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8525: Should I stay or should I go: do cash transfers affect migration ?

Samik Adhikari and Ugo Gentilini

8524: Not(ch) your average tax system: corporate taxation under weak enforcement

Pierre Jean Bachas and Mauricio Soto

8523: Measuring districts'monthly economic activity from outer space

Robert Beyer, Esha Chhabra, Virgilio Galdo and Martin Rama

8522: Tax Evasion in Africa and Latin America: the role of distortionary infrastructures and policies

Wilfried Kouamé and Jonathan Goyette

8521: Decentralized delivery of financial education: evidence from a country-wide field experiment

Emmanuel Hakizimfura, Douglas Randall and Bilal Zia

8520: The shifting natural wealth of nations: the role of market orientation

Rabah Arezki, Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Frederik Toscani

8519: Taking stock of wholesale power markets in developing countries: a literature review

Hugh Rudnick and Constantin Velasquez

8518: Taking stock of the political economy of power sector reforms in developing countries: a literature review

Alan David Lee and Zainab Usman

8517: Integrating variable renewable energy in the Bangladesh power system: a planning analysis

Miklos Bankuti, Debabrata Chattopadhyay and Chong Suk Song

8516: Assessing the international comovement of equity returns

Girum Dagnachew Abate and Luis Serven

8515: Spatial and sectoral heterogeneity of occupational choice in Cameroon

Theophile Bougna and Pierre Nguimkeu

8514: Gross capital flows by banks, corporates, and sovereigns

Stefan Avdjiev, Bryan Hardy, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Luis Serven

8513: How would cross-border electricity trade stimulate hydropower development in South Asia ?

Govinda Timilsina

8512: Jati inequality in rural Bihar

Shareen Joshi, Nishtha Kochhar and Vijayendra Rao

8511: Better loans or better borrowers ? impact of meso-credit on female-owned enterprises in Ethiopia

Aly Salman Alibhai, Niklas Buehren and Sreelakshmi Papineni

8510: Impact of conflict on adolescent girls in South Sudan

Utz Pape and Verena Phipps

8509: Transport costs, comparative advantage, and agricultural development: evidence from Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh

Brian Blankespoor, M. Shahe Emran, Forhad J. Shilpi and Lu - DECEE Xu

8508: Bridge to bigpush or backwash ? market integration, reallocation, and productivity effects of Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh

Brian Blankespoor, M. Shahe Emran, Forhad J. Shilpi and Lu - DECEE Xu

8507: The ecological impact of transportation infrastructure

Samuel Edward Asher, Teevrat Garg and Paul Novosad

8506: How does participation in value chains matter to African farmers ?

Nora Dihel, Arti Grover Goswami, Claire Honore Hollweg and Anja Slany

8505: The dynamics of development: innovation and reallocation

Francisco Buera and Roberto Fattal Jaef

8504: Discrimination against sexual minorities in education and housing: evidence from two field experiments in Serbia

Dominik Koehler, Georgia Harley and Nicholas Menzies

8503: Exposure of belt and road economies to china trade shocks

Paulo Bastos

8502: Do politically connected firms innovate, contributing to long-term economic growth ?

David C. Francis, Sahar Sajjad Hussain and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

8501: The optimal mix of pricing and infrastructure expansions to alleviate traffic congestion and in-bus crowding in grand Casablanca

Alexandros Anas, Sayan De Sarkar and Govinda Timilsina

8500: The evidence is in: how should youth employment programs in low-income countries be designed ?

Louise Fox and Upaasna Kaul

8499: Improved cook stoves for climate change mitigation ? evidence of values, preferences and carbon savings from a choice experiment in Ethiopia

Sahan Dissanayake, Abebe Damte Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Gilbert Kiggundu, Shannon H. Kooser, Peter Martinsson, Alemu Mekonnen and Michael Toman

8498: The effect of remittances on the current account in developing and emerging economies

Emmanuel Lartey

8497: The economic effects of refugee return and policy implications

Uri B. Dadush

8496: Funding and financing infrastructure: the joint-use of public and private finance

Marianne Fay, David Martimort and Stephane Straub

8495: The role of major emerging markets in global commodity demand

John Baffes, Alain Kabundi, Peter Nagle and Franziska Ohnsorge

8494: The devil is in the details: growth, polarization, and poverty reduction in Africa in the past two decades

Fabio Clementi, M. Fabiani and Vasco Molini

8493: Where is the carbon tax after thirty years of research ?

Govinda Timilsina

8492: The effect of immigration on natives'school achievement: does length of stay in the host country matter?

Laurent Bossavie

8491: Deep trade agreements and global value chains

Edith Laget, Alberto Osnago, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta

8490: Piloting the use of network analysis and decision-making under uncertainty in transport operations: preparation and appraisal of a rural roads project in Mozambique under changing flood risk and other deep uncertainties

Xavier Espinet Alegre, Julie Rozenberg, Kulwinder Singh Rao and Satoshi Ogita

8489: Improving mental well-being and productivity of small-medium entrepreneurs in fragile, conflict and violence affected areas: can cognitive behavioral therapy trainings help ?

Priyam Saraf, Tasmia Rahman, Miguel Angel Jimenez Gallardo, Julian C Jamison and Charles Lor

8488: Optimal locational choice for agrobusinesses in Madagascar: an application of spatial autoregressive Tobit regression

Atsushi Iimi

8487: Transport connectivity, Medical supplies, and people's health care access: evidence from Madagascar

Atsushi Iimi and Voahirana Hanitriniala Rajoela

8486: Crop production, transport infrastructure, and agrobusiness nexus: evidence from Madagascar

Atsushi Iimi, Liangzhi You and Ulrike Wood-Sichra

8485: Integrating services in the economic fitness approach

Andrea Zaccaria, Saurabh Mishra, Masud Z. Cader and Luciano Pietronero

8484: Measuring and explaining patterns of Spatial Income Inequality from Outer Space: Evidence from Africa

Anthony Mveyange

8483: Sowing the seeds for rural finance: the impact of support services for credit unions in Mexico

Miriam Bruhn, Rekha Reddy and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

8482: The informal city

Harris Selod and Lara Tobin

8481: Sustainable development goals diagnostics: an application of network theory and complexity measures to set country priorities

M. H. El-Maghrabi, Susanna Elisabeth Gable, Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Jos Verbeek

8480: The long-run and gender-equalizing impacts of school access: evidence from the first Indochina war

Hai-Anh Dang, Trung Xuan Hoang and Ha Nguyen

8479: Efficient financial allocation and productivity growth in Brazil

Pietro Calice, Eduardo Ribeiro and Steen Byskov

8478: Benchmarking costs of financial intermediation around the world

Pietro Calice and Nan Zhou

8477: Are driving forces of CO2 emissions different across countries?: insights from identity and econometric analyses

Kangyin Dong, Gal Hochman and Govinda Timilsina

8476: Incentivizing school attendance in the presence of parent-child information frictions

Damien de Walque and Christine Valente

8475: Services liberalization and GVC participation: new evidence for heterogeneous effects by income level and provisions

Woori Lee

8474: Automation and labor market outcomes: the pivotal role of high-quality education

Raja Bentaouet Kattan, Kevin Macdonald and Harry Patrinos

8473: Motivating bureaucrats through social recognition: evidence from simultaneous field experiments

Varun Gauri, Julian C Jamison, Nina Mazar, Owen Ozier, Shomikho Raha and Karima Saleh

8472: Small area estimation of poverty under structural change

Simon Lange, Utz Pape and Peter Putz

8471: Crony capitalism in Ukraine: relationship between political connectedness and firms'performance

Oleksii Balabushko, Oleksandra Betliy, Veronika Movchan, Ruslan Piontkivsky and Mykola Ryzhenkov

8470: Anatomy and impact of export promotion agencies

Marcio Cruz, Daniel Lederman and Laura De Castro Zoratto

8469: The road to recovery: the role of poverty in the exposure, vulnerability and resilience to floods in Accra

Alvina Elisabeth Erman, Elliot Gaston Motte, Radhika Goyal, Akosua Boahemaa Asare, Shinya Takamatsu, Xiaomeng Chen, Silvia Malgioglio, Alexander Skinner, Nobuo Yoshida and Stephane Hallegatte

8468: How much has Nepal lost in the last decade due to load shedding? an economic assessment using a CGE model

Govinda Timilsina, Prakash Raj Sapkota and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

8467: Inequality and economic growth: the role of initial income

Markus Brueckner and Daniel Lederman

8466: Rural roads and local economic development

Samuel Edward Asher and Paul Novosad

8465: Anatomy of credit-less recoveries

Luis Corrado and Isolina Rossi

8464: Gendered language

Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

8463: Sustainable development goal diagnostics: the case of the Arab Republic of Egypt

H. Amin-Salem, M.H. El-Maghrabi, Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Jos Verbeek

8462: Understanding forests'contribution to poverty alleviation: a framework for interventions in forested areas

Priya Shyamsundar, Sofia Elisabet Ahlroth, Patricia M. Kristjanson and Stefanie Onder

8461: Taking stock of economic regulation of power utilities in the developing world: a literature review

Martin Augusto Rodriguez Pardina and Julieta Schiro

8460: Taking stock of the impact of power utility reform in developing countries: a literature review

Robert W. Bacon

8459: Predicting individual wellbeing through test scores: evidence from a national assessment in Mexico

Rafael De Hoyos, Ricardo Estrada and Maria Jose Vargas

8458: Quantifying the impacts of capturing territory from the government in the Republic of Yemen

Sharad Tandon

8457: The burden of water shortages on informal firms

Asif Islam

8456: The globalization of farmland: theory and empirical evidence

Rabah Arezki, Christian Bogmans and Harris Selod

8455: Social protection in Niger: what have shocks and time got to say ?

Francis Annan and Aly Sanoh

8454: What teachers believe: mental models about accountability, absenteeism, and student learning

Shwetlena Sabarwal and Malek Abu-Jawdeh

8453: Conflict and the nature of precautionary wealth

Leila Aghabarari, Ahmed Mohamed Tawfick Rostom and Rishabh Sinha

8452: Technology, taxation, and corruption: evidence from the introduction of electronic tax filing

Oyebola Okunogbe and Victor Pouliquen

8451: Shared prosperity: concepts, data, and some policy examples

Francisco Ferreira, Emanuela Galasso and Mario Negre

8450: Services development and comparative advantage in manufacturing

Xuepeng Liu, Aaditya Mattoo, Zhi Wang and Shang-Jin Wei

8449: Social accountability and service delivery: experimental evidence from Uganda

Nathan Fiala and Patrick Premand

8448: Using courts to realize education rights: reflections from India and Indonesia

Andrew Rosser and Anuradha Joshi

8446: How preferential is preferential trade ?

Alvaro Raul Espitia Rueda, Aaditya Mattoo, Mondher Mimouni, Xavier Pichot and Nadia Rocha

8445: The labor productivity gap between female and male-managed firms in the formal private sector

Asif Islam, Isis Gaddis, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Mohammad Amin

8444: Overview and meta-analysis of global water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) impact evaluations

Luis Andres, Christian Borja-Vega, Crystal Fenwick, Jaime De Jesus Filho and Ronald Eduardo Gomez Suarez

8443: Investment under risks and uncertainty in Afghanistan

Subika Farazi, Ahmed Mohamed Tawfick Rostom and Rishabh Sinha

8442: Food insecurity and rising food prices: what do we learn from experiential measures ?

Dean Jolliffe, Ilana Julie Seff and Alejandro De La Fuente

8441: Welfare dynamics in Colombia: results from synthetic panels

Carlos Balcazar, Hai-Anh Dang, Eduardo Malásquez, Sergio Olivieri and Julieth Pico

8440: Better than most: teacher beliefs about effort and ability in Uganda

Shwetlena Sabarwal, Kanishka Kacker and James Paul Habyarimana

8439: Clientelism in the public sector: why public service reforms fail and what to do about it

Tessa Bold, Ezequiel Molina and Abla Safir

8438: Multidimensional connectivity: benefits, risks, and policy implications for Europe and Central Asia

David Gould, Dror Yossef Kenett and Georgi Lyudmilov Panterov

8437: Using satellite imagery to revolutionize creation of tax maps and local revenue collection

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Michael-000475260 Wild

8436: Inflation, liquidity and innovation

Michael Evers, Stefan Niemann and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

8435: Community-driven development: myths and realities

Susan Wong and Scott E. Guggenheim

8434: The impact of positive agricultural income shocks on rural Chinese households

Jessica Leight

8433: Gender gap in earnings in Vietnam: why do Vietnamese women work in lower paid occupations?

Iffat Ara Chowdhury, Hillary C. Johnson, Aneesh Mannava and Elizaveta Perova

8432: Inequality of opportunity in South Caucasus

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Sailesh Tiwari and Akhmad Rizal Shidiq

8431: International data flows and privacy: the conflict and its resolution

Aaditya Mattoo and Joshua Paul Meltzer

8430: Household expenditure and poverty measures in 60 minutes: a new approach with results from Mogadishu

Utz Pape and Johan A. Mistiaen

8429: Who benefits from dual training systems ? evidence from the Philippines

Takiko Igarashi and Pablo Acosta

8428: Political connections and firms: network dimensions

Maurizio Bussolo, Simon John Commander and Stavros Poupakis

8427: A randomized evaluation of a low-cost and highly scripted teaching method to improve basic early grade reading skills in Papua New Guinea

Kevin Macdonald and Binh Thanh Vu

8426: Do demographics matter for African child poverty ?

Yele Batana and John Cockburn

8425: Infrastructure development in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scorecard

Cesar Calderon, Martha Catalina Cantu Canales and Punam Chuhan-Pole