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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

7396: The impact of vocational schooling on human capital development in developing countries: evidence from China

Prashant Loyalka, Xiaoting Huang, Linxiu Zhang, Jianguo Wei, Hongmei Yi, Yingquan Song, Yaojiang Shi and James Chu

7395: Preferences, purchasing power parity, and inequality: analytical framework, propositions, and empirical evidence

Amita Majumder, Ranjan Ray and Sattwik Santra

7394: Can improved biomass cookstoves contribute to REDD+ in low-income countries ? evidence from a controlled cooking test trial with randomized behavioral treatments

Abebe D. Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Sahan Dissanayake, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Peter Martinsson, Alemu Mekonnen and Michael Toman

7393: The impact of an accountability intervention with diagnostic feedback: evidence from Mexico

Rafael De Hoyos, Vicente A. Garcia Moreno and Harry Patrinos

7392: A decade of declining earnings inequality in the Russian Federation

Paula Andrea Calvo, Luis Lopez-Calva and Josefina Posadas

7391: Identifying and spurring high-growth entrepreneurship: experimental evidence from a business plan competition

David McKenzie

7390: Depreciations without exports ? global value chains and the exchange rate elasticity of exports

Swarnali Ahmed, Maximiliano Andres Appendino and Michele Ruta

7389: Impact of property rights reform to support China?s rural-urban integration: village-level evidence from the Chengdu national experiment

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Shouying Liu, Ting Shao and Fang Xia

7388: Impact of property rights reform to support China?s rural-urban integration: household-level evidence from the Chengdu national experiment

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Shouying Liu and Fang Xia

7387: Gender education gaps among indigenous and nonindigenous groups in Bolivia

Maira Reimão and Emcet Tas

7386: Should Latin America save more to grow faster ?

Augusto de la Torre and Alain Ize

7385: Distributional impacts of energy cross-subsidization in transition economies: evidence from Belarus

Corbett Grainger, Fan Zhang and Andrew William Schreiber

7384: The impact of secondary schooling in Kenya: a regression discontinuity analysis

Owen Ozier

7383: Charter school entry and school choice: the case of Washington, D.C

Maria Marta Ferreyra and Grigory Kosenok

7382: Self-help groups, savings and social capital: evidence from a field experiment in Cambodia

Radu Ban, Michael J. Gilligan and Matthias Rieger

7381: Climate-informed decisions: the capital investment plan as a mechanism for lowering carbon emissions

Jan Whittington and Catherine Lynch

7380: Diversification, growth, and volatility in Asia

Chris Papageorgiou, Nikola Spatafora and Ke Wang

7379: Lower bounds on inequality of opportunity and measurement error

Carlos Balcazar

7378: Subjective well-being across the lifespan in Europe and Central Asia

Jan Michael Bauer, Victoria Levin, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Peng Nie and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

7377: Does longer compulsory education equalize schooling by gender and rural/urban residence ?

K?rdar,Murat G., Day?o?lu,Meltem and Koç,?smet

7376: Impacts on poverty of removing fuel import subsidies in Nigeria

Khalid Siddig, Peter J. Minor, Harald Grethe, Angel Aguiar and Terrie Walmsley

7375: Do performance agreements help improve service delivery ? the experience of Brazilian states

Lorena Vinuela and Laura De Castro Zoratto

7374: Unconditional cash transfers in China: an analysis of the rural minimum living standard guarantee program

Jennifer Golan, Terry Sicular and Nithin Umapathi

7373: Estimating poverty with panel data, comparably: an example from Jordan

Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Umar Serajuddin, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe and Umar Serajuddin

7372: The impact of expanding access to early childhood services in rural Indonesia: evidence from two cohorts of children

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

7371: A new cross-national measure of corruption

Laarni Escresa and Lucio Picci

7370: Promoting democracy in fragile states: insights from a field experiment in Liberia

Eric Mvukiyehe and Cyrus Samii

7369: The effects of volumetric pricing policy on farmers? water management institutions and their water use: the case of water user organization in an irrigation system in Hubei, China

Kei Kajisa and Bin Dong

7368: Asymmetric information about migrant earnings and remittance flows

Ganesh Seshan and Robertas Zubrickas

7367: The impacts of trade facilitation measures on international trade flows

Paulo C. de Sá Porto, Otaviano Canuto and Cristiano Morini

7366: Transport policies and development

Claudia N. Berg, Uwe Deichmann, Yishen Liu, Harris Selod, Claudia N. Berg, Uwe Deichmann, Yishen Liu and Harris Selod

7365: The export-productivity link in Brazilian manufacturing firms

Xavier Cirera, Daniel Lederman, J.A. Máñez, Maria Engracia Rochina Barrachina and J.A. Sanchis

7364: Can minimum wages close the gender wage gap ? evidence from Indonesia

Mary C. Hallward-Driemeier, Bob Rijkers, Andrew R. Waxman, Mary C. Hallward-Driemeier, Bob Rijkers and Andrew R. Waxman

7363: Global liquidity and external bond issuance in emerging markets and developing economies

Erik H.B. Feyen, Swati R. Ghosh, Katie Kibuuka and Subika Farazi

7362: Improving education outcomes in South Asia: findings from a decade of impact evaluations

Salman Asim, Robert S. Chase, Amit Dar and Achim Schmillen

7361: Electoral rules and political selection: theory and evidence from a field experiment in Afghanistan

Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia, Georgy Egorov and Ruben Enikolopov

7360: Use of catastrophe risk models in assessing sovereign food security for risk transfer

SharmamMohan and Roman Hohl

7359: Linking risk models to microeconomic indicators

Jesse Keith Anttila-Hughes and Mohan Sharma

7358: Using probabilistic models to appraise and decide on sovereign disaster risk financing and insurance

Roberto Ley-Borrás and Benjamin Daniel Fox

7357: The indirect cost of natural disasters and an economic definition of macroeconomic resilience

Stephane Hallegatte

7356: Quantifying through ex post assessments the micro-level impacts of sovereign disaster risk financing and insurance programs

Alain F. De Janvry

7355: Public expenditure following disasters

David Bevan and Samantha Jane Cook

7354: Pyramid capitalism: political connections, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt

Ishac Diwan, Philip Keefer and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

7353: Capital market financing, firm growth, and firm size distribution

Tatiana Didier Brandao, Ross Levine and Sergio Schmukler

7352: Do poor countries really need more IT ? the role of relative prices and industrial composition

Maya Eden and Paul Gaggl

7351: Hybrid issuance regimes for corporate bonds in emerging market countries: analysis, impact and policy choices

Tamar Loladze

7350: Hukou and highways: the impact of China?s spatial development policies on urbanization and regional inequality

Maarten Bosker, Uwe Deichmann and Mark Roberts

7349: Biogas: clean energy access with low-cost mitigation of climate change

E. Somanathan and Randall Bluffstone

7348: Long-run effects of temporary incentives on medical care productivity

Pablo Celhay, Paul Gertler, Paula Giovagnoli and Christel M. J. Vermeersch

7347: Gold mining and proto-urbanization: recent evidence from Ghana

Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Rene Koelle and Forhad Shilpi

7346: The economics of policy instruments to stimulate wind power in Brazil

Florian Landis and Govinda Timilsina

7345: High-powered incentives and communication failure

Ajit Mishra and Sudipta Sarangi