation

Yeon Soo Kim, Mikhail Matytsin and Samuel Freije-Rodriguez

8988: Sources of Manufacturing Productivity Growth in Africa

Patricia Jones, Emmanuel Lartey, Taye Mengistae and Albert G. Zeufack

8987: Innovative Learning Environments: The Role of Energy--Efficient Investments in Russian Preschool Education Facilities (A Case Study of the Khanty-Mansyisk Region)

Tigran Shmis, Dmitry Chugunov, Maria Ustinova and Jure Kotnik

8986: Test Score Gap Robustness to Scaling: The Scale Transformation Command

Andres Yi Chang

8985: Generating Gridded Agricultural Gross Domestic Product for Brazil: A Comparison of Methodologies

Thomas Timothy Chambers, Liangzhi You, Ulrike Wood-Sichra, Yating Ru, Brian Blankespoor and Erwin Kalvelagen

8984: Does Media Stimulate Reform Efforts ?

Rita Ramalho and Valentina Saltane

8983: Evaluating the Accuracy of Homeowner Self-Assessed Rents in Peru

Lidia Ceriani, Sergio Olivieri and Marco Ranzani

8982: Turkey: An Empirical Assessment of the Determinants of the Current Account Balance

David Stephen Knight, Alberto Portugal-Perez and Milan Nedeljkovic

8981: Gender Differences in Time Use: Allocating Time between the Market and the Household

Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich and Mariana Viollaz

8980: Industrialization on a Knife's Edge: Productivity, Labor Costs and the Rise of Manufacturing in Ethiopia

Stefano Caria

8979: The Extent of Engagement in Global Value Chains by Firms in Rwanda

Garth Frazer and Johannes Van Biesebroeck

8978: Performance and Challenges of the Income Protection System for Older People in Ecuador

Ignacio Apella

8977: Shortening Supply Chains: Experimental Evidence from Fruit and Vegetable Vendors in Bogota

Leonardo Iacovone and David McKenzie

8976: Wading Out the Storm: The Role of Poverty in Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience to Floods in Dar Es Salaam

Alvina Elisabeth Erman, Mersedeh Tariverdi, Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky, Xiaomeng Chen, Rose Vincent, Silvia Malgioglio, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Stephane Hallegatte and Nobuo Yoshida

8975: Can Taxes Help Ensure a Fair Globalization ?

Francois Langot, Rossana Merola and Samil Oh

8974: Reducing Hunger with Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES): Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso

Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Daan van Soest and Jonas Christoph Guthoff

8973: Property Rights, Political Connections, and Corporate Investment

Meng Miao, Dragon Yongjun Tang and Lixin Xu

8972: A Novel Approach to the Automatic Designation of Predefined Census Enumeration Areas and Population Sampling Frames: A Case Study in Somalia

Sarchil Qader, Veronique Lefebvre, Amy Ninneman, Kristen Himelein, Utz Pape, Linus Bengtsson, Andy Tatem and Tomas Bird

8971: Exploring Accessibility to Employment Opportunities in African Cities: A First Benchmark

Tatiana Peralta Quiros, Tamara Kerzhner and Paolo Avner

8970: Using Student and Teacher Assessments to Design More Pertinent In-Service Teacher Training: The Case of Ecuador

Diego Angel-Urdinola and Sebastian Francisco Burgos Davila

8969: Lessons from Power Sector Reforms: The Case of Morocco

Zainab Usman and Tayeb Amegroud

8968: Trust to Pay ? Tax Morale and Trust in Africa

Wilfried Kouamé

8967: Growth after War in Syria

Sharmila Devadas, Ibrahim Ahmed Elbadawi and Norman Loayza

8966: Measuring Inequality of Access: Modeling Physical Remoteness in Nepal

Robert Steven Banick and Yasuhiro Kawasoe

8965: The World Bank Macro-Fiscal Model Technical Description

Andrew Burns, Benoît Campagne, Charl Jooste, David Andrew Stephan and Thi Thanh Bui

8964: On Promoting Fiscal Discipline: The Role of Exchange Rate Regimes, Fiscal Rules and Institutions

Kady Synthia Keita and Camelia Romocea Turcu

8963: Why Some Countries Can Escape the Fiscal Pro-Cyclicality Trap and Others Cannot ?

Santiago Herrera Aguilera, Wilfried Kouamé and Pierre Jean-Claude Mandon

8962: Temporary Trade Shocks, Spatial Reallocation, and Persistence in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa

M. Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi, Harold Coulombe and Brian Blankespoor

8961: What Determines the Size of Public Employment ? An Empirical Investigation

Santiago Herrera Aguilera and Ercio Muñoz Saavedra

8960: Hidden Treasures in the Comoros: The Impact of Inter-Island Connectivity Improvement on Agricultural Production

Atsushi Iimi

8959: Job Accessibility and Urban Transport Connectivity: Evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar

Atsushi Iimi

8958: Location, Location, Location Revisited: Evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar

Atsushi Iimi

8957: Are Budget Rigidities a Source of Fiscal Distress and a Constraint for Fiscal Consolidation ?

Ercio Muñoz Saavedra and Eduardo Olaberria

8956: Political Connections and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Transition Countries

Maurizio Bussolo, Francesca de Nicola, Ugo Panizza and Richard Varghese

8955: Housing, Imputed Rent, and Households'Welfare

Lidia Ceriani, Sergio Olivieri and Marco Ranzani

8954: The Third Function of Law Is to Transform Cultural Categories

Karla Hoff and James Sonam Walsh

8953: Jobs in Global Value Chains: New Evidence for Four African Countries in International Perspective

Stefan Pahl, Marcel Timmer, Reitze Gouma and Pieter Woltjer

8952: Winners and Losers When Private Banks Distribute Government Loans: Evidence from Earmarked Credit in Brazil

Jose Ornelas, Alvaro Pedraza, Claudia Ruiz Ortega and Thiago Silva

8950: The Sovereign-Bank Nexus in EMDEs: What Is It, Is It Rising, and What Are the Policy Implications ?

Erik H.B. Feyen and Igor Zuccardi

8949: Growth in Low-Income Countries: Evolution, Prospects, and Policies

Max Steinbach

8948: Policy and Regulatory Issues with Digital Businesses

Rong - DECAG Chen

8947: A Novel Downside Risk Measure and Expected Returns

Jinjing Liu

8946: Agglomeration, Urbanization and Employment growth in Ghana: Evidence from an industry-district panel

Andrew Nicholas Kerr and Bruce McDougall

8945: Casting a Shadow: Productivity of Formal Firms and Informality

Mohammad Amin, Franziska Ohnsorge and Cedric Iltis Finafa Okou

8944: What We Learn about Girls'Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls

David Evans and Fei Yuan

8943: Assortative Matching in Africa: Evidence from Rural Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and Malawi

Claire Elise Boxho, Aletheia Donald, Markus Goldstein, Joao Montalvao and Léa Rouanet

8942: Why South Africa Is Cheap for the Rich and Expensive for the Poor: Reconsidering the Balassa-Samuelson Effect

Vincent Dadam, Marek Hanusch and Nicola Viegi

8941: Preferred and Non-Preferred Creditors

Tito Cordella and Andrew Powell

8939: Estimating and Calibrating MFMod: A Panel Data Approach to Identifying the Parameters of Data Poor Countries in the World Bank's Structural Macro Model

Andrew Burns and Charl Jooste

8938: Determinants of Participation in Manufacturing GVCs in Africa: The Role of Skills, Human Capital Endowment and Migration

Nadege Desiree Yameogo and Kebba Jammeh

8937: The Extent of GVC Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa

Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Emmanuel Mensah

8936: Effects of Trade Liberalization on Textile and Apparel Exports from Sub-Sahara Africa

Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Elena Zaurino

8935: Women at Work: How Can Investment Incentives be Used to Enhance Economic Opportunities for Women?

Hania Kronfol, Alison Mc Donell Nichols and Trang Thu Tran

8934: Inflation in Low-Income Countries

Jongrim Ha, Anna Ivanova, Peter Montiel and Peter Pedroni

8933: Learning to Grow from Peers: Experimental Evidence from Small Retailers in Indonesia

Patricio Dalton, Julius Rüschenpöhler, Burak Uras and Bilal Zia

8932: Taking Another Look at Policy Research on China's Accession to the World Trade Organization

Elena Ianchovichina and Will Martin

8931: Fertility and Parental Labor-Force Participation: New Evidence from a Developing Country in theBalkans

Iva Trako

8930: Do Improved Biomass Cookstoves Reduce PM2.5 Concentrations ? If So, for Whom ? Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Randall Bluffstone, Daniel LaFave, Alemu Mekonnen, Sahan Dissanayake, Abebe Damte Beyene, Zenebe Gebreegziabher and Michael Toman

8929: Impacts of Improved Biomass Cookstoves on Child and Adult Health: Experimental Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Daniel LaFave, Abebe Damte Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Sahan Dissanayake, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Alemu Mekonnen and Michael Toman

8928: Stability and Evolution of Preferences for Improved Cookstoves -- A Difference-in-Difference Analysis of a Choice Experiment from Ethiopia

Sahan Dissanayake, George Voigt, Abbie Cooper, Abebe Damte Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Daniel LaFave, Peter Martinsson, Alemu Mekonnen and Michael Toman

8927: Unfortunate Moms and Unfortunate Children: Impact of the Nepali Civil War on Women's Stature and Intergenerational Health

Lokendra Phadera

8926: I Perceive Therefore I Demand: The Formation of Inequality Perceptions and Demand for Redistribution

Maurizio Bussolo, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Anna Barbara Giolbas and Iván Torre

8925: Beyond the S-curve: Insurance Penetration, Institutional Quality and Financial Market Development

Xavier Gine, Bernardo Barboza Ribeiro and Peter Friedrich Wilhelm Wrede

8924: An Assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Access in Bangladesh's Community Health Clinics

George Joseph, Bushra Binte Alam, Anne Shrestha, Khairul Islam, Santanu Lahiri and Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling

8923: Welfare Impact of Value-Added Tax Reform: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Franck M. Adoho and Romeo Jacky Gansey

8922: Multi-Hazard Groundwater Risks to the Drinking Water Supply in Bangladesh: Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Mohammad Shamsudduha, George Joseph, Sabrina Sharmin Haque, Mahfuzur R. Khan, Anwar Zahid and Kazi Matin Uddin Ahmed

8921: Assessing Urban Policies Using a Simulation Model with Formal and Informal Housing: Application to Cape Town, South Africa

Basile Fabrice Pfeiffer, Claus Rabe, Harris Selod and Vincent Viguié

8920: The Nollywood Nudge: An Entertaining Approach to Saving

Aidan Coville, Vincenzo Di Maro, Felipe Dunsch and Siegfried Zottel

8919: The Next Frontier in Water Supply Service Delivery: An Assessment of the Performance of Water Sector Service Providers in Pourashavas in Bangladesh

Aroha Bahuguna, Luis Andres, George Joseph and Mainul Huq

8918: Informality, Harassment, and Corruption: Evidence from Informal Enterprise Data from Harare, Zimbabwe

David C. Francis

8917: Co-Location, Socioeconomic Status and Perceptions of Environmental Change in the Indian Sundarbans

Susmita Dasgupta, Bansari Guha and David Wheeler

8916: Measuring Social Norms About Female Labor Force Participation in Jordan

Varun Gauri, Tasmia Rahman and Iman Kalyan Sen

8915: Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Indonesia

Daniel Halim, Hillary C. Johnson and Elizaveta Perova

8914: Climate Finance, Carbon Market Mechanisms and Finance"Blending"as Instruments to Support NDC Achievement under the Paris Agreement

Jon Strand