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7557: The distribution of consumption expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa: the inequality among all Africans

La-Bhus Jirasavetakul and Christoph Lakner

7556: How much teachers know and how much it matters in class: analyzing three rounds of subject-specific test score data of Indonesian students and teachers

Joppe de Ree

7555: Greying the budget: ageing and preferences over public policies

Luiz de Mello, Simone Raphaela Schotte, Erwin H. R. Tiongson and Hernan Winkler

7554: Why are the elderly more averse to immigration when they are more likely to benefit ? evidence across countries

Simone Raphaela Schotte and Hernan Winkler

7553: The welfare cost of inflation and the regulations of money substitutes

Benjamin Eden and Maya Eden

7552: Do resource-rich countries suffer from a lack of fiscal discipline ?

Michael Bleaney and Havard Halland

7551: Managing food price volatility in a large open country: the case of wheat in India

Christophe Gouel, Madhur Gautam and Will Martin

7550: Cognitive and non-cognitive skills for the Peruvian labor market: addressing measurement error through latent skills estimations

Wendy Cunningham, Mónica Parra Torrado and Miguel Sarzosa

7549: Lifting economic sanctions on Iran: global effects and strategic responses

Elena Ianchovichina, Shantayanan Devarajan and Csilla Lakatos

7548: Out of school and out of work: a diagnostic of ninis in Latin America

Rafael De Hoyos, Anna Popova and Frederic Rogers

7547: A detailed anatomy of factor misallocation in India

Gilles Duranton, Syed Ejaz Ghani, Arti Goswami Grover, William Robert Kerr, Gilles Duranton, Syed Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami and William Robert Kerr

7546: Declining wages for college-educated workers in Mexico: are younger or older cohorts hurt the most ?

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez, Luis Lopez-Calva and Nora Lustig

7545: Business cycles in the eastern Caribbean economies: the role of fiscal policy and interest rates

Francisco Carneiro and Viktoria Hnatkovska

7544: Before and after the global financial crisis: evaluating the Caribbean's synchronization with global engines of growth

Auguste Tano Kouame and M. Ivanova Reyes

7543: The great recession and job loss spillovers: impact of tradable employment shocks on supporting services

Ha Nguyen and Shawheen Rezaei

7542: What are the impacts of Syrian refugees on host community welfare in Turkey ? a subnational poverty analysis

João Pedro Azevedo, Judy Yang and Osman Inan

7541: How equitable is access to finance in turkey ? evidence from the latest global FINDEX

João Pedro Azevedo, Osman Inan and Judy Yang

7540: When and where do we see regional poverty reduction and convergence ? lessons from the roof of Turkey

João Pedro Azevedo, Judy Yang, Osman Inan, Minh Nguyen and Jose Montes

7539: Price seasonality in Africa: measurement and extent

Christopher L. Gilbert, Luc Christiaensen, Jonathan Kaminski, Christopher L. Gilbert, Luc Christiaensen and Jonathan Kaminski

7538: Contingent liabilities risk management: a credit risk analysis framework for sovereign guarantees and on-lending?country experiences from Colombia, Indonesia, Sweden, and Turkey

Fritz Florian Bachmair

7537: Striving for balance in economics: towards a theory of the social determination of behavior

Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz

7536: Global supply chains and trade policy

Emily J. Blanchard, Chad P. Bown, Robert Christopher Johnson, Emily J. Blanchard, Chad P. Bown and Robert Christopher Johnson

7535: How does long-term finance affect economic volatility ?

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Balint Horvath and Harry Huizinga

7534: Following Mexican youth: a short-run study of time use decisions

Juan Barón, Anna Popova and Angelica Maria Sanchez Diaz

7533: Financial access and household welfare: evidence from Mauritania

Alessandra Amendola, Marinella Boccia, Gianluca Mele and Luca Sensini

7532: Supporting export competitiveness through port and rail network reforms: a case study of South Africa

Duncan Pieterse, Thomas Farole, Martin Odendaal and Andre Steenkamp

7531: Fossil fuel subsidy and pricing policies: recent developing country experience

Masami Kojima

7530: Earnings premiums and penalties for self-employment and informal employees around the world

Thomas (Tim) Gindling, Nadwa Mossaad and David Newhouse

7529: The role of preschool quality in promoting child development: evidence from rural Indonesia

Sally Anne Brinkman, Amer Hasan, Haeil Jung, Angela Kinnell, Nozomi Nakajima and Menno Prasad Pradhan

7528: The World Bank's classification of countries by income

Neil James Fantom and Umar Serajuddin

7527: Rwanda's new companies: an overview of registrations, taxes, employment, and exports

Michele Savini Zangrandi and Maria Paulina Mogollon

7526: Tenure security premium in informal housing markets: a spatial hedonic analysis

Shohei Nakamura

7525: Do land market restrictions hinder structural change in a rural economy ? evidence from Sri Lanka

M. Shahe Emran, Forhad J. Shilpi, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad J. Shilpi

7524: Land market restrictions, women's labor force participation, and wages in a rural economy

M. Shahe Emran, Forhad J. Shilpi, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad J. Shilpi

7523: Debt sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa: unraveling country-specific risks

William G. Battaile, Fernando Leonardo Hernandez and Vivian Norambuena

7522: The impact of the global financial crisis on firms'capital structure

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Maria Martinez Peria and Thierry Tressel

7521: Development economics as taught in developing countries

David McKenzie and Anna Luisa Paffhausen

7520: Seasonality in local food markets and consumption: evidence from Tanzania

Jonathan Kaminski, Luc Christiaensen, Christopher L. Gilbert, Jonathan Kaminski, Luc Christiaensen and Christopher L. Gilbert

7519: Why so gloomy ? perceptions of economic mobility in Europe and Central Asia

Cesar A. Cancho, Maria Eugenia Davalos and Carolina Sanchez

7518: Understanding the trends in learning outcomes in Argentina, 2000 to 2012

Rafael De Hoyos, Peter Anthony Holland and Sara Troiano

7517: Forced displacement and refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa: an economic inquiry

Philip Verwimp and Jean-François Maystadt

7516: Can a small social pension promote labor force participation ? evidence from the Colombia Mayor program

Tobias Pfutze and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

7515: The poverty effects of market concentration

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

7514: Unpacking the MPI: a decomposition approach of changes in multidimensional poverty headcounts

Jorge Pérez Pérez, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Jose Daniel Trujillo and Daniel Valderrama-Gonzalez

7513: Toward a more business friendly tax regime: key challenges in South Asia

Anna Reva

7512: The strength of American federal democracy: lessons for global development

Roger Myerson

7511: Blending top-down federalism with bottom-up engagement to reduce inequality in Ethiopia

Qaiser M. Khan, Jean-Paul Faguet and Alemayehu Ambel

7510: Finding a path to formalization in Benin: early results after the introduction of the entreprenant legal status

Najy Benhassine, David McKenzie, Victor Pouliquen and Massimiliano Santini

7509: Hub-periphery development pattern and inclusive growth: case study of Guangdong province

Xubei Luo and Nong Zhu

7508: Maternal and child health inequalities in Ethiopia

Alemayehu Ambel, Colin Andrews, Anne Margreth Bakilana, Elizabeth Foster, Qaiser M. Khan and Huihui Wang

7507: The effects of volatility, fiscal policy cyclicality and financial development on growth: evidence for the Eastern Caribbean

Markus Brüeckner and Francisco Carneiro

7506: Psychometrics as a tool to improve screening and access to credit

Irani Arraiz, Miriam Bruhn and Rodolfo Stucchi

7505: Direct and indirect effects of Malawi?s public works program on food security

Kathleen G. Beegle, Emanuela Galasso and Jessica Goldberg

7504: Structural transformation and productivity growth in Africa: Uganda in the 2000s

Sabin Ahmed, Taye Mengistae, Yutaka Yoshino and Albert Zeufack

7503: Breaking the metal ceiling: female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors

Francisco Campos, Markus Goldstein, Laura Mcgorman, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet and Obert Pimhidzai

7502: What?s left for the WTO ?

Chad P. Bown and Chad P. Bown

7501: From demographic dividend to demographic burden ? regional trends of population aging in Russia

Mikhail Matytsin, Lalita M. Moorty and Kaspar Richter

7500: Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ?

Richard Bird

7499: Regional productivity convergence in Peru

Leonardo Iacovone, Luis Fernando Sanchez Bayardo and Siddharth Sharma

7498: Regionalism in services: a study of ASEAN

Batshur Gootiiz and Aaditya Mattoo

7497: Women?s police stations and domestic violence: evidence from Brazil

Elizaveta Perova and Sarah Reynolds

7496: Nighttime lights revisited: the use of nighttime lights data as a proxy for economic variables

Douglas M. Addison and Benjamin P. Stewart

7495: The long-term impacts of international migration: evidence from a lottery

John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua and Steven Stillman

7494: Weak instruments in growth regressions: implications for recent cross-country evidence on inequality and growth

Aart Kraay

7493: SMEs, age, and jobs: a review of the literature, metrics, and evidence

Gemechu Aga, David C. Francis and Jorge Rodriguez Meza

7492: The role of imports for exporter performance in Peru

Martha D. Pierola Castro, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Thomas Farolec, Martha D. Pierola Castro, Ana Margarida Fernandes and Thomas Farolec

7491: Domestic value added in exports: theory and firm evidence from China

Hiau Looi Kee, Heiwai Tang, Hiau Looi Kee and Heiwai Tang

7490: Discrimination as a coordination device: markets and the emergence of identity

Kaushik Basu

7489: Appraising cross-national income inequality databases: an introduction

Francisco Ferreira, Nora Lustig and Daniel Teles

7488: Unhappy development: dissatisfaction with life on the eve of the Arab spring

Efstratia Arampatzi, Martijn Burger, Elena Ianchovichina, Tina Röhricht, Ruut Veenhoven, Efstratia Arampatzi, Martijn Burger, Elena Ianchovichina, Tina Röhricht and Ruut Veenhoven

7487: On the welfare implications of automation

Maya Eden and Paul Gaggl

7486: Urbanization and property rights

Yongyang Cai, Harris Selod and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

7485: When do in-service teacher training and books improve student achievement ? experimental evidence from Mongolia

Habtamu Neda Fuje and Prateek Tandon

7484: Mobility, scarring and job quality in Indonesia?s labor market

Darian Naidoo, Truman G. Packard and Ilmiawan Auwalin

7483: The impacts of climate change on poverty in 2030 and the potential from rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development

Julie Rozenberg and Stephane Hallegatte

7482: Social protection and disaster risk management in the Philippines: the case of typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan)

Thomas Vaughan Bowen

7481: The exposure, vulnerability, and ability to respond of poor households to recurrent floods in Mumbai

Archana Mahesh Patankar

7480: Disaster risk, climate change, and poverty: assessing the global exposure of poor people to floods and droughts

Hessel C. Winsemius, Brenden Jongman, Ted I.E. Veldkamp, Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore and Philip J. Ward

7479: Households and heat stress: estimating the distributional consequences of climate change

Jisung Park, Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore and Evan Sandhoefner

7478: Responses to weather and climate: a cross-section analysis of rural incomes

Frederik Noack, Sven Wunder, Arild Angelsen and Jan Börner

7477: Climate change impacts and mitigation in the developing world: an integrated assessment of the agriculture and forestry sectors

Petr Havlík, Hugo Valin, Mykola Gusti, Erwin Schmid, Nicklas Forsell, Mario Herrero, Nikolay Khabarov, Aline Mosnier, Matthew Cantele and Michael Obersteiner

7476: Social protection in the face of climate change: targeting principles and financing mechanisms

Michael Carter and Sarah Janzen

7475: Climate change impacts on rural poverty in low-elevation coastal zones

Edward Barbier

7474: Environmental reliance, climate exposure, and vulnerability: a cross-section analysis of structural and stochastic poverty

Arild Angelsen and Therese Dokken

7473: Households or locations ? cities, catchment areas and prosperity in India

Yue Li and Martin Rama

7472: Can intense exposure to hand-washing and hygiene information campaigns affect children's socio-emotional skills ? evidence from Senegal

Christian Borja-Vega, Bertha Briceno and Fernando Garcia Vicente

7471: Tracking wage inequality trends with prices and different trade models: evidence from Mexico

Timothy Halliday, Daniel Lederman and Raymond Robertson

7470: Measuring progress towards universal health coverage: with an application to 24 developing countries

Adam Wagstaff, Daniel Cotlear, Patrick Eozenou and Leander Robert Buisman

7469: Comparing cash and voucher transfers in a humanitarian context: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jenny C. Aker

7468: All in my head ? the play of exclusion and discrimination in the labor market

Maitreyi Das

7467: Socioeconomic and fiscal impact of large-scale gold mining in Mali

Aly Sanoh and Massaoly Coulibaly

7466: Quantifying spillover effects from large farm establishments: the case of Mozambique

Klaus W. Deininger, Fang Xia, Aurelio Mate, Ellen Payongayong, Klaus W. Deininger, Fang Xia, Aurelio Mate and Ellen Payongayong

7465: Dark costs, missing data: shedding some light on services trade

James E. Anderson, Ingo Borchert, Aaditya Mattoo, Yoto Valentinov Yotov, James E. Anderson, Ingo Borchert, Aaditya Mattoo and Yoto Valentinov Yotov

7464: Deep trade agreements and vertical FDI: the devil is in the details

Alberto Osnago, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta

7463: The demand for, and impact of, youth internships: evidence from a randomized experiment in Yemen

David McKenzie, Nabila Assaf and Ana Paula Cusolito

7462: The additionality impact of a matching grant program for small firms: experimental evidence from Yemen

David McKenzie, Nabila Assaf and Ana Paula Cusolito

7461: Bright Lights, Big Cities: measuring national and subnational economic growth in Africa from outer space, with an application to Kenya and Rwanda

Tom Bundervoet, Laban Maiyo and Apurva Sanghi

7460: Electricity connections and firm performance in 183 countries

Carolin Geginat and Rita Ramalho

7459: Are the children of uneducated farmers doubly disadvantaged ? farm, nonfarm and intergenerational educational mobility in rural China

M. Shahe Emran and Yan Sun

7458: Exploring the sources of downward bias in measuring inequality of opportunity

Gabriel Lara Ibarra and Adan L. Martinez Cruz