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7315: Product standards and firms? export decisions

Ana Margarida Fernandes, Esteban Ferro, John S. Wilson, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Esteban Ferro and John S. Wilson

7314: Seeking shared prosperity through trade

Massimiliano Calì, Claire Honore Hollweg and Elizabeth N. Ruppert Bulmer

7313: Energy subsidies reform in Jordan: welfare implications of different scenarios

Aziz Atamanov, Jon Robbert Jellema and Umar Serajuddin

7312: The socioeconomic impacts of energy reform in Tunisia: a simulation approach

Jose Cuesta, AbdelRahmen El Lahga and Gabriel Lara Ibarra

7311: Understanding the operations of freight forwarders: evidence from Serbia

Alejandra Mendoza Alcantara, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Russell Henry Hillberry, Alejandra Mendoza Alcantara, Ana Margarida Fernandes and Russell Henry Hillberry

7310: Fertility transition in Turkey?who is most at risk of deciding against child arrival ?

Angela Greulich, Aurélien Dasre and Ceren Inan

7309: Extending the school day in Latin America and the Caribbean

Pablo Alfaro, David Evans and Peter Anthony Holland

7308: Estimating the gravity model when zero trade flows are frequent and economically determined

Will Martin and Cong Pham

7307: Teacher performance pay: Experimental evidence from Pakistan

Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Dhushyanth Raju

7306: Crop choice and infrastructure accessibility in Tanzania: subsistence crops or export crops ?

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys, Sevara Melibaeva, Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys and Sevara Melibaeva

7305: Firms? locational choice and infrastructure development in Tanzania: instrumental variable spatial autoregressive model

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys and Sevara Melibaeva

7304: Is the WTO passe ?

Kyle Bagwell, Chad P. Bown, Robert W. Staiger, Kyle Bagwell, Chad P. Bown and Robert W. Staiger

7303: Formulas for failure ? were the Doha tariff formulas too ambitious for success ?

David Laborde Debucquet and Will Martin

7302: Determinants of tobacco consumption in Papua New Guinea: challenges in changing behaviors

Xiaohui Hou, Xiaochen Xu and Ian Anderson

7301: Stagnant stunting rate despite rapid economic growth in Papua New Guinea - factors correlated with malnutrition among children under five

Xiaohui Hou

7300: Market imperfections exacerbate the gender gap: the case of Malawi

Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Ramón López, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Ramón López

7299: Business regulations and growth

Raian Divanbeigi and Rita Ramalho

7298: Do capital inflows boost growth in developing countries ? evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Cesar Calderon and Ha Nguyen

7297: The improved biomass stove saves wood, but how often do people use it ? evidence from a randomized treatment trial in Ethiopia

Abebe D. Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Peter Martinsson, Alemu Mekonnen and Ferdinand Vieider

7296: Preferences for REDD+ contract attributes in low-income countries: a choice experiment in Ethiopia

Sahan Dissanayake, Abebe Damte Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Peter Martinsson, Alemu Mekonnen, Michael Toman and Ferdinand Vieider

7295: The economic viability of jatropha biodiesel in Nepal

Govinda Timilsina and Ujjal Tiwari

7294: Toward a new definition of shared prosperity: a dynamic perspective from three countries

Hai-Anh H. Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw, Hai-Anh H. Dang and Peter F. Lanjouw

7293: New evidence on the cyclicality of fiscal policy

Francisco Carneiro and Leonardo Garrido

7292: Ethiopia?s growth acceleration and how to sustain it?insights from a cross-country regression model

Lars Moller and Konstantin Wacker

7291: How unfair is the inequality of wage earnings in Russia ? estimates from panel data

Sailesh Tiwari, Gabriel Lara Ibarra and Ambar Narayan

7290: Costs and benefits of land fragmentation: evidence from Rwanda

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Loraine Ronchi

7289: Review of international practices for determining medium-term resource needs of spending agencies

Michael Di Francesco and Rafael Chelles Barroso

7288: Financial inclusion, productivity shocks, and consumption volatility in emerging economies

Rudrani Bhattacharya and Ila Patnaik

7287: Unbundling institutions for external finance: worldwide firm-level evidence

Stephen Knack and Lixin Xu

7286: Policies, prices, and poverty: the sugar, vegetable oil, and flour industries in Senegal

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Stephen Golub and E. Philip English

7285: Smallholders? land ownership and access in Sub-Saharan Africa: a new landscape ?

Klaus Deininger, Fang Xia and Sara Savastano

7284: Business cycles accounting for Paraguay

Fritzi Koehler-Geib and Viktoria Hnatkovska

7283: A behavioral approach to water conservation: evidence from Costa Rica

Saugato Datta, Juan Jose Miranda Montero, Laura De Castro Zoratto, Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez, Matthew Darlingm and Karina Josephine Orduna Lorenzana

7282: How much of the labor in African agriculture is provided by women ?

Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Luc Christiaensen, Talip Kilic, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Luc Christiaensen and Talip Kilic

7281: Agriculture production and transport infrastructure in east Africa: an application of spatial autoregression

Atsushi Iimi, Liangzhi You, Ulrike Wood-Sichra and Richard Martin Humphrey

7280: Firm inventory behavior in east Africa

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphrey and Sevara Melibaeva

7279: Firms? locational choice and infrastructure development in Rwanda

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphrey and Sevara Melibaeva

7278: Firm productivity and infrastructure costs in east Africa

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphrey and Sevara Melibaeva

7277: Delivering education: a pragmatic framework for improving education in low-income countries

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das and Asim Ijaz Khwaja

7276: Doing the survey two-step: the effects of reticence on estimates of corruption in two-stage survey questions

Nona Karalashvili, Aart Kraay and Peter Murrell

7275: Transforming electricity governance in India: has India?s power sector regulation enabled consumers? power ?

Ashish Khanna, Daljit Singh, Ashwini K Swain and Mudit Narain

7274: Road improvement and deforestation in the Congo Basin countries

Richard Damania and David J. Wheeler

7273: Infrastructure in conflict-prone and fragile environments: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Rubaba Ali, Alvaro Federico Barra, Claudia N. Berg, Richard Damania, John D. Nash and Jason Daniel Russ

7272: Agricultural technology choice and transport

Rubaba Ali, Alvaro Federico Barra, Claudia N. Berg, Richard Damania, John D. Nash and Jason Daniel Russ

7271: Transport infrastructure and welfare: an application to Nigeria

Rubaba Ali, Alvaro Federico Barra, Claudia N. Berg, Richard Damania, John D. Nash, Jason Daniel Russ, Rubaba Ali, Alvaro Federico Barra, Claudia N. Berg, Richard Damania, John D. Nash and Jason Daniel Russ

7270: Poverty dynamics in India between 2004 and 2012: insights from longitudinal analysis using synthetic panel data

Hai-Anh H. Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw, Hai-Anh H. Dang and Peter F. Lanjouw

7269: Women managers and the gender-based gap in access to education: evidence from firm-level data in developing countries

Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam

7268: Do public health interventions crowd out private health investments ? Malaria control policies in Eritrea

Pedro Carneiro, Alex Armand, Andrea Locatelli, Selam Mihreteab and Joseph Aaron Keating

7267: World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance

Lodewijk Smets and Stephen Knack

7266: On the sustainable development goals and the role of Islamic finance

Habib Ahmed, Mahmoud Mohieldin, Jos Verbeek and Farida Wael Aboulmagd

7265: When winners feel like losers: evidence from an energy subsidy reform

Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez, Barbara Cunha and Riccardo Trezzi

7262: Investigating the gender gap in agricultural productivity: evidence from Uganda

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Frederick H. Bowen, Klaus W. Deininger, Marguerite Felicienne Duponchel, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Frederick H. Bowen, Klaus W. Deininger and Marguerite Felicienne Duponchel

7259: The republic of beliefs: a new approach to ?law and economics?

Kaushik Basu

7258: Universal health coverage in the Philippines: progress on financial protection goals

Caryn Bredenkamp and Leander Robert Buisman

7257: You are what (and where) you eat: capturing food away from home in welfare measures

Maria Gabriela Farfan Bertran, Maria Eugenia Genoni, Renos Vakis, Gabriela Farfan, Maria Eugenia Genoni and Renos Vakis

7256: Global poverty goals and prices: how purchasing power parity matters

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

7255: The Global Findex Database 2014: measuring financial inclusion around the world

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer and Peter van Oudheusden

7254: The dark side of disclosure: evidence of government expropriation from worldwide firms

Tingting Liu, Barkat Ullah, Zuobao Wei and Lixin Xu

7253: Socioeconomic impact of the crisis in north Mali on displaced people

Alvin Etang Ndip, Johannes G. Hoogeveen and Julia Lendorfer

7252: Data deprivation: another deprivation to end

Umar Serajuddin, Hiroki Uematsu, Christina Wieser, Nobuo Yoshida and Andrew L. Dabalen

7251: African mining, gender, and local employment

Andreas Kotsadam and Anja Tolonen

7250: The local socioeconomic effects of gold mining: evidence from Ghana

Punam Chuhan-Pole, Andrew L. Dabalen, Andreas Kotsadam, Aly Sanoh, Anja Karolina Tolonen, Punam Chuhan-Pole, Andrew L. Dabalen, Andreas Kotsadam, Aly Sanoh and Anja Karolina Tolonen

7249: Social and economic impacts of rural road improvements in the state of Tocantins, Brazil

Atsushi Iimi, Eric R. Lancelot, Isabela Manelici and Satoshi Ogita

7248: Monitoring financial stability in developing and emerging economies: practical guidance for conducting macroprudential analysis

Miquel Dijkman

7247: Are we confusing poverty with preferences ?

Bart van den Boom, Alex Halsema and Vasco Molini

7246: Investing in technical&vocational education and training: does it yield large economic returns in Brazil ?

Rita Almeida, Leandro Anazawa, Naercio Menezes Filho and Ligia Maria De Vasconcellos

7245: Good Countries or Good Projects ? Comparing Macro and Micro Correlates of World Bank and Asian Development Bank Project Performance

David Janoff Bulman, Walter Kolkma and Aart C. Kraay

7244: Household responses to shocks in rural Ethiopia: livestock as a buffer stock

Daniel Ayalew Ali

7243: Program evaluation and spillover effects

Manuela Angelucci and Vincenzo Di Maro

7242: Trade agreements and enforcement: evidence from WTO dispute settlement

Chad P. Bown, Kara Marie Reynolds, Chad P. Bown and Kara Marie Reynolds

7241: Are women less productive farmers ? how markets and risk affect fertilizer use, productivity, and measured gender effects in Uganda

Donald F. Larson, Sara Savastano, Siobhan Murray, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Donald F. Larson, Sara Savastano, Siobhan Murray and Amparo Palacios-Lopez

7240: Global experiences with special economic zones: focus on China and Africa

Zhihua Zeng

7239: Asset price effects of peer benchmarking: evidence from a natural experiment

Sushant Acharya and Alvaro Pedraza

7238: Parental human capital and effective school management: evidence from The Gambia

Moussa Blimpo, David Evans and Nathalie Lahire

7237: Measuring inequality from top to bottom

Tania Valeria Diaz Bazan

7236: ?Missing girls? in the south Caucasus countries: trends, possible causes, and policy options

Monica Das Gupta

7235: Weather insurance savings accounts

Daniel Kevin Stein and Jeremy Tobacman

7234: Labor productivity and employment gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ellen Bess Mccullough and Ellen Bess Mccullough

7233: Information, knowledge and behavior: evaluating alternative methods of delivering school information to parents

Pedro Cerdan-Infantes and Deon Filmer

7232: Tax evasion through trade intermediation: evidence from Chinese exporters

Xuepeng Liu, Huimin Shi and Michael Joseph Ferrantino

7231: Does input tariff reduction impact firms'exports in the presence of import tariff exemption regimes ?

Maurizio Bussolo and Marcio Cruz

7230: The (non-) effect of violence on education: evidence from the"war on drugs"in Mexico

Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, Francisco Pérez-Arce and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

7229: Labor market regulations and outcomes in Sweden: a comparative analysis of recent trends

Hulya Ulku and Silvia Muzi

7228: The curious case of Brazil's closedness to trade

Otaviano Canuto, Cornelius Fleischhaker and Philip Schellekens

7227: Estimating the size of external effects of energy subsidies in transport and agriculture

Simon John Commander, Zlatko Slobodan Nikoloski and Maria Vagliasindi

7226: Report cards: the impact of providing school and child test scores on educational markets

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das and Asim Ijaz Khwaja

7225: The quest for subsidy reforms in Libya

Abdelkrim Araar, Nada Choueiri and Paolo Verme

7224: An evaluation of the 2014 subsidy reforms in Morocco and a simulation of further reforms

Paolo Verme and Khalid El Massnaoui

7223: Analyzing the dynamics of school dropout in upper secondary education in Latin America: a cohort approach

Raja Bentaouet Kattan and Miguel Székely

7222: What explains the stagnation of female labor force participation in urban India ?

Stephan Klasen and Janneke Pieters

7221: The misallocation of land and other factors of production 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

7220: Fossil fuel subsidies: approaches and valuation

Masami Kojima and Doug Koplow

7219: Advanced-country policies and emerging-market currencies: the impact of U.S. tapering on India's Rupee

Yuki Ikeda, Denis Medvedev and Martin Rama

7218: As the market churns: estimates of firm exit and job loss using the World Bank's enterprise surveys

Gemechu Aga and David C. Francis

7217: Equality of opportunity: theory and evidence

Francisco Ferreira and Vito Peragine

7216: The international bank lending channel of monetary policy rates and quantitative easing: credit supply, reach-for-yield, and real effects

Bernardo Morais, Jose-Luis Peydro and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

7215: Using lotteries to incentivize safer sexual behavior: evidence from a randomized controlled trial on HIV prevention

Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Lucia Corno, Damien de Walque and Jakob Svensson

7214: No condition is permanent: middle class in Nigeria in the last decade

Paul Corral Rodas, Vasco Molini and Gbemisola Oseni

7213: Income shocks and conflict: evidence from Nigeria

Babatunde Oluwakayode Abidoye and Massimiliano Calì

7212: Economic implications of a potential free trade agreement between India and the United States

Emiko Fukase, William J. Martin, Emiko Fukase and William J. Martin