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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

8830: Financial Inclusion in the Europe and Central Asia Region: Recent Trends and a Research Agenda

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Bingjie Hu and Leora Klapper

8829: Trade Wars: What Do They Mean ? Why Are They Happening Now ? What Are the Costs ?

Aaditya Mattoo and Robert Staiger

8828: Auction Length and Prices: Evidence from Random Auction Closing in Brazil

Alexandre Borges De Oliveira, Abdoulaye Fabregas Masllovet and Mihaly Fazekas

8827: Labor Market Impacts and Responses: The Economic Consequences of a Marine Environmental Disaster

Trung Hoang, Duong Le, Ha Nguyen and Nguyen Vuong

8826: Can Scholarships Increase High School Graduation Rates ? Evidence from A Randomized Control Trial in Mexico

Rafael De Hoyos, Orazio Pietro Attanasio and Costas Meghir

8825: Trading off the Income Gains and the Inequality Costs of Trade Policy

Erhan Artuc, Bob Rijkers and Guido Porto

8824: Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Nistha Sinha, Rana Nayer Safwat Fayez and Jon Robbert Jellema

8823: Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia

Paul Brenton and Mike Nyawo

WSP8822: Does School Safety and Classroom Disciplinary Climate Hinder Learning ? Evidence from the MENA Region

Paul Marie Michel Cahu and Manal Bakur N Quota

8821: Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers'Sexual Education ? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia

Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan and Martín Valdivia

8820: Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of Uganda

Catrina Godinho and Anton Adriaan Eberhard

8819: Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of Kenya

Catrina Godinho and Anton Adriaan Eberhard

8818: Inequality in the Quality of Health Services: Wealth, Content of Care, and Price of Antenatal Consultations in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Günther Fink, Eeshani Kandpal and Gil Shapira

8817: How Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions: A Natural Experiment in Jordan

Alex Nowrasteh, Andrew Forrester and Cole Blondin

8816: Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity: Revisiting the Evidence

Véronique Gille

8815: Assessing the Value of Market Access from Belt and Road Projects

Tristan Reed and Alexandr Trubetskoy

8814: The Belt and Road Initiative: Economic, Poverty and Environmental Impacts

Maryla Maliszewska and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

8813: Evolution of Poor Food Access over the Course of the Conflict in the Republic of Yemen

Sharad Tandon and Tara Vishwanath

8812: Famine and the Aid Response: Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen

Sharad Tandon and Tara Vishwanath

8811: E-Commerce Participation and Household Income Growth in Taobao Villages

Xubei Luo and Chiyu Niu

8810: E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China

Xubei Luo, Yue-000541442 Wang and Xiaobo Zhang

8809: From Currency Depreciation to Trade Reform: How to Take Egyptian Exports to New Levels?

Hoda Youssef and Chahir Zaki

8808: Out-of-Pocket Expenditures on Health: A Global Stocktake

Adam Wagstaff, Patrick Eozenou and Marc-Francois Smitz

8807: The Belt and Road Initiative: Reshaping Economic Geography in Central Asia?

Julia Bird, Mathilde Lebrand and Anthony Venables

8806: Who Wins, Who Loses ? Understanding the Spatially Differentiated Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative

Somik V. Lall and Mathilde Lebrand

8805: Distributional Effects of Tobacco Taxation: A Comparative Analysis

Alan Fuchs, Maria Fernanda Gonzalez Icaza and Daniela Paula Paz

8804: Measuring What Matters in Global Value Chains and Value-Added Trade

Alessandro Borin and Michele Mancini

8803: Family Firms and Contractual Institutions

Leonardo Iacovone, William Maloney and Nick Tsivanidis

8802: What Works to Reduce Inequalities in Higher Education ? A Systematic Review of the (Quasi-)Experimental Literature on Outreach and Financial Aid

Estelle Herbaut and Koen Martijn Geven

8801: Common Transport Infrastructure: A Quantitative Model and Estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative

François de Soyres, Alen Mulabdic and Michele Ruta

8800: Rural Roads, Poverty, and Resilience: Evidence from Ethiopia

Shohei Nakamura, Tom Bundervoet and Mohammed Nuru

8799: Micro-Equity for Microenterprises

Suresh De Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

8798: Accounting for Regional Differences in Mother and Child Health: Bangladesh, West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand

Susmita Dasgupta and David J. Wheeler

8797: Of Governance and Revenue: Participatory Institutions and Tax Compliance in Brazil

Michael Ryan Touchton, Brian Wampler and Tiago Carneiro Peixoto

8796: Electrification and Women's Empowerment: Evidence from Rural India

Hussain A. Samad and Fan Zhang

8795: Mangroves for Coastal Protection: Evidence from Hurricanes in Central America

Alejandro Del Valle, Mathilda Eriksson, Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero and Juan Jose Miranda

8794: Debt in Low-Income Countries: Evolution, Implications, and Remedies

Sebastian Michael Essl, Sinem Kilic Celik, Patrick Alexander Kirby and Andre Proite

8793: Import Uncertainty and Export Dynamics

Mariana Vijil, Laurent Wagner and Martha Tesfaye Woldemichael

8790: Estimation of the ex ante Distribution of Returns for a Portfolio of U.S. Treasury Securities via Deep Learning

Andrea Foresti

8789: Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey

Harry Patrinos, George Psacharopoulos and Aysıt Tansel

8788: Firm Dynamics, Job Outcomes, and Productivity: South African Formal Businesses, 2010-14

Reyes Aterido, Ayanda Hlatshwayo, Duncan Pieterse and Andre Steenkamp

8787: Swept by the Tide ? The International Comovement of Capital Flows

Luis Fernandez Lafuerza and Luis Servén

8786: Adding Space to the International Business Cycle

Girum Dagnachew Abate and Luis Servén

8785: Inflation Expectations: Review and Evidence

Ayhan Kose, Hideaki Matsuoka, Ugo Panizza and Dana Lauren Vorisek

8784: Why Do Fiscal Multipliers Depend on Fiscal Positions?

Raju Huidrom, Ayhan Kose, Jamus Lim and Franziska Ohnsorge

8783: Are Management Practices Failing or Aiding the Private Sector in South America?

Marie Caitriona Hyland, David C. Francis and Jorge Rodriguez Meza

8782: The Three-Gap Model of Health Worker Performance

Fabliha Ibnat, Kenneth Leonard, Luke Bawo and Rianna L. Mohammed-Roberts

8781: Firms'and States'Responses to Laxer Environmental Standards

Tito Cordella and Shantayanan Devarajan

8780: Inflation and Exchange Rate Pass-Through

Jongrim Ha, Marc Stocker and Hakan Yilmazkuday

8779: Employment in South Asia: A New Dataset

Robert Beyer, Milagros Alejandra Chocce Falla and Martin Rama

8778: Low Tax Jurisdictions and Preferential Regimes: Policy Gaps in Developing Economies

Jonathan Leigh Pemberton and Jan Loeprick

8777: Drivers of Gross Capital Inflows: Which Factors Are More Important for Sub-Saharan Africa?

Cesar Calderon, Punam Chuhan-Pole and Megumi Kubota

8776: Estimating Small Area Population Density Using Survey Data and Satellite Imagery: An Application to Sri Lanka

Ryan Engstrom, David Newhouse and Vidhya Soundararajan

8775: International Willingness to Pay for the Protection of the Amazon Rainforest

Juha Siikamäki, Alan Jeff Krupnick, Jon Strand and Jeffrey Vincent

8774: Pioneering Firms in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States: Why and How Development Finance Institutions Should Support Them

Paul Collier, Neil Gregory and Alexandros Ragoussis

8773: Mobilizing Resources for Education and Improving Spending Effectiveness: Establishing Realistic Benchmarks Based on Past Trends

Samer Al-Samarrai, Pedro Cerdan-Infantes and Jonathan David Lehe

8772: Learning from Developing Country Power Market Experiences: The Case of Peru

Hugh Rudnick and Constantin Velasquez

8771: Learning from Developing Country Power Market Experiences: The Case of Colombia

Hugh Rudnick and Constantin Velasquez