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5792: Ripe for a big bang ? assessing the political feasibility of legislative reforms in the Philippines'local government code

Yasuhiko Matsuda

5791: Fewer jobs or smaller paychecks ? aggregate crisis impacts in selected middle-income countries

Gaurav Khanna, David Newhouse and Pierella Paci

5790: Foreign direct investment under weak rule of law: theory and evidence from China

Xiaozu Wang, Lixin Xu and Tian Zhu

5789: Ladies first ? firm-level evidence on the labor impacts of the East Asian crisis

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Bob Rijkers and Andrew Waxman

5788: The value-added tax reform puzzle

Jing Cai and Ann Harrison

5787: Improvements in the World Bank's ease of doing business rankings: do they translate into greater foreign direct investment inflows ?

Dinuk Jayasuriya

5786: Managing financial integration and capital mobility -- policy lessons from the past two decades

Joshua Aizenman and Brian Pinto

5785: Does expanding health insurance beyond formal-sector workers encourage informality ? measuring the impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular

Reyes Aterido, Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Carmen Pages

5784: Debt overhang in emerging Europe ?

Martin Brown and Philip Lane

5783: The impact of economics blogs

David McKenzie and Berk Özler

5782: Consensus, institutions, and supply response: the political economy of agricultural reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ataman Aksoy and Anil Onal

5781: Framing local conflict and justice in Bangladesh

Maitreyi Das and Vivek Maru

5780: Firm location and the determinants of exporting in developing countries

Thomas Farole and Deborah Winkler

5779: Political economy of the petroleum sector in Nigeria

Alex Gboyega, Tina Søreide, Tuan Minh Le and G. P. Shukla

5778: The impact of recall periods on reported morbidity and health seeking behavior

Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer and Carolina Sanchez-Paramo

5777: Engendering trade

Quy-Toan Do, Andrei Levchenko and Claudio Raddatz

5776: Applying the growth identification and facilitation framework: the case of Nigeria

Justin Lin and Volker Treichel

5775: Upgrading investment regulations in second pillar pension systems: a proposal for Colombia

Pablo Castaneda and Heinz P. Rudolph

5774: Education and conflict recovery: the case of Timor Leste

Patricia Justino, Marinella Leone and Paola Salardi

5773: Financial-stability challenges in European emerging-market countries

Garry Schinasi

5772: Macroprudential regulation of credit booms and busts -- the case of Croatia

Evan Kraft and Tomislav Galac

5771: Credit growth and financial stability in the Czech Republic

Jan Frait, Adam Gersl and Jakub Seidler

5770: Macroprudential regulation of credit booms and busts: the experience of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia

Frosina Celeska, Viktorija Gligorova and Aneta Krstevska

5769: Banking flows and financial crisis -- financial interconnectedness and basel III effects

Ghosh, , Swati R., Naotaka Sugawara and Juan Zalduendo

5768: Gross capital flows: dynamics and crises

Fernando Broner, Tatiana Didier, Aitor Erce and Sergio Schmukler

5767: Municipal solid waste management in small towns: an economic analysis conducted in Yunnan, China

Hua Wang , Jie He, Yoonhee Kim and Takuya Kamata

5766: Valuing water quality improvement in China: a case study of lake Puzhehei in Yunnan province

Hua Wang, Yuyan Shi, Yoonhee Kim and Takuya Kamata

5765: Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa: pilot evidence from Rwanda

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Markus Goldstein

5764: The impact of emigration on source country wages: evidence from the Republic of Moldova

Lawrence Bouton, Saumik Paul and Erwin R. Tiongson

5763: More than you can handle: decentralization and spending ability of Peruvian municipalities

Norman Loayza, Jamele Rigolini and Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez

5762: The mechanics and regulation of variable payout annuities

Dimitri Vittas

5761: Learning versus stealing: how Important are market-share -- reallocations to India's productivity growth?

Ann Harrison, Leslie Martin and Shanthi Nataraj

5760: Tastes, castes, and culture: the influence of society on preferences

Ernst Fehr and Karla Hoff

5759: Stakeholder dialogue as an institutional strategy for sustainable development in China: the case of community environmental roundtables

Hua Wang

5758: Who is benefiting from fertilizer subsidies in Indonesia ?

Camilo Gomez Osorio, Dwi Endah Abriningrum, Enrique Blanco Armas and Muhammad Firdaus

5757: Do institutions matter for FDI spillovers ? the implications of China's"special characteristics"

Luosha Du, Ann Harrison and Gary Jefferson

5756: Economic structure, development policy and environmental quality: an empirical analysis of environmental Kuznets curves with Chinese municipal data

Jie He and Hua Wang

5755: How can micro and small enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa become more productive? the impacts of experimental basic managerial training

Yukichi Mano, Iddrisu,, Alhassan, Yutaka Yoshino and Tetsushi Sonobe

5754: Recent perspectives on trade and inequality

Ann Harrison, John McLaren and Margaret McMillan

5753: Measuring the economic gain of investing in girls: the girl effect dividend

Jad Chaaban and Wendy Cunningham

5752: Learning from developing country experience: growth and economic thought before and after the 2008-09 crisis

Ann Harrison and Claudia Sepulveda

5751: A hybrid approach to efficiency measurement with empirical illustrations from education and health

Adam Wagstaff and Liang Wang

5750: Estimating the impact of trade and offshoring on American workers using the current population surveys

Avraham Ebenstein, Ann Harrison, Margaret McMillan and Shannon Phillips

5749: Decomposing the great trade collapse: products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis

Mona Haddad, Ann Harrison and Catherine Hausman

5748: Commitments to save: a field experiment in rural Malawi

Lasse Brune, Xavier Gine, Jessica Goldberg and Dean Yang

5747: Governance in state-owned enterprises revisited: the cases of water and electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Luis Alberto Andres, Jose Luis Guasch and Sebastian Lopez Azumendi

5746: Informality and protection from health shocks: lessons from Yemen

Yoonyoung Cho

5745: War and women's work: evidence from the conflict in Nepal

Nidhiya Menon and Yana Rodgers

5744: The role of inventory adjustments in quantifying factors causing food price inflation

Gal Hochman, Deepak Rajagopal, Govinda Timilsina and David Zilberman

5743: Does parental disability matter to child education ? evidence from Vietnam

Cuong Nguyen and Daniel Mont

5742: The"resource curse"in MENA ? political transitions, resource wealth, economic shocks, and conflict risk

Michael Ross, Kai Kaiser and Nimah Mazaheri

5741: What did the Maoists ever do for us ? education and marriage of women exposed to civil conflict in Nepal

Christine Valente

5740: Why does the productivity of education vary across individuals in Egypt ? firm size, gender, and access to technology as sources of heterogeneity in returns to education

Santiago Herrera and Karim Badr

5739: Entrepreneurship capital and technical efficiency: the role of new business / firms as a conduit of knowledge spillovers

Leopoldo Laborda, Jose Luis Guasch and Daniel Sotelsek

5738: The labor market, education and armed conflict in Tajikistan

Olga Shemyakina

5737: Measuring aversion to debt: an experiment among student loan candidates

Gregorio Caetano, Harry Patrinos and Miguel Palacios

5736: Efficiency in public procurement in Rural Road Projects of Nepal

Radia Benamghar and Atsushi Iimi

5735: Do high and volatile levels of public investment suggest misconduct ? the role of institutional quality

Francesco Grigoli and Zachary Mills

5734: Lasting welfare effects of widowhood in a poor country

Dominique van de Walle

5733: Civil society, public action and accountability in Africa

Shantayanan Devarajan, Stuti Khemani and Michael Walton

5732: Mixtures of g-priors for Bayesian Model Averaging with economic application

Eduardo Ley and Mark Steel

5731: Who uses bottled gas ? evidence from households in developing countries

Masami Kojima, Robert Bacon and Xin Zhou

5730: Political economy of the mining sector in Ghana

Joseph Ayee, Tina Søreide, G. P. Shukla and Tuan Minh Le

5729: Development banks: role and mechanisms to increase their efficiency

Eva Gutierrez, Heinz P. Rudolph, Theodore Homa and Enrique Blanco Beneit

5728: Aid to the services sector: does it affect manufacturing exports ?

Esteban Ferro, Alberto Portugal-Perez and John S. Wilson

5727: Productivity effects of land rental markets in Ethiopia: Evidence from a matched tenant-landlord sample

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali and Tekie Alemu

5726: Trade credit contracts

Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven and Raghuram Rajan

5725: Nature, socioeconomics and adaptation to natural disasters: new evidence from floods

Susana Ferreira, Kirk Hamilton and Jeffrey Vincent

5724: Implications of a lowered damage trajectory for mitigation in a continuous-time stochastic model

Jon Strand

5723: Low-level versus high-level equilibrium in public utility service

Jon Strand

5722: The air connectivity index: measuring integration in the global air transport network

Jean-François Arvis and Ben Shepherd

5721: Diaspora effects in international migration: key questions and methodological issues

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Caglar Ozden

5720: The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: theory and evidence

David J. Balan and Stephen Knack

5719: Population, poverty, and sustainable development: a review of the evidence

Monica Das Gupta, John Bongaarts and John Cleland

5718: Heterogenous peer effects, segregation and academic attainment

Maria Ana Lugo

5717: Can diaries help improve agricultural production statistics ? Evidence from Uganda

Klaus Deininger, Calogero Carletto, Sara Savastano and James Muwonge

5716: Trends and socioeconomic gradients in adult mortality around the developing world

Damien de Walque and Deon Filmer

5715: The effects of conflict on fertility in Rwanda

Kati Schindler and Tilman Brück

5714: Does female empowerment promote economic development ?

Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt

5713: Sierra Leone's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Nataliya Pushak and Vivien Foster

5712: Growth poles and multipolarity

Jonathon Adams-Kane and Jamus Lim

5711: Trade liberalization, firm heterogeneity, and wages: new evidence from matched employer-employee data

Pravin Krishna, Jennifer Poole and Mine Senses

5710: Crossing boundaries: gender, caste and schooling in rural Pakistan

Hanan Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri

5709: Where on earth is everybody ? the evolution of global bilateral migration 1960-2000

Caglar Ozden, Christopher Parsons, Maurice Schiff and Terrie Walmsley

5708: Does female reservation affect long-term political outcomes ? Evidence from rural India

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Hari Nagarajan and Xia Fang

5707: Intersubjective meaning and collective action in'fragile'societies: theory, evidence and policy implications

Varun Gauri, Michael Woolcock and Deval Desai

5706: When is capital enough to get female enterprises growing ? evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

Marcel Fafchamps, David McKenzie, David McKenzie, Simon Quinn and Christopher Woodruff

5705: How do ex ante simulations compare with ex post evaluations ? evidence from the impact of conditional cash transfer programs

Phillippe Leite, Ambar Narayan and Emmanuel Skoufias

5704: The politics of power: the political economy of rent-seeking in electric utilities in the Philippines

Zahid Hasnain and Yasuhiko Matsuda

5703: A cluster-based industrial development policy for low-income countries

Keijiro Otsuka and Tetsushi Sonobe

5702: From flying Geese to leading Dragons: new opportunities and strategies for structural transformation in developing countries

Justin Lin

5701: Export quality dynamics

Pravin Krishna and William Maloney

5700: Deconstructing herding: evidence from pension fund investment behavior

Claudio Raddatz and Sergio Schmukler

5699: Redressing grievances and complaints regarding basic service delivery

Varun Gauri

5698: Niger's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Carolina Dominguez-Torres and Vivien Foster

5697: The Central African Republic's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Carolina Dominguez-Torres and Vivien Foster

5696: The silence of corruption: identifying underreporting of business corruption through randomized response techniques

Nathan Jensen and Aminur Rahman

5695: Exporting from a small landlocked economy: an assessment of firm-product-destination survival rates in the Lao PDR

Liviu Stirbat, Richard Record and Konesawang Nghardsaysone

5694: The success of infrastructure projects in low-income countries and the role of selectivity

Nicola Limodio

5693: Disaster risk financing and contingent credit: a dynamic analysis

Daniel Clarke and Olivier Mahul