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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 Zefanya 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

8913: The Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Christina Wieser, Miriam Bruhn, Johannes Philipp Kinzinger, Christian Simon Ruckteschler and Soren Heitmann

8912: Making Secure Land Tenure Count for Global Development Goals and National Policy: Evidence from Zambia

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger, Dorothea Huberta Maria Hilhorst, Frank Kakungu and Yuanyuan Yi

8911: Corruption, Regulatory Burden and Firm Productivity

Mohammad Amin and Hulya Ulku

8909: Implications for Provincial Economies of Meeting China's NDC through an Emission Trading Scheme: A Regional CGE Modeling Analysis

Jun Pang and Govinda Timilsina

8908: How Much Would China Gain from Power Sector Reforms ? An Analysis Using TIMES and CGE Models

Govinda Timilsina, Jun Pang and Xi Yang

8907: The Right to Be Nudged ? Rethinking Social and Economic Rights in the Light of Behavioral Economics

Varun Gauri

8906: Willingness to Pay for Electricity Access in Extreme Poverty: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Maximiliane Sievert and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

8905: Linking Top-Down and Bottom-UP Models for Climate Policy Analysis: The Case of China

Govinda Timilsina, Jun Pang and Xi Yang

8904: Implementing Adaptive Approaches in Real World Scenarios: A Nigeria Case Study, with Lessons for Theory and Practice

Kate Bridges and Michael Woolcock

8903: Methodology and Findings for the Exposure Analysis of the Chinese Wastewater Sector to Flooding and Earthquakes Hazards

Xi Hu, Raghav Pant, Conrad Zorn, Weeho Lim, Elco Eduard Koks and Zhimin Mao

8902: Infrastructure Disruptions: How Instability Breeds Household Vulnerability

Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky, Alvina Elisabeth Erman, Julie Rozenberg, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Paolo Avner and Stephane Hallegatte

8901: Vulnerabilities of Networked Energy Infrastructure: A Primer

Amy Elizabeth Schweikert, Lindsey Nield, Erica Otto, Magdalena Klemun, Sanna Maria Ojanpera and Mark Robert Deinert

8900: Resilience and Critical Power System Infrastructure: Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters and Future Research Needs

Amy Elizabeth Schweikert, Lindsey Nield, Erica Otto and Mark Robert Deinert

8899: Underutilized Potential: The Business Costs of Unreliable Infrastructure in Developing Countries

Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Martin Gunter Michail Kornejew, Stephane Hallegatte, Johannes Michael Braese and Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky

8898: Three Feet Under: The Impact of Floods on Urban Jobs, Connectivity, and Infrastructure

Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Johannes Michael Braese, Nicholas K.W. Jones and Paolo Avner

8897: Candle in The Wind ? Energy System Resilience to Natural Shocks

Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky and Martin Gunter Michail Kornejew

8896: Strengthening New Infrastructure Assets: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Stephane Hallegatte, Julie Rozenberg, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Claire Marion Nicolas and Charles James Edward Fox

8895: Resilient Infrastructure for Thriving Firms: A Review of The Evidence

Johannes Michael Braese, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Stephane Hallegatte

8894: Well Spent: How Governance Determines the Effectiveness of Infrastructure Investments

Martin Gunter Michail Kornejew, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Stephane Hallegatte

8893: Dollarization Dilemma: Price Stability at the Cost of External Competitiveness in Cambodia

Sovannroeun Samreth, Miguel Eduardo Sanchez Martin and Sodeth Ly

8892: Full Esteem Ahead ? Mindset-Oriented Business Training in Ethiopia

Salman Alibhai, Niklas Buehren, Michael Frese, Markus Goldstein, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Kathrin Wolf

8891: A Framework to Assess Debt Sustainability and Fiscal Risks under the Belt and Road Initiative

Luca Bandiera and Vasileios Tsiropoulos

8890: Search for Yield in Large International Corporate Bonds: Investor Behavior and Firm Responses

Charles W. Calomiris, Mauricio Larrain, Sergio Schmukler and Tomas Williams

8889: Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ?

Kurt Annen and Stephen Knack

8888: Does Rainfall Matter for Economic Growth ? Evidence from Global Sub-National Data (1990-2014

Richard Damania, Sébastien Desbureaux and Esha Zaveri

8887: The Redistributive Effects of Fiscal Policy in Mali and Niger

Thierry Hounsa, Mohamed Coulibaly and Aly Sanoh

8886: Measuring the Full Extent of Fiscal Losses and Gains

Mohamed Coulibaly and Aly Sanoh

8885: Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network

Abhiman Das, Ejaz Ghani, Arti Goswami Grover, William Robert Kerr and Ramana Nanda

8884: Diagonal Cumulation and Sourcing Decisions

Pamela Bombarda and Elisa Gamberoni

8883: Labor and Welfare Impacts of a Large-Scale Livelihoods Program: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from India

Vivek Pandey, Abhishek Gupta and Shivani Gupta

8882: Employment Data in Household Surveys: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead

Sam Desiere and Valentina Costa

8881: Monetary Policy in Fossil Fuel Exporters: The Curse of Horizons

Rabah Arezki

8880: Impact of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Agricultural Production and Rural Welfare: Evidence from Liberia

Alejandro De La Fuente, Hanan Jacoby and Kotchikpa Lawin

8879: The 2019 Update of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators Database: An Overview

Adam Wagstaff, Patrick Eozenou, Sven Neelsen and Marc-Francois Smitz

8878: Estimating Poverty in India without Expenditure Data: A Survey-to-Survey Imputation Approach

David Newhouse and Pallavi Vyas

8877: No Household Left Behind: Afghanistan Targeting the Ultra Poor Impact Evaluation

Guadalupe Bedoya Arguelles, Aidan Coville, Johannes Haushofer, Mohammad Razaq Isaqzadeh and Jeremy Shapiro

8876: Innovation Patterns and Their Effects on Firm-Level Productivity in South Asia

Xavier Cirera and Ana Paula Cusolito

8875: Market Size, Sunk Costs of Entry, and Transport Costs: An Empirical Evaluation of the Impact of Demand-Side Factors versus Supply-Side Factors on Manufacturing Productivity

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

8874: School-Based Management and Learning Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Colima, Mexico

Vicente A. Garcia Moreno, Paul J. Gertler and Harry Patrinos

8873: From Theory to Practice: Open Government Data, Accountability, and Service Delivery

Michael Christopher Jelenic

8872: Group?Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Training Improves Mental Health of SME Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Conflict?Affected Areas of Pakistan

Priyam Saraf, Tasmia Rahman and Julian C Jamison

8871: Latin American Growth: A Trade Perspective

Augusto de la Torre and Alain Ize

8870: Technology Adoption and the Middle-Income Trap: Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia

Rabah Arezki, Yuting Fan and Ha Nguyen

8869: How Much Does Reducing Inequality Matter for Global Poverty ?

Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Mario Negre and Espen Prydz

8868: The Exchange Rate: Why It Matters for Structural Transformation and Growth in Ethiopia

Fiseha Haile

8867: Migration and Jobs: Issues for the 21st Century

Luc Christiaensen, Alvaro Gonzalez and David Robalino

8866: The Changing Pattern of Returns to Education: What Impact Will This Have on Inequality?

Harry Patrinos

8864: Corruption and Country Size: Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data

Mohammad Amin and Yew Chong Soh

8863: Developing Public-Private Partnership Initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa: From Public Debt to Maximizing Finance for Development

Rabah Arezki and Ferid Belhaj

8862: Preventing Violence in the Most Violent Contexts: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Evidence

Lelys Dinarte Diaz and Pablo Egana-delSol

8861: Small African Economies in a More Uncertain Global Trade Environment: The Potential Impact of Post-AGOA Scenarios for Lesotho

Maryla Maliszewska, Jakob Engel, Guillermo Carlos Arenas and Barbara Kotschwar

8860: Exploring Carbon Pricing in Developing Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis in Ethiopia

Andualem Telaye, Pablo Benitez, Seneshaw Tamru, Haileselassie Medhin and Michael Toman

8859: Trade Integration and Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Cesar Calderon and Catalina Castillo Castro

8858: The Economics of Sustainability: Causes and Consequences of Energy Market Transformation

Rabah Arezki

8857: Identifying the Vulnerable to Poverty from Natural Disasters: The Case of Typhoons in the Philippines

Emmanuel Skoufias, Yasuhiro Kawasoe, Eric Strobl and Pablo Acosta

8856: Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam

Hai-Anh Dang, Masako Hiraga and Cuong Nguyen

8855: Voice and Punishment: A Global Survey Experiment on Tax Morale

Fredrik Matias Sjoberg, Jonathan Mellon, Tiago Carneiro Peixoto, Johannes Zacharias Hemker and Lily Lee Tsai

8854: Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia

Leonardo Iacovone, William Maloney and David McKenzie

8853: Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of The Philippines

Robert W. Bacon

8852: Productivity Growth: Patterns and Determinants across the World

Young Eun Kim and Norman Loayza

8851: The Apprenticeship-to-Work Transition: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

Morgan L. Hardy, Isaac Mbiti, Jamie Lee Mccasland and Isabelle Salcher

8850: Welfare Effects of Introducing Competition in the Telecom Sector in Djibouti

Xavier Stephane Decoster, Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Vibhuti Mendiratta and Marco Santacroce

8849: The Lost Human Capital: Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement in Africa

Tessa Bold, Deon Filmer, Ezequiel Molina and Jakob Svensson

8848: The Economics of International Student and Scholar Mobility: Directions for Research

Gnanaraj Chellaraj

8847: Combining Growth and Gender Diagnostics for the Benefit of Both

Elena Ianchovichina and Danny Leipziger

8846: Can Micro-Credit Support Public Health Subsidy Programs ?

Britta Augsburg, Bet Caeyers and Bansi Malde

8845: Labelled Loans, Credit Constraints and Sanitation Investments

Britta Augsburg, Bet Caeyers, Sara Giunti, Bansi Malde and Susanna Smets

8844: The Rise of Domestic Capital Markets for Corporate Financing

Facundo Abraham, Juan Jose Cortina Lorente and Sergio Schmukler

8843: Tracking the Sustainable Development Goals: Emerging Measurement Challenges and Further Reflections

Hai-Anh Dang and Umar Serajuddin

8842: Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of Pakistan

Robert W. Bacon

8841: Uncertainty in Ex-Ante Poverty and Income Distribution: Insights from Output Growth and Natural Resource Country Typologies

Fabian Mendez Ramos

8840: Improving the Measurement of Rural Women's Employment: Global Momentum and Survey Research Priorities

Gayatri B. Koolwal

8839: The Impact of Minimum Wage Hikes on Employment and Wages in Cambodia

Maheshwor Shrestha

8838: Distributional Effects of Competition: A Simulation Approach

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Abdelkrim Araar, Eduardo Malásquez, Sergio Olivieri and Tara Vishwanath

8837: Factions, Local Accountability, and Long-Term Development: County-Level Evidence from a Chinese Province

Hanming Fang, Linke Hou, Mingxing Liu, Lixin Xu and Pengfei Zhang

8836: Measuring the Unmeasured: Combining Technology and Behavioral Insights to Improve Measurement of Business Outcomes

Stephen J. Anderson, Christy Marie Lazicky and Bilal Zia

8835: Replication Redux: The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming

Owen Ozier

8834: The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa

Maria Edisa Soppelsa, Nancy Lozano Gracia and Lixin Xu

8833: Exploring the Heterogeneous Effects of Export Promotion

Marcelo Olarreaga, Stefan Sperlich and Virginie Trachsel

8832: The Rise of Star Firms: Intangible Capital and Competition

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

8831: The Social Lives of Married Women: Peer Effects in Female Autonomy and Investments in Children

Eeshani Kandpal and Kathy Baylis