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10899: Racial Peer Effects at Work: Evidence from Worker Deaths in Brazil

Aiko Schmeißer and Katharina Maria Fietz

10898: Conflict and Firms’ Performance: A Global View

Emanuele Brancati, Michele Di Maio, Roberta V. Gatti and Asif Islam

10897: A Literature Review on Productivity and Growth in Brazil

Fernando Veloso and Gabriel Roberto Zaourak

10896: Economic Transformation in Africa: The Role of North-South and South-South Trade

Woubet Kassa, Gideon Ndubuisi and Solomon Owusu

10895: Dynamic Exports and Labor Markets for Inclusive Growth in Cambodia

Deeksha Kokas, Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson and Wendy Karamba

10894: Can Public Credit Schemes Improve Access to Finance for Small Businesses ? Evidence from Indonesia

Hillary C. Johnson, Cecile Thioro Niang, Francesco Strobbe and Salman Alibhai

10893: Optimal Investments in Africa’s Road Network

Sebastian Martin Krantz

10892: Small Area Estimation of Poverty in Four West African Countries by Integrating Survey and Geospatial Data

Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie, David Newhouse, Nikos Tzavidis, Timo Schmid, Elizabeth Mary Foster, Angela Luna Hernandez, Aissatou Ouedraogo, Aly Sanoh and Aboudrahyme Savadogo

10891: The Accumulation and Utilization of Human Capital over the Development Spectrum

Federico Rossi and Michael Weber

10890: Sustaining Poverty Gains: A Vulnerability Map to Guide the Expansion of Social Registries

Oscar Eduardo Barriga Cabanillas, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Emmanuel Skoufias, Thomas Bossuroy and Paul Andres Corral Rodas

10889: Understanding the Main Determinants of Telework and Its Role in Women’s Labor Force Participation

Gabriela Inchauste and Mariel Cecilia Siravegna

10888: The Mis-Education of Women in Afghanistan: From Wage Premiums to Economic Losses

Rafiuddin Najam, Harry Patrinos and Raja Bentaouet Kattan

10887: How Redistributive Is Fiscal Policy in China ? New Evidence on the Distributional Impacts of Taxes and Spending

Veronica Sonia Montalva Talledo, Sailesh Tiwari, Yang Wang, Maria Ana Lugo and Nora Lustig

10886: Spilling Over: The Benefits of Public Works Projects for Groundwater in India

A. Patrick Behrer and Hemant Pullabhotla

10885: Agriculture Production Potential of Groundwater Irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bhavya Srivastava, Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie, Aparajita Goyal and Andrew L. Dabalen

10884: Refugees and Humanitarian Aid: The Rohingya Impact on Bangladesh’s Development

Maria Jose Urbina, Christina Wieser, Alvin Etang Ndip and Sandra Rozo

10883: A Learning Agenda for Community-Driven Development: Responding to Complex Contextual, Evaluation, and Inference Challenges

Patrick John Barron, Patricia Fernandes, Stephen Joseph Winkler and Michael Woolcock

10882: Development Acupuncture: The Network Structure of Multidimensional Poverty and Its Implications

Luis Lopez-Calva, Kimberly Blair Bolch, Viktor Stojkoski and Almudena Fernandez

10881: “Crowding In” Effect of Public Investment on Private Investment Revisited

John Nana Darko Francois, Maty Konte and Franz Ulrich Ruch

10880: What Data-Rich Assessments of Socioeconomic Inequality and Mobility in Rich Countries Overlook in Poor Countries

Roy van der Weide and Michael Woolcock

10879: Learning When Schools Shutdown: Impacts of H1N1 Outbreak on Learning Loss and Learning Gaps

Vivian Amorim, Caio Piza and Ildo José Lautharte

10878: High-Skilled Migration from Myanmar: Responses to Signals of Political and Economic Stabilization

Yashodhan Ghorpade, Muhammad Saad Imtiaz and Theingie Han

10877: Public Investment Quality and Its Implications for Sovereign Risk and Debt Sustainability

Amat Adarov and Ugo Panizza

10876: Rate Cycles

Kristin Forbes, Jongrim Ha and Ayhan Kose

10875: Measuring Social Sustainability: A Multidimensional Approach

Paola Marcela Ballon Fernandez and Jose Cuesta

10874: Private Management of African Protected Areas Improves Wildlife and Tourism Outcomes but With Security Concerns in Conflict Regions

Patrick Hunnicutt, Sean Denny and Gabriel Englander

10873: Do Men Really Have Greater Socio-Emotional Skills Than Women ? Evidence from Tanzanian Youth

Rachel Cassidy, Smita Das, Clara Delavallade, Elijah Kipchumba and Julietha Komba

10872: Rate-Based Emissions Trading with Overlapping Policies: Insights from Theory and an Application to China

Carolyn Fischer, Chenfei Qu and Lawrence H. Goulder

10871: Measuring Poverty in Tanzania: Comparison of Diary and Recall Approaches to Food Consumption Data Collection

Darcey Jeanne Genou Johnson, Josephine Ofori Adofo, Maryam Gul, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Akuffo Amankwah

10870: Who on Earth Is Using Generative AI ?

Yan Liu and He Wang

10869: Micro-Level Impacts of the War on Ukraine’s Agriculture Sector: Distinguishing Local and National Effects over Time

Klaus W. Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Nataliia Kussul, Guido Lemoine and Andrii Shelestov

10868: Export and Labor Market Outcomes: A Supply Chain Perspective — Evidence from Viet Nam

Deeksha Kokas, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Ha Vu

10867: Imputing Poverty Indicators without Consumption Data: An Exploratory Analysis

Hai-Anh Dang, Talip Kilic, Ksenia Abanokova and Gero Carletto

10866: Outward and Upward Construction: A 3D Analysis of the Global Building Stock

Thomas Esch, Klaus W. Deininger, Remi Jedwab and Daniela Palacios-Lopez

10865: Absentee Landlords and Land Tenancy

Annemie Maertens, Siddharth Sharma and Melanie Khamis

10864: Measuring Legislative Predictability: The Case of the Kingdom of Jordan and Implications for the MENA Region

Mihály Fazekas, Dominik Brenner and Peter Farup Ladegaard

10863: Buffer or Bottleneck ? Employment Exposure to Generative AI and the Digital Divide in Latin America

Paweł Gmyrek, Hernan Winkler and Santiago Garganta

10862: Making Agriculture Work for the Poor in Timor-Leste

Francis Addeah Darko and Ririn Salwa Purnamasari

10861: Do Psychosocial Stimulation, Parental Distress and Early Childhood Education Enrollment Show Different Associations with Early Childhood Development Outcomes for Boys and Girls ? Findings from a Phone Survey in Pakistan

Emily Esther Franchett, Amer Hasan, Elizabeth Lauren Hentschel, Mahreen Tahir Chowdhry, Heather B. Tomlinson, Aisha Khizar Yousafzai and Mina Zamand

10860: Should Farm Input Subsidy Programs Target Poor or Non-Poor Farmers ? Evidence from Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program

Francis Addeah Darko

10859: Profitability of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi

Francis Addeah Darko, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert and Talip Kilic

10858: Assessing Power System Disruptions and Associated Economic Impacts from Increasing Extreme Heat Events in Southeast Europe Using an Idealized Design Methodology

David Farnham, Ross Marc Eisenberg and Luc Marius Jacques Bonnafous

10857: Revealing Tax Evasion: Experimental Evidence from a Representative Survey of Indonesian Firms

Christopher Alexander Hoy, Filip Jolevski and Sheannal Obeyesekere

10856: Does Climbing the Jobs Ladder Promote Poverty Reduction ?

Yunji Choi, Mario Gronert, Maddalena Honorati, Joshua D. Merfeld and David Newhouse

10855: Trade Policies Mix and Match: Theory, Evidence and the EU-Sino Electric Vehicle Disputes

Hiau Looi Kee and Enze Xie

10854: Electricity Transition in MFMod: A Methodological Note with Applications

Charl Jooste, Florent John Mcisaac and Alexander Haider

10853: A Comparative Analysis of Financial Sector Reforms and Policies in Countries Exiting Fragility

Pietro Calice and Dimitri G. Demekas

10852: Know Thy Foe: Information Provision and Air Pollution in Tbilisi

Sandra Baquie, Arnold Behrer, Xinming Du, Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Natsuko Kiso Nozaki

10851: When Does Decision-Making Reflect Agency ? Evidence from the Rural Philippines

Aries Ayuson Arugay, Aletheia Donald, Forest Brach Jarvis, Hillary C. Johnson and Aletheia Valenciano

10850: Financial Development and Fragility: A Clustering Analysis

Igor Custodio João, Pietro Calice, Andre Lucas and Julia Schaumburg

10849: Therapy, Mental Health, and Human Capital Accumulation among Adolescents in Uganda

Sarah Jane Baird, Berk Özler, Chiara Dell'Aira, Luca Parisotto and Danish Us-Salam

10848: The Fertility Impacts of Development Programs

Aletheia Donald, Markus P. Goldstein, Tricia Koroknay-Palicz and Mathilde Sage

10847: Connectivity, Road Quality, and Jobs: Evidence from Armenia

Nino Pkhikidze

10846: Does Effective School Leadership Improve Student Progression and Test Scores ? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi

Salman Asim, Ravinder Madron Casley Gera, Donna Oretha Harris and Stefan Dercon

10845: Are Short-Term Gains in Learning Outcomes Possible ? Evidence from the Malawi Education Sector Improvement Project

Salman Asim and Ravinder Madron Casley Gera

10844: Can Targeted Allocation of Teachers Improve Student Learning Outcomes? Evidence from Malawi

Salman Asim, Ravinder Madron Casley Gera, Juan Martin Moreno and Kerry Lai Man Wong

10843: Learning Loss as a Result of COVID-19: Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey in Malawi

Salman Asim, Sajitha Bashir and Ravinder Madron Casley Gera

10842: Fertilizer Price Shocks in Smallholder Agriculture: Cross-Country Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa

Akuffo Amankwah, Alemayehu Ambel, Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic, Yannick Markhof and Philip Randolph Wollburg

10841: Cultivating Collaboration through Joint Participation: Evidence from a Video-Based Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Extension Program in Ethiopia

Sophia Friedson-Ridenour, Rachael Susan Pierotti, Emily Ann Springer and Alemgena Gebreyohannes

10840: The Impact of Submarine Cables on Internet Access Price, and the Role of Competition and Regulation

Joël Cariolle, Georges Vivien Houngbonon, Tarna Abdoul Hamid Silue and Davide Strusani

10839: A Metric of Global Maritime Supply Chain Disruptions: The Global Supply Chain Stress Index (GSCSI)

Jean Francois Arvis, Cordula Rastogi, Jean Paul Rodrigue and Daria Ulybina

10838: Mobilizing Private Capital for the Sustainable Development Goals

Robert J. Cull, Indermit S. Gill, Alvaro Enrique Pedraza Morales, Claudia Ruiz Ortega and Federica Zeni

10837: Voting when Rankings Matter: Truthful Equilibria, Efficiency, and Abstention

Roland Pongou and Ghislain Junior Sidie

10836: Measuring the Upper Tail of the Income and Wealth Distributions

Andrew Nicholas Kerr and Mxolisi Zondi

10835: Making Time Count: A Machine Learning Approach to Predict Time Use in Low-Income Countries from Physical Activity Tracking Data

Joris Mulder, Seyit Hocuk, Talip Kilic, Alberto Zezza and Pradeep Kumar

10834: The Socioeconomic Outcomes of Native Groups in Argentina

Pedro Dal Bó and Janet Carolina De Los Angeles Lopez

10833: Economic and Policy Analysis for Emission Reduction from the Brick Industry in Nepal

Govinda R. Timilsina, Dr. Sunil Malla and Martin Heger

10832: Social Protection and Youth

Caridad Araujo, Sarah Jane Baird, Saini Das, Berk Özler, Luca Parisotto and Tassew Woldehanna

10831: Making the Market Access Countries’ Debt Sustainability Framework Relevant for Emerging Markets

Indermit S. Gill and Brian R. Pinto

10830: Chad’s Livestock: Securing Cross-Border Value-Chain Post-COVID-19

Dominique Njinkeu, Fulbert Tchana Tchana, Julie Saty Lohi and Mosuru Olukayodé Alli

10829: Local Labor Market Dynamics and Export Shocks: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Carlos Góes, Juan Segnana, Raymond Robertson and Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo

10828: Frontiers in Small Area Estimation Research: Application to Welfare Indicators

Isabel Molina Peralta

10827: Conceptualizing and Measuring Energy Poverty in Bulgaria

Monica Robayo-Abril and Britta Laurin Rude

10826: Private Provisioning of Employment Services: Experimental Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Merima Balavac-Orlic, John Giles, Siddharth Hari and Mirey Ovadiya

10825: Understanding Vulnerability to Poverty and Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gustavo Javier Canavire Bacarreza, Adriana Conconi, Sergio Daniel Olivieri and Monserrat Serio

10824: How Culturally Wise Psychological Interventions Help Reduce Poverty

Patrick Premand, Thomas Bossuroy, Soumaila Abdoulaye Sambo, Hazel Markus, Gregory Walton and Catherine Thomas

10823: Weather, Water, and Work: Climatic Water Variability and Labor MarketOutcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Amjad Khan, Landry Kuate, Roland Pongou and Fan Zhang

10822: Estimating Extinction Threats with Species Occurrence Data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Susmita Dasgupta, Brian Blankespoor and David Wheeler

10821: Revisiting Global Biodiversity: A Spatial Analysis of Species Occurrence Data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Susmita Dasgupta, Brian Blankespoor and David J. Wheeler

10820: What Happens When the State Is Bossing around Markets ? An Analysis of the Performance Differentials between Businesses of the State (BOS) and Private-Owned Enterprises (POEs)

Dennis Sanchez Navarro

10819: Debt Relief for Households in Developing Economies

Sasha Indarte and Martin Kanz

10818: Statistical Matching for Combining the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions and the Household Budget Surveys: An Evaluation of Energy Expenditures in Bulgaria

Britta Laurin Rude and Monica Robayo-Abril

10817: Simulating Welfare Impacts of Changes in the Monthly Social Allowance Scheme and Heating Allowances in Bulgaria

Monica Robayo-Abril and Maynor Vinicio Cabrera

10816: Never Too Young to Dream Big: Measuring Youth Aspirations in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Valentina Costa, Ivette Maria Contreras Gonzalez and Amparo Palacios-Lopez

10815: The Rising Concentration of Foreign Direct Investment

Alexandros Ragoussis, Davide Rigo and Gianluca Santoni

10814: From Access to Achievement: The Primary School-Age Impacts of an At-Scale Preschool Construction Program in Highly Deprived Communities

Marina Bassi, Bruno Azzedine Besbas, Lelys Ileana Dinarte Diaz, Saravana Ravindran and Ana Maria Reynoso

10813: Setting Poverty Lines for Consumption-Based Welfare Measures: A Research Agenda

Nicola Amendola, Giulia Mancini and Giovanni Vecchi

10812: The Effect of Pricing Instruments on CO2 Emissions: Empirical Evidence from Australia

Daniel Christopher Kraynak, Govinda R. Timilsina and Anna Alberini

10811: The Role of Financial (Mis)allocation on Real (Mis)allocation: Firm-level Evidence for European Countries

Ana Paula Cusolito, Roberto Fattal Jaef, Davide Salvatore Mare and Akshat Vikram Singh

10810: Women’s Labor Force Participation in Nepal: An Exploration of The Role of Social Norms

Jumana Jamal Subhi Alaref, Aishwarya Shivaji Patil, Tasmia Rahman and Ana Maria Munoz Boudet

10809: Explaining Gender Differences in Economic Outcomes in Burkina Faso

Aletheia Donald, T M Tonmoy Islam and Anja Robakowski- Van Stralen

10808: The Influence of COVID-19 on Young Women’s Labor Market Aspirations and Expectations in India

S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Sophie Ochmann

10807: Disaster Risk Preparedness of Households in the Caribbean

Boaz Anglade, Maria Emilia Cucagna, Jacobus Joost De Hoop and Anna Luisa Paffhausen

10806: Trade Effects of Industrial Policies: Are Preferential Agreements a Shield ?

Alessandro Barattieri, Aaditya Mattoo and Daria Taglioni

10805: Distributional Effects of Taxation of Processed Foods in Brazil

Bernardo Dantas Pereira Coelho, Courtney Price Ivins and Roberto F. Iunes

10804: Household Business Performance in Ghana: The Role of Personality Traits and Gender Role Attitudes

Nkechi Owoo, Akuffo Amankwah, Pauline Castaing and Amparo Palacios-Lopez

10803: Virtual Windows Through Glass Walls? Digitalization for Low-Mobility Female Entrepreneurs

Layane Alhorr

10802: The Welfare and Productivity Effects of Transit Improvements in Amman

Tatjana Karina Kleineberg, Sally Beth Murray, Yulu Tang and Jon Kher Kaw

10801: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Female Labor Force Participation in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Hai-Anh Dang, Djavad Salehi Isfahani and Minh N. N. Do

10800: Multidimensional Well-Being Measurement Practices: A Review Focused on Improving Global Multidimensional Poverty Indicators

Benoit Marie A Decerf