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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

7881: Children left behind in China: the role of school fees

Hai-Anh H. Dang, Yang Huang, Harris Selod, Hai-Anh H. Dang, Yang Huang and Harris Selod

7880: Transit migration: all roads lead to America

Erhan Artuc, Caglar Ozden, Erhan Artuc and Caglar Ozden

7879: Are there skills payoffs in low- and middle-income countries ? empirical evidence using STEP data

Alexandria Valerio, Maria Sanchez Puerta, Namrata Raman Tognatta and Sebastian Monroy Taborda

7878: Do cognitive and noncognitive skills explain the gender wage gap in middle-income countries ? an analysis using STEP data

Namrata Raman Tognatta, Alexandria Valerio and Maria Sanchez Puerta

7877: Growth recovery in southern Europe: a dozen lessons, old and new

Roumeen Islam

7876: New rural access index: main determinants and correlation to poverty

Atsushi Iimi, A.K. Farhad Ahmed, Edward Charles Anderson, Adam Stone Diehl, Laban Maiyo, Tatiana Peralta Quiros and Kulwinder Singh Rao

7875: Global migration of talent and tax incentives: evidence from Malaysia's returning expert program

Ximena Vanessa Del Carpio, Caglar Ozden, Mauro Testaverde, Mathis Christoph Wagner, Ximena Vanessa Del Carpio, Caglar Ozden, Mauro Testaverde and Mathis Christoph Wagner

7874: Does the elimination of export requirements in special economic zones affect export performance? evidence from the Dominican Republic

Fabrice Defever, José-Daniel Reyes, Alejandro Riano and Miguel Eduardo Sanchez Martin

7873: Social capital, finance, and consumption: evidence from a representative sample of Chinese households

Robert J. Cull, Li Gan, Nan Gao, L. Colin Xu, Robert J. Cull, Li Gan, Nan Gao and L. Colin Xu

7872: Does debt relief improve child health ? evidence from cross-country micro data

Anna Carin Charlotte Welander

7871: The cultural trade index: an introduction

Patrick Kabanda

7870: The credibility of economic policy making in Argentina, 1989-2015

David Rosenblatt

7869: Sharing oil rents and political violence

Tito Cordella and Harun Onder

7868: ICT use, innovation, and productivity: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Xavier Cirera, Filipe Lage and Leonard Sabetti

7867: Assessing the degree of international consumption risk sharing

Constantino Hevia, Luis Serven, Constantino Hevia and Luis Serven

7866: How do cities in Ethiopia create jobs ?

Megha Mukim

7865: Preferential liberalization, antidumping, and safeguards: stumbling block evidence from MERCOSUR

Chad P. Bown, Patricia Tovar, Chad P. Bown and Patricia Tovar

7864: Conflict and Poverty in Afghanistan's Transition

Vincent Floreani, Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo and Martin Rama

7863: Does governing law affect bond spreads ?

Dilip K. Ratha, Supriyo De, Sergio Andres Kurlat, Dilip K. Ratha, Supriyo De and Sergio Andres Kurlat

7862: The world is not yet flat: transport costs matter !

Kristian Behrens, W. Mark Brown and Theophile Bougna

7861: Firm financing in Chile after the 2014-15 tax reform: debt or equity ? debt or equity?

Fernando Leonardo Hernandez

7860: The risk of polygamy and wives'saving behavior

Marie Boltz and Isabelle Chort