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- 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
- 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 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 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
- 7415: The national solidarity program: assessing the effects of community-driven development in Afghanistan

- Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia and Ruben Enikolopov
- 7414: Infrastructure investment demands in emerging markets and developing economies

- Fernanda Ruiz Nunez and Zichao Wei
- 7413: The ABCs of financial education: experimental evidence on attitudes, behavior, and cognitive biases

- Fenella Carpena, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro and Bilal Zia
- 7412: Job opportunities along the rural-urban gradation and female labor force participation in India

- Urmila Chatterjee, Rinku Murgai and Martin Rama
- 7411: Recasting culture to undo gender: a sociological analysis of Jeevika in rural Bihar, India

- Paromita Sanyal, Vijayendra Rao and Shruti Majumdar
- 7410: Volunteerism after the Tsunami: the effects of democratization

- Tiago Freire, J. Vernon Henderson and Ari Kuncoro
- 7409: On the effects of enforcement on illegal markets: evidence from a quasi-experiment in Colombia

- Daniel Mejia, Pascual Restrepo and Sandra Rozo
- 7408: The cost of road infrastructure in low and middle income countries

- Paul Collier, Martina Kirchberger and Mans Soderbom
- 7407: Gender gap in pay in the Russian Federation: twenty years later, still a concern

- Andrea Atencio and Josefina Posadas
- 7406: Are large firms born or made ? evidence from developing countries

- Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic
- 7405: Business practices in small firms in developing countries

- David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff
- 7404: The impact of private sector internship and training on urban youth in Kenya

- Maddalena Honorati
- 7403: The middle-income trap turns ten

- Indermit S. Gill and Homi Kharas
- 7402: The impact of Syrian refugees on the Turkish labor market

- Ximena Del Carpio and Mathis Wagner
- 7401: Review of logistics service regulations for freight forwarding businesses: what should be addressed for a better logistics regulatory framework ?

- Maika Watanuki
- 7400: Export promotion and firm entry into and survival in export markets

- Daniel Lederman, Marcelo Olarreaga and Lucas Zavala
- 7399: The pulse of public opinion: using Twitter data to analyze public perception of reform in El Salvador

- Skipper Seabold, Alex Rutherford, Olivia De Backer and Andrea Coppola
- 7398: Nowcasting prices using Google trends: an application to Central America

- Skipper Seabold and Andrea Coppola
- 7397: Public good provision in Indian rural areas: the returns to collective action by microfinance groups

- Paolo Casini, Lore Vandewalle and Zaki Wahhaj
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