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8626: Tobacco Taxation Incidence: Evidence from the Russian Federation

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Mikhail Matytsin and Olga Obukhova

8625: The Intensive Margin in Trade

Ana Fernandes, Pete Klenow, Sergii Meleshchuk, Martha Denisse Pierola and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

8624: How Do Countries Use an Asset and Liability Management Approach ? A Survey on Sovereign Balance Sheet Management

Mehmet Cangoz, Sebastien-000379895 Boitreaud and Christopher Benjamin Dychala

8623: The Cost and Benefits of Tax Treaties with Investment Hubs: Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa

Sebastian Beer and Jan Loeprick

8622: Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa

Paul Anand, Jere Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang and Sam Jones

8621: Are Banks Engines of Export ? Financial Structures and Export Dynamics

Raoul Minetti, Alen Mulabdic, Michele Ruta and Susan Chun Zhu

8620: Stationary Bandits, State Capacity, and the Malthusian Transition: The Lasting Impact of the Taiping Rebellion

Lixin Xu and Li Yang

8619: The Causal Mechanism of Financial Education: Evidence from Mediation Analysis

Fenella Carpena and Bilal Zia

8618: Root for the Tubers: Extended-Harvest Crop Production and Productivity Measurement in Surveys

Talip Kilic, Heather Moylan, John Ilukor, Clement Mtengula and Innocent Pangapanga-Phiri

8617: Ghana Private Equity and Venture Capital Ecosystem Study

Shanthi Divakaran, Sam Schneider and Patrick J. Mcginnis

8616: How Does Poverty Differ Among Refugees ? Taking a Gender Lens to the Data on Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Lucia C. Hanmer, Diana Jimena Arango, Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich, Julieth Santamaria and Mariana Viollaz

8615: Concentration in the Banking Sector and Financial Stability: New Evidence

Pietro Calice and Leone Leonida

8614: How Much Will the Belt and Road Initiative Reduce Trade Costs ?

François de Soyres, Alen Mulabdic, Siobhan Murray, Nadia Patrizia Rocha Gaffurri and Michele Ruta

8613: FDI and the Skill Premium: Evidence from Emerging Economies

Marcio Cruz, Gaurav Nayyar, Gerhard Toews and Pierre-Louis Vézina

8612: Who Wins and Who Loses from Staple Food Price Spikes ? Welfare Implications for Mozambique

Javier Baez, German Caruso and Hemant Pullabhotla

8611: Courts and Business Registration: Evidence from Serbia

Miriam Bruhn, Caleb Sungwoo Cho, Andreja Marusic, Ha Nguyen, José-Daniel Reyes and Trang Thu Tran

8610: Living Life: Assessing Bureaucratic Complexity in Citizen-Government Interactions

Valeria Perotti, Marina Kayumova and Natalia Mazoni Silva Martins

8609: Are the Poor Getting Globalized?

Adelina Mendoza, Gaurav Nayyar and Roberta Piermartini

8608: Taking Management Digital: Lessons from the Development of an Innovative Management Information System for Small Businesses in Ethiopia

Aly Salman Alibhai, Francesco Strobbe and Espen Villanger

8607: Foreign Investment across the Belt and Road: Patterns, Determinants, and Effects

Maggie Chen and Chuanhao Lin

8606: Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration?: Evidence from Nigeria

Oyebola Okunogbe

8605: A Proxy Means Test for Sri Lanka

Ashwini Rekha Sebastian, Shivapragasam Shivakumaran, Ani Rudra Silwal, David Newhouse, Thomas Walker and Nobuo Yoshida

8604: Assessing the Effect of Public Capital on Growth: An Extension of the World Bank Long-Term Growth Model

Sharmila Devadas and Steven Michael Pennings

8603: Exporting Firms and the Demand for Skilled Tasks

Irene Brambilla, Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto

8602: Prioritizing Infrastructure Investments: A Comparative Review of Applications in Chile

Darwin Marcelo Gordillo, Schuyler House and Aditi Raina

8601: How Should the Government Bring Small Firms into the Formal System ? Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Francisco Campos, Markus Goldstein and David McKenzie

8600: Trade Liberalization and Integration of Domestic Output Markets in Brazil

Jose Guilherme Reis, Mariana Iootty, Jose E. Signoret, Tanja K. Goodwin, Martha Martinez Licetti, Alice Duhaut and Somik V. Lall

8599: India's Growth Story

Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Florian Michael Blum, Poonam Gupta and Dhruv Jain

8598: Survey of the Kenyan Private Equity and Venture Capital Landscape

Shanthi Divakaran, Patrick J. Mcginnis and Sam Schneider

8597: Remittances and Labor Supply in the Northern Triangle

Liliana Do Couto Sousa and Andres Felipe Garcia Suaza

8596: Does Premature Deindustrialization Matter ? The Role of Manufacturing versus Services in Development

Gaurav Nayyar, Marcio Cruz and Linghui Zhu

8595: Management and Bureaucratic Effectiveness: Evidence from the Ghanaian Civil Service

Imran Rasul, Daniel Oliver Rogger and Martin J. Williams

8594: Training to Teach Science: Experimental Evidence from Argentina

Facundo Albornoz, Maria Victoria Anauati, Melina Gabriela Furman, Mariana Luzuriaga, Maria Eugenia Podesta and Ines Taylor

8593: Methodology for a World Bank Human Capital Index

Aart Kraay

8592: Global Dataset on Education Quality: A Review and Update (2000-2017)

Harry Patrinos and Noam Angrist

8591: Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS): Defining A New Macro Measure of Education

Deon Filmer, Frederic Rogers, Noam Angrist and Shwetlena Sabarwal

8590: The Effect of Increasing Human Capital Investment on Economic Growth and Poverty: A Simulation Exercise

Matthew Collin and David Weil

8589: Bank Runs and Moral Hazard: A Review of Deposit Insurance

Deniz Anginer and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

8588: More Than Schooling: Understanding Gender Differences in the Labor Market When Measures of Skill Are Available

Dileni Gunewardena, Elizabeth King and Alexandria Valerio

8587: Comparison of Deep Regional Integration in the Melitz, Krugman and Armington Models: The Case of The Philippines in RCEP

Edward Balistreri and David Tarr

8586: Efficiency of Public Spending in Education, Health, and Infrastructure: An International Benchmarking Exercise

Santiago Herrera and Abdoulaye Ouedraogo

8585: Revisiting the Poverty Trend in Rwanda: 2010/11 to 2013/14

Freeha Fatima and Nobuo Yoshida

8584: Incorporating Resilience in Infrastructure Prioritization: Application to the Road Transport Sector

Darwin Marcelo Gordillo, Ruth Schuyler House and Aditi Raina

8583: Occupational Segregation and Declining Gender Wage Gap: The Case of Georgia

Tamar Khitarishvili, Lourdes Rodriguez Chamussy and Nistha Sinha

8582: Electrification and Household Welfare: Evidence from Pakistan

Hussain A. Samad and Fan Zhang

8581: Nonstandard Forms of Employment in Developing Countries: A Study for a Set of Selected Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia

Ignacio Apella and Gonzalo Zunino

8580: The Distributional Impacts of Cigarette Taxation in Bangladesh

Giselle Eugenia Del Carmen Hasbun, Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Maria Eugenia Genoni

8579: Services Globalization in an Age of Insecurity: Rethinking Trade Cooperation

Aaditya Mattoo

8578: Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: A Robust Relationship?

Gustavo Marrero and Luis Serven

8576: Endowment Effects and Usage of Financial Products: Field Evidence from Malawi

Xavier Gine and Jessica Goldberg

8575: Public Procurement and the Private Business Sector: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Tania Ghossein, Asif Islam and Federica Saliola

8574: Tax-Transfers Schemes, Informality, and Search Frictions in a Small Open Economy

Monica Robayo-Abril

8573: Gender Gaps in Property Ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa

Isis Gaddis, Rahul Lahoti and Wenjie Li

8572: Teacher Professional Development around the World: The Gap between Evidence and Practice

Anna Popova, David Evans, Mary E. Breeding and Violeta Arancibia

8571: Bank Credit Allocation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Eva M. Gutierrez, Nadeem M. Karmali and Diego M. Sourrouille

8570: Comparison of Welfare Gains in the Armington, Krugman and Melitz Models: Insights from a Structural Gravity Approach

Edward Balistreri and David Tarr

8569: Potential Forest Loss and Biodiversity Risks from Road Improvement in Lao PDR

Stephen Danyo, Susmita Dasgupta and David J. Wheeler

8568: Measuring the Middle Class in Kazakhstan: A Subjective Approach

Maria Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli

8567: The Heterogeneous Effects of Trade Policy Uncertainty: How Much Do Trade Commitments Boost Trade ?

Alberto Osnago, Roberta Piermartini and Nadia Patrizia Rocha Gaffurri

8566: Long-term impacts of alternative approaches to increase schooling: evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Andreas de Barros and Deon Filmer

8565: The distributional impact of taxes and social spending in Romania

Gabriela Inchauste and Eva Militaru

8564: Mapping the landscape of transactions: the governance of business relations in Latin America

David C. Francis, Nona Karalashvili and Peter Murrell

8563: Upping the ante: the equilibrium effects of unconditional grants to private schools

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Selcuk Ozyurt and Niharika Singh

8562: Financial development, exchange rate regimes, and growth dynamics

Woubet Kassa and Emmanuel Lartey

8561: Creating new positions ? direct and indirect effects of a subsidized apprenticeship program

Bruno Jacques Jean Philippe Crepon and Patrick Premand

8560: Explaining spatial variations in productivity: evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Luis Quintero and Mark Roberts

8559: Land fragmentation and food insecurity in Ethiopia

Erwin Willem Yvonnick Leon Knippenberg, Dean Jolliffe and John Hoddinott

8558: The distributional effects of tobacco taxation: the evidence of white and clove cigarettes in Indonesia

Alan Fuchs

8557: The cost of nutritious food in South Asia

Felipe Fadullon Dizon and Anna Whitson Herforth

8556: Selective control: the political economy of censorship

Cristina Corduneanu Huci and Alexander James Hamilton

8555: Effects of corporate governance on the performance of state-owned enterprises

Kyoungsun Heo

8554: The consequences of political interference in bureaucratic decision making: evidence from Nigeria

Daniel Oliver Rogger

8553: Corporate debt overhang and investment: firm-level evidence

Eduardo R. Borensztein and Lei Sandy Ye

8552: Water and sanitation in Dhaka slums: access, quality, and informality in service provision

Yurani Arias Granada, Sabrina Sharmin Haque, George Joseph and Monica Yanez Pagans

8551: Pathways to formalization: going beyond the formality dichotomy -- the case of Peru

Juan Jose Diaz, Juan Chacaltana, Iamele Rigolini and Claudia Ruiz

8550: Competing priorities: women's microenterprises and household relationships

Sophia Friedson-Ridenour and Rachael Susan Pierotti

8549: Nutrition, religion, and widowhood in Nigeria

Annamaria Milazzo and Dominique van de Walle

8548: Heterogeneous impacts of main and feeder road improvements: evidence from Ethiopia

Atsushi Iimi, Haileyesus Adamtei Mengesha, James Markland, Yetmgeta Asrat and Kefargachew Kassahun

8547: Infrastructure, value chains, and economic upgrades

Xubei Luo and Xuejiao Xu

8546: Mobility and congestion in urban India

Prottoy Akbar, Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton, Ejaz Ghani and Adam Storeygard

8545: What can we (machine) learn about welfare dynamics from cross-sectional data?

Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti

8544: Study on public debt management systems and results of a survey on solutions used by debt management offices

Cigdem Aslan, Artan Ajazaj and Shurufa Abdul Wahidh

8543: Playing to strength: growth strategy for small agrarian economies in Africa

Shahid Yusuf and Praveen Kumar

8542: Import substitution with labor misallocation

Marco A.C. Martins and Jorge A. De Thompson R. Araujo

8541: Can government intervention make firms more investment-ready ? a randomized experiment in the Western Balkans

Ana Paula Cusolito, Ernest Dautović and David McKenzie

8540: Dynamics of off-farm employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: a gender perspective

Goedele Van den Broeck and Talip Kilic

8539: A Light-Touch Method to Improve Accurate Reporting of IDP?s Food Consumption

Lennart Kaplan, Utz Pape and James Sonam Walsh

8538: Inequality in earnings and adverse shocks in early adulthood

Franck M. Adoho and Bienvenue Tien

8537: Does the environment matter for poverty reduction ? the role of soil fertility and vegetation vigor in poverty reduction

Martin Heger, Gregor Franz Zens and Mook Bangalor

8536: The aggregate income losses from childhood stunting and the returns to a nutrition intervention aimed at reducing stunting

Emanuela Galasso and Adam Wagstaff

8535: Bought, sold, and bought again: the impact of complex value chains on export elasticities

François de Soyres, Erik Frohm, Vanessa Gunnella and Elena Pavlova

8534: Who are America's star firms?

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

8533: Trade in developing East Asia: how it has changed and why it matters

Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo and Michele Ruta

8532: Aquatic salinization and mangrove species in a changing climate: impact in the Indian Sundarbans

Anirban Mukhopadhyay, David J. Wheeler, Susmita Dasgupta, Ajanta Dey and Istiak Sobhan

8531: Cooperation creates special moral obligations

Alexander Cappelen, Varun Gauri and Bertil Tungodden

8530: Urbanization in Kazakhstan: desirable cities, unaffordable housing, and the missing rental marke

William Hutchins Seitz

8529: Joint effects of parenting and nutrition status on child development: evidence from rural Cambodia

Jan Lukas Berkes, Abbie Raikes, Adrien Bouguen and Deon Filmer

8528: Productivity shocks and repayment behavior in rural credit markets: a framed field experiment

Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Lenis Liverpool-Tasie and Robert Shupp

8527: Characterizing business cycles in small economies

Viktoria Hnatkovska and Fritzi Koehler-Geib

8526: Sources of volatility in small economies

Viktoria Hnatkovska and Fritzi Koehler-Geib