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7981: Horizontal depth: a new database on the content of preferential trade agreements

Claudia Hofmann, Alberto Osnago and Michele Ruta

7980: Public mosquito abatement: a cluster randomized experiment

Josselin Thuilliez and Yves Dumont

7979: Agriculture in Africa -- telling myths from facts: a synthesis

Luc Christiaensen and Luc Christiaensen

7978: Does vertical specialization increase productivity ?

Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo, Michele Ruta, Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo and Michele Ruta

7977: A firm of one's own: experimental evidence on credit constraints and occupational choice

Andrew Peter Brudevold-Newman, Maddalena Honorati, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Andrew Peter Brudevold-Newman, Maddalena Honorati, Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

7976: How is the internet changing labor market arrangements ? evidence from telecommunications reforms in Europe

Emmanuel Vazquez and Hernan Winkler

7975: Growth (but not only) is good for the poor: some cross-country evidence to promote growth and shared prosperity in Haiti

Kassia Belo Da Silva Antoine, Raju Singh and Konstantin Wacker

7974: Assessing the accuracy of electricity demand forecasts in developing countries

Jevgenijs Steinbuks

7973: Dynamics of child development: analysis of a longitudinal cohort in a very low income country

Emanuela Galasso, Ann Weber and Lia C. H. Fernald

7972: Are capital flows fickle? Increasingly ? and does the answer still depend on type?

Barry Eichengreen, Poonam Gupta and Oliver Masetti

7971: Government guarantees, transparency, and bank risk-taking

Tito Cordella, Giovanni Dell'ariccia and Robert Marquez

7970: Recovery from conflict: lessons of success

Hannes Mueller, Lavinia Piemontese and Augustin Tapsoba

7969: Estimating poverty using cell phone data: evidence from Guatemala

Marco Hernandez, Lingzi Hong, Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Enrique Frias-Martinez

7968: Distribution of consumption expenditure in East Asia

La-Bhus Jirasavetakul and Christoph Lakner

7967: Foreign banks and trade: bridging the information gap ?

Francesca de Nicola and Shawn Tan

7966: Toward labor market policy 2.0: the potential for using online job-portal big data to inform labor market policies in India

Shinsaku Nomura, Saori Imaizumi, Ana Carolina Areias, Futoshi Yamauchi, Shinsaku Nomura, Saori Imaizumi, Ana Carolina Areias and Futoshi Yamauchi

7965: Push and pull: a study of international migration from Nepal

Maheshwor Shrestha

7964: Services in the trans-pacific partnership: what would be lost?

Batshur Gootiiz, Aaditya Mattoo, Batshur Gootiiz and Aaditya Mattoo

7963: The impact of mass bed net distribution programs on politics: evidence from Tanzania

Kevin Croke

7962: The global role of the U.S. economy: linkages, policies and spillovers

Ayhan Kose, Csilla Lakatos, Franziska Ohnsorge and Marc Stocker

7961: Evaluation of an adolescent development program for girls in Tanzania

Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Selim Gulesci, Munshi Sulaiman and Venus Yam

7960: The impact of mining on spatial inequality recent evidence from Africa

Tony Addison, Amadou Boly and Anthony Mveyange

7959: Personality traits, technology adoption, and technical efficiency: evidence from smallholder rice farms in Ghana

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Derick Bowen and Klaus Deininger

7958: The changing structure of Africa's economies

Xinshen Diao, Kenneth Harttgen and Margaret McMillan

7957: Impact of oil price fluctuations on financial markets since 2014

Ha Nguyen, Huong Nguyen and Anh Pham

7956: What do teachers know and do ? does it matter ? evidence from primary schools in Africa

Tessa Bold, Deon Filmer, Gayle Martin, Ezequiel Molina, Christophe Rockmore, Brian Stacy, Jakob Svensson and Waly Wane

7955: Social learning about environmental innovations: experimental analysis of adoption timing

Julian C Jamison, David Owens and Glenn Woroch

7954: Can solar lanterns improve youth academic performance ? experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Yuya Kudo, Abu Shonchoy and Kazushi Takahashi

7953: Firms'export decisions: demand trumps financial shocks

Francesca De Nicola, Shawn Weiming Tan, Francesca De Nicola and Shawn Weiming Tan

7952: Long-term growth scenarios for Bangladesh

Rishabh Sinha

7951: Costing household surveys for monitoring progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity

Talip Kilic, Umar Serajuddin, Hiroki Uematsu, Nobuo Yoshida, Talip Kilic, Umar Serajuddin, Hiroki Uematsu and Nobuo Yoshida

7950: Breaking into tradables: urban form and urban function in a developing city

Anthony Venables

7949: Taxing the good ? distortions, misallocation, and productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Xavier Cirera, Roberto N. Fattal Jaef, Hibret Belete Maemir, Xavier Cirera, Roberto N. Fattal Jaef and Hibret Belete Maemir

7948: How is the slowdown affecting households in Latin America and the Caribbean ?

Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez, Raul Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Maria Gabriela Farfan Bertran, German Jeremias Reyes and Liliana Sousa

7947: Deep integration and UK-EU trade relations

Alen Mulabdic, Alberto Osnago and Michele Ruta

7946: Death scares: how potential work-migrants infer mortality rates from migrant deaths

Maheshwor Shrestha

7945: Get rich or die tryin': perceived earnings, perceived mortality rate and the value of a statistical life of potential work-migrants from Nepal

Maheshwor Shrestha

7944: Pedagogy versus school readiness: the impact of a randomized reading instruction intervention and community-based playgroup intervention on early grade reading outcomes in Tonga

Kevin Macdonald, Sally Ann Brinkman, Wendy Jarvie, Myrna Machuca-Sierra, Kristen Andrew Mcdonall, Souhila Messaoud-Galusi, Siosiana Tapueluelu and Binh Thanh Vu

7943: Gender-differentiated impacts of tenure insecurity on agricultural performance in Malawi's customary tenure systems

Klaus Deininger, Fang Xia and Stein Holden

7942: Can media interventions reduce gender gaps in political participation after civil war ? evidence from a field experiment in rural Liberia

Eric Mvukiyehe

7941: Reforming village-level governance via horizontal pressure: evidence from an experiment in Zimbabwe

Kate Baldwin, Shylock Muyengwa and Eric Mvukiyehe

7940: Conditionality as targeting?: participation and distributional effects of conditional cash transfers

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

7939: The impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in Chile

Sandra Natalia Martinez Aguilar, Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Giselle Eugenia Del Carmen Hasbun

7938: On the structural transformation of rural Africa

Christopher Barrett, Luc Christiaensen, Megan Britney Sheahan and Abebe Abebe

7937: Foreign banks and international transmission of monetary policy: evidence from the syndicated loan market

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Balint Horvath and Harry Huizinga

7936: Can tax incentives for electronic payments reduce the shadow economy?: Korea's attempt to reduce underreporting in retail businesses

Myung Jae Sung, Rajul Awasthi and Hyung Chul Lee

7935: With a little help: shocks, agricultural income, and welfare in Uganda

Ruth Hill and Carolina Mejia-Mantilla

7934: Can grants to consortia spur innovation and science-industry collaboration?: regression-discontinuity evidence from Poland

Miriam Bruhn and David McKenzie

7933: Estimation and inference for actual and counterfactual growth incidence curves

Francisco Ferreira, Sergio Firpo and Antonio Galvao

7932: Exchange rate flexibility and the effect of remittances on economic growth

Emmanuel Lartey

7931: The role of information and cash transfers on early childhood development: evidence from Nepal

Michael Benjamin Levere, Gayatri Acharya and Prashant Bharadwaj

7930: Globalization and the gender earnings gap: evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia

Yevgeniya Savchenko, Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo and Raymond Robertson

7929: Caste system

Karla Hoff

7928: Emerging economies'versus advanced countries'investment impact in Africa

Kenechukwu Maria Ezemenari, Esubalew Alehegn Tiruneh and Evelyn Wamboye

7927: Job quality and poverty in Latin America

Peter Brummund, Christopher Ryan Mann and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

7926: Pass-through of competitors'exchange rates to us import and producer prices

Steven Michael Pennings

7925: The public/private wage differential in the land of gross national happiness

Achim Schmillen

7924: Labor drops: experimental evidence on the return to additional labor in microenterprises

Suresh De Mel, David J. Mckenzie, Christopher M. Woodruff, Suresh De Mel, David J. Mckenzie and Christopher M. Woodruff

7923: Understanding India's urban frontier: what is behind the emergence of census towns in India ?

Partha Mukhopadhyay, Marie-Helene Zerah, Gopa Samanta and Augustin Maria

7922: Are automation and trade polarizing developing country labor markets, too ?

William Maloney and Carlos A. Molina

7921: Does mass deworming affect child nutrition ? meta-analysis, cost-effectiveness, and statistical power

Kevin Croke, Joan Hamory Hicks, Eric Hsu, Michael Robert Kremer and Edward Miguel

7920: Vulnerability to drought and food price shocks: evidence from Ethiopia

Ruth Hill and Catherine Porter

7919: Services in the European Union: what kinds of regulatory policies enhance productivity ?

Erik van der Marel, Janez Kren and Mariana Iootty

7918: A difficult relationship: declining (but productive) FDI inflows in Turkey

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Miguel Eduardo Sanchez Martin and Gilles Lambert Fabien Jean-Luc Thirion

7917: Building an ex ante simulation model for estimating the capacity impact, benefit incidence, and cost effectiveness of child care subsidies: an application using provider-level data from Turkey

Meltem Aran, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet and Nazli Aktakke

7916: The global information and communications technology industry: where Vietnam fits in global value chains

Timothy J. Sturgeon and Ezequiel Zylberberg

7915: A poor means test ? econometric targeting in Africa

Caitlin Susan Brown, Martin Ravallion, Dominique Van De Walle, Caitlin Susan Brown, Martin Ravallion and Dominique Van De Walle

7914: Dodging bullets: the heterogeneous effect of political violence on greenfield FDI

Caroline Witte, Martijn Burger, Elena Ianchovichina and Enrico Pennings

7913: The political economy of teacher management in decentralized Indonesia

Andrew Rosser and Mohamad Fahmi

7912: Residential electricity subsidies in Pakistan: targeting, welfare impacts, and options for reform

Thomas Walker, Ezgi Canpolat, Farah Khalid Khan and Adea Kryeziu

7911: The morphology of African cities

Sarah Elizabeth Antos, Somik V. Lall and Nancy Lozano Gracia

7910: Optimal allocation of natural resource surpluses in a dynamic macroeconomic framework: a DSGE analysis with evidence from Uganda

Albert G. Zeufack, Alexandre Kopoin, Jean-Pascal Nganou, Fulbert Tchana Tchana and Laurent Kemoe

7909: Sources of productivity growth in Uganda: the role of interindustry and intra-industry misallocation in the 2000s

Allen Curtis K. Dennis, Taye Mengistae, Yutaka Yoshino and Albert G. Zeufack

7908: Financial constraints and girls'secondary education: evidence from school fee elimination in the Gambia

Moussa Blimpo, Ousman Gajigo and Todd Pugatch

7907: CPI bias and its implications for poverty reduction in Africa

Andrew L. Dabalen, Isis Gaddis and Nga Thi Viet Nguyen

7906: Mining and economic development: did China's WTO accession affect African local economic development ?

Tony Addison, Amadou Boly and Anthony Mveyange

7905: Impact of public-private partnerships on private school performance: evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Pierre Gaspard De Galbert, James Paul Habyarimana and Shwetlena Sabarwal

7904: Matchmaking in Nairobi: the role of land use

Paolo Avner and Somik V. Lall

7903: Sovereign wealth funds and long-term investments in Sub-Saharan Africa

Boubacar Diallo, Fulbert Tchana Tchana and Albert G. Zeufack

7902: Housing finance and inclusive growth in Africa: benchmarking, determinants, and effects

Christian Nguena, Fulbert Tchana Tchana and Albert G. Zeufack

7901: When the money runs out: do cash transfers have sustained effects on human capital accumulation ?

Sarah Jane Baird, Craig Mcintosh and Berk Özler

7900: Can enhancing the benefits of formalization induce informal firms to become formal ? experimental evidence from Benin

Najy Benhassine, David J. Mckenzie, Victor Maurice Joseph Pouliquen, Massimiliano Santini, Najy Benhassine, David J. Mckenzie, Victor Maurice Joseph Pouliquen and Massimiliano Santini

7899: The role of exchange rate and non-exchange rate related factors in polish firms'export performance

Maciej Albinowski, Jan Hagemejer, Stefania Lovo and Gonzalo Varela

7898: Food prices and poverty

Derek Headey

7897: Pro-growth equity: a policy framework for the twin goals

Luis Lopez-Calva and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

7896: How liberal is Nepal's liberal grade promotion policy ?

Dhiraj Sharma

7895: Secondary towns and poverty reduction: refocusing the urbanization agenda

Luc Christiaensen, Ravi Kanbur, Luc Christiaensen and Ravi Kanbur

7894: Heterogeneous returns to income diversification: evidence from Nigeria

Eleonora Bertoni, Paul Andres Corral Rodas, Vasco Molini, Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu, Eleonora Bertoni, Paul Andres Corral Rodas, Vasco Molini and Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu

7893: Demographic change and development: a global typology

Syud Ahmed, Marcio Cruz, Bryce Quillin and Philip Schellekens

7892: Grow, invest, insure: a game plan to end extreme poverty by 2030

Indermit S. Gill, Ana L. Revenga and Christian Zeballos

7891: Shedding light: understanding energy efficiency and electricity reliability

Eliana Carranza and Robyn Meeks

7890: Does mobile money use increase firms'investment ? evidence from enterprise Surveys in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania

Asif Islam, Silvia Muzi and Jorge Rodriguez Meza

7889: Benefits of electrification and the role of reliability: evidence from India

Hussain A. Samad and Fan Zhang

7888: Enforcement capacity and the impact of labor regulation: evidence from the Russian Federation

Alvaro Gonzalez, Siddharth Sharma and Hari Subhash

7887: Model and methods for estimating the number of people living in extreme poverty because of the direct impacts of natural disasters

Julie Rozenberg and Stephane Hallegatte

7886: Socioeconomic resilience: multi-hazard estimates in 117 countries

Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore and Adrien Camille Vogt-Schilb

7885: Are losses from natural disasters more than just asset losses ? the role of capital aggregation, sector interactions, and investment behaviors

Stephane Hallegatte and Adrien Camille Vogt-Schilb

7884: Deregulation and firm investment: evidence from the dismantling of the license system in India

Ivan Kandilov, Asli Leblebiciogu and Ruchita Manghnani

7883: Does input-trade liberalization affect firms'foreign technology choice ?

Maria Bas and Antoine Berthou

7882: Cash transfers and health: evidence from Tanzania

David Evans, Brian Holtemeyer and Katrina Kosec