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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

10799: Do Disasters Always Increase Intimate Partner Violence ? Evidence from the 2018 Earthquake in Papua New Guinea

Alyssa Amanda Leng and Sharad Tandon

10798: How Much of Economic Growth Trickles Down to the Population in Resource-Rich Countries ? Evidence from Papua New Guinea

Paripoorna Baxi, Darian Naidoo and Sharad Tandon

10797: Firm Adaptation to Climate Risk in the Developing World

Arti Goswami Grover and Matthew Edwin Kahn

10796: The World Bank’s New Inequality Indicator: The Number of Countries with High Inequality

Cameron Nadim Haddad, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Ruth Hill, Christoph Lakner and Gabriel Lara Ibarra

10795: Barrier or Opportunity ? How Trade Regulations Shape Colombian Firms’ Export Strategies

Samuel Kaspar Rosenow

10794: Measuring Green Jobs: A New Database for Latin America and Other Regions

Hernan Winkler, Vincenzo Di Maro, Kelly Montoya Muñoz, Sergio Daniel Olivieri and Emmanuel Vazquez

10793: Two Hundred and Fifty-Thousand Democracies: A Review of Village Government in India

Siddharth George, Vijayendra Rao and M. R. Sharan

10792: Bridging the Gap in Trade Reporting: Insights from the Discrepancy Index

Sonja Mitikj and Siddhesh Vishwanath Kaushik

10791: Economic and Distributional Impacts of Selected Carbon Pricing Policies for the Arab Republic of Egypt

Govinda R. Timilsina and Samuel Sebsibie

10790: Policies for Aspirations. And Opportunities

Noel Muller, Anna Fruttero, Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez and Jacobus Joost De Hoop

10789: Intra-national Trade Costs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Bernardo Díaz de Astarloa and Nino Pkhikidze

10788: Empowering Change: Assessing the Role of Democracy, Civil Society, and Women’s Rights Groups in Advancing Legal Gender Equality

Daniela Monika Behr, Caroline Sabine Marie Perrin, Marie Caitriona Hyland and Tea Trumbic

10787: Climate Change Vulnerability, Adaptation and Public Debt Sustainability in Small Island Developing States

Martin Brownbridge and Roy S. Canagarajah

10786: Distributional Crowding Out Effects of Public Debt on Private Investment in Developing Economies

Asif Islam and Ha Nguyen

10785: Infrastructure Complementarities and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from Electrification and Highway Construction in Brazil

Harris Selod, Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Ian Michael Trotter and Brian Blankespoor

10784: Migration, Growth, and Poverty Reduction in Rural China: Retrospect and Prospects

John Giles and Ren Mu

10783: What Drives Citizens’ Trust in State Institutions ? Large-Scale Survey Evidence on Process and Outcome-Based Trust in Morocco

Diane Zovighian, Mathieu Cloutier and Abel Paul Basile Bove

10782: Production Networks and Firm-level Elasticities of Substitution

Brian C. Fujiy, Devaki Ghose and Gaurav Khanna

10781: Place-Based Preferential Policies and Firm Performance

Rami Galal

10780: Economic Consequences of Cabotage Restrictions: The Effect of the Jones Act on Puerto Rico

Russell Henry Hillberry and Manuel Felipe Cases Jimenez

10779: Profiling Green Jobs and Workers in South Africa: An Occupational Tasks Approach

Jacqueline Mosomi and Wendy Cunningham

10778: Comparative Impacts of Input Subsidies, Irrigation Investments, and Social Cash Transfers on Food and Nutrition Security in Malawi

Mirriam Matita, David Zingwe and Felipe Fadullon Dizon

10777: Did the 2022 global energy crisis accelerate the diffusion of low-carbon technologies?

Paulo S. R. Bastos, Jacob Neil Greenspon, Katherine Anne Stapleton and Daria Taglioni

10776: Heat and Law Enforcement

Arnold Behrer and Valentin Bolotnyy

10775: Geographic Imbalance, Search Frictions, and Regulation: Causes of Empty Miles in Freight Trucking

Ron Nan Yang

10774: Understanding Firm Networks in Global Agricultural Value Chains

Anne Helene Beck, Sunghun Lim and Daria Taglioni

10773: Closing the Gaps: The Role of Screening Questions and Self-Reporting in Measuring Women’s and Youths’ Employment and Work

Ivette Maria Contreras Gonzalez, Lelys Ileana Dinarte Diaz, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Valentina Costa and Steffanny Romero Esteban

10772: From Survey to Big Data: The New Logistics Performance Index

Jean Francois Arvis, Daria Ulybina and Christina Katharina Wiederer

10771: The Role of Technology in Reducing the Gender Gap in Productivity

Xavier Cirera, Marcio Jose Vargas Da Cruz, Antonio Soares Martins Neto, Kyungmin Lee and Caroline Gomes Nogueira

10770: Electricity Reliability and Intra-Sectoral Structural Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Medium-Sized Manufacturing Firms

Kabinet Kaba and Fulbert Tchana Tchana

10769: Gender, Social Support, and Political Speech: Evidence from Twitter

Rachel Heath and Roy Van Der Weide

10768: A Data-Driven Approach for Early Detection of Food Insecurity in Yemen's Humanitarian Crisis

Steve Penson, Mathijs Lomme, Zacharey Austin Carmichael, Alemu Manni, Sudeep Shrestha and Bo Pieter Johannes Andree

10767: FTT-FLEX: Flexible Technology Diffusion Analysis Tool for Data Poor Countries

Unnada Chewpreecha, Francis Dennig and Ib Hansen

10766: When the Rain Stops Falling: Effects of Droughts on the Tunisian Labor Market

Federica Alfani, Giacomo Pallante, Alessandro Palma and Abdelkader Talhaoui

10765: Thriving beyond Borders ? Understanding Refugee Children’s Life Outcomes

Tatiana Hiller, Andres Moya and Sandra Viviana Rozo Villarraga

10764: Early Learning in South Punjab, Pakistan: Investigating Child Development and Classroom Quality

Jonathan Michael Seiden, Amer Hasan and Diego Armando Luna Bazaldua

10763: Ensuring an Equal Start for All Pakistani Children: What Will It Cost ?

Abdullah Alam, Amer Hasan and Elizabeth Lauren Hentschel

10762: Hotter Planet, Hotter Factories: Uneven Impacts of Climate Change on Productivity

Woubet Kassa and Andinet Woldemichael

10761: Rules and Regulations, Managerial Time and Economic Development

M Nazim Tamkoc and Gustavo Ventura

10760: Droughts Worsen Air Quality by Shifting Power Generation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Mathilda Eriksson, Alejandro del Valle and Alejandro De La Fuente

10759: A Global Incentive Scheme to Reduce Carbon Emissions

Somik V. Lall, Raghuram Govind Rajan and Christian Schoder

10758: Comparative Analysis of AI-Predicted and Crowdsourced Food Prices in an Economically Volatile Region

Julius Babatunde Adewopo, Bo Pieter Johannes Andree, Helen Peter, Gloria Solano-Hermosilla and Fabio Micale

10757: Spillovers in ICT Adoption from Formal to Informal Firms: Evidence from Zambia

Filip Jolevski, Gaurav Nayyar, Regina Pleninger and Shu Yu

10756: The Role of Firm Dynamics in Aggregate Productivity and Formal Job Flows in Zambia

Laban Simbeye, Eliya Lungu, Andreya Kumwenda, Edna Banda, Jonathan Msoni and Ryan Chia Kuo

10755: Soft Skills, Competition, and Hiring Discrimination

Christian Valencia, Sarah Janzen, Yashodhan Ghorpade and Amanina Binti Abdur Rahman

10754: News Sentiment in Destination Countries and Migration Choices: Evidence from Libya

Michele Di Maio, Nelly Youssef Louis William Elmallakh and Valerio Leone Sciabolazza

10753: Why Look at Tasks When Designing Skills Policy for the Green Transition ? A Methodological Note on How to Identify Green Occupations and the Skills They Require

Julia Granata and Josefina Posadas

10752: Refugee Education Financing: Key Facts and Findings — Insights into the Financing of Refugee Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Robert Benjamin Hopper

10751: Leveraging Growth Regressions for Country Analysis

Konstantin Wacker, Robert Beyer and Lars Moller

10750: COVID-19 Increased Existing Gender Mortality Gaps in High-Income Countries More Than in Middle-Income Countries

Kathleen G. Beegle, Gabriel Demombynes, Damien B. C. M. De Walque, Paul Michael Gubbins and Jeremy Henri Maurice Veillard

10749: Reconstructing 2010–2022 Poverty and Inequality Trends in Bangladesh: A Statistical Matching Approach

Jaime Estuardo Fernandez Romero, Sergio Daniel Olivieri and Ayago Esmubancha Wambile

10748: Multidimensional and Specific Inequalities

James E. Foster and Michael Lokshin

10747: Understanding the Links between Diet Quality, Malnutrition, and Economic Costs: An Evidence Review for LMICs

Kendra Siekmans, Patrizia Fracassi, Tomoko Kato, Ti Kian Seow, Diana Carter, Susan E. Horton, Felipe Fadullon Dizon and Kyoko Shibata Okamura

10746: Do Patients Value High-Quality Medical Care ? Experimental Evidence from Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment

Anja Sautmann, Carolina Lopez and Simone Schaner