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8218: Product and factor market distortions: the case of the manufacturing sector in Morocco

Jean-Pierre Christophe Chauffour, Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez, Jean-Pierre Christophe Chauffour and Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez

8217: The socioeconomics of fish consumption and child health in Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Mohammed Golam Mustafa, Tapas Paul, David Wheeler, Susmita Dasgupta, Mohammed Golam Mustafa, Tapas Paul and David Wheeler

8216: Fiscal incidence in Belarus: a commitment to equity analysis

Kateryna Bornukova, Gleb Shymanovich and Alexander Chubrik

8215: Technological change and the labor market in Argentina and Uruguay: a task content analysis

Ignacio Apella and Gonzalo Zunino

8214: Economic growth in guinea and how to accelerate it

Abdoul Ganiou Mijiyawa

8213: Demand and supply curves in political markets: understanding the problem of public goods and why governments fail them

Stuti Khemani

8212: Municipal pooled financing of infrastructure in the United States: experience and lessons

Lili Liu, Michael A. De Angelis and Sally M. Torbert

8211: Firm-level decomposition of energy consumption in Turkish manufacturing industry

Sebnem Sahin

8210: Information disclosure and demand elasticity of financial products: evidence from a multi-country study

Xavier Gine, Cristina Martínez Cuellar, Rafael Keenan Mazer, Xavier Gine, Cristina Martínez Cuellar and Rafael Keenan Mazer

8209: Oil discovery and macroeconomic management: the recent Ghanaian experience

Mahamudu Bawumia and Havard Halland

8208: An evaluation of border management reforms in a technical agency

Ana Fernandes, Russell Henry Hillberry and Alejandra Mendoza Alcantara

8207: Measuring the effectiveness of service delivery: delivery of government provided goods and services in India

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper and Neeraj Prasad

8206: Trade creation and trade diversion in deep agreements

Aaditya Mattoo, Alen Mulabdic, Michele Ruta, Aaditya Mattoo, Alen Mulabdic and Michele Ruta

8205: Making it easier to apply for a bank account: a study of the Indian market

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Saniya Ansar and Aditya Jagati

8204: How does port efficiency affect maritime transport costs and trade ? evidence from Indian and western Pacific Ocean countries

Matias Herrera Dappe, Charl Jooste and Ancor Suarez Aleman

8203: The distributional impact of taxes and social spending in Croatia

Gabriela Inchauste and Ivica Rubil

8202: Unequal laws and the disempowerment of women in the labor market: evidence from firm-level data

Asif Islam, Silvia Muzi and Mohammad Amin

8201: Output- and performance-based road contracts and agricultural production: evidence from Zambia

Atsushi Iimi and Ben Gericke

8200: Assessing effects of large-scale land transfers: challenges and opportunities in Malawi's estate sector

Klaus Deininger and Fang Xia

8199: Regulatory constraints to agricultural productivity

Raian Divanbeigi and Federica Saliola

8198: Which emerging markets and developing economies face corporate balance sheet vulnerabilities ?: a novel monitoring framework

Erik H.B. Feyen, Norbert Fiess, Igor Esteban Zuccardi Huertas and Lara Alice Victoria Lambert

8197: Flies without borders: lessons from Chennai on improving India's municipal public health services

Monica Das Gupta, Rajib Dasgupta, P. Kugananthan, Vijayendra Rao, Trikkur V. Somanathan and K.N. Tewari

8196: Export quality in advanced and developing economies: evidence from a new data set

Christian Henn, Chris Papageorgiou, Jose Romero and Nikola L. Spatafora

8195: Short-term impact of Brexit on the United Kingdom's export of goods

Hiau Looi Kee, Alessandro Nicita, Hiau Looi Kee and Alessandro Nicita

8194: Financial globalization: a glass half empty ?

Sergio Schmukler and Facundo Abraham

8193: Why secondary towns can be important for poverty reduction -- a migrant's perspective

Bert Lodewijk M Ingelaere, Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Ravi Kanbur, Bert Lodewijk M Ingelaere, Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur

8192: Could the debate be over ? errors in farmer-reported production and their implications for the inverse scale-productivity relationship in Uganda

Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic, David Lobell, Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic and David Lobell

8191: Optimal targeting under budget constraints in a humanitarian context

Chiara Gigliarano and Paolo Verme

8190: Preferential trade agreements and global value chains: theory, evidence, and open questions

Michele Ruta

8189: Shelter from the storm ? household-level impacts of, and responses to, the 2015 floods in Malawi

Nancy Mccarthy, Talip Kilic, Alejandro De La Fuente, Josh Brubaker, Nancy Mccarthy, Talip Kilic, Alejandro De La Fuente and Josh Brubaker

8188: Natural disaster damage indices based on remotely sensed data: an application to Indonesia

Emmanuel Skoufias, Eric Strobl and Thomas Tveit

8187: The impact of digital technologies on routine tasks: do labor policies matter?

Rita Almeida, Carlos Corseuil and Jennifer Poole

8186: Moving out and up: panel data evidence on migration and poverty in Uganda

Edouard Romeo Mensah and Michael O'Sullivan

8185: A bit far ? geography, international economic agreements, and foreign direct investment: evidence from emerging markets

Laura Gomez-Mera, Gonzalo J. Varela, Laura Gomez-Mera and Gonzalo J. Varela

8184: When is the government transfer multiplier large ?

Eric Giambattista and Steven Michael Pennings

8183: Investigating the transmission channels behind Dutch disease effects: lessons from Mongolia using a CGE model

Tehmina Shaukat Khan and Jan Gottschalk

8182: Child schooling and child work in the presence of a partial education subsidy

Jacobus Joost De Hoop, Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal and Furio Rosati

8181: Bridging the intention-behavior gap ? the effect of plan-making prompts on job search and employment

Simon Martin Abel, Rulof Burger, Eliana Carranza and Patrizio Piraino

8180: Labor market discrimination and sorting: evidence from South Africa

Abel Simon Martin

8179: The many faces of deprivation: a multidimensional approach to poverty in Armenia

Diana Martirosova, Osman Inan, Moritz Meyer and Nistha Sinha

8178: Politics, public works and poverty: evidence from the Bangladesh employment generation programme for the poorest

Iffath Anwar Sharif and Ummul Hasanath Ruthbah

8177: Delivering education to the underserved through a public-private partnership program in Pakistan

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, David Blakeslee, Matthew Hoover, Leigh Linden, Dhushyanth Raju and Stephen Ryan

8176: Will elders provide for their grandchildren ?: unconditional cash transfers and educational expenditures in Bolivia

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Alberto Chong, Fernando Rios-Avila and Monica Yanez Pagans

8175: Longevity and lifetime education: global evidence from 919 surveys

Mohammad Mainul Hoque, Elizabeth King, Claudio Montenegro and Peter Orazem

8174: Modal choice between rail and road transportation: evidence from Tanzania

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys, Yonas Eliesikia Mchomvu, Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys and Yonas Eliesikia Mchomvu

8173: Rail transport and firm productivity: evidence from Tanzania

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys, Yonas Eliesikia Mchomvu, Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys and Yonas Eliesikia Mchomvu

8172: Does arsenic-contaminated drinking water limit early childhood development in Bangladesh ?

Sabrina Sharmin Haque, George Joseph and Nazia Sultana Moqueet

8171: Revisiting the effect of food aid on conflict: a methodological caution

Paul Christian and Christopher Barrett

8170: Welfare-consistent global poverty measures

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

8169: The impact of strengthening agricultural extension services: evidence from Ethiopia

Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Ezequiel Molina and Julia Vaillant

8168: The nature of trade and growth linkages

Tatiana Didier Brandao and Magali Pinat

8167: Tracing back the weather origins of human welfare: evidence from Mozambique

Javier Eduardo Baez Ramirez, German Caruso and Chiyu Niu

8166: Buses, houses or cash ? socio-economic, spatial and environmental consequences of reforming public transport subsidies in Buenos Aires

Paolo Avner, Shomik Raj Mehndiratta, Vincent Viguie, Stephane Hallegatte, Paolo Avner, Shomik Raj Mehndiratta, Vincent Viguie and Stephane Hallegatte

8165: Variance and Skewness in Density Predictions: A World GDP Growth Forecast Assessment

Fabian Mendez Ramos and Fabian Mendez Ramos

8164: The poverty implications of alternative tax reforms: results from a numerical application to Pakistan

Andrew Feltenstein, Carolina Mejia-Mantilla, David Newhouse and Gohar Sedrakyan

8163: Peer effects in the demand for property rights: experimental evidence from urban Tanzania

Matthew Collin

8162: Looking into the performance-based financing black box: evidence from an impact evaluation in the health sector in Cameroon

Damien de Walque, Paul Jacob Robyn, Hamadou Saidou, Gaston Sorgho and Maria Ward Steenland

8161: Does financial education impact financial literacy and financial behavior, and if so, when ?

Tim Kaiser and Lukas Menkhoff

8160: Online exports and the wage gap

Marcio Cruz, Emmanuel Milet and Marcelo Olarreaga

8159: Understanding the interactions between emissions trading systems and renewable energy standards using a multi-regional CGE model of China

Ying Fan, Jie Wu, Govinda Timilsina and Yan Xia

8158: Reducing traffic congestion in Beirut: an empirical analysis of selected policy options

Alex Anas, Sayan De Sarkar, Maya Abou Zeid, Govinda Timilsina and Ziad Salim El Nakat

8157: A cross-country database of fiscal space

Ayhan Kose, Sergio Andres Kurlat, Franziska Ohnsorge and Naotaka Sugawara

8156: Through the looking glass: can classroom observation and coaching improve teacher performance in Brazil ?

Barbara Bruns, Leandro Oliveira Costa and Nina Menezes Cunha

8155: Can business input improve the effectiveness of worker training? evidence from Brazil's Pronatec-MDIC

Stephen O'Connell, Lucas Ferreira Mation, Joao Bevilaqua Teixeira Basto and Mark Andrew Dutz

8154: Surveys, big data, and experiments: how can we best learn about LGBTI development outcomes ?

Dominik Koehler and Nicholas Menzies

8153: Natural resources, institutions, and economic growth: the case of Nigeria

Anna Raggl

8152: Rental regulation and its consequences on measures of well-being in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Vibhuti Mendiratta and Tara Vishwanath

8151: A proximity-based approach to labor mobility in CGE models with an application to Sub-Saharan Africa

Hans Lofgren and Martín Cicowiez

8150: Poverty-specific purchasing power parities in Africa

Yuri M. Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, William Vigil Oliver, Tefera Bekele Degefu and Inyoung Song

8149: Regulating water and sanitation network services accounting for institutional and informational constraints

Daniel Camos and Antonio Estache

8148: Measuring women's agency

Aletheia Donald, Gayatri B. Koolwal, Jeannie Ruth Annan, Kathryn Falb and Markus Goldstein

8147: Measuring time use in development settings

Greg Seymour, Hazel Jean Malapit and Agnes Quisumbing

8146: Measuring ownership, control, and use of assets

Cheryl Doss, Caitlin Kieran, Talip Kilic, Cheryl Doss, Caitlin Kieran and Talip Kilic

8145: Productivity in the non-oil sector in Nigeria: firm-level evidence

Santiago Herrera and Wilfried Kouamé

8144: Arm's-length trade: a source of post-crisis trade weakness

Csilla Lakatos and Franziska Ohnsorge

8143: Pension funds and the impact of switching regulation on long-term investment

Alvaro Pedraza, Olga Fuentes, Pamela Searle and Fiona Elizabeth Stewart

8142: Predicting school dropout with administrative data: new evidence from Guatemala and Honduras

Melissa Adelman, Francisco Haimovich, Andrés Ham and Emmanuel Vazquez

8141: Can job training decrease women?s self-defeating biases ? experimental evidence from Nigeria

Kevin Croke, Markus Goldstein and Alaka Holla

8140: Evidence for a presource curse ? oil discoveries, elevated expectations, and growth disappointments

James Cust and David Mihalyi

8139: Distributional impact analysis: toolkit and illustrations of impacts beyond the average treatment effect

Guadalupe Bedoya Arguelles, Luca Bittarello, Jonathan Martin Villars Davis, Nikolas Karl Mittag, Guadalupe Bedoya Arguelles, Luca Bittarello, Jonathan Martin Villars Davis and Nikolas Karl Mittag

8138: Mission impossible? exploring the promise of multiple imputation for predicting missing GPS-based land area measures in household surveys

Talip Kilic, Ismael Yacoubou Djima, Calogero Carletto, Talip Kilic, Ismael Yacoubou Djima and Calogero Carletto

8137: Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid

Brandon de la Cuesta, Helen V. Milner, Daniel Lafayette Nielson and Stephen Knack

8136: Pension funds, capital markets, and the power of diversification

Fiona Elizabeth Stewart, Romain Despalins, Inna Remizova, Fiona Elizabeth Stewart, Romain Despalins and Inna Remizova

8135: Global inequality in a more educated world

Syud Ahmed, Maurizio Bussolo, Marcio Cruz, Delfin Go and Israel Osorio-Rodarte

8134: Land productivity and plot size: is measurement error driving the inverse relationship ?

Sam Desiere, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Sam Desiere and Dean Mitchell Jolliffe

8133: Assessing the global economic and poverty effects of antimicrobial resistance

Syud Amer Ahmed, Enis Baris, Delfin Sia Go, Hans Lofgren, Israel Osorio-Rodarte, Karen E. Thierfelder, Syud Amer Ahmed, Enis Baris, Delfin Sia Go, Hans Lofgren, Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Karen E. Thierfelder

8132: Trains, trade and transaction costs: how does domestic trade by rail affect market prices of Malawi agricultural commodities ?

Wouter Zant

8131: Whose power gets cut ? using high-frequency satellite images to measure power supply irregularity

Brian Min, Zachary O'Keeffe and Fan Zhang

8130: The impact of electricity shortages on firm productivity: evidence from Pakistan

Corbett Alden Grainger and Fan Zhang

8129: The nexus of energy supply and human health

Govinda Timilsina

8128: Exchange rate and inflation dynamics in Zambia

Lionel Joshua Roger, Gregory Smith, Oliver Morrissey, Lionel Joshua Roger, Gregory Smith and Oliver Morrissey

8127: Farm size and productivity: a"direct-inverse-direct"relationship

Sara Savastano, Pasquale L. Scandizzo, Sara Savastano and Pasquale L. Scandizzo

8126: Services trade and global value chains

Cecilia Heuser, Aaditya Mattoo, Cecilia Heuser and Aaditya Mattoo

8125: Willing but unable ? short-term experimental evidence on parent empowerment and school quality

Elizabeth Ruth Beasley, Elise Huillery, Elizabeth Ruth Beasley and Elise Huillery

8124: Understanding the impact of windstorms on economic activity from night lights in Central America

Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Juan Jose Miranda Montero, Hongrui Zhang, Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Juan Jose Miranda Montero and Hongrui Zhang

8123: Approximating income distribution dynamics using aggregate data

Aart Kraay and Roy van der Weide

8122: Tax administration practices and firms? perceptions of corruption: evidence from Europe and Central Asia

B. Ponomariov, Oleksii Balabushko, Gregory Kisunko, B. Ponomariov, Oleksii Balabushko and Gregory Kisunko

8121: "Create"or"buy": internal vs. external sources of innovation and firm productivity

Jieun Choi and Jieun Choi

8120: Unheard voices: the challenge of inducing women's civic speech

Ramya Parthasarathy, Vijayendra Rao, Nethra Palaniswamy, Ramya Parthasarathy, Vijayendra Rao and Nethra Palaniswamy

8119: Deliberative inequality: a text-as-data study of Tamil Nadu's village assemblies

Ramya Parthasarathy, Vijayendra Rao, Nethra Palaniswamy, Ramya Parthasarathy, Vijayendra Rao and Nethra Palaniswamy