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- 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
- 8118: The effect of local governance on firm productivity and resource allocation: evidence from Vietnam

- Shawn Weiming Tan, Trang Thu Tran, Shawn Weiming Tan and Trang Thu Tran
- 8117: On the predictability of growth

- Matthieu Claudio Ascagne Cristelli, Andrea Tacchella, Masud Z. Cader, Kirstin Ingrid Roster and Luciano Pietronero
- 8116: Education and health services in Uganda: quality of inputs, user satisfaction, and community welfare levels

- Clarence Tsimpo, Alvin Etang Ndip and Quentin Wodon
- 8115: The effects of health insurance within families: experimental evidence from Nicaragua

- Anne Fitzpatrick and Rebecca Thornton
- 8114: The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment: firm-level evidence for a global sample of cities

- José-Daniel Reyes, Mark Roberts and Lixin Xu
- 8113: Biased policy professionals

- Sheheryar Banuri, Stefan Dercon and Varun Gauri
- 8112: Well begun, but aiming higher: a review of Vietnam's education trends in the past 20 years and emerging challenges

- Hai-Anh Dang and Paul Glewwe
- 8111: Beyond income poverty: nonmonetary dimensions of poverty in Uganda

- Alvin Etang Ndip and Clarence Tsimpo
- 8110: Does the adoption of complex software impact employment composition and the skill content of occupations ? evidence from Chilean firms

- Rita Kullberg Almeida, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Mariana Viollaz, Rita Kullberg Almeida, Ana Margarida Fernandes and Mariana Viollaz
- 8109: Are caste categories misleading ? the relationship between gender and Jati in three Indian states

- Shareen Joshi, Nishtha Kochhar and Vijayendra Rao
- 8108: Cyclicality of fiscal policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: magnitude and evolution

- Cesar Calderon, Punam Chuhan-Pole, Rafael Matias Lopez-Monti, Cesar Calderon, Punam Chuhan-Pole and Rafael Matias Lopez-Monti
- 8107: Fast, easy, and cheap job matching: social networks in Bangladesh

- Norihiko Matsuda and Shinsaku Nomura
- 8106: Estimating the welfare costs of reforming the Iraq public distribution system: a mixed demand approach

- Nandini Krishnan, Sergio Olivieri and Racha Ramadan
- 8105: Employment multipliers over the business cycle

- Ha Nguyen and Jiaming Soh
- 8104: But ? what is the poverty rate today? testing poverty nowcasting methods in Latin America and the Caribbean

- German Caruso, Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti, Eduardo Malásquez, Thiago Scot and R. Castañeda
- 8103: Scaling up distributed solar in emerging markets: the case of the Arab Republic of Egypt

- Dalia Abdelhamid Mahmoud Sakr, Joern Torsten Huenteler, Tyeler Marissa Matsuo and Ashish Khanna
- 8102: Heterogeneous effects of rural electrification: evidence from Bangladesh

- Hussain A. Samad and Fan Zhang
- 8101: Bureaucratic blockages: water, civil servants, and community in Tanzania

- Juli Bailey
- 8100: Should emerging markets worry about U.S. monetary policy announcements ?

- Poonam Gupta, Oliver Masetti and David Rosenblatt
- 8099: Multidimensional poverty in the Philippines, 2004-13: do choices for weighting, identification and aggregation matter ?

- Gaurav Datt
- 8098: Do individual investors ignore transaction costs ?

- Deniz Anginer, Snow Xue Han and Celim Yildizhan
- 8097: Prices, Engel curves, and time-space deflation: impacts on poverty and inequality in Vietnam

- John Gibson, Trinh Le and Bonggeun Kim
- 8096: Rural non-farm employment and household welfare: evidence from Malawi

- Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Lenis Liverpool-Tasie, Alejandro De La Fuente and Rui Benfica
- 8095: Soft skills for hard constraints: evidence from high-achieving female farmers

- Joao Montalvao, Michael Dr. Frese, Markus P. Goldstein, Talip Kilic, Joao Montalvao, Michael Dr. Frese, Markus P. Goldstein and Talip Kilic
- 8094: Cities, slums, and early child growth: empirical evidence from Bangladesh

- Dhushyanth Raju, Kyoung Yang Kim, Quynh Thu Nguyen, Ramesh Govindaraj, Dhushyanth Raju, Kyoung Yang Kim, Quynh T. Nguyen and Ramesh Govindaraj
- 8093: How important are spillovers from major emerging markets ?

- Raju Huidrom, Ayhan Kose and Franziska Ohnsorge
- 8092: Job fairs: matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia

- Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Redmond Quinn and Forhad Shilpi
- 8091: Financial globalization and market volatility: an empirical appraisal

- Tito Cordella and Anderson Ospino Rojas
- 8090: On-the-job training: returns, barriers to provision, and policy implications

- Priyam Saraf
- 8089: Spatial autocorrelation panel regression: agricultural production and transport connectivity

- Atsushi Iimi, Liangzhi You, Ulrike Wood-Sichra, Atsushi Iimi, Liangzhi You and Ulrike Wood-Sichra
- 8088: Port rail connectivity and agricultural production: evidence from a large sample of farmers in Ethiopia

- Atsushi Iimi, Haileyesus Adamtei, James Markland and Eyasu Tsehaye
- 8087: Beyond dualism: agricultural productivity, small towns, and structural change in Bangladesh

- M. Shahe Emran, Forhad J. Shilpi, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad J. Shilpi
- 8086: Full-time teachers, students, and curriculum: the single-shift model in Rio de Janeiro

- Tassia Cruz, Andre Loureiro and Eduardo Sa
- 8085: The labor market effects of financial crises: the role of temporary contracts in central and western Europe

- Siddharth Sharma and Hernan Winkler
- 8084: Colombo: exposure, vulnerability, and ability to respond to floods

- Archana Mahesh Patankar
- 8083: Information technology and provision of national identification cards by the Bolivian police: evidence from two randomized natural field experiments

- Alberto Chong, Carlos Machicado Salas and Monica Yanez Pagans
- 8082: Credit composition, output composition, and external balances

- Roumeen Islam
- 8081: A review of the anthropological literature on the civil service

- Colin Brewster Hoag and Matthew Hull
- 8080: How do women fare in rural non-farm economy ?

- Habtamu Neda Fuje
- 8079: In the mind, the household, or the market ? concepts and measurement of women's economic empowerment

- Louise Fox and Carolina Romero
- 8078: Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries

- Stephen Knack, Nataliya Biletska and Kanishka Kacker
- 8077: Does energy efficiency promote economic growth?: evidence from a multi-country and multi-sector panel data set

- Ashish Rajbhandari and Fan Zhang
- 8076: Energy prices and international trade: incorporating input-output linkages

- Hei Sing Chan, Edward John Matlock Manderson and Fan Zhang
- 8075: Predicting conflict

- Bledi Celiku and Aart Kraay
- 8074: Is consanguinity an impediment to improving human development outcomes ?

- Cem Mete, Laurent Bossavie, John Giles and Harold Alderman
- 8073: Societal poverty: a relative and relevant measure

- Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Espen Beer Prydz, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe and Espen Beer Prydz
- 8072: Perceptions of distributive justice in Latin America during a period of falling inequality

- German Jeremias Reyes and Leonardo Gasparini
- 8071: Do different types of assets have differential effects on child education ? evidence from Tanzania

- Kashi Ram Kafle, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Alex Eugene Winter-Nelson, Kashi Ram Kafle, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe and Alex Eugene Winter-Nelson
- 8069: Where to create jobs to reduce poverty: cities or towns ?

- Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Ravi Kanbur, Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur
- 8068: The rise of the middle class and economic growth in ASEAN

- Markus Brueckner, Era Dabla-Norris, Mark Gradstein and Daniel Lederman
- 8067: Elections and embezzlement: experimental evidence from Burkina Faso

- Malte Lierl
- 8066: Why do some oil-rich countries perform better than others ?

- Farrukh Iqbal and Youssouf Kiendrebeogo
- 8065: Crossovers: female entrepreneurs who enter male sectors -- evidence from Ethiopia

- Salman Alibhai, Niklas Buehren, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Rachael Susan Pierotti
- 8064: Status goods: experimental evidence from platinum credit cards

- Leonardo A. Bursztyn, Bruno Ferman, Stefano Fiorin, Martin Kanz, Gautam Rao, Leonardo A. Bursztyn, Bruno Ferman, Stefano Fiorin, Martin Kanz and Gautam Rao
- 8063: Effect of stress on later-life health: evidence from the Vietnam war draft

- John Cawley, Damien de Walque and Daniel Grossman
- 8062: The entry of randomized assignment into the social sciences

- Julian C Jamison
- 8061: To sew or not to sew ? assessing the welfare effects of the garment industry in Cambodia

- Carolina Mejia-Mantilla and Martha Tesfaye Woldemichae
- 8060: The effects of in-kind demand-side conditional transfers for improving uptake of maternal and child health services in Rwanda

- Gil Shapira, Ina Kalisa, Jeanine Condo, James Humuza, Cathy Mugeni and Jeanette Walldorf
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