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7659: How does the sensitivity of consumption to income vary over time? international evidence

Ergys Islamaj and Ayhan Kose

7658: Particulate matter and labor supply: the role of caregiving and non-linearities

Fernando Aragon, Juan Jose Miranda Montero and Paulina Oliva

7657: Does e-government improve government capacity ? evidence from tax administration and public procurement

Anna Kochanova, Zahid Hasnain and Bradley Robert Larson

7656: The role of training programs for youth employment in Nepal: impact evaluation report on the employment fund

Shubha Chakravarty, Mattias K. A. Lundberg, Plamen V. Nikolov, Juliane Zenker, Shubha Chakravarty, Mattias K. A. Lundberg, Juliane Zenker and Plamen V. Nikolov

7655: Jobs in the city: explaining urban spatial structure in Kampala

Arti Grover and Somik V. Lall

7654: Effects of fiscal policy shocks in an open economy: evidence from Canada

Vincent De Paul Tsoungui Belinga

7653: Markets and manipulation: time for a paradigm shift ?

Kaushik Basu

7652: Prices for poverty analysis in Africa

Isis Gaddis

7651: Public school teacher management in Sri Lanka: issues and options

Dhushyanth Raju

7650: The role of regulation on entry: evidence from the Italian provinces

Francesco Bripi

7649: The GATT's starting point: tariff levels circa 1947

Chad P. Bown, Douglas A. Irwin, Chad P. Bown and Douglas A. Irwin

7648: Reducing crime and violence: experimental evidence on adult noncognitive investments in Liberia

Christopher Blattman, Julian C Jamison and Margaret Sheridan

7647: Identifying gazelles: expert panels vs. surveys as a means to identify firms with rapid growth potential

Marcel Fafchamps and Christopher Woodruff

7646: Decomposing response errors in food consumption measurement: implications for survey design from a survey experiment in Tanzania

Jed Friedman, Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and John Gibson

7645: What type of finance matters for growth ? Bayesian model averaging evidence

Iftekhar Hasan, Roman Horvath and Jan Mares

7644: Assessing the impacts of Mais Educacao on educational outcomes: evidence between 2007 and 2011

Rita Almeida, Antonio Bresolin, Bruna Pugialli Da Silva Borges, Karen Mendes and Naercio Menezes Filho

7643: Going beyond the first child: analysis of Russian mothers'desired and actual fertility Patterns

Victoria Levin, Elena Besedina and Tami Aritomi

7642: The cost of fear: the welfare effect of the risk of violence in northern Uganda

Marc Rockmore

7641: Is living in African cities expensive ?

Shohei Nakamura, Rawaa Harati, Somik V. Lall, Yuri M. Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, William Vigil Oliver, Marko Olavi Rissanen and Mizuki Yamanaka

7640: Organizing knowledge to compete: impacts of capacity building programs on firm organization

Marcio Cruz, Maurizio Bussolo and Leonardo Iacovone

7639: Managing sudden stops

Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta

7638: Competition makes IT better: evidence on when firms use it more effectively

Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez, Marc Tobias Schiffbauer, Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

7637: Economic structural change as an option for mitigating the impacts of climate change

Alexander Golub and Michael Toman

7636: Opportunity versus necessity: understanding the heterogeneity of female micro-entrepreneurs

Gabriela Calderón, Leonardo Iacovone and Laura Juarez

7635: Disaster risk management and fiscal policy: narratives, tools, and evidence associated with assessing fiscal risk and building resilience

Reinhard Mechler, Junko Mochizuki and Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler

7634: Capturing the co-benefits of disaster risk management on the private sector side

Adam Rose

7633: Co-benefits of disaster risk management

Francis Vorhies and Emily Wilkinson

7632: Higher losses and slower development in the absence of disaster risk management investments

Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore and Marie-Agnès Jouanjean

7631: Investing in disaster risk management in an uncertain climate

Thomas K.J. McDermott

7630: Unraveling a secret: Vietnam's outstanding performance on the PISA test

Suhas D. Parandekar and Elisabeth Sedmik

7629: ICT use, competitive pressures and firm performance in Mexico

Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

7628: Global migration revisited: short-term pains, long-term gains, and the potential of south-south migration

Syud Ahmed, Delfin Go and Dirk Willenbockel

7627: Long-term impacts of an unanticipated risk event: the 2007/08 food price crisis and child growth in Indonesia

Futoshi Yamauchi and Donald Larson

7626: Looking back on two decades of poverty and well-being in India

Ambar Narayan and Rinku Murgai

7625: The use of detailed statistical data in customs reform: the case of Madagascar

Cyril Chalendard, Gaël Raballand and Antsa Rakotoarisoa

7624: School grants and education quality: experimental evidence from Senegal

Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouede, Nathalie Lahire, Costas Meghir and Corina Mommaerts

7623: Identifying the economic potential of Indian districts

Mark Roberts

7622: Absent laws and missing women: can domestic violence legislation reduce female mortality ?

Mohammad Amin, Asif Islam and Augusto Lopez Claros

7621: Measuring poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: methodological considerations when estimating an empirical regional poverty line

R. Castañeda, Leonardo Gasparini, Santiago Garriga, Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti and Daniel Valderrama Gonzalez

7620: The empirical landscape of trade policy

Chad P. Bown, Meredith A Crowley, Chad P. Bown and Meredith A Crowley

7619: Inventor diasporas and the internationalization of technology

Ernest Miguelez

7618: Impacts of sovereign rating on sub-sovereign bond ratings in emerging and developing economies

Sanket Mohapatra, Manabu Nose and Dilip Ratha

7617: Second-stage sampling for conflict areas: methods and implications

Kristen Himelein, Stephanie Eckman, Siobhan Murray and Johannes Bauer

7616: MENA export performance and specialization -- the role of financial sector development and governance

Christina Wood and Judy Yang

7615: The labor content of exports database

Massimiliano Calì, Joseph Francois, Claire Honore Hollweg, Miriam Manchin, Doris Oberdabernig, Hugo Alexander Rojas Romagosa, Stela Rubínová and Patrick Tomberger

7614: Deal or no deal: strictly business for China in Kenya ?

Apurva Sanghi and Dylan Conte Johnson

7611: Robustness of shared prosperity estimates: how different methodological choices matter

Aziz Atamanov, Christina Wieser, Hiroki Uematsu, Nobuo Yoshida, Minh Nguyen, João Pedro Azevedo and Reno Dewina

7610: Providing policy makers with timely advice: the timeliness-rigor trade-off

Clive Bell and Lyn Squire

7609: Strengthening national hydrometeorological services through cascading forecasting: investing for sustainability and impact across global, regional, and national centers

Daniel Werner Kull, Corinne Graessle and Barzin Aryan

7608: When measure matters: coresidency, truncation bias, and intergenerational mobility in developing countries

M. Shahe Emran, William Greene and Forhad Shilpi

7607: Can wage subsidies boost employment in the wake of an economic crisis ? evidence from Mexico

Miriam Bruhn

7606: Estimating international poverty lines from comparable national thresholds

Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Espen Beer Prydz, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe and Espen Beer Prydz

7605: Revisiting the impact of the Brazilian SIMPLES program on firms'formalization rates

Caio Piza

7604: Access to finance and job growth: firm-level evidence across developing countries

Meghana Ayyagari, Pedro Juarros, Maria Martinez Peria and Sandeep Singh

7603: Unemployment and mortality: evidence from the great recession

Ha Minh Nguyen and Huong Nguyen

7602: Why did poverty decline in India ? a nonparametric decomposition exercise

Carlos Balcazar, Sonal Desai, Rinku Murgai and Ambar Narayan

7601: Survival of the fittest ? using network methods to assess the diffusion of project design concepts

Kenneth M. Chomitz, Pierre-Yves Koenig, Guy Melancon and Benjamin Renoust

7600: Taxation, information, and withholding: evidence from Costa Rica

Anne Brockmeyer and Marco Hernandez

7599: Effect of lengthening the school day on mother's labor supply

Dante Contreras, Paulina Sepulveda, Dante Contreras and Paulina Sepulveda

7598: The week

Maya Eden

7597: Land measurement bias and its empirical implications: evidence from a validation exercise

Andrew S. Dillon, Sydney Gourlay, Kevin Robert Mcgee, Gbemisola O. Oseni, Andrew S. Dillon, Sydney Gourlay, Kevin Robert Mcgee and Gbemisola O. Oseni

7596: Mangroves as protection from storm surges in a changing climate

Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and Glenn-Marie-000351319 Lange

7595: Welfare dynamics with synthetic panels: the case of the Arab world in transition

Hai-Anh H. Dang, Elena Ianchovichina, Hai-Anh H. Dang and Elena Ianchovichina

7594: Assessment of net mitigation in the context of international greenhouse gas emissions control mechanisms

Jon Strand

7593: Impact of climate change and aquatic salinization on fish habitats and poor communities in southwest coastal Bangladesh and Bangladesh Sundarbans

Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, Md. Golam Mustafa, Md Istiak Sobhan and David R. Wheeler

7592: Can electronic tax invoicing improve tax compliance ? a case study of the Republic of Korea's electronic tax invoicing for value-added tax

Hyung Chul Lee

7591: Learning or leaning: persistent and transitory growth spillovers from FDI

Ronald Davies, Michael Lamla and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

7590: Globalization of labor markets and the growth prospects of nations

Kaushik Basu

7589: What explains agricultural price movements ?

John Baffes and Tassos Haniotis

7588: Does paternity leave matter for female employment in developing economies ? evidence from firm data

Mohammad Amin, Asif Islam and Alena Sakhonchik

7587: Vietnam's labor market institutions, regulations, and interventions: helping people grasp work opportunities in a risky world

Achim Schmillen and Truman G. Packard

7586: The economic effects of counterfeiting and piracy: a review and implications for developing countries

Carsten Fink, Keith Maskus and Yi Qian

7585: Measuring violent conflict in micro-level surveys: current practices and methodological challenges

Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp and Andrew Anthony Tedesco

7584: The revival of the"cash versus food"debate: new evidence for an old quandary ?

Ugo Gentilini

7583: The price is not always right: on the impacts of commodity prices on households (and countries)

Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto

7582: Employer voices, employer demands, and implications for public skills development policy connecting the labor and education sectors

Wendy Cunningham and Paula Villasenor

7581: Small area estimation of child malnutrition in Ethiopian woredas

Thomas Sohnesen, Alemayehu Ambel, Peter Fisker, Colin Andrews and Qaiser M. Khan

7580: Can you work it ? evidence on the productive potential of public works from a youth employment program in Sierra Leone

Nina Rosas Raffo and Shwetlena Sabarwal

7579: The fiscal cost of weak governance: evidence from teacher absence in India

Karthik Muralidharan, Jishnu Das, Alaka Holla and Aakash Mohpal

7578: Illicit activity and money laundering from an economic growth perspective: a model and an application to Colombia

Edgar Villa, Martha Misas and Norman Loayza

7577: The political economy of bank lending: evidence from an emerging market

Sumit Agarwal, Bernardo Morais, Claudia Ruiz Ortega and Jian Zhang

7576: Large farm establishment, smallholder productivity, labor market participation, and resilience: evidence from Ethiopia

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus W. Deininger, Charles Anthony Philip Harris, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus W. Deininger and Charles Anthony Philip Harris

7575: The political economy of direct dividend transfers in resource-rich countries: a theoretical consideration

Eoin McGuirk, Anand Rajaram and Marcelo Giugale

7574: Access to pre-primary education and progression in primary School: evidence from rural Guatemala

Paulo S. R. Bastos, Nicolas Luis Bottan, Julian Cristia, Paulo S. R. Bastos, Nicolas Luis Bottan and Julian Cristia

7573: Preschool education in Brazil: does public supply crowd out private enrollment ?

Paulo S. R. Bastos, Odd Rune Straume, Paulo S. R. Bastos and Odd Rune Straume

7572: Resource rents, coercion, and local development: evidence from post-apartheid South Africa

Paulo S. R. Bastos, Nicolas Luis Bottan, Paulo S. R. Bastos and Nicolas Luis Bottan

7571: Egypt: guiding reform of energy subsidies long-term

Peter Griffin, Thomas Blatt Laursen and James W. Robertson

7570: Building a competitive city through innovation and global knowledge: the case of Sino-Singapore Suzhou industrial park

Zhihua Zeng

7569: Capital flows and central banking: the Indian experience

Poonam Gupta

7568: Growth, urbanization, and poverty reduction in India

Gaurav Datt, Martin Ravallion and Rinku Murgai

7567: Losing the gains of the past: the welfare and distributional impacts of the twin crises in Iraq 2014

Nandini Krishnan and Sergio Olivieri

7566: Prices and welfare

Abdelkrim Araar and Paolo Verme

7565: Drought and retribution: evidence from a large-scale rainfall-indexed insurance program in Mexico

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Hendrik Wolff

7564: Market integration and poverty: evidence from South Sudan

Gonzalo Varela, Massimiliano Calì, Utz Pape and Esteban Rojas

7563: Does child sponsorship pay off in adulthood ? an international study of impacts on income and wealth

Bruce Wydick, Paul Glewwe and Laine Rutledge

7562: Sifting through the Data: labor markets in Haiti through a turbulent decade (2001-2012)

Thiago Scot and Aude-Sophie Rodella

7561: School dropout in Central America: an overview of trends, causes, consequences, and promising interventions

Melissa Adelman and Miguel Szekely

7560: An exploration of the relationship between police presence, crime, and business in developing countries

Asif Islam

7559: Financial channels, property rights, and poverty: a Sub-Saharan African perspective

Raju Singh and Yifei Huang

7558: Idle youth in Mexico: trapped between the war on drugs and economic crisis

Rafael De Hoyos, Carlos Gutierrez Fierros and J. Vicente Vargas M.