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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

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