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- 8405: Capital inflows, equity issuance activity, and corporate investment

- Charles W. Calomiris, Mauricio Larrain and Sergio Schmukler
- 8404: The effects of cash transfers on adult labor market outcomes

- Sarah Jane Baird, David McKenzie and Berk Özler
- 8403: To impute or not to impute ? a review of alternative poverty estimation methods in the context of unavailable consumption data

- Hai-Anh Dang
- 8402: Returns to investment in education: a decennial review of the global literature

- George Psacharopoulos and Harry Patrinos
- 8401: Closer, but no cigar: intergenerational mobility across caste groups in India

- Rishabh Sinha
- 8400: Determinants and dynamics of business aspirations: evidence from small-scale entrepreneurs in an emerging market

- Patricio Dalton, Julius Rüschenpöhler and Bilal Zia
- 8399: Communism as the unhappy coming

- Simeon Djankov and Elena Nikolova
- 8398: Interest rate caps: the theory and the practice

- Aurora Ferrari, Oliver Masetti and Jiemin Ren
- 8397: Surviving firms of the Syrian Arab Republic: a rapid assessment

- Kinley Clemens Salmon, Nabila Assaf and David C. Francis
- 8396: Understanding effective teaching practices in Chinese classrooms: evidence from a pilot study of primary and junior secondary schools in Guangdong, China

- Andrew Moore Coflan, Andrew B. Ragatz, Amer Hasan and Yilin Pan
- 8395: Does workfare work well ? the case of the employment generation program for the poorest in Bangladesh

- Yoonyoung Cho and Ummul Hasanath Ruthbah
- 8394: Lobbying for capital tax benefits and misallocation of resources during a credit crunch

- Gabriel Zaourak
- 8393: The impact of interest rate caps on the financial sector: evidence from commercial banks in Kenya

- Mehnaz S. Safavian and Bilal Zia
- 8392: Paris climate agreement and the global economy: winners and losers

- Muthukumara S. Mani, Zekarias Hussein, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan and Deepika Wadhwa
- 8391: Taxation and the shadow economy: how the tax system can stimulate and enforce the formalization of business activities

- Rajul Awasthi and Michael Engelschalk
- 8390: Assessing fiscal space in Sub-Saharan Africa

- Cesar Calderon, Punam Chuhan-Pole and Yirbehogre Modeste Some
- 8389: Peacekeeping and development in fragile states: micro-level evidence from Liberia

- Eric Mvukiyehe
- 8388: Why are so many water points in Nigeria non-functional?: an empirical analysis of contributing factors

- Luis Andres, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Basab Das Gupta, Jonathan Grabinsky and George Joseph
- 8387: Too small to be beautiful?: the farm size and productivity relationship in Bangladesh

- Madhur Gautam and Mansur Ahmed
- 8386: What investors want: perceptions and experiences of multinational corporations in developing countries

- Peter Kusek and Andrea Antonia Lim Silva
- 8385: Obstacles on the road to Palestinian economic growth

- Roy van der Weide, Bob Rijkers, Brian Blankespoor and Alexei Sisulu Abrahams
- 8384: Public works programs and crime: evidence for El Salvador

- Pablo Acosta and Emma Mercedes Monsalve Montiel
- 8383: Access to employment and property values in Mexico

- Laura H. Atuesta, J. Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo, Nancy Lozano Gracia and Uwe Deichmann
- 8382: Fiscal incentives and firm performance: evidence from the Dominican Republic

- Alessandra Amendola, Marinella Boccia, Gianluca Mele and Luca Sensini
- 8381: Transnational Terrorist Recruitment: Evidence from Daesh Personnel Records

- Anne Brockmeyer, Quy-Toan Do, Clément Joubert, Mohamed Abdel Jelil and Kartika Bhatia
- 8380: Growth, safety nets and poverty: assessing progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011

- Ruth Hill and Eyasu Tsehaye
- 8379: Reflections of employers'gender preferences in job ads in India: an analysis of online job portal data

- Afra Chowdhury, Ana Carolina Areias, Saori Imaizumi, Shinsaku Nomura and Futoshi Yamauchi
- 8378: Asymmetric information on noncognitive skills in the Indian labor market: an experiment in online job portal

- Futoshi Yamauchi, Shinsaku Nomura, Saori Imaizumi, Ana Carolina Areias and Afra Chowdhury
- 8377: Cash Transfers, Food Prices, and Nutrition Impacts on Nonbeneficiary Children

- Deon Filmer, Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal and Junko Onishi
- 8376: Risk preferences and the decision to flee conflict

- Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme
- 8375: Safety nets and natural disaster mitigation: evidence from cyclone Phailin in Odisha

- Paul Christian, Eeshani Kandpal, Nethra Palaniswamy and Vijayendra Rao
- 8374: Eyes in the sky, boots on the ground: assessing satellite- and ground-based approaches to crop yield measurement and analysis in Uganda

- David B. Lobell, George Azzari, Burke Marshall, Sydney Gourlay, Zhenong Jin, Talip Kilic and Siobhan Murray
- 8373: Credit risk dynamics of infrastructure investment: considerations for financial regulators

- Andreas Jobst
- 8372: The speed of justice

- Florence Kondylis and Mattea Stein
- 8371: An evaluation of the contributing factors of water scheme failures in Nigeria

- Luis Andres, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Basab Das Gupta, Jonathan Grabinsky and George Joseph
- 8370: The distributional impact of the fiscal system in Albania

- Maria Eugenia Davalos, Monica Robayo-Abril, Esmeralda Shehaj and Aida Gjika
- 8369: Long-run impacts of increasing tobacco taxes: evidence from South Africa

- Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Giselle Del Carmen and Alfred Mukong
- 8368: Resource misallocation and productivity gaps in Malaysia

- Lay Lian Chuah, Norman Loayza and Ha Nguyen
- 8367: Giving Sisyphus a helping hand: pathways for sustainable RIA systems in developing countries

- Peter Farup Ladegaard, Petter Lundkvist and Jonathan Camillo Kamkhaji
- 8366: Impact of U.S. market access on local labor markets in Vietnam

- Trung Xuan Hoang and Ha Nguyen
- 8365: International competition, returns to skill, and labor market adjustment

- Rodney Falvey, David Greenaway and Joana Silva
- 8364: Employment structure and returns to skill in Vietnam: estimates using the labor force survey

- Gabriel Demombynes and Mauro Testaverde
- 8363: Size-dependent tax enforcement and compliance: global evidence and aggregate implications

- Pierre Bachas, Roberto Fattal Jaef and Anders Jensen
- 8362: The performance of a consumption augmented asset index in ranking Households and Identifying the Poor

- Diana Ngo and Luc Christiaensen
- 8361: Analysis of the mismatch between Tanzania household budget survey and national panel survey data in poverty and inequality levels and trends

- Nadia Belhaj Hassine, Maria Adelaida Lopera, Alvin Etang Ndip and Wendy Karamba
- 8360: Gender differences in poverty and household composition through the life-cycle: a global perspective

- Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Paola Buitrago, Benedicte Leroy De La Briere, David Newhouse, Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich, Kinnon Scott and Pablo Suarez Becerra
- 8359: The reallocation of district-level spending and natural disasters: evidence from Indonesia

- Emmanuel Skoufias, Eric Strobl and Thomas Tveit
- 8358: "If it's already tough, imagine for me..."a qualitative perspective on youth out of school and out of work in Brazil

- Ana Luiza Machado and Miriam Muller
- 8357: Geo-spatial modeling of access to water and sanitation in Nigeria

- Luis Andres, Samir Bhatt, Basab Dasgupta, Juan Echenique, Peter William Gething, Jonathan Grabinsky Zabludovsky and George Joseph
- 8356: India's internal labor migration paradox: the statistical and the real

- Gaurav Nayyar and Kyoung Yang Kim
- 8355: The state of jobs in post-conflict areas of Sri Lanka

- David Newhouse and Ani Silwal
- 8354: Gross capital flows, common factors, and the global financial cycle

- Luis-Diego Barrot and Luis Servén
- 8353: Identifying catch-up trajectories in child growth: new methods with evidence from young lives

- Sam Jones, Jere Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang and Paul Anand
- 8352: Decentralization and redistribution: irrigation reform in Pakistan's Indus basin

- Hanan Jacoby, Ghazala Mansuri and Freeha Fatima
- 8351: Governing the commons?: water and power in Pakistan's Indus basin

- Hanan Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri
- 8350: Wider economic benefits of investments in transport corridors and the role of complementary policies

- Martin Melecký, Siddharth Sharma and Hari Subhash
- 8349: The roots of inequality: estimating inequality of opportunity from regression trees

- Paolo Brunori, Paul Hufe and Daniel Gerszon Mahler
- 8348: A skills-based human capital framework to understand the phenomenon of youth economic disengagement

- Diego Angel-Urdinola and Renata Mayer Gukovas
- 8347: Psychic vs. economic barriers to vaccine take-up: evidence from a field experiment in Nigeria

- Ryoko Sato and Yoshito Takasaki
- 8346: Distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures

- Gaurav Datt
- 8345: Water when it counts: reducing scarcity through irrigation monitoring in Central Mozambique

- Paul Christian, Florence Kondylis, Valerie Mueller, Astrid Maria Theresia Zwager and Tobias Siegfried
- 8344: Hit and run ? income shocks and school dropouts in Latin America

- Paula Maria Cerutti, Elena Crivellaro, German Jeremias Reyes and Liliana Sousa
- 8343: The role of social ties in factor allocation

- Ulrik Beck, Benedikte Alkjaersig Bjerge and Marcel Fafchamps
- 8342: Finding the poor vs. measuring their poverty: exploring the drivers of targeting effectiveness in Indonesia

- Adama Bari Bah, Samuel Bazzi, Sudarno Sumarto and Julia Tobias
- 8341: Urban transport infrastructure and household welfare: evidence from Colombia

- Tobias Pfutze, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan and Daniel Valderrama Gonzalez
- 8340: Migrants, towns, poverty and jobs: insights from Tanzania

- Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Bert Lodewijk M Ingelaere and Ravi Kanbur
- 8339: Do management interventions last ? evidence from India

- Nicholas Bloom, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts
- 8338: Love the job... or the patient ? task vs. mission-based motivations in health care

- Sheheryar Banuri, Philip Keefer and Damien de Walque
- 8337: Unlocking India's logistics potential: the value of disaggregated macroscopic freight flow analysis

- Bernard Aritua, Jan Havenga, Zane Paul Simpson and Esther Woon Lyn Chiew
- 8336: Structural change in west Africa: a tale of gain and loss

- Fiseha Haile Gebregziabher
- 8335: The price elasticity of African elephant poaching

- Quy-Toan Do, Andrei Levchenko, Lin Ma, Julian Blanc, Tom Milliken and Holly Dublin
- 8334: Human capital outflows: selection into migration from the Northern Triangle

- Giselle Eugenia Del Carmen Hasbun and Liliana Sousa
- 8333: Cash transfers increase trust in local government

- David Evans, Brian Holtemeyer and Katrina Kosec
- 8332: Effect of climate policies on labor markets in developing countries: review of the evidence and directions for future research

- Marc Hafstead, Roberton Williams, Alexander Golub, Siet Meijer, Badri G. Narayanan, Kevin Nyamweya and Jevgenijs Steinbuks
- 8331: Prioritizing water supply infrastructure investments in Sri Lanka: an application of the world bank infrastructure prioritization framework

- Darwin Marcelo, Deblina Saha, Aditi Raina and Ruth Schuyler House
- 8330: Redistribution and group participation: experimental evidence from Africa and the UK

- Marcel Fafchamps and Ruth Hill
- 8329: South Caucasus in motion: economic and social mobility in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

- Sailesh Tiwari, Cesar A. Cancho, Moritz Meyer and Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky
- 8328: Informal sector heterogeneity and income inequality: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

- Franck M. Adoho and Djeneba Doumbia
- 8327: Tobacco price elasticity and tax progressivity in Moldova

- Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Francisco Juan Alberto Meneses Ponzini
- 8326: Digital technology adoption and jobs: a model of firm heterogeneity

- Irene Brambilla
- 8325: Investment in ICT, productivity, and labor demand: the case of Argentina

- Irene Brambilla and Dario Tortarolo
- 8324: Why are more sovereigns issuing in Euros? Choosing between USD and EUR-denominated bonds

- Antonio Velandia-Rubiano and Rodrigo Silveira Veiga Cabral
- 8323: The impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on firm entry and performance in Turkey

- Yusuf Emre Akgunduz, Marcel van den Berg and Wolter Hassink
- 8322: Relationship between energy intensity and economic growth: new evidence from a multi-country multi-sector data set

- Uwe Deichmann, Anna Reuter, Sebastian Vollmer and Fan Zhang
- 8321: Using satellite imagery to assess impacts of soil and water conservation measures: evidence from Ethiopia's Tana-Beles Watershed

- Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Daniel C. Monchuk
- 8320: Optimizing finance for development

- Tito Cordella
- 8319: Regional carbon pricing for international maritime transport: challenges and opportunities for global geographical coverage

- Goran Dominioni, Dirk Heine and Beatriz Martinez Romera
- 8318: Broadband internet, labor demand, and total factor productivity in Colombia

- Carlos Ospino
- 8317: The making of behavioral development economics

- Allison Davis Demeritt and Karla Hoff
- 8316: Cyclonic storm landfalls in Bangladesh, west Bengal and Odisha, 1877-2016: a spatiotemporal analysis

- Sunando Bandyopadhyay, Susmita Dasgupta, Zahirul Huque Khan and David J. Wheeler
- 8315: Financial sector strategies and financial sector outcomes: do the strategies perform?

- Martin Melecký and Anca Maria Podpiera
- 8314: Global data set on education quality (1965-2015)

- Nadir Altinok, Noam Angrist and Harry Patrinos
- 8313: The impact of social mobilization on health service delivery and health outcomes: evidence from rural Pakistan

- Xavier Gine, Salma Khalid and Ghazala Mansuri
- 8312: Lessons from reforming financial management information systems: a review of the evidence

- Ali Hashim and Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen
- 8311: The changing way governments talk about poverty and inequality: evidence from two centuries of Latin American presidential speeches

- Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez, Axel Eizmendi and German Jeremias Reyes
- 8310: Winners never quit, quitters never grow: using text mining to measure policy volatility and its link with long-term growth in Latin America

- Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez and Axel Eizmendi
- 8309: A primer on human capital

- Luca Flabbi and Roberta V. Gatti
- 8308: Structural reforms and firms'productivity: evidence from developing countries

- Sampawende Tapsoba and Wilfried Kouamé
- 8307: Female migration in Lesotho: determinants and opportunities

- Ioana Alexandra Botea, Nell Compernolle and Shubha Chakravarty
- 8306: Marital shocks and women's welfare in Africa

- Dominique van de Walle and Marie Albertine Djuikom
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