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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 Mario 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 - GSP05 Sun

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

Gabriel Lara Ibarra and Adan L. Martinez Cruz

7457: Pension coverage for parents and educational investment in children: evidence from urban China

Ren Mu and Yang Du

7456: Demand-driven propagation: evidence from the great recession

Ha Nguyen

7455: On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies

Kurt Annen and Stephen Knack

7454: Dual credit markets and household access to finance: evidence from a representative Chinese household survey

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

7453: Jobs and land use within cities: a survey of theory, evidence, and policy

Arti Grover and Somik Lall

7452: Exporter behavior, country size and stage of development: evidence from the exporter dynamics database

Ana Margarida Fernandes, Caroline Freund, Martha D. Pierola Castro, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Caroline Freund and Martha D. Pierola Castro

7451: Effects of land misallocation on capital allocations 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

7450: Social norms theory and development economics

Lina Maria Jorun Eriksson

7449: MSME taxation in transition economies: country experience on the costs and benefits of introducing special tax regimes

Michael Engelschalk and Jan Loeprick

7448: The effect of metro expansions on air pollution in Delhi

Deepti Goel and Sonam Gupta

7447: Why do countries participate in international large-scale assessments ? The Case of PISA

Marlaine Lockheed

7446: Understanding poverty reduction in Sri Lanka: evidence from 2002 to 2012/13

Lidia Ceriani, Gabriela Inchauste and Sergio Olivieri

7445: Modeling the marginal value of rainforest losses: a dynamic value function approach

Jon Strand

7444: The causal impacts of child labor law in Brazil: some preliminary findings

Caio Piza and André Souza

7443: Population aging and households? saving in the Russian Federation

Maurizio Bussolo, Schotte Simone and Mikhail Matytsin

7442: The impact of China?s slowdown on the Asia Pacific region: an application of the GVAR model

Tomoo Inoue, Demet Kaya and Hitoshi Ohshige

7441: Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank

Bernhard Wilfried Reinsberg, Katharina Michaelowa and Stephen Knack

7440: The impact of violence on individual risk preferences: evidence from a natural experiment

Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

7439: Robust decision-making in the water sector: a strategy for implementing Lima?s long-term water resources master plan

Nidhi Rajiv Kalra, David G. Groves, Laura Bonzanigo, Edmundo Molina Perez, Cayo Ramos, Carter J. Brandon and Iván Rodriguez Cabanillas

7438: A product space perspective on structural change in Morocco

Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Hans Lofgren

7437: The impact of investment policy in a changing global economy: a review of the literature

Roberto Echandi, Jana Krajcovicova and Christine Zhenwei Qiang

7436: Determinants of long-term versus short-term bank credit in EU countries

Haelim Park, Claudia Ruiz Ortega and Thierry Tressel

7435: Formalizing rural land rights in West Africa: early evidence from a randomized impact evaluation in Benin

Markus Goldstein, Kenneth Houngbedji, Florence Kondylis, Michael O'Sullivan and Harris Selod

7434: A Coasian model of international production chains

Thibault Fally and Russell Henry Hillberry

7433: A methodological framework for prioritizing infrastructure investment

Luis Andres, Dan Biller and Matias Herrera Dappe

7432: A global count of the extreme poor in 2012: data issues, methodology and initial results

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Shaohua Chen, Andrew L. Dabalen, Yuri M. Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Ambar Narayan, Espen Beer Prydz, Ana L. Revenga, Prem Sangraula, Umar Serajuddin, Nobuo Yoshida, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Shaohua Chen, Andrew L. Dabalen, Yuri M. Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Ambar Narayan, Espen Beer Prydz, Ana L. Revenga, Prem Sangraula, Umar Serajuddin and Nobuo Yoshida

7431: Dismal science, accounting and Newton?s second law: identifying force and rigidity in public expenditure analysis

Dino Leonardo Merotto, Fayavar Hayati, David Andrew Stephan and William G. Battaile

7430: Beyond qualifications: returns to cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Colombia

Pablo Acosta, Noel Muller and Miguel Alonso Sarzosa

7429: Are public libraries improving quality of education ? when the provision of public goods is not enough

Paul Rodriguez Lesmes, Jose Daniel Trujillo and Daniel Valderrama Gonzalez

7428: Civil service recruitment in Comoros: a case of political clientelism in a decentralized state

Jonathan Rose and Balachandran Gowthaman

7427: High school track choice and financial constraints: evidence from urban Mexico

Ciro Avitabile, Matteo Bobba and Marco Pariguana

7426: Changing wage structure in India in the post-reform era: 1993-2011

Hanan Jacoby and Basab Dasgupta

7425: Sources of volatility during four oil price crashes

John Baffes and Varun Kshirsagar

7424: Analyzing food price trends in the context of Engel?s law and the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis

John Baffes and Xiaoli Etienne

7423: Value of improved information about forest protection values, with application to rainforest valuation

Jon Strand and Sauleh Siddiqui

7422: The Heterogeneous effect of information on student performance: evidence from a randomized control trial in Mexico

Ciro Avitabile and Rafael De Hoyos

7421: Youth out of school and out of work in Latin America: a cohort approach

Miguel Székely and Jonathan George Karver

7420: Moral incentives: experimental evidence from repayments of an Islamic credit card

Leonardo A. Bursztyn, Stefano Fiorin, Daniel Wolf Gottlieb, Martin Kanz, Leonardo A. Bursztyn, Stefano Fiorin, Daniel Wolf Gottlieb and Martin Kanz

7419: Pronatal property rights over land and fertility outcomes: evidence from a natural experiment in Ethiopia

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Niels Gerd Kemper

7418: Aging, social security design, and capital accumulation

Antoine Dedry, Harun Onder and Pierre Pestieau

7417: Multidimensional poverty in Ethiopia: changes in overlapping deprivations

Alemayehu A. Ambel, Parendi Arafin Mehta, Biratu Yigezu, Alemayehu A. Ambel, Parendi Arafin Mehta and Biratu Yigezu

7416: Oral democracy and women?s oratory competency in Indian village assemblies: a qualitative analysis

Paromita Sanyal, Vijayendra Rao and Umang Prabhakar