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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

7211: Policy and performance in customs: evaluating the trade facilitation agreement

Russell Henry Hillberry, Xiaohui Zhang, Russell Henry Hillberry and Xiaohui Zhang

7210: Trade effects of customs reform: evidence from Albania

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

7209: Economic shocks and subjective well-being: evidence from a quasi-experiment

Jacob Gerner Hariri, Christian Bjørnskov and Mogens K. Justesen

7208: Interviewer effects in subjective survey questions: evidence from Timor-Leste

Kristen Himelein

7207: What determines entrepreneurial outcomes in emerging markets ? the role of initial conditions

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

7206: Informal tradables and the employment growth of Indian manufacturing

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Alex Segura

7205: Trade reform and regional dynamics: evidence from 25 years of Brazilian matched employer-employee data

Rafael Dix Carneiro and Brian Kovak

7204: Effects of the internet on participation: study of a public policy referendum in Brazil

Paolo Spada, Jonathan Mellon, Tiago Carneiro Peixoto and Fredrik Matias Sjoberg

7203: What really works to improve learning in developing countries ? an analysis of divergent findings in systematic reviews

David Evans and Anna Popova

7202: Maize price volatility: does market remoteness matter ?

Ndiaye Moctar, d?Hôtel Elodie,Maitre, Le Cotty Tristan, Ndiaye Moctar, d?Hôtel Elodie,Maitre and Le Cotty Tristan

7201: Is increasing inorganic fertilizer use in Sub-Saharan Africa a profitable proposition ? evidence from Nigeria

Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Wale Olatunji Ogunleye, Bolarin Titus Omonona, Awa Sanou, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Wale Olatunji Ogunleye, Bolarin Titus Omonona and Awa Sanou

7200: Drinking water salinity and infant mortality in coastal Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq and David Wheeler

7199: Gender differentials and agricultural productivity in Niger

Prospere R. Backiny-Yetna, Kevin Robert Mcgee, Prospere R. Backiny-Yetna and Kevin Robert Mcgee

7198: Behavioral economics and social exclusion: can interventions overcome prejudice ?

Karla Hoff

7197: "Small miracles"-- behavioral insights to improve development policy: World Development Report 2015

Allison Demeritt and Karla Hoff

7196: Orphans and Ebola: estimating the secondary impact of a public health crisis

David Evans and Anna Popova

7195: Debiasing on a roll: changing gambling behavior through experiential learning

Martin Abel, Shawn Cole and Bilal Zia

7194: The distributional impact of fiscal policy in South Africa

Gabriela Inchauste, Nora Lustig, Mashekwa Maboshe, Catriona Purfield and Ingrid Woolard

7193: Empowering cities: good for growth ? evidence from China

Megha Mukim and Tingting Juni Zhu

7192: The internet as a general-purpose technology: firm-level evidence from around the world

George Clarke, Christine Zhenwei Qiang and Lixin Xu

7191: R&D returns, spillovers, and firm incentives: evidence from China

Chor-Ching Goh, Wei Li and Lixin Xu

7190: The changing patterns of financial integration in Latin America

Tatiana Didier, Matias Moretti and Sergio Schmukler

7189: Sex-selective abortions, fertility, and birth spacing

Claus C Portner

7188: Love, money, and old age support: does parental matchmaking matter ?

Fali Huang, Ginger Zhe Jin and Lixin Xu

7187: Handling the weather: insurance, savings, and credit in West Africa

Francesca de Nicola

7186: Can the knowledge capital model explain foreign investment in services ? the case of Singapore

Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Aaditya Mattoo, Gnanaraj Chellaraj and Aaditya Mattoo

7185: Measuring the determinants of backward linkages from FDI in developing economies: is it a matter of size ?

Miguel Eduardo Sánchez-Martín, Jaime de Pinies and Kassia Antoine

7184: Wage dynamics, turnover, and human capital: evidence from adolescent transition from school to work in the Philippines

Futoshi Yamauchi

7183: Short-term impacts of formalization assistance and a bank information session on business registration and access to finance in Malawi

Francisco Moraes Leitao Campos, Markus P. Goldstein, David J. Mckenzie, Francisco Moraes Leitao Campos, Markus P. Goldstein and David J. Mckenzie

7182: Same question but different answer: experimental evidence on questionnaire design's impact on poverty measured by proxies

Talip Kilic, Thomas Pave Sohnesen, Talip Kilic and Thomas Pave Sohnesen

7181: Correlates of success in World Bank development policy lending

Peter Moll, Patricia Geli and Pablo Saavedra

7180: Tackling social exclusion: evidence from Chile

Pedro Carneiro, Emanuela Galasso and Rita Ginja

7179: Competition in Kenyan markets and its impact on income and poverty: a case study on sugar and maize

Jonathan Thompson Argent and Tania Priscilla Begazo Gomez

7178: Sustainability of solar electricity: the role of endogenous resource substitution and market mediated responses

Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Gaurav Satija and Fu Zhao

7177: Gone with the storm: rainfall shocks and household well-being in Guatemala

Javier Baez, Leonardo Lucchetti, Maria E. Genoni and Mateo Salazar

7176: Managing risk with insurance and savings: experimental evidence for male and female farm managers in the Sahel

Clara Delavallade, Felipe Dizon, Ruth Hill and Jean Paul Petraud

7175: Increasing access by waiving tuition: evidence from Haiti

Melissa A. Adelman and Peter A. Holland

7174: Estimating parameters and structural change in CGE models using a Bayesian cross-entropy estimation approach

Delfin Go, Hans Lofgren, Fabian Mendez Ramos and Sherman Robinson

7173: Economic mobility in Europe and Central Asia: exploring patterns and uncovering puzzles

Cesar Cancho, Maria E. Davalos, Giorgia Demarchi, Moritz Meyer and Carolina Sanchez Paramo

7172: Gender inequality and growth: the case of rich vs. poor countries

Mohammad Amin, Veselin Kuntchev and Martin Schmidt

7171: Vulnerability to malnutrition in the West African Sahel

Federica Alfani, Andrew Dabalen, Peter Fisker and Vasco Molini

7170: Can we measure resilience ? a proposed method and evidence from countries in the Sahel

Federica Alfani, Andrew Dabalen, Peter Fisker and Vasco Molini

7169: Connectivity for Caribbean countries: an initial assessment

Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia, Heinrich C. Bofinger, Diana Cubas and Maria Florencia Millan-Placci

7168: Broken gears: the value added of higher education on teachers'academic achievement

Carlos Balcazar and Hugo Ñopo

7167: Moldova: a story of upward economic mobility

Maria E. Davalos and Moritz Meyer

7166: Intentions to return: evidence from Romanian migrants

Timothy Hinks and Simon Davies

7165: Living on the edge: vulnerability to poverty and public transfers in Mexico

Alejandro de la Fuente, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán

7164: Promoting handwashing and sanitation: evidence from a large-scale randomized trial in rural Tanzania

Bertha Briceno, Aidan Coville and Sebastian Martinez

7163: Entrepreneurship and the allocation of government spending under imperfect markets

Asif Islam

7162: OECS ports: an efficiency and performance assessment

Diana Cubas, Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia and Heinrich C. Bofinger

7161: Survival is for the fittest: export survival patterns in Georgia

Antonio Martuscelli and Gonzalo Varela

7160: SME exchanges in emerging market economies: a stocktaking of development practices

Alison Harwood and Tanya Konidaris

7159: Public sector size and performance management: a case-study of post-revolution Tunisia

Anne Brockmeyer, Maha Khatrouch and Gaël Raballand

7158: The global trade slowdown: cyclical or structural ?

Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo, Michele Ruta, Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo and Michele Ruta

7157: Impact evaluation helps deliver development projects

Arianna Legovini, Vincenzo Di Maro and Caio Piza

7156: Firm heterogeneity and costly trade: a new estimation strategy and policy experiments

Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova, Hiau Looi Kee, Kala M. Krishna, Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova, Hiau Looi Kee and Kala M. Krishna

7155: The rise of China and labor market adjustments in Latin America

Erhan Artuc, Daniel Lederman, Luis Diego Rojas Alvarado, Erhan Artuc, Daniel Lederman and Luis Diego Rojas Alvarado

7154: Local budget transparency and participation: evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic

Damir Esenaliev, Gregory Kisunko and Gregory Kisunko