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8770: Input Substitutability and Cross-Country Variation in Sectoral Linkages

Rishabh Sinha

8769: Morocco's Growth and Employment Prospects: Public Policies to Avoid the Middle-Income Trap

Emmanuel Pinto Moreira

8768: Global Inflation Synchronization

Jongrim Ha, Ayhan Kose and Franziska Ohnsorge

8767: Active Trading and (Poor) Performance: The Social Transmission Channel

Laura Manuela Escobar Pradilla and Alvaro Pedraza

8766: The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia

Felipe Fadullon Dizon, Anna Josephson and Dhushyanth Raju

8765: Fiscal Incidence in Ukraine: A Commitment to Equity Analysis

Kateryna Bornukova, Nataliia Leshchenko and Mikhail Matytsin

8764: Migration and Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Jan David Bakker, Christopher Robert Parsons and Ferdinand Rauch

8763: Business Regulations and Poverty

Simeon Djankov, Dorina Peteva Georgieva and Rita Ramalho

8762: Growing a Developing City: A Computable Spatial General Equilibrium Model Applied to Dhaka

Julia Bird and Anthony Venables

8761: Understanding Inflation in Emerging and Developing Economies

Jongrim Ha, Ayhan Kose and Franziska Ohnsorge

8760: The Economic Lives of Young Women in the Time of Ebola: Lessons from an Empowerment Program

Oriana Bandiera, Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Imran Rasul and Andrea Smurra

8759: How Household Characteristics Shape Program Access and Asset Accumulation: A Mixed Method Analysis of the Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme in Rwanda

Justine Gatzinsi, Renate Hartwig, Lindsay Suzanne Mossman, Umutoni Marie Francoise, Isimbi Roberte and Laura B. Rawlings

8758: From Ghana to America: The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development

Salvatore Lo Bello, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta and Hernan Winkler

8757: Pollution and Expenditures in a Penalized Vector Spatial Autoregressive Time Series Model with Data-Driven Networks

Bo Andree, Phoebe Girouard Spencer, Sardar Azari, Andres Chamorro, Dieter Wang and Harun Dogo

8756: Environment and Development: Penalized Non-Parametric Inference of Global Trends in Deforestation, Pollution and Carbon

Bo Andree, Phoebe Girouard Spencer, Andres Chamorro and Harun Dogo

8755: Integration and Price Transmission in Key Food Commodity Markets in India

Mauro Boffa and Gonzalo Varela

8754: Are Public Sector Workers in Developing Countries Overpaid ? Evidence from a New Global Data Set

Thomas (Tim) Gindling, Zahid Hasnain, David Newhouse and Rong Shi

8753: Are Trade Preferences a Panacea?: The African Growth and Opportunity Act and African Exports

Ana Fernandes, Alejandro Forero, Hibret Maemir and Aaditya Mattoo

8752: Equivalent Years of Schooling: A Metric to Communicate Learning Gains in Concrete Terms

David Evans and Fei Yuan

8751: Household Savings in Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe: How Do Poorer Households Save?

Elisabeth Beckmann

8750: Are They Really Being Served?: Assessing Effective Infrastructure Access and Quality in 15 Kenyan Cities

Sumila Gulyani, Andrea C. Ryan Rizvi and Debabrata Talukdar

8749: Do Firms Exit the Formal Economy after a Minimum Wage Hike ?

Laurent Bossavie, Aysenur Acar and Mattia Makovec

8748: Scenarios: Leapfrog, Lock-in, and Lopsided

Michael Meir Leifman

8747: Meeting the Sustainable Development Goal for Electricity Access -- Using a Multi-Scenario Approach to Understand the Cost Drivers of Power Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Claire Nicolas, Benjamin Samson and Julie Rozenberg

8746: Assessing Rural Accessibility and Rural Roads Investment Needs Using Open Source Data

Mehdi Mikou, Julie Rozenberg, Elco Eduard Koks, Charles James Edward Fox and Tatiana Peralta Quiros

8745: Global Investment Costs for Coastal Defense through the 21st Century

Robert John Nicholls, Jochen Hinkel, Daniel Lincke and Thomas van der Pol

8744: Investment Needs for Irrigation Infrastructure along Different Socioeconomic Pathways

Amanda Palazzo, Hugo Valin, Miroslav Batka and Petr Havlík

8743: Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Child Development: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment

Pedro Carneiro, Emanuela Galasso, Italo Lopez Garcia, Paula Bedregal and Miguel Cordero

8742: Measuring Human Capital

Noam Angrist, Simeon Djankov, Pinelopi Goldberg and Harry Patrinos

8741: Does Automation in Rich Countries Hurt Developing Ones?: Evidence from the U.S. and Mexico

Erhan Artuc, Luc Christiaensen and Hernan Winkler

8740: Pollution and City Competitiveness: A Descriptive Analysis

Nancy Lozano Gracia and Maria Edisa Soppelsa

8739: Does Pollution Hinder Urban Competitiveness ?

Matthew Kahn, Nancy Lozano Gracia and Maria Edisa Soppelsa

8738: Inflation: Concepts, Evolution, and Correlates

Jongrim Ha, Anna Ivanova, Franziska Ohnsorge and Filiz Unsal

8737: Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from The Gambia

Moussa Blimpo, Pedro Carneiro, Pamela Jervis and Todd Pugatch

8736: Does Culture Matter or Firm ? Demand for Female Labor in Three Indian Cities

Maitreyi B Das, Soumya Kapoor Mehta, Ieva Zumbyte, Sanjeev Sasmal and Sangeeta Goyal

8735: Estimation of Poverty in Somalia Using Innovative Methodologies

Utz Pape and Philip Randolph Wollburg

8734: What Is State Capacity ?

Stuti Khemani

8733: Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing: A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya

Heather Ashley Knauer, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Frances E Aboud and Lia C.H. Fernald

8732: Sex, Lies, and Surveys: The Role of Interviewer Characteristics

Tricia Koroknay-Palicz and Joao Montalvao

8731: The Textile-Clothing Value Chain in India and Bangladesh: How Appropriate Policies Can Promote (or Inhibit) Trade and Investment

Mahfuz Kabir, Surendar Singh and Michael Joseph Ferrantino

8730: Hitting the Trillion Mark -- A Look at How Much Countries Are Spending on Infrastructure

Marianne Fay, Hyoung Il Lee, Massimo Mastruzzi, Sungmin Han and Moonkyoung Cho

8729: Why Do So Many Water Points Fail in Tanzania ? An Empirical Analysis of Contributing Factors

George Joseph, Luis Andres, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Jonathan Grabinsky Zabludovsky, Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling and Yi Rong Hoo

8728: A Joint Foreign Currency Risk Management Approach for Sovereign Assets and Liabilities

Mehmet Cangoz, Olga Sulla, ChunLan Wang and Christopher Benjamin Dychala

8727: The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities: A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics

Paolo Verme and Kirsten Schuettler

8726: Pension Funds with Automatic Enrollment Schemes: Lessons for Emerging Economies

Heinz P. Rudolph

8725: Inequality of Access to Opportunities and Socioeconomic Mobility: Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey

Alexandru Cojocaru

8724: Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies

David Laborde Debucquet, Csilla Lakatos and Will Martin

8723: Measuring Natural Risks in the Philippines: Socioeconomic Resilience and Wellbeing Losses

Brian James Walsh and Stephane Hallegatte

8722: Estimating Poverty in a Fragile Context -- The High Frequency Survey in South Sudan

Utz Pape and Luca Parisotto

8721: Learning from Developing Country Power Market Experiences: The Case of the Philippines

Hugh Rudnick and Constantin Velasquez

8720: Policy Implications of Non-linear Effects of Tax Changes on Output

Samara Gunter, Daniel Riera-Crichton, Carlos Alberto Vegh Gramont and Guillermo Vuletin

8719: Discriminatory Laws Against Women: A Survey of the Literature

Sanchari Roy

8718: Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure

Elizabeth Claire Losos, Alexander Pfaff, Lydia Pauline Olander, Sara Mason and Seth Morgan

8717: Measuring Farm Labor: Survey Experimental Evidence from Ghana

Isis Gaddis, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Janneke Pieters

8716: Investing in Human Capital: What Can We Learn from the World Bank's Portfolio Data ?

Roberta V. Gatti and Aakash Mohpal

8715: Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment: Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries

Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam

8714: Enforcing Competition and Firm Productivity: Evidence from 1,800 Peruvian Municipalities

Marc Tobias Schiffbauer and James Sampi

8713: Interest Rate Pass-Through: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature

Jiri Gregora, Ales Melecky and Martin Melecký

8712: When the Cycle Becomes the Trend: The Emerging Market Experience with Fiscal Policy during the Last Commodity Super Cycle

Rashaad Amra, Marek Hanusch and Charl Jooste

8711: Can Regulation Promote Financial Inclusion ?

Rong - DECID Chen and Raian Divanbeigi

8710: Highway Politics in a Divided Government: Evidence from Mexico

Harris Selod and Souleymane Soumahoro

8709: A New Tail-Based Correlation Measure and Its Application in Global Equity Markets

Jinjing Liu

8708: Using Referenda to Improve Targeting and Decrease Costs of Conditional Cash Transfers

Jennifer M. Alix-Garcia, Katharine Sims and Daniel J. Phaneuf

8707: Can Environmental Cash Transfers Reduce Deforestation and Improve Social Outcomes ? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Mexico?s National Program (2011-2014)

Jennifer M. Alix-Garcia, Katharine Sims, Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera, Laura Elena Costica, Fernandez Medina.Jorge David, Sofia Romo-Monroy and Stefano Pagiola

8706: Assessing Innovation Patterns and Constraints in Developing East Asia: An Introductory Analysis

Mariana Iootty

8705: Subjective Well-Being and Peaceful Uprisings

Caroline T. Witte, Martijn Burger and Elena Ianchovichina

8704: Natural Resources and Total Factor Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Testing A New Methodology

Kirk E. Hamilton, Esther G. Naikal and Glenn-Marie Lange

8703: Managing South Africa's Exposure to Eskom: How to Evaluate the Credit Risk from the Sovereign Guarantees?

Fritz Florian Bachmair, Cigdem Aslan and Mkhulu Maseko

8702: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Urban Growth in Latin American Cities: An Analysis Using Nighttime Lights Imagery

Juan Duque, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Jorge Patiño, Paula Restrepo Cadavid and Wilson A. Velasquez

8701: The Medium-Term Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from University Graduates in Tunisia

Jumana Jamal Subhi Alaref, Stefanie Koettl-Brodmann and Patrick Premand

8700: Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity

Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi and Vito Peragine

8699: Understanding Economic Growth in Ghana in Comparative Perspective

Michael Geiger, Jan Trenczek and Konstantin Wacker

8698: Impact of Drought on Poverty in Somalia

Utz Pape and Philip Randolph Wollburg

8697: Urban Form and Productivity: What Is the Shape of Latin American Cities ?

Juan Duque, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Jorge Patiño and Paula Restrepo Cadavid

8696: Institutional Fragmentation and Metropolitan Coordination in Latin American Cities: What Consequences for Productivity and Growth ?

Juan Duque, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Jorge Patiño and Paula Restrepo Cadavid

8695: Understanding the Economic Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies on Shipping: What Is the State of the Art of Current Modeling Approaches ?

Ronald Apriliyanto Halim, Tristan Smith and Dominik Paul Englert

8694: Trade Effects of the New Silk Road: A Gravity Analysis

Suprabha Baniya, Nadia Patrizia Rocha Gaffurri and Michele Ruta

8693: Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations

Grant James Cameron, Hai-Anh Dang, Mustafa Dinc, James Foster and Michael Lokshin

8692: Poverty Measurement in the Era of Food Away from Home: Testing Alternative Approaches in Vietnam

Maria Gabriela Farfan Bertran, Kevin Robert Mcgee, Julie Ting Ting Perng and Renos Vakis

8691: The Short-Term Impact of Inter-Community Volunteering Activities and Soft Skills Training on Self-Reported Social Cohesion Values: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Lebanon

Jumana Jamal Subhi Alaref, Rene Antonio Leon Solano, Carlos Asenjo, Marwan Alawiye and Marwa El-Kik

8690: Persistent Misallocation and the Returns to Education in Mexico

Santiago Levy and Luis Lopez-Calva

8689: The Use of Data Analytics Techniques to Assess the Functioning of a Government's Financial Management Information System: An Application to Pakistan and Cambodia

Ali Hashim, Moritz Otto Maria Alfons Piattifuenfkirchen, Winston Percy Onipede Cole, Ammar Naqvi, Akmal Minallah, Maun Prathna and Sokbunthoeun So

8688: Understanding the Geographical Distribution of Stunting in Tanzania: A Geospatial Analysis of the 2015-16 Demographic and Health Survey

George Joseph, Peter William Gething, Samir Bhatt and Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling

8687: Financial Outreach and Working Poverty in Developing Countries: New Evidence from Bank Penetration

Aissata-000536535 Coulibaly and Thierry Yogo

8686: Beyond Capital: Monitoring Development Outcomes of Multinational Enterprises

Iza Lejárraga and Alexandros Ragoussis

8685: The Relationship between Conflicts, Economic Shocks, and Death with Depression, Economic Activities, and Human Capital Investment in Nigeria

Julian C Jamison, Kevin Robert Mcgee, Gbemisola Oseni, Julie Ting Ting Perng, Ryoko Sato, Tomomi - GPV07 Tanaka and Renos Vakis

8684: Shifting Social Norms to Reduce Open Defecation in Rural India

Varun Gauri, Tasmia Rahman and Iman Kalyan Sen

8683: International Comparisons of Poverty in South Asia

T M Tonmoy Islam, David Newhouse and Monica Yanez Pagans

8682: Intervening at Home and Then at School: A Randomized Evaluation of Two Approaches to Improve Early Educational Outcomes in Tonga

Kevin Macdonald, Sally Anne Brinkman, Wendy Jarvie, Myrna Machuca-Sierra, Kristen Andrew Mcdonall, Souhila Messaoud-Galusi, Siosiana Tapueluelu and Binh Thanh Vu

8681: Minimum Wages and Labor Supply in an Emerging Market: The Case of Mauritius

Zaakhir Asmal, Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur, Marco Ranzani and Pierella Paci

8680: Green Sukuk, Energy Poverty, and Climate Change: A Roadmap for Sub-Saharan Africa

Dalal Aassouli, Mehmet Asutay, Mahmoud Mohieldin and Tochukwu Chiara Nwokike

8679: The Economic Case for Education in Vietnam

Harry Patrinos, Pham Vu Thang and Nguyen Duc Thanh

8678: Measuring Urban Economic Density

J. Vernon Henderson, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina and Sebastian Constantine Gilmour Kriticos

8677: How Much Would Bangladesh Gain from the Removal of Subsidies on Electricity and Natural Gas ?

Govinda Timilsina, Sheoli Pargal, Marinos E. Tsigas and Sebnem Sahin

8676: Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries

Frédéric Docquier, Zovanga Louis Kone, Aaditya Mattoo and Caglar Ozden

8675: Explaining the WAEMU Growth Spurt -- The Role of Financial Deepening and Macro Policy

Fiseha Haile Gebregziabher and Lars Moller

8673: Political Selection and Bureaucratic Productivity

James Paul Habyarimana, Stuti Khemani and Thiago Scot

8672: Survey of the Nepal Private Equity and Venture Capital Environment

Shanthi Divakaran, Gianni Lorenzato, Anup Raj Upreti and Pratikshya Dahal

8671: Be Wary of Those Who Ask: A Randomized Experiment on the Size and Determinants of the Enumerator Effect

Michele Di Maio and Nathan Fiala

8670: Promoting Early Childhood Development through Combining Cash Transfers and Parenting Programs

Ana-Maria Arriagada, Jonathan Perry, Laura B. Rawlings, Julieta M. Trias and Melissa Zumaeta Aurazo